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 | Made a top ten list of mix-making rules. Feel free to argue as you see fit.
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| | | Posts: 4406 | Location: San Francisco, CA | Registered: February 04, 2004 | 
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| Just found this site in my wife's favourites list. You put in a request and the "robots" might create a mix tape listing for you. |
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Originally posted by hurtstotouchfire:
I just never found a way to cope with the _tape ending_. Silence was unacceptable, but so was cutting off a song. So it took me months of evenings sometimes to make a mix tape, just cause of all the math involved and because if I screwed it up somehow and had silence at the end I'd actually go re-record every song starting with the second one and leaving a second or two more of silence between songs...
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Only need a few more songs now to make my mix. Can't think of a good title for it yet, but titles are indeed necessary.
but i agree with that - the title for the mix is somewhat crucial! |
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me thinks you were taking it a little too seriously!
methinks you don't know me very well. I am tempted at this point to use a smiley emoticon. But as a general rule, I'm opposed to them, I think they're icky. That's the technical term. But you get the idea.
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| | | Posts: 4406 | Location: San Francisco, CA | Registered: February 04, 2004 |
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| My wife's the same way, httf. Her mix tapes have always been pure divinity.
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| We try. Like I always say, I don't have OCD, I'm just really really detail-oriented. And ah, you know. I like things clean. And symmetrical or in groupings of 3.
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| I prefer even numbers or groups of five.
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| | | Posts: 2587 | Location: Chicagoish | Registered: January 07, 2003 |
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| Yeah I used to be into even numbers, but then all the number-tricks of 3 3 lured me -- Hang on I'm totally not having this conversation.
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| | | Posts: 4406 | Location: San Francisco, CA | Registered: February 04, 2004 |
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| Wow, I break Hurts' rule 3 and rule 5 all the time. As far as I'm concerned if the next track follows the previous track without being too jarring or samey then it's in, leaving not so much a mix as a Brownian walk. And I always use 45 min a side tapes (the length of my commute). As for themes, I only use 'em when my mind is so paralysed by the options (I have too many records) that need to direct my choice by constraining it - like on the tape where all the bands on side A stared with "L" and all on side B started with "P". Never got around to doing the magnum opus: band A cover song by band B; band B cover song by band C; band C cover song by band D &c until the thread breaks or until tape ends with band N covers song by band A.
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| A bit off topic, but I have finally decided to convert some of my music collection to files on my computer, and I'm starting with my old mix tapes. Partially to preserve them from further deterioration (and free tools are also great at removing hiss), and partially because I now have the disk space to do it. Most of what I've copied over so far is Rush.  |
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| Colin, I hope this quote:
signifies embarrassment. Also, everyone should see this.
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| You know what's worse? I still kinda' like it. |
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| A high school girlfriend was big into Rush (the band, not Limbaugh). It was when she said, with a feverish, dreamy look in her eyes, "listen to these lyrics, 'everyone needs reverse polarity,' that's so deep, he's so right," that it finally dawned on me that she wasn't quite all there. 
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| Apropos of OCD and silence at the end of tapes, I tended to go for the hardware, rather than the wetware, solution: make the two sides the same length, then prise the cassette open, cut and rejoin the tape...
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| | | Posts: 16347 | Location: The antipodes of sanity | Registered: January 11, 2003 |
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The lyrics. Yes, well, the lyrics, see... um.
Oh yeah, Neal Peart is one deep dude. "Why does it happen? Because it happens. Roll the bones." My head asplode. "The Trees"? Holy cow, such a brilliant analysis of class warfare, like wow, man. And don't get me started on "By-Tor and the Snow Dog". (Maybe I should cross-post this in the sarcastic thread.)
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| Jeez, Anarchocyclist, did Neal Peart steal your lunch money when you were a kid or something? |
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| Like to see 'im try it. Pasty prog-rock Canuck wanker...*grumble*....
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| Wow, there's some real anti-Rush angst in the boy. Have some more coffee and an Advil or two, pard. Edit: And don't worry, colin, we still love you. We're all guilty of crimes against music. I have most of the Hoodoo Gurus' catalog, even though it was nearly all rot after Stoneage Romeos.
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