# The Mixtape Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437 "2003-02-21T00:25:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/1 "2003-02-21T00:25:35Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![lothos2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df788c/32.png) [@lothos2002](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lothos2002)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/2 "2003-02-21T01:16:40Z")
How long do you spend in the shower? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/3 "2003-02-21T05:09:39Z")
Tonight I got to track 4 ---
**Author:** ![Wisp00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/977dab/32.png) [@Wisp00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wisp00)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/4 "2003-02-21T05:11:55Z")
track 14 alone is good for a really long shower… ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/5 "2003-02-21T16:27:43Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/6 "2003-02-21T19:04:52Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/7 "2003-02-21T21:30:56Z")
**Gex** , your NY mix sounds dope, I’m definately gonna bite that. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/8 "2003-02-21T22:41:56Z")
How about “Daddy Don’t Live In That New York City No More” by Steely Dan? ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/9 "2003-02-22T12:56:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/10 "2003-02-22T17:06:22Z")
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 16. ---
**Author:** ![Marathon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Marathon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marathon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mixtape-thread/156437/11 "2003-02-22T17:18:50Z")
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!