I've loved making mix tapes/CD's for years. With MP3's it's even easier to do and get instant gratification on the quality of the mix.

Share with us some of your ideas on songs you think go well together. Put together around 10 - 20 songs you have mixed together before or will in the future.

If you come up with other mixes later, then post those, too.

I built this one around the first two songs. I like the instrumentals of both songs and have wanted to do a mix with them for a while.

Fire On High - ELO
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
Superstars - STYX
I'm So Afraid - Fleetwood Mac
Foreplay/Long Time - Boston
Somebody to Love - Queen
Lady Cab Driver - Prince
Skateaway - Dire Straits
Get Yourself Another Fool - Sam Cooke
Love Light in Flight - Stevie Wonder
I'll Wait - Van Halen
You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey

Reunion- Denison Kimball Trio
Friendship Station- Le Tigre
She- The Monkees
Teen Titans Theme- Puffy Amiyumi
Vicious- Lou Reed
The Price of Love- The Everly Brothers
Rebel Rebel- David Bowie
Twin Peaks theme- W/ Julie Cruise
Black Tongue- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Crimson and Clover- Tommy James and the Shondells
Loser- Beck
Miserlou- Dick Dale

I love that soundtrack!

Here's a couple I made for the wife:
[2c598aa]
EntryType=1
artist=Reba McEntire
title=REBA1
genre=Country
numtracks=20
0=Just a Little Love
1=Whoever's in New England
2=Does He Love You
3=Love Will Find Its Way to You
4=You Lie
5=The Greatest Man I Never Knew
6=It's Your Call
7=How Was I to Know
8=We're So Good Together
9=What Do You Say
10=By the Time I Get to Phoenix
11=Starting Over Again
12=Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands
13=Talking in Your Sleep
14=Forever Love
15=If You See Him, If You See Her
16=The Heart Won't Lie
17=The Fear of Being Alone
18=Room To Breathe
19=Sky Full Of Angels

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EntryType=1
artist=Reba McEntire
title=REBA2
genre=Country
numtracks=20
0=Somebody Should Leave
1=Little Rock
2=Fancy
3=Is There Life Out There
4=Walk On
5=For My Broken Heart
6=They Asked About You
7=All This TIme
8=I'll Be
9=She Wasn't Good Enough for Him
10=What If?
11=On My Own
12=Please Come to Boston
13=Five Hundred Miles Away from Home
14=I'm a Survivor
15=And Still
16=The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
17=She Thinks His Name Was John
18=He Gets That From Me
19=Somebody

Ace of Spades - Motorhead
History Repeating - The Propellerheads
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
Highway Song - Blackfoot
Holier Than Thou - Metallica
All I Ever Wanted - Santana
I'm a Man - Chicago
Golden Years - David Bowie
New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
Peace of Mind - Boston
Demon Speeding - Rob Zombie
Spooky - Atlanta Rhythm Section
Detroit Rock City - Kiss
I've Got a Line on You - Spirit
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
How Blue Can You Get - B.B. King et al ( Blues Brothers 2 Soundtrack, Clapton, Winwood, Dr. John, ...etc.)

Jim Lawless

20th Century Fox Fanfare
The following program is intended for mature audiences- HBO sound bite
Sobakasu- Judy and Mary Theme from Rurouni Kenshin (japanese version)
Admiral Mike- The Monkees
Optical Sound- The Human Expression
Pieces of sh*t- dialogue from Happy Gilmore
She F*ckin' Hates Me- Puddle of Mudd
The Way- Fastball
Better Days- Citizen King
Fett's Vette- mcchris
Tainted Love- Soft Cell
The Mooninites- Aqua Teen Hunger Force (full episode)
Trapped in a Box- No Doubt
Wait- The Beatles
In My Community- Paul Revere and the Raiders
Winnie the Pooh- theme song
Where I Come From- Alan Jackson
7 and 7 Is- Love
Lay Down Candles- Melanie
Tiny Meat- Ruby
Piggy in the Middle- The Rutles
Eating Trash- Seinfeld dialogue
Yoake Mai- T.M. Revolution (closing theme to Rurouni Kenshin)

You pick a Monkees song and it's one from Justus?

That's just wrong.

Excellent choices by the Beatles, Raiders (Fang didn't sing enough, IMO), and Love, though. Three of my favorite songs to sing in the shower.

Oop, ip ip, oop, ip ip, YEAH! Or whatever the hell Arthur sings there.

Sometimes I am in the mood for angry Monkees.



I bought the Nuggets boxed set sometime during the late 20th Century, and a completely new world of classic rock was opened up. However, Rhino screwed me on the boxed set. After I had ordered it, I discovered that a couple of songs were missing from the discs, most notably Time Has Come Today.When I checked the Rhino website it turns out that some songs were only available if you bought the discs seperately. SO here I spend money on this niced chunky boxed set (which usually comes with additional material) that I have to buy at least one or two of the individual discs to get everything.

And that was the day I became a man.

I say without hesitation that each of the Nuggets box sets changed my life. The second one probably more so. I would have been unaware of great Latin American bands like We All Together, Os Mutantes, and especially Los Shakers, were it not for Nuggets Vol. II.

And who can forget Japan's The Mops?

"When I walk in the street
Everybody
Say he's a Mops
but I don't care of them
for I am just a Mops!"

New one:

Johnny Cash
Oh, What a Dream
I Still Miss Someone
Pickin' Time
Flesh and Blood
The Last Gunfighter Ballad
One Piece at a Time
Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Five Feet High and Rising
Ragged Old Flag
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
Look at Them Beans
Seasons of My Heart
Ring of Fire
Orange Blossom Special
Folsom Prison Blues
San Quentin [#2]
Daddy Sang Bass
Sunday Morning Coming Down
A Boy Named Sue [Live]
Man in Black
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Without Love
The Baron
Highway Patrolman
The Fourth Man in the Fire
I've Been Everywhere

Love the song ‘Look at Them Beans’!

Put together a 'Best of' for Blue Rodeo last week and a 'Best of' Radiohead this past weekend. I'll do Blue later, but here's Radiohead (note: I had to stop before 'Hail to the Thief' because I ran out of room!)...

Creep
Stop Whispering
Thinking About You
The Bends
High & Dry
Fake Plastic Trees
Just
My Iron Lung
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Paranoid Android
Let Down
Karma Police
No Surprises
Optimistic
Idioteque
I Might Be Wrong
Knives Out

Right after I bought my first CD burner, I made my own 2-disc "best of" set for Blue Rodeo. I had a Jim disc and a Greg disc. The Jim disc included a song or 2 from his Solo album, but I didn't do the same for Greg, since his solo album was so frickin' weird. When I get home, I'll try to dig it out and compare my playlist to Rob's.

Hank, my Blue 'Best of' is currently a Part 1 (i.e. from 'Outskirts' thru 'Lost Together') -- Part 2 is pending. I don't plan on including solo stuff.

Regarding Greg's solo album ('Gone'), my wife and I saw him perform solo at Trinity Church in Toronto -- incredible. I haven't listened to the album in years, but 'Motherless Child' (?) is a stand out and I remember enjoying 'White Marble Ganesh' (?) quite a bit.

Okay, here're those playlists-

Here's the Greg disc:
1. Outskirts
2. Diamond Mine
3. 5AM
4. Last Laugh
5. Lost Together
6. Hasn't Hit Me Yet
7. What Is This Love?
8. Side Of The Road
9. Get Through To You
10.Train
11.Me & Baz
12.Disappear
13.Brother Andre's Heart/Frog's Lullaby

The Jim Disc:
1. Underground
2. How Long?
3. Now And Forever
4. Fall In Line
5. Til I Am Myself Again
6. Trust Yourself
7. After The Rain
8. Flying
9. Head Over Heels
10.Better Off As We Are
11.Blew It Again
12.Armour
13.I Could Never Be That Man
14.Dragging On
15.Disappointment
16.All In Time
17.Trouble

Jim gets more songs because his are shorter. If I had it to do again, I'd probably drop Train and Side of the Road in favor of Western Skies and Moon & Tree. And obviously, I made this shortly after Jim released his solo album, so there's nothing from Days In Between or Palace Of Gold. Hard to say what I'd juggle to get stuff from those albums on there.

Ah, Blue Rodeo, so many great songs, so little space on recordable CDs to put them all. I need an iPod.

Here's my Part 1 CD (note: I droppped 'Diamond Mine' in order to squeeze on a couple extra tunes -- in retrospect, I would have left off 'House of Dreams' and maybe 'Rebel').

1 Heart Like Mine
2 Rose Coloured Glasses
3 Rebel
4 Outskirts
5 Try
6 How Long
7 Now & Forever
8 House of Dreams
9 Til I Am Myself Again
10 What Am I Doing Here?
11 Montreal
12 Trust Yourself
13 After the Rain
14 Fools Like You
15 Rain Down On Me
16 Already Gone
17 Lost Together
18 Is It you?

Hard to believe all these great songs came from just four albums!!! I started putting together Part 2 and I think I'm going to have to leave 'Palace of Gold' out of the mix. Gah!

Hank, great choices up there man! The Greg/Jim disc split is inspired! I like it. Good to see you included 'Dragging On', definitely one of my favs.

Blue Rodeo part 2...

1 Hasn't Hit Me Yet
2 Head Over Heels
3 Bad Timing
4 Til I Gain Control Again
5 Side of the Road
6 Better Off As We Are
7 Sky
8 Blew It Again
9 Moon & Tree
10 Shed My Skin
11 Falling Down Blue
12 Disappear
13 Dragging On
14 Somebody Waits
15 Sad Nights
16 The Days In Between

Maybe a little ballad-heavy for my tastes, but definitely not a stinker in the bunch!

Good work, Rob! (and you too, Jim, Greg, Baz, Bobby, Cleave, Mark, Glenn, James, Kim & Bob!)

The wife likes the ballads...

... oh, who am I kidding? 'Air Supply' was my first favourite band after all -- at the ripe old age of 8. There! I'm out of the closet!!!

Also an Air Supply fan.

(Good to be out the closet. Kinda crowded in there!)

Rock on Jim!

Favorite Metal Ballads are Skid Row's I Remember You and Motley Crue's Home Sweet Home.

I just downloaded these from Wal-Mart. They've just become my current mix of songs...

Sailing - Christopher Cross
Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross
Kyrie - Mr. Mister
I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy
Mo' Money, Mo' Problems - The Notorious B.I.G.
Cry Me A River - Justin Timberlake
Finally - Ce Ce Peniston
The Heart Won't Lie - Reba McEntire & Vince Gill
You're My Better Half - Keith Urban
This Love - Maroon 5
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5