hackthis_archive ([personal profile] hackthis_archive) wrote2004-11-30 10:44 am

Help a starving writer get inspired

I have a favour to ask of you lot (no, not body disposal). I have been listening to the same mp3s fifteen times a day for nine months, and really, it's starting to grate and my plot bunnies are starting to riot. So -- I need something new. Something shiny. I need something I've never heard before -- or something I've heard but might have forgotten.

Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses Matt Nathanson, your Tchaikovsky, your Jigga-what Jigga-who, your Ryan or Jeff or Snoop or Weekend Players, Portishead, Morcheeba, Massive Attack. Give me never-released Verve stuff! Give me your much-loved demos. Let's talk live recordings and 90s Brit-rock. Give me Motown and the Stones. The Beatles, the Supremes and the Strokes. Give me your Modest Mouse and other animal bands. Give me something you think I'll love. Give me something you think I've never heard. You have a song that reminds you of me* or Theodore or Seth or Jamie or hey, even Lex? Let me hear it. Please?

Stick on your website. Yousendit. Attach it by carrier pigeon, just you know, hook me up!

C'mon it's not like I'm asking for money blood. Hell, you can just send me someplace where I can DL stuff and I'll be happy -- but then I might wind up unemployed, so yeah, no kazaa or winx. I already have plenty of experience with them. Not of the illegal sort. No, never. Napsterwhat?

* ([livejournal.com profile] ethrosdemon and [livejournal.com profile] kattiya have already cornered the market on The Streets 'Fit But You Know It).

Icon courtesy of the lovely [livejournal.com profile] oxoniensis, who made me lots of pretties for my birthday. YAY!


ETN: You guys are spoiling me rotten! Don't stop! (Thank you :)

ETN #2: I see now that the way to find out who you people are is not to ask, but to send up a distress cry for music. ::makes note::

made you a .zip file

[identity profile] the-larch.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Ten Songs You May Not Have Heard (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=A11A82E159C8D977B7FD8D80E3DD5A63) (but would probably love)

Some fairly unknown bands, and some rare tracks by established artists. Hope you enjoy!

Breakfast After 10 - Blue October
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows - Brand New
Set The Ray To Jerry - Smashing Pumpkins
Sweet Thistle Pie - Cracker
Adrenaline - Gavin Rossdale
I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday - David Bowie
The First Time - U2
Til The Day - Easyworld
Corner of the Earth - Jamiroquai
Are You Experienced - Belly

And one bonus track, if you like blues. Trouble - Ray LaMontagne (http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=06C20D6679DE4C304140A58B58496E8D)

[identity profile] notemily.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
the postal service is not so much "emo" as "completely awesome."

Re: made you a .zip file

[identity profile] notemily.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
mmmmm, ray lamontagne! that song is an instant classic.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
Uh huh.

Re: made you a .zip file

[identity profile] the-larch.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I love that song. Too too pretty.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
I am appropriating forthwith.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
Anything called Communist Love Song has my attention ;)

[identity profile] plumsnickety.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, that one was from Bex. God, how I love that song. Makes me feel like I'm eighteen again and being called a communist daily in AP Euro. /nostalgic

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
Ivy! Snow Patrol! Roxanne! I keep hearing about Halloween, Alaska. I must hear for myself. Thanks :)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
I fucking love that song. Yis.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
I have appropriated, oh 75% of your 47. :D

[identity profile] just-for-kicks.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
No problem :) I do this every Monday. The song by Halloween, Alaska was the last song played on The OC season premiere (or if not the last song, the one with Ryan leaving, and Seth chasing after him)

[identity profile] bibliotech.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, how I love the sharing of stuff.

[identity profile] bibliotech.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
I have a few things...it's hard to find stuff by him. Am uploading rightnow.

[identity profile] circe-tigana.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Words can't express how much I love "Orange Sky". It gets me where I live.

For me, it's Draco's post-war song (though it would certainly work for Theodore) ... while Cocoon by Jack Johnson is Harry's pre/during-war H/D song.

[identity profile] circe-tigana.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh WOW! :)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you :)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
You know I don't think I have songs for Theodore, Blaise and Neville. Oh, I shall have to think on this. I made a whole Soundtrack for Draco once though. The first character I ever had a song for wasn't even a character it was Billy and Wilco's 'Poor Places.' Now *that* is a fucking song.
ext_11942: (Cosmic Swirl (blunaris))

[identity profile] goss.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't sure what you'd like, so I just picked three random off my current playlist. *g*

Pinball - Sesame Street (http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=564A012C478D7BAB721F7E157A8A6EF8)

Black & White - Akiva (http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=C9A49C793B9128BF1589A272CEB505F4)

Life Is Short - Butterfly Boucher (http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3682F22804D00FEDDD3AE9C63A50DE62)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
::Hugs::

Thank you!
starfishchick: (10things-whoops-voleuse)

[personal profile] starfishchick 2004-11-30 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
The Richard Thompson song is just for your amusement - I wouldn't expect to be, you know, inspired by it. Heh.

[identity profile] desdema.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
i just posted a list of all my mp3's (http://www.devotedsatellite.com/lj/desdemasmp3s.html) this morning, so you can check that out and see if anything looks interesting and i'll upload.

[identity profile] ex-thissuga.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
www.thiscaravan.net/media/ -- there should be a hell of a lot in there by now - I had people just upload shite. I highly recommend "the whitlams". :D

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2004-11-30 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yay!!!! Thank you :)

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