Mixtape Thread

[BigJake]

Keep 'em coming, everyone!

I suppose I should break that playlist down at some point into actual Mixtape-sized chunks, since it does have sections anyway.

Case in point, I own every Queen 7", 12", and studio album on both LP & CD, but I do not own Greatest Hits.

Greatest Hits albums are for housewives and little girls.[/Bruce McCulloch]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBFiKHPCSbU[/yt]

BigJake, I would probably kill myself after listening to your mixtape. That is HORRIBLE.

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]

I love it.

 

[ReedEnterprise]

I use to do them all the time. Still have some. I use to see a lot of unsigned bands, so I'd do ones just of them. Then do the other bands.
I never got into the CD version though, took me too much time.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

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.

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.

There's a reason why Hunger Strike (as well as the rest of the album) is so damn intoxicating to listen to. Very raw, powerful ... they captured something with that album. Once in a lifetime, maybe, but damn was it special. Mad Season was good, but nearly so.

At any rate, here's a mixtape titled "Redemption Songs":

"Redemption Song" - Bob Marley Legend
"All I Want Is Everything" - Def Leppard
"Where Are You" - Cat Stevens
"Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)" - The Byrds
"Everlong (Acoustic)" - Foo Fighters
"Chain Lightning" - Don McLean
"If You Could Read My Mind" - Gordon Lightfoot
"Lighthouse" - James Taylor
"Free" - Train
"Santa Fe" - Jon Bon Jovi
"Hello Again" - Neil Diamond
"Wildflowers" - Tom Petty
"City Of Blinding Lights" - U2
"Bird On A Wire" - Leonard Cohen
"Naked Rain" - This Picture
"Heroes" - Wallflowers
"Rainbow Connection" - The Muppets
"Even Now" - Barry Manilow
"If I Could Change the World" - Eric Clapton
"Volare" - Gipsy Kings
"Two Step" - Dave Matthews Band

 

[Pingfah]

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.

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.

They are often mooting the notion of doing another album, I think it will happen eventually.

That is a wonderful list btw.

You know, I bought Last Words, the Screaming Trees swansong album of outtakes from the unrecorded final album off eBay from Van Conner's webshop, and he signed it for me

 

[trekkiedane]

I know people like this:

Are there any of these in this thread?

 

[Pingfah]

Why am I not surprised such people would also be using an AOL email address!

 

[Mary Ann]

My "mixed" tapes were all songs I taped from the radio, not a mix of other cassettes and LPs I already had. I've divided songs into genres on my iPod but don't have actual playlists. The music I listen to is so diverse and what I listen to depends so much on my mood and what I'm doing that I just play specific albums or specific artists (right now it's Nancy Ajram). Having said that, I'm deeply in love with Ancient Mariner's playlist.

 

[BigJake]

The "Redemption Songs" playlist looks like it would be pretty sweet.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Thanks for the compliments on the list! I'm not sure if anyone really wants to give it a listen, but if so, I went ahead and did one of those youtube playlist thingies.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

There was a mixtape thread over in TV & Media last year, Favorite Mixtape/CD.... Here is my entry from that (less a few videos that have since been taken down; note that it was track-limited to 15 tracks):

1. Planet Claire - The B-52's
2. Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
3. The Crossing - Grace Jones
4. You Are Always on My Mind - Pet Shop Boys
5. Under the Milky Way - The Church
6. Love, Reign o'er Me - The Who
7. Echoes - Pink Floyd
8. In the Cloud Forest - Andy Summers & Robert Fripp
9. Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29 - Wendy Carlos (1968)
10. In Paradisum - Gabriel Fauré
11. Siegfried's Death and Funeral March - Richard Wagner
12. The Battle of Yavin - John Williams
13. Fool in the Rain - Led Zeppelin
14. Monkey Man - The Rolling Stones
15. Downtown Train - Tom Waits

Without a track-limit, it needs at least a few more:

• Lead a Normal Life - Peter Gabriel
• Voyager/What Goes Up.../The Eagle Will Rise Again - The Alan Parsons Project
• Not Dark Yet - Bob Dylan
• Uncle John's Band - Grateful Dead
• Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - David Bowie
• The Balance - The Moody Blues
• Is This Love - Bob Marley & The Wailers

 

[USS Triumphant]

Are there any of these in this thread?

My family moved 22 times in the first 15 years I was alive. I don't listen to the tapes I would record off the local radio stations in each often, but just every once in a while. But only for the nostalgia of them.

The only thing any of them ever did that I would like a copy of for the musical value is that when WBUS ("Kankakee, Joliet, and the South Suburbs") would play "We Built This City" by Starship, they would add their call letters into one of the empty interludes near the "DJ chatter" ("looking out over that Golden Gate Bridge...."), and I liked the effect of that. But I never caught it on tape, unfortunately.

 

[Pondwater]

"Wanted Dead or Alive" Bon Jovi
"Comfortably Numb" Pink Floyd
"Kashmir" Led Zepplin
"American Girl" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Back in Black" AC/DC
"Fly Away" Lenny Kravitz
"Breathe" Pink Floyd
"November Rain" GunsN Roses
"Enter Sandman" Metallica
"Crazy Train" Ozzie Osborne
"Mississippi Queen" Mountain
"Under the Bridge" Red Hot Chilipeppers
"Lithium" Nirvana

 

[Greylock Crescent]

^ That sounds almost straight out of one of my High School mixtapes. About the only difference is a dash of Van Halen. I like it!

 

[thestrangequark]

There's a reason why Hunger Strike (as well as the rest of the album) is so damn intoxicating to listen to. Very raw, powerful ... they captured something with that album. Once in a lifetime, maybe, but damn was it special. Mad Season was good, but nearly so.

Indeed. And the beautiful impermanence of it, and indeed of its inspiration (the death of Andrew Wood, as you probably knew), I think lend to the intoxicating quality.

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.

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.

They are often mooting the notion of doing another album, I think it will happen eventually.

That is a wonderful list btw.

Having written what I just did, I still want this to happen!

You know, I bought Last Words, the Screaming Trees swansong album of outtakes from the unrecorded final album off eBay from Van Conner's webshop, and he signed it for me

That is awesome!

My "mixed" tapes were all songs I taped from the radio, not a mix of other cassettes and LPs I already had. I've divided songs into genres on my iPod but don't have actual playlists. The music I listen to is so diverse and what I listen to depends so much on my mood and what I'm doing that I just play specific albums or specific artists (right now it's Nancy Ajram). Having said that, I'm deeply in love with Ancient Mariner's playlist.

Ahh...waiting with your hand on the record button of the cassette player to catch that song on the radio! I used to listen to one of those radio collections that my dad had made to help me fall asleep when I was a kid. I wish I still had it now, or knew what was on it. A lot of classical guitar, weird, random low key psychedelic stuff, and soothing folky rock. The only song I remember for sure was on it was Van Morrison "Into the Mystic."

I get what you mean about having a really broad range of musical tastes, but I find that making playlists helps me meet my mood's needs even more accurately -- in a single mix I might have hip hop, classical, punk, etc, all represented but each song suits the mood just right.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

^ Speaking of eclectic musical styles, years ago (when Napster was still a thing) my hobby was to collect and catalog songs about New York City. Some really great songs, too, which was awesome. But they were ALL OVER the musical landscape (jazz, pop, rap, punk, hip hop, country, r&b, rock, etc.). Which was, itself, an awesome experience. I really ought to dig up that list of songs ...

 

[Australis]

You should check out my Aussie Rock! thread on TV&M. That's got nearly every song you'd want to make an Aussie music mixtape.

 

[BigJake]

Hah, I was poking around that old 4shared account (linked in the OP) and ran across this Trek mix which I don't recollect making.

Spoiler: Tracklist

1. Star Trek Theme - Alexander Courage
2. Doctor Bartender (ST:TOS)
3. Mafia Score (ST: TOS)
4. Satellites Are Spinning (Zero Dub & Hectic Remix) - Sun Ra Arkestra
5. Ancient Battle - The Ritual
6. Door of the Cosmos (Machinedrum Edit) - Sun Ra Arkestra
7. Survivors (ST:TOS)
8. The Corbomite Maneuver (ST:TOS)
9. Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber
10. What Are Little Girls Made Of (ST:TOS)
11. Capricorn One (Overture) - Jerry Goldsmith
12. Turanic Battle Music - Paul Ruskay
13. Le Wrath Di Khan - Robot Chicken
14. Pain (Star Trek Remix) - Anon.
15. Charlie X (ST:TOS)
16. Myth vs. Reality (MAST Remix) - Sun Ra Arkestra
17. Spock's Brain (ST:TOS)
18. Lullabye for Realville (Remix) - Sun Ra Arkestra
19. Monster Fight (ST:TOS)
20. Vina's Punishment (ST:TOS)
21. Stardust from Tomorrow (Frisina Remix) - Sun Ra Arkestra
22. Elaan of Troyius (ST:TOS)
23. Star Trek Lyrical Theme (ST:TOS)
24. Star Trek Theme Song (Lab Rat Remix)
25. Star Trek Theme Song (Beam Up the Bass Remix)
26. Star Trek Epic Remix

Basically just a totally ridiculous grab bag of Star Trek stuff with some miscellaneous classical and a bunch of Sun Ra remixes thrown in. I must have been on acid. Nevertheless... do believe I'll give it a listen.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The greatest mix tape I ever made was a collection of all the instrumentals from The Cure. I had all kinds of stuff on there, including All Cats are Grey played on violin by, not sure who, one of the band members. There were instrumentals from B sides and out of print stuff and some rare version of Carnage Visors. It was about an hour long? I traded some guy a Cure bootleg (Opera Bastille, how do I remember this?!) CD to burn it for me.

 

[Taylirious]

Kataklysm - Taking The World By Storm
Birdy - Wings
In This Moment - Blood
Rita Ora - R.I.P ft. Tinie Tempah
Eminem - Not Afraid
Jewel - Jupiter
Christina Perri - Jar Of Harts
Course Of Nature- Caught In The Sun
Taylor Swift - Sparks Fly
Luke Bryan - Play It Again
KoRn - Spike In My Veins
Beyoncé - Halo
Staind - So Far Away
Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine
Blink 182 - Carousel
Avril Lavigne - Smile
Taylor Swift - Encanted

 

[Stoo]

haha that is an impressive range of musical genres in one tape! (I approve of the Kataklysm)