Compose a playlist of songs that best represent the influences of your artist. This is an extra task that will be useful as an element that helps secure full marks for research and planning and as a piece of creativity you will refer to again in the exam. If you can, make a cover and when you've compiled your mix upload to Soundcloud .
This is an example from the band Parquet Courts, they've used it to describe their influences (same thing you're being asked to do):
SIDE A 1.Blitz- “New Age 2.Cheveu- “Herman Choune” 3.Thanksgiving- “Where You Live” 4.Ol’ Dirty Bastard- “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” 5.Napalm Death- “You Suffer” 6.Brian Eno- “Taking Tiger Mountain” 7.Neil Young- “Harvest” 8.The Fall- “Paint Work” 9.Man Is the Bastard- excerpt from Reality #2 Comp (Slap-A-Ham) 10.Faust- “It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl” 11.Saccharine Trust- “A Human Certainty” 12.Daft Punk- “Make Love”
SIDE B 1.GG Allin- “Carmelita” 2.Mike Jones- “Got it Sewed Up” from “The Day Hell Broke Loose 2″ 3.Sonic Youth- “She’s In a Bad Mood” 4.Dire Straits- “So Far Away” 5.Bob Dylan- “It’s All Over Now Baby Blue” 6.Adolescents- “Kids of the Black Hole” 7.Pavement- “Price Yeah” 8.Butthole Surfers- “Creep in the Cellar” 9.Country Teasers- “Panic Holiday” 10.Beat Happening- “Nancy Sin” 11.Guided By Voices- “Jabberstroker” 12.Dead Kennedys- “Moon Over Marin
This is an example from the band Parquet Courts, they've used it to describe their influences (same thing you're being asked to do):
SIDE A 1.Blitz- “New Age 2.Cheveu- “Herman Choune” 3.Thanksgiving- “Where You Live” 4.Ol’ Dirty Bastard- “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” 5.Napalm Death- “You Suffer” 6.Brian Eno- “Taking Tiger Mountain” 7.Neil Young- “Harvest” 8.The Fall- “Paint Work” 9.Man Is the Bastard- excerpt from Reality #2 Comp (Slap-A-Ham) 10.Faust- “It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl” 11.Saccharine Trust- “A Human Certainty” 12.Daft Punk- “Make Love”
SIDE B 1.GG Allin- “Carmelita” 2.Mike Jones- “Got it Sewed Up” from “The Day Hell Broke Loose 2″ 3.Sonic Youth- “She’s In a Bad Mood” 4.Dire Straits- “So Far Away” 5.Bob Dylan- “It’s All Over Now Baby Blue” 6.Adolescents- “Kids of the Black Hole” 7.Pavement- “Price Yeah” 8.Butthole Surfers- “Creep in the Cellar” 9.Country Teasers- “Panic Holiday” 10.Beat Happening- “Nancy Sin” 11.Guided By Voices- “Jabberstroker” 12.Dead Kennedys- “Moon Over Marin
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