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I know that Ray and I do this. Anyone else make mixtapes? Sure, the casette is a dying format, but the mixtape is a special item. Making one is a craft. You're forced to physically find and compile the mix, and the time to complete it is at least the length of music you put on the tape. Still, so I don't have to deal with a dead topic, I'll keep it open to discussion of all mixes.

CDs + Tapes + iTunes playlists + Anything else allowed! Share your tips for makin' the things. Definitely share your mix lists!

I just made a tape for a certain friend. Hopefully she'll love it.

Side A - "Spring Fevers."

1. Ben - You've Got Me Swingin'
2. Clash - Spanish Bombs
3. Exploding Hearts - Rumours In Town
4. Urchin - Blind Shell Attack
5. Ramones - Yea, Yea
6. Guitar Wolf - Sore Loser
7. Connie Dungs - Connie
8. Teengenerate - My GTO
9. Cleveland Bound Death Sentence - Baltimore
10. Broadways - Lake Michigan
11. Scared of Chaka - All My Friends Are Ghosts
12. Soul Side - X-Lion Tamer
13. Lifetime - I Like You Okay
14. Jawbreaker - Chesterfield King
15. Pink Razors - Spring Fevers

Side B - "Pink Houses."

1. Kid Dynamite - S.O.S.
2. Latterman - If Batman Was Real, He Would Have Beaten The Crap Out Of My Friends
3. Amateur Party - Staid, Intact
4. Avail - Pink Houses
5. Ted Leo & Pharmacists - Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead
6. Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
7. Pretty Hot - Carlise
8. This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb - This Is What I Want
9. Mischief Brew - Roll Me Through The Gates Of Hell
10. Defiance, Ohio - Oh, Susquehanna!
11. Evil Robot Us' - How Picturesque

Tape-making tip taken from my recent LiveJournal entry:
Don't really fret over which tape manufacturer to go with since all tapes usually run for the same price, and you'll probably never run into anythng more than TDK, Maxell, or Sony. However, I usually keep two things in mind about brands. Maxell tapes are generally best in terms of quality and durability, with TDK right behind 'em. That shit'll last. Still, Sony tapes are even better; while their quality doesn't reach Maxell, they usually have about a minute and change of extra time on their reels. For instance, I just made a mix with a 60 minute label on the tape. To my great happiness, it had sides with 31 minutes and twenty seconds on 'em. It was a "fuckin' score!" moment, considering most other tapes will actually have slightly less than the advertised amount.


Word.

[Its_The_Sneak!!!]

y'know, I never understood the meaning behind mixtapes.

And as for playlists, I usually just unleash the randomizer on a certain artist/album/entire music collection.

So yeah...
nothin' to contribute...

just... since you brought it up.
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[Hooooomsar]

Well. This isn't so much a mixtape as a project but we had to make a 5 song soundtrack for The Iliad in my English class, and I narrowed it to 9. Here's my picks.

1. Andy Kaufman - Sage Francis
2. Warrior - Helloween
3. Snakes On A PLane - Cobra Starship
4. Plowed - Sponge
5. Achilles Last Stand - Led Zep
6. Ridin' - Chamillionair ft Krazie Bone
7. King of Kings - Motorhead
8. Ghost Love Score - NIghtwish
9. Awesome Bomb - Harry and the Slashtones
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[Tsuta]

I am big on playlists, because I have issues about what order I listen to songs in. I have a huge Japanese playlist that has most all my Japanese music in a certain order that took me ages to get perfect. I can't list it here cause it's too big. But I do have a good section of it I really like:

Daisuke Asakura - Shining Collection-Iceman
T.M. Revolution - Invoke ( Phase Shift Armoured Version )
Maki Kirioka - Beyond the Bounds
Shuntaro Okina - Cloud Age Symphony
The Stripes - Open Your Heart ~Ten Made Todoke THE STRiPES Version~
Initial D - No One Sleep in Tokyo
CHEMISTRY - Now or Never
SOUL'd OUT - 1,000,000 Monsters Attack
X Japan - Silent Jealousy
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[Lizzy]

My Vocal Music playlist, which is mainly what I've been listening to lately.

1. 'Anch'il mar par che sommerga' by Vivaldi as sung by Cecilia Bartoli
2. 'Art is calling for me' as sung be Kiri Te Kanawa
3. 'Der Halle Rache' (Aria of the Queen of the Night) from The Magic Flute by Mozart
4. 'Im wunderschoene Monat Mai' from Dichterliebe by Schumann
5. 'Faites-lui mes aveux' from Faust by Gounod as sung by Margreta Elkins
6. 'Laudamus te' from Vivaldi's Gloria
7. 'Madamina, il catalogo e questo' from Don Giovanni by Mozart
8. 'Nessun Dorma' by Puccini
9. 'Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa' from The Magic Flute by Mozart
10. 'Qui sedes ad dexteram partis' from Vivaldi's Gloria
11. 'Movement Four of Symphony No. 9' (Choral) by Beethoven
12. 'Un bel di' from Madam Butterfly by Puccini
13. 'Voi che sapete' from The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart
14. The Soprano/Bass Aria from Bach's Wachet auf
15. The Chorus from Bach's Wachet auf
16. 'When I am Laid in Earth' from Dido & Aeneas by Purcell
17. ''With Drooping Wings ye Cupids Come' from Dido & Aeneas by Purcell


Not that anyone cares about classical music.
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[Metal Matt]

Yeah, I did it for about 15 years. Then computers came out. I do miss the warm analog sound though. But with tapes you worry about generations and loss, all that fun stuff.

[Ray]

Well, if anything can bring me back to make a lengthy post, Mike has found the subject. I've been doing mixes; tapes, CDs, and otherwise; for about five years. Here are my most notable:

The First mixtape I made for Alicia:

(this was a simple, short collection of some of my favorite songs at the time (October 2005) on two sides of a 90 minute tape.)

side A

1. the dismemberment plan - sentimental man
2. Ted Leo and the pharmacists - better dead than lead
3. enon - come into
4. the static age - amphibian
5. minus the bear - pachuca sunrise
6. kiss me deadly - epicure
7. reverie sound revue - the AM
8. the jazz june - the phone works both ways

side B

1. wire - fragile
2. the vibrators - wrecked on you
3. the buzzcocks - I don't mind
4. les sexareenos - my baby keeps me up all night
5. thunderbirds are now! - this world is made of paper
6. pale saints - you tear the world in two
7. the notwist - pilot
8. the shins - girl inform me
9. of montreal - sing you a love you song
10. rogue wave - kicking the heart out
11. the russian futurists - let's get ready to crumble]


It's... A Valentine's Day Mix(ed) Tape!:

(I also made her a mixtape for Valentine's Day this year. This was also on two sides of a 90 minute tape.)

Rockin' Side

1. the lovely feathers - icebergs
2. dead poetic - the dream club murders
3. division of laura lee - access identity
4. at the drive-in - ticklish
5. as friends rust - coffee black
6. 50 foot wave - clara bow
7. the lawrence arms - on with the show
8. wire - mr. suit
9. Zakary Thaks - bad girl
10. the who - out in the street
11. minor threat - good guys (don't wear white)
12. interpol - Stella was a diver and she was always down
13. cursive - some red handed slight of hand
14. thunderbirds are now! - my girl is a beard
15. Sondre Lerche - two way monologue

Lovin' Side

1. the magnetic fields - you and me and the moon
2. sonic youth - genetic
3. ettison clio - wildfire
4. the queers - tic tic toc
5. of montreal - the party's crashing us
6. osker - anchor
7. the russian futurists - it's not really cold when it snows
8. the postal service - brand new colony
9. moi caprice - thieves like us
10. recover - betting all I have
11. the dismemberment plan - the other side
12. incubus - echo


Happy Friggen' Holidays 2006

(every Christmas Eve I make an 80 minute CD with the above title. I have a record of the past couple years, but they weren't really that good. When making these CDs, I always wait until Christmas Eve and then compile it before I leave to go to my Aunt's for the annual Christmas Eve celebration.)

1. the dismemberment plan - this Christmas
2. enon - knock that door
3. death from above 1979 - black history month
4. the static age - it never seems to last
5. bright calm blue - a tongue to taste
6. the american analog set - the kindness of strangers
7. the innocence mission - follow me
8. camera obscura - shine like a new pin
9. the shins - pressed in a book
10. the apples in stereo - that's something I do
11. fugazi - target
12. rogue wave - endless shovel
13. kiss me deadly - distress call
14. moi caprice - to the lighthouse
15. metric - handshakes
16. le shok - TV in my eye
17. the hives - outsmarted
18. rahim - enduring love
19. of montreal - kissing in the grass
20. the descendents - maddie
21. the queers - psycho over you
22. the clone defects - that's how strong my love is
23. the strokes - hard to explain


(Autumn mixes)

(The fall is probably my favorite time of year, so I always compile a good playlist to enjoy driving around listening to. Last year I created playlists to cover two 80 minute CDs. My theme last year was to have one CD of songs that I have known for a while and I know well, and the other CD of new songs that I hadn't hardly listened to.)

Autumn (old)

1. kiss me deadly - epicure
2. elliott - calm americans
3. before I go - no she's not
4. hot water music - trademark
5. the alkaline trio - madam me
6. the dismemberment plan - if I don't write
7. the jazz june - at the artist's leisure
8. the strokes - alone together
9. death cab for cutie - we laugh indoors
10. Q and not U - soft pyramids
11. mewithoutyou - nice and blue
12. nipon - just my luck
13. the postal service - sleeping in
14. radiohead - idioteque
15. the cure - lullaby
16. the shins - pressed in a book
17. the slits - typical girls
18. minor threat - think again
19. the misfits - attitude
20. osker - asshole
21. new bomb turks - statue of liberty
22. the mighty mighty bosstones - break so easily
23. rites of spring - all through a life

Autumn (new)

1. mates of state - I have space
2. of montreal - eros' entropic tundra
3. ted leo and the pharmacists - heart problems
4. rogue wave - kicking the heart out
5. chad vangaalen - clinically dead
6. do make say think - horns of a rabbit
7. explosions in the sky - yasmin the light
8. the one AM radio - the house we will make
9. mogwai - katrien
10. A.C. newman - miracle drug
11. the notwist - consequence
12. the album leaf - on your way
13. the american analog set - like foxes through fences
14. the evens - mt. pleasant
15. french toast - pattern
16. hot snakes - audit in progress
17. a case of grenada - traitors manual
18. city of caterpillar - when was the last time we painted over the blood on the walls?
19. I hate myself - polar bear summer
20. a radio with guts - math and the mocking moon
21. the most serene republic - where cedar nouns and adverbs walk


(This year I wanted to simply make a lengthy playlist a songs that I could listen to over and over. I had initially timed this out to 2 hours, but decided to stretch it to cover two 80 minute CDs (to match last years.))

FALL 2006

one

1. fugazi - full disclosure
2. sonic youth - incinerate
3. dead poetic - august winterman
4. tapes 'n tapes - manitoba
5. hot snakes - reflex
6. paris, texas - razor new neighbors
7. a radio with guts - tragic music
8. VCR - junkbox
9. the appleseed cast - a fate delievered
10. apostle of hustle - energy of death
11. the orange peels - circling the sun
12. camera obscura - if looks could kill
13. the one AM radio - witness
14. mew - snow brigade
15. rogue wave - sewn up
16. death cab for cutie - debate exposes doubt
17. of montreal - erroneous escape into Eric Eckles
18. the most serene republic - relative's eyes
19. tahiti 80 - get yourself together
20. elliott - as arson
21. rocket from the crypt - get down
22. rites of spring - spring
23. the sounds - painted by numbers

two

1. alter ego - rocker
2. MSTRKRFT - paris
3. ratatat - el pico
4. junior boys - in the morning
5. her space holiday - the weight of the world
6. the russian futurists - when the sun drops like an anvil
7. slowdive - 40 days
8. air - run
9. pinback - offcell
10. SR-71 - last man on the moon
11. the clash - lost in the supermarket
12. the dismemberment plan - I'm going to buy you a gun
13. thunderbirds are now! - we win (ha ha)
14. we versus the shark - no flint no spark
15. minus the bear - dog park
16. maserati - keep it gold
17. kiss me deadly - lovango
18. yo la tengo - today is the day
19. bloc party - luno
20. moi caprice - single glamorous women
21. mason proper - lights off
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[RockmanWilliam]

Who didn't see a long Ray post coming, honestly.
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[Ray]

Well, Mike pretty much called me out.
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here comes the big ideas again, just like they did before and then,
the morning comes again and they're gone

[Evangel]

Whoa! I thought Mikes! was dead or something!

[DJ The Stick]

[DJ The Stick]

And more on topic, I made a mix CD of some of my favorite stuff for Boyo a few Christmases ago. The actual playlist is on my other computer, so if anyone really wants to know what it was, I'll grab it.

-DJ
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[cyber95]

The only mix CD I have is the one I got for Christmas a while back from Ray.

I can't find it now.
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[Lizzy]

Boyo sent me a mix cd last christmas.

Good stuff too.


I'm rubbish at making mixes. I only listen to the same 3 bands anyway.
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