Scenario: You, like 80% of the people on here (myself included, probably) are a socially decrepit indie kid who spends his time organising his cd collection by spine colour, alphabetically by record label, and in order of the time you bought it. One day, some girl decides she's interested in you. Naturally, the only option is to "make her a mix tape". You spend hours agonizing over the tracklist: it has to be cool (obviously, to show you're really cool and stuff) yet also romantic to show you're, like, romantic and shit. But you can't just put that on it, it needs to be obscure and diverse, because otherwise you'd be selling out on making the mix tape. There probably has to be a token hip hop song, electronic song, maybe even a bit of "classical" - it can't all be pavement and Los Campesinos.
My first nomination would be
Parenthesis by The Blow
It ticks all the boxes: Pretty obscure, electronic indie, shows you're "fun" yet also "deep", has soppy lyrics etc
Help me compile the perfect drowned in sound indie boy wooing tape.
Madonna
Like a virgin
I'm putting this DISCLAIMER right here:
I'm not actually doing this for some broad
(but if i did, it would be unbelievable)
:(
Some Rapeman probably..
something about The Postal Service
Out of everyone, I'd expect you to be an expert in this
why?
i've NEVER made a mixtape for someone.
Wow
You strike me as the sort of person who had.
i'm not sure i like that.
no way!
he is the sort of person who knows there's no point bothering making a mixtape because the girl will never even like him anyway so what's the point in wasting time trying, i might as well just write in my livejournal about how no-one will ever love me.
or "alley cat" by sherwood
it's like a postal service song by a band that aren't as "cool" hence she will be less likely to have heard it but it's still as lovely, though it's a bit too "you're tired of me" :(
new slang
by the shins
its gorgeous and she'd love it. unless she doesnt in which case fuck the cunt
'fuck the cunt'
as in sack the bitch. not pound her poon
sack the bitch
means exactly the same thing numb nuts
(i'm not actually trying to do this for someone
I'm far too cool for this)
yes this was gonig to be my shout
you thief
Anal Cunt
You'll thank me later.
Nick Cave - Into My Arms
is an sure-fire winner. As is a popular indie 'hit', but the Peel Session version or something.
I've just made my ex a CD with loads of Wedding Present - Seamonsters stuff on it. Go me.
probably why
she's your ex then.
hahahahaha
my hero.
Something really obvious by The Smiths
And when she says 'That's a bit obvious!' you say 'Yeah, but I just really love that song because of such and such an event in my life'.
This shows that you are DEEP and CARE ABOUT MUSIC but you're DOWN TO EARTH and NOT A INDIE SNOB.
If you want to show here you're down to earth, just put some
EARTH on it. YEAH. Sludgey doom is a great soundtrack to romance.
Soppy lyrics? Fun yet deep?
What kind of girl are you after?/!?
(see above
I'm not actually doing this)
Wouldn't something that she liked be a more obvious choice?
wouldnt it be REALLY funny
if someone suggested 'Smack My Bitch Up'?
No. No it would not.
Song About An Angel - Sunny Day Real Estate
too deep?
Sentimental Man - The Dismemberment Plan
Hold Onto Yourself- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Oh, and The Vowels pt 2 by Why?
to open it. "I'm not a ladies' man, I'm a landmine"
argh
I put some dismemberment plan on a cd for someone a couple of weeks ago.. i'm becoming an indie. DAMN YOU DiS.
It's ok
we're here for you. I debated whether to put Out There by Dino Jr on, but that could be a bit needy.
That was about his Dad dying!
Jesus!
Slip it in
by Big Black/Flag before I get corrected.
I wouldn't, but if you must
Through With People - Portastatic
"I'll be your hymnal in your church of loneliness." It's romantic and pathetic at the same time. Can't get more "indie" than that. haha!
This will get answered by the night shift.
The day shift consists of too many office-weary normal people to answer this correctly. So, while you wait for the night shift to come on:
Fuck Off by Mindless Drug Hoover.
^ funny because it's true
MARRY ME
RIGHT NOW.
And I was so sure you were going to say Tubthumpin'
or Touch Me I'm Sick.
No, your music taste does not have any middle ground between those two artists.
BAMOS MUSIC
Fuck Off by Mindless Drug Hoover
ARE WE MARRIED YET?
(I have the whole album. It's called Top Banana)
Haha, me too
Don't Take Ecstasy!!!
Fag Stealer is good
And so is Buy My Record. I think we might be the only ones :(
There's a reason for that
I think I paid about 50p for it. Money well spent!
I've got this
on a Best of Volume CD vol 2 'Sharks Patrol These Waters', The Vol 1 'Wasted' CD has 'The Reefer Song' on it. Hilarious!
And put Yeah! Oh Yeah! by The Magnetic Fields
and Lovely Creature by Nick Cave on there too. They're deep and meaningful.
you're so great - blur
soppy indie boy lyrics, fuzzy guitars, nervousness abounds.
even though it's by the fairly massive blur, it gets away with it by being a non-parklife album track that's sung by coxon.
you'll be getting noshed off in no time!
brand new
soco amerato lime
aah
a fella put that on a mix cd for me once. it was a good call.
it was a good cd all round actually.
FOR THE LAST TIME
TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT: I'm not actually going to use this thread to make a tape for some polony.
yeah yeah yeah
break stuff
by fred-d and the boyz
give her a good botty-bangin to that. she'll love you forever
Life Without Buildings- Love Trinity
The Smiths- Reel Around The Fountain
The Wave Pictures- Now You Are Pregnant
Neutral Milk Hotel- Oh Comely
Joanna Newsom- Peach Plum Pear
Gang of Four- Anthrax (you know, to show you're ultimately indifferent to the whole thing)
Don't put Joanna Newsom on it
any girl worth her salt would stab you in the face.
plus
it would be totally hard to program into the mix, you have to think big picture as well.
But Peach, Plum, Pear
is one of the best things ever. And it's well girly too.
wrong!
The John Peel session of 'Back To The Old House' by The Smiths
Yes, they're pretty big, but it's a Peel Session! Of a B-side! With sentimental lyrics!
A winner, surely?
First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes
Apart from that lottery stuff.
yeah that lottery bit ruins that song
its all abo waiting to win the lottery, he knew that on 'waste of paint' I pinpoint that as the moment he lost his idealism that made him so great
The video to this song
makes me want to puke.
Eurgh, no, that song
is quite possibly TOO soppy.
The John Peel session of 'Back To The Old House' by The Smiths
Yes, they're pretty big, but it's a Peel Session! Of a B-side! With sentimental lyrics!
A winner, surely?
*Accidental double post
Damn my overexcitable return button!
i didnt quite catch that
Hmm...
Go from nice to totally fucking mental.
Promise Ring
Shins
Postal Service/DCFC
Elvis Costello
Velvet Underground
Sonic Youth
Slint
Tom Waits
Patti Smith
Syd Barrett
Frank Zappa (Something with a mental guitar solo)
Captain Beefheart (Something with a mental drum solo)
The Death Of All The Romance - The Dears
What do I win then?
7 Hearts by Chris T-T
fun, obscure but very accessible with very coherent lyrics that depict a bizarre but very sweet story, and most importantly, insanely catchy. It went down a storm on the last compilation CD I made for a girl. I've now got tickets for Chris T-T at the Luminaire and am going with aforementioned girl. Go me.
I'd throw in
Poses by Rufus Wainwright somewhere, and Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the end.
My cock is on fire by Whitehouse has to get in the mix too, obviously.
I would throw in
Blur - Popscene and something from The Shins so there's some name value on the tracklisting.
Nerf Herder - Doin' Laundry
^^ If this doesn't work...
You could also try Love Sandwich or Pervert, which has the possibly the most romatic lyrics ever penned: "You left me in your room, I left a stain on your teddy bear"
:D I'm amazed someone got this!
:D How To Meet Girls...
has some of the funniest lyrics ever!
A Weezer b-side
and something by the Lemonheads. Let's say...er...Susanne and Alison's Starting to Happen.
I've just realised:
I organise my CDs by spine colour! And I said I did on here not so long ago!
YOU BASTARD
I think i made fun of you for it then aswell.
The Hidden Cameras - Golden Streams
evil superstars - b.a.b.y
"Crawled Out of the Sea" by Laura Marling
Nice and short are lovely.
Don't be afraid, you're already dead
by Akron/Family
Beulah - Delta
Is the line "Hey love, don'tcha think about me sometimes? Think about you way more than I'd like" going to make you come across as a little bit obsessive though?
Even more so when it's with that iLiKETRAiNS song
about stalking people
I'd probably put 'La La Love You' by the Pixies on there as well
This relationship is over before it's even started.
Oooh overlap
with the previous thread on great drum intros.
Actually - just make her the 'great drum intros' CD / tape - it'll be great. With Converge's 'Eagles become Vultures' on it. Chicks love that shit.
these things always need
Red House by Shudder To Think. although she might think youre a bit... um... "intense". or, more frankly, "emo"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TowldEnuGao
WORD.
I just put that on a mixtape, h'actually.
^^knows it^^
Nah i'd do red house by hendrix
THERES A RED HOUSE OVER YONDER BABY
and that's why you fail
Nah, it's all part of the screening process
If they don't like hendrix - No dice
I love that song so much
Isn't it about someone being secretly in love with a girl who's already paired up?
i just thought it was about fancying a fatty
better that
than the postal service or anything of its ilk.
did i put it on The Mixtape That Made You Go Out With Me?
i'd be surprised if i didnt
i'm not sure
i think you probably didn't, but you definitely alerted me to its existence.
electrelane
the greater times.