Tag: Mixtape
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon’s Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to arbitrarily choose an actor and then connect them to another actor via a film that both actors have appeared in together, repeating this process to try and find the shortest path that ultimately leads to prolific…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Music Used In Iconic Film Scenes
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Music Used in Iconic Film Scenes 1. Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith, 1975) – Dazed & Confused, (1993) This movie was directed by Richard Linklater. Sweet Emotion was used in the intro scene as the 1970 Pontiac GTO pulls in slow motion on the last day of school in…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Women Who Can “Really” Sing
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Women Who Can Sing (Really) 1. Karen Dalton – Little Bit of Rain, First Track (1969) Although Dalton didn’t write her own songs, Fred Neil actually writing this one, she did do her own adaptions of them. Dalton quickly became entrenched in the Greenwich Village folk musical scene…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Our Favorite One Hit Wonders
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Our Favorite One Hit Wonders 1. Mickey – Toni basil, Word of Mouth (1981) The original lyric in the chorus was Kitty instead of Mickey and recorded by a group called Racey. While it’s a one hit wonder for Basil, the songwriters have other hits with…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Awesome Soundtracks for Questionable Films
Listen along to the Playlist Awesome Soundtracks for Questionable Films Notes from Awesome Soundtracks for Questionable Films 1. My Best Friend’s Girl – The Cars, Over The Edge (1979) Over the Edge is an American coming of age crime drama directed by Jonathan Kaplan and released in May 1979. The film, based on actual events, had a limited theatrical…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Roadtrip Edition
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Roadtrip Edition 1. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – Proclaimers, (1988) This song didn’t become a hit in the US until 1993, when used in Benny & Joon. It was used after the director heard the song being played on his personal stereo by Mary Ann Waterston.…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Songs of Isolation During Shelter In Place Order
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtape – Shelter in Place 1. Yesterday – Beatles, Help Studio Album, (1965) “Yesterday” is one of the most recorded songs in the history of popular music. Its entry in Guinness World Records states that, by January 1986, 1,600 cover versions had already been made. The song took a while to…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Guilty Pleasures – Part 2
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtape – Guilty Pleasures Side B OUTLINE NOTES 1. Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up, Whenever You Need Somebody (1987) Time to get Rick Rolled. The internet craze originated in 2007 when various websites, including an online anti-Scientology group and a Radiohead site, posted links that resembled…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Sampled Songs
photography by Kelly Segré Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Sampled Songs Episode 8 Guest : Stone Henman @dependableson Link to Spotify Playlist… Mixtape – Sampled Songs Notes / Fact Sheet 1. Amen Brother – The Winstons, Sampled in Szamar Madar – Ventian Snares. Most sampled four-bar drum solo of all time.…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Covers Better than The Original
Photography by Kelly Segré Episode Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Covers Better Than Original Follow the playlist here! Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Covers Better Than The Original First song is not available on Spotify so here is the music video for your listening pleasure. Podcast Notes & Facts 1. Can’t help Falling In Love…
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