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sensesfail18782
03/30/05, 08:06 PM
Well my mix CD is complete (if you saw the other thread you might know that I was asking for suggestions, but I wanted to do a new thread cuz that one was mainly a help thread). 22 songs of emo goodness. Heh.

My girlfriend suggested the amusing name "Emo Romance'" for it. So that's what I shall call it. (btw this name is a joke...I'm not really that xcorely emo)

Emo Romance

1. Dashboard Confessional - For You To Notice
2. Dashboard Confessional - So Impossible
3. Dashboard Confessional - Remember to Breathe
4. Blink 182 - First Date
5. Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down
6. From First To Last - Emily
7. The Spill Canvas - The Night Will Go As Follows
8. Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades
9. The Early November - Sunday Drive
10. Dashboard Confessional - Saints and Sailors
11. Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without the E
12. Taking Back Sunday - You're So Last Summer
13. Fall Out Boy - Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things To Do Today
14. Alkaline Trio - Stupid Kid
15. Brand New - Jude Law and a Semester Abroad
16. The Spill Canvas - All Hail the Heartbreaker
17. Matchbook Romance - The Greatest Fall (Of All Time)
18. The Early November - Ever So Sweet
19. Fall Out Boy - Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy)
20. Dashboard Confessional - Screaming Infidelities
21. American Football - Never Meant
22. The Spill Canvas - 3685

The CD is about a foreign exchange student from England named Emily (yeah yeah but I HAD to tie the songs in together somehow heh), and a guy who lives in America...who is never mentioned by name.

The first four tracks are pretty obvious. It's from the first meeting leading up to the first date they have.

Tracks 5-7 are the "feeling good" part of it...heh it doesn't last long, but what emo romance does? Hands Down is the perfect song for the "perfect night" and basically perfect ending of the "First Date'. "Emily" is the guy's feelings for the girl, and how he hopes all this time he's waited for someone is worth it here. Emily brings him to his knees like no other girl ever has. He's overcome with emotion...which leads into "The Night Will Go As Follows", another perfect night...

Tracks 8-12 are when things start going hill. After the perfect earlier stages of the relationship, Emily begins pressuring our "hero" for sex and stuff of that nature. He feels as if he perhaps isn't ready for this intense of a relationship, and also wonders in the back of his head if she really just wants him for sex, and she doesn't feel the same way. "Sunday Drive" is the painful realization that the communication is gone, he realizes something is wrong here. "Saints and Sailors" continues with that realization, and mentions that basically the only time they ever DO communicate is when they argue. The final line of the chorus, "and your eyes say the joke's on me" is foreshadowing to what he finds out in the next song. In "Cute Without the E" he discovers she is cheating on him. He is obviously angry and hurt about it, which leads in to "You're So Last Summer", when they break up. She tells him there's a ton of guys out there like him, and all he wants to know is that she'll miss him when he leaves. He breaks up with her.

Tracks 13-15 is the angry part of the album, where he is pissed off beyond words at Emily. He hates her, and wishes nothing but the worst upon her and her other guy. In the Alk3 song he says he doesn't love her anymore, and he never did. In "Jude Law" she returns to England, and he has a bitter sendoff and tons of bad wishes for her.

16-20 are the sadder tracks. He transforms from angry to depressed and feeling worthless. All he wants by track 20 is somebody else to take his mind off her.

Track 21 is his moving on anthem...he realizes how bad everything was, and he just wants to forget about it and move on.

Track 22 is his message to her, how she made him see something in himself he never saw before. He says they were both the fault of the relationship failing. He says it was fun, but they were young and stupid and didn't know what they were getting themselves into. He ends the album with the line "But the truth is I've found something new...and she easily towers over you"...he's moved on, and found something better...at least, for now.

So yeah there's my writeup. I was bored...and I just thought it was cool to put it all together in story kinda form. This was a lot of fun doing this. Thanks to "copenovember" as he pretty much provided me with a basic outline for this.

EnderDove
03/30/05, 09:18 PM
I dont know about everyone else but two, let alone three songs in a row by the same band is just....yuck.

velouriumCAMPER
03/30/05, 10:43 PM
yeah just mix up a few and youre set, but i love the concept

heartonsleeve
03/31/05, 03:38 AM
I very much agree. Under no circumstance put 2 (or more in this case) songs in a row by the same artist on a mix tape :smash:

Hilikus
03/31/05, 09:48 AM
Its cool that your mix has a story and all. But i dont really like many of the songs.

timetofind
03/31/05, 10:50 AM
Yeah, it's basically like (in the beginning) that you just stole Dashboard's storyboard for the EP.

storts87
03/31/05, 01:59 PM
dude you completely ignored all the songs i recommended when you asked for help with the concept...i dont much like this mix..

sensesfail18782
03/31/05, 04:57 PM
In case you didn't see the other thread, I was wanting it to be songs by bands that I like for the most part...just staying in one little area of this "scene" I guess...just an experimental thing. Didn't know people got so serious about mixtape "rules" and things, aren't they supposed to be something fun to do and listen to? Overanalyzation ruins things.

And surprisingly, I didn't know the Dashboard EP told the story through the songs...I'd only heard two songs off of it so I didn't know...guess if I did I would've never bothered with this. Oh well.

And storts, I finished the thing before I ever even read your reply. Don't get so offended because I didn't use your mix. Thanks for offering the suggestions though, yours looked pretty good.

Brianfarg
03/31/05, 05:41 PM
I don't like many of the songs, but, yeah, great concept. Also, good use of the song "Emily."

littlehope4us
03/31/05, 08:29 PM
good concept

punkpixie
04/01/05, 07:50 AM
I dont know about everyone else but two, let alone three songs in a row by the same band is just....yuck.

Yes it is.

Brianfarg
04/01/05, 11:51 AM
Yes it is.

Is that Captain Planet?

sensesfail18782
04/01/05, 02:13 PM
Yes it is.


To me, it's not.

Actually it doesn't really matter to me either way, but it's annoying when 8 people say the exact same thing. A 3 word post? Somebody's just trying to up their post count, aren't they? ;)

storts87
04/01/05, 04:00 PM
"And storts, I finished the thing before I ever even read your reply. Don't get so offended because I didn't use your mix. Thanks for offering the suggestions though, yours looked pretty good"

i figured i might have been late...its no big deal though, im definitely not offended

sensesfail18782
04/01/05, 07:56 PM
Good I was hoping I didn't piss you off lol.

It'd be cool if some of you other guys ran with this concept, or came up with another new concept, and made a mix and put it up here. I'm always up for being exposed to some new music, as long as it's good of course. Did you ever get all your songs that you listed in the other thread back on your comp, storts?

storts87
04/01/05, 08:00 PM
i got most of what i wanted...but it wasnt very long, so i decided to not make it

Shoes
04/02/05, 09:16 AM
I thought it was a cool idea and a nice mix. B+

bleed me bleu
04/06/05, 01:02 PM
mix it up, dont put the same band in a row

punkpixie
04/06/05, 04:00 PM
Is that Captain Planet?

Yes it is.

(oh no another 3 word post, I'm done for now!!!)

Brianfarg
04/06/05, 06:05 PM
Yes it is.

(oh no another 3 word post, I'm done for now!!!)

That brings me back to the days where I would run around in my power ranger underwear and Captain Planet ring; ah, the joys of being fifteen.


Just kidding by the way... or am I?

punkpixie
04/07/05, 02:25 AM
That brings me back to the days where I would run around in my power ranger underwear and Captain Planet ring; ah, the joys of being fifteen.


Just kidding by the way... or am I?

hahaha. I had a Captain Planet ring too..good times.