[Icarium]

Yeah. I am terrible at doing mixes. So I don't have one to offer myself. I don't even try. I listen to music on an album to album basis.. I don't even try to do playlists ;p Anyway, the most meaningful mix to me as of late is Neilvg's party mix which at the very least every Bay Area headphone afficionado should be familiar with if not more! (Ori mentioned at the recent K1000 meet he burns in his modded Zhaolus with it ;p). I don't have a track list yet... as I have only recently experienced its power but I have a copy on the way ;p

Anyway, wanna post your mixes? Perhaps explain the them a little or give a bit of background if there is some ;p Explain the track layout ? ;p Does it follow the High Fidelity guidelines.

This thread probably has been done before! Perhaps as of recent. I don't know!

 

[NightEcho]

Ok, I'll start this one off. I can't take total credit for it, as it started with a mix of songs that appeared on the show Scrubs. I took it from there and added more songs with the same "feeling" (whatever that means). Anwyay, here goes (in alphabetical order):

Babylon - David Gray
The Beauty of the Rain - Dar Williams
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Collide - Howie Day
Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime - Beck
Eyes - Rogue Wave
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
How to Save a Life - The Fray
In the Sun - Joseph Arthur
Mad World - Michael Andrews
New Slang - The Shins
Overkill - Colin Hay
Over My Head (Cable Car) - The Fray
Please Forgive Me - David Gray
Waiting for My Real Life to Begin - Colin Hay
Walk on the Ocean - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Windmills - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Wonderful - Everclear
World Spins Madly On - The Weepies

 

[Masonjar]

"Don't Wait Up For Me" (Feb., 2003)

01 Deftones - Passenger
02 Nine Inch Nails - The Great Below
03 Golden Palominos - Curses
04 My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
05 Smashing Pumpkins - Soma
06 Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole
07 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Loom of the Land
08 The God Machine - Seven
09 Down - Jail
10 A Perfect Circle - Renholdër
11 Centaur - In Streams

"brought on by seemingly endless days of below-freezing temperatures on the icy shores of lake erie.."

One of the darker mixes in my collection.

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"Death Becomes Us" (Nov., 2004)

01 Acid Bath - New Corpse
02 Converge - Fault and Fracture
03 Mastodon - Aqua Demensia
04 Slayer - Piece by Piece
05 December - Vertigo
06 Today Is The Day - Realization
07 Cynic - Sentiment
08 Dillinger Escape Plan - Pig Latin
09 In Flames - Cloud Connected
10 Neurosis - Times of Grace
11 High on Fire - Hung, Drawn & Quartered
12 Dazzling Killmen - Torture
13 Celtic Frost - Eternal Summer
14 Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice
15 The Jesus Lizard - Glamorous
16 Entombed - Rotten Soil
17 Unsane - Empty Cartridge
18 Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine
19 Botch - C Thomas Howell As The Soul Man
20 Season to Risk - Scorched

There's just no rest or solace in this one, my idea was that each track pounded you into submission in a different way than the one before.


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"Neverending Night" (March 2001)

01 Damon & Naomi w/ Ghost - The Mirror Phase
02 Mojave 3 - All Your Tears
03 Verve - Beautiful Mind
04 Bark Psychosis - Eyes & Smiles
05 Elysian Fields - Parachute
06 Sigur Ros - Olsen Olsen
07 Mercury Rev - Frittering
08 King Black Acid - School Blood
09 Air - New Star in the Sky
10 Cocteau Twins - Wolf in the Breast
11 Chapterhouse - Treasure
12 Rain Tree Crow - Every Colour You Are
13 Pale Saints - Neverending Night
14 Slowdive - Dagger

I had just got my first CD burner at the time I made this, so after nearly two decades of doing mix tapes, this was one of my first cd mixes. I basically just tried to make this an intensely beautiful but somber and somewhat dark mix. This is still one of my favorite mixes, probably because I had been planning it for months before I finally had the chance to actually make it.

-jar

 

[Lord Chaos]

I've been doing playlists for parties for a couple of years now. When I first heard of playlists I wondered what the problem was that they were attempting to solve. Now I know. Playlists are fun to design; I've done many, in lengths from 40 minutes to 10 hours.

I haven't found any easy way to publish a playlist, though. I've used Windows Media Player, Winamp and Itunes, and they all put obstacles in the way of what should be a simple task. Anyone here know the secret... other than typing it all by hand?

 

[sonick]

A Mix CD I made for my girlfriend... yes, its corny

The Beatles - Something
Jimi Hendrix - Angel
Elliott Smith - Between the Bars
Oasis - Wonderwall
Los Lonely Boys - More Than Love
Queen - You're my best friend
The Raconteurs - Together
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Elliott Smith - Angeles
Joshua Radin - Only You
The Beatles - I've Just Seen a Face
Me (Elliott Smith Cover) - Angel in the Snow

Hidden Track:
Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady

 

[Icarium]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Chaos /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've been doing playlists for parties for a couple of years now. When I first heard of playlists I wondered what the problem was that they were attempting to solve. Now I know. Playlists are fun to design; I've done many, in lengths from 40 minutes to 10 hours. I haven't found any easy way to publish a playlist, though. I've used Windows Media Player, Winamp and Itunes, and they all put obstacles in the way of what should be a simple task. Anyone here know the secret... other than typing it all by hand?

Yeah I'm sure there is an answer to this but like I said in the original post I am a complete playlist newb ;p I bet foobar2k has some sick way of doing this and in fact I bet all mainstream options do but I really have no idea ;p

 

[MorpheusZero]

So, Masonjar, you wouldn't perchance happen to be a metal fan or anything, would you?

 

[Masonjar]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MorpheusZero /img/forum/go_quote.gif So, Masonjar, you wouldn't perchance happen to be a metal fan or anything, would you?

In reality I stay open to all kinds of music. Recently, I've been on a New Age kick. I like classical (Mahler, Shostakovich), indie rawk, "shoegazer", lots of reggae and a splash of jazz.

As for metal, it was my first "big" love in music (after my young years in the 70's listening to disco and the Bee Gees and my mom & dad's country music). Then it was metal.. early 80's stuff.. AC/DC, Maiden, Priest, Ozzy, Scorps, then later I grew tired of all the hair metal and got into thrash and punk.

I probably listen to about 1% of all the metal that's out there, but I focus on the good stuff. My opinion is that people who listen to ONLY one kind of music end up listening to a lot of crap.

As for mix cds, what can I say, it's my favorite way to listen to music. it's like making a sandwich or soup with the right ingredients. There's nothing like a power shift from Helmet to Slayer to Acid Bath. Or from Wilco to Radiohead to Beck. I do still love albums on occasion. But when my listening time seems to be limited to 20 or 30 minute snippets of time, I enjoy filling those times with mixes, my brain craves the variety.

-jar

 

[Voltron]

Party @ Neil's SETLIST

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CD Setlist
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[X] XTC - Apple Venus Part 1 - River of Orchids
[X] Camel - Moonmadness - Air Born - [2002 remaster]
[X] Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker - Amy - [MFSL SACD remaster RBCD layer]
[X]The Decemberists - The Crane Wife - Shankill Butchers
[X] Kate Rusby - Underneath the Stars - Underneath the Stars
[X] Sufjan Stevens - Illinois - They Are Night Zombies!!....
[X] Pink Floyd - The Final Cut - Paranoid Eyes
[X] Sigur Ros - Takk - Glosoli
[X] Muddy Waters - Folk Singer - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - [MFSL Gold Disc]
[X] Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted From Memory - In the Darkest Place
[X] Queen - A Night at the Opera - Bohemian Rhapsody - [DCC & MFSL Remaster]
[X] Frank Sinatra - September of My Years - It Was a Very Good Year
Bach - "BWV 249.2 Adagio" (Oster-Oratorium BWV 249, Kant)
J. S. Bach Cello Suites Nos. 1, 5 & 6 Cello Suite No1 in G Major -1. Prelude (Yo Yo Ma)
[X]J. S. Bach Cello Suites Nos. 1, 5 & 6 Cello Suite No1 in G Major -1. Prelude (Pablo Casals)

 

[bong]

i used to make mixed tapes all the time, and pass copies off to friends... those were the days.

nowadays, i do the same with mixed CDs. last year a friend of mine wanted anthemic Britpop stuff so i duly obliged:

Bong presents: Anthems
A Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers
There Goes The Fear - The Doves
Shining Light - Ash
Everybody's Changing - Keane
We Could be Kings - Gene
Trash - Suede
Teenage Angst - Placebo
Acquiesce - Oasis
M.O.R. - Blur
Pumping On Your Stereo - Supergrass
Leave The All Behind - Ride
High and Dry - Radiohead
Don't Panic - Coldplay
I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
Higher Than The Sun - Primal Scream
Common People - Pulp
Sit Down - James
Turn - Travis
Good Souls - Starsailor

best thing about it was they're all singles save "Acquiesce" which was a b-side but should've been a single in it's own right.


my latest Mixed CD is still untitled, but it's all burned and ready, i just need to think of a title and make the artwork.

Bong presents: For The Night (tentative)
Waiting For The Night - Depeche Mode
High Rising - Suede
Katy Song - Red House Painters
Under Sad Stars - Crooked Fingers
(interlude 1: rainstorm) (i recorded this amazing thunderstorm last year using a condensor mic and my MD and i just had to use it in a mixed CD somewhere)
Crush - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
The Same Deep Water As You - The Cure
Fripp - Catherine Wheel
Big Sleep - Simple Minds
Miner At The 'Dial-A-View' - Grandaddy
In A Lonely Place - New Order
(interlude 2: ocean waves)
Ocean Rain - Echo And The Bunnymen
Out Of Time - Blur
Today - Ride
When The Sun Hits - Slowdive

i'm really really happy with this mix... it's the first time i'm actually trying to compose a theme, and even a loose storyline; i imagine something like a broken relationship, passing through a long lonely stormy night, and awaiting a new tomorrow... sounds corny, i know but i feel the music flows really nicely. some of the songs i segued/meshed them together very nicely too, aiding the flow of music. it took me months to finalize the tracklisting, and i cut/faded out half of the outro of "Katy Song" to make it all fit.

EDIT: oh, i also made a 3" mixed CD a while ago, called 3 X 3, which was a 3" CD of songs three minutes or less... clever, eh?

i'll post the tracklist tonight, if i find it!

i'm afraid i don't really have a wide range of taste in music, so most of my Mixed CDs are filled with the usual suspects. i do dabble in classic Heavy Metal, and the odd Top 40 pop and dance hit but that's about it.


here's one of my favourite Mixed CDs a friend of mine made for me. the "-----" are little snippets of The Simpsons," "Futurama," or various pop-culture soundbites he likes to throw in between for full effect.

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Free Language Demons - Rocket From The Crypt
The Rotting Strip - Crooked Fingers
Trying to Forget You - The Sultans
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A Diamond is the Devil's Eye - Eric Bachmann
Some Kinda Hate - The mIsfits
White Belt - Rocket From The Crypt
Jet Lag - The Sultans
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You Threw A Spark - Crooked Fingers
Iditorod Sled Dogs - Barry Black
All Hail the Black Market - Archers of Loaf
I Burn Today - Frank Black
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Motorway To Roswell - The Pixies
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The Smoke Off- Shel Silverstein
Smokers in Love - Archers of Loaf
After the Last Laugh - Archers of Loaf
On The Prowl - Rocket From The Crypt
(Whatever Happened to) Pong - Frank Black
Thalassocracy - Frank Black
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Golden Throat - Barry Black
Rabid Dog - Barry Black
Testing the Bomb - Shel Silverstein
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Bombs Away - Archers of Loaf

 

[Voltron]

This was actually a mix tape that my wife made back in the late 80s and more recently re-created digitally. Always kills at parties [as long as they are full of late-era Baby Boomers who like 80s indie rock and new wave mixed with some twangy classic rock].

[size=medium]Psychedilic/Twang Mix[/size]

Track, Album, Artist:
Roman Litter, The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories, Felt
Green Grow the Rushes, Fables of the Reconstruction, R.E.M.
Who'll Stop the Rain, More Creedence Gold, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Sounds Great When You're Dead, I Often Dream Of Trains, Robyn Hitchc*ck
Oblivious, High Land, Hard Rain, Aztec Camera
Perfect Skin, Rattlesnakes, Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Madonna Of The Wasps, Queen Elvis, Robyn Hitchc*ck & The Egyptians
Rain, Pure Cult - The Singles 1984-1995, The Cult
Harborcoat, Reckoning, R.E.M.
Haunted When the Minutes Drag, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, Love and Rockets
Whirlpool Vision Of Shame, The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories, Felt
Rattlesnakes, Rattlesnakes, Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Water of Love, Dire Straits, Dire Straits
Take the Skinheads Bowling, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, Camper Van Beethoven
Uncorrected Personality Traits, I Often Dream Of Trains, Robyn Hitchc*ck
Bad Moon Rising, Creedence Gold, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Laughing, Murmur, R.E.M.
Ye Sleeping Nights of Jesus, I Often Dream Of Trains, Robyn Hitchc*ck
Back O' the Moon, The Wishing Chair, 10,000 Maniacs
Tina, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, Camper Van Beethoven
Driver 8, Fables of the Reconstruction, R.E.M.
If There's a Heaven Above, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, Love and Rockets
Sempiternal Darkness, The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories, Felt
Portobello Belle, Communiqué, Dire Straits
All I Need Is Everything, Knife/Aztec Camera, Aztec Camera
She Sells Sanctuary, Pure Cult - The Singles 1984-1995, The Cult
Walk on the Wild Side, Rock and Roll Diary 1967-1980, Lou Reed
Four Flights Up, Rattlesnakes, Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Talk About The Passion, Murmur, R.E.M.
Subterranean Homesick Blues, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Bob Dylan
Ball of Confusion, Express, Love and Rockets
Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl, I Often Dream Of Trains, Robyn Hitchc*ck

 

[jjhatfield]

thats it for the other one -> turn on your lovelight

 

[Icarium]

Where's my Television - Marquee Moon ;p

Quote:

Originally Posted by Voltron /img/forum/go_quote.gif This was actually a mix tape that my wife made back in the late 80s and more recently re-created digitally. Always kills at parties [as long as they are full of late-era Baby Boomers who like 80s indie rock and new wave mixed with some twangy classic rock]. [size=medium]Psychedilic/Twang Mix[/size] Track, Album, Artist: Roman Litter, The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories, Felt Green Grow the Rushes, Fables of the Reconstruction, R.E.M. Who'll Stop the Rain, More Creedence Gold, Creedence Clearwater Revival Sounds Great When You're Dead, I Often Dream Of Trains, Robyn Hitchc*ck Oblivious, High Land, Hard Rain, Aztec Camera Perfect Skin, Rattlesnakes, Lloyd Cole And The Commotions Madonna Of The Wasps, Queen Elvis, Robyn Hitchc*ck & The Egyptians Rain, Pure Cult - The Singles 1984-1995, The Cult Harborcoat, Reckoning, R.E.M. Haunted When the Minutes Drag, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, Love and Rockets Whirlpool Vision Of Shame, The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories, Felt Rattlesnakes, Rattlesnakes, Lloyd Cole And The Commotions Water of Love, Dire Straits, Dire Straits Take the Skinheads Bowling, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, Camper Van Beethoven Uncorrected Personality Traits, I Often Dream Of Trains, Robyn Hitchc*ck Bad Moon Rising, Creedence Gold, Creedence Clearwater Revival Laughing, Murmur, R.E.M. Ye Sleeping Nights of Jesus, I Often Dream Of Trains, Robyn Hitchc*ck Back O' the Moon, The Wishing Chair, 10,000 Maniacs Tina, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, Camper Van Beethoven Driver 8, Fables of the Reconstruction, R.E.M. If There's a Heaven Above, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, Love and Rockets Sempiternal Darkness, The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories, Felt Portobello Belle, Communiqué, Dire Straits All I Need Is Everything, Knife/Aztec Camera, Aztec Camera She Sells Sanctuary, Pure Cult - The Singles 1984-1995, The Cult Walk on the Wild Side, Rock and Roll Diary 1967-1980, Lou Reed Four Flights Up, Rattlesnakes, Lloyd Cole And The Commotions Talk About The Passion, Murmur, R.E.M. Subterranean Homesick Blues, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Bob Dylan Ball of Confusion, Express, Love and Rockets Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl, I Often Dream Of Trains, Robyn Hitchc*ck

 

[Masonjar]

Bong, that "Night" mix looks awesome.

-jar

 

[bong]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masonjar /img/forum/go_quote.gif Bong, that "Night" mix looks awesome. -jar

thanks Masonjar!
your Neverending Night looks awesome too... wanna trade?

here's 3 X 3, the 3" CD of songs three minutes or less:
Chelsea Girl - Ride
Alec Eiffel - The Pixies
Miss Lucifer - Primal Scream
You Trip Me Up - Jesus and Mary Chain
Fried - Blur
Caught By The Fuzz - Supergrass
2 Late - The Cure
Something Must Break - Joy Division