Austin Improv

you left me out!

valetoile wrote:a list of 20 people plus DeRoos

that's a lot of blank discs! assuming everyone's making single-disc mixes, that's 21x20 = 420 cd-rs.

maybe we can get sponsored by Memorex or FujiFilm next time.

I think I'm just going to go with the world's greatest covers (according to me).

i think i'm still going with the happiness-sunny/melancholia-rainy themes thing, mostly because it keeps the choices pretty open for me. but yesterday i had revelatory 'next time' thoughts of doing either (1) music of brazil from late 60's / early 70's, or (2) us/uk indie music from the early 90's.

wes, i'm still holding out for some dolly parton / fat boys action. maybe next time.

mcnichol wrote:i(1) music of brazil from late 60's / early 70's

Oh please oh please oh please oh please.

I am working on a puzzle mix, which means you are going to have to figure out what ties together the songs that I are on the disc.

Mine's just songs that make me happy which I hope will make you happy too. No muss, no fuss, just smiley songs.

mcnichol wrote:uk indie music from the early 90's.

ooh. i'm curious.

nadine wrote:

mcnichol wrote:uk indie music from the early 90's.

ooh. i'm curious.

I'm guessing Madchestery kinds of stuff (Stone Roses, James, Happy Mondays), but perhaps not. Maybe more of the 4AD vein? Or shoegazery MBV and Ride and whatnot. Or yes to all that? Or other scenes I'm not talking about?

mcnichol wrote:that's a lot of blank discs! assuming everyone's making single-disc mixes, that's 21x20 = 420 cd-rs.

maybe we can get sponsored by Memorex or FujiFilm next time.

We could throw in together and buy blanks in bulk.

shando wrote:

nadine wrote:

mcnichol wrote:uk indie music from the early 90's.

ooh. i'm curious.

I'm guessing Madchestery kinds of stuff (Stone Roses, James, Happy Mondays), but perhaps not. Maybe more of the 4AD vein? Or shoegazery MBV and Ride and whatnot. Or yes to all that? Or other scenes I'm not talking about?

yeah, some of that stuff. maybe two mixes: one US one (with early indie rock / indie pop stuff that is now forgotten/scoffed at) and then a uk one that would be more of the shoegazery/twee side of things. although with the 20/20 of hindsight, so much stuff i lumped together as 'shoegaze' at the time seems much more distinct now. i was thinking the creation / too pure / 4ad / etc. stuff specifcally from the 80s/90s, as much of it seems somewhat forgotten (and is often out-of-print as well). creation (and too pure, for a few years, after creation) could seemingly do no wrong. they had the felt/mbv/ride/early jamc all lined up. ...and here's an excuse to link to video footage(?!?!) of the infamous jamc north london poly gig riot. at the least, watch it for the brothers reid's mind-bendingly hyperbolic statements -- hilarious.
"Why are alot of people so excited about you?" "Because we're so good, because we're much better than everybody else, because so many other people are complete rubbish."
"You've been described variously as the best new band in the western hemisphere, and also the worst. How do you react to that?" *long pause* "My favorite color is gold."

i used to eat anything that came out of that manchester scene back in the day, but i find it hard to stomach these days. ...that is, outside of the first stone roses record, which i still think is one of the best guitar rock records of the late 80s (the original version, without Fools Gold tacked on)

i also thought of doing a kiwi pop/rock/noise one (mostly hinging on the flying nun / xpressway axis). shannon, i think you're pretty into this stuff too -- we could each do a volume and see where the overlap is!

and yeah the brazil one is v. tempting as that's the mood i've been in for the last few weeks... the gal/gil/mutantes/tom ze/caetano stuff specifically. we just need to do more of these mixes!!!

mcnichol wrote: i was thinking the creation / too pure / 4ad / etc. stuff specifcally from the 80s/90s, as much of it seems somewhat forgotten (and is often out-of-print as well). creation (and too pure, for a few years, after creation) could seemingly do no wrong.

Word. Too Pure, especially. Even more, I like the mid-90s Too Pure stuff like Long Fin Killie, who nobody else like, but whose first album, Houdini, is one my favorite unsung albums of the 90s.

mcnichol wrote: i also thought of doing a kiwi pop/rock/noise one (mostly hinging on the flying nun / xpressway axis). shannon, i think you're pretty into this stuff too -- we could each do a volume and see where the overlap is!

Maybe next round. I don't own a ton of this stuff on my own. what I do have is mostly Tall Dwarfs and some other Chris Knox solo stuff, who, Chris Knox that is, is probably in my top 50 admired artists list--which is saying a lot becuase I admire a lot of artists.

Dead C and Dadamah are also awesome from this scene, but alas I own none of their music.[/quote]

valetoile wrote: Currently in:
1. Jules
2. Kareem
3. Jeremy
4. Asaf
5. Cocococody
6. Dollar Bill
7. Andy P.
8. Valerie (that's me!)
9. Nadine
10. jason
11. Marc
12. Bob A.
13. Ever
14. Andy Crouch
15. Mike McGill
16. Shando
17. Wes-meister
18. Bob McN
19. Roy
20. CdR.

So is that the final count?
We each need to make 19 CDs, yes?

No 20 CDs total. DeRoos is not on the list.

she's #20