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kjpepperI finished my last mix of the year today!
It started with an idea of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gossamer_gull's, where she made a mix called Dangerous Devotion that was full of somewhat... unhealthy love songs. :) Inspired by that, I started compiling a somewhat similar list (indeed, I think a couple of the tracks on hers reprise themselves here). What evolved from that was a story of a long-term relationship gone to absolute shit and its effect and aftermath on one of the parties involved. The mix itself is very quiet and sad, and somehow, once I'd mixed it all together, breathtakingly beautiful.
Beyond Repair
Garbage - #1 Crush
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Nick Cave - (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - The Origin of Love
The Sisters Of Mercy - Torch
R.E.M. - Strange Currencies
Sarah McLachlan - Possession
U2 - All I Want Is You
Beck - Beautiful Way
Portishead - Wandering Star
A-ha - Lamb To The Slaughter
Coldplay - Trouble
The Cure - Pictures of You
Indigo Girls - Left Me A Fool
Rufus Wainwright - hallelujah
Dead Can Dance - Don't fade away (live)
Of course, as g.g. just pointed out over IM, the same story can be told much more humourously just by listening to Adam Sandler's Somebody Kill Me. LOL
Between that and realizing that I wasn't telling my own story with this mix, the depressive effect of it has been well and truly nullified for me. But still - probably one of my better ones this year, and a fitting note on which to go out.
It started with an idea of
gossamer_gull's, where she made a mix called Dangerous Devotion that was full of somewhat... unhealthy love songs. :) Inspired by that, I started compiling a somewhat similar list (indeed, I think a couple of the tracks on hers reprise themselves here). What evolved from that was a story of a long-term relationship gone to absolute shit and its effect and aftermath on one of the parties involved. The mix itself is very quiet and sad, and somehow, once I'd mixed it all together, breathtakingly beautiful.Beyond Repair
Garbage - #1 Crush
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Nick Cave - (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - The Origin of Love
The Sisters Of Mercy - Torch
R.E.M. - Strange Currencies
Sarah McLachlan - Possession
U2 - All I Want Is You
Beck - Beautiful Way
Portishead - Wandering Star
A-ha - Lamb To The Slaughter
Coldplay - Trouble
The Cure - Pictures of You
Indigo Girls - Left Me A Fool
Rufus Wainwright - hallelujah
Dead Can Dance - Don't fade away (live)
Of course, as g.g. just pointed out over IM, the same story can be told much more humourously just by listening to Adam Sandler's Somebody Kill Me. LOL
Between that and realizing that I wasn't telling my own story with this mix, the depressive effect of it has been well and truly nullified for me. But still - probably one of my better ones this year, and a fitting note on which to go out.
