For my roommate, I'm making a CD of earworms (a loan word from the German ohrwurm) which means songs that get stuck in your head and play over and over and over again. My roommate always gets ridiculous songs stuck in her head that she of course feels the need to sing ad nauseum until the rest of the apartment is singing her horrible 80's tune right along with her. This way, if we have a CD of all of these songs, we won't have to tolerate her painfully off-tune warbling. I have a pretty solid idea for the tracklist and order, but there will definitely have to be some trimming come Monday (I think I have 30 songs right now). As for you guys, any songs that ALWAYS get stuck in your head that you think I would be remiss if they were not included? Any suggestions?
Friday, April 25, 2008
Add it to the list...
So add mix tapes, along with plagiarism and ghostwriting to the list of "things that are considerably harder to do than previously thought." I'm used to making playlists on my iPod, and not really considering the order of the songs at all, due to the ease with which one can change songs. I just make sure I've got the right genre and don't care as much about the end product because a) it's just for me and b) i can always change it--it's never permanent. Making a mix CD for someone else, however, changes both. I have to care what my roommate will think of it, and try to make sure that the transitions are appropriate so that the entire CD will be enjoyable to listen to--I don't have 60 tracks to mess around with (as I do with an iTunes playlist).
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Hahaha, as always, you have an awesome idea with going about doing this. I gave you like one or two songs that get stuck in my head, but it's always tough to ask on demand, like when you ask someone how they say milk, buttons, or bagel. I can't remember any songs now, but after looking at you playlist/tracklist, I think you had plenty that would make the top 10 of my list! It's just the cutting down part now! UNLESS you do that two cd thing you were planning to do.
I agree that this assignment proved more difficult than it sounds at first. Once i got my ipod i fell into the same rift of not really caring too much about the order of songs in a playlist, but more about finding all of the songs that i like. Its just too easy to put the ipod on shuffle and switch between hundreds of songs. It was kind of a nice change to put some thought into a cd again though, to actually figure out what another person would like, and organize it in a flowing manner. Its going to be a long time before I ever make another mix cd, but this was a nice way to remember the days before the ipod.
Yeah, I felt the same way! Usually when I make mixes its just for me, or sometimes my best friend. But I usually just put all the new songs I downloaded since the last time I made a mix. I never worry about order of flow. But then actually thinking about it and making it flow was really fun and I'm probably going to keep that in mind for all the mixes I make from now on!
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