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NO, WE NEED MORE MIXTAPES by evidence on the ground. 04/09/2008, 1:52am PDT
I didn't want to bump up that whole thread just to mark an update.

Stop your life!!!!

This is mostly about Akai Tori, the 1984 song that bears a striking resemblance to the music from a 1986 game. See if you can guess which game it is! The original song is actually available in two versions; this, the crisper, Latin-er, more disco-ready version, is my favorite.

Peter Hammill is my latest mad pash. I'm going totally around the bend over his albums, which marry Bowie's twee literate sneer and the very heights of his theatre frou to Scott Walker's heavyheartedness and addiction to single-take recording. What the fuck! They are so camp and fucking awesome! The braver pick from this album would be the title track, "The Future Now."

Dali's Car is Peter Murphy (from Bauhaus) and Mick Karn (the bassist from Japan.) They were never in the studio together; they mailed tapes back and forth from what I can gather. I thought I would hate Cornwall Stone for being heavyhanded and more than occasionally awkward. Mick's unique fretless bass work isn't even, you know, involved here. This one comes from the twilit provincial British lane where Emerson Lake & Palmer butt up against the Labyrinth soundtrack.

Johan Agebjorn: Overload - don't mess with me, you love ship disco. We all love ship disco. This is championship-level ship disco and I had it on permanent repeat for weeks.

Alan Parsons Project is a good band. Prog wankers deride them for being too pop and pop wankers deride them for being too weird and elfy. I think of them as perfectly that sound of fantasy nerds with desk jobs in the early 80's - towing the line awkwardly at work, but then running home to dress in purple spangles and plan their craft projekts for the next SCA meeting! The sound of Zelazny, or Thieves' World.

Also, Alan Parsons fucking produced Abbey Road, the only good Beatles album. So fuck you.

You're on your own for everything else.
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NO, WE NEED MORE MIXTAPES by evidence on the ground. 04/09/2008, 1:52am PDT NEW
    Okay hm. by Jhoh Creebul, Witch Toucher O_O 04/09/2008, 2:03am PDT NEW
    Psh, the only good Beatles album was Band on the Run by Wings. NT by Jerry Whorebach 04/09/2008, 2:03am PDT NEW
        Wings Greatest was probably better (live and let lol) NT by Grumah 04/10/2008, 9:50am PDT NEW
    Re: NO, WE NEED MORE MIXTAPES by Zsenitan's cow orkers. 04/10/2008, 11:43am PDT NEW
    Re: NO, WE NEED MORE MIXTAPES by Quétinbec 04/11/2008, 12:16am PDT NEW
        Like a lot of other common folks, you hate actual music and want to replace it by with hooks and videos. -Zseni 04/12/2008, 12:37pm PDT NEW
            Your music is for busy pussies with messy houses. by Quétinbec 04/13/2008, 5:42pm PDT NEW
                Re: Your music is for busy pussies with messy houses. by Zsenitan Imperatrix 04/13/2008, 6:47pm PDT NEW
                Re: Your music is for busy pussies with messy houses. by Zsenitan Sporeggar 04/14/2008, 1:43pm PDT NEW
                    Memories! by Quétinbec 04/15/2008, 12:43am PDT NEW
                        Re: Memories! by Zsenitan Imperatrix 04/15/2008, 12:53am PDT NEW
                            If Ian Curtis were alive, HE would listen to Interpol. by Jerry Whorebach 04/15/2008, 1:14am PDT NEW
                            You fucking bitch! by Quétinbec 04/15/2008, 9:48pm PDT NEW
                                Hating people with bad taste in music would be like a second full-time job. NT by Fullofkittens 04/15/2008, 10:11pm PDT NEW
                                    TELL ME ABOUT IT 8( NT by Jhoh Creebul, Witch Toucher O_O 04/16/2008, 1:04am PDT NEW
                                        Or, in some cases, a first. by Jerry Whorebach 04/16/2008, 1:42am PDT NEW
                                Re: You fucking bitch! by Zsenitan Imperatrix 04/16/2008, 9:29am PDT NEW
                                    Re: You fucking bitch! by Jhoh Creebul, Witch Toucher O_O 04/16/2008, 9:32am PDT NEW
                                    Re: You fucking bitch! by Quétinbec 04/16/2008, 11:12pm PDT NEW
                                        So YOU'RE the guy for who didn't know Michael Stipe was gay. NT by Fussbett 04/17/2008, 12:10am PDT NEW
            women have bad taste in music NT by Debbie Goad 04/16/2008, 9:06am PDT NEW
    Parsons was an "assistant engineer" on Abbey Road by Fullofkittens 04/12/2008, 1:21pm PDT NEW
        Well I can hear the difference! NT by audiophile 04/12/2008, 1:23pm PDT NEW
            Haha, there is always time for a well placed audiophile joke NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/12/2008, 10:44pm PDT NEW
                8 Steps to Making a Proper Muxtape by Fortinbras 04/14/2008, 5:43pm PDT NEW
        Maybe you should just shut the hell up. NT by Zsenitan Imperatrix 04/12/2008, 3:18pm PDT NEW
 
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