Help compiling a CD

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 3:50 pm

Off the back of Justin Hawkins' recent comments about British music being cack this year, I decided to make myself a CD of stuff from this year.

Being the huge geek that I am, I made myself rules. I am now struggling because of these rules. So now I need your help filling in the gaps.

- 26 songs; A-Z by title type style.
- Only one track per artist
- Each artist/act must be from the UK
- Nothing commercially available before 2005

I currently lack decent tracks for:

Q
Z

I have tracks down for H, K, N, O P and Y. But many of these tracks are by artists I've already used for other letters. Ergo there is shuffling needed and I need good alternate tracks.

I need suggestions!

I feel this may be a job for Spidey.

V is currently the Pendulum remix of Voodoo People, but I am unsure if this is allowable by my own rules. Ergo I need a good back-up for V, too. :-/

Haylp!

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 3:52 pm

You nutter!

I'll give it some thought.

So you need, Q, Z, H, K, N, O P and Y?

edit - By the way I think Hawkins usually talks utter cock.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 3:54 pm

Yes, me mad. What of it?

Yep, them's the letters. Also a spare V. I forsee an evening of trawling through album tracks from the last twelve months...

[EDIT] Yes, Hawkins comments are rubbish. There's been some superb British music this year. The Darkness being none of it.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:03 pm

H - Helicopter, Bloc Party

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:06 pm

Got any Kaisers? Y - You Can Have It All, O - Oh My God

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:12 pm

Helicopter was released in 2004.

I love that track.

H is currently Half Light by Athlete, but the only Y I can find is Yesterday Threw Everything At Me, which rules that out. If I can find another Y then it'll be groovy.

[EDIT] Haha. You Can Have It All. Of course, yesss...

At present: (revised)

Albion (Babyshambles)
Bullets (Editors) or Banquet (Bloc Party)
Cash Machine (Hard-Fi)
Dakota (Stereophonics)
Evil and a Heathen (Franz Ferdinand) (or Eleanor Put Your Boots On) or Everyday... (Kaisers)
Fake Tales of San Francisco (Arctic Monkeys)
Going Missing (Maximo Park)
Half Light (Athlete)
In the Crossfire (Starsailor)
Just Like TV (The Departure) or John the Revelator (Depeche Mode)
Keep the Dream Alive (Oasis)
Love Steals Us From Loneliness (Idlewild)
Modern Way (Kaiser Chiefs) or Munich (Editors)
Number 1 (Goldfrapp)
One of These Days (Doves)
Precious (Depeche Mode) or Pushing the Senses (Feeder)
Q
Rock & Roll Queen (The Subways)
Somewhere Else (Razorlight)
Two More Years (Bloc Party) or Talkshow (The Departure)
Unsatisfied (Nine Black Alps)
V
Wicked Soul (Kubb)
X&Y (Coldplay)
You Can't Fool Me Dennis (Mystery Jets)
Zoom! (Super Furry Animals)

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:33 pm

X&Y is a brilliant tune.

K - Keep the Dream Alive, Oasis
O - One of These Days, Doves / Once In A While, Black Velvets
Y - You Can't Fool Me Dennis - Mystery Jets
Z - Zoom! SFA

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:36 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:X&Y is a brilliant tune.

It's also pretty much the only thing I can find that starts with an X.

Thank buddha for the Super Furrys, eh?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:51 pm

Ooh... just 2 more.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:00 pm

This might seem odd, but I've never really gotten into this music-thing.

Never had any sort of preff for some band, never bought any Music-cd's. I dl a thune now and then, if I've heard it as a soundtrack or something like that, and really felt that it was well done.

I've got very little music.

So, I think music is one of the few parts of pop-culture wich I haven't embraced in a big way.

Feels odd to see a music-geek, one of the few types of geeks that I can't quite sympathise with, like with other kinds of geeks.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:39 pm

So you're posting in my thread... why?

Okay, revised listing. Just needs a Q...

Albion (Babyshambles)
Bullets (Editors)
Cash Machine (Hard-Fi)
Dakota (Stereophonics)
Evil and a Heathen (Franz Ferdinand)
Fake Tales of San Francisco (Arctic Monkeys)
Galvanize (Chemical Brothers)
Half Light (Athlete)
In the Crossfire (Starsailor)
Just Like TV (The Departure)
Keep the Dream Alive (Oasis)
Love Steals Us From Loneliness (Idlewild)
Morning Life (Feeder)
Number One (Goldfrapp)
Once, A Glimpse (Maximo Park)
Precious (Depeche Mode)
Q
Rock & Roll Queen (The Subways)
Somewhere Else (Razorlight)
Two More Years (Bloc Party)
Unsatisfied (Nine Black Alps)
Voodoo People - Pendulum Mix (The Prodigy)
Wicked Soul (Kubb)
X & Y (Coldplay)
You Could Have It All (Kaiser Chiefs)
Zoom! (Super Furry Animals)

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:24 pm

I think I may have to sleep on it...

Post by **Denyer** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:30 pm

Brendocon wrote:Off the back of Justin Hawkins' recent comments about British music being cack this year

That's because he's trying to push a **** second album, the lead track of which is just one damn line repeated over and over... as far as I can see, anyway. He's also peddling something other than indie rock, which is the thing music rags have chosen to hype this year.

I'd recommend checking out The Hot Puppies or The Crimea if you haven't. Besides that, personally I've been going through back catalogues...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:32 pm

It's a stumper is that, and no mistake.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:00 am

How desperate are you?

There's Quando, Quando, Quando by Michael Buble!

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:06 am

spiderfrommars wrote:How desperate are you?

Aah, Friday night memories...

Ahem.

There's Quando, Quando, Quando by Michael Buble!

It has to be good.* Is it good?

* my definition of good may vary from yours. Hence the inclusion of Dakota.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:25 am

Dakota's ok actually. Considering.

I've never heard the Buble song mate. Check it out.

I'm pretty sure there are no other songs beginning with Q!

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:35 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:Dakota's ok actually. Considering.

I've never heard the Buble song mate. Check it out.

I'm pretty sure there are no other songs beginning with Q!

I don't know about this year, but Google turns up 1,870,000 links when I type in songs beginning with q.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 5:35 am

Oi, you! Still looking for a song?

Probably not, since this was, like... um, a long time ago. Almost a whole page ago. But still... cheating's an option!

q= 17, 1+7=8 which = H.

Got another H laying around? Though it probably wouldn't feel like a decent compilation, and half the fun's got to be in sticking to the rules...

Fun idea, all 'round. I may just steal and Canadianize it.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:15 pm

saysadie wrote:Oi, you! Still looking for a song?

Yes.

q= 17, 1+7=8 which = H.

... interesting... and it has given me another, not quite so insane, idea...

half the fun's got to be in sticking to the rules...

Nono - half the fun is in getting around the rules, like the handy use of an updated remix to avoid the fact that the entry for V is actually 11 years old!

And also the fact that, if it clocks in over the size of any CD I have, I can drop "Y" because the Coldplay entry is both X and Y. Nyuck nyuck. Yes, pathetic I know...

I may just say "sod it" and open it up to any country, giving me SoaD's Question! as a Q. And also letting me use Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt by We Are Scientists, because I seldom need a reason to include that in a compilation...

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:52 am

Brendocon wrote:
... interesting... and it has given me another, not quite so insane, idea

My idea isn't insanity. It's brilliance, dammit!

And also the fact that, if it clocks in over the size of any CD I have, I can drop "Y" because the Coldplay entry is both X and Y.

After a bit, I began wondering how you were gonna fit 26 songs on one freaking CD... Largest capacity CD-Rs I've found [so far] could probably only hold around 19 or so.

I may just say "sod it" and open it up to any country, giving me SoaD's Question! as a Q.

Nooo! You can't do that. Can you?

Well hell, I guess you can. You made the rules.

Swiping this idea's really going to [composite word including 'f*ck'] me up, I don't even own any current as-of-this-year Canadian music, excepting maybe the Trews. But still... fun fun fun!

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:06 pm

saysadie wrote:After a bit, I began wondering how you were gonna fit 26 songs on one freaking CD... Largest capacity CD-Rs I've found [so far] could probably only hold around 19 or so.

Depends on run time. Or alternatively there's the wonder of mp3 CDs...

Q = 17. Which, if I open it upto reissues properly, gives me the title track of The Cure's Seventeen Seconds, which was reissued in 2005.

And I'm fantastic.

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:10 pm

saysadie wrote: I began wondering how you were gonna fit 26 songs on one freaking CD... Largest capacity CD-Rs I've found [so far] could probably only hold around 19 or so.

He could always do what the Manics did with their "best of"... bastards that they are; I mean, surely it's better to go to two-discs or just cut stuff altogether rather than hack chunks of songs out?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:14 pm

Denyer wrote:Manics [...] "best of"

Oh, don't get me ******* started on that. Door to the River gets on there? There By The Grace of God? But no Yes? Rubbish!

They could so easily have filled a double CD proper, but that way they wouldn't have been able to release a bonus disc crammed with exceedingly dodgy remixes.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:28 pm

The Manics Best Of was a travesty! Only one song from Holy Bible! No 'Roses In The Hospital'! Dreadful edits (see Everlasting)!

They sold out completely there. And it was rather odd the exclusion of so many recent singles too. They're the kind of band that need a 2 CD chronological best of.

However I can't think of a single 'best of' complilation that hasn't been missing an essential track.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:10 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:
However I can't think of a single 'best of' complilation that hasn't been missing an essential track.

Best of Liberty X probably won't be missing any.

I hate Athlete. And Coldplay. And Stereophonic. Boo.

D - Dare - Gorillaz. go on.

great idea though - i have been depressingly out of touch with music this year. Mainly because it all sounds like Coldplay now...

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:34 pm

Best First wrote:
spiderfrommars wrote:
However I can't think of a single 'best of' complilation that hasn't been missing an essential track.
Best of Liberty X probably won't be missing any.

Are any of them essential?

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:26 am

Best First wrote:I hate [...] Coldplay

Oh yessss. So do I. With a friggin passion. I can't explain why either. They're... boring. They sing nothing I haven't heard before. And some of their **** can be depressing.

I've not heard the others though, not that I can recall anyway.

i have been depressingly out of touch with music this year. Mainly because it all sounds like Coldplay now...

Very good idea though, I agree. It's fun!

I'm having a blast putting together mine. It's a headache to find songs I'd consider decent enough... I hate it. And love it!

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