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Monday, February 11, 2008

Past end of year mixes

Here are a few of my best of the year mixes. I am not sure what you can learn about my by looking at these links. I think that you can learn something about me by looking at my musical tastes.

Best of 2003, Best of 2004 Best of 2005, Best of 2006.

Labels: Best of, best of 2004, best of 2005, best of 2006, best of CD Challange, link, mix, mixcd, music

- Rich, 10:02 PM |

Monday, March 19, 2007

Old Mix - Job Layoff Mix

I was looking at an old Sad Salvation entry and I found a mix that I never finished. It was a Job/Layoff mix from back in 2001. It was at the bottom of the bubble and lots of people were getting laid off.

I figure that I better finish up the mix and put in my blog. It has become a little more of a work mix. tell me what you think.

I Better Take Anything They Got

Career Opportunities - The Clash
Where Do I Go - Hair Soundtrack
Fred Jones Pt 2 - Ben Folds
Cowboy - Kid Rock
Finest Worksong - R.E.M.
Call In Sick - Big Daddy Graham
Happy Workers - Tori Amos
Working In A Coal Mine - Devo
Working Undercover for the Man - They Might Be Giants
Taking Care of Business - BTO
Work Is A Four-Letter Word - The Smiths
9 To 5 - Dolly Parton
Today Was A Good Day - Ice Cube
I Will Survive - Gloria Gainer

Labels: job, mix, mixcd, old entry, sadsalvation, work

- Rich, 5:37 PM |

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Best of 2006 Mixes

It is time again for my best of the year mixes. I did three mixes this year. I did Best of 2006, New to Me 2006, and the Best of the SXSW 2006 Bittorrent.



Best of 2006
I listened to about 65 albums released in 2006. I know that I listen to a lot of music. That should not surprise anyone. There was a lot of good music that came out this year. This mix only has a fraction of the music I would say it good.

Best of 2006

1. Fraud in The 80’s – Mates Of State
2. A Certain Romance – Arctic Monkeys
3. Gravity’s Gone – Drive by Truckers
4. E.N.Y House – Masta Killer
5. Lost In Boston – The Walkmen
6. Girl In A War – Josh Ritter
7. List of Baby Names – Bound Stems
8. Notion – Karl Blau
9. Fox Confessor Brings The Flood – Neko Case
10. Montgomery – Magnolia Electric Co
11. Chips Ahoy – The Hold Steady
12. Woke Up New – Mountain Goats
13. The Charging Sky – Jenny Lewis
14. Smiley Faces – Gnarls Barkley
15. The Competition – Kimya Dawson
16. Attraction is Ephemeral – Mecca Normal
17. Rubies - Destoryer
18. Rough Jems – Islands
19. The Greatest – Cat Power

New To Me 2006

No matter how much music I hear, something is always missed. That is why I make this mix. I think it is just as important as the best of the year mix.

New To Me 2006
1. If I’m Waiting – Jason Anderson
2. Huddle Formation – The Go! Team
3. Over and Over - Heavenly
4. So Long – Jason Anderson
5. Like A Monkey In A Zoo – K. McCarty
6. 1 Corinthians 13: 8-10 – Mountain Goats
7. I Wish I Was The Moon – Neko Case
8. Section 12 (Hold Me Now) – The Polyphonic Spree
9. Small Stakes - Spoon
10. The End Has No End – The Strokes
11. Hearts of Oak – Ted Leo / Pharmacists
12. Car Trouble – All Girl Summer Fun Band
13. You Held the World In Your Arms - Idlewild
14. Madam Truffle – Major Organ
15. At The Bottom of Everything – Bright Eyes
16. Love Steals Us From Loneliness - Idlewild
17. Off The Record – My Morning Jacket
18. The Purple Bottle – Animal Collective
19. Parisian Dream – Laura Veirs
20. Grounds For Divorce – Wolf Parade
21. Sorry Entertainer – Daniel Johnson


SXSW 2006

There are so many good bands that I have never heard of before. This is a good way to find some of them. I could spend my whole year just listening to the music from SXSW. I think that is a good thing.

SXSW 2006

1. Walkin’ On Nails – Mac Lethal
2. Binary Girl – Mathematicians
3. Memorize The City – The Organ
4. Agony – Awol One
5. Harvard Hand – The Foxymorons
6. I’ve Been Lost - +/-
7. Another Seven Year- Aberdeen City
8. na – Band of Horses
9. Postcards from Italy – Beirut
10. Birmingham – The Deaths
11. Girls & Sunshine – Dirty On Purpose
12. Hide and Seek – The Eighteenth Day
13. Buckeyed Rabbit – Grassy Knoll Boys
14. Try Telling That To My Baby – The Heavy Blinkers
15. Old Britannia – Hey Negrita
16. No Way Out – Love of Diagrams
17. Broken Plates – Magenta Lane
18. A Captive Audience – The Velvet Teen
19. No Good Here – Tim Fite
20. Red Drop - The Standard

If people want me to write about every song on this list let me know. I will get started on that entry.

Labels: 2006, best of CD Challange, bestof2006, mix, mixcd, music

- Rich, 6:34 PM |

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Calling all Mix CD Makers

It is time once again for the End Of Year Mix CD Challenge. It is time for all the mix-makers to collect the songs that mean 2006 to them. I am excited to see what mixes people will make. I have a whole bunch of new friends this year. I want to know what they thought of the year in music. If you send me a copy of your mix, I will send you a copy of my mix.

For the Silicon Valley Mix Makers, we have been talking about having a meetup where we can exchange face to face in January. Let me know if you are interested.

I would like everyone to remember, Mix Tapes are Fair Use. (That would still make a good bumper sticker)

Labels: bestof2006, cd, endofyearmix, mix, mixcd, mixtape, music

- Rich, 1:52 PM |

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Best of 2006 early

Every year I make a best of the year mix. This year I have been focused on listening to music from 2006. I want to hear as much new music as I can stand. We are half way through the year. I realized that I could make a first draft of my best of 2006 mix right now.

I am not saying this is going to be the mix at the end of the year or that these songs will make the cut. I am just saying this is a pretty good place to start. Tell me what you are listening to this year.

2006 so far:

Belle & Sebastian - To Be Myself Completely - The Life Pursuit
Built To Spill - The Wait - You In Reverse
Drive By Truckers - Gravity's Gone -A Blessing and a Curse
Gnarls Barkley - Just A Thought - St. Elsewhere
Mac Lethal - Walkin' On Nails - SXSW 2006 Showcasing Artist
Calexico - Deep Down - Garden Ruin
Gnarls Barkley - Just A Thought - St. Elsewhere
The Minus 5 - My Life as a Creep - The Gun Album
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Cat Power - The Greatest - The Greatest
Jenny Lewis - You Are What You Love - Rabbit Fur Coat
Cities - Writing on the Wall - Cities
Jon Langford - Gold Brick - Gold Brick
The Pixies - Debaser (Norfolk, VA - 12/6/2004) -Hey - Live Pixies
Love of Diagrams - No Way Out - SXSW 2006 Showcasing Artist
Josh Ritter - Girl in the War - The Animal Years

Labels: 2006, bestof2006, mix, mixcd, music, tag overload

- Rich, 5:35 PM |

Tuesday, July 08, 2003

Travel Notes 7/8/03

Covert Trip

I am traveling back to Philadelphia. My goal is to surprise my Mother for her birthday. I talked to her on the phone last Wednesday. She sounded sad that I was not going to be there for her birthday. Everyone else is going to be there, even my brother who lives in Germany. I know that my mom really wanted to see all of her children and grandchildren together.

Now I am going to catch a flight that will arrive in New York at 5:30 in the morning. I will hang with the family for a few days. I will spend all the time with them. I will be back to San Jose before the weekend. Thank goodness for low dollar fares and red-eye flights. I just hope that nothing will screw this up.

Airport

Airport is a very American word. Airport has that ring of a word that was on a list and the marketing department chose the best one. It just seems like the kind of word an American would come up with. It is the kind of word that people in other languages just adopt.

I wonder what other worlds competed with Airport when that world started. It is the same idea as jeans and dungarees. What other terms did people come up with? The British called it an aerodrome until after World War II. I wonder if there is any way to figure this out. I wonder if there are any words better then airport out there.

High Speed

It cost $7 to access the wireless broadband at the Oakland Airport. It is really not worth it. I am only going to be here for the next 45 minutes. It looks like I will have to wait a while before I publish this.

Flight Mix

Wilco - Dash 7
Netural Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pavement - Hit the Plane Down
Microphone - I'll Be In The Air
Dead Milkmen - Air Crash Museum
R.E.M - You're In The Air
Richard Thompson - Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair
Talvin Singh - Flight IC408
Jets To Brazil - Air Traffic Control
Ben Folds Five - Air
This Flight Tonight - Joni Mitchell
Meryn Cadell - Flight Attendant

Labels: airport, family, mix, music, tag overload, travel, travel notes, vacation

- Rich, 9:46 PM |

Monday, December 31, 2001

Christmas Gifts

I gave Cathy the Rocking Like Rich Thomas box set. I wanted to make Cathy a gift. Cahty has too much music to begin with so I knew the standard mix idea would not work. I decided to go a little over the standard mix. I made her 18 disks of bands I really like. My idea was go show Cathy how I see music.

Here are the disks that I gave Cathy:

Ben Folds
The Sundays
R.E.M. (Conglomerate Days)
R.E.M. (Syndicate Days)
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Belle & Sabastian
Son Volt
Counting Crows
Wilco
The Smiths
Richard Thompson
Bruce Springsteen
Hal Hartley
Crowded Crows
Pavement
Bob Dylan
Paleface
Extra Disk – Rap, Almost Just Rap

I wonder what this list of bands says about me. I am still waiting for Cathy to tell me she listened to the whole thing.

Labels: Cathy Heard, Christmas, gift, mix, mixcd, music, tag overload

- Rich, 11:41 AM |

Wednesday, October 31, 2001

Layoff Mix

Here is the seed for a layoff mix. It has a good start, but it needs something else.

Career Opportunities - The Clash
Where Do I Go - Hair Soundtrack
Fred Jones Pt 2 - Ben Folds
10 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Cowboy - Kid Rock
Today Was A Good Day - Ice Cube
I Will Survive - Gloria Gainer

If you have any other ideas what should be on this mix send me a note.

Labels: job, layoffs, mix, mixcd, music

- Rich, 10:42 PM |

Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Getting Away from Me

Here is the MiniDisc Mix that I have been listening to all week. It might give people some incite to my trip.

Getting away from me

1. Wilco - Via Chicago
2. Dinosaur Jr. - Out There
3. Counting Crows - High Life
4. The Beta Band - Dry the Rain: Champion Version
5. Calvin Johnson - Love'll Come Back Again
6. Crowded House - Four Seasons In One Day
7. Sundays - Can't Be Sure
8. U2 - One
9. Talvin Singh - Traveler
10. Pete Townshend - Eminence Front
11. Calvin Johnson - Lies, Goodbye
12. Ben Folds - Carrying Cathy
13. Harvey Danger - Why I'm Lonely
14. Son Volt - Tear Stained Eyes

Labels: MiniDisc, mix, mixcd, music, tag overload, travel, travel mix, vacation

- Rich, 11:08 AM |

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