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January 18, 2008

2007 Mix

My mix for 2007 is done! WOO! Now I just have to burn CDs for them as want 'em. As usual, my rules for this were a lot looser than the ones some of my friends use. For a song to merit inclusion in my 2007 mix, it must:

  • Have come to my attention one way or another in 2007.
  • Have been played over and over by me, or at least gotten stuck in my head a couple times or otherwise made itself really known to me during 2007 (a bunch of this year's songs are in Guitar Hero III and/or Rock Band (the two games have a fair amount of overlap).

It's kind of a weird mix. Weirder than usual for me, even. Track list below...

  1. Deep Purple - Highway Star: This is the opening song for Rock Band, which is an awesome game. It's a hard song to play, but it always makes me think of the opening video for the game, so I like it.
  2. Mountain - Mississippi Queen: This is in Rock Band and GHIII both and I like it. It gets stuck in my head a lot. Oh! Mississippi Queen! If you know what I mean! Mississippi Queen! She taught me everything!
  3. The New Pornographers - The Electric Version: This is in Rock Band and it makes me smile. It's tricky to play but fun.
  4. Tenacious D - The Metal: This is in GHIII and is awesome, because it's fun to play (on Hard, anyway) and I adore the D. Bits of it are in their 2006 movie, but I didn't really listen to the song intently until GHIII.
  5. Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade: This is in GHIII and is awesome. It's one of the songs that is dragging me kicking and screaming into Rage fandom.
  6. Beastie Boys - Sabotage: This is in Rock Band and GHIII. It's surprisingly difficult and the lyrics are stupid, but I like it anyway.
  7. Queens of the Stone Age - 3's and 7's: This is in Rock Band and GHIII and is one of my favorite songs in the games. I love all QotSA songs in the games so far, but this is my favorite. Plus, it has a really crazy music video (available through TiVo's broadband music video service!), which is cool.
  8. Stephen Ouimette - Devil Went Down to Georgia: This is the last main song in the GHIII solo career and is wicked hard. I haven't gotten to it yet, but I got to hear Twon play it a few times and I really dig this version of the classic.
  9. Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames: This ridiculously hard song is in GHIII and is the butt of a lot of my Dragonforce mockery. I do like it, though. Whoa-oh-oh! Whoa-oh-oh! Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oooooohhhhhhh!
  10. Dethklok - Bloodtrocuted: This is my favorite song off the Dethalbum, which came out in 2007 as a tie-in to the awesome animated show on Adult Swim, Metalocalypse. It's not from the show, it's from a line in the show, where Nathan sees a guy get electrocuted when a kleeg light falls into his arterial bleeding and says, "bloodtrocuted, great name for a song" into his personal recorder. And no, I didn't have to look that up. I am such a Dethklok fangirl.
  11. Mastodon with King Diamond - Cut You Up With A Linoleum Knife: This was the opening to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, which came out in 2007. It is also my favorite pre-movie "buy snacks, don't litter" movie EVER. EVER EVER EVER. Don't talk! Watch! Don't talk! Watch! You came here! Watch it! Don't like it? Walk out! ... Do not crinkle your food wrappers loudly! Be considerate to others or I will bite your torso and give you a disease! Video on YouTube!
  12. Schaffer the Darklord - Supervillain: I got into Schaffer the Darklord when I went to an MC Frontalot concert in 2007 and he was an opening act. He rules.
  13. Beefy - 1-800-NERDCORE: Beefy is one of my favorite Nerdcore rappers ever. This is off one of his new albums.
  14. MC Frontalot - I Hate Your Blog: Front released a new album in 2007 and this was on it. It cracks me right up, because it's actually poking fun at two types of blogosphere folks. Good times.
  15. MC Lars - Download this Song: How can anybody not love this song? I don't think it came out in 2007, but 2007 is when I listened to it.
  16. Beefy - Webcomic Junkie: I am totally a web comic junkie... and have even gotten into some of the strips he mentions in the song after hearing him rap about them.
  17. Schaffer the Darklord - Cat People: I'm a cat person, so I'm kind of obliged to love this song, right? Tickle her ear and she starts to attack / grabs your wrist with her front paws and kicks with the back.
  18. 50 Pence - In Da Pub: This guy is awesome. Don't quite know how to classify him -- parody, maybe?
  19. Michelle Belanger and Nox Arcana - Blood of Angels: I dig Belanger's podcast Shadowdance and this is the opening music. It got me interested in her music and Nox Arcana's as well. I think, but am not entirely sure, that I got into Shadowdance in 2007.
  20. Mike Hightower - Baby Got Back, Gilbert and Sullivan Style: I have played the video for this song for people so many times in 2007. I love it. SO AWESOME.

I'm sorry there isn't more nerdcore on here, but somehow I didn't get many new nerdcore albums that jumped out at me in 2007. I downloaded WAY more music than I actually listened to in 2007, which is depressing. I gotta find times when I can listen to music, especially now that my commute is too short to listen to it in the car much (besides which, I am usually listening to podcasts when I drive or bike to work).

So, anyway. If you want a copy of my 2007 mix, lemme know! I will probably burn a bunch and just have them with me when I'll be seeing folks.

File under: Pure Ego!
Posted by Ealasaid at January 18, 2008 09:55 AM

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