Mix-Tape Lab

[Eric D.]

Labatory (Informally, lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.

"The mix tape is a list a quotations, a poetic form in fact: the cento is a poem made up of lines pulled from other poems. The new poet collects and remixes. Similarly an operation of taste, it is also cousin to the curious passion of the obsessive collector. Unable to express himself in 'pure' art, the collector finds himself in obsessive acquisition. Collecting is strangely hot and cold, passionate and calculating." Matias Viegener

I would like to begin this thread with the idea in mind that we could come here to work on, ask for assistance, advice, and put forTH all considerations for creating that great American art-form known as the mix-tape.

Mix-tapes were traditionally recorded on audio cassettes. We all know that the compact disc or the MP3 playlist is the contemporary method of choice when it comes to the format, but "mix-tape" is widely accepted.

Plenty of thought and time goes into constructing a mix: questions you should ask yourself is what theme am I going for, is there an overall mood i'm trying to create? , what tracks best suit this idea? , How will i be sequencing the songs.


Sometimes this can be easy, other times you shelf a mix for a few weeks after hitting a wall..

...and what better way to break through the walls when you find yourself trying to find a song that segues nicely after that awesome cover version of "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" you just discovered, then to seek feedback from your peers.

the only caveat is, you've got to show us the finished product.

[Eric D.]

Helpful Resources:

Wikihow- Make A Perfect Mix-Tape (http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Perfect-Mix-Tape-or-CD)
Wikia - A Quick Way To Generate Tracklisting for Mixes using Excel and Word (http://music.wikia.com/wiki/A_Quick_Way_To_Generate_Tracklistings_For_Mixes_An d_Compilations,_Using_Microsoft_Excel_And_Word:Ess ay)
Art Of The Mix's Beginner's Guide to Engineering the Perfect Mixed Tape (http://www.artofthemix.org/community/blog/page/A-Beginners-Guide-to-Engineering-the-Perfect-Mixed-Tape.aspx)
Art Of The Mix's Taxonomy of the Mix (http://www.artofthemix.org/community/blog/page/Taxonomy-of-the-Mix.aspx)

[Eric D.]

Nick Hornby's High Fidelity:
"To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with "Got to Get You Off My Mind", but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs and...oh, there are loads of rules."

[Eric D.]

example of an awesome mix by Nick Hornsby:
from his book 31 Songs

Songbook (published in the United Kingdom as 31 Songs) is a 2002 collection of 26 essays by English writer Nick Hornby about songs and (more often) the particular emotional resonance they carry for him.

Song by song, Hornby delves into what makes music catchy or classic, and how it can come to play an integral role in a person's emotional life.


There are 31 songs, but only 26 essays; in a few instances, multiple songs are discussed within a single piece.


Teenage Fanclub - "Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From"
Bruce Springsteen - "Thunder Road"
Nelly Furtado - "I'm Like a Bird"
Led Zeppelin - "Heartbreaker"
Rufus Wainwright - "One Man Guy"
Santana - "Samba Pa Ti"
Rod Stewart - "Mama, You Been on My Mind"
Bob Dylan - "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" / The Beatles - "Rain"
Ani DiFranco - "You Had Time" / Aimee Mann - "I've Had It"
Paul Westerberg - "Born for Me"
Suicide - "Frankie Teardrop" / Teenage Fanclub - "Ain't That Enough"
The J. Geils Band - "First I Look at the Purse"
Ben Folds Five - "Smoke"
Badly Drawn Boy - "A Minor Incident" (from the About a Boy movie soundtrack)
The Bible - "Glorybound"
Van Morrison - "Caravan"
Butch Hancock and Marce LaCouture - "So I'll Run"
Gregory Isaacs - "Puff, the Magic Dragon"
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" / Richard and Linda Thompson - "Calvary Cross"
Jackson Browne - "Late for the Sky"
Mark Mulcahy - "Hey Self-Defeater"
The Velvelettes - "Needle in a Haystack"
O.V. Wright - "Let's Straighten It Out"
Röyksopp - "Röyksopp's Night Out"
The Avalanches - "Frontier Psychiatrist" / Soulwax - "No Fun" / "Push It"
Patti Smith Group - "Pissing in a River"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31_Songs

[howyadoin]

The mix-tape is the greatest artform of the last 40-50 years, in my opinion. I love that so many authors and artists feel compelled to write about the form, too. I remember an 80s-era article in Playboy (possibly by Chuck Eddy, though I could be wrong) where he based his mixes on the sociopolitical breakdowns of the intended audience - Introverted Traditional, etc.

The best advice I got out of that article was that you should always finish the tape with something offbeat - a soundbite from a movie, etc. Something to cleanse the palate before the next tape, basically.

[howyadoin]

Art Of The Mix's Taxonomy of the Mix (http://www.artofthemix.org/community/blog/page/Taxonomy-of-the-Mix.aspx)Jesus, I think that one covers them all. This was a favourite of mine back in my college-DJ days:

the imaginary concert tape- limited to only one artist, you program the ideal setlist that you would love to see them play... because it was a lot easier to mix two live tunes together - the audience noise in between did all the heavy lifting.

[beetlebum]

And when I'm here, I'll make you a mixed tape.

http://i926.photobucket.com/albums/ad101/bastardacronica/ist2_270299-blank-cd-cover-1-1.jpg

Hope that's okay. It's technically a mix CD, and I made it for the Traitor Game.

My character is Italian, therefore explaining why my mix has so many Italian acts in it.

[beetlebum]

I should also add there's no specific theme to my mix-tape, except songs that were running through my head as I was playing her.

Though certain songs have significance; "Mi Fido Di Te" (I Trust You), for example, is what she said to another player before taking a leap of faith.

"Putting Out Fires" was chosen because the lyrics articulate her complicated relationship with her friends, and "Il Mio Canto Libero" (My Free Song) was added to the list, because to me, it reflects her desire to find escape from turmoil, and begin anew (if you get your hand on a translation of the song, it would make more sense.)

I'll probably explain in more detail why I chose these songs for Helena Bertinelli/Huntress later, but right now, I'm tired.

[howyadoin]

Alright, here's one of mine. Based partially on episodes of the NBC series Life (http://www.have-dog.com/life), with a lot of my own suggestions thrown into the mix, so to speak:

“Cold Girl Fever” - The National
“Use Somebody” - Kings of Leon
“Sex On Fire” - Kings of Leon
“Give It All Back” - The Pierces
“In the Sun” - Donna De Lory
“Go” - Sparklehorse with Flaming Lips
“Trouble” - Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
“Ooh Child” - Beth Orton
“Metal Heart” - Cat Power
“American English” - Idlewild
“Down Where the Drunkards Roll” - Los Lobos
“Ol´55” - Tom Waits
“Sister Lost Soul” - Alejandro Escovedo
“Hands of Time” - Groove Armada
“Did I Damage You?” - The Kill Devil Hills
“Everything’s Fucked” - Dirty Three
“Heartbreakin’ Man” - My Morning Jacket
“God’s Children” - The Gutter Twins
“Welcome to the Boomtown” - David + David
“Hallelujah, Here She Comes” - U2
“Just Like Roses” - Cruzados
“Wicked Game” - Ruby James
“One Man Wrecking Machine” - Guster
“Pictures Of Matchstick Men” - Camper Van Beethoven
“One” - Aimee Mann

And I feel like I broke the rules with two Kings of Leon tunes in a row, but I've tried several times to get rid of one, and the list just wasn't the same afterwards.

[Slackjaws_ate_my_brain]

I actually met my wife via Mix tapes. We were at a DJ dance in high school, and a mutual friend introduced her to me as "the guy that will make you a great mix tape". I did just that, and it was all uphill from there!

[howyadoin]

I actually met my wife via Mix tapes. We were at a DJ dance in high school, and a mutual friend introduced her to me as "the guy that will make you a great mix tape". I did just that, and it was all uphill from there!That is goddamn awesome. Well done, sir.

[Shellhead]

I learned most of those tips the hard way. Nobody else in my social circles has ever been into doing mix tapes, so for the longest time, I was just figuring this stuff out on my own. I rarely had access to an equalizer, and never a mixer. Even after making over a hundred mix tapes, I have still learned some great tips from this thread. Like ending with something offbeat to cleanse the palate... good stuff.

Because of my isolated experiences, I rarely bother anymore with working with titles or lyrics to suit a theme, because sometimes there is a serious disconnect between the two. For example, I'm Not in Love, by 10cc is one helluva a makeout tune, but if the girl listens to the lyrics, it can be a mood-killer. And just about any New Order song has a vast gulf between music and lyrics.

So I'm more about the music fitting together from song to song. For example, putting P.J. Harvey's song Down by the Water right before Portishead's song Numb sounds really good to my ears. Part of it is that the two songs together sustain a certain mood, and part of it is that the first song drops abruptly into silence which works like a beat in the surreal opening notes of the second.

Other times, I'm looking for an interesting transition, almost like a narrative. So maybe I go from Handsome Boy Modeling School's song The Truth (laid-back R&B/lounge... Morcheeba-like) to Delire Et Passion, by Gabin, which sounds like it could be a cool song for a funeral in a James Bond movie.

So my favorite mix tape bands tend to be ones with a lot of variety to their sound: the Kinks, the Beatles, dada. And definitely performers who work on the boundaries between genres, for flexibility in transitions from one sound to another, from one mood to another.

[Eric D.]

Alright, here's one of mine. Based partially on episodes of the NBC series Life (http://www.have-dog.com/life), with a lot of my own suggestions thrown into the mix, so to speak:

“Cold Girl Fever” - The National
“Use Somebody” - Kings of Leon
“Sex On Fire” - Kings of Leon
“Give It All Back” - The Pierces
“In the Sun” - Donna De Lory
“Go” - Sparklehorse with Flaming Lips
“Trouble” - Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
“Ooh Child” - Beth Orton
“Metal Heart” - Cat Power
“American English” - Idlewild
“Down Where the Drunkards Roll” - Los Lobos
“Ol´55” - Tom Waits
“Sister Lost Soul” - Alejandro Escovedo
“Hands of Time” - Groove Armada
“Did I Damage You?” - The Kill Devil Hills
“Everything’s Fucked” - Dirty Three
“Heartbreakin’ Man” - My Morning Jacket
“God’s Children” - The Gutter Twins
“Welcome to the Boomtown” - David + David
“Hallelujah, Here She Comes” - U2
“Just Like Roses” - Cruzados
“Wicked Game” - Ruby James
“One Man Wrecking Machine” - Guster
“Pictures Of Matchstick Men” - Camper Van Beethoven
“One” - Aimee Mann

And I feel like I broke the rules with two Kings of Leon tunes in a row, but I've tried several times to get rid of one, and the list just wasn't the same afterwards.

i'm digging the songs you've put together. Has a certain something to it.
Lot of songs on here you can either listen to them solo in reflection, or have playing at at a bar during night with a friend or two or three (bourbon).

[Eric D.]

So my favorite mix tape bands tend to be ones with a lot of variety to their sound: the Kinks, the Beatles, dada. And definitely performers who work on the boundaries between genres, for flexibility in transitions from one sound to another, from one mood to another.

lately, - alot of mine seem to end up like that too.

[Eric D.]

okay, - so after i read the last trade for 100 bullets, i was inspired to make a mix of songs that had a certain feel that you could liken to one of the characters or a scene within the series. I knocked out a good deal of it, - but somewhere along the way i shelved it.

So, this is my work in progress for a 100 Bullets Soundtrack

A need a few mores songs ,and I need to determine how long it's going to be , and start pruning 2 or 3 songs here or there, and maybe adding 1 in the process. I need to consider some more songs for wylie.

Right now, - there's no sequence. more or less i've got a big block of granite here.

****don't want to spoil anything for anybody*****

Joseph Arthur & The Lonely People - "Temporary People" (Jack Daw - mainly while he was binging and contemplating with the attache)

Black Keys - "10 a.m. Automatic" (Jack Daw - bar scene)

Dutchess & The Duke - "Reservoir Park" (Cole Burns - before he was reactivated)

Os Mutantes - "A Minha Menina" (Lono, in Miami, before and during his sit-down w/ Graves

Bobby Womack - "Across 110th Street: (Curtis Hughes -flashback)

Blackalicious - "Brainwashers" (featuring Ben Harper) - Lil' Hughes -

Push Button Objects - "360 degrees" Lil' Hughes

Rolling Stones - "Beast of Burden" (branch & cole talking at the bar)

Bob Dylan - "Johanna" (wylie, dizzy, and branch in mexico. at the end of issue 58)

Phoenix - "If I Ever Feel Better" (Benito Medici - highrollin' in Atlantic City)

Phil Collins - "In The Air Tonight" (one of the best scenes in the series, - where the girl from issue 19 takes her revenge on Lono)

Pixies - "Where is My Mind" (starts about the time Remi jumps from the high-rise hospital)

Black Angels - "Prodigal Son" (agents en route to the climactic throw-down with the trust)

Black Mountain - "Wucan" not for sure what part it would be in, but this is the kind of song for a montage where when a group of the agents could be travelling to one of the many locales

DJ Shadow - "Six Days" - (the Trust, at the Medici house)

Tv on The Radio - "Staring At the Son" (roll to credits)

[Slackjaws_ate_my_brain]

That is goddamn awesome. Well done, sir.

What's even MORE awesome is that the tape is STILL in our appartment! It's a 100 minute TDK cassette, and here's the list :

Side A :
- Dropkick Murphys - Barroom Hero
- Misfits - Horror Hotel
- One Man Army - Just Another Dead End Story
- The Meteors - We Wanna Wreck Here
- Rancid - Turn Tables
- Ramones - 53rd and 3rd
- Samhain - All Murder, All Guts, All Fun!
- Social Distortion - Don't Drag Me Down
- Shleprock - Suburbia
- Suicide Machines - New Girl
- Tiger Army - True Romance
- Toy Dolls - Coffey is a Boot Boy!
- US Bombs - Neverland
- The Unseen - Social Security
- The Vandals - It's a Fact
- Zeke - Revolution
- Face to Face - I'm Trying (live)
- 88 Finger Louie - Blink
- Mustard Plug - Lolita
- Heckle - For the Ride
- Hot Water Music - Rooftops
- Stray Cats - Rumble in Brighton
- Guttermouth - Chicken Box (live)
- Mouthwash - Fool's Gold (demo)

Side B :

- Cock Sparrer - Take'em All
- The Offspring - All I Want
- Operation Ivy - Gonna Find You!
- AFI - He Who Laughs Last
- Agnostic Front - Gotta Go
- AAA - Centerfold (J Geil's Band cover)
- Alkaline Trio - Cop
- Anti-Heros - Rich People Don't Go To Jail
- Bouncing Souls - Cracked
- Bad Religion - Atomic Garden
- The Clash - Safe European Home
- Common Rider - Classics of Love
- The Casualties - Rejected and Unwanted
- Circle Jerks - Wasted
- Dead Kennedys - Police Truck
- The Cramps - Bikini Girls with Machine Guns
- Sponge - Plowed
- Fear - Let's Have a War
- Green Day - She
- Goldfinger - Here in Your Bedroom
- Charged GBH - DOA
- H20 - Innocent Kids
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Where'd You Go?
- Less Than Jake - Great American Sharp Shooter

I actually have no clue if this tape still works......I may have to give it a shot later tonight.

[howyadoin]

Another mix for your consideration:

“Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” - The Jam
“Airport” - The Motors
“Infected” - Teenage Head
“Somethin’ on My Mind” - Teenage Head
“Let’s Shake” - Teenage Head
“This Beat Goes On/Switchin’ to Glide” - The Kings
“People Who Died” - Jim Carroll Band
“Turn on the Light” - Bram Tchaikovsky
“I’m the One That’s Leavin’” - Bram Tchaikovsky
“Sarah Smiles” - Bram Tchaikovsky
“I’m a Believer” - Bram Tchaikovsky
“(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and Understanding” - Elvis Costello
“Is She Really Goin’ Out With Him” - Joe Jackson
“Hold Back the Night” - Graham Parker
“Heat Treatment” - Graham Parker
“Rolene” - Moon Martin
“Bad Case of Lovin’ You” - Robert Palmer
“Grey Cortina” - Tom Robinson Band
“Turning Japanese” - The Vapours
“Cruel to Be Kind” - Nick Lowe
“My Sharona” - The Knack
“Good Girls Don’t” - The Knack
“Back of My Hand” - The Jags
“Something’s Missing” - The Chords
“2-4-6-8 Motorway” - Tom Robinson Band
“Salsbury Hill” - Peter Gabriel
“Making Plans for Nigel” - XTC
“Games Without Frontiers” - Peter Gabriel
“Highschool Confidential” - Rough Trade
“One Way or Another” - Blondie
“Cars” - Gary Numan
“Driver’s Seat” - Sniff n’ the Tears
“Mexican Radio” - Wall of Voodoo
“Workin’ in a Coal Mine” - Devo
“Message to You, Rudi” - The Specials
“Senses Working Overtime” - XTC

Deliberate breaking of the multiple-tracks-by-one-artist rule.

[Royal]

My first puzzle mixtape, so be kind.

See if you can guess the theme.

Call Mr. Lee - Television
Southern Accents - Johnny Cash
Shaking Through - REM
Victoria - Shane MacGowan and The Popes
Vagabond of the Western World - Thin Lizzy
Eurochild - Massive Attack w/ Tricky
Detonation Boulevard - Sisters of Mercy
Content - Machines of Loving Grace
Robotboy - Robyn

[Royal]

damn you monica

[jessecuster3]

I guess my method is rather boring, I just choose a number of songs that I am digging at the time and throw them together.

[howyadoin]

I guess my method is rather boring, I just choose a number of songs that I am digging at the time and throw them together.Sequence and flow don't matter?

[jessecuster3]

Sequence and flow don't matter?

Sometimes, sometimes I just sort by album track number.

[Slackjaws_ate_my_brain]

I was always about "More bag for your buck". I'd make a list with 3 times the ammount of songs that could fit on a tape that I dug. From there, I'd get all of their track lengths. Then I'd do the math : 90 minute tape = 45 minutes per side. From there, I'd fit the most songs from the aforementioned list as possible into said 45 minute time span. From there, I'd organize the 45-minute-list into the best possible flow and order.

Man, i miss making mix tapes.....

[Shellhead]

For hopefully two more years, I will be driving a car with a tape deck and no CD player, so I still make mix tapes once in a while. These days, to make the process easier, I do the mix first on my computer, then burn it on to a couple of CDs, then record from those CDs onto the tape.

Unfortunately, my nice bookshelf stereo lost the ability to play CDs early this year, and the current models generally don't include tape decks any more. I bought one that did have a tape deck, but the recording quality is kind of shitty. That was okay for a punk mix tape, but otherwise, no. I'm saving up money for a downpayment on a house in late 2010/early 2011, so I'm just trying to work with what I have for now.

[Shellhead]

I hooked up that bookshelf stereo to my television for stereo sound. Maybe I could record from the DVD player to tape. I know that I can play CDs on my DVD player.

[howyadoin]

I was always about "More bag for your buck". I'd make a list with 3 times the ammount of songs that could fit on a tape that I dug. From there, I'd get all of their track lengths. Then I'd do the math : 90 minute tape = 45 minutes per side. From there, I'd fit the most songs from the aforementioned list as possible into said 45 minute time span. From there, I'd organize the 45-minute-list into the best possible flow and order.

Man, i miss making mix tapes.....I didn't really start with the math until I was getting near the end of the tape.

I hooked up that bookshelf stereo to my television for stereo sound. Maybe I could record from the DVD player to tape. I know that I can play CDs on my DVD player.Yeah, that oughta work. You've already got audio going from the DVD player to the stereo, so the only left is to give it a try.

Do they still make audiotapes?

[Slackjaws_ate_my_brain]

I've done the "DVD to stereo" recording before and it does work...BUT....every time I've done it, the volume has been a bit lower than normal.

I have a large Aiwa stereo with Dolby 5.0 surround sound and a seperate 50 watt/12" sub that I line my televsion out to. I got the staereo and began doing that around 2000 or so. That said, I used to put quotes from my wife's favorite films between songs on her mixes, and they were almost always a bit lower than normal (the stereo itself had a built-in "record volume" so, regardless of how loud you were listening to the music being recorded, it was always recorded at a set level).

There was a time when I was making a new mix tape a week, but it's been years. As far as mix CDs go, it's just too "easy". As lame as it sounds, you don't have to "live" through the tape and get a feel for it as you're recording it. That said, CDRs do come off as a surprise because, honestly, most of the time I'm not really sure how it's going to flow and really work until I pop it in and give it a listen, end-to-end.

[Slackjaws_ate_my_brain]

Do they still make audiotapes?

I know our local dollar general sells 90 minute TDKs and Maxells for 50 cents a piece

[howyadoin]

There was a time when I was making a new mix tape a week, but it's been years. As far as mix CDs go, it's just too "easy". As lame as it sounds, you don't have to "live" through the tape and get a feel for it as you're recording it.Probably depends on how you're compiling the CD. I make my playlists in iTunes and generally live with them for awhile before I burn a CD (if I burn a CD at all, that is), so there's plenty of time for finetuning and sequencing.

[Shellhead]

I didn't really start with the math until I was getting near the end of the tape.

Yeah, that oughta work. You've already got audio going from the DVD player to the stereo, so the only left is to give it a try.

Do they still make audiotapes?

I keep track of the math as I go, using an excel spreadsheet. It's not as bad as it sounds, I use the same spreadsheet songlist to make a cover for the tape.

I don't know if they still make audio tapes. I saw that Best Buy and Target were both steadily cutting down on selection a few years back, so the last time I bought any, I bought a 10-pack that I haven't used up yet. And I picked some unopened Maxell Gold II's at Goodwill a couple of years ago for cheap. I suppose I should make these final mixes really count if they're not selling tapes anymore.

[jessecuster3]

I didn't really start with the math until I was getting near the end of the tape.



I have been doing the same thing with audio cds. Only in place of minutes, its megabytes.

[Shellhead]

Probably depends on how you're compiling the CD. I make my playlists in iTunes and generally live with them for awhile before I burn a CD (if I burn a CD at all, that is), so there's plenty of time for finetuning and sequencing.

Same here, except I'm using Media Monkey. My girlfriend is using iTunes on the same computer, so by using a separate application to access the same MP3 files, we can maintain our own separate ratings and favorites. There is some overlap in our taste in music, but it's probably only about 20%.

[howyadoin]

Has anybody checked out 8tracks (http://8tracks.com), by the way? Apparently they're similar to Muxtapes, but legal somehow.

[Eric D.]

....disregard

[Eric D.]

Panda Bear - "Comfy In Nautica"
Fleet Foxes - "White Winter Hymnal"
El Guincho - "Palmitos Park"
Animal Collective - "College"
Saturday Looks Good To Me - "Ambulance"
Beach House - "Gila"
Sunset - "Zombies"
Human Highway - "The Sound"
Gruff Rhys - "Gwn Mi Mwn"
Harper's Bizarre - "Witchi Tai To"
Mega Puss - "Crop Circle Jerk '94"
Blitzen Trapper - "Sleepytime In the Western World"
Grand Archives - "Breezy No Breezy"
Port O'Brien - "I Woke Up Today"
Architecture In Helsinki - "Heart It Races (as played by Dr. Dog)
Dr. Dog - "From"


let me know what you think..

[Thadeus Thunderwinkle]

I made a few mixtapes back in the day that crossfade Brak and Space Ghost clips. Some were metal, others were progressive house and drum and bass, and others were just whatever the hell I felt like creating on that particular day.

I guess the best tapes/CD's came when I was truly trying to attempt something fun or great as opposed to just...leftfield.

EDIT: Oh, found one (all tracks are crossfaded):

1. Unknown Ambient Track (might be by Tosca)
2. Nine Inch Nails- Wish
3. Unknown Ambient Track (I seriously wish that I remembered this artist)
4. Unknown Ambient Track (ditto)
5. Electronic- Disappointed
6. BT- Transway
7. Chrono Trigger- Secret of the Forest (Jazz Rework)
8. Nine Inch Nails- March of the Pigs (Extended Mix)
9. Tori Amos- Precious Things
10. Kate Bush- Running Up that Hill
11. Machines of Loving Grace- Burn Like Brilliant Trash (NIN Mix)
12. Chrono Trigger- End of TIme (Jazz Rework)
13. Razed in Black- Starfuckers Inc. (cover of the NIN tune)
14. The Orb- Little Fluffy Clouds
15. Aphex Twin- Petiatil Cx Htdui
16. Depeche Mode- Stripped
17. Asoka- Manitou

[jessecuster3]

Has anybody checked out 8tracks (http://8tracks.com), by the way? Apparently they're similar to Muxtapes, but legal somehow.

The network kinda sucks, so far.

Edit: Yeah its still missing a lot but the search mechanism is dreadful.

[Eric D.]

Heaping STAX of Soul From Memphis To the ATLANTIC
http://img4.southernliving.com/i/2004/02/soul-music-in-memphis/soul-records-m.jpg


Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
William Bell - I Forgot To Be Your Lover
Johnnie Taylor - Rumors
James Carr - She's Better Than You
David Porter - Can't See You When I Want To
Joe Tex - The Love You Save
O.V. Wright - You're Gonna Make Me Cry
James Carr - You've Got My Mind Messed Up
Wendy Rene - Give You What I Got
Carla Thomas - I've Got No Time To Lose
Barbara & The Browns - My Lover
Eddie Jefferson - Some Other Time
The Soul Clan - That's How It Feels
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
Spencer Wiggins - I'll Be True To You
Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood
Sam & Dave - Hold On, I'm Coming
Aretha Franklin - Respect
Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour
Otis Redding - Hard To Handle
Johnnie Taylor - Who's Making Love
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - Tramp
Carla Thomas - B-A-B-Y
Linda Lyndell - What A Man
Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff
The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There


I broke a rule with having more than one song by the same artist,- it couldn't be avoided, - the songs are that great, and they flowed too well to cast-off.

Anybody interested in listening to it, you can find it here:

http://rhaplinks.real.com/rhaplink?rhapid=6408599&type=playlist&title=Playlist&from=real

[howyadoin]

I broke a rule with having more than one song by the same artist,- it couldn't be avoided, - the songs are that great, and they flowed too well to cast-off.Sometimes it just has to be done.

[Thadeus Thunderwinkle]

Another one of my high school experiments:

1. Megadeth- Symphony of Destruction
2. Anathema- A Fine Day to Exit
3. At the Gates- Under the Serpent Sun
4. Simpsons- "Homer Buys a Gun"
5. The Monarchs- Melt with You
6. Zorak- Smell You Later
7. Queens of the Stone Age- How to Handle a Rope
8. Brak- Crazy Lovesick Fool
9. Queens of the Stone Age- Avon
10. Simpsons- "Getting Santa's Little Helper Back"
11. The Strokes- ...Whatever their popular song was
12. David Bowie- The Man Without a Face
13. A Perfect Circle- Sleeping Beauty
14. Brak and Zorak- "Dentist"
15. Soilwork- Like An Average Stalker
16. Opeth- The Apostle in Triumph
17. Tool- Part of Me
18. Mogwai- I forgot the damn song title
19. Something by Sigur Ros

[Shellhead]

My girlfriend has teased me about using old music in the mixes I make for her, so for her next mix, I went out of my way to stick to modern music. Ok, I cheated and used a couple of old songs, but I'm pretty sure she will like the one from Peanuts. No matter what, she will like some of it and dislike some of it, and at least I think that it's a good mix with a lot of stuff she hasn't heard before.

Ready Steady Go / Paul Oakenfold
GfC / Albert Hammond, Jr.
Breathe / Telepopmusik
Havanna / The Sidemen
Running Away / Spook
John, 2/14 / Shivaree
Labios de Cetim / Amin Nasser
Mirror Conspiracy / Thievery Corporation
Nothing In This World Can Stop Me
Worrin' Bout That Girl / The Kinks
Heretics / Andrew Bird
Comin' Undone / Strange
Gotta Jazz / Count Basic
I'm Good, I'm Gone / Lykke Li
People Are People / Depeche Mode
These Things / She Wants Revenge
Two-Headed Boy / Neutral Milk Hotel
The Gentle Rain [RJD2 Remix] / Astrud Gilberto
Linus & Lucy / Vince Guaralldi
Gibraleón / The Sidemen
Everyday / Vetiver

[howyadoin]

One I started last night while into the whiskey. I call it "Campfire Songs":

“Steve’s Last Ramble” - Steve Earle
“Where Did You Sleep Last Night” - Nirvana
“Sunday Morning Coming Down” - Kris Kristofferson
“Play Something We Know” - Adam Hood
“Casey Jones” - Warren Zevon
“Bread And Water” - Ryan Bingham
“Factory Girl” - Whiskeytown
“Ol´55” - Tom Waits
“There She Goes Again” - Beat Farmers
“Samson And Delilah” - Blasters
“Running On Empty” - Jackson Browne
“Take It Easy” - The Eagles
“The Ballad Of Curtis Loew” - Lynyrd Skynyrd
“The Joker” - Steve Miller Band
“Into The Mystic” - Van Morrison
“California Waiting” - Kings Of Leon
“Wanted Man” - George Thorogood & the Destroyers
“Nights of Mystery” - Georgia Satellites
“Golden Gates” - John Mellencamp
“No Regrets” - Tom Cochrane
“Rocket In My Pocket” - Little Feat
“It’s a Long Way to the Top” - Lucinda Williams
“I Got Loaded” - Los Lobos
“Are You Drinkin’ With Me Jesus?” - Mojo Nixon
“Last American Exit” - Tragically Hip
“Kings Road” - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
“Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues” - Jim Croce
“Love the One You’re With” - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
“Can’t Hardly Wait” - Justin Townes Earle
“Something So Strong” - Crowded House
“Redemption Song” - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
“Shame” - The Del Fuegos
“The Midnight Special” - Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Mr. Jones” - Counting Crows

[Shellhead]

Howy, I've got a few possibilities for your mix:

Treetop Flyer, by Stephen Stills
Vague Directions, by James [edit] McMurtry
Showdown at Big Sky, by Robbie Robertson
Liquor, Beer and Wine, by Reverend Horton Heat

Especially that last song, which has one of my all-time favorite lines:
"I drink until I can't see, and I wonder where you are."

[howyadoin]

Howy, I've got a few possibilities for your mix:

Treetop Flyer, by Stephen Stills
Vague Directions, by James McMurty
Showdown at Big Sky, by Robbie Robertson
Liquor, Beer and Wine, by Reverend Horton Heat

Especially that last song, which has one of my all-time favorite lines:
"I drink until I can't see, and I wonder where you are."That's kinda brilliant. Thanks.

And James McMurtry is one of those people I keep meaning to check out.

[Shellhead]

And James McMurtry is one of those people I keep meaning to check out.

Good thing you knew who I was talking about, since I spelled his name wrong.

[Eric D.]

Positively Dylan


Man Of Constant Sorrow
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Boots Of Spanish Leather
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Visions Of Johanna
Just Like A Woman
I Want You
She Belongs To Me
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Mr. Tambourine Man
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Like A Rolling Stone
All Along The Watchtower
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Lay Lady Lay
Wallflower
The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
The Man In Me
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Tangled Up In Blue
If You See Her, Say Hello

[Eric D.]

Goldfinger - "99 Red Balloons" (Stomping Ground)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
Cake - "I Will Survive" (Fashion Nugget)
The White Stripes - "Conquest" (Icky Thump)
Richard Thompson - "Kiss" (1000 Years Of Popular Music)
R.E.M. - "Wall Of Death" (E-Bow The Letter single)
Keb Mo’ - "Folsom Prison Blues" (Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Music of Johnny Cash)
Joan Osborne - "Man In The Long Black Coat" (Relish)
Rogue Wave - "Everyday" (Stubbs The Zombie soundtrack)
Jenny Lewis feat. the Watson Twins - "Handle With Care"
Aimee Mann feat. Michael Penn - "Two Of Us"
Sufjan Stevens - "What Goes On" (This Bird Has Flown: A 40th Anniversary Tribute To The Beatles’ Rubber Soul)
Iron & Wine - "Waitin’ For A Superman" (Yeti compliation #2)
Johnny Cash - "Hurt" (American IV - The Man Comes Around)
Ben Folds - "Tiny Dancer" (Ben Folds Live)

[jessecuster3]

Goldfinger - "99 Red Balloons" (Stomping Ground)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
Cake - "I Will Survive" (Fashion Nugget)
The White Stripes - "Conquest" (Icky Thump)
Richard Thompson - "Kiss" (1000 Years Of Popular Music)
R.E.M. - "Wall Of Death" (E-Bow The Letter single)
Keb Mo’ - "Folsom Prison Blues" (Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Music of Johnny Cash)
Joan Osborne - "Man In The Long Black Coat" (Relish)
Rogue Wave - "Everyday" (Stubbs The Zombie soundtrack)
Jenny Lewis feat. the Watson Twins - "Handle With Care"
Aimee Mann feat. Michael Penn - "Two Of Us"
Sufjan Stevens - "What Goes On" (This Bird Has Flown: A 40th Anniversary Tribute To The Beatles’ Rubber Soul)
Iron & Wine - "Waitin’ For A Superman" (Yeti compliation #2)
Johnny Cash - "Hurt" (American IV - The Man Comes Around)
Ben Folds - "Tiny Dancer" (Ben Folds Live)



If you like those, you should check this out. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_1_Established_1967)

[The Stewed Owl]

Some very good mixes on here.

I spend a lot of my day listening to the iPod, so I've made a ton of mixes on odd themes - "The Secret Songs" (Optimistic Views of Space Exploration), "Cowpunk" (dark-themed country western songs), "Office Droning" (Mindlessly peppy music to improve office productivity) ,"Poe(try)" (songs about and inspired by Edgar Allen Poe), "Monster Midway" (Carny songs), "Post Dream Mornings" (The hazy feeling after you wake up after a significant dream), "Comix" (songs based on comic book characters), "Proto-Punk" (pre-Ramones punk rock), "Noir Drive" (nighttime driving music that makes you feel like you're in a film noir), "England" (songs about life in modern England), all sorts of travel and band and holiday and season and workout mixes, mixes based on different years of my life and people I've known. If I ever develop dementia, I could probably use my iPod to recreate my lifetime memories.

Over the last few years, I've started maintaining a yearly musical log - chronologically placing music tracks, that reminds me of things that happened during the year, clips from new shows and movies, etc. The 2009 playlist is about 24 hours long, and I've been listening to it over the past week.

I used to do all this on cassettes, then CDs, now iPod...the MP3 list lacks the permanence of the earlier technologies and tends to encourage fiddling, but I kind of like that.

I have no artistic talents whatsoever - can barely draw a straight line and completely tone deaf - so making mixes is the closest I come to an artistic outlet.

Anyone else do these kind of theme mixes? Or is this just a form of OCD on my part?

[40footwolf]

My brother's friend asked him to make a mix of "old-people music", by which he meant rock from the '60s and '70s, or with that kind of aesthetic. My brother passed it on to me, knowing that I'd have a lot more fun with the project :tongue:

Anyway, given the fairly broad parameters, this is what I came up with. I had to cut a few off to make it fit on a CD and it doesn't flow quite the way I wanted it to now, but I still think it's fairly good. I tried to avoid stuff you'd be likely to hear on the radio, but sometimes it couldn't be helped.

1. The Village Green Preservation Society-The Kinks
2. Straight Shooter-The Mamas and the Papas
3. Highway Chile-The Jimi Hendrix Experience
4. The Ballad of El Goodo-Big Star
5. Hey Bo Diddley-Bo Diddley
6. Born Under A Bad Sign-Albert King
7. Southbound Again-Dire Straits
8. I Need You-The Beatles
9. Ventilator Blues-The Rolling Stones
10. Man In A Shed-Nick Drake
11. Alone Again Or-Love
12. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright-Bob Dylan
13. Cross-Tie Walker-Creedence Clearwater Revival
14. Running Back-Thin Lizzy
15. Big River-Johnny Cash
16. Jewel Eyed Judy-Fleetwood Mac
17. Suzy Is A Headbanger-The Ramones
18. Heartbreaker-Led Zeppelin
19. Summertime Blues(live at Leeds)-The Who
20. I'll Go Crazy(live at The Apollo)-James Brown
21. Atlantic City-Bruce Springsteen
22. 1969-The Stooges
23. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down-The Band
24. Darn That Dream-Miles Davis

[PaddyN]

Anyone else do these kind of theme mixes? Or is this just a form of OCD on my part?

Indeed. You are not alone. I quite enjoy spending some time making a themed mix.

[SlightlyMad]

The last 2 years I've included compilation CDs with the Christmas cards I've sent out of "My Music Year" - Artists who I've seen live & new albums that have come out during that year, which work out like this:

2008

1. "Photosynthesis" – Frank Turner
2. "Now Til ’69" – The Shortwave Set
3. "A & E" – Goldfrapp
4. "I Lust U" – Neon Neon
5. "All Join On" – Kid Carpet
6. "Self Portrait with 'Electric Brain'” – Stereolab
7. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" – Nouvelle Vague
8. "Hallelujah" – Leonard Cohen
9. "I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)" – The Proclaimers
10. "Never Miss A Beat" – Kaiser Chiefs
11. "Nick" – The Don Bradmans
12. "That’s Not My Name" – The Ting Tings
13. "Við Spilum Endalaust" - Sigur Rós
14. "The Day Jason Kline Cried" – Corn Mo & The .357 Lover
15. "Effington" – Ben Folds
16. "DUI" – Har Mar Superstar
17. "I Am a Cider Drinker" - The Wurzels

2009

1. "3D" - Goldie Lookin Chain
2. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" [Foxbase Beta version] - Saint Etienne
3. "Go West" - Pet Shop Boys
4. "Oxygene 4" - John Michel Jarre
5. "The Best" - I Monster
6. "Unbelievable" - Tom Jones
7. "Can’t Stop the Pop" - Kid Carpet
8. "Hocus Pocus" - Focus
9. "Right the Wrong" - The Perceptions
10. "Mr. Zebra" - Tori Amos
11. "Apeman" - Ray Davies / Kinks
12. "Womanizer" - Lily Allen
13. "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" - The Specials
14. "NW5" - Madness
15. "Red Right Hand" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
16. "The Majesty of Rock" – Spinal Tap
17. "The Court of King Caractacus" - Rolf Harris
18. "The Universal" - Blur
19. "Twat" - John Cooper Clarke

[Eric D.]

[/URL]http://music.ology.com/how-to-be-a-playlist-god/ (http://music.ology.com/how-to-be-a-playlist-god/)


Here are some tips from this article ([URL]http://music.ology.com/how-to-be-a-playlist-god/) on Ology.com:

-Start with a bang
-cohesive flow of energy
-don't repeat artists
-know your audience
-balance of known and unknown artists
-say something with choice of song titles
-give your mix a title

[DrewTheXenocide]

So what's the rule/general consensus on different bands with the same lead singer? I'm wondering if having both The Hold Steady and Lifter Puller on the current mix I'm making is too much Craig Finn for one mix.

[howyadoin]

My brother's friend asked him to make a mix of "old-people music", by which he meant rock from the '60s and '70s, or with that kind of aesthetic. My brother passed it on to me, knowing that I'd have a lot more fun with the project :tongue:

Anyway, given the fairly broad parameters, this is what I came up with. I had to cut a few off to make it fit on a CD and it doesn't flow quite the way I wanted it to now, but I still think it's fairly good. I tried to avoid stuff you'd be likely to hear on the radio, but sometimes it couldn't be helped.

1. The Village Green Preservation Society-The Kinks
2. Straight Shooter-The Mamas and the Papas
3. Highway Chile-The Jimi Hendrix Experience
4. The Ballad of El Goodo-Big Star
5. Hey Bo Diddley-Bo Diddley
6. Born Under A Bad Sign-Albert King
7. Southbound Again-Dire Straits
8. I Need You-The Beatles
9. Ventilator Blues-The Rolling Stones
10. Man In A Shed-Nick Drake
11. Alone Again Or-Love
12. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright-Bob Dylan
13. Cross-Tie Walker-Creedence Clearwater Revival
14. Running Back-Thin Lizzy
15. Big River-Johnny Cash
16. Jewel Eyed Judy-Fleetwood Mac
17. Suzy Is A Headbanger-The Ramones
18. Heartbreaker-Led Zeppelin
19. Summertime Blues(live at Leeds)-The Who
20. I'll Go Crazy(live at The Apollo)-James Brown
21. Atlantic City-Bruce Springsteen
22. 1969-The Stooges
23. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down-The Band
24. Darn That Dream-Miles DavisYou might wanna check into the soundtracks for Dogtown and Z-Boys and Lords of Dogtown.

[howyadoin]

So what's the rule/general consensus on different bands with the same lead singer? I'm wondering if having both The Hold Steady and Lifter Puller on the current mix I'm making is too much Craig Finn for one mix.I'd say it depends on how the songs sound when you put them back-to-back. If the bands sound too much alike, then I'd be tempted to avoid it.

The acceptable exception, though, is the Beach Boys/Brian Wilson.

[DrewTheXenocide]

I can't stop "cheating" when it comes to the first and last songs. They're usually the first/last tracks on the album that they came from.


Edit: On second thought, maybe ending a mix that I'm sending to a girl with "Train in Vain" might not be the best idea.

[howyadoin]

I can't stop "cheating" when it comes to the first and last songs. They're usually the first/last tracks on the album that they came from.I don't really see a problem there. That could easily just be your own personal mix shtick.

[Eric D.]

I can't stop "cheating" when it comes to the first and last songs. They're usually the first/last tracks on the album that they came from.




fuck it. They're book ends.

[twilight]

Best of 2010 so far mixtape:

Los Campesinos! - In Media Res
Spoon - Trouble Comes Running
LCD Soundsytem - Drunk Girls
Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
Gogol Bordello - Sun Is On My Side
Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes
Jonsi - Sinking Friendships
Broken Social Scene - Meet Me In The Basement
Titus Andronicus - To Old Friends And New

-Twi

[howyadoin]

So what would you say is the most crucial, most basic skill in mix-taping (tape-mixing?)? I'm gonna say it's the one-two punch, because that's the atomic base of mixtapes.

[wshaunpennington]

I've always found multiple songs by the same artist on a mix particularly irksome. Nothing says "I don't care" quite like not taking the time to find another song that fits the same space.

[DrewTheXenocide]

Best of 2010 so far mixtape:

Los Campesinos! - In Media Res
Spoon - Trouble Comes Running
LCD Soundsytem - Drunk Girls
Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
Gogol Bordello - Sun Is On My Side
Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes
Jonsi - Sinking Friendships
Broken Social Scene - Meet Me In The Basement
Titus Andronicus - To Old Friends And New

-Twi

Excellent. I've only just started listening to Los Campesinos! So good. I'm seeing Surfer Blood later on this summer. Should be fun.

So what would you say is the most crucial, most basic skill in mix-taping (tape-mixing?)? I'm gonna say it's the one-two punch, because that's the atomic base of mixtapes.

Less "one-two punch" and more of just a general ear for flow.

[howyadoin]

Less "one-two punch" and more of just a general ear for flow.I think my rationale last night was that a mix starts with a pair of songs, but flow doesn't really enter the picture till you're farther into it. I'll certainly agree, though, that flow is in the top 2-3 criteria.

[Eric D.]

I'm in the lab working on a new mix!

[howyadoin]

I'm in the lab working on a new mix!You need a hunchbacked assistant with a British accent.

[rabidrage]

wshaun, what about the idea of a sampler-style tape or cd? Then you can have several tracks by a few different artists--though I would still avoid putting two in a row by the same artist. You could still have a theme. For instance, I might make a metal mix with Helloween, Therion and Manowar...or an 80's mix with Cyndi Lauper, Kim Carnes and Sandra. With the first one, there's a lot to choose from...Helloween's been coming out with albums since the early 80's, and they've had three different singers, as well as other lineup changes. Therion went from a death/black/thrash band to orchestral metal with covers of Abba and Thin Lizzy thrown in. The sound would be very diverse...even if you just took a single band and created your own "best-of" mix.

[Eric D.]

You need a hunchbacked assistant with a British accent.

ha - I'll have to settle for a 3 year old with a toddler's pronunciation.
He's even got a labcoat!

[howyadoin]

ha - I'll have to settle for a 3 year old with a toddler's pronunciation.
He's even got a labcoat!See if you can teach him to say "mawster's in the la-bor-a-tree."

[Eric D.]

wshaun, what about the idea of a sampler-style tape or cd? Then you can have several tracks by a few different artists--though I would still avoid putting two in a row by the same artist. You could still have a theme. For instance, I might make a metal mix with Helloween, Therion and Manowar...or an 80's mix with Cyndi Lauper, Kim Carnes and Sandra. With the first one, there's a lot to choose from...Helloween's been coming out with albums since the early 80's, and they've had three different singers, as well as other lineup changes. Therion went from a death/black/thrash band to orchestral metal with covers of Abba and Thin Lizzy thrown in. The sound would be very diverse...even if you just took a single band and created your own "best-of" mix.

been sampling the product, eh?

[Eric D.]

See if you can teach him to say "mawster's in the la-bor-a-tree."

yeah, working on that, but no Igor, -that didn't get the wife's seal of approval.

[Eric D.]

Jimmy Reed - "Boogie In The Dark"
Little Walter - "Juke"
Lee Allen - "Walking With Mr. Lee"
Bill Doggett - "Honky Tonk"
Bill Justis - "Raunchy"
Ike Turner -"Cuban Gert Away (Bayou Rock)"
Duane Eddy - "Rebel Rouser"
Link Wray - "Rumble"
Johnny & The Hurricanes -"Red River Rock"
The Rockin' Rebels - "Wild Weekend"
The Mar-Keys - "Last Night"
The Ventures - "Walk Don't Run"
The Fireballs - "Vaquero"
The Shadows - "The Frightened City"
Dick Dale - "Misirlou"
Jorgen Ingmann - "Anna"
The Tornadoes - "Telstar"
The Atlantics - "Bombora"
The Centurions - "Bullwinkle Pt. II"
Lonnie Mack - "Memphis"
Davie Allan & the Arrows - "Blue's Theme"
Fleetwood Mac - "Albatross"



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[wshaunpennington]

Shoes: Tired from Walking - Best of 2010, So far.

Jonsi - Go Do
Crystal Castles - Celestica
High Places - On Giving Up
Stornoway - I Saw You Blink
Mynabirds - Wash It Out
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Action
The National - Afraid of Everyone
Joanna Newsom - '81
Shearwater - Black Eyes
CocoRosie - Smokey Taboo
Xiu Xiu - Grey Oceans
Perfume Genius - You Won't B Here
Blonde Redhead - Here Sometimes
Los Campesinos - In Media Res
Janelle Monae - Cold War
Of Montreal - Croquet Croquette
She & Him - In The Sun
Efterklang - I Was Playing Drums
Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure
Stars - I Died So I Could Haunt You
Arcade Fire - Ready to Start

[DrewTheXenocide]

1. T.S. Eliot - Intro (0:38)
2. Los Campesinos - Romance is Boring (2:35)
3. Harvey Danger - Old Hat (3:50)
4. Best Coast - Boyfriend (2:29)
5. Taking Back Sunday - One-Eighty By Summer (3:53)
6. Bomb the Music Industry! - Future 86 (4:54)
7. The Arcade Fire - Wake Up (5:35)
8. T.S. Eliot - Interlude (1:05)
9. Japandroids - Younger Us (3:35)
10. The Black Keys - Tighten Up (3:31)
11. Arctic Monkeys - 505 (4:13)
12. Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane (5:57)
13. Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song) (5:05)
14. Fugazi - Sweet and Low (3:34)
15. Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit (6:22)
16. Dinosaur Jr. - In A Jar (3:28)
17. No Age - Here Should Be My Home (2:03)
18. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow (4:17)
19. T.S. Eliot - Exitlude (0:57)
20. The Mountain Goats - Alpha Incipiens (1:36)

The Eliot pieces are him reading Prufrock. If I really want to work hard at this, I think I might add some of my own guitar noise/feedback to the Eliot bits.

[Eric D.]

12. Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane (5:57)
13. Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song) (5:05)
14. Fugazi - Sweet and Low (3:34)
15. Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit (6:22)
16. Dinosaur Jr. - In A Jar (3:28)





really-really dig this part.

was just listening to it.

I think "feel the pain" would have been a nice companion piece to "Sweet and Low".

[howyadoin]

If I really want to work hard at this, I think I might add some of my own guitar noise/feedback to the Eliot bits.Oh, I think you really want to.