corporate whoredom

[ironymaiden]

my new favorite playlist is one i made of songs used in car commercials. (bass lines seem to be a common factor in selling vehicles.) i was listening to it on the way to work this morning and caught myself doing a stutter step when the song changed to get in step. stupid band habits die hard. watch Cedar St...i may succumb and have some sort of West Side Story / Singin' in the Rain dance break before too long.

1. I Feel Free - Cream
2. What Do I Get? - The Buzzcocks
3. Horndog - Overseer
4. History Repeating - Propellerheads
5. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
6. Whoever You Are - Geggy Tah
7. Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha - Trio
8. Light & Day - The Polyphonic Spree
9. Pink Moon - Nick Drake
10. Breathe - Telepopmusik
11. Desert Rose - Sting
12. You Get What You Give - New Radicals
13. Days Go By - Dirty Vegas
14. Frankenstein - Edgar Winter
15. The Universal - Blur
16. It's Alright - Pet Shop Boys
17. Old Man Dub - Brazzaville
18. Prime Audio Soup - Meat Beat Manifesto
19. Battersea - Hooverphonic
20. Galaxy Bounce - The Chemical Brothers
21. My Own Worst Enemy - Lit
22. Polaris - Bostich
23. Hell Above Water - Curve
24. Nothing Is Wrong - FC/Kahuna
25. Signs Of Love - Moby
26. Ooh La La - The Wiseguys
27. Mas - Kinky (Dance)
28. Gravity Rides Everything - Modest Mouse
29. One Million Miles Away (Album Version) - J. Ralph
30. Roll All Day - Ice Cube

Comments

[buhrger]

(bass lines seem to be a common factor in selling vehicles.)
among other things.
"It was the bass that set the agenda. It was the bass that made the song"
China Miéville, King Rat

[ironymaiden]

the drum-n-bass was the one thing that hurt the King Rat experience for me. shortly before i read it i was subjected to hours of drum-n-bass at work, which was how i discovered that hearing the same BPM nonstop for a period of time is akin to water torture. and then i had my first workplace fight ever with the owner of said music (for other reasons).

but i find that bass sells me music, and is the backbone of the work of artists i can't help but like (say, Sting or Peter Gabriel).

[buhrger]

having had bas(s)ically no experience of DnB, i couldn't relate to the specific music he talked about. but as a bass player and a big fan of reggaemusic, i'll always testify in favour of the bass.

Peter Gabriel
of course, in the case of PG, bass means Tony Levin, and it doesn't get much better at the bottom than TLev.

[ironymaiden]

bass means Tony Levin, and it doesn't get much better at the bottom than TLev.

yeah. have you seen him play? he's freakishly tall, and with the Funk Fingers and a translucent black overcoat, like something out of a Tim Burton film. in-fucking-credible.

[buhrger]

never seen Tony live, tho i've seen him in a PG concert video. i'm currently hoping that, with him back in the active King Crimson membership, they'll your soon and visit wherever i happen to be.

[mrdorbin.livejournal.com]

Yesterday at the gym this guy got onto the treadmill next to mine and started running and I started matching HIS step. Which was irritating because he had no idea what he was doing and changed his pace every fifteen seconds. I'd been fine for 25 minutes and a minute and a half after he started I had a stitch in my side.

[ironymaiden]

ha! geek.

[pixxelpuss.livejournal.com]

Is there some way I can BUY this? I mean, without buying each mp3 individually? I'm a luddite or something, but is there some means of you publishing this list as a set and then having it sold at Album price?

[ironymaiden]

alas, no, not that i know of.

right now it's not on a production server. i'm pretty pleased with it though, so i'll let you know when i reproduce it on my personal account.