I love to burn CD’s. I love to throw some great songs into it and chill. BUT, as it turns out - IT’S CRAP!!! You cannot put Boomtown Rats right before Limp Bizkit! I don’t care if songs sound great on their own! I truly suck at this and I come here looking to y’all for some good mixes.
So, what would go onto a great mix CD? It could be themed (i.e. sex, sad, sappy-pappy-crap) or geared towards a genre (i.e. folk, punk, sappy-pappy-crap) or whatever (i.e. whatever, whatever, or sappy-pappy-crap).
OK, here’s my indie pop/wimp pop CD mix (and it flows pretty well):
The Divine Comedy, “The Pop Singer’s Fear Of The Pollen Count”
Cinerama, “Dance, Girl, Dance”
Belle & Sebastian, “Winter Wooskie”
Bob Mould, “See A Little Light”
Grant Hart, “Now That You Know Me”
The Posies, “Grant Hart”
The Shermans, “Rush Hour”
Sissy Bar, “Smiley (We Become)”
The Go-Betweens, “Right Here”
Grant McLennan, “Easy Come Easy Go”
Smudge, “Don’t Wanna Be Grant McLennan”
Go Sailor, “Fine Day For Sailing”
The Ropers, “You Have A Light”
The Lucksmiths, “Untidy Town”
The Orange Peels, “Something Strange Happens”
The Aislers Set, “Long Division”
Marshall Crenshaw, “Someday, Someway”
The Pastels, “I’m Alright With You”
The Housemartins, “We’re Not Deep”
Stone Roses, “Elephant Stone”
Gunbunnies, “Stranded”
Velocity Girl, “Crazy Town”
The Divine Comedy, “Tonight We Fly”
Thanks woodstockbirdybird, cool list. Did you see High Fidelity? Not only did it have a Belle & Sebastian song, but they also get mentioned. Pretty cool. Thanks again.
What a coinky-dinky. I just put together a “Best of the Beautiful South” for some friends of mine who’d never heard of 'em.
Perfect 10
Don’t Marry Her
Girlfriend
You Can Call Me Leisure
We Are Each Other
Hold me Close (underground)
Your Father and I (Live)
Just Checkin’
Oh Blackpool
When I’m 84
Song For Whoever (live)
Mini-Correct
I’m Your No. 1 Fan
'Til You Can’t Tuck it in
Mirror
The Table
Rotterdam or Anywhere
Closer Than Most
I used to have quite the facility for creating mix tapes; my friends always loved them. I’ve probably put together close to 100 over the years…
Here’s one I did about a year ago. (On tape, rather than CD, but the principle’s the same.)
Side A
What would Brian Boitano Do? – South Park Soundtrack King of Spain – Moxy Früvous Major Tom (Coming Home) – Peter Schilling Main and Broadway – Cub Don’t Marry Her – The Beautiful South Bus Plunge – The Bobs Jonny Quest Theme – The Reverend Horton Heat My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors – Moxy Früvous Magic 8 Ball – Cub Parcel Post – Uncle Bonsai Catnip Dream – Shonen Knife Be My Yoko – The Bobs Be My Yoko Ono – Barenaked Ladies Jockey Full of Bourbon – Moxy Früvous
Side B
When the Beatles Hit America – John Wesley Harding Basketball – Lincoln Pillow Queen – Cub Hallelulah Chorus – The Roches Video Killed the Radio Star – The Presidents of the United States of America Powerhouse – Raymond Scott Regretting What I Said… (A Musical Apology) – Debi Smith Little Babies – Sleater-Kinney Cryo-Care – Synaptic Anarchy Playhouse Having and Average Weekend – Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Rotterdam (or Anywhere) – The Beautiful South L.A. Dot – Animaniacs New York City – Cub Particle Man – The Bobs Entropy – Moxy Früvous
And strategically mixed in amongst the songs were spoken intros taken from a Best of “Car Talk” CD.
Polish, I’ll answer your question. The Beautiful South is a British group started by Paul Heaton of the 80s pop band the Housemartins. It’s kinda subdued pop, with hints of music hall, and really acidic lyrics. Kind of like an English Ben Folds Five, with more songs about alcohol. I’d recommend them.
This is my favorite mixed cd, and it’s just songs I have obsessed over in the past year
(titled)“Press Repeat”
Kent- If You Were Here
Cat Power- Cross Bones Style
Oleander- Are You There?
Lucinda Williams- Can’t Let Go
God Lives Under Water- Mouth
Beth Orton- Stolen Car
Offspring - Amazed
PJ Harvey- C’mon Billy
Phantom Planet- So I Fall Again
Red Hot Chili Peppers- I Could Have Lied
Zebra Head- Get Back
Catatonia - Mulder and Scully
Foo Fighters- Bakerstreet
Lisa Loeb- Do You Sleep?
Long Pigs - On and On
Slipknot- Wait and Bleed
Cold - No One
Taproot- I
Or, if your taste in music is a MPD-ish as my brother’s, which would be even more than mine, you might like the cd I made for him (At least I got him into Jump Little Children ) He said “It has all my favorite songs!!” lol
“The Vinnie-Mac Mix”
Super Drag- Who sucked out the feeling?
Creed - Higher
Bloodhound Gang- Moped
Backstreet Boys- Larger than life
2gether- Calculus
Britney Spears- Oops, I did it again
Bare Naked Ladies- It’s all been done
Blink182- Adam’s song
DMX- Party Up
Dr Dre & Eminem- Forgot about Dre
Arron Lewis and Fred Durst- Outside
Geggy Tah- Whoever you are
Jump Little Children- Cathedrals
Moby- Natural blues
N’Sync - It’s gonna be me
Radiohead- Paranoid Android
Stone Temple Pilots- Tripping on a hole in a paper heart
Making mix CD’s for my friends is something I have way too much fun with. So here are 2 CD’s I have made for friends.
CD 1
Black Dog- Led Zeppelin
Song 2- Blur
Hijack the Disco- Ming and Fs (Featuring TC Izlam)
Blue- Verve
There Are Creatures- Tripmaster Monkey
Got To Get You Into My Life- Beatles
Wrong ‘Em Boyo- Clash
Zeroes- Space Hog
(It’s Good) To Be Free- Oasis
Readymade- Beck
Honey- Moby
Inheritance- Talk Talk
I’ll Stick Around- Foo Fighters
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)- U2
Slow Nerve Action- Flaming Lips
CD 2
Bus Stop- The Rah Brahs
Tokyo Western- Ink
Service and Repair- Calexico
Twilight Zone Opening Theme
For What Reason- Death Cab For Cutie
Legal Man- Belle & Sebastian
So Many Cakes- The French Kicks
Dirty Fingernail- Modest Mouse
Hey Goodbye- Macha Loved Bedhead
Guitar and Video Games- Sunny Day Real Estate
Carnival- Tori Amos
Pilots On The Sun- The Curious Digit
Dirty Hole- VAST
I’ve Seen it All- Bjork & Thom Yorke
BNL - One Week
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Cake - I Will Survive
Cardigans, The - My Favourite Game
Dynamite Hack - Anyway
Guster - Barrel of a Gun
Hootie & The Blowfish - Hold My Hand
Moby - Southside
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Smash Mouth - All Star
The Primitives - Crash
The Wallflowers - One Headlight
Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go
Blues Traveler - Hook
Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
Wheezer - Buddy Holly
Smash Mouth - I’m a Believer
GreenDay - Warning
Jimmy Buffet - Margariettaville
Enjoy!
Woodstockbirdybird, PolishSausage, I like to describe The Beatiful South thusly. They tend to write two kinds of songs, heartfealt paeans to the glories of growing old and fat ('Til You Can’t Tuck it in, Perfect 10, When I’m 84), and songs about misery, betrayal, obsession and the darkness of the human soul (Don’t Marry Her, Mini-Correct, Woman in the Wall). But they always do it with catchy, bright, even cheeful, music that will leave you humming.
I have to agree with Woodstockbirdybird’s “acidic” comment, though I feel that’s not really . . . strong enough. Include “bitter” and “cynical” as well. Except for their songs about growing old and fat. Those are joyful and exhuberant. Though still sedate. On the whole, great stuff that I think about way too much now that I’m unemployed.
Which version of “Anyway,” male or female singing it? I have the version with the guy singing on one of my mix cds…
Please tell me you’re not from New England. I want to believe that there are non-New Englanders who know who Guster is(hence I nominated them in the “under-rated artist” threads). I’ve seen them twice, and plan to see them as many times more as I can.
Nope, not from New England.
I live, work and play here in beautiful Atlanta, GA.
I saw Guster live once in Athens and Jump, Little Children twice. They are both amazing bands but seeing Guster live is just an amazing experience!
I’ve got the version of Anyway that features the entire band on the CD I made, but I have both on my computer. BTW, the girl that sings the other version is Emily Kate (and good lord can she sing or what?)
) He said “It has all my favorite songs!!” lol
here in beautiful Atlanta, GA.