::REVIEWS:: 2013 Secret Mixtape project

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Come on reviewers - I need more mixes to check. Get this shit done, y'hear?

Leatherhead, Alex and Doc - are there linky-poo's available for yours?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/flt26ujhns19ijo/RmMix2.mp3

[E.H. Ruddock]

I'll post my review tomorrow.

[stip]

I'll post my review tomorrow.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Ill give this a try, but i don't usually have a ton to say about what im listening.

#1 Jason Molina - great moody start. I don't listen to his stuff and i know that is terrible, he is one of the many on this mix that i will be checking out now.
#2 i don't know this one, but i love it, the piano and guitar sound so pretty together. This song works well with the opening track
#3 another one i don't know. This might be considered alittle dull or boring, but there are a lot of "boring" songs that i love, and this one is getting there. The guitar soloing if you wanna call it soloing really makes this song.
#4 Elliott Smith - this song reminds me so much of another song that i can't put my finger on. I love that there are are no instruments, just vocals. Is it all Elliott?
#5 don't know this one either, and this is the first of many female singers, which i really don't listen to enough of. Staying really mellow with this one, just piano and singer, really nice.
#6 another one i don't know, more mellow with another very good sounding female singer, mostly with piano and picks up nicely near the end
#7 Sufjan Stevens - such a pretty sounding song about such a terrible subject. Sufjan is another that i need to give more time to, love his stuff
#8 Ben Harper - i listened to this one like 3 or 4 times and managed to not realize this was Ben until chloe told me just Ben and a guitar with a bit of drums... More mellow and i love it
#9 chloe told me who this was but i forgot already, i love this one though, i will be downloading more for sure. A bit more upbeat then the first 8, the singers sound so good together and those strings are really nice in there
#10 Beck - not familiar with this song but im always a fan of his voice, and not sure if that is a sitar (sp?) but i love it.
#11 don't know this one but im pretty sure I've heard the song a few times before, this one works great to pick it up from the mellow start
#12 yeah yeah yeahs - love this song but have never really listened to them, i will change that
#13 sleater kinney - WHY DON'T I STILL LISTEN TO THEM ? I will fix it
#14 don't know this one and i can't decide how i feel about it, i won't say i don't like it but its not really my thing these days
#15 johnny cash - hurt - so good and a great closer

This mix is really nice, i think i listened through it about 6 times and its definitely gonna open me up to some new stuff and revive my love for some I've gotten away from

I asked a few pages back and was either wrong or it was overlooked, but is Zeb the dj here?

[Chloe]

Whoever made Doc's mix, thanks. Even though I wasn't a part of this thing I listened to it a few times and really enjoyed it.

[zeb]

Ill give this a try, but i don't usually have a ton to say about what im listening.

#1 Jason Molina - great moody start. I don't listen to his stuff and i know that is terrible, he is one of the many on this mix that i will be checking out now.
#2 i don't know this one, but i love it, the piano and guitar sound so pretty together. This song works well with the opening track
#3 another one i don't know. This might be considered alittle dull or boring, but there are a lot of "boring" songs that i love, and this one is getting there. The guitar soloing if you wanna call it soloing really makes this song.
#4 Elliott Smith - this song reminds me so much of another song that i can't put my finger on. I love that there are are no instruments, just vocals. Is it all Elliott?
#5 don't know this one either, and this is the first of many female singers, which i really don't listen to enough of. Staying really mellow with this one, just piano and singer, really nice.
#6 another one i don't know, more mellow with another very good sounding female singer, mostly with piano and picks up nicely near the end
#7 Sufjan Stevens - such a pretty sounding song about such a terrible subject. Sufjan is another that i need to give more time to, love his stuff
#8 Ben Harper - i listened to this one like 3 or 4 times and managed to not realize this was Ben until chloe told me just Ben and a guitar with a bit of drums... More mellow and i love it
#9 chloe told me who this was but i forgot already, i love this one though, i will be downloading more for sure. A bit more upbeat then the first 8, the singers sound so good together and those strings are really nice in there
#10 Beck - not familiar with this song but im always a fan of his voice, and not sure if that is a sitar (sp?) but i love it.
#11 don't know this one but im pretty sure I've heard the song a few times before, this one works great to pick it up from the mellow start
#12 yeah yeah yeahs - love this song but have never really listened to them, i will change that
#13 sleater kinney - WHY DON'T I STILL LISTEN TO THEM ? I will fix it
#14 don't know this one and i can't decide how i feel about it, i won't say i don't like it but its not really my thing these days
#15 johnny cash - hurt - so good and a great closer

This mix is really nice, i think i listened through it about 6 times and its definitely gonna open me up to some new stuff and revive my love for some I've gotten away from

I asked a few pages back and was either wrong or it was overlooked, but is Zeb the dj here?

Yup. Glad you liked it, Doc and Chloe.

[zeb]

Songs That I Often Find Emotionally Devastating

01 Get Out Get Out Get Out / Jason Molina
02 There Is No Such Place / Augie March
03 Upward Over The Mountain / Iron & Wine
04 I Didn't Understand / Elliott Smith
05 Sad Eyes / Bat For Lashes
06 Illusory Light / Sarah Blasko
07 John Wayne Gacy Jr / Sufjan Stevens
08 Welcome To The Cruel World / Ben Harper
09 Cursed Sleep / Bonnie Prince Billy
10 Nobody's Fault But My Own / Beck
11 Undiscovered First / Feist
12 Maps / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
13 Jumpers / Sleater Kinney
14 Invalid Litter Dept / At The Drive In
15 Hurt / Johnny Cash

[zeb]

Lament, my review will be up tonight.

[AndySlash]

02 There Is No Such Place / Augie March

i tried to get an augie march song on my mix but it just didn't work.

[Malloy]

i made kreng's mixtape.

here's the tracklist:

1. Excerpt from Alan Arkin's Little Murders
2. Faust, Faust IV, "Just A Second"
3. Scott Johnson, John Somebody, "John Somebody Part I"
4. Burial, Burial, "Night Bus"
5. Kate Bush, 50 Words For Snow, "Lake Tahoe"
6. Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Volume II, "rhubarb"
7. Cliff Martinez, Drive Original Soundtrack, "They Broke His Pelvis"
8. William Basinski, The Disintegration Loops, excerpt from album
9. The Marketts, Out of Limits, "Out of Limits"
10. Dirty Beaches, Drifters, "Belgrade"
11. Glenn Branca, Lesson No. 1, "Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar"
12. Tim Hecker with Daniel Lopatin, Instrumental Tourist, "Scenes From a French Zoo"
13. Excerpt from Wallace Shawn's The Fever
14. Hot Chocolate, Every 1's a Winner, "Every 1's a Winner"

[Malloy]

by friday i'll have a review of the mixtape i was given

[Birds in Hell]

That's a great looking mix.

[kreng]

i made kreng's mixtape.

here's the tracklist:

1. Excerpt from Little Murders
2. Faust, Faust IV, "Just A Second"
3. Scott Johnson, John Somebody, "John Somebody Part I"
4. Burial, Burial, "Night Bus"
5. Kate Bush, 50 Words For Snow, "Lake Tahoe"
6. Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Volume II, "rhubarb"
7. Cliff Martinez, Drive Original Soundtrack, "They Broke His Pelvis"
8. William Basinski, The Disintegration Loops, excerpt from album
9. The Marketts, Out of Limits, "Out of Limits"
10. Dirty Beaches, Drifters, "Belgrade"
11. Glenn Branca, Lesson No. 1, "Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar"
12. Tim Hecker with Daniel Lopatin, Instrumental Tourist, "Scenes From a French Zoo"
13. Excerpt from Wallace Shawn's The Fever
14. Hot Chocolate, Every 1's a Winner, "Every 1's a Winner"

Thanks dude, it was a fun listen. This one and spenno's are my favorite ones I've heard so far.

[stip]

The fever is a fantastic play.

[dsb1218]

Tracklist:

Half Moon - Blind Pilot
Down in the Valley - TH&TH
Birmingham - Shovels and Rope
Hang On - Dr Dog
Everyone Gets a Star - Albert Hammond Jr
Barracudas - Devil Whale
Morning Thought - Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
Chemicals Collide - Cloud Cult
Back in Your Head - Tegan & Sara
Call an Ambulance - Albert Hammond Jr
Fit Against the Country - Horse Feathers
Cats & Dogs/Coeur d'Alene - TH&TH
The Rabbit, The Bat, & The Reindeer - Dr Dog
Standing at the Threshold - Deer Tick
Gotta Have Rock & Roll - Heartless Bastards
LA - Elliott Smith
We Are the Tide - Blind Pilot

That's a fun mix, Doc. I ended up picking up that Devil Whale Young Wives EP and a couple of other tracks from Dr. Dog. Good stuff.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Tracklist:

Half Moon - Blind Pilot
Down in the Valley - TH&TH
Birmingham - Shovels and Rope
Hang On - Dr Dog
Everyone Gets a Star - Albert Hammond Jr
Barracudas - Devil Whale
Morning Thought - Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
Chemicals Collide - Cloud Cult
Back in Your Head - Tegan & Sara
Call an Ambulance - Albert Hammond Jr
Fit Against the Country - Horse Feathers
Cats & Dogs/Coeur d'Alene - TH&TH
The Rabbit, The Bat, & The Reindeer - Dr Dog
Standing at the Threshold - Deer Tick
Gotta Have Rock & Roll - Heartless Bastards
LA - Elliott Smith
We Are the Tide - Blind Pilot

That's a fun mix, Doc. I ended up picking up that Devil Whale Young Wives EP and a couple of other tracks from Dr. Dog. Good stuff.

Make sure to get teeth from devil whale, its a fantastic album, and as far as Dr dog, everything from fate to b room are great albums from beginning to end, easy beat is good and the earlier stuff is much different from what they are currently doing and not as easy to get into, but still some nice tunes

[VinylGuy]

i cant seem to find that devil whale album....

[stip]

I'm back home but it's a snow day so I'm home with the babies. Hopefully tomorrow. My apologies to my mix maker

[doone]

Tracklist:

Half Moon - Blind Pilot
Down in the Valley - TH&TH
Birmingham - Shovels and Rope
Hang On - Dr Dog
Everyone Gets a Star - Albert Hammond Jr
Barracudas - Devil Whale
Morning Thought - Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
Chemicals Collide - Cloud Cult
Back in Your Head - Tegan & Sara
Call an Ambulance - Albert Hammond Jr
Fit Against the Country - Horse Feathers
Cats & Dogs/Coeur d'Alene - TH&TH
The Rabbit, The Bat, & The Reindeer - Dr Dog
Standing at the Threshold - Deer Tick
Gotta Have Rock & Roll - Heartless Bastards
LA - Elliott Smith
We Are the Tide - Blind Pilot

That's a fun mix, Doc. I ended up picking up that Devil Whale Young Wives EP and a couple of other tracks from Dr. Dog. Good stuff.

Make sure to get teeth from devil whale, its a fantastic album, and as far as Dr dog, everything from fate to b room are great albums from beginning to end, easy beat is good and the earlier stuff is much different from what they are currently doing and not as easy to get into, but still some nice tunes

Can anyone share the link to this mix? I'm intrigued.

[LetMeSleep]

Back in a world with coverage and I've given it a good couple of listens. I'll knock one out when I can. Need to use Shazam on a couple of these.