Comments on: All Mixed Up

By: Dave Rawkblog

Dave Rawkblog — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:07:00 +0000

Great column today, dude. Already looking forward to the next one.

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:31:00 +0000

nice column over at p4k eric. favorite part?

bottom of the screen.
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By: M

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:52:00 +0000

500 words /= 800 pages, writing about music without (gasp) including the music itself is a concept that goes back to the beginning of time, and J is a crybaby. Glad we straightened that out.

By: marathonpacks

marathonpacks — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:06:00 +0000

sorry about this, fellas. my self-explanatoriness seems to have triggered some back-and-forth besmirching, which was not my intent. nor was it to infer that i’m unhappy with idolator’s M.O., that i wish anyone any specific harm, etc. just so that’s out there. okay, carry on.

By: J

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:09:00 +0000

M, I certainly would have been impressed had there been links to artists' home pages or myspace pages or whatever to encourage people to sample and (gasp) buy the music in question. Anything to make the whole exercise less academic.

But the entire process of having a select few compile specific tracks that are unavailable anywhere else in that sequence on to a CD-R, then spill a metric ton of verbage about said mix without letting anyone else actually hear the mix... That's at best, a creative exercise that appeals to a very few, at worst insular wankery that wastes the time of everyone involved and discourages anyone from discovering the music mentioned.

I might as well spend eight hundred pages describing my nonexistant vacation slides from my summertime trip to planet Nimboo.

By: M

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:26:00 +0000

“j”: did “they” fuck up by not including downloads of the albums and tracks and reissues the critics voted on, too? give me a break.

By: J

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:39:00 +0000

You did right, they did wrong.

HERE ARE TEN THOUSAND WORDS ABOUT AN IMAGINARY MIX I MADE IN MY HEAD OF TUNES FROM MY PROMO CDS BUT YOU CAN'T LISTEN HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I AM MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU AND THE MUSIC. Awesome feature.

This is one of the reasons I'm happy Hype Machine took up the Bloggregate/Zeitgeist thing, this year. You can listen to the music people liked! Way!

By: Al

Al — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:22:00 +0000

thanks!

it looks like Idolator provided download links for some of the mixes, if the authors uploaded them on their own (see http://pop.idolator.com/319055/2007-in-the-mix-rich-juzwiak) they might be able to add this link for yours.

By: marathonpacks

marathonpacks — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:36:00 +0000

SWISH!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:30:00 +0000

Your "verbiage being thin?"

Hell, that's definitely a first.

But your thesaurus probably needed a rest anyway.