# What would you put on a Compilation tape? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490 "2000-09-17T13:37:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gomez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Gomez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gomez)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/1 "2000-09-17T13:37:11Z")
If you were to make a compilation tape, what would you put on it and why? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/2 "2000-09-17T13:51:30Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![BarnStormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@BarnStormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnStormer)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/3 "2000-09-17T14:08:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/4 "2000-09-17T14:42:30Z")
I made a compliation tape of rock classic covers by punk bands. And of course there’s the surf/rockabilly guitar instrumental tape. ---
**Author:** ![Nika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@Nika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nika)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/5 "2000-09-17T14:48:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/6 "2000-09-17T15:00:41Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/7 "2000-09-17T15:16:11Z")
My [Angry Driving Music Compilation CD](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36991) has already been set. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/8 "2000-09-17T16:04:03Z")
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 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/9 "2000-09-17T16:22:56Z")
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! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/10 "2000-09-17T16:50:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Democritus \* > **Beethoven: Fur Elise Techno Remix** There’s a special place in Hell for scum like you. Beethoven Techno Remix?? Be VERY ashamed of yourself, Demo. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/11 "2000-09-17T16:58:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/12 "2000-09-17T17:25:48Z")
I’m moving this to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/13 "2000-09-17T17:56:55Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/14 "2000-09-17T18:11:00Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/15 "2000-09-17T20:56:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/16 "2000-09-17T21:32:55Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/17 "2000-09-18T03:53:10Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/18 "2000-09-18T12:51:49Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/19 "2000-09-18T14:19:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > Right now I’m listening to a CDR of the > song “Memory” from CATS–18 different > versions in 11 different languages… Does it have the 50s doo-wop version by Big Daddy? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490/20 "2000-09-18T16:41:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > > Right now I’m listening to a CDR of the > > song “Memory” from CATS–18 different > > versions in 11 different languages… > > 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? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-on-a-compilation-tape/33490.md?page=2)