In honor of the update on Muxtape’s shutdown, and the apparent belief that some people have about playlist functions being revolutionary as far as online music service design goes, I was thinking that maybe a thread on “great segues” would be a fun project for the weekend. And then I had a better idea: Let’s make this thread something of an exquisite-corpse mix-tape constructed by the comment section, where I start off with two songs that sound great together and you take it from there. (OK, this’ll probably result in something that requires the recording capacity of a CD-R, but “mixtape” sounds much more endearing than a bunch of letters mushed together.) My selections, after the jump!
I came up with this segue on a mix tape that I made to be played in the bakery where I worked during high school. (It had a pretty liberal policy as far as what we were allowed to listen to, and I abused that policy to great advantage. This would result in many people hearing Mark Arm immediately after they attended Mass at the church across the street, although I’d argue that isn’t all that bad of a thing.) Now it’s your turn!
blur - there’s no other way [YouTube]
White Zombie - Thunder Kiss ‘65 [Dailymotion]
[Image via Craftzine.com]
Funkadelic, “Alice in My Fantasies”
Stevie Wonder–”You Haven’t Done Nothin’” (it works in my head)
Ramones, Rockaway Beach
@Lucas Jensen: dude you totally screwed me on my transition.
El DeBarge, “Who’s Johnny?”
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The Cure - Jumpin Someone Else’s Train
I smell a Rickroll coming on…
/do people still do that?
Love and Rockets - Yin Yang and the Flowerpot Man
@teknohed:
RFTC - Ditch Digger
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - “Don’t Come Around Here No More”
The Pretenders - “Talk of the Town”
Left turn at Young Jeezy ft. Kanye West - “Put On”
Let’s go for another left turn here:
Yma Sumac - Molambo No. 1
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
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Big Star-Thirteen
Do They Know It’s Christmas?
OK, build it back up..
Sonic Youth - Tunic
Smoothing it back out again
Nuyorican Soul - I Am The Black Gold of the Sun (4hero Remix)
oops i think i blew it, i’ll pick up and fix later
@loudersoft: No way, I love that mix. It’s just that all Idolator threads die after twelve hours. 24 max.
Next up:
“On and On”, Still Going
(or, if you prefer, the vocal version featuring, um, Kanye, from my latest mix)
Through high school I used to always follow up six-minute slowish electronic numbers with something lively. Like
“>Luv Song, by Jane Jensen, who at one time was apparently signed to unembeddable Interscope for some reason.
@bcapirigi: Dammit.
Luv Song, by Jane Jensen, is what I meant to say.
love goes on! by the go-betweens.
and then ‘throwaway style’ by the exploding hearts.
and then whatever you want, but those need to be heard.
The Fall “Totally Wired”
The Monks “Please Please Love Me”
Shooby Taylor: “Lift Every Voice And Sing”: