Ideally these shoudl be made after midnight while you're intoxicated.
Challenge one: Speachless
An entirely lyricless mix.
Spoken word IS allowed, but only as ambient/conversational accents. Nothing sung. "Classical" music NOT permitted.
One hour's music required.
A MAXIMUM of ten tracks allowed.
Mine:
1) When You're Gone- Friends of Dean Martin
2) Dead Flag Blues- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3) Yasmin the Light- Explosions in the Sky
4) Ratts of the Capitol- Mogwai
5) A French Galeasse- Rachel's
6) Torino_ Spaghetti Western
7) Orion- Rodrigo y Gabriella
8) The World is Our____- This Will Destroy You
Challenge two: Cry baby, bry, make your mama sigh
Make me cry in ten songs or less. I guarentee I will listen to them intently in turn in one sitting.
2 comments:
Aimee's Speechless (this was fun :)
1. Salmetone - Frigg
2. Country - Keith Jerret & Jan Garbarek
3. Transformation - Rufus Cappadocia
4. London Lasses - Steafan Hannigan
5. Darbuka Ikinci Solo - Oryantal Harem, Nezdeke, Asena (I don't know if that's right)
6. Invisible Fireworks - Greg Herriges
7. Fanitullen - Tapani Varis
8. Basketball Freestyle - Nike Commercial
9. Exibit 13 - Blue Man Group
10. Christy Cambell Medley - The Rankins
Aimee's Cry Baby Cry - Make Yer Mama Sigh
(I set these up like a story with a dialogue between the characters...some are the parties involved, some are observing friends or angels who sing and play instruments :)
1. Hand on Your Heart - Jose Gonzalez (watch the music video if you wanna start bawling early)
2. Lull It By - Greg Brown
3. The Weight of Lies - The Avett Brothers
4. Throw Me a Rope - KT Tunstall
5. Big Yellow Pine - Willy Porter
6. Keidas (Oasis) - Frigg
7. Bramble and the Rose - Trapezoid
8. Close Your Eyes - Sophie Rog and Ida Rotto
9. Pale Reflection - Lindsay Mac
10. Chichester Psalms (Psalm 139) - Leonard Bernstein (Robert Shaw Choral)
(On it's own, I was thinking of putting "School Night" by Ani in there but it felt like that one was on a different shelf from the others).
Actually, maybe switch the first two around on the Cry Baby Cry mix.
Let Greg leave and then have Jose grab his arm as he's walking out. And then have the Avett Brothers sing in Greg's ear as he's walking away. Ooooo. Yeah.
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