I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


Hayden - Jan 23, 2004 5:45:53 am PST #51 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Mostly done with the mix, but I haven't quite gotten a couple of good transitional parts together yet for sufficient flow. Do we have to go in order?


tina f. - Jan 23, 2004 5:49:41 am PST #52 of 10003

Do we have to go in order?

That was the general consensus.

Mine is not done. I am a deadline driven gal and I'm sure I won't be done til I have to be. But, I already know I have one frighteningly abrupt transition that I can do nothing about.


Steph L. - Jan 23, 2004 5:50:15 am PST #53 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

"Go in order" -- meaning, put the songs in the msbelle-dictated order?

If so, yes.


Hayden - Jan 23, 2004 5:51:14 am PST #54 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

That was the general consensus.

Well, shoot. Maybe I'll use some of my policy wonk logical magic to make it seem like one topic is another.


Alicia K - Jan 23, 2004 6:01:19 am PST #55 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.

I finished my mix and liner notes last night, and I'm pleased with the results, even if I had to chop off the last couple of categories due to length, and the flow isn't quite what I'd hoped. But what can you do when you're going according to guidelines? There are only so many songs I can use off the first album I bought, and only so many songs I have with a name. ;-)


Steph L. - Jan 23, 2004 6:02:40 am PST #56 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'm swapping out the book/movie-related song, because, while I love "Venus in Furs," it doesn't go with the rest of the CD *at all.* Bummer. But my replacement song is really good, and also funny.


Lyra Jane - Jan 23, 2004 6:12:49 am PST #57 of 10003
Up with the sun

I kind of decided flow didn't matter. I hope this does not cause the person who gets my mix to break down in tears.

I had to cheat the "cover I thought was an original or vice versa" category, because the songs I like that would legitimately fit that category are by performers I wanted to use in other slots on the CD. (I'm sure there are other covers I thought were originals in my CD collection, but I lacked the patience to check writing credits on every CD I own to find one.) But it does fit the category for most people who are not obsessive readers of rock history.

Also not entirely happy with the "artist I hate, song I love" category. Is this supposed to be another "guilty pleasures" slot, or should it be a song by a performer who we find morally/politically/aesthetically repulsive, even if we concede they have talent? The word "hate" to me suggests the latter, but the only song I have a decent copy of in that category is waaaay too long.


joe boucher - Jan 23, 2004 6:28:45 am PST #58 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine

I don't know if there's a consensus on this, but for me "artist I hate, song I love" will be someone whose music I don't generally like but who has a song I really like. Some of my favorite artists are loathsome people (yeah, i'm talking about you, Miles). So that isn't the criterion I'm using. If that's why you hate so and so, but s/he has a song you love, then use that.

"Guilty pleasures" I think has more to do with perception: I like it, but I'd be sorta embarassed for someone else to know I like it. Many of us here aren't easily embarassed & in fact are eager to stick up for generally frowned upon genres and/or artists on the general principle that it's the execution, not the chosen mode of expression that matters. Still, maybe you dig disco/country/Abba/John Denver/boy bands/fill-in-your-choice-here but wouldn't want that to get around. That's what my take on that category is.


Steph L. - Jan 23, 2004 6:38:28 am PST #59 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

for me "artist I hate, song I love" will be someone whose music I don't generally like but who has a song I really like.

That's how I defined it. Of course, I don't own anything by someone I don't like, so I had to root around for something.


Lyra Jane - Jan 23, 2004 6:42:05 am PST #60 of 10003
Up with the sun

someone whose music I don't generally like but who has a song I really like.

Ah, that was a category on the original Frankenmix, so i was wondering if this was something different.

It's still a hard one for me because it's very, very unusual for me to like one or two songs by an artist and (know that I) strongly dislike the rest of what they have done-- let alone have those songs in my CD or MP3 collections.

I may think "Sweet Emotion" or "Dream On" is more tolerable than "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing," but it's more a case of "find Aerosmith generally fairly pleasant for hair rock, hate a few of their songs" than "hate Aerosmith, love "Sweet Emotion."" Similarly, "My Favorite Mistake" does not actually make me want to bitchslap Sheryl Crow, but that doesn't mean I want to download the thing or subject others to it. Of course there are CDs I've bought for the single and found pretty boring otherwise, but I don't think that fits the category, either, as my reaction to the other songs is usually not hatred so much as "meh."

Suspect I may be overthinking this just a tad.