I've actually downloaded both of your guys comps already with the intentions of checking them out. Both sound great, but I've got so much stuff to listen to atm it's making my head spin. Gonna throw both on the mp3 player and listen at work later I think. :)

Well, whatever. :p: I was still right about you having made one! I'll download this one since you seem to think it's so much better.

Woo hoo! Since I know you're a Trance head too, you may be interested in my 2 previous comps :D

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...tml#post731374

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...tml#post752428

The Beginner's Guide To Belle & Sebastian
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Whilst they may have started out as a simple music course project of leader Stuart Murdoch, Belle & Sebastian have gone on to craft some of the smartest, most purely enjoyable pop of the last 20 years. The group have evolved from the twee of their Tigermilk debut, through the chamber pop of their 1996 masterpiece If You're Feeling Sinister and the delightful folk-pop gems that comprised their breakthrough The Boy With The Arab Strap, happily changing their sound to incorporate genres as diverse as Northern Soul, glam rock, jangle pop and chamber pop. With a new album this year, it's never too late to get acquanited with this lot's joys.
Track listing
1.The Stars Of Track And Field
2.It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
3.The State I Am In
4.If She Wants Me
5.Lazy Line Painter Jane
6.She's Losing It
7.Seymour Stein
8.Piazza,New York Catcher
9.A Century Of Fakers
10.The Blues Are Still Blue
11.The Boy With The Arab Strap
12.The Boy Done Wrong Again
13.I'm Waking Up To Us
14.Judy And The Dream Of Horses

1,12,14 from If You're Feeling Sinister
2,7,11 from The Boy With The Arab Strap
3,6 from Tigermilk
4,8 from Dear Catastrophe Waitress
5,9,13 from Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
10 from The Life Pursuit

Belle & Sebastian.rar

I'm planning on doing a few of these, I hope to mix the obscure with the well known as to please existing fans & beginners alike and also to cover as much of spectrum of music as possible that falls under the post punk bracket.....

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great idea. 'big gold dream' is also win. re Cabaret Voltaire and general post punkyness, did you see the 'synth britannia' documentary? middle mass is probably the best thing they ever did

just copied and pasted from tumblor, advanced beginner's guide to when pop were still an art form, like:

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...nkwuo1_500.jpg

Originally compiled for my friend Trix; a spiritual sequel to my 2007 Teatime Psychotropics compilation of transatlantic 1960s psychedelic pop. A few non-UK/US groups. Mostly obscurities. Goes from the baroque and whimsical to more garage rock-y in the second half. Contains the best cover of Tomorrow’s ‘Real Life Permanent Dream’ you will ever hear. Non-aficionados of the era should probably steer clear and listen to fucking Deerhunter or something

Revenge of the Attack of Teatime Psychotropicks.zip

1. Scarecrow’s Love Affair - Blues Magoos
2. Time Track - Skip Bifferty
3. Life Is Short - Billy Nicholls
4. What Does It Feel - The End
5. When The Alarm Clock Rings - Blossom Toes
6. The Birthday - The Idle Race
7. Yo Recuerdo Mi Mundo - Los Shakers
8. 14 Hour Technicolour Dream - The Syn
9. Wake Up Cherylina - The Smoke
10. Real Life Permanent Dream - Orange Machine
11. Starvation - The Golden Dawn
12. Feathered Fish - The Sons Of Adam
13. The Letter - The Mops
14. Changing The Colors Of Life - Los Chijuas
15. All Night Stand - The Thoughts
16. 99th Floor - The Moving Sidewalks

Downloading now.
I only have 5 of these (I wonder when I got them).

Awesome comp. Cheers Urban :)

Downloading Belle and Seb, I love the life pursuit but have never explored further.

thanks i've been waiting for someone to do this

getting this now. i am excited! i hope it is still alive.

Wow that's an old one! As far as I know it's still active, I'm pretty sure Mediafire doesn't delete inactive files like other media upload sites.

yea i got it thanks =)

Glad people like the B & S comp.

beginners guide to:
pixies
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Caribou
Nimrod's Son
I've Been Tired
Tame
I Bleed
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Hey
Gouge Away
River Euphrates
Where is My Mind
Cactus
Vamos

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PS: I noticed some of the files are m4a. If they don't play for you I will re-up with MP3s. It could be some leftover itunes stuff from about 5 years ago.

PPS: I failed to include anything from Bossanova / Trompe Le Monde because I don't think it's required listening.

That is far too short for a pixies comp. Most Pixies songs are short anyway so I am sure it wouldnt have hurt to put a few more on there.

its a beginners guide. to see if they suit you. and it keeps with the spirit of most of their songs like you said.

Sorry to be the *******, but some of you guys come off like pretentious twats when you post a "BEGINNER'S Guide" with a bunch of obscure tracks. If I am just getting starting with a band then I want to hear what made them famous, not what their mostest hardcore fans consider the best because nobody else likes them. This isn't a competition to include the most obscure songs. It cannot truly a Beginner's Guide to The Pixies if you only include half of their albums. And this isn't solely directed at trace87 because plenty of posters have done it, but he just happens to be the most recent example...

i find it to be the best the band has. post your own or kiss my ass.

How does that make them pretentious?

You know there are actual compilations that exist, what would be the point to seeing all their singles that charted? Seems like it would take the fun out of it for me.

Yeah...I figure anyone coming here doesn't want the singles or radio hits. There are greatest hits compilations for that. This is for the people that want to hear the hidden gems.

I think the mix of the two would be fine, but completely disregarding half of the bands' output?

Alwell, apparently I'm alone in this opinion so I shall shrink back into the shadows...

its not there because it doesn't touch their earlier stuff with a 10ft pole.

1996 Thanks For The Ether - Endomorph
1996 Thanks For The Ether - Dig Ophelia
1997 Translyvanian Regurgitations EP - Rusty The Skatemaker
1997 Translyvanian Regurgitations EP - Transylvanian Concubine
1998 How We Quit The Forest - The New Zero
1998 How We Quit The Forest - Herb Girls Of Birkenau
2002 Cabin Fever! - Sweet Water Kill (The Ocean Song)
2002 Cabin Fever! - State Fair
2002 My Fever Broke EP - Sweetwaterkill (Soft Kill R-Mix)
2002 My Fever Broke EP - Deep In The Sweet Water (Remix By Joseph Bishara)
2003 The Lost & Found - Wish You Were Here
2003 The Lost & Found - Rock And Roll
2004 Frustration Plantation - Doomsday Averted
2004 Frustration Plantation - The Mayor
2005 A Radical Recital - Secret Message
2005 A Radical Recital - Barracuda
2007 Oh Perilous World - 1816, The Year Without A Summer
2007 Oh Perilous World - Cage In A Cave
2008 Melora A La Basilica - Clowns
2008 Melora A La Basilica - Why Don't You Do Right
2008 Frustration Plantation (Bonus Album) - Oh Injury (Reprise)
2008 Frustration Plantation (Bonus Album) - Yellow Fever (Frustration Plantation Outtake)
2009 The Willow Tree Triptych - The Willow Tree (American)
2009 The Willow Tree Triptych - The Willow Tree (Irish)
2009 Ancient Cross-Dressing Songs - Jackaroe
2009 Ancient Cross-Dressing Songs - The Female Highwayman

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@noise - thank you so much! :thumb: I have Rasputina on my long list "I am curious to listen to" :) Downloading...

You are not alone!

A beginners guide should have the most accesible work from all parts of an artists career.

e.g. If i were to do a Muse comp, most of the songs that would be included, would not be in my top 20 muse songs, but it would be the more "catchy stuff" from the different parts of the career. I might include a few other songs to show what they can do, but I would stay with around 80% accessible.

as others have argued, if you want to hear the band's singles, then go download their greatest hits album. this thread is to help people learn about a band through the ears of a true fan, rather than through the pocket of a record company.

How many of the bands covered here actually have greatest hits albums?

Kind of irrelevant considering the existence of stuff like youtube, dailymotion, grooveshark, spotify or anywhere else you can hear all their hits for free with minimum fuss anyway.

A lot of these bands don't have "hits".
e.g. Porcupine Tree - can any of their songs be defined as hits?

And if you are new to a band how do you find a bands "hits"?


Edit... I suppose you can search by most popular....

Exactly!

Take artists like Tom Waits or Frank Zappa for example. A lot of their less popular songs aren't on youtube, and chances are short of getting hold of their entire discography piece by piece, this thread's the best way to hear their more obscure stuff - stuff that the fans think is just as, if not more noteworthy than their more well-known work.

I can see what angle you're coming from, but youtube's one of the sites I use to get an idea of what an artist's like. These mixes come in handy if I feel like hearing more. Certainly nothing remotely pretentious about making them.

Did anybody ever make a Dinosaur Jr. comp?

I didn't agree with the pretentious comment.

I do still feel there needs to be a certain element of "hits" in there though....

I didn't think you were :)

I can see the angle you're coming from, but at the end of the day these are all, of course, fan-made and not record company-made comps, so I'm just saying it's more or less a given that the hits won't exactly play a huge part in many of them. Sorry if it seemed like I having a go - that wasn't my intention at all.

I guess probably not. I would like to listen to it :)


And about compilations for beginners...
If I can say my own opinion, for me ideal compilation is both versions together - some "catchy" songs and also some harder to get into. I know some other songs can be often better than big hits but on the other hand it's good to have in compilation both types of songs.

Yes, I agree with petula here.


But I think we have agreed to disagree, so I'll stop talking now.

I would love to put a Dino Jr. comp together if somebody could show me how these file upload services work...

Upload it to Megaupload, please ;) In my opinion it's better than Rapidshare.

I think they want to be told how they are meant to do it...