If you were to make a compilation tape, what would you put on it and why?
I make a compilation tape every month or two, and have done since about 1993. What I put on depends on whether I want it to be “slow” or “fast”, guitar-heavy or dance-heavy.
The last tape I made was as follows…
Robin Jones royal rumba (fila brazillia mix) :: Rolling Stones under my thumb :: Beastie Boys sabotage :: Pizzicato Five baby love child :: The Verve come on :: Mick Harvey ford mustang :: David Holmes incite a riot :: Ash kung fu (live) :: Monaco what do you want from me? :: Agnelli & Nelson everyday :: The Charlatans then :: Unknown unknown
Primal Scream blood money :: Ride ox4 :: Isaac Hayes three tough guys :: Happy Mondays hallelujah (deadstock mix) :: B-52s private idaho :: Wedding Present crushed :: Spiller groovejet :: Fluke epsilon :: David Arnold & Chrissie Hynde live and let die :: Earth, Wind & Fire sweet sweetback’s theme
I just made a compilation CD, and it was all the old singing coyboys.
Tex Ritter, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, etc.
Those were the greats.
I made a compliation tape of rock classic covers by punk bands.
And of course there’s the surf/rockabilly guitar instrumental tape.
Classics. If you use too many current songs you might hate them in a few months, but the classics you know you love. I think it also depends on where you are planning on using the tape, in the car then lots of upbeat classic rock (ie stuck in the middle with you) bedroom then you want lots of bass, you get the idea.
I once made a compilation of ballads performed by heavy rock artists, because I was absolutely sick of the sickeningly cloying syrup that seemed to be predominant in pop music ballads at the time. You know, all those sound-alikes that usually featured a male and a female, usually afro-american, doing the sort of stuff that Boyz-to-Men (and others) have done more recently.
I found that the heavy metal efforts seemed to have an edge to them that I liked, not to mention some nice accoustic guitar work.
And nika, my classic combination dates back to the mid-eighties, with bands like Dire Straits, Deep Purple, Free, Queen, The Doors and Led Zeppelin. How does yours stack up?
My Angry Driving Music Compilation CD has already been set.
This is nice, I just saw “High Fidelity” last night. Great movie, and there was a lot of compilation going on.
Well, I don’t make a lot of compilation tapes anymore. I think they’re typically a driving thing anyway, and my current car only has radio and CD. My former car had a tape deck, so I used to make them a lot then. I have some of them here. Mostly they are either “Greatest Rock Hits” or “Cheesy 80’s Stuff”, or a como of both 
An example I just took from the shelve here:
"Back to the 80’s" (I know. Shake-fucking-speare. Sue me :p)
Malcolm McLaren - Something’s Jumnping in your shirt
Alice Cooper - Poison
Roachford - Cuddly Toy
Martika - Toy Soldiers (hot damn, that was quite a foxy chick, I think)
Toto - Stop Loving You
Freiheit - Play it Cool
Hooters - Satelite (now THAT’S driving music!)
Cock Robin - The Promise
Europe - Final Countdown
Spandau Ballet - Through the Barricades
Cyndi Lauper - True Colours (Colors, more likely ;))
The Outfield - Your Love (pedal to the metal!)
Paul Young - Love of the Common People (I have no idea why that’s on there)
Fiction Factory - Heaven
Nena - 99 Luftballons (The German version, naturally)
Men at work - Down Under
Toto - Rosanna
You may now flame me for my poor taste.
Bear in mind that I made these tapes knowing that I would be carpooling a lot. So obviously, Type O Negative was out.
These days when I drive alone, I play my loudest CD’s because in the car, no-one can hear you scream 
Here’s a dance CD I made the other day:
Alice DJ - Better Off Alone
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Blondie - Maria
ATB - Don’t Stop
Basement Jaxx - Bingo Bango
Beethoven: Fur Elise Techno Remix
Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar
Alice DJ - Will I ever
Purkinje Pulse - With a Little Water
Eiffel 65 - Blue (Remix) (Sue me!)
Alabina - Choukrane
All available on Napster!
There’s a special place in Hell for scum like you.
Beethoven Techno Remix?? Be VERY ashamed of yourself, Demo.
I know it sounds terrible Coldy, but it is actually very cool. If you want to give it a listen, ICQ me and I’ll send it to ya.
I’m moving this to IMHO.
Here’s what I have on my compilation tape:
La Vie Bohème (from Rent)
Pet Shop Boys - I Want A Lover
Nena - 99 Luftballons (in German - Hi, Coldie!)
Pet Shop Boys - Delusions of Grandeur
They Might Be Giants - I Palindrome I
Pet Shop Boys - To Step Aside
Pulp - Common People
Pet Shop Boys - Discoteca (are we seeing a pattern?)
Persone - Liza pentras bildojn (an Esperanto rock group!!!)
Pet Shop Boys - In The Night
Mylène Farmer - Beyond my control
Theme from Daria
side B:
Pet Shop Boys - Closer To Heaven
Willkommen (from Cabaret)
Pet Shop Boys - Up Against It
They Might Be Giants - Sensurround
Mylène Farmer - Désenchantée
Pet Shop Boys - Go West
Tori Amos - Crucify
Fluke - Atom Bomb
Pet Shop Boys - Radiophonic
Theme from I Dream of Jeannie (because I am queer)
I do one of these about once a year myself to clean out the CDs that I might only like one or two songs off of. Here’s one :
Side 1
Focus : Hocus Pocus
Chris Issak : Wicked Game
Fairground Attraction : Perfect
Weather Report : Birdland
Big Pig : Breakway
The Tubes : TV is King
The Ordinaires : Kashmir
The Tubes : White Punks on Dope
Side 2
Capt. Beefheart : Ice Cream for Crow
Edgar Winter : Frankenstein
The Tubes : What Do You Want From Life?
Fairground Attraction : A Smile and a Whisper
Michael Penn : No Myth
Phil Collins : I Don’t Care Anymore
Elvis Costello : Veronica
The Tubes : Love’s a Mystery
'Til Tuesday : Voices Carry
Kitaro : Dawn in Malaysia
And I DARE anyone to come up with anything more eclectic that that!
Here’s one I made a couple months ago for a friend on the opposite coast.
Identified With the Cosmic Cow, Volume I
Side A
What Would Brian Boitano Do? : Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick, Kyle Broflovski and Eric Cartman
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 : Barenaked Ladies
Be My Yoko Ono : The Bobs
Jockey Full of Bourbon : Moxy Früvous
Political Birdcall Remix : Robot Arm
Side B
When the Beatles Hit America : John Wesley Harding
Basketball : Lincoln
Pillow Queen : Cub
Hallelujah Chorus : The Roches
Video Killed the Radio Star : The Presidents of the United States of America
Powerhouse : Raymond Scott
Regretting What I Said… : Debi Smith
Little Babies : Sleater Kinney
Cryo-care : Synaptic Anarchy Playhouse
Having an Average Weekend : Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Rotterdam or Anywhere : The Beautiful South
L.A. Dot : Dot Warner
New York City : Cub
Particle Man : The Bobs
Entropy : Moxy Früvous
and it was all introduced with snippets from a Car Talk CD.
You want odd? You want a list of songs on the same CD that have nothing in common with one another, well then, hello, can I help you?
I’m usually not this bad, mind you, I’m just a little out of it right now.
Laura No Esta- Nek
Amiga Mia- Alejandro Sanz
Head Over Feet- Alanis Morissette
Arms Wide Open- Creed
Basket Case- Green Day
Me Vale- Mana
Seasons of Love- Rent
On My Own- Les Miserables
Ese Ultimo Momento- Alejandro Sanz
Los Hombres No Deben Llorar- Pedro Fernandez
Last Resort- Papa Roach
Barbie Girl- Aqua
Eeyore’s Lullabye- Disney
I’m just out there, what can I say?
Kitty
If I actually spend some time on a mix tape I generally throw in quite a few movie quotes and random crap. If I had a CD burner on my computer I’d be burning CDs constantly, what with Napster and all those wav files.
Here’s the tracks on a mix tape I made about four years ago. (I also took my handle from the name of this tape.) It was purposely supposed to be messed up, and I’ll have to describe most of the movie quotes.
Side 1
[ul]
[li]The tape opens up with the sounds of the David Bowie scene in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. If you haven’t scene it has quite a bit of crazy dialogue, feedback and midget talk. The sequence ends with the line “Where is Chester Desmond?”[/li][li]They Are Not So True - Foetus[/li][li]Break on Through - The Doors[/li][li]Other People - Prick[/li][li]Drums a Go-Go - From the Natural Born Killers soundtrack.[/li][li]L.A. Woman - The Doors[/li][li]The Super Sounds of the 70’s radio segment from Reservoir Dogs as performed by Steven Wright[/li][li]Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealer’s Wheel[/li][li]The previous song cuts out in the middle with a gunshot. Then it’s Jules Winfield with “Oh, I’m sorry, did I break your concentration?” Follow that scene to the end of the Ezekiel 25:17 speech.[/li][li]Desert Search for Techno-Allah - Mr. Bungle[/li][li]Interview w/ Mr. Martin - William S. Burroughs[/li][li]Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd (live)[/li][li]Homer Simpsons impassioned plea to God the waffle. “Mmmmm. . . sacrilicious.”[/li][li]About a minute of static.[/li][/ul]
Side 2
[ul]
[li]The End - The Doors[/li][li]The scene in Basketball Diaries where they are sitting around talking about their friend’s death. Follow through the Jim Carrol “People Who Died” song and the line, “Did I ever tell you about the first time I did heroin?”[/li][li]Heroin - Velvet Underground[/li][li]To Bring You My Love - P.J. Harvey[/li][li]Another sequence from Basketball Diaries. “Beautiful fragments, terrible dreams.”[/li][li]Taboo - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Peter Gabriel[/li][li]Yet another scene from Basketball Diaries. “I am alone. . .”[/li][li]Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath[/li][li]The Severed Garden - The Doors[/li][li]Pulp Fiction again. The final scene in the diner. Begins with “Do you read the Bible?” and ends with the second “I’m trying real hard to be the shepherd.”[/li][li]Boot Camp - Soundgarden[/li][/ul]
Favorite mix tape I ever made, though I don’t listen to it much anymore. As a bonus, I made a cover for it out of the Far Side cartoon “Suddenly, the whole world blows up.”
Right now I’m listening to a CDR of the
song “Memory” from CATS–18 different
versions in 11 different languages
(Hebrew, English, Spanish, Dutch, French,
Norwegian, German, Japanese, Italisn, Swedish
and Hungarian).
Does it have the 50s doo-wop version by Big Daddy?
No it doesn’t, and I’ve never heard it. Please
post the title and catalog number. That’s
the Lloyd Webber/Nunn version, right?