Out walking Battle Cat today I came across a CD lying on the ground. It had a wee message wrote on it, so I took it home and tried to play it. I'm enjoying some (most) of the tracks now. Here's a track by track account from what I've been able to track down of the songs:
Tracks 1:
For some shitty reason this only played the first few bars and skipped like an eight year old who can salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper better than anyone else in her school.
Track 2: Fearful - Rancid and The Specials
Track 3: Swim Until You Can't See Land - Frightened Rabbit
Track 4: Super Trooper - Camera Obscura
Track 5: Cosmia - Joanna Newsom
Track 6: Night Falls Like a Grand Piano - The 6ths
Track 7: Taken By Trees - My Boys
Track 8: Cool It Down - The Velvet Underground
Track 9: I don't know what this is. It has this really cool bit in the middle where the girls voice goes all high pitched like a cat. It has something about It's too soon.
Track 10: Don't know this either. It's accoustic and slow and about getting tickets for the band. There's something in it about paint it black by the rolling stones.
Track 11: City and Colour - Off By Heart
Track 12: This is an instrumental, slow, kind of waltzy. Pretty cool.
Track 13: This is some slow jazzy tune with an accoustic guitar and a trumpet. Pretty cool too.
My guess it this CD was made by some wee lad for some girl he was totally crushing on. I hope she didn't throw it here after laughing at it with her friends.
If anyone reading this has lost it then you can have it back if you tell me what was written on it. Also if anyone can tell me the name of the other tracks that's be cool.
Number 10 sounds like Thirteen by Big Star. Probably is, Alex Chilton who wrote it died this week so the guy is trying to score muso points with this track.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know Camera Obscura did Super trooper. Good choice of cover. The CD is a little too sappy. More rocky or electronica would have given a better balance. The poor girl probably thought she'd spend the night sitting crying with whoever gave it to her.
ReplyDeletePrincess - That's what it is. Thanks. Sad news, finding the band just as he's dead.
ReplyDeletePattyPat - I agree on all points.
Track nine might be Not Too Soon by Throwing Muses? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDeJrsP_XmA
ReplyDeleteTracks 12 and 13 could be just about anything. Just enjoy.
ReplyDeleteThat's a damn good mix CD... I think I'm gonna make it too... Joanna Newsom, Velvet Underground, Rancid and the Specials...
ReplyDeleteGerard - It is, thank you.
ReplyDeleteAnon - Not if you want to see both/either of them again.
The Music Man - They couldn't be the Mr. Blobby Song that's 4 show.
Scarlet - It's grown on me. Like the one from the 6ths the most. With track one would work, it has the best intro riff.
At the risk of sounding like a teenage girl...
ReplyDeleteOMG! CITY AND COLOUR! I LOVE HIM!!!1
Not to worry WR that is the correct response. I'd never heard of him before. Great tune.
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