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I want to do 1987.. after having done 1978.

Wanna make this the official thread for keeping tabs on the "Go!" club?

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 1 December 2003 04:58 (twenty years ago) link

Nate: 1972, 1977, 1979
Matos: 1980, 1989, 1997. am working on 1970 and 1920-9
Jess posted a 1985 one, did he ever make it or just list it?
DB: 1978, now working on 1987
Sarah Pedal dibbed 1965--still in?
Michael Daddino now working on 1984
others?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 1 December 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link

oh yeah: Kenan, 1993

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 1 December 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link

I did a 2002 as well -- poss. the first of these -- though in retrospect it feels really incomplete and I'd ditch some tracks now (that 7L & Esoteric cut is boring, and really, "Hot In Herre" has grown on me since then).

I feel sorta like doing '68, just to see what there is beneath the boomer-rock surface.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 1 December 2003 05:15 (twenty years ago) link

ALso, Andy K. 1981, right?

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 1 December 2003 05:18 (twenty years ago) link

1981 and 1994. duh.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 1 December 2003 05:24 (twenty years ago) link

Jess, 1996.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 1 December 2003 05:33 (twenty years ago) link

I want 1968.

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 December 2003 05:55 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't done one of these yet, so Nate should let me have it. :-)

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 December 2003 05:55 (twenty years ago) link

Aw man. See, I picked '68 because that was the year Hugh Masekela's super-awesome long-outta-print self-titled album came out. If I send you a burn of it, think you could include one of the tracks?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 1 December 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link

I still have dibs on 1974, will pick another year when that is done (circa 2074)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 1 December 2003 06:13 (twenty years ago) link

ok!

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 December 2003 06:17 (twenty years ago) link

I'm still doing '65, but I'm struggling to find a good method to determine what year things were released. How do the rest of you do it? And do you count single releases or album releases?

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Monday, 1 December 2003 06:25 (twenty years ago) link

I generally count whichever came first--if a single hit in '70 and the album in '71, it goes on the '70. if, like "Billie Jean," it was an '83 single from an '82 album, it goes to '82. also, I have way too many release dates memorized for my own good. AMG is helpful with this also.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 1 December 2003 06:34 (twenty years ago) link

(also liner notes are your friend etc.)

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 1 December 2003 06:34 (twenty years ago) link

(and let me know if you're interested in any help with '65--I can make tons of recommendations.)

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 1 December 2003 06:35 (twenty years ago) link

OK, put me down for 1972.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 1 December 2003 06:53 (twenty years ago) link

But I already did it

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 1 December 2003 06:55 (twenty years ago) link

let's get someone to do 1934

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 1 December 2003 07:00 (twenty years ago) link

was that the year you were born?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 1 December 2003 07:07 (twenty years ago) link

it was the year I turned 40! when life TRULY begins!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 1 December 2003 07:09 (twenty years ago) link

It was also the year the remix was invented

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 1 December 2003 07:11 (twenty years ago) link

arr missed it there in the beginning

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 1 December 2003 07:15 (twenty years ago) link

OK, 1973 then

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 1 December 2003 07:23 (twenty years ago) link

i am thinking about doing a 2000.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 December 2003 08:41 (twenty years ago) link

I was joking around above, but I'd love to see someone do a year like that... or 1917 or whatnot. I don't have the knowledge (beyond some pop & klez stuff)/music collection for it, but perhaps someone could volunteer... AMATEURIST I'M LOOKING AT YOU!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

2000 will be done by earlier this evening.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:16 (twenty years ago) link

fiddo doesn't fuck around. or more like, he fucks around a lot. isn't that twice gene simmon's record?

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:18 (twenty years ago) link

Matos, you saw my 1984 short list, right?

Also, I know you're doing a 1920's double-disc set, but I'd still like to do 1927. (Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Blind Willie Johnson, yum yum.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

Also, I think we should get to work on completing a decade so we offer these nice little CD-R box sets...

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

waah! db, I'm putting finishing touches to a list for '87 now. Do you mind awfully? I haven't started burning yet

― J eff W (zebedee), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:42 (twenty years ago) link

1970 by week's end. Mike--can we compromise? I've been working on the 20s for months...I could send you a list.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

I'll be working on '68 this week.

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

waah! db, I'm putting finishing touches to a list for '87 now. Do you mind awfully? I haven't started burning yet

Jeff, wanna unite our lists and collaborate?

I don't think anyone has truly collaborated on a Go! disc yet, and I think this is a GREAT experiment for this project. Democracy may make us enemies in the end, but I think this will produce a kick-ass 1987 disc... and I think we're generally on the same page musically.

Email me.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:56 (twenty years ago) link

U+K QUESTION FOR JESS:

Yello "Oh Yeah!"

Orig. from 1985's "Stella", yet only massively popular in 1987 (thanks to "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"). If you are NOT putting this on your comp, I will cheat slightly and snag it.. but only if you're not using it, as 1985 is its "proper" place.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, don't worry about it, Matos. There's no reason why there can't be a 20's overview AND seperate ones for each individual year...but that can be fussed over once you finish.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

but I need ideas! can you email me what you have?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

I will mail you tomorrow, db

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks, Jeff. (See, I was hoping a thread like this would have prevented tears in the near future... not that there's any guaranteed lack of them! muahahahahahahahahaa)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link

Matos, check yr e-mail.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

Mike, check yours

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

Okay, I'm going to get down to business tonight. And if anyone knows a place where I can find archives of the French charts, I will be eternally grateful.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:20 (twenty years ago) link

my claws are clutching at precious 1959, probably ready around the end of 2003.

― rgeary (rgeary), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

Jeff, you know my REAL address, right?

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 07:24 (twenty years ago) link

Damn, Jess already did 1996 (I just wanted an excuse to include "Swallowed" on something).

Has '91 been done by anyone? (If not, I'm in.)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 07:34 (twenty years ago) link

mommy, they're taking all the years I wanted to do!

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 07:44 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, scratch that. 1991 has too many canonical choices to sift through, I think I'll look for a crappier year ('98?).

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 08:24 (twenty years ago) link

btw 2000 is done, in case anyone missed it.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

1976, 1986. Due date?

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

And if anyone knows a place where I can find archives of the French charts, I will be eternally grateful

The Hit-Parade national was only created in oct. 1968, but some popular records of the year are listed here

― Bruno- (Bruno-), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:26 (twenty years ago) link

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yeah, do it!

mmmm, jazz....

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

Um, which one did you just claim, jode, 61 or 63?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

'63

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

Jode and Sarah ROCKIN' THE MID SIX-TEEZ!

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

I just realized I have violated my "one at a time, motherfucker!" post from earlier and would like to summarily apologize to Michael Daddino for any hardship I may have caused. (dude, do 1950!)

I picked '61, DB

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

'61 = Coltrane's ubergreat 16-minute "Chasin' the Trane" + tons of other great jazz

and Jody, '63 = Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder," you lucky woman!

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

So, does this mean Ott is allowed to do 1992 now?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

and I'll offer to work with Milo on finishing up 1991 if it turns out to be a good working relationship. :)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

I suppose it does!

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

Oh O-o-o-o-ott, you still want 1992?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

(note: if he doesn't include loads of rave records, he is not allowed) >;-)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

and Jody, '63 = Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder," you lucky woman!

you read my mind, matos!

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

I think Matos's original concern is still cogent though. There's a point where ravenously gobbling up years takes away the fun and energy for all involved, especially for the compiler.. It's a lot more fun to think about a new year than to finish the one you're currently on, certainly. I know that feeling. I think that's a general day job analogy.

I've chosen to do this one year at a time just for financial reasons. :) (I tend to take these far more obsessively and seriously than most, I think), though I don't mind peripherally contributing to other things on the side where help may be needed.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:47 (twenty years ago) link

(Let's put it this way, I now have practically reconstructed my early hip hop CD collection because of this.)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

(and let's not talk about the vinyl purchases)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

In case folks missed it, 1973 is done.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

FOUR ON THE FLOWA I GOT NINETY TOOO. 76 was mostly a pile of shit I can't wait to have behind me, so yes, 1992 will be my Christmas present to myself. That's it for me: 76, 86, 92.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 13:32 (twenty years ago) link

Coupla things:

* 1988 is 90% looking to definitely be a 2xCDR700MB Go! thing ("GoGo!"?) Over a gig, certainly. There's simply too much that i couldn't ignore. Surely will have it done by the end of the year, though hopefully if I could, within the week. But goddamn holiday season and shopping and ILX guests coming into town (Hi, Ned! ;) )

* Do any of the more freeware/shareware savvy here know of a good free normalization tool you can apply to a folder of mp3s or any encoded files?

I ask because, I did a loudness/RMS normalization of the wavs of the 1978 comp before i encoded them, to try and make the mix sounds more "pro" (and i stress the quotes), and I feel it made a HUGE difference in how the mix was perceived. And if there IS such a tool out there, I think it would really give some extra magic to all these mixes you guys are doing.

I'm listening to Daddino's mix on shuffle mode right now, and i often (though not all the time) have to re-adjust the volume every song, which is slightly unsettling (never mind the actual CD itself being unsettlingly brilliant), but unfortunately doesn't allow you to easily escape the fantasy that you're listening to some official 19?? Rhino-or-whatever mega box-set of music or whatever.

Never mind me, though. I'm a bit more technically anal about sound issues like that, and I'm surely the only one who would notice the difference.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:32 (twenty years ago) link

change "doesn't allow" to "allows" above. oops

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link

No, the volume issue bugs the living fuck out of me as well. I was forced to tinker with the volume on a couple of tracks because some of them were way too soft, especially the High Rise one, obviously a poor MP3ization of a superdim bootleg. (Though in retrospect it's now way too loud...)

Some of it is gonna atrocious no matter what anybody does. GodDAMN Hüsker Dü sounds like total utter shapeless crap on CD.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:36 (twenty years ago) link

Way around volume: download the OctiMax normalization/drive plugin. This thing has changed my digital life.

Bigger problem on MP3: pure analog recordings (i.e. 70s) tend to sound really crap no matter what (unless they've subsequently been remastered and reissued).

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link

Just downloaded it and I agree: OCTIMAX WORKS. Pity it's 50 bucks.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:18 (twenty years ago) link

i'll work on '83 over christmas (right now my brain is being consumed by a certain '83-related book project)

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 05:48 (twenty years ago) link

Silly question from a frequent lurker and occasional poster: um, why only one person per year? If two diff. people both wanna take on the same year, the more, the merrier, eh? [And for the record, I'm about to embark on 1986.]

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

You can do whatever you want Thomas, and post the track listing and all that. We've just informally kept it to one person per year because:

* just so there doesn't arise a case where people feel like they're "competing" with each other, which i think would bring out the worst in mixes, imho, since the whole notion of "mix competition" is really silly to begin with
* We already have a system in place that allows you to "protest" exclusions from a given year, read above
* I think more interesting mixes arise from years that you might, gasp!, not necessarily have as your first choice...i.e. it forces you to do some research and discover things you never discovered before

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 20:45 (twenty years ago) link

Neither 1978 nor 1988 were my first choices actually. With 1978, I was all "Someone give me a year" and Matos gave me '78. If you look on top, I originally wanted to do 1987, but Jeff W came in at the last minute with an almost finished mix himself (and turned out to be a GREAT impetus for this thread, for fear of parallel duplicate year mixes), so I just shifted over a year, and now I'm having a blast.

Again, there really are no "rules". This is just a little community thing, and having people "filling in" the unclaimed years as opposed to redoing another year would make the communal project more effecient, challenging, and fun, me thinks.

I just speak for myself though.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

and one more thing, you'd have to PH3AR DA SHA-DOUGH UV 0TT'Z 8TEE-S1XX M1XX, D00D

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

I used her, she used me, but neither one cared-- we were gettin' our share. Workin' on our night moves.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:31 (twenty years ago) link

Just wanted some feedback, and I 'preciate yours, Donut Bitch. I ended up choosing '86 because I wanted a year that wasn't obvious (for me, that would've been '84 and '88), and that would be a challenge (discussed the matter with some ILM-posting pals). Got the link to Ott's '86, but didn't look at the tracklisting; that would be like cheating, methinks.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

Heh, you could make this the Ultimate Musico Geeko version of the game Boggle, where you send off, like, four or five people to put together a 100 song mix CD from ONE YEAR, and you only get to include the songs that were mentioned no more than once.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

That's a good idea!

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

1960 seems to be kind of unclaimed. I'm not claiming it as such but I'm starting an experiment. Rob can still do it if he wants.

1960 - pick one track and pass on the baton till a CDR700 of stuff is made

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

that's a terrible idea! I like odd stuff but obscurantism for its own sake is so boring.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 18 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link

"Song being mentioned once" != "obscure". The exercise is highly dependent on the people involved of course. I think it's interesting to see the results of such an exercise, and..um.. don't immediately see what's so terrible about it.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 December 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

Its the reverse psychology that would make it fun. "Ooh, I bet she's gonna put X on that list, so I will too, but then maybe she won't because she knows I know that, therefore i won't", etc.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 December 2003 00:32 (twenty years ago) link

Good or terrible idea, it's musically obsessive to a creepy degree, no doubt..haha

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 December 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link

I dunno, maybe I'm thinking more in terms of older years where musical overproduction wasn't as rampant as it is now--there's no doubt ten people could have completely different lists for any year from about '91 on and they'd all be equally valid. earlier on, that's less likely, which isn't to say it's impossible. but I guess I'm enough of a (pick one) innate populist/sucker that I want to hear megahits rub up against three-people-bought-this just for variety's and/or cognitive dissonance's sake. the thing I like about the ones I've seen/heard thus far is that they take that principle to heart. I hope I don't sound too much like a cop when I say I'd like to keep that tradition (haha "tradition") going.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 18 December 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

Well, i thought the above idea was good as a game primarily, not as much for making the best compilations.

One person
one heart
one CD
many loves
:)
<3 <3 <3
6> 6> 6>

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:45 (twenty years ago) link

The bottom line here is further ILM-Pitchfork prejudice as I'm the only one being targeted for upstaging!!

(Excuse to remind you to please see my recently added cover in the 1986 thread if you missed it).

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 18 December 2003 03:04 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, Ott, as more of a lurker/reader than poster, I'd forgotten you were Pitchfork. Until now, that is.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Thursday, 18 December 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

(me thinks Ott was nyukking us)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 December 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

Possibly. But remembering the Ott v. ILM "battles" of past years, one can never be certain.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Thursday, 18 December 2003 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

Haven't heard from Milo about 1991. If he's ditching this, I'm taking it over. Milo?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 December 2003 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

It's all yours, I gave up hope a hundred posts back. I know zilch about 1991, and no time to research. If a round two comes along, I'll give something a go then.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:51 (twenty years ago) link

All rightie then. Thanks :)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 19 December 2003 04:16 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

I know y'all's're obsessed with the whole Rough Guide thing (which I have found myself woefully underprepared to actually contribute to sans the usual Beck/indie rap stuff) but hey, 2003. Maybe not as good as Matos', but at least it's... uh... yeah.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 22 January 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

I'll be starting a brand new page for the "Go!" community, which will have links to ALL the completed threads dedicated to each "Go!" CD... unfortunately, I'm working a fucking 70 hour work week now, so it will have to wait for the time being... (thank the gods for overtime pay)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 22 January 2004 03:55 (twenty years ago) link

ten months pass...

Did geeta ever do 1983?

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah - there's this thread seems to have been superseded.

The official CDR Go! thread

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 27 November 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry about the garbled English there.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 27 November 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

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