ILX Wire Covers Compilation 2010

Gotta say, I feel a bit weird, breaking up the flow of everyone's excellent covers with my 8-minute nouveau-splurge bedroom-art-attack. Makes me nervous when people are all 'this is great!' about the whole thing.

Like you intentionally spoiled the song?

Spoiled?! That's harsh. Gave my own spin on it, yes.

Right, this I gotta hear

XP: Sorry LJ, I wasn't suggesting you did, just wondering why you might be nervous about CN checking it out. Unless I'm reading you wrong.

You are mental tho' :)

Nooo, I'm not nervous about CN checking it out, just nervous at the blanket praise given to the comp. As if I've somehow thrown a big stinking weed among the roses.

I'm sure it's the scented rose in the bumgut of Satan

I can only assume that MaresNest sequenced mine after the prettiest, most radio-friendly song on the whole comp out of some sense of gleeful anarchism

I pussied out a bit by not thinking too hard about the sequencing, I knew Ken's was first, Meower last, the multiples had to be far apart and yours and mine (being long assed) needed to be apart too, nowt beyond that.

(that said, 'prettiest' even as meant in that sense is challenged by Sean, n/a, Elvis T and MaresNest...there's a lot of pretty, also a lot of kickass)

Hey - the sequencing's pretty good IMO! I'm not fussed at all; it doesn't seem too worked-out but it works, which is optimal. It works especially well as a double-album; each disc has a nice flow to it. ESOJ/S' one is quite long as well, btw ;-)

Please to put working link to download in first post of thread, I've scrolled up and down through these 500+ messages and found two expired YouSendIt links.

Stan: show all messages and then search FTP: and you'll find it in the meantime.

thanks!

can also be downloaded from the fairtilizer site, it's track by track tho

http://fairtilizer.com/playlists/33504

I can only assume that MaresNest sequenced mine after the prettiest, most radio-friendly song on the whole comp out of some sense of gleeful anarchism

aw, i'm radio-friendly! do you hear that, radio??

yours is the first single, were you not told?

http://i46.tinypic.com/1043fwz.jpg

You've all done very well.

Is that young Mr Grace? Heh!

Now, can we at least talk about the next one yet?

Yeah, I have a challenge for people here.

A Disco Inferno tribute album.

*faints*

*then recovers and does quick google search for sound effects library cd torrent sites*

i'm in.

I'm quite serious, BTW. I would be VERY interested to hear how people would redo those songs/arrangements.

And if you're willing to coordinate, MaresNest, start up the thread...

Bagsy It's A Kid's World

That could be very interesting!

Although I take it a No Line On The Horizon-style (hell, ILX Has A Bucket-style) original compositions project isn't on anyone's mind? Maybe the challenge could be to do the DI one in a matter of days.

I'm more than willing

I hear you LJ, but I'm wondering (like I did last time) who is in the frame for upcoming releases.

Good on ya, MaresNest. Start the thread.

I'm in for "Love Stepping Out."

Can't we just...create? Ah fine, I'm down for this. Something off 'Technicolour', not sure what yet

(Working For A Nuclear Free City are about to release an album with looooads of tracks, not that anyone except Ned and I actually care)

(*cares)

Another ILX Bucket comp *is* a very good idea, but I almost want to defer to Mark G to coordinate that! If he's willing.

No reason we can't have more than one going!

Yep, here goes then!

Once again, n/a's contribution has attacked me many months hence and blown my little mind. Dude, you're a hero. Although I gotta reiterate that this compilation is rock-solid from start to finish.

I LOL'd so hard when I first heard the Final Placement sample in Edward III's track

Another ILX Bucket comp *is* a very good idea, but I almost want to defer to Mark G to coordinate that! If he's willing.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 May 2010 20:13 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Reasons I don't want to do this:

1) I had a fantastic time doing this, it was like christmas every time a track arrived, and barring a few technicalities (i.e. a couple of tracks that were too long) I was able to incorporate everything I received into the final tracklisting, and every track was wonderful. It's not that 'you shouldn't revisit, next time would not be as good' it's more that someone else should have that kind of fun.

2) I was going to contribute a track last time, but ran out of time and/or inspiration, I forget which. Also, I would be either biased towards (or against) my track's placement (or lack of it), etc. Someone else needs to make that kind of decision.

3) Thesedays, I have less of an ILX presence. Having said that, if someone does kick Vol4 off, they'd better let me know. I missed out on the U2 and the Wire comps, but hey.

So, it's up for grabs.

Hmm, I might repost that message on a dedicated thread.

listening to this

thinking about you listening to this

trying to remember if I downloaded this.

# Started playing Mercy by l0u1s jagg3r. ( 8:58 PM )
# spacecadet: do some things not play?
# spacecadet: oh, the moment we've all been waiting for
# uppper missippi shakedown: ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space...
# forksclovetofu: rotating trucker hat is killing me
# Maresnest: quite often if the tags don't show up correctly they don't play
# forksclovetofu: so what IS this? Louis at a piano recital?
# Tuomas: whoa, i wasn't expecting debussy!
# spacecadet: this is very quiet but i don't dare turn it up for fear of sudden bellowing and/or hoovering
# Maresnest: it's a Wire cover, from the ILX Wire covers compilation 12SBU
# forksclovetofu: oh you gotta be kidding me
# uppper missippi shakedown: IS THAT VACUUM???
# J. Fever: oh dear
# forksclovetofu: ah, that makes sense
# forksclovetofu: sort of
# forksclovetofu: BASS
# Tuomas: this is pretty good actually.
# forksclovetofu: how low can you go
# Tuomas: oh no, not anymore. it was good until the bass.
# uppper missippi shakedown: this is "our woodstock" IMO
# Tuomas: what is he saying?
# forksclovetofu: i will never forget where i was at this moment
# Maresnest: names from the shipping forecast
# Tuomas: dacca viking maurie fofeen acne.
# Tuomas: x-post
# Maresnest: Snow storms forecast imminently in areas Dogger, Viking, Moray, Forth, and Orkney.
# pixel farmer: that boy needs an editor
# pixel farmer: 24/7
# forksclovetofu: batman reference?
# Pretty Earthling: This is much better than I expected.
# forksclovetofu: great ending
# J. Fever: it ended strong

ILXOR Listening Room - DJ my day

:)

Hah, my friend Tyler just played "Ambitious" by Paul and Ned (and credited it from the album 12SBU on the playlist! I don't think he even knows that this thread exists. Congrats! Also, Tyler's show is awesome, tune it:

Broadcasting System on WTJU in Charlottesville

Haha this is a vision.

It was beautiful in the context of the show too. I have no idea how he got the song, but Tyler is a gem, so it was perhaps one of those things that was meant to be. He just played Medicine by the way.

It's been a little while since Bowie & seeing as it was popular and fun, might anybody be interested in another shot at an ILX Wire Comp? I'm happy to curate.

What, a 'phase two'...

'It's A Temp Ban And Back Again'

Boom!

Start up a thread, see what happens..