Make a mix CD out of what Chuck Eddy has been listening to

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This Chuck E. quote from the most recent Village Voice poll is possibly the most mouth-watering piece of music-porn that I've ever read:

" Some other musics I listened frequently to this year were Latin freestyle, Belgian newbeat, fuzzdance Italodisco, Flashdance goth, early '80s German neu deutsche welle, industrial bubblegum, hi-NRG electro-punk, Baader-Meinhof Kraut-rock, psychedelic rai, proto-Eurodisco bongo-rock, danceable prog, girl-group-wannabe hair-extension metal, Gregorian death-garage, art-fag stoner glam, weirdassed pre-1988 Chicago house (acid and otherwise), Cybotron-era Detroit techno, old-school mid-American dub-rap, high school science-fair synthcore, teenybop no wave, popping-and-locking Zulu wildstyle space-cowboy western-gangster-town hip hop bommi bop, Radio Disney cult hits, and drunken frat-soul with parties going on in the background. A lot of it was old, though. Not that I could always tell the difference. "

Some of it I can't even tell what he's talking about ("teenybop no wave"??) which makes it all the more exciting. So anyway, make a mix that covers all of this stuff, or your interpretation of it.

― Patrick, Friday, 20 June 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

teenybop no wave

The Plastics - "I Love You Oh No!"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 20 June 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Latin freestyle

TKA - "Don't Be Afraid"

early '80s German neu deutsche welle

Paso Doble - "Computerliebe"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 20 June 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess he's mostly just been listening to the make-up

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 20 June 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

danceable prog

Electric Light Orchestra - "Shine a Little Love"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 20 June 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Diggin' on the Eagles I'm guessing

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Friday, 20 June 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

girl-group-wannabe hair-extension metal

The Prissteens - "The Hound"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 20 June 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Radio Disney cult hits - Hampton the Hampster: "Hampsterdance" (still on the charts!)

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 June 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ugh. look-at-all-the-subgenres! type lists make me barf. listen to what you listen to and stop trying to make it sound all eclectic and exotic.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 21 June 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

that's not what Chuck's doing when he writes like that. geez.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 21 June 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

learn to read Al

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 21 June 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, please make it sound pedantic and dull, Chuck

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 21 June 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

fine, fine, forget i said anything. (by the way, the exclamation point at the end of that phrase wasn't meant to signify the end of a sentence, i.e. "type" was not the beginning of a new sentence, which would indeed make that pretty incoherent now that i look at it. which i'm assuming is what the "learn to read" thing is about. or maybe not).

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 21 June 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

'hip hop bommi bop' = one of the worst singles ever! kudos!

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Saturday, 21 June 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty much all of these can be found on 'Cerrone VI'

― dave q, Saturday, 21 June 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Radio Disney doesn't play Cerrone (too dark)

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 21 June 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Which - Cerrone or Radio Disney?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 21 June 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

If the latter, all of a sudden things make a lot more happy sense now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 June 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Al, I was going to post a reply to you. I agree. 99.9% of people who show-off sub-genres are infuriating. To weed out the .1% (of which C.E. is assuredly a member) means knowing about critics and stuff, which you can Love Music without doing. So I decided not to flame you.

(Considers trolling post saying "However, Chuck E. isn't always right. For example, #93 in his 100 Best Heavy Metal Albums Of The '90s is well wide of the mark...". Decides against that, too.)

― Alan Connor Jnr, Saturday, 21 June 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"early '80s German neu deutsche welle, industrial bubblegum, hi-NRG electro-punk"

the teutonik disaster 1977-1983 (2002) comp pretty much covers all of the above

― ssean, Saturday, 21 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a Chuck Eddy fan if anybody is, and I'll admit the dude is showing off. It's just a lot more entertaining then when anybody else does it (though the consumer-to-be-guided in me would appreciate some NAMES, so I love this thread already).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 June 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That Teutonik Disaster comp is great (and it's in my soulseek folder if anyone's interested)

― Adam A. (Keiko), Saturday, 21 June 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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