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12-01-2006, 06:43 PM
Seeing how the MD project #1 is taking a looooong time, partially due to me being lazy and busy at the same time in my real life and to the nigh unto impossible task of making a "pimp canon", I figured we might want to do a holiday special which will both serve to give a few music pimps the credit they truly deserve and maybe even rekindle the interest in pimps from the days of yore.
Here's how I got the general idea:
After finally beating my iPod into submission and figuring out how to manage the damn content, I've a pretty decent library of old pimps on it. Yesterday, walking drunk home from a nice night out with friends, I listened to a song I got from a pimp a long time ago. This song is one of those songs I always return to, and as I reflected upon why, I realized that I had a number of songs pimped over my time here that I've developed quite a strong emotional attachement to, no matter how much I liked the album as a whole or how much I know about the artist. These are tracks that I love dearly, some of which have an almost therapeutic effect on me, and they were all given to me for free by you guys. I refuse to believe I'm the only one in this situation, and it's about time these few gems got their due praise.
The actual general idea:
You make a playlist, entirely made up of songs you've gotten off of NF, where each and every song means a lot to you personally. Then you up it and pimp it, and make a post in this here thread where you write as extensively as you can muster on your own, personal and über-subjective relationship with each song, as well as who pimped it and when. No wrong answers, just your personal experience with each track, which is all that counts, really.
Two rules, however:
1. Only one song per pimp and maximum two songs from the same band on your list. The reason for this is simply that if people wants to listen to your stuff, some diversity is nice. Also, it makes each song more special when people know that this particular song is the one that is the most special to you out of a pimp everyone knows you love.
2. Be utterly and completely honest. Which means, this is not a popularity contest nor an attampt at stroking every ego. Don't include tracks you like but don't love because you want a specific pimper to feel good or whatever. As long as everyone gets their introspecive on and answer as candidly as they can, with no undeserved entires, each entry will weigh that much more. If that means your list is only three tracks long, if that even, no problem. Give thanks to the ones who deserve it, don't stroke egos that doesn't. It's much easier to motivate yourself to listen to a three-track playlist than 15-track one anyway.
What this will possibly acheive:
A lot of the music pimpers here sometimes feel that their efforts are meaningless, and this thread is meant to disprove that notion. Sometimes, people make an inprint on your life without realizing it themselves and this thread is meant to give that guy/girl who pimped that song you've been spinning and loving for nine months that fuzzy feeling inside. It's christmas, and seeing how we all love each other so embarrasingly much, I say this is about as good a time to tell each other as times get.
Secondly, some newer members might see songs here from pimps they've never heard of, get curious, listen, and ask for a re-up. Lots of godly shit has been pimped before the time of the majority of the current regs, and sometimes a little bite is all you need to get hooked.
Yay? Nay? Thoughts? Questions?
Here's how I got the general idea:
After finally beating my iPod into submission and figuring out how to manage the damn content, I've a pretty decent library of old pimps on it. Yesterday, walking drunk home from a nice night out with friends, I listened to a song I got from a pimp a long time ago. This song is one of those songs I always return to, and as I reflected upon why, I realized that I had a number of songs pimped over my time here that I've developed quite a strong emotional attachement to, no matter how much I liked the album as a whole or how much I know about the artist. These are tracks that I love dearly, some of which have an almost therapeutic effect on me, and they were all given to me for free by you guys. I refuse to believe I'm the only one in this situation, and it's about time these few gems got their due praise.
The actual general idea:
You make a playlist, entirely made up of songs you've gotten off of NF, where each and every song means a lot to you personally. Then you up it and pimp it, and make a post in this here thread where you write as extensively as you can muster on your own, personal and über-subjective relationship with each song, as well as who pimped it and when. No wrong answers, just your personal experience with each track, which is all that counts, really.
Two rules, however:
1. Only one song per pimp and maximum two songs from the same band on your list. The reason for this is simply that if people wants to listen to your stuff, some diversity is nice. Also, it makes each song more special when people know that this particular song is the one that is the most special to you out of a pimp everyone knows you love.
2. Be utterly and completely honest. Which means, this is not a popularity contest nor an attampt at stroking every ego. Don't include tracks you like but don't love because you want a specific pimper to feel good or whatever. As long as everyone gets their introspecive on and answer as candidly as they can, with no undeserved entires, each entry will weigh that much more. If that means your list is only three tracks long, if that even, no problem. Give thanks to the ones who deserve it, don't stroke egos that doesn't. It's much easier to motivate yourself to listen to a three-track playlist than 15-track one anyway.
What this will possibly acheive:
A lot of the music pimpers here sometimes feel that their efforts are meaningless, and this thread is meant to disprove that notion. Sometimes, people make an inprint on your life without realizing it themselves and this thread is meant to give that guy/girl who pimped that song you've been spinning and loving for nine months that fuzzy feeling inside. It's christmas, and seeing how we all love each other so embarrasingly much, I say this is about as good a time to tell each other as times get.
Secondly, some newer members might see songs here from pimps they've never heard of, get curious, listen, and ask for a re-up. Lots of godly shit has been pimped before the time of the majority of the current regs, and sometimes a little bite is all you need to get hooked.
Yay? Nay? Thoughts? Questions?