Hello mix it uppers. I know for a fact that one participant has already received his mix, so without further ado, here is the review thread...

Where are we now?
we are left with these 36 mixing champs. In this phase of mix it up XIII, they'll be matched with their very own mixing partners. In short, whoever created the mix that you receive, will be reviewing your mix. your partner was assigned by fate, and not by some malevolent conspiracy against your person.

chris.southon
gappy tooth
barrie
stefan
Billybigbananas
mixstreams
flickeringlexicon
reformed marmot
mere pseud.
biggestlibraryyet
huh
DJAsh
Orphiztic
granny on bongos
chachacha
mirwais57
kapitän
grumpynortherngit
petehine
Acton High Street
Audrey Wetherspoon
New Profile Razor Unit
Terrywaitesez
Black Dog
nlgbbbblth
mopiranger
mr. marshall
IanMcC
zeus b. held
Cleanville Tziabatz
Keg
Fritter
Hotel Amnesia
Spiring
Dice man
Graemelovespinklady

36 mixing champs, each desperately awaiting a positive review of their labor of love - 36 champs who have pledged to take their reviews very seriously and hopefully find an ideal mixing partner for life.


ok, ok, when's the deadline?
The deadline is NOVEMBER 20th, extended due to an extension, and extended 5 days further for reasons of postal strikes etc.


how do i review?
An excerpt from the set up thread:
"Just like the previous mix it up organizers did, I'd like to ask everyone to take the review seriously.
No one's interested in reading one line descriptions of the tracks, à la "sixties garage. maybe seventies. never heard of it. sounds okay."
When the time comes to pen down your review, don't let the writing scare you off. What does the music do to you? if nothing, listen again, and again and if it still doesn't mean anything, tell us why not. Write about yourself, instead of generating descriptions.
If you're stuck, remember you now have a mixing partner to write about. Is he male, female, gay? old? wheelchair bound etc
Keep an open mind and ear as long as possible and don't give up too soon.
Again, take the reviewing seriously - but not personally. There is nothing wrong with a negative review - in fact, they can be quite entertaining - but don't hide behind your venom and tell us a bit about yourself too. Explain what you do like and why this music rubs you (of all people!) the wrong way. Avoid insults, accusations or threats please. As per the Conway rule - "play the music, not the man."


help, i need my mix now / my cat ate the cd / i've been waiting for months for my cd and it still hasn't showed up / i've forgotten what I put on my own cd / the suspense is giving me diarrhoea / etc...
No problem! PM me and I can send you a digital copy of your mix or the mix you should have received.

what's with the cd marked "dadmix"?
if there's a cd labeled dadmix in your package, then you've forgotten that you have explicitly asked for a copy of mopiranger's dad's mixing effort. Remember: the poster who writes the most glowing, gushing review of mopiranger's dad's mix, gets a prize. unless you prefer my dad's music, please review your mixing partner's mix first.

weren't there prizes involved?
yes, there were prizes involved. the couple that makes for the most entertaining match gets a prize. so does whoever writes the most enthusiastic review of mopiranger's dad mix.



Please post your reviews in this thread before November 20th. Keep your mixing partner in suspense and don't reveal too much before posting your actual review. If you think that because of other obligations, your review will be late, please keep everyone posted.
last but not least, have fun with the music. :girl2:

Ooh, excitement :)

To be honest, I couldn't care less whether the review I get is positive or negative, as long as it is a "good" review i.e. one where the reviewer has made an effort to say exactly what they mean.

Bring it on!

Precisely. I don't want to read "boring - next!", I want to read "Boring..." and then 200 words of character assasination and vitriol. I can take it, fear not!

Mine arrived this morning.

Mine has arrived, too.

Thumbs up so far. It's a manageable 50 mins and begins with a burst of skronky noise and a guy calling out names of bands that begin with the letter B. In fact, my little boy is singing, "Baader Meinhof, Boards of Canada… Black Grape!’ right now.

:thumbsup:

really?? :o

Mine has arrived - I like the Mopiranger on the back inviting me to "Enjoy".

One thing: I didn't get Dadmix though I requested one (admittedly only on the thread, rather than PM). Is it possible to make it available to me digitally, via PM and a link please, Mopi?

Got mine today as well :applaud:

Received. :)

Either that, or there's a VERY elaborate hoax going on...... :unsure:

Two CD-Rs in the mail today. :)

I've been away for most of the day, so I only just finished listening to both discs. Very pleased with them. I honestly enjoyed MopiDad's mix, not just because he seemed to like at least parts of mine. I even recognised almost half of the tracks at once. That probably shows my own age. :huh:

Many thanks to Mopiranger Jr. + Sr. as well as to the mysterious (?) forum member. I already have a strong suspicion who it might be. :zip:

Recieved mine not listened to it yet.

Mine has arrived today, also without the Mopidadimix, mustn't have read the instruction to PM.

Therfore I am the same as Graeme ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

muchos apologies, graeme and NPRU - there was no need to pm, you just had to post in the thread - i 've missed your posts. will PM you a digital version.

come to think of it, i had two copies left.

if i forgot anyone else, please pm me or post your complaint in this thread!

Mine arrived this morning. Im in the same boat regarding the DadMix. I havent got one either. Count me in on the upload code, Mopi.
I get home tomorrow. Cant wait to devour my Mix.......

Mine has arrived. Looking forward to playing it.

A fate worse then death, I feel. Content yourself with the fact that it is almost certainly not true, and greet the new day with a :) on your face.

Arrived. For this offering we are truly grateful, Mopi. ;)

:lol:

Two mixes arrived today!

I have already renamed one of them "The Marshall's Nightmare". :devil:

Is it the "best" of Radiohead? :unsure:

Arghh! It's one long 78 min track with no breaks. :banghead:

looks like you received a mix then :)
if it's the one i think it is, i'm sure the tracks will be "sufficiently distinct". i wouldn't worry about getting starting times or durations right. think of it as reviewing an lp instead of a cd.

The Statistical: 10 tracks, 77 minutes, song lengths between 3.25 and 16.20

The Tenuous: On what turned out to be the last day of the Ashes series 2009, I was riding on a packed train carriage towards the Oval with my fellow English supporters. Although by that stage of the match, England were the overwhelming favourites, all results were still possible and the England fans, displaying their usual mixture of straight pessimism and outright neuroses, were hoping for early wickets and an early end to their anxiety. Being a positive-minded sort, I ventured to opine that, having paid the better part of sixty quid for a ticket, I'd rather hoped to enjoy watching the great Ricky Ponting bat for a least a while. Needless to say, my compatriots were not amused. As it happened, the pugnacious Tasmanian made a decent 66 before being run out by Flintoff and England achieving a bizarrely comfortable victory. I was reminded of watching Ponting bat when listening to this mix-just like watching a great batsman run up a score against your side, avant-garde metal (of which this mix largely consists) should be both joyous and crushingly oppressive. :devil:

The Review:

Track One: What a way to start. I have no real idea who this track is by, but it is absolutely fantastic. For nine minutes, the greater part of the sonic palette of extreme metal's arsenal is unleashed-Über-distorted guitars, down-in-the-mix howling, the sound of what appears to be a man repairing an ancient valve organ. What makes this track so remarkable is that it is held together by an incredibly simple, repetitive, uptempo Stooges groove. Imagine a Sunn O))) (of whom more later) cover of "I Wake Up In The City" and you're almost there. Top stuff.

Track Two: A very different sort of metal here. Looped drums and monastic chants, portentous keyboards and screeching. This is Black Metal, possibly one of those Norwegian one-man-band groups. Not really my sort of thing, if I'm brutally honest but undeniably both powerful and enjoyable.

Track Three: The compiler seems to be offering a bit of a tour around the avant metal scene with this mix. After the Noise-Rock of the first track and the Black Metal of the second, this is an almost pure drone piece-at least a minute or so of which consists of near-silence. As the piece builds over it's seven minutes, the overtones seem lurch from comfortable to sinister and back, creating the unsettling psychological effect that this sort of piece aims for.

Track Four: Remaining somewhere on the continuum between drone and noise, this atmospheric piece consists mainly of a single heavily distorted electric guitar, with processed overtones. I would recommend to the compiler that if he or she likes this, they'd probably enjoy Justin Broadrick's Final, except that I suspect this is Final.

Tracks Five and Six: The mix takes a distinct left turn with two enjoyable bits of techno. The first, which I think might be by Carl Craig, is notable for a marvellous tone down in the mix that sounds like a distorted harpsichord. The second, which has a more minimal feel, incorporates a wonderful drum sound, almost like a jazz kit. Both pieces are fun enough in their own right, but they seem almost a distraction here.

Track Seven: Now we return to the business of Metal. After a minute or so of guitar feedback and distortion, a loose, jammy feel emerges when a drummer enters the mix, playing a chunky Run DMC beat and the guitar player cuts loose with what might, in this context, even pass for a whiff of funk. Again, if Justin Broadrick wasn't involved in this track, then he should've been. At it's best, the whole thing comes across like a metal take on Miles's Tribute To Jack Johnson-very enjoyable.

Track Eight: Takes the pace right down to some slow, screamy metalcore. I think this is the Californian band Neurosis, but I'm not sure. Over a snail-pace riff, the vocalist is convincingly impassioned- "Break Out! Break Out!"

Track Nine: Is perhaps, no disrespect intended, a "generic" piece of drone doom, it could be Sunn O))) or maybe some less celebrated band. The vocalist does his thing (scream yer head off from miles down in the mix) perfectly well, as the guitarist does his (turn everything up to 11 and hit it every so often), but I'm not so keen on the drummer. He seems to be playing far too much when this sort of tempo doesn't really call for much drumming at all.

Track Ten: Finally, we come to the State of the Art in this stuff. This is Sunn O))), with Alice, the closing track from this years' Monoliths and Dimensions album. Without losing any of their traditional power, this sees them fusing this trademark ultra-slow tempos and detuned, resonant guitars, with pastoral brass, strings and harp. It perhaps shouldn't work as well as it does, but it does. Perhaps a great way into this kind of music for those who haven't yet dipped their toes in the water.

Thanks to the compiler for a great fun mix-aside from the last track it's all new to me but (with the possible exception of the second track) I enjoyed it all immensely.

I hope you have as much fun with my mix-on this showing I think you might like one or two tracks on there. :unsure:

Thanks also to Mopi-I'll get round to MopiDad's mix later.

Cheers! :beer:

You got mine, AHS. I'll post a tracklisting later.

:lol:

Question-how many times did Mr. Marshall punch the air with relief after reading my review?

How many tracks did you review?

I must admit my heart sank a little when I realised the disc was one
long 78 min track as I couldn't do a track by track review easily.
I believe this was the compilers wish that it be listened to in
one sitting. So that's what I'll do, only pausing to write my
thoughts down. I have listened to the disc four times already
before doing this, so no rush job.

The sound of the MGM lion's roar opens this disc. I thought this
sounds promising! Unfortunately if all the songs are film related
it will show up my lack of knowledge in this area and I'll look
incredibly stupid.

The MGM lion roar subsides to another film company fanfare building
the tension in me even more, nicely done!

The first track opens with a flute, the sound of the ocean and some
great jungle style drums. This really reminds me of the soundtrack
to a 60's James Bond movie or something by Lalo Schifrin. Especially
when the pace changes.

Second track or still the first I'm not sure. Beautiful piece of film
soundtrack reminiscent of Bullit. Makes me want to jump in a car and race
through town!

Third is a very spooky rendering of "Don't Take My Sunshine Away".
Must be from a horror film, which I'm not sure. The sound of a heart
beat doesn't calm my nerves any.

Fourth is wonderful, by far my favourite on the mix. "Yummy Yummy
Yummy I Got Love In My Tummy." It swings cats and dogs. Is it Burt
Bacarach? I look forward to finding out who this is. Made me think
of great 60's pastiche films.

Fifth is a reggae rendition of the classic "Fever" originally done
by Peggy Lee. Reggae always takes me back to my childhood growing
up in Bermuda as it was the staple music over there. So it's another
winner for me, total toe tapper!

Sixth starts of with the sound of fire burning as a guy says
"Why do you think they call it dope, dope". A really funky
anti-drugs song I think. "The devil is dope!" Brilliant arrangement
and fuzzed up guitar. Yeah I got my funk on. I like it!
Classic line "You think you're superfly but you're getting much
too high."

Track seven is the theme to "The Liquidator". Sorry but I really
cringed at the lyrics and Bassey singing. It's horrible
please make it stop! I've never even seen the movie, is it any good
or just a part of the 60's spy craze?

The eighth at a guess is incidental music from "The Liquidator"
or maybe "Man From Uncle", which I love. Very atmospheric.
Very 60's spy thriller. Winding Venice streets being chased by
men in black suits and sun glasses...

Nine puts in mind of Shaft. Brothers On The Slide. The Bass and
guitar are awsome on this track. Brooklyn streets doin' the deal.
Gimme skin lil' blood! Groovy soul funk had my toes tappin'.

Tenth track or is it still brothers on the slide? I'm not sure.
This MIu cd is wonderfully mixed for an overall vibe. The instrumental
break really does make me think of Richard Rowntree. Even my
little lad Nathan is dancing to the drums on this. Cracking stuff.

Track eleven starts with gunshots and a weird horn noise. This is
so Spaghetti western that it must be one. I'm sorry mixer my knowledge
isn't that good. It could quite easily be off a Cinematic Orchestra
album or maybe Dreadzone's first album. I love how you think it's
finished and the flute refrain comes back in. Ends with gunshots
and a quote. Again my limited knowledge fails me.

Twelve carries on the cinematic theme with another piece that has
a Western feel to it. I keep expecting John Wayne or Lee Van Cleef
to walk in and ask me to go for my guns. Really really relaxing
appart from my trigger finger itching away.

Thirteen, has the track changed I'm unsure. Ooh it's gone all Arabian
now. No I think it's still part of twelve or is it? Stumped.

Fourteen is a stone cold classic "Goodness Gracious Me" by Peter
Sellers and Sophia Lauren. So we go with the film theme as I know
this was used to promote the film "The Millionairess"
Hell they couldn't get away with this now! shame because it's truly
great. Lyric genius and a comedy accent, wonderful.

Fifteen follows the Indian theme with what sounds like a sitar being
funked up really well. Yes I said funked up. A magic carpet ride for
the mind this is. I close my eyes and it takes me over an Arabian
desert. It puts me in mind of the anime film "Sita Sings The Blues"
(Thanks to Divvey for that one).

sixteen has to be Shaft surely! Ok I may be becoming Shaft obsessed
now. It's 70's bad cop thriller time boogey down man. Little Nathan
is shakin' his thang again (my son not a pet word for penis in case you
were wondering.)

seventeen is a sample of what sounds like bad porn, errm no comment
as I have never seen bad porn or own any at all ever ok.


Eighteen is mixed with the bad porn sample. This is Shaft? Tell me
it's Shaft? Aww come on it must be. Nathan still dancing away.
I'm glad he caught none of the sample he's too young to tell a
woman to "sell her pussy in iceland".

Nineteen is another of my favourites off this mix "Funnel of Love".
Hey The Fall have covered this haven't they? I know The Meat
Puppets have. Aww I have no idea who did this originally but I
love it. Nathan's on a potty break but tapping his feet.

Twenty is another decent Reggae dub track puts me in mind of a dub
night I went to about 15 years a go the atmosphere was so green
you could cut it with a knife took me two days to come back to full
reality, ahh good times. Lee Scratch Perry or Dub Syndicate maybe?

Twenty One carries on the dub wave. The organ on this is immense!
Another on my list to find out who it is. I'm back in short pants
again as a kid playing on the beach at Horse shoe bay. They have
pure pink sand there you know? It sells well to the tourists.

Twenty Two is more reggae but in a more traditional sense. Nathy's
back up and dancing again. Amazing how such depressing lyrics when
put to a decent beat can still be uplifting. "I'm slaving every day
so hard...can't get no money". Yeah you and me both, try and be a
security guard mate.

Twenty Three sounds like new age snoozlum room music. It killed
little Nathan's groove when it started. Aww he's looking at me
like what the fuck is this dad? It's gone all Japanese now.
Is it the music to a bounty commercial? It sure sounds like it.
Cinematic anthemic again. It's actually not that bad if you
close your eyes, music to fall asleep by. However reviews don't write
themselves so I mustn't nod off to this piece.

Twenty Four is more of the same. I'm getting very sleepy now.
Reminds me of those "come down" compilations you can buy.
Relax with Kenny G. Not my cup of tea but wonderfully relaxing.

Twenty Five is the classic "Je T'aime" by Jane Birkin and Serge
Gainsbourg. I first heard this when the "Allo Allo" cast covered
it in the 80's it still remains a comdey record in my eyes it always
cracks me up and is doing so at this moment.
So anyway bad porn...

Twenty Six brings back the cinematic feel with a psychedelic piece.
Cranked up guitar solo over the top of a lush orchestra. Is it from
another spy thriller? James Bond perhaps? The arrangement sounds
great on my speakers. It gets my vote anyhow.

Twenty Seven is "Underneath The Mango Tree" a total classic and
confirming my belief that this mix is all film related.This is made
famous by the scene in Doctor No when Ursula Andress/Undress
walks out of the ocean to an appreciative James Bond, and movie
history is made. A marvelous end to a great mix of music.

So on the whole I really enjoyed this mix. A lot of thought has
gone into it, some of which may be lost on me with my previously
mentioned limited knowledge. So all I can do is say thank you mixer.

*Whew" Don't you guys have a life? Or have you been up all night listening through your mixes? The deadline was November 20, not October... I received my mixes (including dadmix) today but haven't had time to listen to them even once yet. :unsure:

I couldn't help but playing a few seconds off each track, though, to get an overall feeling - and the secret mixer's mix feels promising, but I doubt that he/she can find a lot to enjoy in my mix. Hopefully, he/she will play it through at least a couple of times, and give it some afterthought, before reviewing... I know I will.

Got mine today, thanks for your efforts, Mopi.

My mix is solid - I'll have to wait to see whether it turns out to be special or not. Listening to Pappymix right now - my word, there are rather more top 10 acts on this than your common or garden MIU, but I'm rather enjoying it B) .

Got mine today - nice stamps

Quick flick through and it seems a good variety of genres - how I like it!

19 tracks, 79:34 mins, track 3 is a version of "Light My Fire", if that gives comfort to the compiler that your disc has been received. Will take my time to listen well before reviewing.

Damn - wish I'd asked for the Dad mix - missed that! :angry:

thats my mix :

at ;last some appreciation for $hit & $hine-the first track from girls against shit-have you really thought about your appearance...more later..marshall can do his own goddam mix


fucking misplaced the tracklist, so tracks 2 im not sure about (on edit: Yellow Swans or L'achephale are 2 & 4)

i'll hunt it down, but for now to satisfy your justin broadrick manlove-he and aaron turner are tr 7-grey machine 'wasted'.


oh, and who you thought were neurosis-new zealand's dial-the track is permanent opium war-the singer is a woman

later

AHS herewith the reveal:

1. Shit & Shine
Shit&Shine

2. Yellow Swans Mort Aux Vaches tr 1
Yellow SWans

3.Nicholas Szczepanik-Chiasmus track 1 Another End of New
SRA


4. 4.L'acephale off Malfeasance. 'A Burned Village'Aurora-B
check out Aurora's free mixtape
THe intermission tracks
5. Aardvaark, Cult Copy off the Cult Copy extended EP. I read about Cult Copy in the wire-it was described as evocative of walking the canals of Amsterdam at night-

6. Ricardo Villalobos Fabric Live Percussion and Drums


7. Grey Machine (Broadrick and Turner-Isis-collab) Wasted, Brutal stuff throughout but with a dubstep approach to the bass, no really, maybe...


8. Dial, permanent opium war


Dial

9. Moss, Skeletal Keys

Moss


10. Sunn0))) Alice, you said it all, perfectly (?) evokes Alic Coltrane


Nice one Mr Mopi and AHS-check out S&S defo, on youtube, live or just get there stuffs-it will make you grin like an insane person

S&S are one of the best acts I've ever seen live: 4 drummers, 2 keyboards, some distorted shouting, one continuous 40 minsute piece. Glorious.

Sounds like a classic Cha mix, that, good stuff.

Cheers, Cha-great stuff.

I think you've got tracks 2 & 4 the wrong way round, haven't you?

Mind you, as I managed to confuse this lady:



with this fella:



then I'm in no position to comment!

ha ha-yeah i'll have to check it out again-there are arrows and crossing out on the list...

Thanks very much to my compiler for the time and trouble taken to do this mix. I enjoyed a couple of the tracks and I appreciated the effort you went to to create thematic connections. That said, I can’t with hand on heart say that I liked the mix overall. It is not the sort of music I would ever listen to, so I’m really, really sorry if any of my comments seem rude. You do, of course, have carte blanche to be as rude back when writing about my mix, which you must be hating right now.

Here goes.

1. First off the blocks is an nice bit of backpacker rap, which is just beginning to run out of steam around the four-minute mark when it takes a sharp left turn and becomes something entirely different – a lot heavier and more menacing. Indie hip hop is the only kind I can bear, so I’d definitely be interested in knowing who this is and I have to say, I was really encouraged by its inclusion, thinking that at least I wasn’t going to get a whole disc of alt-rock stuff. How wrong I was.

2. Guitary thing which is really lifted by its vocal, which I recognise. Is it Belly, or The Breeders, or the Pixies, or something like that? I think she’s singing ‘electrify, evil!’ I really like this one. At this point I’m still fairly encouraged. Thanks, compiler.

3. Neon stripper signs are reflected in puddles in the gutter, and a sleazy, saxxy groove is somewhat spoilt by the singer’s insistence on Ian Astbury-style lyrics about ‘whiskey’ and ‘super sex’. Meh.

4. Country music but, like, by Beck or someone like that, who’s not at all serious about the whole affair. I guess it’s a bit of fun, and at least it’s short, but I honestly don’t see the point of music like this. However, what I am thinking is: ‘My compiler and I have very different tastes in music. I hope he doesn’t have my mix.’ Then I remember that he does. Oh no!

5. Oh, Christ, save me, it’s Bjork, and a particularly annoying bit of Bjork at that.

6. In her wake comes an American indie-something that sounds like The Dears or The Stills or The Shins, who are talking about ‘doing it in the movies’. You just know that in their heads, the movie stars Natalie Portman. I’ve nothing against this song, per se, it’s just a bit nothingy and does nothing to arrest the downward trajectory of the mix.

7. Continuing the theme, a pleasant piano underpins this otherwise utterly nondescript indie-ish thing. I often wonder who it is that keeps these sort of bands in business, and now I know that it’s my compiler.

8. This was one I didn’t mind too much, given the company it keeps. It’s stadium-sized alternative rock for people who wish REM had a bit more edge, and the lead singer is declaiming through a megaphone, which is the most interesting thing about it. My head nodded to this one.

9. Oh my God, a terrible college-rock-meets-hardcore track that suddenly comes over all Big Audio Dynamite in the middle. Is it ‘metalcore’? I don’t know, but I can’t believe that anybody would want to listen to this record more than once. I mean, all I could think, the whole time it was playing, was, 'I just want this person to stop shouting at me.' If he was really serious about his shouting he’d join a death metal band or be in a hardcore band. Instead this sounds like someone has just taken the core elements of that music and put them through a turd-making machine.

10. Live or lo-fi stoner groove with great chanting vocals about building cities of stone. I like this much more and would want to know who it is.

11. Yay! One I like. Again, this might be from the Breeders / Belly school, or it could be an American take on indie-pop. It might be called Dumb. I’d like to know who this is by.

12. I’m not keen on records with whistles in them. This one sounds a bit like a Face reader's favourite band in 1986.

13. Beck. I’m fairly sure this is Beck. I can’t stand Beck.

14. This one isn’t too bad, I suppose. It has a quirky-sounding American bloke doing a talky bit while some women sing. At least it’s not Beck.

15. It is at this point that I begin to wonder if I’m the victim of a wind-up, because for the life of me I cannot imagine somebody who likes The Fall also liking this terrible, terrible record. You know that group The Rembrandts, who sing the theme tune to Friends? This might be off their B-sides collection and sounds like something you’d expect the band to play in the prom scene of a high school-based rom-com.

16. Utterly mundane indie-rock album filler.

17. Is this Vampire Weekend? Whatever, it’s New York-sounding indie rubbish about someone pleading for us not to take his radio away. The sentiment is contrived, unoriginal and precious – as is the music it accompanies. Pitiful.

18. Jim Morrison – or somebody who wants to be Jim Morrison – talking about walking on the beach in the dark, looking at the moon and knowing the thrill of loneliness. He goes to the marketplace and enjoys the food and the music and the people, and in the evening heaven and earth is his great, open cathedral. It is a two minute and 55 second waste of everybody’s time.

19. Some old geezers in a shack, singing about the dark moon, sounding like Elvis. This creates a thematic connection with the song above and at least it’s not American indie-rock, but I still want it to fuck off. It sounds like the kind of thing Locomac writes about in the ‘CDs I have bought’ thread.

20. This is one of those vile summer holiday songs that seems to have been around forever but I couldn’t for the life of me say who it is by. Is it Roy Orbison? Never been much for Roy. The lyric goes ‘I just want to dance the night away. With senior eaters who can sway.’ And I’m definitely going to play it the next time I’m hosting the Fun Quiz out by the Olympic-sized pool, when the tots’ disco is over.

21. More music from the inside of Locomac’s head to end on.

That’s it. I’ve given MIU a fair crack of the whip over the years, but I’m afraid to say my experience of it has been mostly bad, both as reviewer and compiler, and I hereby hang up my MIU boots for good. Thanks to Mopi, apologies again to my compiler, but I guess you can get your revenge on your review of my mix!

Audrey, that mix is mine. Appy polly loggies if it wasn't your cup of tea, but thank you for the thoughtful review. I haven't received yours yet... :unsure: Reveal tonight when I get back from work, gotta go now.

I am neither vengeful nor grudgeful, and I will treat your mix with respect. I'm just sad that my mix didn't go to someone who might have discovered new faves amongst the tracks. :ohdear: Hang in there, Audrey...

Oh no, it's you! I've slagged off the nicest person on the board! And you were even nice enough to put me in your FOF song. I am not worthy.

I'm so sorry Flickering Lexicon. I did really like the Dumb one. Can you tell me who that was, please?