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FMD 09/14/2018: Halloween Mix Nominations

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Hello, gals and ghouls.  We had the Holiday Mix last year, so this year why don't we do a Halloween Mix*?  The rules for submitting should be pretty similar to the Holiday Mix.

Here are the guidelines:

    • Place up to TWO songs in a 'Spoiler' box. Unlike the Summer Mix, the first choice does not automatically get in.
    • As with other mixes though, popularity reigns, so multiple nominations with increase the likelihood of selection.
    • Obviously there are plenty of different versions of the same song out there. If you want a particular performance, please note which artist you'd prefer (links wouldn't hurt just in case). If no artist is nominated, it will add weight if someone else did pick a specific performance of the same song.

So, drop your lists, nominations, and any music news below!

*We kind of did this in the past, but it was even more half baked than usual.  As promised, let's give it one more go.

19 thoughts on “FMD 09/14/2018: Halloween Mix Nominations”

  1. 01. "Guns & Cigarettes" – Atmosphere – Lucy Ford
    02. "Poke" – Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
    03. "For Hallis" – The Tiny – Close Enough
    04. "Cowboys" – Portishead – Roseland NYC
    05. "Blackout City" – Anamanaguchi – Dawn Metropolis
    06. "Sleep Sound" – Jamie xx – In Colour
    07. "With Arms Outstretched" – Rilo Kiley – The Execution Of All Things
    08 "Misery Without Company" – Sarah Shook & The Disarmers – Sidelong
    09. "Smile" – Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
    10. "I Had A Dream, Joe" – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Henry's Dream

  2. 1. DJ Shadow “The Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix)” Midnight in a Perfect World
    2. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy “The Way I Am”* Ask Forgiveness
    3. Eels “Beautiful Freak” Beautiful Freak
    4. Sylvan Esso “Dress” Sylvan Esso
    5. Einstürzende Neubauten “Stella Maris”* Ende Neu

    6. Neneh Cherry “Everything (Sulee B Mix)” Man Remixes
    7. Tommy Roe “Sweet Pea”* Best of
    8. Passion Pit “Sleepyhead” Sleepyhead
    9. Eric Copeland “Doo Doo Run” Doo Doo Run
    T. Beyoncé “Get Me Bodied” B'Day

    *Notes:
    2. Merle Haggard cover (but the song was written by Sonny Throckmorton)
    5. We were close to using this as the first and middle names for the girl that we did name LBR. That would have made two EN songs for our daughters' names ("Alles" sounding like AJR's name)
    7. Love the breakdown in the middle of this song. The "Sweet Pea" break should be up there with "Amen" and "Funky Drummer".

  4. 1. The Air That I Breathe--The Hollies
    2. An Old Fashioned Love Song--Three Dog Night
    3. Snowbird--Anne Murray
    4. Shambala--Three Dog Night
    5. Once In a Very Blue Moon--Nanci Griffith
    6. When You Say Nothing At All--Allison Krauss
    7. Oh, Darling--Supertramp
    8. Come Monday--Jimmy Buffett
    9. What a Wonderful World--Louis Armstrong
    10. I Got a Name--Jim Croce

  7. Can you link to the nominations the first time this was attempted?
    Because these are probably repeats:

    'Spoiler' SelectShow

    2. To be honest, I'm not really counting that first mix. The only thing that came from it was a streaming playlist. This will be a proper mix like the recent ones. Please feel free to re-nominate anything from before.

    3. I deleted one (the instrumental I used last time), mostly because I thought of a better one, that I think others might like more.
      It's more topical, less sonically Halloweeny.

    1. I started teaching myself to play your first one on the piano. It's quite easy. I'm still horrible at it. But I've never played piano, so that counts for something, right?

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