All We Know Are Thieves

1. Blur - Country House
2. Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
3. Jamiroquai - Little L
4. Green Day - When I Come Around / Holiday
5. Foxboro Hottubs - Mother Mary
6. Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
8. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
9. Paramore - Pressure
10. Orson - Bright Idea
11. U2 - Beautiful Day

I have themed my mixtape towards events/days that I remember, such as Holidays and Concerts

• Blur - Country House

I have liked Blur since I was about 7, I always used to play their albums in our cd player, one of my favourite songs is called Country House. The song was actually released in 1995, I would have been 4 on release of the album, but I started to take interest in music when I was slightly older

• Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer

Along with Blur, Bon Jovi was one of the first bands that I started to listen to, I started to listen to them around the same age as I did blur, I have choosen Bon Jovi as I went to see the band live at Coventry's Ricoh Arena in 2006 and really enjoyed it.

• JK - Little L

I choose Jamiroquai, for two reasons; I have always liked his songs plus I saw him at Radio 1's One Big Sunday at Leicester in 2001.

• Green Day - When I Come Around and Holiday

I saw Green Day live at the LG Arena in the NEC, and remember that even weeks prior to going that I was really excited and couldn't wait to go. Green Day are one of my favourite bands. They are really one of the first bands which I really liked and from first hearing their songs on the radio, I have been a fan of them and the same genre of music ever since.

• Foxboro Hottubs - Mother Mary 

This is a band which is basically an alter ego of Green Day, as it consists of  Billie Joe Armstrong (Lead Vocalist and Guitar of Green Day), Mike Dirnt (Bass with Green Day) and Tre Cool (Drummer with Green Day) but it also includes a close friend of Billie Joe's. I remember hearing it for the first time whilst being on holiday in the Isle of Wight and saying to Alex, that the lead singer sounded like Billie Joe Armstrong.

• Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench 

Although this isn't my favourite Foo Fighter's song, I remember watching them live, and singing along but watching in amazement that when Dave Grohl sings ( the lyrics below) he didn't take a breath until the end of the section. Even though the Foo Fighters were one of the bands I liked at the time they were never my favourite, but after seeing them at the NEC, they were soon drawing favourite with Green Day and Red Chili Peppers.

"One last thing before I quit

I never wanted any more than I could fit
Into my head I still remember every single word
You said and all the shit that somehow came along with it
Still there's one thing that comforts me since I was
Always caged and now I'm free"

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop (iTunes protected file so I can't put on my mixtape, so I replaced it with Hump De Bump, which is one of my favourite songs by RHCP)

In 2003 I went on holiday to New Zealand, as we were considering moving there, and whilst on holiday I played my Red Hot Chili Peppers CD in the camper van that we hired out, although I listened to this before I went on holiday it reminds me of traveling around New Zealand in a camper van,

• My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade (replaced by Famous Last Words, as this one is Protected by iTunes)
• Paramore - Pressure

Until I went to Canada, I hadn't heard of My Chemical Romance or Paramore, even though both had released albums prior to me going on holiday (2006), but the Canadian radio station that we listened to whilst being on holiday played them both extensively. I remember sitting in the back seats of a Dodge Grand Caravan whilst driving from Toronto to Rice Lake in Canada and listening to them.

• Orson - Bright Idea

I don't really have a reason for Orson but when the band released there album "Bright Idea",  I bought it as I really enjoyed their music.

•  U2 - Beautiful Day

This is a song that reminds me of when me and my dad used to go to see Sheffield United play football at Bramall Lane. Although I haven't been for a while, the song used to be played every time I went up to see them play, it would play before a match whilst the team would be warming up on the pitch. They would also play the annie song although, which is where Sheffield United got their theme tune from as they just changed the lyrics to apply to life in Sheffield and Sheffield United

  Wasting Light by Foo Fighters

artists that may be used but unsure for some

early artists

• Bon Jovi
• Eminem
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• michael jackson
• nirvana
• qotsa
• stereophonics
• u2
• RW
• orson
• lostpophets
• linkin park
• jamiroquai
• gorillaz
• bowling for soup
• blink 182
• bep
• blur

Recent artists

• foo fighters
• greenday
• avril lavigne
• foxboro hottubs
• paramore
• mcr
• muse
• maximo park

places
why songs are appropriate;

Live
Bon Jovi
green day
rw x2
foo fighters
mcr
radio 1, one big weekend leicester JK, Kylie, etc

Rice Lake - My Chemical Romance,  NZ - Foo fighters

weird al yankovic

Red Hot Chili Peppers are a band started out in Los Angeles in 1983 producing songs such as Higher Ground, which is a remake of Stevie Wonders Higher Ground. They are now considered as rock band although underneath their rock music lyes some funk and possibly jazz music, this seems to be non-stereotypical of a rock band to use some underlying funk sounds on their rock music.

Although they are now considered a rock band, their music styles vary from; Funk to alternative rock, rock, punk rock and rap.
Some of the band's influences include;

• Jimi Hendrix
• James Brown
• Bob Marely
• Stevie Wonder
• Elvis Presley
• The Beatles 
• Defunkt
• Parliament-Funkadelic

Artists who inspired them from the same-to-current generation include;

• Foo Fighters
• Nirvana
• Pearl Jam
• Radiohead 

Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1989)


Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder (1973)


Californication - a word which was later copyrighted by the band.

This music video looks like a video game

Dani California
//edit the video on vegas - add who they are supposed to be's video in top corner with text under of their name
artists possible or do include;
Elvis
Beatles
Thin lizzie boy george
Guns n roses
David Bowie
The sex pistols
Blue guy Sid barret pink floyd
Misfits
Poison or kiss
Nirvana
Chilis
Switches between them and their inspiration and to who they r supposed to be
Foo fighters
Intertextuality and homage to favourite artists and era

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rap-Rock
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RHCP interview from 2006 talking about inspiration and originality


The Zephyr Song - A gnarlz barkley song has a similar video effect, may have been influenced by RHCP


Aeroplane

Modern games such as Call of Duty, Man Hunt, etc have had complaints about it's violence and realism, even Col. Gaddafi is blaming the Libyan uprising on violent video games.
Desert Bus is a video game which is a representation of real life. The player of the game has to drive a bus through a desert at a maximum speed of 45mph on a 8 hour drive to Las Vegas, the bus has no passengers, there are no other cars on the road. If you go off the road you will have to wait for a toe-truck to arrive and toe you back at a real time e.g. if you've driven 6 hours it'll take you back 6 hours to get back to the start, which forces you to start over again, the bus slowly drifts right which forces the driver to constantly input a change in direction to keep the bus on the road. if you complete the route one way you will receive 1 point, the maximum score on the game is 99 points, which means that you would have to play for 41days straight without any breaks as there is no pause/stop button. The scenery only changes when a bug splats onto your windscreen about 5 hours into to your journey, other than that you see a the odd rock and stop sign, and depending on what time you play e.g. night, day, dusk etc the time/scenery effects change accordingly.

As Jameson argued that it's is now harder to judge what is real and what isn't, e.g. the line between simulation and reality is being blurred in postmodern society. Jameson would say that games such as Desert Bus are a pastiche of real life, as they are a imitation, it is an imitation of real life because if you did drive a bus from Tucan to Las Vegas, it would take you 8 hours, and if you did break down it would take the pick up truck 'x' amount of hours to arrive, and toe you back.