as i "promised"...

[ateolf]

as i said earlier, yesterday i made a mixed tape for this girl i talk to on aim sometimes...she asked me to make a tape of several (10) bands in my profile list thingie or whatever...for this tape i actually went through major planning procedures...i knew i'd have an average of 12 min per band/artist/whatever w/ the 2 hr tape and i knew i wanted more than that for some and whatnot...so i went through and got the times (converting seconds to decimals even, for simplicity...) for all the possible songs and a few shorter backup songs in case what i wanted would be too long...i had several possiblities of what i would choose for each group added up and compared them all and finally came up w/ a solution that worked...i had to cut a bunch of stuff, of couse, but i think overall i got a good mix and stuff...all of the bands were ones she asked for except New Order (which i counted as Joy Division) and Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (which i counted as Lyida Lunch)...here's the results of my scientifically engineered effort...a model of rock'n'roll efficiency, or something...:

side oneModest Mouse
"Dramamine"
Joy Division
"Atrocity Exhibition"
"Disorder"
"Insight"
New Order
"Chosen Time"
Buzzcocks
"What Ever Happened To?"
"Real World"
"Just Lust"
"I Believe"
Built to Spill
"Randy Described Eternity"
Wire
"Practice Makes Perfect"
"Field Day for the Sundays"
"I Am the Fly"
"Two People in a Room"
"I Feel Mysterious Today"
"106 Beats That"
"On Returning"
"Another the Letter"
side twoGlenn Branca
First Movement from Symphony No. 3 (Gloria)
Kraftwerk
"Geiger Counter"/"Radioactivity"
"Showroom Dummies"
Belle & Sebastian
"Sleep the Clock Around"
"Simple Things"
Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
"Orphans"
"Freud in Flop"
"Less of Me"
Lydia Lunch
"Some Boys"
"A Quiet Night of Murder in Greenwich, CT"
X-Ray Spex
"Identity"
"Oh Bondage up Yours!"

that's all...me likee making mixed tapes...

Comments

rock'n'roll anal retentive

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

i'm the KING of being anal about music...my friends occasionally make fun of me 'cuz i won't skip tracks or change cds until they're finished in my car...but like, damnit! it's an ALBUM not a collection of songs! (i'm "cool"...) though this is the first time i've gone this far w/ the whole mixed tape thing...though i'm always constantly conscious/(anal) of song order and how it all flows together as a whole...yea...i guess i'm just a mixed tape perfectionist...or something like that...

Re: rock'n'roll anal retentive

[goreygirl.livejournal.com]

Don't ever change.

Re: rock'n'roll anal retentive

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

hey, i ain't no goddamned pansy!

Re: rock'n'roll anal retentive

[goreygirl.livejournal.com]

Your **clothes**, damnit.
What did you think I meant, your personality or something?