Mixtape 8 - Poetry With Song Titles

CASSETTE: BASF LH Super SM Cassette 90
MIXMASTER: Manuel
THEME: Poetry With Song Titles
The lyrics of each track will tell a cohesive, chronological story.

That's right, I want to be able to read down the lyrics from the first track to the last one and I want it to tell me a story.

*  We will each submit one song to start us off and begin a story or a poem.  We may each have a different starting point, so to make it more fun, I am going to select one of the three at random (names on a piece of paper, etc).  That will be the first line in our story/poem.
*  Depending on who starts out by winning the 'first song sweepstakes', we will then follow an alphabetical order.
*  When it's your turn to pick the next line of the story, you will submit two options each time and the next person will pick which one of those songs makes the mix.  Almost like a 'pick your own adventure book' from the 80s.
* Equal time is important (or as close as possible), so I will keep a tally and will be enforcing time restrictions based on how it's rolling along and will be alerting those via the mixtape thread.  With that in mind, do not eat the mix with anything over 6 minutes.

I don't want it to get too abstract, even for a poem, so anything that gets too non-nonsensical as mixmaster, I get the power to veto it and make you re-select new songs with titles that better fit a narrative unless you can clearly explain what is being meant with the title.

Those are the only rules.  There is no debating the order or the mix, the song title tell a story in poetry form.  It's up to you what the mood of the songs based on what you offer and what you pick from the next person.

SIDE A
Welcome to Paradise (Green Day)
She Said, She Said (The Beatles)
All I Want Is Everything (Jellyfish)
I Don't Owe You Anything (The Smiths)

If You Were The Woman And I Was The Man (Cowboy Junkies)
Ain't That Enough (Teenage Fanclub)
To Forgive (Smashing Pumpkins)
What I Am (Edie Brickell)

Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears)
One Day at a Time (Elton John)
There's Too Much Love (Belle&Sebastian)
So I Fall Again (Phantom Planet)

SIDE B
When You Were Mine (The Replacements)
I Looked At You (The Doors)
But the Regrets Are Killing Me (American Football)
Forever and a Bit (Prince)

This Is The Night (The The)
The More You Live, The More You Love (Flock of Seagulls)
The Trick is to Keep Breathing (Garbage)
Just A Touch Away (Echo Bunnymen)

People Like Us (Talking Heads)
These are The Days of Our Lives (Queen)
We Are All Made Of Stars (Moby)

FINISHED POEM/STORY
Welcome to Paradise
She Said, She Said
All I Want Is Everything
I Don't Owe You Anything

If You Were The Woman And I Was The Man
Ain't That Enough
To Forgive
What I Am

Everybody Wants to Rule the World
One Day at a Time
There's Too Much Love
So I Fall Again

When You Were Mine
I Looked At You
But the Regrets Are Killing Me
Forever and a Bit

This Is The Night
The More You Live, The More You Love
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Just A Touch Away

People Like Us
These are The Days of Our Lives
We Are All Made Of Stars


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Mixtape 7 - Melancholy and Mellow

CASSETTE: BASF Chrome Maxima II 90
MIXMASTER: Jorge
THEME: Melancholy and Mellow
I remember creating some mixtapes when I was younger that appealed to my need to wallow in misery, or allow me to sit in a dark room with nothing but a candle (or the flicker of the LEDs on the stereo) and mellow out in a very relaxed minor-key melancholia.  So, not necessarily a "break-up"  tape, as the songs don't need to have anything to do with unrequited love or heartbreak (they could, it is just not a requirement), I do want our choices to be slow, melancholy affairs that zap the energy out of you, or make you feel incredibly sad, and really, end up making you feel even worse than when you started! (Misery loves company, right? And listening to depressing, beautiful, melancholy music is sometimes the only recipe for feeling depressed and melancholy). No year limits, besides our agreed-upon restriction of it has to be before the year 2000.

SIDE A
Torn (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
Kid Fears (Indigo Girls)
Raining in Baltimore (Counting Crows)
Luv (Travis)
Pontiac (Lyle Lovett)
To Wish Impossible Things (The Cure)
Asleep (The Smiths)
Holocaust (This Mortal Coil)
Exile (Enya)
Exit Music (For a Film) (Radiohead)
Love is Blindness (U2)

SIDE B
When No One Cares (Frank Sinatra)
Whispers (Fairground Attraction)
She’s Always A Woman To Me (Billy Joel)
Little Green (Joni Mitchell)
It Hurts to Lose You (The Prayer Boat)
Easily Undone (Magnet)
Tears (Rush)
Here With Me (Dido)
Alaskan Pipeline (James)
Sometimes It Snows In April (Prince)
With This Love (Peter Gabriel)

Mixtape 7 YouTube Link

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Mixtape 6 - Favorite Progressive Rock

CASSETTE: TDK / SA-X (Limited) / 100 minutes
MixMaster: Robert
THEME: Favorite Progressive Rock
Though The Beatles & The Doors - along with their 60s contemporaries - were my particular gateway drug when I really began to develop a deeper connection to music in 1980, it was the progressive rock of the 70s that became my heroin.

The long songs with time changes, the musical virtuosity - even the often cliche lyrics sounded like literary genius to my teenage years. I was hooked - absolutely obsessed.
My charge for this mix is to delve into our favorite progressive rock.

Note I didn't specify "Best Of" - intentionally so. Now, I get that this can create a bit of a blur. "Roundabout" happens to be one of Yes' best known songs and how could anyone argue if one of us selected that for this mix? I just don't want us too lost on creating a Progressive Rock 101 mix. These songs should be our favorite - the finest of the genre. Only slight caveat would be to avoid songs that we have already used on a previous mix.

As far as other logistics - I'm opening this up to a pretty wide range surrounding the definition of "progressive". You think "The End" or "A Day In The Life" qualifies - go ahead and throw it out. I know the discussions on that would be interesting.

And I'll keep the years open to our complete scope. I've always considered In The Court Of The Crimson King to be the definitive and original blueprint but I appreciate that a case could be made for Days Of Future Passed or even, perhaps, Sgt Peppers. I'll entertain all comers - just be prepared to defend your nominations.

In the end, what I'll be looking for is a solid and diverse mix that would serve well as a go-to for any fan of this particular style.


SIDE A
Knights of Cydonia (Muse)
Machine Messiah (Yes)
The Good Don’t Last (Spock’s Beard)
I.   Introduction
II.  The Good Don’t Last
III.  The Radiant Is
Duke Suite (Genesis)
I.   Behind The Lines
II.  Duchess
III. Guide Vocal
Natural Science (Rush)
I.   Tide Pools
II.  Hyperspace
III. Permanent Waves

SIDE B
Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day (Jethro Tull)
Trilogy (ELP)
Beneath The Brine (The Family Crest)
Missa Atropos (Gazpacho)
Pigs (Three Different Ones) - (Pink Floyd)
The Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson)

Mixtape 6 YouTube Link

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Mixtape 5 - The Colors of Music

CASSETTE: Memorex 90 dBS Clear
MixMaster: Manuel
THEME: The Colors of Music
We're going to call this tape, 'The Colors of Music'.  You will submit songs that have colors in the title. My idea is to try to have equal number of songs by color.

As to how the songs will come together, I will loosely follow an emotional motif based on colors and the actual tracks (minor, major, slow, fast, etc).  I'm partial to that because it gives me more freedom.

SIDE A
ACT I
What's your Favorite Color? (Living Colour)
Purple Stain (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Black the Sun (Alex Lloyd)
Fields Of Gold (Eva Cassidy)
Yellow (Coldplay)
The Light is Always Green (The Housemartins)
Silver (Echo & The Bunnymen)
Green (Love Spit Love)
ACT II
Bullet the Blue Sky (U2)
Red Rain (Peter Gabriel)

SIDE B
Pink Orange Red (Cocteau Twins)
Pink Ego Box (Muse)
Pink Turns To Blue (Husker Du)
Dark Blue (No Doubt)
Yellow Light (Remy Zero)
ACT III
A Whiter Shade of Pale (Annie Lennox)
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea (The Cure)
Scarlet (Lush)
Black Star (Radiohead)
Blue Blue Sky (Alan Parsons Project)

Mixtape 5 YouTube Link

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