But really the main problem with every tape I've ever made has been: not enough hiphop.

Why leave off the Neubauten just because it's long? Because the track becomes a world unto itself, click whirr whirrrrr scrape blixa. When shorter the other songs make it easier, inside each song, to be aware of the song's relation to other songs on the tape, which is partly like the entire fucking idea on the tapes I usually make. Long tracks breed forgetfulness.

Which is why some of my choices for the tape-in-planning below are dangerous. The James Brown and Miles Davis are very long, and the Digable Planets track might be pretty long compared to some others. I also have in mind to put either "Love's in Need of Love Today" on, or "I Love Every Little Thing About You", and the former is pretty worldlike.

Judicious use of symmetry may help.

Also, I would also leave off the Dylan and Betas.

Also.

Hm, it seems I never posted a tracklist for this tape that I enjoy a lot. At least, I can't find it anywhere.

(I think I should have left the Neubaten off, it's too long here.)

Also, proof: I only make tapes from the same 10 CDs.

Also, I am still stuck on the same tasteful aesthetic. Mitch, I own you. Hello. Welcome to our planet, Rocketman. Please do not eat us.

Also, I think maybe this is a copy of a tape I made for F. And I bit the Specials from Ethan. And the Juno and Nirvana tracks are covers. Of DJ Shadow and Devo. And there is a skit. It is hiding.

James Brown - "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
Sonic Youth - "Purr"
Missy Elliott f. Ludacris - "Gossip Folks"
Einsturzende Neubauten - "NNNAAAMMM"
Juno - "High Noon"
Sleater-Kinney - "Milkshake 'n' Honey"
Naughty by Nature - "Naughty by Nature"
Massive Attack - "Be Thankful For What You've Got (Perfecto Mix)"
Foo Fighters - "Everlong"

Bob Dylan - "Highway 61 Revisited"
The Beta Band - "She's The One For Me"
Cee-Lo - "Closet Freak"
The Specials - "Nite Klub"
Burning Airlines - "Wheaton Calling"
Stevie Wonder - "I Wish"
LL Cool J f. Kandice Love - "Amazin'"
The Magnetic Fields - "It's A Crime"
Green Day - "Going to Pasalacqua"
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Holland, 1945"
Nirvana - "Turnaround"
Basement Jaxx - "All I Know"

A quote I stole from oblivio's revolving header:

"I am like those children who take a clock apart to find out what time it is." - Roland Barthes

A reason for being disappointed, that I failed to anticipate: "Calypso Frelimo" starts fast, and with a big squall, and the more leisurely pretty parts don't come until some point later which I didn't have the patience to wait for.

Now I'm pretty certain I want to listen to "Calypso Frelimo" but I expect: 1) the sound won't be as impressively shifting and colored as I remember it, 2) the enormous length will lead me to either a) quit early and feel bad because I didn't give a serious listen to the whole thing, or b) listen to the whole thing and get irritated because it's so long and I don't have the patience for it right now. All I really want is that strange, er, thing. With bendy chord tonal wobbly cheesy pastel uneasy bliss.

Stuff to put on a tape.

Miles Davis, "Wili (Part 1)", from Dark Magus
Ms. Jade, "Big Head", from Girl Interrupted
Sonic Youth, "Catholic Block", from Sister
Killer Mike, that one that samples "The Whole World"
My Bloody Valentine, that one that I don't know the name of
that one UKG song on Pure Garage Platinum
maybe just possibly Firewater, "So Long Superman" which I haven't heard in years
something from Blowout Comb
Kardi's "Belly Dancer", if only I hada copy or had even heard it
the demo of "Wish Fulfillment" from the deluxe Dirty
that one Stereolab song from Emperor Tomato Ketchup
a Pete Rock track, dunno which
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, "Together or Parallel?"
something from In Utero
Nas, "NY State of Mind"
Ice Cube, "Down for Whatever"
Sleater-Kinney, either "Call the Doctor" or "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone"
that one JB track I always forget the name of where he tells the guitarist to play like BB King

Now, here I am listening to the Miles track, and near the end I was worried that its meandering away the groove would ruin it as a choice (though I have considered the fact that once I get my CD changer fixed, I can make the tape on my new tape deck and thus have a recording level knob to edit with). But the track ends in a wonderful cloud of percussion and drum machine clicks. (Drum machine clicks!) Saved, gloriously saved.

Jordan: You know I didn't even notice that when The Bad Plus goes disco on "Heart of Glass", they're playing the riff in 7/4. That changes everything. Or doesn't.

Josh: Yes it makes it worse.

Josh: Real disco only needs 4.

Jordan: B-b-but this does it in less beats! Seven quarter notes instead of eight!

Josh: hahaha

Josh: Well MAYBE disco is all for EFFICIENCY.

Josh: But that seems to be counter to DISCO = EXCESS.

Jordan: aha

Josh: They are admittedly contradictory urges within its cold pleasure-seeking heart.