butcherboy: REC ROULETTE ROUND 10 -- Butcher Blockbuster..

butcherboy 10.10.17	hello..
Papa Universe 10.10.17	Shit, I'll give you soundtrack for an actual film that never got made.
Frippertronics 10.10.17	must not rec Async...must not rec Async... will think of something (will obviously have D. Sylvian since his music can be pretty cinematic)
butcherboy 10.10.17	i was hoping you would, Fripp.. I'm excited for this round.. should be some good stuff coming in..
bgillesp 10.10.17	How many different artists should we try to include?
butcherboy 10.10.17	some repeated artists are allowed.. let's say at least six different artists from the 10..
Papa Universe 10.10.17	Wait, we're still talking only about tracks you have not heard, right?
butcherboy 10.10.17	yep..
bgillesp 10.10.17	Ooh, yeah can you have heard some before?
bgillesp 10.10.17	Darn. Can it be to a book that doesn't have a movie?
butcherboy 10.10.17	yep, it can be an artist I've heard before, as long as I don't know the song from him/her/them.. otherwise, this would be near impossible.
bgillesp 10.10.17	I'm thinking Ellison- Invisible man as the story for my "movie"
butcherboy 10.10.17	books are also allowed.. as long as you give me some context for mood etc. gill, that works, since I know the book already, so you don't even have to contextualize..
bgillesp 10.10.17	Cool. I'll just give songs and tell you where to match the context
bgillesp 10.12.17	I'm gonna be on a bus for around 10 hours over the next few days so I'll build this during that time. Haven't had the time to think about it yet
butcherboy 10.12.17	no hurry..
Papa Universe 10.12.17	I'll send something your way tomorrow, but seems like Sput's slowing down...
bgillesp 10.13.17	I should have mine done tonight or tomorrow morning. Missing three songs. I'm betting you'll know a few but I'm hoping I'll only need to replace a couple
bgillesp 10.13.17	Also I hope you don't mind a longer soundtrack. I have a 20 minute jazz jam in there that works too perfectly to not include.
Frippertronics 10.13.17	I have a set in mind but context is gonna be a bitch to piece together
bgillesp 10.13.17	1.Louie Armstrong- What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue (intro to the "invisible man" character in a manhole with 1369 lights listening to jazz) 2. Christian Scott- Lawless (a strong politically tinted modern jazz piece, the character learns the extent of racism, reflects incidents with the battle royal, getting kicked from school, paint shop incident, depression following) 3. Ornette Coleman- Lonely Woman (intense and passionate jazz solo for a shorter song, reflects first impromptu speech at eviction incident) 4. Herbie Hancock- I Have a Dream (song with a hopeful attitude, when he joins the Brotherhood he thinks he can work together with whites) 5. Sonny Rollins- Oleo [Our Man in Jazz version] (Fiery jazz piece, reflects intense passion of the narrator and his speech abilities, he gives more speeches for the Brotherhood and gains recognition) 6. Billie Holiday- Strange Fruit (a powerful song about the destruction of racism, reflects the shooting of Brother Clifton) 7. Syl Johnson- Black Balloons (a funkier tune that still has some political bite, the funk mimics the character's feelings as he is mistaken for the reverend pimp, Rinehart, while the political aspects reflect the black nationalist attitude of Ras who sparked the need for the narrators disguise) 8. Christian Scott- Encryption (another jazz hop tune that starts out contemplative as the narrator considers the concept of "Invisibilty" that ends in a state of confused frustration as Brother Hambro alerts the narrator to the betrayal of the community by the Brotherhood) 9. The Watts Prophets- Dem Niggers Ain't Playing (a beat style poem recorded about the 1965 Watts Riots, reflects the race riots Ras led unknowingly in the hands of the Brotherhood while the perspective is closer to the narrator's) 10. Nina Simone- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (deeply emotional piece, when our hero is back in the manhole deciding on what to do, ready to come out of "hibernation")
bgillesp 10.13.17	I'm guessing you know about half of these but this is dang perfect and I don't want to change it
bgillesp 10.13.17	Please don't make me change it, it sounds too good together as it is. I'm listening to it via a Spotify playlist I made for it now and I'm probably gonna have this on repeat for days.
bgillesp 10.13.17	Okay, I do need to make changes. I'd like to make would probably be to use the shorter version of Oleo and to request a 10-20 second pause after strange fruit. I also need to change the closing track since I didn't pay very good attention to the full thing apparently when I included it
bgillesp 10.13.17	Invisible Man Soundtrack: 1.Louie Armstrong- What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue (intro to the "invisible man" character in a manhole with 1369 lights listening to jazz) 2. Christian Scott- Lawless (a strong politically tinted modern jazz piece, the character learns the extent of racism, reflects incidents with the battle royal, getting kicked from school, paint shop incident, depression following) 3. Ornette Coleman- Lonely Woman (intense and passionate jazz solo for a shorter song, reflects first impromptu speech at eviction incident) 4. Herbie Hancock- I Have a Dream (song with a hopeful attitude, when he joins the Brotherhood he thinks he can work together with whites) 5. Sonny Rollins- Oleo [Oleo version] (Fiery jazz piece, reflects intense passion of the narrator and his speech abilities, he gives more speeches for the Brotherhood and gains recognition) 6. Syl Johnson- Is It Because I'm Black? (the title speaks for itself, reflects the shooting of Brother Clifton) 7. Syl Johnson- Black Balloons (a funkier tune that still has some political bite, the funk mimics the character's feelings as he is mistaken for the reverend pimp, Rinehart, while the political aspects reflect the black nationalist attitude of Ras who sparked the need for the narrators disguise) 8. Christian Scott- Encryption (another jazz hop tune that starts out contemplative as the narrator considers the concept of "Invisibilty" that ends in a state of confused frustration as Brother Hambro alerts the narrator to the betrayal of the community by the Brotherhood) 9. The Watts Prophets- Dem Niggers Ain't Playing (a beat style poem recorded about the 1965 Watts Riots, reflects the race riots Ras led unknowingly in the hands of the Brotherhood while the perspective is closer to the narrator's) 10. Billie Holiday- Strange Fruit (a powerful song about the destruction of racism, our hero has lost all illusions of trust, now back in the manhole deciding on what to do, but ready to come out of "hibernation") This works better. Nothing else is powerful enough to close the soundtrack
bgillesp 10.13.17	The longer version of oleo (25 vs 4 minutes) is better in terms of the attitude but just too long to work. I may want to change that one altogether eventually but I'll see what you've heard first
Papa Universe 10.14.17	Here we go: I know you've heard like half of these songs, but please let me get it all out first, then I'll look for the replacements.
Papa Universe 10.14.17	This is an actual film I started working on in the 90s with my wife and my best friend. We shot a scene and then the studio/production company went bankrupt. The scene is now either in some archive or lost forever and so is the original script, cause poor aussies didn't use computers to store their stuff on, so it was all hard copy, which got destroyed over time. Eh. Title: Here Comes Half of the songs were supposed to be original songs recorded by a friend of mine's band called Everyone's Dead. But since their existence was only driven by the prospect of making a punk film score, they disbanded soon after the announcement that the film's production is no longer in motion. The movie was about two friends and bandmates who go on an "adventure" of running errands. Anything they have, from picking up mail to delivering some suspicious thingie to a suspicious receiver. Throughout the film you were supposed to see a little into their lives and with each encounter or errand the atmosphere and the things happening around were supposed to get stranger and crazier. Almost none of the events occured had any real explanation or introduction, except for something like "Theo walks into the bank" and then the scene started. The general idea was to try out as many different styles and genres as possible with each scene and location being completely different, but mostly reaching from skincrawlingly heartbreaking to outrageously absurd and hilarious. It also was heavily inspired by the Punk scene and an idea I had about the real lives of Punk musicians. I knew a couple of people who were almost professional musicians and their stage personas could challenge G.G. Allin himself, but when I met them in real life, most of them were busy, nice and harmless people. That kind of put in perspective what the music really stands for. Therefore the music in the film was supposed to be more-or-less out of place. Just like the real lives of those Punks, here you had a monotone event set to a raging musical beast. Yeah, it was a vague concept then, it's a vague concept now. Don't worry, I won't write out full film, only certain scenes.
Papa Universe 10.14.17	Film's intro. Cold Chisel - One Long Day We see the not so representative parts of Perth, Australia. Camera looking upwards at the sky, moving, glides downward and views a suburban street underneath, then slides lower and swiftly makes its way towards one of the 5+ storey apartment buildings. A young man in shitty old clothes walks out. THEO, 20+. Someone yells out his name at him from one of the upper storeys. Camera quickly raises its spectacle towards the window the voice is coming from. We see a man about as young as Theo. Music stops. (...) In this scene, Theo forgot his car keys, so his roommate throws them at him from the window, in spite of Theo's demand not to. He doesn't catch them and they fall on the road and get ran over by another car, which also, intertially, throws them into a sewer. This is a set up for him later needing Opal's (the other main character) help. It also sets up one of the future scenes in a car dealership, where he tries to get new car keys, but only runs into more problems.
Papa Universe 10.14.17	Right before this scene, there is a moment of Theo trying to negotiate with someone not yet known by the name of CUTLER (later revealed to be a guy owing him money that Theo himself owes to someone else) over the payphone. He is not too far away from his home and towards the end of that phone call we see a crimson car nearing towards him from behind. Tha camera moves to the side, so that both Theo and the car are in the shot. As Theo hangs up, the car stops. It's one of his bandmembers, OPAL, the twenty-something aimless vagabond girl and the bass player of Bloody Hell. A radio plays in her car, she tunes it down. The song on there is: The Saints - This Perfect Day (this was a really popular song, but the aussie laws back then allowed for a song this popular to appear in a film without license as long as it is a thing of a background. Like, say, if it played on the radio. We just really wanted to have a big name on the score.) Long story short, she has a fucked up home situation, living with her father (apparently, though we never really see that). She initially refuses to help Theo out, but then something prompts her to do it. It is later hinted at that she didn't want to stay home, where she'd have to face her family and be confronted about a court ruling she received in the mail earlier that day. She hates dealing with problems and serious adult crap, but given the circumstances she will have to face her family, especially that cunt of a father she has. That scenario seems like a nightmare to her, so she 'd rather go help Theo run errands, an inherently boring idea.
Papa Universe 10.14.17	In this scene, circumstances force Opal to go back home, where trouble awaits. We don't see what transpires there, as we follow Theo walking over to the telephone booth to deal with some business, which would be resolved in a later scene (irrelevant to this competition). The radio in the car is playing. It's: Tactics - Long Story While he's in the telephone booth, he observes things around him and some of them end up being reflected upon in later scenes (irrelevant for now). The car behind him is also almost stolen. As he runs up to the car, the robber only takes out the radio and runs away. Theo is in dismay. He knows he's going to be in trouble in front of Opal. But upon her return, she is red-eyed and doesn't even care about the stolen radio. Somewhat confused and concerned, Theo asks her what has happened, to which she replies "Doesn't matter, let's just go." We never find out what has actually transpired in Opal's home. Inbetween this and their next destination, Theo attempts to soften the atmosphere and starts a conversation on a rather silly topic about something he saw, while standing in the phonebooth. As the conversation is nearing its end and we get that brief inter-scene moment, this is what plays: Radioactivity - Way Out (one of the replaced songs)
Papa Universe 10.14.17	Shenanigans at a bank, where already frustrated out of his mind Theo tries to negotiate with the clerk about money he can take out, even though his account is basically dead. It's a back'n'forth kind of conversation that ends with equally as irritated clerk annoyed by Theo's sarcastic and increasingly more aggressive remarks almost calling the security, which prompts Theo to leave, while music is playing in the background. Royal Headache - Psychotic Episode (one of the replaced songs)
Papa Universe 10.14.17	Theo's confronted by someone he owes money to, then he confronts Cutler, a guy who owes money to him, only to then return the money to the guy he himself owes the money to. Doesn't matter for now how he got into this situation. The music on the background is constantly changing, depending on what situation he is in, be it he is intimidated or acts intimidating. I can't recall the other song, but when he's the one taking money, the song is: The Diagram Brothers - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today By Being a Right Git There's a conversation between him and the moneylender. It goes on for quite a while and ends on the moneylender saying the phrase "Life's a gamble." Penetration - Life's a Gamble starts playing.
Papa Universe 10.14.17	Similar scene as in the bank, but in a car dealership. Also back'n'forth dialogue and ends almost similarly, except this time Theo just gives up on the conversation with the unbearable clerk and leaves. It leaves to nothing, except it will be reflected upon later on. As he leaves, this song plays: Lost Cherrees - Pleasant Valley Sunday (one of the replaced songs)
Papa Universe 10.14.17	A scene with Theo and Opal's band's drummer Gary. He works as a bartender in a brothel. They give him something they received a couple of scenes prior and he asks them to run one other errand for him. The song in the background is: Patti Smith - Free Money Credits: The Skids - The Saints Are Coming (one of the replaced songs)
bgillesp 10.14.17	That sounds cool Unique. Hmmm... looks like this round, while difficult, has managed to bring out the best in our creativity unlike your rounds which are difficult just for the sake of it.
butcherboy 10.14.17	both of these lists are labours of love.. so i'm suspending the 'songs i haven't heard' rule for myself for this round.. i want to hear this as you fuckers envision it.. both lists are accepted.. once Fripp submits his, i'll take a day and post results..
bgillesp 10.14.17	Yay!
Frippertronics 10.16.17	will post mine tomorrow context will most likely be bare bones but serviceable, although my aim with the set will to be emotionally draining
Frippertronics 10.18.17	Act One: A Couple in Disarray; The Wife takes the children and the checkbook; "Life's for the taking so they say -- take it away". Our narrator is in constant contemplation over how such a union could fall apart so easily; is he to blame or was there an underlying element to the doomed marriage that only led to its absolute end? 1. David Sylvian - Blemish ("I fall outside of her, she doesn't even notice"; devastated at the ruin of what was once a beautiful relationship has now grown cold. What happened?) 2. John Cage - In a Landscape (Our narrator wanders through the house, the kids are gone and most of their belongings gone with them. Finally, he arrives to the door which leads to his room, once shared but now for one. Throughout all of this, he hardly sheds the singular expression of dulled pain from his face.) 3. .O.rang - 'O' Rang (In his desperation to rid himself of this suffering, he drives somewhere far away. Who knows where, we don't know where he may lead us to. He travels across empty barren landscapes, full of coarse rocky cliffs and cracked grass-less grasslands before arriving to a house in the woods. Tension continually builds as he contemplates ending it all -- what else is there to live for if I have no one TO live for? The soundtrack builds...and builds...and builds...all is quiet.)
Frippertronics 10.18.17	Act Two (Our narrator is in, or is leading himself, to ruin. Realization only hastens the process and we are to witness the self-destruction of oneself. No one can help him but himself.) 4. David Sylvian - Wasn't I Joe? (Our narrator awakens; nothing has changed and yet everything has changed -- a lurid suicidal dream so real he could feel it. Everything is his fault and he let it happen, he concludes. This is the responsibility he must bear alone and it is the weight of the consequences that will ultimately destroy him.) 5. Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Iano ("If this is the cause of the problem, then I shall be the one to crush it; my destruction is close at hand"; our narrator makes a few calls and writes something down. What is it? A canister of gasoline in the background. Lighting a match and stumbling out the house, he looks on as what was his home, the symbol of his faded union, burn to ash. He gets in his car, lingers for a moment, and drives away for the last time.) 6. Arnold Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4 (Pesante; starts at 12:24) (Driving onward, our narrator knows what's happening. He foresaw this in the dream and it is now beginning to come true. Horrified, he keeps going. This is his fate, he believes.)
Frippertronics 10.18.17	Act Three (His destruction is imminent and there is no stopping him. Only he can save himself from ruin and from his fate.) 7. David Sylvian - Where's Your Gravity (This is playing on the radio. Our narrator grows distressed, almost like the song was created just to mock him. "Where is your mind?" He stops the car, he doesn't need it. He now treks his way to his destination.) 8. Charles Wuorinen - Bearbeitungen uber das Glogauer Liederbuch: VI. Gross Ssenen (Tertius) (Our narrator notes the alteration of his journey. No matter how he tries, his feet lead him along his path. But not to that lonely forest, he meets the edge of the cliffs, which meet the sea, which meet the vast blue ocean, and so on.) 9. Laurel Halo - Carcass ("Will my dream become the reality I now know?" The waves crash upon the jagged edges of the cliff and ascend with cold beads of salted drops of water. He looks down and shudders; looks up to the sky for a moment. Our view of him is now from a distance, and he is still standing there. Never once does he move nor falter. At once, our image cuts to black. Our narrator's fate is not to be known.) Roll credits. 10. Tim Buckley - Blue Melody (As overused as it may be now, his fate is in your hands. Does he follow through with what the dream showed him or does he decide to salvage what remains. The ultimate destruction or the redemption?) Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFfqT5nYnTM&list=PLZelno4KxEGaoWdBZLRL2q8lnGh55lcuY
Frippertronics 10.18.17	Sorry for the delay, and hopefully this is somewhat of a coherent plot-line considering this was all from the top of my head
Papa Universe 10.18.17	It sounds like either a quiet meditative film or a pushy tearjerker.
Frippertronics 10.18.17	Could be up to interpretation, but cheap tears ain't my aim
butcherboy 10.18.17	i'll have this done up tomorrow..
Papa Universe 10.18.17	forgot to mention, that Skids song is also a replacement
bgillesp 10.19.17	Cool, excited to hear what you think. This was easily the best round of this competition for me (in terms of how much fun it was). I listened to so much Nina Simone to try and get a song from her but couldn't quite fit it, and finding Syl Johnson through this was pretty cool too.
Frippertronics 10.20.17	L i e s
bgillesp 10.21.17	How do you get that little name under your username? Like the one that shows up on ratings pages
Frippertronics 10.21.17	go to "edit profile options" and the section "Real Name"
bgillesp 10.21.17	Hmm. Two years on the site and I never noticed that was there
butcherboy 10.22.17	writing this up now.. stay tuned..
Frippertronics 10.22.17	oh cool, see ya in two weeks!
butcherboy 10.22.17	gill's score is up. strong fucking showing!
Frippertronics 10.22.17	oh shit
butcherboy 10.22.17	Uni is up.. could this be a three-way tie!?!?!?!?!
bgillesp 10.22.17	Woo! Glad you dug it! I loved listening to it myself. I see what you mean on the Watts Prophets piece but I'll calmly disagree. Feel free to find something you like better there if you do use this while rereading Edit: I see what you mean more now. I never listened to the soundtrack as a film soundtrack instead imagining reading the book and having mental pictures only. For an actual film the track wouldn't work well, but for reading I think it would.
bgillesp 10.22.17	The suspense is intense. I don't know any of Frippertronics recs but the story seemed good. This was a fun round.
Frippertronics 10.22.17	well i'm fucked, the way this is going..quality showing
butcherboy 10.22.17	fuck yes! great round, guys!
Frippertronics 10.22.17	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
bgillesp 10.22.17	Cool! I'm totally satisfied with that
bgillesp 10.22.17	I might build these in Spotify and jam them myself y'all two
Frippertronics 10.22.17	i'll try and get my round up tonight, preparing for the folk series so that's taking up some time
bgillesp 10.22.17	Thats fine. I'll only make fun of you if you promise something and don't deliver, but you said you'd try so you're good
Frippertronics 10.22.17	i mean, if you guys got yours up, might as well deliver on my end so we can get the next round going tonight
Papa Universe 10.22.17	this is the kind of round that deletes my thriving for rivalry, i just want to see everyone get their due. and they did
butcherboy 10.22.17	yep.. this round was a smashing success..
Frippertronics 10.22.17	a tl;dr please check Blemish (added note: Wasn't I Joe? was a Blemish-era track that was never done in the studio as far as I know, so live performances are all we got, although I wouldn't mind having it be the centerpiece of Blemish if it were a double album)