You Knew It Was Coming...Another What Is in the CD Player!!

The studio is difficult because it is completely unforgiving. Everything is magnified because you can hear every damn thing.

Plus, there is the pressure of knowing that what you play will be permanent - as permanent as CD's can be. When playing live, there is a sense of being in the moment. With the studio, that one moment is recorded to be played over and over again forever.

Then there are all the asthetics...

Playing without an audience.
Playing in a confined space.
Wearing headphones.
Sometimes having to change your set up and basic sounds to fit the recording process.

It's all pretty awkward, especially for drummers because of the difficulty of punch-in's and overdubs for drums.

 

"Best of Both Worlds" - JayZ and R. Kelly

 

Jack Johnson - On and On
Gorgeous - 12plus1
Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours
Evan Dando - baby I'm Bored

 

I decided to make 2 "sampler" CDs for a buddy's birthday, introducing him to some new music. I've been listening to them lately, trying to refine them...

CD 1
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1. The Ataris - The Last Song I Will Ever Write About a Girl
2. The Ataris - Looking Back on Today
3. Autopilot Off - Spring Training
4. Face to Face - You Lied (Live Version)
5. Finch - Stay With Me
6. Goldfinger - Mable
7. Lagwagon - Making Friends
8. Lagwagon - Falling Apart
9. Lawrence Arms - Your Gravest Words
10. Midtown - Come On
11. Millencolin - Penguins and Polar Bears
12. Movielife - Spanaway
13. Movielife - This Time Next Year
14. Mr. T Experience - Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend
15. New Found Glory - Hit or Miss
16. No Use For a Name - Chasing Rainbows
17. No Use For a Name - This is a Rebel Song
18. Pennywise - Bro Hymn
19. Showoff - This Time
20. Showoff - Dear Jane
21. Slick Shoes - Joe's Sick
22. Slick Shoes - Friday Nite
23. Sugarcult - Underwear
24. Sugarcult - Saying Goodbye
25. Taking Back Sunday - You Know How I Do
26. Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without the 'E' (Cut From the Team)
27. Thursday - Standing on the Edge of Summer
28. Unwritten Law - Sorry

I don't have the patience to type out CD 2...

 

BGM - how did you find out about those bands? They look like something off of Punk-o-rama or that other punk compilation that they have.....Atticus or something.

I picked up Punk-o-rama 8 recently.....33 songs on this one. For 5 bucks of course, as always. Saw some Vans Warped Tour compilation in the store for the same price recently, with an obscene amount of songs as well.

 

matchbox20 - Yourself or Someone Like You
matchbox twenty - More Than You Think You Are

Live - Throwing Copper
AC/DC - Live

and a new one by a GREAT new funky-pop-rockish band:

Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane (this is a great new CD)

 

costes
costes la suite
hotel costes
costes etage
costes 5
costes quatre

 

That's basically how I get turned onto these bands. The only CDs I buy these days are the extremely cheap compilation CDs like Punk-O-Rama and the Warped Tour discs. Once I listen to bands I like on these CDs, I rip mp3s off of Kazaa. I guess I justify doing this by replacing my "CD money" with "Merchandise/Concert money"

I love the way these bands get together and turn out cheap CDs...

As for older bands, I just searched and scoured the internet for band names, and then I downloaded the hell out of them.

 

BGM, where did that "Underwear" song come from by Sugarcult. I don't think that's on their debut.

 

Freak,
Some album called "Eleven" ...that's all I know...it's not on their official site. It's definitely them though...

Alright, here's the other CD I'm working on...

CD 2
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1. 30 Foot Fall - **** Y'all We're From Texas
2. 88 Fingers Louie - Go Away
3. 88 Fingers Louie - Punk Rock Rulebook
4. AFI - I Wanna Mohawk
5. Agnostic Front - Gotta Go
6. Anti-Flag - Punk By the Book
7. Avail - High Lonesome
8. Avail - Lombardy Street
9. Bad Religion - 21st Century Digital Boy
10. Bigwig - 1-800-Whipped
11. Bigwig - Girl in the Green Jacket
12. Black Flag - Rise Above
13. Black Flag - TV Party
14. Bouncing Souls - Late Bloomer
15. Dead Kennedys - Stars and Stripes of Corruption
16. Down by Law - Gruesome Gary
17. Dropkick Murphys - Blood and Whiskey
18. Fugazi - Styrofoam
19. Good Riddance - Self Fulfilling Catastrophe
20. Guttermouth - Sucking **** for Beer
21. NoFX - Please Play This Song on the Radio
22. NoFX - Drugs are Good
23. Operation Ivy - Bad Town
24. Operation Ivy - Unity
25. Screeching Weasel - Hey Suburbia
26. SNFU - Time to Buy a Futon
27. Social Distortion - Story of My Life

 

white stripes-elephant
queens of the stone age-songs for the deaf
audioslave
and, for the third year in a row of listening to them nonstop:

sublime
sublime-second hand smoke


im a sublime addict.

 

OK, do y'all ever order CDs from Columbia House and either wonder why you did or you totally forgot ordering them? Regardless, I'll be giving these a play in the next few days:

Pearl Jam-Las Vegas, NV, October 22, 2000
Default-The Fallout
The Breeders-Title TK
Live-Birds of Prey (Jeez, I hated the last one, no idea why I ordered this one)
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Nas-God's Son

 

coming in late on this thread...

Lost Horizons - Lemon Jelly
Paris Lounge 2 - the best of Paris Lounge
Lovebox - Groove Armada
Überjam - John Scofield
Waltz for Koop - Koop

can't wait for the new Jane's Addiction July 22

 

I am insulted Smeg's Compilation CDs are not in that list

 

alright i've got a 10 disc cd changer so here it goes

1.) Creed (Greatest Hits)
2.) Eminem (Greatest Hits)
3.) Hootie & the Blowfish (Greatest Hits)
4.) Pearl Jam/Nirvana (Greatest Hits)
5.) Bush/Kidrock (Greatest Hits)
6.) Staind/Red Hot Chili Peppers (Greatest Hits)
7.) Nelly/Dr Dre/ Snoop Dogg, Tupac
8.) 3 Doors Down/Fuel/Green Day/Goo Goo Dolls/Third Eye Blind
9.) Limp Bizkit/Godsmack/Metallica/Linkin Park

CD # 10 is just mixed with a whole buch of different bands

all these were burned... god bless kazaa

 

Hum - "You'd Prefer an Astronaut"

 

Stars is one of my all-time favorite songs.

 

talk about an underrated band. "Downward is Heavenward" was a masterpiece. It's just too bad they broke up. They have a huge cult-like following..