Mixtape Thread

[BigJake]

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?

 

[Mary Ann]

No Pina Colada song? I has a disappoint.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

That's an awfully long mixtape, dude!

 

[trekkiedane]

That's an awfully long mixtape, dude!

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.

 

[Mary Ann]

I know what you're talking about, and now I feel old.

 

[Kirby]

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.

 

[trekkiedane]

Speaking of old, here's my most recent mix:

1. Andy Williams: Can' Take my Eyes off You
2. Jethro Tull: Crossfire
3. Dire Straits: Telegraph Road
4. Otis Redding: (Sitti'n on) The Dock of the Bay
5. Dionne Warwick: Anyone Who Had a Heart
6. Herb Alpert: A Taste of Honey
7. The Mamas and the Papas: Monday, Monday
8. Herb Alpert: Tijuana Taxi
9. Dionne Warwick: Do You Know the Way to San Jose
10. Stealers Wheel: Stuck in the Middle With You
11. Hose Gonzàles: Heartbeats
12. Miles Davis: Milestones
13. The Art of Noise: Paranoima
14. Herb Alpert: Casino Royale
15. 10 CC: Dreadlock Holiday
16. Tom Jones: It's Not Unusual
17. Aretja Franklin: Respect
18. Johnny Mann Singers: Up, Up and Away
19. Dionne Warwick: I Say a Little Prayer
20. Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
21. Julie London: Fly Me to the Moon
22. Manhattan Transfer: Chanson d'amour
23. Judy Garland: There's No Business Like Show Business
24. Allan Sherman: Camp Grenada
25. Corner Gas theme song
26. Loudon Wainwright III: Drinking Song
27. Extrabreit: Das Fliegerlied
28. Frank Sinatra: Fly Me to the Moon
29. Lou Reed & John Cale: Nobody But You
30. Raffi: Bananaphone
31. Lou Reed & John Cale: Smalltown
32. Battlestar Galactica theme (Stu Phillips)

 

[BigJake]

That's an awfully long mixtape, dude!

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.

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.

Oh man, that takes me back. Waaaay back.

Speaking of old, here's my most recent mix

I'd listen to it.

No Pina Colada song? I has a disappoint.

Noted for future editions.

 

[Pingfah]

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.

 

[BigJake]

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

Gloriously horrible.

I'm in the Eurovision stretch now, it's quite magnificent.

 

[Pingfah]

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

Gloriously horrible.

No, it's just plain ordinary horrible

 

[USS Triumphant]

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]

 

[Australis]

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)

 

[Greylock Crescent]

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).

 

[Amaris]

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

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

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.

 

[thestrangequark]

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

 

[Greylock Crescent]

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.

 

[thestrangequark]

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

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

 

[thestrangequark]

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.