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QC Forums Mix-Tape Exchange 2: Response Thread.
lastclearchance:
StarlightRecycler, your mix is done and getting mailed on Monday. So it's time for me to review Azathoth's mix, which I was very excited to receive the other day.
The mix starts off fairly moody in tone and sound, the latter of which stays so for five songs and then on and off throughout, and the former of which is very consistent start to finish. I'm trying to find the adjective for this type of music. It makes me think of some weird combination of Joy Division and Depeche Mode. I feel like this is a genre that I can't think of the word for. It's the sort of 80s sound that the Bravery is ripping off with "An Honest Mistake." This sound recurs later in the mix, but it's more the mood of it than the sound of it that's consistent. The whole mix feels like it has a wet blanket over it (not in a bad way). The next time I'm feeling glum and it's rainy I'll probably give this disc another spin. It's a good mix. I'm just too cheery for Azathoth's mix today so it was a little weird to listen to eighty minutes of it.
The only tracks I didn't like: King Missile's to finish off the mix. But it was under 2 minutes so it was hardly a big deal. And the Wipers song is like 10:27 which is just too long. The breakdowns in the middle and stuff don't justify that amount of time for the track. Of course, Azathoth did a nice job of following it up with a succinct My Bloody Valentine song (3:17). Other than that I'd recommend any of these songs to someone looking for something moody like Joy Division or My Bloody Valentine.
Thanks very much Azathoth, I enjoyed it.
P.S. The only song I remember having heard before was the Jesus and Mary Chain.
1 "Missing You" A Place To Bury Strangers
2. "Reverence" Jesus and Mary Chain
3. "Over and Over" Skywave
4. "Artifact" Revolver Modele
5. "Things'll Never Be the Same" Spacemen 3
6. "Lady Godiva's Operation" Velvet Underground
7. "December" Unwound
8. "Two People In a Room" Wire
9. "Nausea" X
10. "Interzone" Joy Division
11. "Youth of America" Wipers
12. "Nothing Much to Lose" My Bloody Valentine
13. "Drive" Skywave
14. "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste" Galaxie 500
15. "Shy No More" The Faeries
16. "Mona Rider" Greg Ashley
17. "Angelica Take Me Down" Alcian Blue
18. "Don't" Dinosaur Jr.
19. "Rock n Roll Will Never Die" King Missile
Azathoth:
--- Quote from: lastclearchance ---I'm trying to find the adjective for this type of music.
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I call it dark psychedelia (er that's a noun), psychedelia hippies will hate.
Did you have a fave track?
Kai:
Azathoth: your mix should be mailed out by monday if everything goes right, so expect it.
lastclearchance:
--- Quote from: Azathoth ---Did you have a fave track?
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"Missing You" worked great as the opener. "Lady Godiva's Operation" was just one more reason for me to check out more VU. "Nothing Much to Lose," as I mentioned, followed up the Wipers nicely. I don't know about the drums in the first 24 seconds of it though. "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste" despite being 6 minutes long, certainly didn't suffer for it. And the way it leads into the Faeries, into Greg Ashley, those three are great in a row. I think if I had to pick one song though, it would be "Missing You."
Willis:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---I did at least make an effort. I was pretty nice about the first ones, picked out some positive points I liked, and only got bad with the ones that either really got on my nerves and like, the last ten. When I'd got bored and needed something to do.
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FYI I mailed yours out on friday. So hopefully you'll have it by this following friday. I look forward to you ripping me a new one in your review of the tracks that luckily/unluckily made it onto the CD. And as a forewarning, I have no design skills, so you have all the freedom you want to criticize the cover & track listing.
~~Willis
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