The Chewer Mix CD Swap 2007 - Page 11

No problem. Glad you got it. Sorry for the delay.

It's cool, man.

So did you like the discs?

Tandem(who renamed himself to Brian something) received mine but I never received his and apparently he was abducted by Armenians because the last day he contacted me was his last day on Chud. On a positive note, he did say he liked my mixes. Bendrix contacted me because he got shafted as well and we're exchanging now to make up for the shafting.

I am glad to see that so many of you had no issues whatsoever, and some apparently good music has changed hands.

Greg, just wanted to let you know that the first package that I sent you came back today. It said that the package was "unclaimed". I compared the adress once again (it was fine) and sent it again. Hopefully, you will get it before we get too old and cranky.

Yeah! Still need to listen a couple more times to give distinct feedback, and your handwriting is horrifyin' so I might not know the names of all the songs(edit: found the track list earlier up the thread), but I like what I'm hearing. None of it was familiar (edit: on disc one), so that's a plus.

Yours are in the mail. With yours, you'll see double dips on artists here and there (I get stuck in cycles). I added a third bonus disc of cover songs to get away with dipping back into people I like.

1. Is there a way to copy that info from iTunes and paste, or did you type it by hand?

2.

That's on one of mine!

You must have made good with your precious little Gods because I finally sent the discs a couple of days back (and logged into Chud for the first time in well over a month. Sorry about that, but life became crazy for quite a while).

Now, for your discs: I just listened to them and only twenty or so seconds plays of each song before the sound completely drops out. Very weird. Also, the second disc doesn't play at all. I think this is karmic payback and sadly, I deserve it.

Nice Tom Tom Club inclusion though!

Indeed, it did.
Your track lists include a couple alt/punk/techno mix CDs from my friend with interestingly ecclectic tastes (I keep meaning to get a track listing, but I haven't hardly seen him in more than a month. Sorry.)

Then my little weirdness CDs which were:

Dance to the Music // Sly & The Family Stone
Naughty Girl // Beyonce'
What is hip // Tower Of Power
Down To The Nightclub // Tower Of Power
Everyday People // Sly & The Family Stone
Don't change horses // Tower of Power
Smooth Operator // Sade
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) // The Temptations
Harder Now That It's Over // Ryan Adams
Beast of Burden // The Rolling Stones
Heart of Mine // Peter Salett
Sylvia Plath // Ryan Adams
La Cienega Just Smiled // Ryan Adams
REGENBÖGEN // CAPPUCCINO
Du fehlst mir // CAPPUCCINO
Warum? // Tic Tac Toe
Nie Wieder // Tic Tac Toe
Part-Time Lover // Stevie Wonder
Silly (Album Version) // Deniece Williams
Closer to Fine // Indigo Girls

AND

It Sure Is Monday // Mark Chesnutt
Redneck Girl // Bellamy Brothers
Simple Life // Andy Childs
I Just Wanted You To Know // Tim Mensy
Fall Reaching // Chris Ward
Leaving October // Sons Of The Desert
Don't Move // Victoria Shaw
Missing Years // Little Texas
Mama Knows // Tim Mensy
Promises // Sons Of The Desert
Tight Fittin' Jeans // Conway Twitty
Daddy's Come Around // Paul Overstreet
Fireman // George Strait
Hotter Than A Two Dollar Pistol // George Jones
Se Escapan Mis Razones // Rick Trevino
Fightin Texas Aggie // Dub Miller
Feelin' Good Again // Robert Earl Keen
That's Good // Tim Mensy
The Road Goes On Forever // Robert Earl Keen


ETA:
To get the imfo out of iTunes, if you are able, print it to a document (PDF or Word or whatever) and cut & paste from there.
Just open the playlist, choose File --> Print, and under printers look for "PDF writer" or "Microsoft Document Image Writer" or whatever.

Fuck that shit, I'm re-sending them. Hopefully they will work better. This time.

Thanks B!

Task: Make a mix CD for someone who says their "70s/80s collection is sadly lacking". Now, I want the CDs to represent what I love, so there's some bleed into the 90s and later (and earlier), but a 70s/80s-centric mix was assembled.

I never got the tracks ordered as much as I'd have liked, and I stopped caring about double dips after a while, so I sent three discs, grouped as "Guys", "Girls (by and about)", and "Covers".

Spike, don't look if you don't want to know.

CD1: GUYS

1. Tight Pants / Iggy & The Stooges 2:10
2. You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side / Morrissey 3:37
3. Pilgrimage / R.E.M. 4:30
4. I Want You / Marvin Gaye 3:57
5. Personality Crisis / The New York Dolls 3:43
6. Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Elvis Presley 2:04
7. The Grand Tour / George Jones 3:09
8. Save It For Later / The English Beat 3:35
9. I'm The Bomb / Electric Six 4:18
10. Radar / Morphine 3:28
11. Brother, My Cup Is Empty / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 3:02
12. Fair Touching / Guided By Voices 3:07
13. Baby Bitch / Ween 3:04
14. Queen Bitch / David Bowie 3:18
15. Dead Finks Don't Talk / Brian Eno 4:20
16. Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town / Kenny Rogers 2:58
17. Love Will Tear Us Apart / Joy Division 3:23
18. Are You Man Enough? / The Four Tops 3:25
19. Crosseyed And Painless / Talking Heads 4:45
20. Girl U Want / Devo 2:57
21. The Queen Is Dead / The Smiths 6:26

CD2: GIRLS (by and about)

1. There Is An End / The Greenhornes Feat. Holly Golightly 3:05
2. Eli's Coming / Laura Nyro 4:01
3. Sheela-Na-Gig / PJ Harvey 3:12
4. Lee Remick / The Go Betweens 2:32
5. Because of Whirl-Jack / Cocteau Twins 3:26
6. Nobody Does It Better / Carly Simon 3:29
7. Superstar / The Carpenters 3:51
8. You Ain't Woman Enough / Loretta Lynn 2:14
9. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood / Nina Simone 2:46
10. Ingrid Bergman / Billy Bragg & Wilco 1:50
11. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) / Nancy Sinatra 2:40
12. Love Will Tear Us Apart / Nouvelle Vague 3:18
13. Soundtrack To Mary / Soul Coughing 3:06
14. Love Doctor / Millie Jackson 2:52
15. To Bring You My Love / PJ Harvey 5:31
16. She's Got You / Patsy Cline 3:02
17. Virginia Plain / Roxy Music 2:59

CD3: OTHER PEOPLE'S SONGS

1. Raspberry Beret / Hindu Love Gods(Warren Zevon & R.E.M. minus Stipe) 3:54
2. What A Wonderful World / Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan 3:03
3. It Ain't Me, Babe / Johnny Cash & June Carter 3:06
4. Age Of Consent / Grant-Lee Phillips 3:34
5. Ring Of Fire / Tom Jones 2:48
6. Have You Ever Seen the Rain? / R.E.M. 2:35
7. Bridge Over Troubled Water / Elvis Presley 4:36
8. Wonderwall / Mike Flowers Pops 2:46
9. Band on the Run / The Langley Schools Music Project 4:07
10. Helpless / Nick Cave 4:31
11. Easy / Faith No More 3:09
12. Ring Of Fire / Tito and the Tarantulas 3:02
13. Wild Is The Wind / David Bowie 6:00
14. Wichita County Lineman / R.E.M. 3:17
15. I Can ’ t Explain / David Bowie 2:13
16. Hallelujah / John Cale 4:05
17. Gin and juice / Gourds 6:25
18. The Killing Moon / Grant-Lee Phillips 4:14

Hope there's something you like in there, Spike. Sorry for the delay.

Fuck. I was away long enough that I missed the swap this year. I always love doing these. Maybe next year.

Hell, I wouldn't mind if we didn't wait the whole year. I had a good time making mine. I already have ideas for the next one.

I'd be all for doing another one soon, IF I wasn't sitting here holding my dick to show for the work I put into making my disks. Hopefully Bendrix will pull through, eventually.

Sorry about the Handwriting, I was significantly wasted when I was writing them. The playlists are as follows:

CD 1

One Hell of a Party


Wine Spritzers, entrees and delectable conversation

1) Miss the Girl – The Creatures
2) Hang Me Up To Dry – Cold War Kids
3) Dreaming of You – The Coral
4) Soldier Girl (Single Version) – The Polyphonic Spree

Hitting the beer

5) Please Please Please – Final Fantasy
6) Throw It On A Fire – Bell Orchestre

Heading to town, fuelled by Vodka and misplaced arrogance

7) Standing in the Way of Control – The Gossip
8) Hey You – Basement Jaxx
9) Teen Angst – M83

I love this song, play it louder while I score something

10) Radio Protector – 65daysofstatic
11) Necessary Evil – The Dresden Dolls
12) Tijj – Battles
13) Count In Fives – The Horrors
14) Sugar – Ladytron

The magical mystical playground, halfway between Sobriety and Oblivion

15) The Magic Position – Patrick Wolf
16) Enter – Russian Circles
17) E18 – Detektivbyrån

Too Drunk To Fuck

18) The Death of All Romance – The Dears


CD2

Lazy Sundays Filled with Greasy Breakfasts, copious aches and delirious visions of the night Before.

1) Staralfur – Sigur Ros
2) Slandskullur – Birgir Bragason
3) Weaving Song – Phelan Sheppard
4) Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence – Ryuichi Sakamoto
5) The Big Ship – Brian Eno
6) Annie, Let’s Not Wait – The Guillemots
7) Mount Wroclai – Beirut
8) Beach Song – Hans Zimmer
9) Summer – Joe Hisaishi
10) The Kind Ms. Geum-ja – Jo Young-wook
11) Riders on the Storm (Orchestral) – Nigel Kennedy and Jaz Coleman
12) Thistles and Felt – Manitoba
13) Doomsday – Murray Gold
14) The Upwards March – Bell Orchestre
15) Som Glass – Fläskkvartetten
16) Drastic Measures – Sarah Slean
17) I’m Sleeping In A Submarine – The Arcade Fire
18) Light and Day – Polyphonic Spree

Just got your discs today and the Nick Cave album, played through one and you've included one of my favourite Eno tracks. So thank you very much for that, brilliant mix.

The Nick Cave album (Your Funeral, My Trial) was a bonus/apology for sending so late. Plus, I think it's one of his best - just a quiet (mostly), spooky album to listen to at night.

Sorry for any tracks you already have - I tried to check it against your LastFM playlist.

Also, I just saw Superbad yesterday, and one of my tracks is in the film. Sorry for being accidentally timely.

Sorry about that.

So, is there enough interest to generate a second CD swap this year? I'd be game. And I'd try to be more interesting - at least as far as the CDs go.

Eh, not a big deal. My first partner got abducted by Armenians and Bendrix probably just waited to receive mine before he shipped his since he was burnt by his first partner as well.

I'd still do this again as I simply just love the idea.

I was awoken this morning by the click-clack of approaching horses. As I peered out the window, you can imagine my surprise when I saw a stage coach grinding to a halt in front of my house. A dusty gentleman approached and handed me my package, but was rebuffed in his attempt to solicit a sarsaparilla from me.

Though the speed is less than ideal, it does make for an interesting way to send packages. Anyway, CD received, and I will listen to it shortly.

Received Farmer Vincent's mixes. I listened to the first mix, and it was fantastic. Utterly fantastic. Good mix of artists and styles, and I hadn't heard any of the recordings before (Joe's Garage aside). I look forward to Mix 2 (entitled "Vincent and Angel").

The tracklisting for both are as follows:

MixCD1
1. A Bathing Suit For A Rich Girl - Phantom Buffalo
2. Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa*
3. Bus Stop - Tin Machine
4. Rainbows In The Dark - Tilly and the Wall*
5. Center of the Universe - Built to Spill
6. Song #1 - Soda Pop
7. Dirty Dream Number Two - Belle & Sebastian*
8. Los Angeles - X*
9. Hangin' 'Round (Acoustic Demo) - Lou Reed*
10. Werewolf - CocoRosie*
11. Agenda Suicide - The Faint
12. Go On - Star Six Nine
13. Scythian Empires - Andrew Bird*
14. International Pop Overthrow - Material Issue
15. A-Tossed Away - The Heart Throbs
16. Gloria - Patti Smith*
17. Section 28 (Guaranteed Nightlite) - The Polyphonic Spree
18. 50ft Queenie - PJ Harvey*
19. Bus Stop Boxer - Eels
20. This Must Be the Place - Talking Heads

Vincent and Angel
1. Glory Box - Portishead
2. Hotel Yorba - The White Stripes
3. After Hours - The Velvet Underground
4. The Honeymoon Song - Everclear
5. One Million Miles Away - J. Ralph
6. Vincent O'Brien - M. Ward
7. Jealous of Youth (7'' version) - The The
8. Railroad Man - Eels
9. Why? - Andrew Bird
10. Life in a Glass House - Radiohead
11. Song for a Deck Hand's Daughter - James McMurty
12. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) - Tom Waits
13. Blue Angel - Squirrel Nut Zippers
*Personal Favorites (especially love the Andrew Bird track, an artist who my friends have been raving about for a while but who I have never listened to)

That Talking Heads song is legendary. I love it.

Lemme know whatcha think, I'll post the track listing when I get home.

I'm glad you dig that first CD. i am a huge fan of Andrew Bird and just drove a couple of hours to catch his show in another city. He is consistently genius. My favorite artist of the moment.

By the way, I forgot to mention that Star Six Nine was my brother-in-law's band hence it's inclusion. My oldest son used the song in an anti-smoking PSA he made last year (won first place) so the song keeps kicking around. My brother recorded it in 1999 if I recall correctly.

I never got my CD. Burned this year, once again.

Maybe this says something about you, man.


I keed. I keed.

Agreed. I'd end almost any mix tape no matter the style with that song. This Must Be The Place blows me away no matter how many times I've heard it.

I give, but I never receive. Three years in a row. What gives?

I put it on my third disc to Richard Dickson as well. It's definitely a classic.

Got burned twice myself. I'd be willing to send you the mixes I made if you wanted but I somehow feel like karma would kill one of our mailmen to keep the cycle complete.

I say next time I get to choose who I get a CD from.

I just think it's weird that both of the guys I sent discs to this year have fell off the face of the map. It's like music ninjas are abducting my partners just as they are about to ship off my discs.

Well... that explains part of your avatar.

What can I say? The ninjas served up some kickass caterpillar rolls and forced me to subscribe to their newsletter. Your discs are made; I have yet to send them. They will go out this weekend. Any weak excuse I could make would just make it more embarrassing. Hopefully, the awesomeness of my discs will reverse the souring process and make you think only happy thoughts of the CD swap.

FYI: I haven't received your discs either, in case you sent them already. Hope they didn't get lost in the mail.

Wow, I thought they'd gotten you. It was just weird because the day after you were going to send them you disappeared from the site just like my other partner. I'm thinking mine were lost in the mail and I'll have to resend them because I sent them literally weeks ago. I'll PM your address back to make sure I have the correct one and we can try again. I'm just glad the ninjas let you go in time to trade discs. Hopefully this time mine will make it.

I've been around--it's just the times I've been reading are times when people haven't been posting in this thread. I'd no sooner stand up a swap than slit open my eyelids. It's just being so motivated an on-time with the first one apparently took all my energy, making this one criminally late.

The is the cover art and track list for the disc I sent Raspberry Leper, and yes, that's a raspberry in the background. By the way, the discs he sent me had awesome labels directly on the CD's with some Chewer related art, which was very cool. My mixes tend to be a little less obscure than most peoples, but I try to balance that out by putting stuff that's original on there, in this case my current band, and a song from the band I played guitar for in high school.

Raspberry's mixes he sent me were awesome. I've been starting my day listening to them at work every morning.

Well, it looks like I officially got shafted...oh, well, I had fun making my disc.

We must do this again soon!

Chris's CD was worth the wait. The cover art made me think of Extraordinary Machine, and when I initially looked at the track listing and saw the first song, I immediately started wondering which concert this version was from. Solid choices throughout, can't ever go wrong with Lennon or The Lemonheads (to my ears, anyway) and somehow, save for the opening of Rescue Me, I was unfamiliar with the Von Bondies tune, so it was cool to hear the whole thing finally. I enjoyed the original tunes, too.

This was my first exposure to any sort of CHUD swap, but it will certainly not be my last.
Here is what I sent out, un-inviso texted:

Disc 1

Sad - Pearl Jam
Premonition - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Come Pick Me Up - Ryan Adams
Loom - Ani Difranco
Honour Me - Salt
Red Light Indicates Doors are Secure - Arctic Monkeys
In September - Hayden
Headlock - Imogen Heap
Slow Night , So Long - Kings Of Leon
Rid Of Me - Polly Jean Harvey
Alone - Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
Broken Boy Soldier - the Raconteurs
Mouthful of Cavities - Blind Melon
St. Louise Is Listening - Soul Coughing
Long Live Doug (Standing) - Howling Maggie



Disc 2


Leyendecker - Battles
Future Boy - Catherine Wheel
Running Away Into You - John Frusciante
Carvel - John Frusciante
Girl At the Bus Stop - My Drug Hell
Twilight - Elliot Smith
Curious - Sandbox
Bullet in our Hand - Emmet Swimming
The Moviegoer - Matt Pond PA
Sally's Song - Fiona Apple
Obsession - Salt
Fighting For My Love - Nil Lara
Caught By The Fuzz (acoustic) - Supergrass
Edit - Regina Spektor
Burn - The Cure
Ice Cold Ice - Husker Du
No Fun (Live at Winterland 1978)- Sex Pistols

Man, I've always loved Costello's Veronica. What a splendid little song.

Hey Robert, I got your disc finally. Huzzah! I don't know what happened the first time. I had just moved, so maybe something went weird at the post office.

Anyway, I quite like the collection, even though I obviously don't understand most of the lyrics. Hearing guys rap in an eastern European language is kind of a trip.

When your liner notes started by saying that it was a lot of bands you knew personally, or had history with, I was a little scared, thinking I was going to hear a lot of cheesy garage bands and such. But a lot of these guys are really good. And the collection certainly satisfies my desire to hear things I'd never heard before. Plus, now I can look really cool, because I know none of my friends will have heard of any of them.

Phew! I'm certainly glad that you enjoyed it. And, yes, I was a bit careful when selecting the songs, so that not too many "I play in my mom's basement" bands appear on the mix (Still, most of these musicians don't plan on quitting their day jobs anytime soon). Speaking of lyrics, I can translate them for you if you want to. Won't take me a lot of time. Don't expect me to translate the last song, though - it's a pretty old dialact I can barely understand myself.

Anyway, I'm still listening to your mix once in a while and still like it a lot. Can't wait for the next music swap.

Are there plans to do another one of these this year? I haven't participated in these Chewer swaps yet, but I love giving and receiving mix CDs. And it looks like a lot of you guys/gals have made some great ones for each other.

This thread is way expired. Who's in charge of unstickying?

Are we doing another mix swap before the end of the year (not counting the Halloween one, which is a fun idea, just not my premiere choice for a mix swap)?

Haven't participated in any of these, but would definitely be interested next time. Hell, I've already got a tracklist rummaging through my head.

I pulled the trigger and finally sent my CDs (in zipped form) to Jeremy this week. The liner notes were what were holding me off, but I finally just sent him the tunes and the notes will follow. Jeremy, hope you dig them.