Comments on: Summer Jams

By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:35:35 +0000

Dept. of Futile Enforcement of Obsolete Business Model:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/144766-muxtape-shut-down-for-now
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By: Travis Nichols

Travis Nichols — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:52:12 +0000

That’s what I’m talking about! Nice work, Michael “Double B” Robbins! Lucky Darryl, you got next?
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By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:13:00 +0000

In defiance of Plato, Mann, Heller, & Fehér, I offer this politically suspect muxtape to Harriet:
http://murkplectrum.muxtape.com/
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By: bill knott

bill knott — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:41:14 +0000

. . . from
The Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism, by Agnes Heller and Ferenc Fehér, p. 364:
Both Plato and Thomas Mann were right in regarding music as politically suspect. While under its spell, we are more indeterminate and unspecific in our hates and sympathies than politics would like us to be. There is no doubt that we communicate while we are listening to music and hugging millions. But this is a special kind of communication. Its message is meager yet redundant. It conveys to those millions in my embrace only the truism that they are like me and I am like them. It is a discourse that knows no argument; indeed it is one that draws its strength from the absence of argument . . . .
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By: Don Share

Don Share — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:26:06 +0000

Kimbo, the only thing I can think of is On a Mission: Selected Poems and a History of the Last Poets by Abiodun Oyewole, Umar Bin Hassan, and Kim Green, but you may have seen this already.
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By: Kimbo Slice

Kimbo Slice — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:25:46 +0000

oh, and only slightly more earnestly… does anyone out there know if there’s any good critical writing on the Last Poets? i’ve looked to no avail…
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By: Travis Nichols

Travis Nichols — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:23:25 +0000

That Crystal Castles “song” is tearing my brain apart one spongiform unit at a time. Merci, Kimbo!
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By: Kimbo Slice

Kimbo Slice — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:58:33 +0000

Here’s a link to my muxtape:
http://flizzo.muxtape.com/
Dylan fans will be pleased. Also notice how the Baden version of Berimbau approaches an Aram Aroyan understatedness.
One might considered how the remix, sampling, and bootlegs contribute to the peripheral field of music production, and what that might look like as equivalents in terms of poetry… or you can just tap your foot along…
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By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:24:45 +0000

No Harrieteer has a Mux to share? Official verse kulchur!
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By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:01:44 +0000

Ha! I’d not read that — thanks, Emily. (Nor did I know Brandon Stosuy had written for PF — how did that come about? I’m familiar with his metal reviews.)
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By: Emily Warn

Emily Warn — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:04:10 +0000

You can read why “Berryman isn’t the first or last figure in a Hold Steady song to hover by the Mississippi” here.
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By: Travis Nichols

Travis Nichols — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:37:55 +0000

Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, Lil Wayne, the Hold Steady . . . I think links to non-poetry muxtapes would be accepted (even welcomed) here in the comments. In fact, here’s this (until I upload some poetry).
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By: D. A. Powell

D. A. Powell — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:25:29 +0000

Hey Travis,
The UPenn files really are amazing.
A poet who must remain nameless, but whom you no doubt know, worked in the library of a large East Coast university, and he would occasionally loan me dubs of readings that were in the university’s archives. Much as I was tempted, I never made duplicates of the recordings.
Troy Jollimore burned me a disc recently, with some terrific music, and poetry by O’Hara, Berryman, Muldoon, Ondaatje, etc. It has become the soundtrack to my mornings of late, when I’m not listening to Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam.
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By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:26:16 +0000

I must be in a distinct minority: my experience of poetry is text-based. I can’t stand poetry readings (although I sometimes attend them), & I almost never listen to recorded poetry. Unless by “poetry” we mean, as I think we should, that denigrated form, the song. In which case, & with apologies for violating the spirit of the post, my poetry muxtape would run, today anyway, something like this:
The Hold Steady, “Stuck between Stations”: sample lyrics: “There was that night that we thought that John Berryman could fly. / But he didn’t so he died. / She said ‘you’re pretty good with words but words won’t save your life’ / And they didn’t so he died. / He was drunk and exhausted but he was critically acclaimed and respected. / He loved the Golden Gophers but he hated all the drawn out winters. / He likes the warm feeling but he’s tired of all the dehydration. / Most nights were kind of fuzzy but that last night he had total retention.”
Lil Wayne, “Sky’s the Limit”: “Relying on rap, but in the kitchen I’m a chemist, / And when I was 5, my favorite movie was the Gremlins. / Ain’t got shit to do with this, but I just thought that I should mention it.”
Ghostface Killah, “The Champ”:
I’m James Bond in the Octagon with two razors
Bet y’all didn’t know I had a fake arm
I lost it
Sonic Youth, “Incinerate”: “The firefighters were so nice.”
Laurie Anderson, “The Dream Before”: a perfect poem that borrows Benjamin.
Clipse, “Play Your Part”:
All the snow on the timepiece confusing them
All the snow on the concrete Peruvian
I flew ‘em in, it ruined men, I’m through with them
Blamed for misguiding their life
So go and sue me then
Steinski, “It’s up to You (Television Mix)”: contains a sample of George Bush I saying (musically arranged in such a way that the rhythm & rhyme are emphasized): “Regrettably / we now believe / that only force / will make him leave.”
Robert Johnson, “Me & the Devil Blues”: “You may bury my body down by the highway side / So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus & ride.”
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