MixMaster: Robert
THEME: Soundtrack Mix
I made plenty of "Best of..." mixes but, my favorite collections were way more involved.
These other mixes were divided into two basic categories - moods and soundtracks.
The mood mixes are easy enough to explain - a mix for rainy days, a mix for driving with the windows down, etc.
The soundtrack mixes are a little trickier to put a clear finger on. What I would do is imagine a movie with the perfect soundtrack - a collection of songs that somehow told a story and were loosely connected (sometimes by sound, sometimes by texture) even though they don't actually have a visual image to correspond to. The only rule I ever posed to myself was that I tried to avoid songs that were already specifically known for their connection to an existing film.
With that in mind, I pose the following two challenges:
1. The "theme" for this mix tape is the soundtrack for a moving modern drama surrounding the cross-country road trip of a dude in the midst of several life-effecting challenges. Like any good movie there will be humor, tense moments, evenings scenes of reflection, possibly a bar fight thrown in. Why is he driving cross country instead of flying? How old is he? Is he married, divorced, a widow - does he have kids? All questions you will answer as you select songs.
I suggest you each go over your allotted 20 minutes as I will have to work to craft our varied selections into a flow that makes some sort of sense - with you both chipping in as we go.
2. To make things even more complicated, I am going to request that, to the best of your abilities, you each try to submit as many 3 minute or less songs as possible (even shorter if you find the right choices). That is, I'm looking for a super tight mix of short, sharp musical punctuation's - fast or slow, doesn't matter - we'll work to make it come together.
SIDE A
Lucretia McEvil (Blood,Sweat&Tears)
John,I’m Only Dancing (David Bowie)
Work To Do (America)
Rendezvous (Bruce Springsteen)
Got A Lot On My Head (The Cars)
Back Of Car (Big Star)
It’s Still Rock&Roll To Me (Billy Joel)
I Hear The Rain (Violent Femmes)
In My Own Time (Three O’Clock)
In God’s Country (U2)
Butterfly (Weezer)
SIDE B
For All We Know (The Carpenters)
Out Of My Head (Fastball)
I Feel Sanctified (Commodores)
Stay Hungry (Twisted Sister)
Train of Love (Johnny Cash)
Have You Ever Seen The Rain (CCR)
A Well Respected Man (The Kinks)
Dear Madam Barnum (XTC)
Girl U Want (Devo)
Car Radio (Spoon)
Long,Long Way From Home (Foreigner)
COVER ARTWORK
CASSETTE LINER ARTWORK
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