Mixtape Thread

[BigJake]

The greatest mix tape I ever made was a collection of all the instrumentals from The Cure. . . I traded some guy a Cure bootleg (Opera Bastille, how do I remember this?!) CD to burn it for me.

Badass.

 

[B.J.]

I used to make my own off the radio back in the 80s, but now I only have one "mix", and that's partly because it was provided as a single monster mp3. I'll give you the list, see if you can guess what it's from:

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missle F-111
Kaye/Montenegro - (Theme from) I Dream of Jeanie
Yello - Oh Yeah
The Flowerpot of Men - Beat City
Big Audio Dynamite - BAD
John Williams - (Theme from) Star Wars
The Dream Academy - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Wayne Newton - Danke Shoen
The Beatles - Twist and Shout
Zapp - Radio People
Blue Room - I'm Afraid
General Public - Taking the Day Off
The Dream Academy - The Edge of Forever
The (English) Beat - March of the Swivelheads

(I left a couple off since they're specific to the reference.)

Spoiler: Click for answer!

If "Oh Yeah" and "Danke Shoen" didn't give it away immediately, it's from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Darth Mojo (who's done effects work on Trek, Galactica and other stuff) put together this mix with sound bytes from the movie. If the link still works, you can download this from his blog post here. The link to the actual mp3 is in a yellow link near the bottom of the post, named "Ferris_Bueller_OST", and is about 80Mb.

 

[BigJake]

I used to be a regular at a roots/dub reggae night in my town. Good summer music... and some of the real classics are accessible on mp3 these days. Here's a mixtape at honest-to-goodness mixtape length.



Side A Tracklist:
Kingston Town - AlboRosie
Assassinator - Eek-a-Mouse
Call the Police - John Wayne
Ring the Alarm - Tenor Saw
Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin
Gunman - Michael Prophet
Natty Dread - Lt. Stitchie
Bam Bam - Sister Nancy
Below the Waist - Queen Ifrica
Fattie Boom Boom - Ranking Dread
Morning Ride - Yellowman



Side B Tracklist:
Dread Lion - The Upsetters
No No No - Dawn Penn
Uptown Top Ranking - Althea and Donna
Book of Rules - The Heptones
Gun Shot - Johnny Ringo
It's a Pity - Tanya Stephens
Smile - Audrey Hall
Girlie Girlie - Sophia George
Long Time Ago - Johnny Cool
Under Mi Sensi - Barrington Levy
It A Ring - Tonto Irie
Rastafari Anthem - AlboRosie

(Click on the images above to get the tracks.)

 

[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

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

I forgot one. Tori Amos - Bouncing Off Clouds

Kataklysm is AWESOME!

 

[BigJake]

A collection of powerpop goodies.



Side A Tracklist:
The Buzzcocks - Money
Cheap Trick - Auf Wiedersehen
The Breeders - I Just Want to Get Along
Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself
The Exploding Hearts - I'm a Pretender
Loaded Dice - Mam'selle
The Saints - Just Like Fire Would
The Records - Starry Eyes
The Infidels - Evil Change of Season
The Dictators - Back to Africa
The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
The Rubinoos - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
The Nerves - Hanging On The Telephone
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - More Than This



Side B Tracklist:
Dirty Looks - Twelve O'Clock High
The Flamin' Groovies - Heading For the Texas Border
The Directions - Three Bands Tonight
The Hi-Fi's - Look What You've Done
The Atlantics - When You're Young
The Real Kids - All Kindsa Girls
The Magnolias - When I'm Not
The Zeros - Beat Your Heart Out
The Sorrows - Teenage Heartbreak
The Knack - Good Girls Don't
Big Star - September Gurls
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Cinnamon Girl (live)

Click the images above to download.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Wow ... Matthew Sweet. Good memories associated with his songs ... very good memories.

 

[BigJake]

One of the grandmasters of power pop, I still don't think he's fully gotten the credit he deserves.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

No, he hasn't. But I love his collaboration with Susanna Hoffs. That's almost credit by 80s pop association.

On a tangent, I think "pop" music, generally speaking, gets a bad rep as it is. There's a quote from Eddie Van Halen (which I can't properly source at the moment), where he said: "If it sounds good, it is good." Which validates a lot of pop music (Spice Girls notwithstanding). Matthew Sweet certainly falls into that description.

 

[BigJake]

Indeed. So too the Atlantics, the Buzzcocks, Cheap Trick (it took me a long time to fully realize why Cheap Trick were so highly regarded, but I have), the Exploding Hearts and so on... powerpop is one of those sub-genres (like dub reggae, like country) that I had to grow into and just, finally, let myself appreciate because dammit, it sounds good.

 

[BigJake]

Some Canadiana (the first one is rock and folk, the second is hip-hop, soul and electronica):



Vol. 1 Tracklist:
1. Then Came the White Man (The Stampeders)
2. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot)
3. Go Back Home (The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir)
4. Old Man (City and Colour)
5. No Sugar Tonight (The Guess Who)
6. Roxy Roller (Sweeney Todd)
7. Sex Gorilla (National Velvet)
8. Inside Out (Crash Vegas)
9. Grace, Too (The Tragically Hip)
10. Mass Romantic (The New Pornographers)
11. Money City Maniacs (Sloan)
12. Moment of Weakness (Bif Naked)
13. Lovercall (Danko Jones)
14. More Effeminate Than You (Robin Black & The Intergalactic Rock Stars)
15. Past the Stars (By Divine Right)
16. Youth Without Youth (Metric)
17. Sponsorships (Les Georges Leningrad)
18. The Truth About Cats & Dogs (Pony Up!)
19. Reflektor (The Arcade Fire)



Vol. 2 Tracklist:
1. Superheroes (Esthero)
2. Genesis (Grimes)
3. Afrodiziak (Bran Van 3000)
4. The Love Song (K-OS)
5. Day In Day Out (Dream Warriors)
6. U.L. (Ghetto Concept)
7. Peeps (Cipher)
8. On Da Mic (Michie Mee)
9. Wordz of Wisdom (3rd BasS)
10. Timeless (Maestro Fresh Wes feat. Divine Brown)
11. In The Beginning (K'Naan)
12. Child in Rhyme (OK Cobra)
13. Soul Pleureur (Dubmatique)
14. Rocksteady (Remy Shand)
15. Lay It On the Line (Divine Brown)
16. Seven Day Fool (Jully Black)
17. Let's Ride (Choclair)
18. Ol' Time Killin' (Kardinal Offishall)
19. Night Vision (Swollen Members)

(Click on the above pics to download)

 

[lurok]

This is one I use for gym. Pretty vanilla, but great BPMs. Who knew Rock And Roll would be such a great workout track?

1. In-Grid - In-Tango
2. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (Seamus Haji remix)
3. Saturdays - All Fired Up (Killa Club Remix)
4. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles remix)
5. OMD - Bunker Soldiers
6. Musique - Keep On Jumpin'
7. Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
8. Earth Wind & Fire - Can´t Let Go
9. Sylvester - Dance (Disco Heat)
10. Sugababes - Round Round (Craigie&Critchon Mix)
11. ABBA - Voulez-Vous
12. In-Grid - Tu Es Foutu (Extended Version)
13. David Bowie - Let's Dance (Remix)
14. Pizzicato Five - Mademoiselle
15. Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf
16. The Human League - Empire State Human
17. George Michael - Flawless (Go To The City)
18. Heaven 17 - We Live So Fast
19. Pizzicato Five - la regle du jeu
20. Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
21. Sugababes - Freak Like Me (Different Gear Mix)
22. Run DMC - It's Like That
23. Shakira - Ojos Asi (Thunder Remix)
24. Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand van Helden remix)
25. Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Oooh (Remix)
26. Sylvester - You Make Me Feel Mighty Real

 

[BigJake]

^ Looks interesting, is there an mp3 somewheres? I could use something a little different from the rather generic club / electro mixes I'm currently working out to.

 

[BigJake]

FACT put up a series of articles and mixes about the 100 Best Albums of the Seventies. The articles, with links to the streamable mixes, are here. I'm listening to the top 20 bracket right now and it's all manner of boss.