Sunday, February 13, 2011

Mixtape Showdown #6

UPDATE !!!
We must declare a victor at 12:12pm. Carl made a furious comeback on the last day, but Phenedate held on for his unprecedented fifth straight victory. With the end of this mix comes the end of the winter. It's all Polynesian cocktails from here on out. Check back tomorrow night for the next set of mixes...

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This is a fun theme week because everybody loves the hell out of freezing cold snowy winters. Shoveling is the best, and so is falling face first on ice while your iPod and cell phone batteries come out and skate across the ground while a car full of teenagers slides by and one of them yells "Cocksucker!" out the window. MIXTAPE SHOWDOWN #6!!!!

Challenge #6
Theme: Winter Storm



Challenger: Carl

Tracklist:
1. White Winter Hymnal / Fleet Foxes / Fleet Foxes
2. Lights / Archive / Lights
3. Winter Must Be Cold / The Apples in Stereo / Fun Trick Noisemaker
4. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! / Do Make Say Think / Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
5. A Little Bit, Sometimes / múm / Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
6. Honest James / Thurston Moore / Trees Outside The Academy
7. Bleak / Audrey / The Fierce And The Longing
8. Batteri generator / Under Byen / Det er mig der holder træerne sammen
9. Polygyne / Efterklang / Parades
10. Hands Are Tied(part 2) / Scraps of Tape / Read Between The Lines At All Times
11. Days are Years / Blue Sky Black Death / A Heap Of Broken Images
12. Hands in the Snow / Saturday Looks Good To Me / Fill Up The Room
13. Finally, as That Blazing Sun Shone Down Upon Us, Did We Know That True Enemy Was the Voice of Blind Idolatry; and Only Then Did We Begin to Think for Ourselves / Red Sparowes / Every Red Heart Shines Towards The Red Sun

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Champion: Phenedate

Title: Into the White

Notes: Songs with the words cold, snow, ice, storm, winter, or something else that makes you think of cold weather, in the title. I don't care if one of the songs is about cocaine.

Tracklist:
1. Lyn Taitt & The Comets - Storm Warning
2. Manu Chao - Siberia
3. Tom Waits - Cold Cold Ground
4. Blockhead - The First Snowfall
5. Jared Louche, Robin Storey, Mark Spybey - Record Snowstorm
6. Sasha - Magnetic North
7. RJD2 - Iced Lightning
8. Coil - The Snow
9. Pink Floyd - The Thin Ice
10. Black Sabbath - Snowblind
11. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Home On Ice
12. The White Stripes - In The Cold, Cold, Night
13. The Fall - Winter 2
14. Cop Shoot Cop - Coldest Day Of The Year
15. Devo - Snowball
16. Pixies - Into The White

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VOTE:

11 comments:

  1. I think there must be a mixtape hangover after last weeks hot contest. Where are the people?

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  2. I haven't finished listneing to the mixes yet and I'll be goddamned if I'll vote before then.

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  3. I ordered Efterklang after listening to Carl's mix.

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  4. You need to want to win.

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  5. I love kefterklang!!! They are amazing, got to check out the live album

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  6. Okay done, voted. Now can we move on to summer or at least some songs reminiscent of warmth?

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  7. Exit 18, a quick tale if I may:

    Last spring, the first beautiful day of the year, I was heading back to my stoop with a case of Rolling Rock and I was feeling fine. The girls were all out jogging, the boys were all practicing capoeira in their driveways, the summer was right there and we were all ready for it. Except for the one asshole who was spring cleaning, playing "Everybody Hurts" as loud as they could on their home stereo system.

    What I'm getting at here is 1) thanks for voting; and 2) I don't have a summertime mix in the queue, nor do I have a springtime mix in the queue. I'd like it if you submitted one.

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  8. Umm, well this is actually the very first time I have been to the MixTape Showdown (reminds me of the Showcase Showdown) so other than casting a vote I have absolutely no idea how this works. With the help of a case of Frosty Knuckle Ale and some site surfing I just may find my way around in here and fulfill your request.

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  9. The close nature of the fianl tally this week really teaches a person the value of a vote.

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