Track Listing:
1 Lonely Soul Unkle
2 Back to the Lake Guided By Voices
3 Cinema Air Gloria Record
4 The Sulphur Man Doves
5 Inside of Love Nada Surf
6 Leave Me Alone Trash Can Sinatras
7 Wonderwall Ryan Adams
8 Philadelphia Neil Young
9 Fake Plastic Trees Radiohead
10 Switching Off Elbow
11 Somebody Depeche Mode
12 The Luckiest Ben Folds
13 Your Hand In Mine (Goodbye) Explosions In The Sky
14 Miss you (lulu rouge feat asger baden remix) Trentemøller
15 Clementina Xymox
16 Adagio For Strings Samuel Barber
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Colin,
ReplyDeleteAs told you last week, this mix was kind of tearing me up. Some really great entries. Its so interesting to see what moves people as opposed to your own concept. Yours is far more cinematic than mine. Every song I see little Indie Film scene.
Highlights:
UNKLE. You know how i feel. One day they'll score a film by you. I just know it.
Cinema Air. Not familiar with them, but loving the layering. Like the Cure, multiple layers of things going on gets me in a sort of emotional trance. Nice!
Nada Surf. Great longing going on here. Very much in the Elbow vein.
Leave Me Alone by TCS. I left this one off mine since you're the king of TCS. Lovely.
Wonderwall. Love this version more that the original. Much more meaning in the delivery.
Philadelphia. Huge Neil fan. Huge. Never liked this song though. Sorry.
Elbow. These guys rule. Such pain as it builds into the chorus. Very late Talk Talk/Mark Hollis. Almost put Fugitive Motel on mine.
Somebody/DM. This was my HS anthem. Can never listen to it again. Hit my threshold in '88.
Luckiest/Ben Folds. I want to get married to this song (if i believed in marriage). Thanks for getting it for me. My friend Phil does this live, but I neglected to buy the original. You're welcome to make me a Ben Folds mix if you're bored. Only have a few by him.
Trentmoller. Never paid much attention. But love this. Is the rest of their music this moody?
Xymox! Wow, blast from my goth past. :)
Great job, Colin!
I liked Marc's comment "yours is far more cinematic than mine." I agree. Listening to Left Alone was like hearing from an old friend since many of these songs have been on prior compilations of yours - I already identify them with you when I hear them (Lonely Soul, Back To The Lake, Cinema Air, Inside of Love [a big favorite of mine], and others). I thought your compilation had the best chance for commercial success if it could be marketed. The choice of Neil's Philadelphia surprised me, pleasantly. I don't love the song, but it's nevertheless an emotional tag for me - I cried many times listening to that soundtrack, thinking of dying friends, and how brilliant that effort was (Tom and Antonio are never seen even touching - yet you get the love anyway - all that America could handle at the time). Springstien;s cut still makes me weep. In the end, on this challenge, your CD is wonderful to listen to, but somehow I don't pick up very much soul; beautiful, but not full of stories. Technically, I think it has the best polish of all our submissions. [Art: see my comment on Marc's.]
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