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At war..with the the Alphabet

StoreTags: songs, somg writing, title, IDM titles

Author: whitecar on May 31 2007

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--> I simply can't believe how many times I've sa t down to compile a track list for a show, album, or even a myspace player and come up with the problem of wanting two or more songs to be together and they start with the same letter.
As in I would love to start a set will Brightr Light and go onto Bollion and then play Berr...only I'm not playing an all 'B' set tonight!
I just sat down to run through all my works in progress in order to come up with a working track llist for a CD that should be released this year and the first four songs I select all end in 'en' or 'on' ...what's up with that? Why wont the alphabet stop getting in my way?
Surely I can't be alone in this battle but it seems to be a topic no one talks about. Quite possibly because it's not a very note-worthy subject. But still, I wonder if the alphabet mixed with some chaos theory hasn't bothered anyone else at some point.

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05/31/07 + crabster

Couldn't it simply be a matter of you associating one track with another because of the way they are named?

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05/31/07 + Analog

Sometimes it works quite well. say you write 12 tracks and title them at random. You want to put them together to make an LP but don't know where to start. load them into a player and they come up in alphabetical order. You didn't title them chronologically in alphabetical order. so it's a kind of randomness generator. then you might or might not need to swap them round.

I tend to draw a simplified picture of the waveform of the unes (at least how they start and end) then you can put them together so that the fades fade into and out of each other, the ones that stop dead can go into one that stats with a bang... etc.... not really ewhat yr going on about but bbbbbbbbbbbbbuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrpppppppppppppp

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05/31/07 + subset

it sounds like you name your tracks by the way they sound - choosing a word the 'goes with' the sound. So if two tracks sound similar in some way, they are likely to be both similarly named, and musically associated so that they go well together, or transition into one and other gracefully.
So get someone else to name your tracks, or arrange them before you name them - since the alliteration bohters you, your mind will avoid it and the tracks won't start with thte same letter.
but if they do, I wouldn't bother fretting about it.
for me personally, I don't know the names of a lot of tracks by artists I like. I'll just know its the third song on that album, or whatever.

05/31/07 + jogn

rename them. They're all working titles anyway ..... right ???

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05/31/07 + RRine

i had the same problem! eposk, eaciv, edip, dert, dewl, dropp..... arrg. I think I actually changed the original names of a few songs just so they could be next to one another...

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05/31/07 + mlbot

luckily your music isnt as unimaginative as your verb and nounage.

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05/31/07 + Roshi

Guys, guys, you need to stop using the autechre name generator.

I usually forget the name I've given a song anyway.

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05/31/07 + mlbot

And start using the Anal Cunt song name generator!

I mean, you cant get better than this album , nor further away from Autechre names (edited for em411)

1. I Became A R*pe Counselor So I Could Tell R*pe Victims They asked For It
2. Easy E. Got A.I.D.S. From F. Mercury
3. I Like Drugs And Child Abuse
4. Laughing While Lennard Peltier Gets R*ped In Prison
5. I Convinced You To Beat Your Wife On A Daily Basis
6. I Sent Concentration Camp Footage To America's Funniest Home Videos
7. Rancid Sucks (And The Clash Sucked Too)
8. I Paid J. Howell To R*pe You
9. I Pushed Your Wife In Front Of The Subway
10. Extreme Noise Terror Are Afraid Of Us
11. You Rollerblading Faggot
12. I Sent A Thank You Card To The Guy Who R*ped You
13. I Lit Your Baby On Fire
14. Body By Auschwitz
15. I Intentionally Ran Over You Dog
16. Sweatshops Are Cool
17. Women: Nature's Punching Bag
18. I Snuck A Retard Into A Sperm Bank
19. Your Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck
20. I Ate Your Horse

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05/31/07 + tantan

LOL

Those names are rad. And amazingly horrible. Particularly fond of "I Snuck a Retard Into a Sperm Bank." And "Your Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck."

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05/31/07 + Roshi

LOL @ "your kid committed suicide..."

Hardcore!

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05/31/07 + tantan

I / we usually name songs like this:

We write it.
We open a random book on the shelf and randomly point.
We pick whatever phrase the finger lands on.

Easy.

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05/31/07 + Roshi

Also, "Body by Auschwitz" crosses all sorts of lines.

All Bad.

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05/31/07 + mlbot

Way too hardcore for any IDM band.

For us, it'd be more like:

1. I used your email address to access a porn site
2. I'm posting your private email msg to this forum
3. I put spyware on your HD
4. Aphex Twin beats are just OK
5. My hardware is better than your software
6. typing ghey is gay
7. i tricked you into clicking my link to meatspin
8. I flamed your forum
9. Auetchre aren't avant garde, they're popular
10. Face it, you're a hipster
11. I got cheetos debris in your keyboard
12. Machinedrums are dumb
13. Nobody has ever done anything musical with Max/Msp
14. This whole album is just Reaktor presets run through Buffer Override and Dbue Glitch.
15. There's nothing you can do in Ableton Live that you can't do in Fruity Loops
16. My electribe can beat up your Juno

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05/31/07 + Ochre

Murcof obviously doesn't have the same qualm. link ;)

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05/31/07 + Roshi

I love the track names off of Pierre bastien's Pop: link All anagrams.

A1 Eye
A2 Noon
B Deed
C1 Tut
C2 Pep
D1 Gig
D2 Eke

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