I Ripped Off Your Write-Off: Music Redux W/O... One ROYALLY Screwed-Up Mix!
Apr 25 '01
The Bottom Line An astoundingly WARPED mix for a party, but considering how abstract the questions are I defy anyone to NOT come up with a warped mix!
Woohoo! My first write-off! Let me get the formalities outta the way first...
The current write-off (initiated by sleestakk and phixed) is being recycled from one started by sslabs (who also came up with the questions) in honor of IleneG's one-year anniversary with Epinions. The current participants, of whom I know virtually none but recognize several, are as follows:
repulsemonkey, MiDoyle, Sloucho, Pyanfar, spicymeatball, zenhues, Psychovant, fm_hunter, slave_boy, Fez_Monkey, drlolipop, Mr.Eyore, jkkelley, factotum, monssfisch, Saxguy, jordan_tar, Arazim, redsox75, kellydeal, sxejustin, movielover123, DVON, SpookyMonkey, churst, phineaskc, MattA75, xiphoid, Mr_D, PezKing, Officer, phixed, sleestakk, and obviously myself.
From what I can tell, the upshot is to design a "party music mix" centered around the answers to the supplied questions. As I mentioned in the "Bottom Line" I believe the questions are major curveballs for a party mix CD, but I've chosen to stay true to my answers and ignore what the overall CD mix would end up sounding like (nothing close to cohesive). Enjoy!
I'm embarrassed to tell anyone I love this song and I blast it when it comes on the radio
I have no shame when it comes to stuff like this; I'll be embarrassed to admit it but I make no bones about crankin' it up when it comes on the radio. Hence the mix kickoff is We Like To Party- Vengaboys. It's just as catchy yet slightly less irritating than chicken pox. I think I'll put it on while continuing this even! Aaaah... "The Vengabus is coming..."
Favorite moment at a music award show
I've been dealing with this pitfall for eons. Every time I'm meeting someone new and conversation starts sputtering, TV comes up. And I always completely stall the conversation by saying I don't watch anything on it but the Simpsons. Now it even happens to me on Epinions. But I heard about and eventually downloaded (thanks to blessed Napster) Kid Rock's live MTV Music Awards performance featuring Aerosmith and Run DMC. It's an great, pumped-up medley. A close second would be when Pee-Wee Herman was the first person seen on the stage of an MTV Awards show right after serving his time for indecent exposure. I was glad to see what a great reception he got; his crime isn't exactly classy, but I still insist he was a high quality childrens' show host. And that's why the next tune is The Theme to Pee-Wee Herman's Big Adventure by Danny Elfman. Hey- I warned you this mix is warped. This is only the beginning...
This song makes me feel cool while I'm driving
It's virtually impossible to feel cool while driving a company-owned Reneault Clio (Matchbox Car times 5), but one tune that always does the trick is Funky Sh*t by Prodigy, one of my all-time favorite electronica songs. It's got a driving beat, hardcore drums, and a snippet of the Beastie Boys yellin' "Oh mah God dat's some funky sh*t!" over the track occasionally. You just wanna run red lights and hit old ladies while pounding the dashboard to this one.
This one brings up painful memories
After over two years of hurtin' when I heard it I eventually got over the associated pain (because the song's that good), but it'll always be the heavyweight champ of painful tunes for me: Turn the Lamp Down Low by The Tea Party. I was VERY deep into a great gal who loved music as much as I do and introduced me to this band. She could move in the sexiest ways normally, but when playing this steamy, bluesy gem she was "sex incarnate." Then I did her wrong. She was smart not to bother with me anymore. And eventually I got over it and still enjoy the song.
The other one is an "upcoming" painful tune and significant enough that I feel I must include it. I've been "close" with a sweet woman whom I've never physically met but thanks to the wonders of the internet and telephone we're genuinely close and good friends. She has dedicated the bitter-sweet This Woman by SheDaisy to me and I consider it "our song." And it already pains me to say she is dealing bravely with a complicated, abstract form of cancer and our world will not be blessed with her wonderful presence much longer. A lump's forming already so I have to stop, but Krissy- that one's for you and always will be.
Moving on (a bit later)...
Favorite song about sex, booty calls, or anything trashy
Man, talk about a welcome (and drastic) change of subject! I've got a few that must be included for various reasons. First would be Girls of Porn by Mr. Bungle (though I have to give props to JennJoy for pickin' it when this was an original W/O). It's by far the catchiest song on their first album and the punchline is that it's such a raunchy tribute to pornograpy and self-gratification that it could NEVER get radio play that would've definitely increased Bungle's audience. The whole album is crazier than this-here mix, but it's incredible and "Girls of Porn" is as catchy as VD (alright, alright- enough with the catchy puns).
The next is one of those I grew up knowing every word of (and still do) but would never emulate. I use this example because my girlfriend's little brother recites Eminem lyrics all the time featuring wife-beatings, torturing, and gay-bashing so I have to remind myself that I recited stuff almost as harsh yet am still against any of it. This audio-beauty? Gangsta of Love by the Geto Boys. It features some of the raunchiest, misogynistic (and later, violent) lyrics of the time and a sample of Steve Miller saying "Call me, call me, yeeeah... call me the gangster of looooove."
Finally, another raunchy rap song that I got several college buddies hooked on years before anyone had even heard of him, Kid Rock's "Balls In Your Mouth." It's a charming ballad of a guy who finds his slimmie ("boppin' to thuh beat"), gets her alone, relishes the joys of the song's title, tells his buddies, and degrades her. The sample, "You want my balls, you wah-you wah-you want my balls in your mouth" supplied by Howard Stern. This song is only found on the (shamefully) now-defunct "Polyfuse Method" album, and at any of Kid Rock's live shows.
Funniest Song
Another multiple-answer category for me. Since the last song was funky dance material, I'd kick off this section with an online-only gem: The Chicken Dance Techno Remix by Blue Man Group, those off-broadway, silent, bright blue clowns recently featured in Intel Pentium commercials. It's mainly the concept (as there's barely any lyrics) but it always gets a laugh (I play it occasionally for friends). Incidentally, if you haven't seen their show, YOU MUST- it's hilarious, exhilirating, and thought-provoking... and they don't even SPEAK!
To keep the techno and laughs coming I'd next put on Speed Racer (Orgasmic Mix) by DJ Keoki. Very amusing yet masterfully mixed- it uses samples from the show to pump up the mix and peaks when the cheese-ball theme song is played over POUNDING drums, and then "shifts gears" to a patchwork of typical japanimation moans (still from the show) implying a sexual adventure between Speed n' Trixie. Very amusing yet highly dance-inducing.
Finally, no "funny song" list would be complete without some Ween gems. I gotta insist on the impromptu live outburst called Deze Nuts (by Ween) a VERY loose cover of the '70s (Al Green?) cover "These Eyes." Then we'd ease right into one of my favorites, Poopship Destroyer (by Ween) about that little accident we all had in our bathtubs as tots. I'd have to include the seven minute, "It smells like poop!" ("I'm scared!")-intro, live from Washington DC on the "12 Golden Country Greats" tour version- it's the most amusing I have and much shorter than the "Painting the Town Brown" official live release.
I'd be listening to this on my way to commit a crime
That's a toughie. I suppose it depends on the crime. For me it'd most-likely be Been Caught Stealin' by Jane's Addiction as I'm not up to anything as harsh as "Cop Killa" and don't consider smoking pot a crime, a non-crime for which I already have several well-loved mixes that I'll write up some other time.
I can't stand this artist or group
I'm in France. I can barely stomach the entire Eurodisco genre. Quite the paradox for me to name my most despised considering I'd change the station five notes into the song, let alone try to find out who did it. So I'll go with a blatantly obvious one instead, like The Jerky Boys. And since I don't own any of their garbage, they deserve no place on the mix!
I'd donate a lung (or at least an appendix) to be alone with this singer
Oh, the possibilities... my mind's all a-twitter with several suggestions like Jennifer Lopez, any Spice Girl but Posh, Britney Spears, singers from Whale, Lords of Acid, L7, the Bangles, the Go-Gos, hell- BANANARAMA... Um, Salma Hayek sang that spanish lullabye in "Desperado!" Yeah! But since I'm just not willing to include that in a mix, I'll go with one of my childhood crushes, featuring Nasty by Janet Jackson. Janet: I don't know what you'd do with my appendix, but you can have it if you want!
Biggest Disappointment following a hit record
I hate to point fingers at one of my all-time faves but hey- it wouldn't have been "my biggest disappointment" otherwise, right? Mine's a two-pronged disappointment... After Soundgarden's "Down on the Upside" album came out, 1) they broke up. This was made five times worse by 2) the semi-unimpressive solo album by the ex-lead singer Chris Cornell. But I'll happily include one fine track, When I'm Down by Chris Cornell from said disappointment.
This song made me cry (or close)
I'm changing my second "painful tune" to this one because I genuinely grew a lump in my throat while typing it out and it's far more appropriate here, I think.
And the loser award goes to...
Oh great... back to Eurodisco again. But because this "question" is that wide-open, I can get away with handing the Whopping Golden Meat-Tenderizer-to-the-Face Loser Award to the entire GENRE of Eurodisco. If it's got the same damn beat for more than 5 minutes with only 10 words repeated over and over for lyrics, it qualifies, including most of Daft Punk's stuff, Groovejet, French Affair, that idiot who sings "Got to turn around" and virtually every other group played on "Fun Radio" "NRJ Radio" or the other Top-40 Eurodisco crapola stations running rampant in France.
MAN, did that feel good! And finally:
Coolest thing ever done by an artist or group
I'd have to give that Medal of Musical Merit, for his incredible interpretation (drug-induced or not) at Woodstock, of the American National Anthem by Jimi Hendrix. Still gives me shivers to hear it all the way through and the fact that it was completely impromptu only proves that we lost one of the most gifted musicians of the last century WAY too early.
Like I said, these questions designed a totally whacked-out party mix. Then again- those are some of the BEST parties!
Hope you enjoyed my edition, and I'm anxious to read the rest of those who participated!
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