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A post about grunge and dope-slapping
Jun. 22nd, 2008 09:58 pmLast week, as many of you know, my on-again-off-again 90's "mainstream" alternative rock obsession switched back to "on-again," resulting in my seeking to expand my mega-super-ultra-giganto-holybugnutso-sized Alt90's mix from four to six discs. I did not receive the severe dope-slapping I should have received at the time.
After much begging, borrowing, stealing, and anal-retentive rearrangement of the existing and new material from the ground up, I succeeded in padding out the tracks to an even 120, 20 per disc, each to within 45 seconds of capacity. play order was established, discs were burned, labels were laid out and printed, and I took the whole lot in the car with me while running errands yesterday afternoon before work. All went well until around halfway through disc one, when I thought, "Y'know, this project would be a whole lot better if I redid it in chronological order...."
I arrived home and promptly asked![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rafaela to dope-slap me. Hard.
Wasn't hard enough: upon realizing that I had left out Cake, Hole, Michael Penn and Pete Droge, I began assembly of disc seven. I yearn for the release that death will bring.
Anyroad, a few people wanted to see the final track listings, which I hereby place behind the following cut in the interest of world peace:
( Insert Pop Culture Reference Here: An Overstuffed 90's Alternative Sampler (official track listing) )
I was mostly able to avoid artist repetition; the only repeats were R.E.M. (one of whose tracks was their collaboration with Natalie Merchant, which I fudgingly considered a "different artist") and Beck (because I was torn between "Beercan," the track of his that's guaranteed to nostalgia-whack my brain back to 1994, and "Loser," which I couldn't in good conscience leave out). Also, be aware that these tracks include a bunch of songs that I'm not terribly keen on, but which I included in the interest of completeness. You can probably guess which ones they are.
Oh, and yes, this is the absolutely last time I'm going to mention this mix. I swear.
After much begging, borrowing, stealing, and anal-retentive rearrangement of the existing and new material from the ground up, I succeeded in padding out the tracks to an even 120, 20 per disc, each to within 45 seconds of capacity. play order was established, discs were burned, labels were laid out and printed, and I took the whole lot in the car with me while running errands yesterday afternoon before work. All went well until around halfway through disc one, when I thought, "Y'know, this project would be a whole lot better if I redid it in chronological order...."
I arrived home and promptly asked
rafaela to dope-slap me. Hard.Wasn't hard enough: upon realizing that I had left out Cake, Hole, Michael Penn and Pete Droge, I began assembly of disc seven. I yearn for the release that death will bring.
Anyroad, a few people wanted to see the final track listings, which I hereby place behind the following cut in the interest of world peace:
( Insert Pop Culture Reference Here: An Overstuffed 90's Alternative Sampler (official track listing) )
I was mostly able to avoid artist repetition; the only repeats were R.E.M. (one of whose tracks was their collaboration with Natalie Merchant, which I fudgingly considered a "different artist") and Beck (because I was torn between "Beercan," the track of his that's guaranteed to nostalgia-whack my brain back to 1994, and "Loser," which I couldn't in good conscience leave out). Also, be aware that these tracks include a bunch of songs that I'm not terribly keen on, but which I included in the interest of completeness. You can probably guess which ones they are.
Oh, and yes, this is the absolutely last time I'm going to mention this mix. I swear.
