Wow! What an incredible response to our first post. Really great to read so many comments and stories of your Cranberries concert experiences. Here's the next post in our continuing series:
The Mixtape
What’s your ideal mixtape? Is it all Cranberries, or maybe you’ve tossed them in with some other artists? Does “Dreams” come before “Animal Instinct”? Or are those songs even included? The mixtape is one of the most popular and convenient art forms that exist. Creating a mixtape for a significant other or just a party with your friends will say a lot about yourself and those people. Lots of thought and effort goes into its creation – from the mood you’re conveying, down to some cool artwork to go with your tape or CD. It’s like a message in a bottle.
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with "Got to Get You Off My Mind", but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs and...oh, there are loads of rules.– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
In these days of portable MP3 players it’s all about the playlist. Do you have different playlists for different occasions? On-The-Go? Parties? Rainy days? Tell us all about them. Why not even show us! Maybe you’ve got a Last.fm account, a Muxtape or an iMeem – post your playlists here and share with the rest of the Cranberries community. What’s in your Cranberries cocktail?
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