Mixtape Confessions

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Solar Fields // Sol (2009)

Album | Movements

Writer | Magnus Birgersson

About | The album Movements was ranked in the top 10 of best albums by Echoes listeners. The album was also used as the soundtrack for the indie game Capsized from the small Canadian studio Alientrap in 2011. It remains his most popular album to date.. [source]

Genres | electronic, ambient, downtempo, psytrance, trance, IDM, psybient, progressive trance

♡ Mood atmospheric, spacey, calm, cosmic, peaceful, dreamy, euphoric, hedonistic, hypnotic, introspective, mystical, night, shimmering, solitude, starry sky, summer, trippy

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Led Zeppelin // When the Levee Breaks (1971)

Album | Led Zeppelin IV

Writers | Memphis Minnie, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Robert Plant

About | The original, recorded in 1929 by husband-and-wife duo Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, was inspired by the plight of those caught in the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. African-American plantation workers were forced to work on the levee at gunpoint, piling sandbags to save the neighbouring towns.

Heavily produced in the studio, this was difficult to perform live, which Led Zeppelin did only twice: once in a "warm up" gig in Denmark before their 1975 US tour, and again on their second night in Chicago. [source]

Genres | rock, album rock, british metal, hard rock, heavy metal

♡ Mood bravado, confident, epic, intense, rousing, swaggering, thrilling, wild, wailing

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Kasabian // Processed Beats (2004)

Album | Kasabian

Writers | Christopher Karloff, Sergio Pizzorno

About | As well as being the band's first ever radio play on Xfm, the demo version of Processed Beats was Kasabian's first physical release, on limited CD and 10" vinyl. The eventual album and widespread single versions are slightly different from the demo. The band first met Ian while recording the song at Bink Bonk Studios, Bristol in 2001, making Processed Beats the first song he played on.[source]

Genres | alternative rock, indie rock, britpop, madchester, neo-psychedelia

♡ Mood confident, boisterous, lively, energetic, jaunty, rollicking

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Jane's Addiction // Just Because (2003)

Album | Strays

Writers | Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins, Bob Ezrin, Chris Chaney

About | "Just Because" was the first single from their third album, Strays in 2003. The song was one of the most successful in the band's history. It hit number 14 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the band's highest charting British single. [source]

Genres | hard rock, alternative metal, alternative rock, indie rock

♡ Mood brash, dramatic, confident, energetic, raucous, rebellious

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Robin Trower // Too Rolling Stoned (1974)

Album | Bridge of Sighs

Writers | Robin Trower

About | Bridge of Sighs was Rob Trowers second album after leaving Procol Harum, and was a commercial breakthrough for Trower. Songs such as "Bridge of Sighs", "Too Rolling Stoned", "Day of the Eagle" and "Little Bit of Sympathy" became live concert staples.. [source]

Genres | blues rock, hard rock

♡ Mood intense, late night, lively, moody, swaggering, rollicking, stoned

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Bob Dylan // Hurricane (1975)

Album | Desire

Writers | Bob Dylan, Jacques Levy

About | This song is about Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer who spent 19 years in jail for a murder Dylan felt he did not commit. Dylan visited Carter in prison on December 7, 1975, and the next day raised over $100,000 for Carter's defence at a Madison Square Garden concert with his Rolling Thunder Revue, which featured Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Roberta Flack. [source]

Genres | folk, album rock, contemporary rock, folk-rock, political folk

♡ Mood defiant, elaborate, haunting, hippie, intimate, liberating, literate, lively, lyrical, protest, provocative, revolution, searching

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Elmore James // Dust My Broom (1951) Writer | Robert Johnson About | "Dust My Broom" is a blues song originally recorded as "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" by American blues artist Robert Johnson in 1936. In 1951, Elmore James recorded the song as "Dust My Broom" and "made it the classic as we know it", according to blues historian Gerard Herzhaft. [source] Genres | blues, electric blues, electric chicago blues, regional blues, slide guitar blues, ♡ Mood gritty, boisterous, earthy, exuberant, intense, intimate, passionate, raw, rollicking

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AURORA // The Seed (2019) Album | A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) Writers | AURORA, Nicolas Rebscher, Michelle Leonard About | The song suggests a world where we have been too greedy with our resources, killing our earth for money and that once every resource is gone, trees are fallen and rivers are poisoned, we cannot eat the thing that killed it in the first place. We must protect our environment. [source] Genres | alternative dance, dance-pop, indie pop, ♡ Mood empowering, fantastical, longing, lush, magical, melodic, nature, organic, passionate, powerful, pulsing, shimmering, uninhibited

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Scott McKenzie // San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (1967) Album | The Voice of Scott McKenzie Writers | John Phillips About | John Phillips from The Mamas And The Papas wrote this as the unofficial anthem for the Monterey Pop Festival, which is near San Francisco. Phillips helped organize the festival. [source] Genres | contemporary rock, folk-rock, sunshine pop, ♡ Mood amiable, bright, calm, carefree, daydream, gentle, happy, hippie, innocent, light, playful, summer, uplifting, whimsical

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Richie Havens // Strawberry Fields Forever (1969) Album | Paris Live 1969 Writer | John Lennon, Paul McCartney About | Havens opened the Woodstock festival on Friday evening, and ended up going long — some three hours — when the other performers were caught in traffic. The producers kept asking him to extend his set, so Havens eventually ran out of songs, and ended up improvising “Freedom” on the spot.

“Strawberry Fields” had been in the world for less than three years at that point — the Beatles released it as a single in February 1967. Havens did the song justice with his mostly solo acoustic guitar performance. [source] Genres | folk, folk rock ♡ Mood amiable, comforting, earthy, hippie, intimate, liberating, organic, peaceful, relaxing, summer, uplifting, warm

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Pink Floyd // Comfortably Numb (1980) Album | The Wall Writer | David Gilmour, Roger Waters About | Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality. [source] Genres | art rock, hard rock, prog-rock, album rock ♡ Mood absorbing, brooding, cathartic, dramatic, elaborate, epic, intense, longing, poignant, rousing

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Stereophonics // Devil (2005) Album | Language. Sex. Violent. Other? Writers | Kelly Jones About | On the Live from Dakota album, prior to playing Devil, Kelly Jones states the song is "inspired by the movies of Charles Bukowski" [source] Genres | alternative rock, indie rock, british trad rock ♡ Mood bold, brash, cathartic, confident, energetic, fiery, rollicking, rousing, sarcastic, uncompromising,

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Procol Harum // Repent Walpurgis (1967) Album | Procol Harum Writer | Matthew Fisher About | The closing song on the brilliant debut album, Procol Harum, "Repent Walpurgis" was written by organist Matthew Fisher as a vehicle not only for his own fine playing, but for the band as a unit. A somewhat Bach-inspired keyboard figure from Fisher's Hammond defines the melody and is carried along by the stately rhythm of B.J. Wilson's drumming. Underneath this, Gary Brooker adds some darker undertones on the piano. But the real star here is guitarist Robin Trower, who comes out of nowhere with a frightening, Jimi Hendrix-inspired solo that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. A perfect ending to a fabulous, near perfect album. [source] Genres | prog-rock, art rock, british psychedelia, garage rock, psychedelic rock ♡ Mood dramatic, introspective, longing, poignant, rousing, spacey

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New Order // Blue Monday (1983) Album | Power, Corruption & Lies Writers | Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner About | The title is not mentioned in the lyrics, which is true of many New Order songs. The band took the song's name from an illustration in the Kurt Vonnegut book Breakfast Of Champions, which Stephen Morris was reading. One of its illustrations read: "Goodbye Blue Monday," referring to the invention of the washing machine improving housewives' lives. [source] Genres | electronic, alternative dance, post-punk, college rock, new wave, synth-pop ♡ Mood clinical, cold, cynical, detached, melancholy, ominous

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Funkadelic // Maggot Brain (1971) Album | Funkadelic (1971) Writers | George Clinton, Eddie Hazel About | Funkadelic leader George Clinton explains Maggot Brain as a state of mind, transcending the body and enjoying the expansive freedoms of The Funk. Achieving Maggot Brain is often accomplished with the help of narcotics. This song was recorded in one take. Clinton surrounded Funkadelic guitarist Eddie Hazel with a massive amount of amps. He told Eddie to first play like he just heard that his mother had died, then to play like his mom was actually still alive. The result was one of the best-known funk guitar solos of all time. [source] Genres | psychedelic soul, funk, soul, psychedelic rock ♡ Mood absorbing, dreamy, earthy, hippie, hypnotic, intense, introspective, liberating, longing, mournful, mellow, psychedelic, rousing, sensual, soothing, summer, trippy, visceral, wistful

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The Doors // Five to One (1968) Album | Waiting For The Sun Writer | The Doors About | "Five to one" was the approximate ratio of whites to blacks, young to old, and non-pot smokers to pot smokers in the US in 1967. It was also the amount of Vietnamese to American soldiers in Vietnam, although Jim Morrison said the lyrics were not political. [source] Genres | hard rock, proto-punk, album rock, garage rock ♡ Mood attitude, bold, brash, bravado, dramatic, fiery, provocative, rambunctious, rebellious, rousing, sexual, swaggering

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Röyksopp // So Easy (1999) Album | Melody A.M. Writer | Svein Berge, Torbjørn Brundtland About | Royksopp borrowed for this various instrumental and vocal samples from a Bacharach and David song "Blue on Blue" sang by a Swedish group Gals & Pals. [source] Genres | electronic, downbeat, trip-hop, ambient breakdown

♡ Mood absorbing, eerie, existential, introspective, late night, melancholy, nocturnal, soothing, spacey, trippy