i choose 1984!

to make it more of a challenge?

something pre 1985

just to confirm it. that year is mine.

I'll just have 2007.

use this on your blog.
you could do a blog post collating all the years once they start coming in and update it as more are added until you have the whole century :D

either you do it or i will!

and I will complete it's terribleness when I get back.

So I'm making this official: http://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2008/04/sweeping-nation-muxtape-challenge.html

I'm going to go and collate some from elsewhere in a moment, but as for DiS the count so far is:
1977 poptimusgrime
1984 Jamie_Summers
1992 me (for reasons too dull to enter into)
2005 yes_
2006 MelesMeles
2007 TheWildSon

I'm having 1967.

the year emo achieved perfection.

I'm not sure what came out this year, but I will find out.

Also, how do you listen to someones muxtape? This may seem like a stupid question but whenever I view one nothing happens and there's no play button or anything. Can anyone enlighten me?

have 1999. the one nobody wanted.

2001 please

http://thewildson2007.muxtape.com/

http://1984mix.muxtape.com/

SO GOOD.

http://prof.muxtape.com/

1999 - the year music forgot

http://1992thelovemuxtape.muxtape.com/

and no laughing when i include something from 1993 by mistake

GO YOUR OWN WAY*.

http://1977.muxtape.com/

1977 has been taken care of.

this was really fun to do.

(*or OH BONDAGE UP YOURS, whatever you want.)

http://1994forsure.muxtape.com/

http://dismuxtapechallenge2006.muxtape.com/

try and do 1998...

now this is in no-way representitive of everything that came out that year, obviously, but it's what I enjoyed.

www.yesyesyes.muxtape.com

Sigur ros - Glosoli
FUCK DA H8RZ. Amazing song, amazing album, shame about it being used to death for EVERYTHING, but still, brilliant.

British sea power - It ended on an oily stage
Again, FUK DA H8RZ, that album was really really nice, this being one of the really brill-o songs off it

Lightning bolt - Captain caveman
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Animal collective - The purple bottle
Couldn't really not have included anything off feels. Brilliant album, and although I'm not their biggest fan, it's a brilliant song too

Bright eyes - light pollution
Maybe i shoulda've put something from IWAIM instead, but whatever, it was always gonna be great either way

volcano! - Pulling my face blah blah blha....
Hyped to death on here, criminally underhyped everywhere else. It was a staggering album.

Youthmovies - Ores
Back when they were YMSS I guess. Closest they got to a "single" off that album and it was cool

My latest novel - sister sneaker, sister soul
FAMAZING ALBUM. well nice. atbay has a good story about them too

The fall of troy - we better learn to hotwire A U
HEAAAVVVVVYYY AND SCREAMYYYYY

Safetyword - Pour your features through the mirror
Yeah amazing and all that. Weird-y pop glorious brillo.

Venetian snares - Szamar madar
One of the most exciting and heart racing things EVAR.

Yeah it was a good year for me. That whole "nu yorkshire" scene the NME tried to start up had loads of good bands that I was actually getting into like forward russia, shut your eyes and you'll burst into flames, iliketrains, samsa and all that. Cool!

on the music board tomorrow? or it'll never fill up! i'll have to do ALL OF THEM MWAHAHA

Here it is, 2001, in all it's glory.

http://2001amusicodyssey.muxtape.com/

2001 was not good for bands being active. Yes, we had the formation of Million Dead and TV on the Radio, along with The Mars Volta, Hella and Bear Vs Shark, but the world had just suffered the sad loss of ATD-I, Sunny Day Real Estate and Murder City Devils, irreplaceable bands, the like of which have never since been since. RIP. Their loss was not even offset by the fragmentation of pop whores such as Five, The Backstreet Boys and The Spice Girls.
But whilst 2001 may be best remembered for the hope it offered for the future, there are some delights to be found. Here's what I think shone:

1) The Takeover- Jay-Z
I don't trust anyone who says they like hip hop and hasn't listened to The Blueprint. It's been copied and redone a million times, sure, but that's because it's so good. Flow, samples, raw emotion and storytelling: this has it all. The Takeover is the best piece of battle rap ever. Period.

2) Distance And Meaning- Converge
Jane Doe is quite possibly the most brutal album ever. Yet to pick this track may seem odd to Converge fans. But the fact is, this is the toughest track on the album. The vocals are the most evil thing on that album, despite staying away from the standard converge throaty screaming for most of the song. Listen carefully above the snarling guitar, and you can frequently hear what sounds like a piano falling down a flight of stairs. Harsh.

3)God Hates A Coward - Tomahawk
The S/T is such an overlooked album in the scale of things. Easily one of the best out and out rock albums released in the last 7 years, this track is pure menace. Patton sounds deliciously unhinged, and with the tightest band in history (tm) behind him, there's pretty much nothing better.

4)Cashout - Fugazi
The Argument is one of the best albums ever written. I knew that when I first heard it, mostly due to this opening track. Ian McKaye basically croons, over a rhythm section which has never sounded better, while some very lazy guitar tolls like a bell. And when it all erupts at around 2 minutes, it actually feels unexpected. Incredible, incredible track from a jaw dropping album.

5)Celestial(Signal Fills The Void) - ISIS
This track is from the SGNL>05 ep. It's absolutely cavernous sounding, and I don't think the band have ever managed to sound this big since. Just listen to those incredible drums. Great, great band already showing what they might be capable of in the future.

6)We Invent You - Unwound
Leaves Turn Inside You was the swansong from another serially underrated band, and it came as a complete shock to everyone who heard it. Unwound abandoned their grimy post hardcore and made a very interesting album which owed a lot to post rock. This is my favourite track. It starts with a long burst of disarmingly beautiful guitar noise, before morphing into My Bloody Valentine esque slowcore. Lovely stuff from a sorely missed and enigmatic band.