Sweet! 'Bout time! I totally have a concept to implement, later tonight.
I totally have a concept to implement
If you know what I mean.
later tonight
Yeah, I might should stop posting these first thing in the morning, while everybody's at work.
Gives your mom a good head start that way.
Gives your mom a good head start that way.
Who, Kotsko?
What are the chances that Kotsko licks the Cyrillic alphabet?
2: Yeah... Knew I should've started on that dubstep mix earlier, since I've got a very busy few days ahead (busy outside of work, that is, and of course making mixes is deprecated a fireable offense at work).
The Apostropher's unipolar domination of funk mixes is one of the most serious threats to world peace today. Uploading a countermeasure.
I'll get in on that. Coming soon: baby mix! Made from real babies.
Well, that blows my plan to keep my Google search results under control.
Actually, this mix is something of a tribute to Unfunkked; I happened across the raw material for it when I was doing an Image search for The Chicago Gangsters. Complete with CD cover!
The Total Experience
1. Matrix - Dizzy Gillespie
2. Sport - Lightnin' Rod
3. Bold Soul Sister - Ike & Tina Turner
4. Your Mama Wants Ya Back - Betty Davis
5. Dear Limmertz - Azymuth
6. Nautilus - Bob James
7. Celestial Blues - Gary Bartz Nu Troop
8. Smokin' Cheeba Cheeba - Harlem Underground Band
9. Hang Up Your Hang Ups - Herbie Hancock
10. Darkest Light - Lafayette Afro-Rock Band
11. Corey Died On The Battlefield - The Wild Magnolias
12. Every Time He Comes Around - Minnie Riperton
13. Dirty Red - The Fabulous Counts
14. Fat City Strut - Mandrill
15. Candido's Funk - Candido
16. September 13 - Deodato
Following up with a more-than-funk mix in a little bit.
This is what happens if you listen to too much Unfunkked.
All babies, all the time! In honor of my spawning friends.
Here Comes My Baby, Yo La Tengo
Ooh Baby, Pamoja
Just Like A Baby, Sly & The Family Stone
Baby Be Mine, Michael Jackson
Baby (1971), Os Mutantes
Yeah Baby, The Fondas
Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby), Aretha Franklin
Banana Split For My Baby, Louis Prima
Baby One More Time (Cover), Fountains of Wayne
Test Tube Baby/Shoot 'Em Down, Morphine
Be My Baby, The Ronettes
Bye Bye Baby, The Detroit Cobras
Gee, Baby, I Ain't Good to You, Oscar Moore & Nat 'King' Cole
Baby I'm A Star, Prince
Heh Baby Heh, Greg Brown
I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby, Dolly Parton
My Baby Just Cares For Me, Nina Simone
One For My Baby, Frank Sinatra
Please Call Me, Baby, Tom Waits
Stick With Me Baby, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Sweet Baby, Macy Gray Feat. Erykah Badu
Baby, Jennifer Nash
Baby Mine, Bonnie Raitt
Note: these songs are not all about actual babies.
Some are about fictional babies.
And in some, "baby" is used as a form of address for adult women.
doing an Image search for The Chicago Gangsters
Slightly OT, since this isn't a mix:
I have an unsequenced zip file containing music posted on my blog through 7/20, along with accompanying track list and guide.
The last few days, I keep getting unfamiliar songs on my iTunes - the crop of No! songs from Sifu and Wrongshore from a couple months back. The funny thing is that I'll think WTF? but then, before I can check to see what it is, I'll notice that they keep singing "no."
Awesome, Apo. I'll be out on the bike for a while, and now I have some new tunes to listen to.
The rest of you assholes will have to wait until I get back and have funked all your daddies.
DS, I'm about 2/3 of the way through The Total Experience and am loving it. I'm interested by how different the overall feel of it is from the Unf ones, but I'm having trouble putting my finger on what that difference is, exactly ("less southern, more jazzy" is true but doesn't quite capture it). Maybe after it rides around in my car for a while.
Love the album cover in 18. Oddly enough, I never did find that in my Image search.
Here and here is the more-than-funk mix promised earlier:
Weird Instruments of Science.
1. "Probe Away!" (Dialogue)
2. Deceptacon - Le Tigre
3. Whoo! - The Rapture
4. Working in the Coal Mine - Devo
5. Paper Planes (Original Mix) - M.I.A.
6. Paranoid Android - Easy Star All-Stars feat. Kirsty Rock
7. Do Dub Up Your Fight - King Jammy
8. Days and Daze - Romanowski
9. Reach Us - Joey Chavez
10. Insecure Drum - Mux Mool
11. California Soul (Diplo/Mad Decent Remix) - Marlena Shaw
12. Real Thing - Erykah Badu
13. The Healer (Hip Hop Mix) - Erykah Badu feat. Pharoahe Monche
14. Up Again - The RZA
15. Many Phases - Musab
16. Daytona 500 - Ghostface Killah
17. Feelin' Jack - Shawn Jackson
18. Invincible Deuce - Ypsi feat. Buff 1 Sun & PL
19. She Can Be So Cold - Pacewon & Mr. Green
24: Excellent, glad you like it. Yeah, it's condensed out of a seven-volume set called "Pulp Fusion" which leans toward the jazz/instrumental side of things, so that's probably the difference you're hearing.
5. Paper Planes (Original Mix) - M.I.A.
Weird, I totally already had this song stuck in my head.
I would like to make a mix, but in order to make it uploadable/downloadable, do I have to basically make a copy of every song just so I can change the "album/track number" information and it will go in the right order? That seems like it shouldn't be necessary. Also, then I end up with 2 copies of each song in the iTunes library.
27: you can copy the songs out of iTunes into a folder, and then use an id3 editor (like this one) to change the information without reïmporting the tracks into iTunes.
28: it is catchy as all get out. Have you heard the DFA remix?
That's what I do, but I'm led to believe including an .m3u file will also do the trick.
27: I make redundant copies of the songs I use, since I don't necessarily want them permanently associated with such-and-such mix in my song library. I quite like it when people edit the album and track number tags in their mixes; makes them easier to find later and the sequencing easier to reproduce.
30: From one of your mixes, as it happens.
Further to 29, make sure you use the right tag editor. Avoid STAMP, which I've discovered will -- about a third of the time -- delete the codecs from files it edits and render them unplayable.
26, 28: It was a really slow starter for me. When I first got Kala, I thought it was only a middling track on the album. But then Diplo kept using it in DJ mixes and his live sets (probably because it's the one track he produced on the album), and it really caught on after I'd heard it several times. Now that song choice alone make me smile at the Pineapple Express previews.
Looks like it's up to eight volumes now. This Wild Magnolias track is smoking.
I'd link to two mixes I recently made as mood music for a Vampire game I'm running set in Nashville but they'd be way, way down-tempo and emo in comparison to the funk on display. I'll simply recommend, instead, that if the existence of a subgenre called "cemetery & western" comes as an intriguing surprise to one, as it did to me, that one check out an artist called Jay Munly who writes and sings some really excellent songs about horrifying experiences in lonely hills.
they'd be way, way down-tempo and emo in comparison
I don't know why that would stop you.
Now that song choice alone make me smile at the Pineapple Express previews.
Yup.
The DFA remix is getting tons of DJ play in unexpected places; shit's like an anthem track, now.
37: So it is. Excellent.
38: "Cemetery and western," you say? I think I know what you mean, but perhaps you should... upload some.
Hey, did any of the Californians just feel an earthquake? Felt medium-sized in our office tower.
Also, these mixes are incredibly awesome.
Yup. 5.8 magnitude earthquake with a center near Chino Hills at 11:40ish PST. Yikes.
Yeah, just saw that. No damage here at the office in WLA but that was big enough to do some harm further east.
No damage here in Irvine either, but it was enough to scare the crap out of me. I'm not a lifelong Californian, though.
OK, I don't feel they're thematically coherent or anything except in the context of weird music appropriate to a weird game, and Jay Munly is the only artist included who fits the "cemetery & western" bill, and some of them are only there as very, very obscure clues to my players (at least two of whom read Unfogged, so, ha!) but here they are:
Nashville by Night I - zip file:
1) Twilight - Antony and the Johnsons
2) Another Song About Jesus, A Wedding Sheet, And A Bowie Knife - Jay Munly
3) The Shadow Government - They Might Be Giants
4) 1001 Nights - Shad
5) Sax Quartet - Seatbelts
6) Evil Angel - Rufus Wainwright
7) A Need to Know Basis - Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
8) Careless - Drive-By Truckers
9) Too Close for Comfort - Dianne Reeves
10) Adieu - Emily Bindiger
11) Monster - The Automatic
12) Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - Caulfield Sisters
13) Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other - Pansy Division
Nashville by Night II - zip file:
1) Friday the 13th: The Series - Fred Mollin
2) Alone Together - Rufus Wainwright
3) Last Year's Troubles - Suzanne Vega
4) Song of the Black Lizard - Pink Martini
5) The Day the Devil - Laurie Anderson
6) Sacrificial Bonfire - XTC
7) Devil in the Business Class - Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra
8) Kill the Lights - The Birthday Massacre
9) Love to Hate You - Erasure (at the Grand Ole Opry, acoustic)
10) The Carol of the Old Ones - HP Lovecraft Historical Society
11) Old Service Road - Jay Munly
12) Wicked Little Town - The Breeders
13) Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash
Felt it in La Jolla, too. Funny how it goes from "Hey, is that?..." to "Hey, that's an earthquake!"
Quite quaked here in Los Angeles. We had read recently on an email forward that was debunked on Snopes that doorways aren't such a good idea so we stood in the kitchen. This 'un had staying power.
iTunes FS is an app that automatically creates a file folder from your playlist, which you can then turn into an uploadable zip file. It renames the tracks with the track number in front. Very handy!
I'm very excited about these mixes, DS, Rob, Apo. Tweety by expectation.
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I dozed off on my flight today, and dreamed that Michael Dummett was commenting on Unfogged.
(I was reading Thought and Reality when I fell asleep.)
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48: Glad to hear you're all ok. So far sounds like no significant damage.
Glad to hear you're all ok.
Hey, I'm not! I died at Target!
51: God, B, I'm so sorry to hear that. Dying at Target is so tacky.
And now she has to, like, haunt it or something. B was too classy for such a fate.
NickS, your very groovy-looking ZIP file is partly corrupted, thought you might like to know.
NickS, your very groovy-looking ZIP file is partly corrupted, thought you might like to know.
Oh, thanks for telling me. That's unfortunate. I'll check that and upload a new version tonight.
In the meantime, you can get to the posts with the individual songs by clicking on the "ref" link in that listing.
Actually no, I'm just going to be a ghost in the machine. It had never occurred to me that this would be the way of finding out what people would say at your funeral. I should have appreciated Slack more while I was alive.
55: Havin' a House Party to your memory, B. House parrr-tayyy... damn this is a good track.
Hey, if you guys have an ice cream maker, and want to know what is awesome, homemade peach ice cream is awesome. It tastes like magical creamsicles.
Creamsicles are orange flavored. Although peach would be better of course.
The magic is that the oranges are peach-flavored. Duh.
My evening is much better than my morning, and I credit "Weird Instruments of Science".
NickS, your very groovy-looking ZIP file is partly corrupted, thought you might like to know.
Can you, or someone else, try again and confirm this.
The copy on my HD seems good and, when I compare files the size is exactly the same as the one on the site.
My connection is slow enough, that any additional checks, or a re-upload will take a while. So it would helpful to know if the file on the site is really corrupted.
60: Was thinking the same thing about the Babies mix. I'm on the Nina Simone track now; and it just occurred to me that this is one of her songs I didn't have.
61: I'll give it another shot in a minute, Nick.
Okay! Finally:
Make My Funk The T Funk
01 Rocking Bird - Emphasis
02 El Toro Poo Poo - Charles Kynard
03 Lagos City - Asiko Rock Group
04 Cross Bronx Expressway - Cross Bronx Expressway
05 Superstition - Dennis Mobley & Fresh Taste
06 Hooker (Pts 1 + 2) - Peter Brown
07 Let Me Party With You - Bunny Sigler
08 Summertime - The Blue Velvets
09 A Taste Of Honey - The Peppers
10 Shack Up - Blackbuster
11 Right Place Wrong Time - Ray J
12 Hogtied - Chain Reaction
13 I (Who Have Nothing) - Ray Frazier & The Shades Of Madness
14 Food Stamps - Leaf
15 Africa - Amanaz
Is here.
Sorry for the lack of a cover, and if I've used any of these before; my computer is being wicked flaky. I recommend this if you want to make your own cover.
Awesome Sifu!
NickS, still nothin'. It's the tracks from "The Fitted Shirt" onward that won't extract.
61. Yeah, I tried unzipping it in Win32 using gnu unzip and it said the Sinead O Conner song and the Spoon song were messed up. They were the same file size but diff says they're different from the ones I got from
http://www.beforeyoulisten.com/the-music/
which played correctly. That Spoon song was swell!
I'm not going to upload a mix, but I will be on the air again on 8/1 (this Friday!) and 8/8 (next Friday!) from 3 to 6 pm pacific whatever time. Sure to feature a Franz Hautzinger/Joseph Suchy/Ekkehard Ehlers -> Josephine Foster transition the gods would envy.
Shoot. I will get this fixed . . . slowly (my upload speed is truly terrible).
I uploaded another copy here.
I made a third zip file which I intended, but failed to upload last night, which I will start uploading now.
If that fails I'll break it into smaller files.
I know this thread is dead, but I wanted to say: all of the Funk mixes are unbelievably, ridiculously awesome. These will definitely turn my next party into a sex party. Thanks.
Klotsko phunky? Nyet. Biblethumping prep-cooks from Peoria--even ones who've read the cliffsnotes to various lacanian marxist lacanians-- are not funky.
(Bold Soul Sister - Ike & Tina Turner. Dat's funky: er at least Ike was sometimes....................)
Nick: sorry not to bring better news about your new ZIP file, which now refuses to open for me full stop.
I come, however, not to kvetch but to praise. Wherever you found that Shirley Bassey cover of Pink: that's, like, one of the best damned things I've ever heard. Especially the part where she bursts out laughing while trying to sing "you'll be kissing my ass;" so, so awesome.
"Make My Funk the T Funk" is also brilliant. Extra-special love for that Emphasis opener. And likewise for the Unfunkked mix, which has resolved me to seek out (among other things) more Nils Landgren and more Brides of Funkenstein.
And lotsalot great stuff on those Nashville by Night collections, I don't know why Rob was shy about posting them. Hedwig is one my favourite movies of all time -- and the Deals two of my favourite women in rock -- so I was especially chuffed about "Wicked Little Town."
I put on MMFTTF and did my pushups (Cala! Are you with me?) and felt really good until I did too many pushups.
Dunno if this was the one Nick included, but "Love is Something" by the Brides of Funkenstein is amazing.
They were a George Clinton spinoff from P-Funk in the 70s...probably everyone knows that already.
I come, however, not to kvetch but to praise. Wherever you found that Shirley Bassey cover of Pink: that's, like, one of the best damned things I've ever heard.
Thanks. I love that song, it's so charming. She's seventy years old!
Apologies for the technical difficulties. I do appreciate the effort. Tues/Wed are the busy days of me week, so it's frustrating me that i haven't had more time to get it straightened out.
Nick, I haven't tried to unzip, but I assume DS is correct. But please keep trying - the songs sound awesome.
Yeah, DS is right the second zip didn't work.
Trust me, though I will get it. I'm trying this music blogging thing. It won't work if I can't post the music.
Hedwig is one my favourite movies of all time
Glad you liked the mixes! I, too, love Hedwig but haven't actually sat down and watched the movie all the way through in a given sitting. Rah and I went to see it performed by a local theatre company at a local gay bar that does the occasional rock show so it was a real, live performance. The lead was played by a local middle school drama teacher. It was insanely awesome, got revived multiple times over the next couple of years and we went every time. It was a pretty intense performance, including the lead breaking his arm during one of the numbers, finishing the show anyway and finishing that run of shows with a cast. In comparison, the movie always feels slightly limp. I like it every time I watch ten or fifteen minutes but it doesn't grab me. The Breeders cover of "Wicked Little Town" leaves me goose-bumpy every time I hear it.
I had a similar experience of seeing Hedwig in a local community theatre-type production. I didn't expect much but the book and music were just so good that I was blown away. It's a shame how rare it is for me to see new theatre stuff that truly reaches that level -- e.g. I saw that Jerry Springer opera the other day in a really well performed production, but the underlying material was just so sloppy and lazy that it wasn't that good.
But please keep trying - the songs sound awesome.
my "uploads" directory into three zip files. That includes everything listed on the music page, everything I've blogged since 7/20, and a sneak preview of some songs I'm going to blog in the coming week.
The first two are confirmed fine. The third has problems, but should get you most of the music, for now, and I will fix that later today, and post another comment.
Those files all appear to be working now.
For anyone still reading, thank you for your patience.
I downloaded them. They arrived in good shape and opened up OK. I like the compare and contrast pairs.
