super cool mix tape please
December 3, 2014 7:28 PM Subscribe
I have started a mixed tape, but now I am stuck. Can you look at my list and think in your head...I LOVE those songs...then write a comment with other super cool songs you love. And then I will have more than 4 songs for my mix tape?
1. Yellow Flicker Beat Lorde
2. Do I Wanna Know Arctic Monkeys
3. I Wanna Get Better Bleachers (or something like that)
4. No Diggity Backstreet
1. Yellow Flicker Beat Lorde
2. Do I Wanna Know Arctic Monkeys
3. I Wanna Get Better Bleachers (or something like that)
4. No Diggity Backstreet
Yeah, can you elaborate on what this mixtape is for? When I see No Diggity, I think "Oh cool, here's all the 90s jams I love..." -- but you also have Artic Monkeys and Lorde, which are recent and different genres of music. I assume No Diggity is a purely nostalgic addition, in which case whatever my 90s jams may be (Warren G, Regulate) won't matter to you.
posted by AppleTurnover at 7:35 PM on December 3, 2014
posted by AppleTurnover at 7:35 PM on December 3, 2014
It's Blackstreet. And listening to a couple of the other songs it seems like you want big beat chorusy stuff?
MANNERS
posted by cashman at 7:40 PM on December 3, 2014 [1 favorite]
MANNERS
posted by cashman at 7:40 PM on December 3, 2014 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Oops, sorry, it is blackstreet. I thought I proofread that...but clearly not. Ok, the mixtape is for my older brother (he is 42), lives in California, I don't see him enough. I make him a tape/cd every year for Christmas. These are all just songs I have heard recently that make me want to turn up the radio and drive with the windows down. I think Cashman has it with big beat chorusy sounds!
posted by orangemacky at 7:52 PM on December 3, 2014
posted by orangemacky at 7:52 PM on December 3, 2014
My best guesses, mostly similar qualities to 2 and 3.
Brill Bruisers, New Pornographers
Boom Clap Charlie XCX
The Bleacher's song also makes me think of something that was popular in the 90s... Oh, right - You get what you give. I don't love it, but it might work.
posted by bunderful at 7:55 PM on December 3, 2014
Brill Bruisers, New Pornographers
Boom Clap Charlie XCX
The Bleacher's song also makes me think of something that was popular in the 90s... Oh, right - You get what you give. I don't love it, but it might work.
posted by bunderful at 7:55 PM on December 3, 2014
I'm pretty sure the line from I Wanna Get Better to No Diggity passes through Concrete Schoolyard somewhere along the way. Good beat, ludicrously catchy piano hook, excellent windows-down music.
posted by nebulawindphone at 8:39 PM on December 3, 2014
posted by nebulawindphone at 8:39 PM on December 3, 2014
You are the Generation that Bought more Shoes (and you get what you Deserve) by Johnny Boy
Some one-hit wonder from the UK, this has all the booming chorus of the Manic Street Preachers along with the bells and handclaps that give it more pop hook than the Manics ever managed. Shame that Johnny Boy's subsequent album was flat terrible.
Giddy Stratospheres by The Long Blondes
A cocky classic of romantic competition with a great backbeat.
Have love, will Travel by Richard Berry and the Pharoahs
Back when John Peel's box was floating around, I stumbled onto this killer rocker from the guy best known for "Louie, Louie." If this version's too sedate, the Sonics ripped the doors off of it.
I get Lifted by George McCrae
Best known as the hook in "Gin and Juice," this is some thick-grooved soul with a silky smooth voice from one of KC and the Sunshine Band's collaborators.
Hero Worship by the B-52s
The last time I made a mix that had No Diggity on it, I came out into this to let me transition to more rock while still having a solid beat behind it.
Let me fix my Weave by Missy Elliott
But if you don't want to go to rock, Missy's got quintessential jeep music for ya.
Ambling Alp by Yeasayer
Indie synth rock fer yer jamhole
Ultimate by Beans
On the the impossible to google tip, Beans from Anti-Pop Consortium's solo collar-popper.
Never saw it as Union by the High Strung
The High Strung's "Moxie Bravo" is a under-heard slab of power-pop joy. What makes it for me is the fantastic bass sound, and I'd highly recommend getting the album.
Doledrum by the La's
Don't go back.
Pyromaniac by the Verlaines
Kiwi jangle pop Smiths contemporaries.
Oh my Bride by the Deadly Snakes
What's it called when it's not a ballad? A murder rave up? This is a foot-stompin' murder rave up.
Here comes that Sound Again by the Dirtbombs
You can't ever lose with the Dirtbombs, but this is a particularly crisp and catchy one.
That's a good enough start; can't give you all my secrets.
posted by klangklangston at 9:17 PM on December 3, 2014 [5 favorites]
Some one-hit wonder from the UK, this has all the booming chorus of the Manic Street Preachers along with the bells and handclaps that give it more pop hook than the Manics ever managed. Shame that Johnny Boy's subsequent album was flat terrible.
Giddy Stratospheres by The Long Blondes
A cocky classic of romantic competition with a great backbeat.
Have love, will Travel by Richard Berry and the Pharoahs
Back when John Peel's box was floating around, I stumbled onto this killer rocker from the guy best known for "Louie, Louie." If this version's too sedate, the Sonics ripped the doors off of it.
I get Lifted by George McCrae
Best known as the hook in "Gin and Juice," this is some thick-grooved soul with a silky smooth voice from one of KC and the Sunshine Band's collaborators.
Hero Worship by the B-52s
The last time I made a mix that had No Diggity on it, I came out into this to let me transition to more rock while still having a solid beat behind it.
Let me fix my Weave by Missy Elliott
But if you don't want to go to rock, Missy's got quintessential jeep music for ya.
Ambling Alp by Yeasayer
Indie synth rock fer yer jamhole
Ultimate by Beans
On the the impossible to google tip, Beans from Anti-Pop Consortium's solo collar-popper.
Never saw it as Union by the High Strung
The High Strung's "Moxie Bravo" is a under-heard slab of power-pop joy. What makes it for me is the fantastic bass sound, and I'd highly recommend getting the album.
Doledrum by the La's
Don't go back.
Pyromaniac by the Verlaines
Kiwi jangle pop Smiths contemporaries.
Oh my Bride by the Deadly Snakes
What's it called when it's not a ballad? A murder rave up? This is a foot-stompin' murder rave up.
Here comes that Sound Again by the Dirtbombs
You can't ever lose with the Dirtbombs, but this is a particularly crisp and catchy one.
That's a good enough start; can't give you all my secrets.
posted by klangklangston at 9:17 PM on December 3, 2014 [5 favorites]
Kaiser Chiefs, Never Miss a Beat
Sleigh Bells, Sing Like a Wire
Icona Pop, I Love It
M.I.A., Bad Girls
Metric, Youth Without Youth
posted by Mothlight at 7:24 AM on December 4, 2014
Sleigh Bells, Sing Like a Wire
Icona Pop, I Love It
M.I.A., Bad Girls
Metric, Youth Without Youth
posted by Mothlight at 7:24 AM on December 4, 2014
Bronco, "Class Historian" and Dreamers, "Wolves" might fit the bill.
posted by shortyJBot at 7:41 AM on December 4, 2014
posted by shortyJBot at 7:41 AM on December 4, 2014
Let It Rock / Kevin Rudolph
Called Out in the Dark / Snow Patrol
1 Thing / Amerie
Say It Right / Nelly Furtado
Too Close / Alex Clare
We Come Running / Youngblood Hawke
Safari Disco Club / Yelle
Nightlight / Little Dragon
Doom and Gloom / Rolling Stones
posted by Bron at 2:28 PM on December 4, 2014
Called Out in the Dark / Snow Patrol
1 Thing / Amerie
Say It Right / Nelly Furtado
Too Close / Alex Clare
We Come Running / Youngblood Hawke
Safari Disco Club / Yelle
Nightlight / Little Dragon
Doom and Gloom / Rolling Stones
posted by Bron at 2:28 PM on December 4, 2014
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