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Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=775610848DB61AC2

Tracklist - In Order of Appearance on the Back Cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqp12b61pFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qf-aAVxE8s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxvJmXUiuFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeLepdqMPMk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irMr0qX8jNs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzZzDbRp3z4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPmuD3-36dM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwVcyxWl4FQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCsfUXFmBDQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODmQaQd03Ig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L_lj-KeYpA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEmumQwRAVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvQgBrQnqzk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzpOnFgjc5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex2E4vyGem0

Oh, and before you ask. Yes, the person compiling it has already been chosen. It is another staff member. Eventually we'll get to people that aren't staff members. Until then, stop asking.  :x

first

marvelous title, marvelous quote

You're dead on Sunday, hombre.

oh noes.. metal  :ye_gods:

I keed, I keed.

Whohoo.. metal :drill:

YouTube is down for maintenance and will be back shortly.


Bastards.

It's the god of youtube trying to tell you that metal is not music.

Woo, this one has much more to work with.

Thor would certainly disagree with you.

Thor is the god thunder, not youtube.

Clearly he was talking about me and I do disagree. :-P

I don't think of Machiavellianism when I hear metal.  At all. 

I think the "metal" inspiration came from the album title (and the quote that inspired it), not the band name.

and poss the art

The title makes it sound like another douchey emo mix like the last one. The quote inspiring it is quite the opposite.

This time around I'm not wasting my time making submissions.

Slayer - Angel of Death  :drill:

I'm pretty sure Nabokov wasn't promoting Slayer.   :why_so_serious:

I'm pretty sure the process is almost entirely guaranteed to produce emo-sounding titles.

Given they come from a famous quote database and are only the last few words, yes, more than likely emo, except no emo album ever had or ever will have a title this cool.

MOAR.

What does it mean for youtube links to be "given priority"?

i.e. should I even bother sending links to last.fm, imeem, etc.

I don't understand what's unclear about it.


Sure, but youtube links are given priority.

For the record, a handful of songs sent to me in the last batch weren't links to youtube and were easily found on youtube.

Priority ::
   
A slang term for girlfriend or boyfriend. Started in Portland, Oregon it has quickly spreading amongst groups of friends.

Examples:

Dude1- "Hey man you tryin to go to westmo tonight?"
Dude2- "can't man. I've got priority."

Jack- "I would've danced with her but, you know, I have priorities."

6 days left.

Less than 48 hours, and we don't have nearly enough music.

I had no time at all to spend on this but I'll try to send some links tonight.  Warning: might contain some douchey emo songs, since I'll be taking the title literally instead of trying to be all interpretive of the original quote.

We have til midnight tonight. Get a move on, people. We don't have nearly enough.

Sent some stuff.

Sent some stuff. Probably none of my stuff will make it in this time; I foresee a heavy rotation of industrial. 

I sent some heavy rotating emo industrial stuff. Or perhaps I didn't.

Oh Righ, you're so mysterious!   :Love_Letters:

If I'm in it time I'll send some... looks to be too late!

I sent through the mp3 of the song I chose for the last one, since it's not available on youtube, aside from a 1-min shakycam snippet of a live version.
I'd have sent it for this one as well, come to think of it.

I'm gonna leave this up til Sunday night simply because I don't have time to compile it today.

 :grin:

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I just now caught up with the first mix, and I'm really impressed.  Any idea on when the third will begin?

Right after the shirts are ready to ship.

Fine.  Don't tell me.  I didn't want in your stupid club anyways.  I'll start my own!

Doh I forgot to submit for this one.

Go ahead and submit, honestly, we don't have enough.

OK (though I likely won't have time until tomorrow at work)

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I sent some suggestions, certain of the impending ridicule coming from the shadows, laughing at my overly-mainstream taste in music.

Overly mainstream? The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby and Michael Jackson?  :grin:

Your first effort weeded out the field of submitters, imo.

How many do you have?  I'll send some more in if I have time. 

Sent in 10 or so.

Schild isn't picking the tape this time though, so it might be entirely different. Do share!

I'm gonna send some in too, in a few minutes. Oh wait, in the middle of what I was doing, Youtube shit the bed.

I very thoughtfully picked out about 15 or so songs. I doubt I will see any of them on the mixtape, but I still hope I impressed our sekkrit mixtape mixer with my musical tastes. It was really hard not to include What a Fool Believes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U). Really hard.

That would have fitted 'cruelty' at least.

 :heart: Yacht Rock  :heart:

I am so annoyed they had to take the sound off of Episode 8 for the record company lawyers.  :x

Sent in a few more.

Somebody needs to GET ON THE BALL with this.

Agreed.

:oh_i_see:

It's actually my fault, I think we might have enough music now. Duse needs to shut the fuck up on this, imo.

Actually, it was all the people going HURR THIS IS EMO HURR that made me not want to contribute.

Yes, I am not sure why album one was considered to be emo.

Was it?  It was definitely not emo.  I think people were worried that it might be though.
pipe down  pipsqueak.

Will unlock when Samwise is done. For now, I'm clocking out. Sick as hell.

I'll be done sometime after schild sends me the song list, which is... not yet.   :awesome_for_real:

Samwise now has the list. Hopefully he'll be faster than me.

Updated the top post!

Thanks for the work guys listening now  :awesome_for_real:

Ingmar is putting together the next one btw.

Big thanks to everyone who sent music in.  There was a lot of good stuff I'd never heard of, and I had a hard time trimming it down to one CD's worth at the end.  (There was also a lot of stuff I'd be happy never to hear again, but, well, omelettes and eggs, different strokes, etc.)

Why didn't you put any of it in the mixtape then?  :why_so_serious:

Because your mother's a whore.

Why punish the present for the sins of the past?  :heartbreak:

Some good stuff there, listening now. Thanks.

Obligatory here's what I submitted post:


Just in case you wanted to know what Samwise never wanted to hear again.  :grin:

(edit: missed one)
(edit 2: titles)

The second track is actually by Conjure One - the 'Metropolis' in the YouTube title is the name of the anime the footage was pulled from.

Will fix that when I get home.

Sounds good, a pretty good mix. None of mine made it though.

Quite sure the "never wants to hear again" was my submissions.

Here are a few:

My opinion of your music tastes just rose with the SGM tracks - but I suspect that Sam never wants to hear those again either.

Judging books by the cover and all that.

Oooh, music!  Moterhead + the Cardigans?  I'm liking this.

I'll play into your game, I submitted Revenge off Dark Night of the Soul, Rival [Acoustic] from MintJam, She Wants Revenge (which made the cut), and Blue Eyes from Silke Bischoff.

I like this one quite a lot.  Some stuff I didn't yet have that I'll have to fix soon.

My submissions:

Wish I would've thought of Revenge, I really dig that whole album.

I dig that song more than most of the rest of the album sadly.

Pretty wholesale lift from Tangerine Dream - 3 AM At The Border Of The Marsh From Okefenokee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkHB4Alf9BA) on that FC Kahuna track. But I like.


No, judging based on other music that you've posted.

The other possible submission off that was Insane Lullaby, but I didn't want to use that particular card yet.

I keep my submissions short. I'll make sure to submit something with vocal's next time.

Death in Vegas and Gary Jules were two of my submissions.  I'll double check exactly what else I sent when I get home but I think I sent in Helter Skelter (The Beetles), Down By the Water (PJ Harvey), Gouge Away (The Pixies) and Into Dust (Mazzy Star).  I sent in a few others as well but I don't remember which ones offhand.

There were a lot of songs that I anguished over not including, so at the risk of boring everyone I'd like to comment on stuff I liked that didn't quite make it in:


Enter Sandman made it in without hesitation, and Bullets was actually in the next-to-final cut but when I listened to the album all together looking for one song to drop, I noticed that one was about half the volume of everything else, so it got the axe.  God's Away on Business was a strong contender; I think I listened to it half a dozen times.


I really liked Driven Like the Snow, and had it in my first draft.  Wave of Mutilation and Psycho Killer were also strong contenders due to complete lyrical appropriateness.


I actually had to think long and hard about Helpless Corpses Enactment.  I liked it on its own, but whenever I tried to put it next to other stuff it didn't mesh.  Also, I think half of what I liked about it was the video; once I put it on in the background I was less enamored of it.  Definitely liked it more than the giant block of GWAR.  :grin:


Moonlight Sonata was a hell of a good (and unexpected) pick; I had it as the first track of the first draft of the album.  I also dug Working Class Hero.


Pretty sure Nevermore didn't send in Helter Skelter, because it would have gotten into at least one of the early drafts by virtue of its Manson connotations alone.  (Or maybe it was one of the ones that had been yanked from YouTube by the time I got to it.)

I definitely sent it in.  I had an original list of around 8 or so songs, and then the next day I sent in Helter Skelter by itself.  It was after the original deadline but since Schild was still asking for submissions after the deadline I figured it should have been forwarded to you with the rest.

It was probably one of the ones pulled from Youtube then.  As a Beatles song I think it'd be under the thumb of Sony, and they seem pretty aggressive about filing complaints.

This.

I love Aesop Rock. Here's mine:


Edit: I was in the middle of inlining these links and it just reposted the original post, so sorry it's not all tidy and shit. I just don't have time to redo it.

I pegged both Bullets and Final Solution as being contenders as I think that they appeal to a fairly broad range of tastes. In actuality, the title song from Archive's most recent album Controlling Crowds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhMz7x1ZaGM) would fit better with the mix title, but I wanted to show off the great video for Bullets, not just a couple of seconds of clip on repeat as in the Controlling Crowds track posted on YouTube. Likewise, this has the full track of SPQR (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEBu9cemJJ4), but I just had to show the fantastic footage attached to the short version that I posted. Pax Romana!

Final Solution had around 20 hits when I sent it in. It's up to around 100 now. TV on the Radio, Trent Reznor and Peter Murphy together covering a brilliant early Pere Ubu single. What's not to love?

Yeah, I loved the SPQR video.   :grin:  Even if the song was a little too... something... for me.

None of VDL's songs sound familiar to me at all.  Just in case I'm forgetful, I tried searching for some of the Youtube URLs in the list I was sent, and came up empty.  Shenanigans!

Hmm, three of mine made it this time.  Filter's Hey Man Nice Shot, Tricky's Puppy Toy and the Cardigan's Erase Rewind.

I am shocked you did not choose - バナナの電話  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqq6jppAYFo)

Will listen once the lawnmowering outside has been abated. But Pictures of Matchstick Men for this theme? Doesn't follow to my mind even though its been around two decades since I heard it. I saw them at the Glasgow Apollo before it was demolished - from the bouncing balcony and all. Black Veils of Melancholy would have been more appropriate? And it sounds just the same. Even before they found their popular formula they were good at writing nearly identical songs.

Also if you're on a psych folk trip, you NEED to hear Sand Snowman (http://www.myspace.com/sandsnowman).

So YOU'RE the motherfucker.

This is likely.  I really wanted to submit Song of the Dispossessed by Dead Can Dance but good luck finding anything 4AD on Youtube.

Can someone point me to that album title/cover generator thing so I can play around with it til I come up with something good?

EDIT: Never mind, found it hiding in the spoiler on the first post.

Also, looks like I had 3 make the cut - Nick Cave, Cake, and the Raconteurs.

My full list:

Uhhh, theme?  :uhrr:

 :heart: I think I may have literally cheered when I saw that one come up.  One of my personal favorite bands, and that song was absolutely perfect for the album.

That She Wants Revenge track is pretty sweet, I haven't heard that before.

EDIT: I quite like the Bitter:Sweet one too.

It had an entertaining video too if you feel so inclined:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXd-39W_qZU

Raconteurs, I like Jack, he's a great songwriter. Good tune. Nick Cave is a fucking retard who can't sing. Tricky: Love Tricky, but more his older stuff, he was working with some amazing drummers. The percussion on this track is pretty meh. I've got his Angels with Dirty Faces, some amazing drumming on that, and PJ Harvey :) Cat Power, I could get into that. Needs a couple listens.

Death In Vegas: The music is pretty meh, the VO was better when it was Black Sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9RrHMTTbw). Another great VO guy is Rollins (Claypool's Delicate Tendrils, no tube).

I don't care if Cliff came back from the dead to remake Enter Sandman, there's never any reason to listen to that pile of shit song. Hey, why not put on Seek and Destroy if you're going for overplayed tripe by bands that have written amazing songs? The Filter song is another that's so overplayed it would be nice to never hear again.

Mad World is a great tune, I like Adam Lambert's version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xKPk5RvcU4), heretical as that may be. One of only two American Idol songs I've bought (Cook doing Billy Jean is the other).

Whole lot of blah and generic stuff on there, though.

I'm at work so so I can't listen to that Black Sunshine version yet, but that was Iggy Pop doing the Death in Vegas version.  Iggy Pop!  It's like saying Bowie's version of Cactus isn't as good as the original Pixies but come on, it's still Bowie!

You made me giggle out loud!

I guess there's only one song on mine about cruelty, but I included plenty of soft music.

Submissions that weren't selected:


As for Helter Skelter, there are active videos on Youtube but apparently I submitted a bad link.  Go me.

Re: Black Sunshine.  I see what you did now.  Unfortunately your point was ruined by White Zombie.  :uhrr:

As for the mix itself, I've had a chance to listen to some of it and there are some interesting selections.  Interesting enough that I'll give the whole thing a listen to when I get a chance.

I didn't want my stuff picked anyway!

However, I didn't save a copy of the e-mail in my yahoo acct, so I can't share it anyway.  Hooray.

I don't have a fucking clue exactly what I sent in anymore, just that none of it got picked as I know I did not pick anything on that list.

Alas

Umm songs I submitted that I think are ok, and I expect Sam hated :)

Johnny Cash - I Hung My Head - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcmbFKstspk
Suede - Sleeping Pills - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH6IGArIbs4
Oxbow - Time, Gentlemen, Time - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36X67CTUQrU
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfqEisOIMJc (a bit of a generic choice, but...)
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLDPSOKRG_8 (a bit of a generic choice, but...)
Jesu - Silver - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBs-cZs9m8U
Tom Waits - Christmas Card From a Hooker In Minneapolis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw
Wolves in the Throne Room - A Looming Resonance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO_EuNDCSZs

You would say that.

Oo, I liked that Looming Resonance one. 

I have been told my stuff will never make it on one of the albums, i belave this to be true.

Awesome list.

What, no Skinny Puppy?

I'm not saying the music is bad because there's a a bit on there that I like, but I find it disturbing that everyone on your list wears a costume on stage.   :ye_gods:

I enjoy theatrics. (Not all of them do BTW, heh)

Hey, I didn't see that coming.

I remembered some songs today.  Probably a combo of not eclectic enough for you artistes and not quite soft enough.

They are, however, about crime or cruelty!


That's all I recall.

I've always thought that Violent Femme's song is catchy but deeply disturbing.  I don't want to know how they came up with it.

I'm going to see King's X live in a couple of weeks - they are the US East coast support act on the Porcupine Tree tour. Here's Porcupine Tree's advance teaser (digital) single on YouTube:

Porcupine Tree - Time Flies (single edit) video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGxa4ie6Pc)
Porcupine Tree - Time Flies (single edit) audio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRqZEU7jv7w)

Not ideal just before the new album launch. Is it the result of poorly considered exclusive licensing or just a trigger-happy lawyer? Nope. In fact it turns out that this is more interesting and explains why you can't find a lot of music on YouTube these days:

From the YouTube channel of Roadrunner Records:


Never knew that that applied to everything WMG distributes. Oh bollocks. So, here's the Porcupine Tree video with sound (http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/video/view.aspx?songID=2590).

Yeah, I've always thought the same thing about the song myself, Lant.  Seemed a good choice for the compilation, but I guess it wasn't soft enough.

I'll have to listen to those later, thanks for the links, Righ.  I haven't bought one of their albums since Ear Candy because that album just didn't click with me but I'm willing to give 'em another shot.

This whole thing makes sense now.

Monkeys prefer metal over classical music. (http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1956144)

Fans of heavy metal and classical music have a lot in common, study finds (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052606/Take-note-Fans-heavy-metal-classical-music-lot-common-study-finds.html)

I listen to both, and have always noticed that they share similar structures (well..., except for the more mainstream "metals").

Were you alive in the 80s? Most lead metal guitarists cut their teeth on classical runs.

You could probably play most of Bach on a distorted guitar and drums and everyone would think its Megadeth :)

No because anyone with a brain knows he was in Skid Row.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsMrpbN2eo

 :heart:

It wasn't news to me. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsOksdEauP0)

Heavy Classix (http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Classix-Hector-Berlioz/dp/B000002SO9/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1252016724&sr=8-1)

IIRC, the tag of the album is that the pieces on it are sampled in some popular metal songs, like Holt's Mars at the beginning of Am I Evil.   Note; that reference is from memory so I probably got it wrong.

Wow, this didn't take long.

Word, I submitted both of those.

Well played.

Uli Jon Roth, former lead guitarist from The Scorpions plays (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7J9vAJX-2c) a lot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p0-p8XjU70) of classical (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TV2FvYdnOw) music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdCFqQEAKM) these days.

I heard about this on NPR yesterday too.   :awesome_for_real: