Rave Recs Favorites: Phase 2

[Slosh]

Anyone up for another personal favorites comp project? If you were around for the first one in 2001 you'll remember it was supposed to represent your all-time favorites. I think this time around (assuming others want to do this) we should limit it to songs released in, say, the last ten or fifteen years. Yeah, Van Morrison and Bowie and the Beatles made some of the best rock music ever (or at least thus far) but if we limit it to relatively newer releases I think the chances are much, much greater we'll all get to hear a lot of things for the first time ever. Just a thought.

What brang all this about is I made a comp for a friend who has pretty much given up on new music for the last decade or so. I told her what we all say at such times - that's there's an amazing amount of great new music being made but you won't find it on commercial radio much anymore. I included a few mid-90s-ish songs that I know she likes to show her there's tons of new music out there that can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with her "last of the good stuff" favorites. We listened to the comp a couple of times together this past weekend and I think I proved my point

This comp was super-easy to make. All I did was pull songs off of comps I have made if the last three or four years. The only tough part was keeping it to two discs I realize most people who've traded with me before won't want this but perhaps some of the new faces here? It's the best comp EVER!


alternative to what?

part 1
1. Drunken Angel - Lucinda Williams
2. New Slang - The Shins
3. Jesus, etc. - Wilco
4. Hotcha Girls - Ugly Casanova
5. Grace Cathedral Hill - The Decemberists
6. Quattro (World Drifts In) - Calexico
7. This Summer's Been Good From The Start - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
8. Oh Comely - Neutral Milk Hotel
9. Fear Of Falling - The Badlees
10. Lazy Feet 23 - Earlimart
11. Photograph The Ancestors - Tracker
12. Newark Wilder - Pavement
13. Lucky - Radiohead
14. The Piccolo Snare - Super Furry Animals
15. Sympathy Crime - The Black Heart Procession
16. Come Into Our Room - Clinic
17. Miner At The Dial-A-View - Grandaddy
18. Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes - Modest Mouse

part 2
1. To Hell With Good Intentions - McLusky
2. Red Bull Of Juarez - Frodus
3. Magdalena - A Perfect Circle
4. Hide Me From Next February - Les Savy Fav
5. Red Haired Mary - Chisel
6. Hopeless - The Wrens (sorry JD, I had to use this)
7. The Fitted Shirt - Spoon
8. Center Of The Universe - Built To Spill
9. Native Numb - Enon
10. Possum Kingdom - Toadies
11. He War - Cat Power
12. Disappear - Sunny Day Real Estate
13. Get Miles - Gomez
14. Back And Forth - The Dismemberment Plan
15. Doin' Time - Sublime
16. Novacane - Beck
17. The Recluse - Cursive
18. Styrofoam Plates - Death Cab For Cutie
19. The Same Boy You've Always Known - The White Stripes
20. Isolation - Mercury Rev (yes, it's a Lennon cover)
21. To Joy (Revolution Of The Innocents) - Chris Whitley

~Slosh - not expecting many requests

[-Jar-]

I posted this a few weeks ago.. it's not so much a "best of all time" but these songs are all very much favorites to me. As Slosh has done, these were all pulled from other comps I've made in the past 2 years.

An Elbow Full of Lonely

01 Cave In - Lost In The Air
02 Jets to Brazil - Conrad
03 Hey Mercedes - Stay Six
04 The Pursuit of Happiness - She's So Young
05 Buffalo Tom - Dry Land
06 Soul Asylum - Chains
07 fIREHOSE - Sometimes
08 Red House Painters - I Feel the Rain Fall
09 Boo Radleys - Barney and Me
10 Arcwelder - Remember to Forget
11 Folk Implosion - Free To Go
12 Sparklehorse - Maria's Little Elbows
13 The Flaming Lips - The Spiderbite Song
14 The Darling Buds - Sure Thing
15 The Promise Ring - Suffer Never
16 Sunny Day Real Estate - 47
17 Sugar - Believe What You're Saying
18 Hum - Green To Me
19 Weezer - The World has Turned and Left Me Here
20 Pale Saints - Language of Flowers
21 Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything

This one turned out pretty well.

-jar-