Kansas City Wizards & US National team defender Jimmy Conrad has better taste in music than you. FACT. That is unless your name is whatever Jack Black's character was called in High Fidelity or you are Rick Rubin.
The big man was cool enough to check in from The Wizards pre-season camp in Florida and drop science on us in the form of this play list. An excellently eclectic selection that runs the gamut from indie atmospherics (Sigur Ros) to dance floor anarchy (Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock), it's structured for the slow build up; a couple of tracks for a few hours before the game, a few to get the head bobbing on the bus to the stadium & in the locker room then an up tempo sprint to get to game-time.
Personally I'm down with the vast majority of the mix, but would it kill him to drop a little Foghat every once in a while? Feel free to download the tracks below from iTunes (linked) or wherever you get your music from.
Jimmy Conrad's Pre-Game Mixtape
Sigur Ros: Staralfur
Seu Jorge: Rebel Rebel
Broken Social Scene: Time = Cause
The Postal Service: The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Tapes 'n Tapes: Insistor
We Are Scientists: The Scene is Dead
Spoon: The Underdog
Interpol: Not Even Jail
Arcade Fire: Wake Up
The Killers: Shadowplay
Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock: It Takes Two
Tool: Aenema
18 comments:
Nice selection Jimbo but I'm going to call BS on the Arcade Fire. That band is nothing but a hype.
Two places: Gomusic.ru for 15 cent songs or wuzam.com for free songs. Who uses iTunes anymore???
jimmy conrad has got to be the coolest player in mls. i really hope he does TV when he retires. the man is just cool.
Nice mix Conrads a cool guy
Where is the BLACKPOOL LIGHTS - Ain't Nobody Gonna Stop Us Now?
Maybe he is saving it for the MLS season opener?
Damn fine mixtape. Insistor is my jam.
Jimmy C Jams are sweet!
can we get some more white people on that list?
Lil bit o Aenima to finish the mix tape up. Good choice, Conrad 5.
"I'm Jimmy Conrad and I have indie rock credibility." A USSoccer behind the scenes video from last year where he was touring one of the NAT camps with a video camera.
It is a great mix but I'd drop (gag me with a) Spoon and throw the Joy Division version of Shadowplay in there instead of the cover.
Pretty good, but where's "If the Kids Are United?"
The Killers do not equal indie cred, though I guess everyone has a guilty pleasure or two. And to the yahoo who thinks Arcade Fire is just hype, shut up and keep listening to your Coldplay albums. You want sensitive, tacky crap, go to the mall.
Sorry but I'm going to have to agree that the Arcade Fire are way over-rated. Are they talented, yes. Worth the non-stop fellatio from the music press, absolutely not.
And for my money there is nothing wrong with Coldplay or the Killers. Coldplay will get you laid. It's a fact.
The only remotely hip-hop related track is some cheezy-ass Rob Base? I'm calling bullshit on that too. ANd yo, The Postal Service? Just put some friggin' Depeche Mode or Erasure on there why don't ya? Props for the Broken Social Scene but that's about it.
Wow! I recorded the demo of "The Scene Is Dead" for We Are Scientists. BTW, has anyone ever read his blog on soccernet? It's genius.
shirtees:
Are they DRM Free?
"Worth the non-stop fellatio from the music press"
Priceless
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