The Mixtape Thread

Cafe Society
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Break out those road trip play lists and hot date love grooves and share them with the teeming millions. Here’s my totally original (I hope) mix that’s currently in rotation in the bathroom ghetto blaster:

Cainxinth’s More Power in the Shower Mix

01_Tenacious D - Double Team
02_Marvin Gaye - Got to Give it Up
03_Beck - Nicotine & Gravy
04_Cee Lo - Gettin Grown
05_Radiohead - Electioneering
06_Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can’t Stop
07_Rjd2 - Good Times Roll Pt. 2
08_The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
09_The Coup - 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO
10_David Bowie - Fame
11_Nine Inch Nails - Closer
12_The Strokes - Hard to Explain
13_Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk
14_Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

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How long do you spend in the shower? :wink:

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Tonight I got to track 4

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track 14 alone is good for a really long shower…

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My latest is called Tragic: A Valentine’s Collection and was made for me to be single on St. Valentine’s Day to.

Side One*

  1. The Get Up Kids - Mass Pike
  2. The Cure - A Letter to Elise
  3. Saves The Day - Freakish
  4. Cursive - Vermont
  5. Ryan Adams - Call Me On Your Way Back Home
  6. Elliot Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)
  7. Speedstar* - Song For You

Side Two*

  1. Death Cab For Cutie - Photobooth
  2. Dashboard Confessional - Screaming Infidelities
  3. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
  4. U2 - With Or Without You
  5. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
  6. Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me
  7. Weezer - Butterfly
  8. Career Girls - Endcredits

*It was on a cd, but I made two “sides” by seperating each section with a recording of a tape being turned over. It works really nicely.

Currently I’m working on a CD of New York City songs, but it isn’t coming together very well. My current track listing is as follows, but be aware that the opening few tracks don’t flow very well. It gets better from about the half-way point, though.

  1. They Might Be Giants - New York City
  2. Ryan Adams - New York, New York
  3. Rhubarb - New York
  4. Black Eyed Peas - Cali to New York
  5. The Get Up Kids - Washington Square Park
  6. Sex Pistols - New York
  7. The Ramones - Rockaway Beach
  8. KRS-One - South Bronx
  9. Grinspoon - American Party Bomb
  10. Lou Reed - New York Telephone Conversation
  11. Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
  12. The Cruel Sea - Cocaine
  13. The Moldy Peaches - NYC’s like a Graveyard
  14. The Strokes - New York City Cops
  15. PJ Harvey - This Mess We’re In
  16. Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
  17. Interpol - NYC
  18. Death Cab For Cutie - Coney Island
  19. Craig Armstrong and Evan Dando - Wake Up In New York
  20. U2 - New York
  21. Mercury Rev - Hudson Line
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Gex, how can you make a NYC mixtape without something by Fountains of Wayne…Union Square, for instance?

I’ll research my favorite mixtapes when I get home, but an online friend of mine once sent me a mixtape that had songs I was then unfamiliar with, but had beginnings/endings that were extremely similar, that sounded like they were blending in with each other even though they were from divergent sources, for instance, Town Called Malice/Lust for Life
(i couldnt tell if the intro was actually another verse or not)

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Gex, your NY mix sounds dope, I’m definately gonna bite that.

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How about “Daddy Don’t Live In That New York City No More” by Steely Dan?

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Thanks for the props all. I know I’ve msised lots of great NYC songs, but I plan on making a NYC Part 2 comp as soon as I’ve finished my California, Australia, England and the South comps. Which should be in about 2005.

But, yep, I’ll definitely check out the tracks you recommend.

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I’ve got my 80’s Rock Mix:

  1. Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer
  2. Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
  3. Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
  4. Warrant - Cherry Pie
  5. Quiet Riot - Come On Feel the Noise
  6. Twisted Sister - We’re Not Gonna Take It
  7. Guns N Roses - Paradise City
  8. Bon Jovi - Shot Through the Heart
  9. AC/DC - Shook Me All Night Long
  10. Van Halen - Panama
  11. Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
  12. Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls
  13. AC/DC - Back in Black
  14. Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
  15. Van Halen - Jump
  16. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I Love Rock and Roll

And I have my Blue Mix (so named because it’s on a blue CD):

  1. Alicia Keys - Fallin’
  2. Toni Braxton - Makin’ Me High
  3. Mary J Blige and Mos Def - Beautiful
  4. Outkast - Aquemini
  5. Moby w/Gwen - Southside
  6. Massive Attack - Five Man Army
  7. Tricky - Suffocated Love
  8. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
  9. Tricky w/ Portishead - Hell is Around the Corner
  10. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
  11. Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
  12. Common - Ghetto Heaven
  13. Roots w/Erykah Badu
  14. The Roots - What They Do
  15. Outkast - Rosa Parks
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I just threw together a mix CD, and hoped that it would have some sort of narrative arc. It is called “Attention, Adults”, after a sample in one of the songs.

  1. Laid - James
  2. Can’t Stand It - Wilco
  3. Machismo - Gomez
  4. Instinct - Crowded House
  5. Fearless - Pink Floyd
  6. Condemnation - Depeche Mode
  7. Baby Love Child - Pizzicato Five
  8. Down to This - Soul Coughing
  9. Voyager - Daft Punk
  10. Ease Your Feet In the Sea - Belle & Sebastian
  11. Twilight - Squirrel Nut Zippers
  12. Try Whistling This - Neil Finn
  13. Train Song - Phish
  14. Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
  15. Tender - Blur
  16. Hey Mr. DJ - Zhane
  17. Take Me Up - Ralphi Rosario
  18. Turn Around - Phats & Small present Mutant Disco
  19. Makin’ It - David Naughton (hahahaha!)

I LOVE maximizing the capacity of an 80-minute CD!