I'm fond of "mixtapes" / music mixes, and am curious if anyone else here is. The mix herein linked (click on the picture above to download) has its origins in a thread about "guilty pleasures" on A Forum That Shall Not Be Named. Spoiler: Tracklist Tracklist 1. Pokerap #3 - Der erste Orden (JanniX ft. J. Differant) 2. Bake a Cake (Lil Debbie) 3. Multiples (Atmosphere) 4. Boyz (M.I.A.) 5. Konichiwa Bitches (Robyn) 6. Pop the Glock (Uffie) 7. Now That You Got It (Gwen Stefani) 8. Toxic (The Chapin Sisters) 9. I Want It That Way (Backstreet Boys) 10. Sexyback (Justin Timberlake) 11. "A little white boy music to aid digestion" 12. Dance Hall Days (Wang Chung) 13. Closer Together (The Box) 14. Africa (Masse & Hall) 15. Xanadu (Olivia Newton John) 16. Broken Wings (Mr. Mister) 17. All Shook Up (Nelson) 18. Hold Me Now (The Chain Gang of 1974) 19. Land of 1000 Dances (The Wrestlers) 20. I Want You Back (David Ruffin) 21. Fly Feather Fly (Donita Sparks) 22. In Fact It Was You (Daemon Hatfield) 23. Fall In Love (Phantogram) 24. Dreamsicle Bomb (Black Moth Super Rainbow) 25. Friendship Update (The Go! Team) 26. In Yr Underwear (Fox N Wolf) 27. I Fink U Freeky (Die Antwoord) 28. 212 (Azealia Banks ft. Lazy J) 29. Work (Iggy Azalea) 30. Captain Chaos Strikes! (Cannonball Run OST) 31. Teenager Blues (Les Soeurs Kessler) 32. Land of a Thousand Dances (The Cannibal Headhunters) 33. Just Dropped In (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) 34. Honkey Tonk Girl (Eileen Jewell) 35. Jolene (Miley Cyrus) 36. Wild Ripplin' Waters (Michael Martin Murphey) 37. If I Were a Carpenter (Leonard Nimoy) 38. The Train from Kansas City (The Shangri-Las) 39. Heart of Gold (Demarest) 40. Coalman (Ronnie Burns) 41. Waterloo (ABBA) 42. Muzik (M-Pop) 43. I've Gotta Get a Message to You (Moxy Fruvous) 44. Tu Te Reconnaitras (Anne Marie David) 45. Apres Toi (Vicky Leandros) 46. Boom Bang a Bang (Lulu) 47. Un Banc, Un Arbre, Un Rue (Severine) 48. Non ho l'eta (Gigliola Cinquetti) 49. Rise Like a Phoenix (Conchita Wurst) Have some badass mp3s that you'd care to share? Does TrekBBS have some closet DJ's in The Proverbial House?
Right, but I suppose it all could be put onto a C120 cassette... although some songs would have to be a bit shortened to do that.
I have only heard of about six artists on that list... I am old. I remember spending hours back in the day listening to the radio with the cassette player on play/record/pause just waiting for a song I liked to come on so I could record it. I had a lot of songs start about 5 seconds in, and usually end with an overdub of the refrain with the DJ, or a commercial.
Speaking of old, here's my most recent mix: Andy Williams: Can' Take my Eyes off You Jethro Tull: Crossfire Dire Straits: Telegraph Road Otis Redding: (Sitti'n on) The Dock of the Bay Dionne Warwick: Anyone Who Had a Heart Herb Alpert: A Taste of Honey The Mamas and the Papas: Monday, Monday Herb Alpert: Tijuana Taxi Dionne Warwick: Do You Know the Way to San Jose Stealers Wheel: Stuck in the Middle With You Hose Gonzàles: Heartbeats Miles Davis: Milestones The Art of Noise: Paranoima Herb Alpert: Casino Royale 10 CC: Dreadlock Holiday Tom Jones: It's Not Unusual Aretja Franklin: Respect Johnny Mann Singers: Up, Up and Away Dionne Warwick: I Say a Little Prayer Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive Julie London: Fly Me to the Moon Manhattan Transfer: Chanson d'amour Judy Garland: There's No Business Like Show Business Allan Sherman: Camp Grenada Corner Gas theme song Loudon Wainwright III: Drinking Song Extrabreit: Das Fliegerlied Frank Sinatra: Fly Me to the Moon Lou Reed & John Cale: Nobody But You Raffi: Bananaphone Lou Reed & John Cale: Smalltown Battlestar Galactica theme (Stu Phillips)
I know. I used to do them at CD length, but then it occurred to me one day that nobody uses CDs any more. Oh and, uh, some of the tracks have lyrics that are a little NSFW. Guess I should've put that warning up front. Oh man, that takes me back. Waaaay back. I'd listen to it. Noted for future editions.
BigJake, I would probably kill myself after listening to your mixtape. That is HORRIBLE. I don't do 'em anyway. I like albums. I don't even like Greatest Hits collections. Case in point, I own every Queen 7", 12", and studio album on both LP & CD, but I do not own Greatest Hits.
Hey, BigJake - It sounds like you need to add this to the end of the list, then: [yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcWJoUDoqtU[/yt]
Hmm, I have a playlist, it's a little long, but what the hell? I thought some of the lista above were a bit, uh, wide-ranging, but then I realised mine is just as uh, eclectic too. I've bolded the more interesting ones. Black Country Communion - Song of Yesterday The Blue Nile - the days of our lives 3 - Desde La Vida Deep Purple - Weirdistan The Who - Naked Eye Gary Moore - Business As Usual Naomi - How Many Loves G Wayne Thomas - Open Up Your Heart Peter Sarstedt - Frozen Orange Juice Mary Hopkin - Temma Harbour Mama Cass - Make Your Own Kind of Music Wishbone Ash - Persephone Johnny Cash | Nirvana | Blue Oyster Cult | New Order - Hurts Like Teen Spirit 3 - Eight Miles High Loudon Wainwright III - Missing You The Ferrets - Just Like The Stars Moody Blues - Lost In A Lost World Hawkwind - High Rise Rick Wakeman - Anne Of Cleves Alexi Murdoch - Breathe Bob Seger - Against the Wind Rainbow - Stone Cold Eskimo Joe - Foreign Land 2Cellos - Supermassive Black Hole Big Country - In A Big Country Blue Nile - Tinsel Town In The Rain Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit The Who - Behind Blue Eyes Slade - Far Far Away Deep Purple - Fortuneteller Kansas - Dust In The Wind Massive Attack - Protection Simply Red - Holding Back The Years Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights Chris Isaak - Wicked Game del Amitri - You're Gone Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You Sharon O'Neill - Losing You The Who - Baba O' Riley Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - Cast Your Fate To The Wind/Louie Louie Renaissance - Northern Lights Compact Disco - Sound Of Our Hearts (Eurovision 2012 - Hungary) Massive Attack - Teardrop Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart Led Zeppelin - Kashmir Glee Cast - Dream On (featuring Neil Patrick Harris) The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony Petula Clark - Colour My World Shinedown - Second Chance The Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac Rush - Time Stand Still Ultravox - Vienna Sean Filkins - The English Eccentric John Barrowman - Feelin' Good Tim Curry - Anyone Who Had A Heart Yes - Love Will Find A Way Yes - Roundabout (Single Version) Rush - Dreamline Ludovico Einaudi - Experience Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks Miriam Stockley - Perfect Day Deep Purple - Uncommon Man Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink Camel - Metrognome Argent - Hold Your Head Up Traffic - Every Mother's Son Tangerine Dream - Dolphin Dance Nazareth - This Flight Tonight Hawkwind - Shot Down In The Night (Single Edit) Marillion - You're Gone Paul Rodgers - Over You Klapa s Mora - Mižerja (Eurovision 2013 - Croatia)
Ahhh ... the lost art of the mixtape. I used to spend hours just planning them. Good times. I mostly use playlists now, which regularly exceed 150 songs. But now that I think about it, I really ought to create some mixtape-length playlists (and then post some of them here). There's something to be said about having to constrain the playlist to a mere 90-100mins (I did use 120 tapes, but they rarely held up to extended playback).
I have a Mixtape (well, it's a CD) that I keep in the car. It's called "Life is Short and You're Going To Die." (That's what I wrote on the CD, in sharpie). 1. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Gerry & The Pacemakers 2. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 3. Mad World - Tears For Fears 4. Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers 5. Clocks - Coldplay 6. The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel 7. Lilac Wine - The Cinematic Orchestra 8. Hurt - Johnny Cash 9. Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton 10. Pink Moon - Nick Drake
I don't do mix tapes or as we have now, playlists. I obsess over one song or one album or one artist and listen to it until it is pulp.
What a fun thread! It's an art, that's for sure. Not only the time-constraint, but also the art of ordering the songs; you have to start with a bang, drop back to lull the listener in, build to a crescendo around the middle, repeat for the second half, and end with the perfect wrap up song. Mix tapes and CDs are big between my mom, sister, and me. It is still a sort of unspoken ritual of reconnecting and re-bonding over the perfect collection of music (I only see them once or twice a year). We introduce each other to new music and rediscover old favorites together -- it's the best. When I listen to a playlist on shuffle I still get a thrill and make a note if a pair of songs transition perfectly, or when a song just has a "this goes at the very end" feel. I've made some epic collections in my time! I can work pretty much every genre all into one mix and have a perfect flow -- I totally pride myself on my mix tape skillz and I'm not even going to pretend I don't. I used to have a bunch saved as glorious playlists, but like everything else, iTunes 11 fucked them all up. One of the reasons I'm clinging to my old laptop is to get the battery fixed and get my old playlists off it. Now I'm even more inspired to do so! Right now, the only one I still have in the correct order was a mix I made for my mom last summer entitled Six Great Grunge Bands That Aren't Nirvana (nothing against Nirvana, but I'd just made her a Nirvana-heavy mix not long before): The Green Manalishi - The Melvins Pump It Up - Mudhoney Stargazer - Mother Love Bone Dollar Bill - Screaming Trees Half - Soundgarden Corduroy - Pearl Jam Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam The Day I Tried To Live - Soundgarden Like Being Stoned - Screaming Trees Smile - Pearl Jam Elijah - Mother Love Bone Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees June Bug - The Melvins Betterman - Pearl Jam Aye Davanita - Pearl Jam Working Class Hero - Screaming Trees Gentle Groove - Mother Love Bone The Bloat - The Melvins Good Enough - Mudhoney
About the only suggestion I have is to consider Temple of the Dog - but considering it's a mashup of bands already on the list, it might be a bit redundant.
HAHAHAHAHHA. I find this hilariously depressing. Especially considering one of my most abused playlists, entitled "Fucking Gloomy", which features among others, the following: Country Feedback (live) - R.E.M. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths Tom Waits - Hold On Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash Hell Bent - Kenna Needle in the Hay - Elliott Smith Catch Me - Bandits Leave - R.E.M. Fly - Nick Drake If - Pink Floyd Leave - Glen Hansard Closer to the Start - Duke Special You Look So Fine - Garbage Before You Were Born - Toad the Wet Sprocket Louisiana - Underworld All Apologies - Nirvana Unplugged All Apologies - Sinead O'Connor (because once isn't enough) Two - The Antlers Wicked Little Town (Reprise) - Hedwig and the Angry Inch OCR Sadness Is A Blessing - Lykke Li The Funeral - Band of Horses Fade Into You - Mazzy Star Life In Rain - Remy Zero Samskeyti - Sigur Ros Acrobat - Maximo Park
You don't know how much I dream of an alternate reality where they put out more than one album. Damn...just any opportunity for Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder to sing together more often, their voices are amazing together.