Please make me a mix tape!

KellyAssauer · Jun 28, 2013

Yeah, yeah, they don't call them that anymore - but you know what I mean. Call it a CD or an MP3 playlist, it's still the same idea.

You make a collection of songs for somebody... usually a newish boyfriend or girlfriend or someone you hope to date.

The songs themselves might not be as important as the lyrics because you always try to 'sneak' in some semi-hidden message of how you feel about them (consciously or unconsciously!).

So gimmie a play list!

Make a brand new list of what you might do this very minute... or copy the titles of the last collection you made? Either way!

(Minimum ten, maximum twenty titles)

*Please don't quote lyrics*

=)

Xelebes · Jun 28, 2013

They are still called mixtapes however sets is often used, especially when referring to what a dj does.

I've never had a knack for making them but I do prefer listening to mixtapes and sets over albums (although I have come across some albums that do a swell job of making use of the mixtape/set medium.)

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Jun 28, 2013

The only 'mixtape' 'playlist' I've ever made has been for myself... I call it 'Writing' and it plays over and over and over and over... It's a different playlist for every book, too. I had one playlist with one song on it for 'Before I Forget September'. I must've heard 'Tell It Like It Is' a billion times.

Ken · Jun 28, 2013

... black sabbath's black sabbath x 10.
If the chick sticks around after that she's gotta be COOL !

KellyAssauer · Jun 28, 2013

It's been a few years since I sat down to do this,
but I just so happen to have that play list here in front of me:

1. The City - Dismemberment Plan
2. Bag of Hammers - Thao Nguyen & The Get Down Stay Down
3. King - Tunng
4. Noah's Ark - Coco Rosie
5. When U Love Somebody - The Fruit Bats
6. Swimming Pool - Thao Nguyen & The Get Down Stay Down
7. Bullets - Tunng
8. Ain't Thick - Jeffery Lewis
9. Superstition - Blanche
10. No Children - The Mountain Goats
11. Roll The Bodies Over - Stump
12. Secrets - Tunng
13. The Little Acorn - The Fruit Bats
14. Sunny Road - Emilia Torrini

*wonders what the heck that said about me at the time?*

William Haskins · Jun 28, 2013

all easily found on you tube:

demon kitty rag - kattzenjammer
rocks and water - deb talan
shankill butchers - the decemberists
tyger - tangerine dream
living behind the sun - devics
memoirs of a phuket geisha - the red elvises
engel - rammstein
so like candy - elvis costello
like tears in rain - covenant
the curse of millhaven - nick cave
the leavening of the spit-bread - munly and the lee lewis harlots

Caitlin Black · Jun 28, 2013

Mmm Bop - Hanson.
Hit Me Baby (One More Time) - Britney Spears.
If You Wanna Be My Lover - The Spice Girls.

...

What? They're all totally hardcore. I mean, who needs to headbang when your brain is dying from lack of stimulation?

Mclesh · Jun 29, 2013

This is my 80's mix tape with a little '70s overlap. My neighbor made it for me after he read it on my blog. (Which was not stalkerish of him to do at all.)

One Step Beyond - Madness
Radio Radio - Elvis Costello
I Confess - English Beat
Party at Ground Zero - Fishbone
Madness - Madness
Pump it Up - Elvis Costello
Rock this Town - Stray Cats
Message in a Bottle - The Police
Our Lips are Sealed - The Go Go's
Soul Kitchen - X
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
We Got The Beat - The Go Go's
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
Save it for Later - The English Beat
Do you Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club
Brass in Pocket - Pretenders
Everyday I Write the Book - Elvis Costello
I'll Stop the World and Melt with you - Modern English

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Jun 30, 2013

I apparently need to get out more... 99% of these artists I've never heard of. And to be truthful, the ones I have heard of, I've never voluntarily listened to.

Yuppers... I'm old.

Caitlin Black · Jun 30, 2013

I don't think it's a matter of age, really. I've never heard of most of those bands either.

I think it's because I live under a rock. (And for reference, nobody here has mentioned a single band that I have in my CD collection. So I'm either super-lame or super-awesome.

)

williemeikle · Jun 30, 2013

KellyAssauer said:
So gimmie a play list!

20 for today (Yes, I'm an old fart.)

More News from Nowhere - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan
Shot Shot - Gomez
Blue Monday - Fats Domino
I Want You - Elvis Costello
Did She Jump or Was She Pushed - Richard And Linda Thompson
The Creature From the Black Lagoon - Dave Edmunds
Long Black Veil - Johnny Cash
Please Read the Letter - Robert Plant and Alison Strauss
Sloth - Fairport Convention
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis Presley
Drive All Night - Bruce Springsteen
Take Me to the River - Talking Heads
Mandolin Wind - The Faces
My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone
Ball and Chain - Janis Joplin
The Weaver's Answer - Family
Castles Made of Sand - Jimi Hendrix
Beat the Devil's Tattoo - BRMC
Mystery Girl - Roy Orbison

Ken · Jun 30, 2013

William Haskins said:
shankill butchers - the decemberists

... intense.
Had to give them a listen.
The original Decemberists were mentioned
in a 19th century russian novel I once read.

The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising (Russian: Восстание декабристов, translit: Vosstanie dekabristov) took place in Imperial Russia on 26 December [O.S. 14 December] 1825. Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession. Because these events occurred in December, the rebels were called the Decembrists (Dekabristy, Russian: Декабристы). This uprising, which was suppressed by Nicholas I, took place in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg. In 1925, to mark the centenary of the event, the square was renamed as Decembrist Square, but in 2008 it reverted to its original name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt

Xelebes · Jun 30, 2013

My mixtape for you for now.

B.o.B. - Airplanes
Hotel Saint George - I Don't Know Why
Ed Sheeran - The A Team
Sharon Batts - Dear Mr. Jesus
Wendy Sulca - Cervantes, Cervantes
Tommy Seebach - Det Gratis
Tammy Faye Bakker - Don't Give Up, You're on the Brink of a Miracle.
Jennifer Rush - The Power of Love
Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears
Vitamin C - Friends Forever
E-Type - Olympia
Luv - Trojan Horse
Jan Terri - Losing You

L.J. · Jul 1, 2013

One Headlight - The Wallflowers
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
3 A.M. - Matchbox 20
I Would Do Anything for Love - Meatloaf
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Addicted - Cheryl Wheeler and Dan Seals
You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma - David Frizzell and Shelly West
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Blaze of Glory - Bon Jovi

williemeikle · Jul 1, 2013

One for today

Red Eyes and Tears - BRMC
Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen
Waterloo Sunset - Kinks
Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Waltzing's For Dreamers - Richard Thompson
I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack
The Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother
The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave
Radio Free Europe - REM
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Nobody's Fault But Mine - Page and Plant
The Tide Rushes in - The Moody Blues
Will the Circle be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
April Skies - Jesus and Mary Chain
Monday Monday - Mamas and Papas
The Ghosts That We Knew - Mumford and Sons

Ken · Jul 1, 2013

... "jefferson airplane." Cool.
Their tune, "Today," is kinda apropos too.
A duet.

Robbert · Jul 2, 2013

Just sayin' ... I used to have 800 tapes, all catalogued. In the 1990s, I had around 1.000 original CD's.

A typical mix tape:

1. Sharkey's Night - Laurie Anderson
2. Mirror Man - Captain Beefheart
3. Mary, Mary So Contrary - Can
4. London Calling - The Clash
5. Masquerade - Fischer-Z
6. Flying Teapot - Gong
7. Auf dem Friedhof - Nina Hagen
8. John Barleycorn - Traffic
9. Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
10. Catholic Girls - Frank Zappa

KellyAssauer · Jul 2, 2013

I have cd around here somewhere... that a person (okay, yes a guy...) made me several years ago. He had taken the time to make a very real looking card stock case with artwork and pages and lyrics and it's something else. *the front is a photo of the long gone Point Pleasant Bridge, the back is two 'mothman' like creatures kissing in silhouette...

He entitled it "Span" and here's the track listing:

It Probably Always Will - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
AC/DC - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Spaceboy - Smashing Pumpkins
Under The Milky Way Tonight - The Church
Running Up That Hill - Placebo
Wind of Change - Hawkwind
Cotton Crown - Sonic Youth
1000 Feet Below You - Golden Earring
One in a Million - Lene Lovich
Love & Anger - Kate Bush
Sadly Beautiful - The Replacements
If I Only had A Heart - The Afghan Whigs
Hymn To Her - The Pretenders
Say Something - James

*geez, wonder why I just so happened to know right where it was?...* =)

williemeikle · Jul 2, 2013

One for today

1. Diamond Dogs - David Bowie
2. The Weeping Song - Nick Cave
3. Did She Jump or Was She Pushed - Richard and Linda Thompson
4. If Six was Nine - Jimi Hendrix
5. Dimples - John Lee Hooker
6. Handle With Care - The Travelling Wilburys
7. Sweet Virginia - Rolling Stones
8. Jesus Doesn`t Want Me for A Sunbeam - Nirvana
9. Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
10. Closing Time - Leonard Cohen
11. Honky Tonk Blues - Hank Williams
12. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window - Joe Cocker
13. Unicorn - Tyrannosaurus Rex
14. Oh Mary Don't You Weep - Bruce Springsteen
15. Please Read the Letter - Robert Plant and Jimmy Page
16. Labelled With Love - Squeeze
17. Shuffle Your Feet - Black Rebel MotorCycle Club
18. Surfing USA - Jesus and Mary Chain.
19. Boston Tea Party - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
20. The Sky is Falling - Elmore James

williemeikle · Jul 12, 2013

Ipod shuffle for Friday - Golden oldie day

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Castles Made of Sand - Jimi Hendrix
Mama We're All Crazee Now - Slade
Into My Arms - Nick Cave
Foxhole - Television
Fotheringay - Sandy Denny
Take Me To The River - Talking Heads
Sweet Home Chicago - Peter Green's Splinter Group
I've Been loving You Too Long - Otis Redding
Roll Over Lay Down - Status Quo
Walking on a wire - Richard and Linda Thompson
Hangover Girl - Gomez
Your Cheating Heart - Hank Williams
Deborah - Tyrannosaurus Rex
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker

Ken · Jun 25, 2014

Used to be a fella would serenade a gal beneath 'er balcony.
Nowadays, they make mixed tapes. What is our modern generation coming to, alas ?

KellyAssauer · Jun 25, 2014

Nowadays?

No huh-uh.

Mixtapes are so late 80's and I'm such a MPDG...

regdog · Jun 25, 2014

Phht, I have a bunch of CDs I made with lots of 80s tunes

williemeikle · Jun 25, 2014

Here's a random 20 for today

More News from Nowhere - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down - Robert Plant
Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
Methamphetamine - Old Crow Medicine Show
Ain't That a Shame - Fats Domino
Come As You Are - Nirvana
I've Been Loving You too Long - Otis Redding
Diamond Dogs - David Bowie
Will the Wolf Survive - Los Lobos
Shoot Out the Lights - Richard And Linda Thompson
Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Drive All Night - Bruce Springsteen
Take Me to the River - Al Green
Tender - Blur
Marquee Moon - Television
Beat the Devil's Tattoo - BRMC
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
The Wind Cries, Mary - Jimi Hendrix
Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Sandy Denny

KellyAssauer · Jun 25, 2014

My most recent...

Open your Eyes - Snow Patrol
Somebody Mixed My Medicine - The Pretty Reckless
Giving Up Everything - Natalie Merchant
Lovesong - Jackie Lopez & T
Young Dead Men - The Black Angels
Head on the Door - The Cure
Nobody Knows Me at All - The Weepies
Sex and Gasoline - Rodney Crowell
All Your Friends - The Dogbones
Satisfaction - PJ Harvey & Bjork

Please make me a mix tape!

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