what band can you make an expert mix tape for?

[MamaKel]

The Doors

Moonlight Drive
The End
Not To Touch The Earth
Spanish Caravan
My Wild Love
Yes The River Knows
Five To One
Shaman's Blues
Wild Child
The Soft Parade
Indian Summer
The Spy
Hyacinth House
Riders on the Storm

[MamaKel]

The Beatles

This Boy
In My Life
Nowhere Man
A Day In the Life
While My Guitar
Dear Prudence
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Long Long Long
Oh Darling
Across The Universe
I Want You
Something
Golden Slumbers Medley

[MamaKel]

Led Zeppelin

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
You Shook Me
The Lemon Song
Dazed And Confused
I Can't Quit You Baby
When The Levee Breaks
Since I've Been Loving You
That's The Way
Ten Years Gone
Going To California
Trampled Under Foot
Down By The Seaside
Tea for One
Black Country Woman

[gardenparty]

Beck:

Que Onda Guero
Hotwax
Sex Laws
Modern Guilt
Deadweight
Jack Ass
Beercan
Broken train
Tropicalia
No Complaints
Lost Cause
New Round
Sing It Again


that ain't easy.  I've got 40 songs on the cutting room floor here

[Crispy]

Good stuff, Mama. My question now is, is it possible to make a Beatles mix that does not have the Abbey Road medley wrapping it up?

Answer: No.

[MamaKel]

It's as Natural as Robert Redford, good buddy.  This is a great thread. We still need The Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, The Band....

[sweatboard]

I could do Elton John and Oasis....that's strange.  I might just do one or the other. 

[EverythingChanges]

Pink Floyd, my first true love:

Echoes
Breathe
Us and Them
Mother
Green Is The Colour
Fat Old Sun
Have a Cigar
Dogs
In the Flesh
Comfortably Numb
Shine On (I - V)
Brain Damage
Eclipse

My Morning Jacket, my second true love: (I avoided any covers due to the limited amount of songs, and I made the most mind-blowing 13 song set I could dream up)

The Dark
Lay Low
Anytime
O Is The One That Is Real
Xmas Curtain
I Will Sing You Songs
I Think I'm Going To Hell
Strangulation
Run Thru
Smokin' From Shootin'
Dondante
Steam Engine
Phone When West

That is a great, epic MMJ mix! 

I always have a hard time making Floyd mixes, because I always feel the songs belong next to one another the way they came on the LPs!  Nothing from Obscured By Clouds?  I know its ...obscure..., but I love that record so much.

Haha, Obscure isn't a bad album, but the bands, themselves, I don't think really like it too much.  It was a score for a French film, so it wasn't as personal as some of their other stuff.  Still some simple great jam tunes on there though.

Thanks, I love my MMJ mix.  I've been listening to it a lot recently, and I think it flows nicely. 

[EverythingChanges]

The Bob Dylan mix is missing, It's All Over Now Baby Blue.

Also, How Many More Times from Zeppelin is my favorite! Don't forget that one.

[Shug]

Grateful Dead In The Studio (No Live) Mix

Box of Rain
St. Stephen
Uncle John's Band
Playing In The Band (Bob Weir - Ace)
Lost Sailor>Saint Of Circumstance
Stella Blue
Easy Wind
Minglewood Blues
West La Fadeaway
Truckin'
Estimated Prophet
One More Saturday Night (Ace)
Black Muddy River
Brokedown Palace

I made this one as evidence that the Dead were not as bad and sterile in the studio as many think they were.

Tangentially related, this was my mix to listen to to grieve Garcia's passing:

Goodbye Jerry

Lucky Old Sun
Brokedown Palace
Stella Blue
Mississippi Moon
My Brothers and Sisters
Black Muddy River
To Lay Me Down
He's Gone
Death Don't Have No Mercy
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Box Of Rain
Touch Of Grey

[Jeff Murray]

Beastie Boys

So Whatcha Want
Brass Monkey
Shadrach
Remote Control
Pass The Mic
Ch-Check It Out
Boomin Granny
Professor Booty
Hey Ladies
Body Movin
Shake Your Rump
Root Down
Sabotage
Gratitude

I'm a rule breaker using 14... it was tough enough trimming the list down that far...

[SauceGod]

The Band

Don't Do It
Up On Cripple Creek
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Rag Mama Rag
Mystery Train
Life Is A Carnival
This Wheel's On Fire
Chest Fever
The Shape I'm In
It Makes No Difference
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Weight
I Shall Be Released

[ManNamedTruth]

Pixies

Debaser
Break My Body
The Holiday Song
Planet of Sound
Wave of Mutilation
Is She Weird
Here Comes Your Man
Gigantic
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Head On
Velouria
Gouge Away
Where is my Mind?

[FiddleCastro]

The Clash:
Police On My Back
Complete Control
London's Burning
I Fought The Law
White Man in Hammersmith Palais
London Calling
Clampdown
Lost in the Supermarket
Guns of Brixton
Magnificent Seven
White Riot
Police and Thieves
Train In Vain


Clutch:
Immortal
Promoter of Earthbound Causes
Never Be Moved
10001110101
La Curandera
Electric Worry
Can't Stop Progress
Power Player
50,000 Unstoppable Watts
Wishbone
Elephant Riders
The Dragonfly
Walking in the Great Shining Path of Monster Trucks




Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
Rich
Art Star
Black Tongue
Date With The Night
Pin
Y Control
Gold Lion
Down Boy
Maps
Soft Shock
Turn Into
Hysteric
Poor Song


Elton John:
Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Madman Across The Water
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Levon
Honky Cat
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
Crocodile rock
Street Kids
I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself
Grey Seal
Daniel
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Blues for Baby and Me

John Entwistle:
Heaven and Hell
My Size
Success Story
No. 29 Eternal Youth
Pick Me Up
My Wife
Whiskey Man
905
Trick of the Light
We Close Tonight
Had Enough
The Quiet One
I Believe In Everything

Kaki King:
Side 1: Instrumentals:
Frame
Doing The Wrong Thing
My Nerves That Committed Suicide
Cargo Cult
Kelvinator, Kelvinator
Playing With Pink Noise
Bone Chaos In The Castle
Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers

Side 2: Lyrical
Jessica
Life Being What It Is
Pull Me Out Alive
Spit It Back In My Mouth
Falling Day
Sunnyside


Sharon Van Etten:
All I Can
Serpents
In Line
Peace Signs
Save Yourself
Tornado
Much More Than That
A Life of His Own
Give Out
Ask
I'm Wrong
Joke or a Lie
Love More

That was tough...

[mahg33ta]

Mr Whippy is one of my best friends here but I found his Tool mixtape missing a few essentials.   So here is my revised version FWIW:

Tool

1.  Stinkfist
2.  Prison Sex
3.  The Grudge
4.  Forty Six and Two
5.  Ticks and Leeches
6.  Opiate
7.  Flood
8.  Third Eye
9.  Right in Two
10.  Eulogy
11.  Lateralus
12.  Rosetta Stoned
13.  Aenima

[Fully]

Mr Whippy is one of my best friends here but I found his Tool mixtape missing a few essentials.   So here is my revised version FWIW:

Tool

1.  Stinkfist
2.  Prison Sex
3.  The Grudge
4.  Forty Six and Two
5.  Ticks and Leeches
6.  Opiate
7.  Flood
8.  Third Eye
9.  Right in Two
10.  Eulogy
11.  Lateralus
12.  Rosetta Stoned
13.  Aenima

Such a gentle way to burn him alive. Interesting that both of you are fans of Prison Sex...who am I kidding? I am too.

[MrWhippy]

Mr Whippy is one of my best friends here but I found his Tool mixtape missing a few essentials.   So here is my revised version FWIW:

Tool

1.  Stinkfist
2.  Prison Sex
3.  The Grudge
4.  Forty Six and Two
5.  Ticks and Leeches
6.  Opiate
7.  Flood
8.  Third Eye
9.  Right in Two
10.  Eulogy
11.  Lateralus
12.  Rosetta Stoned
13.  Aenima

Such a gentle way to burn him alive. Interesting that both of you are fans of Prison Sex...who am I kidding? I am too.

Right in Two and Eulogy (an omission that someone else also noted) were the two biggest things I struggled with leaving out of the Tool mix I did. 

I also can understand the argument for Rosetta Stoned over Vicarious.  To have Rosetta Stoned, though, you really need Lost Keys before it, which is an intro to the song.  I think Rosetta Stoned sounds a bit odd and out of context without the intro. 

To a lesser degree, Intension is also an intro to Right in Two, though not as essential to the song.

Fully, I know we've talked about Tool before, and I think you said you weren't too familiar with them.  Strikes me as something you would love.  Are you saying you are familiar with the song Prison Sex, or just that you have fond memories of the tender moments you shared while behind bars?

[Fully]

Sometimes a woman should leave a little mystery. I will say that I have taken your advice and listened to them some. I've put your original playlist in spotify. Unlike someone whose innocent young daughter is being turned into a Deer Tick super fan, I found it quite good. However, I will also add young mahgeetah's songs to it as well.

[Jon T.]

I had to try my hand at a Tool mix.  I liked the others flow but wanted to make a couple changes.  Pushit has to be there for me.  One of my favorit vocal deliveries, "If, when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stay here, You minimize my movement anyway, I must persuade you another way."  I know I'm in the minority, but not a huge Ticks and Leeches fan.  Want H. in there instead.  I'm a sucker for the personal 10,000 days.  Love the music of Right in Two, but don't love the lyrics.  I agree with Whippy on the needing the into to Rosetta Stoned plus the beginning of that song meanders a little too much at the beginning for mix tape for me.



Tool

1.  Stinkfist
2.  Prison Sex
3.  The Grudge
4.  Pushit
5.  Forty Six and Two
6.  Opiate
7.  Third Eye
8.  H. 
9.  10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)
10.  Eulogy
11.  Lateralus
12.  Schism
13.  Aenima

[MrWhippy]

I had to try my hand at a Tool mix.  I liked the others flow but wanted to make a couple changes.  Pushit has to be there for me.  One of my favorit vocal deliveries, "If, when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stay here, You minimize my movement anyway, I must persuade you another way."  I know I'm in the minority, but not a huge Ticks and Leeches fan.  Want H. in there instead.  I'm a sucker for the personal 10,000 days.  Love the music of Right in Two, but don't love the lyrics.  I agree with Whippy on the needing the into to Rosetta Stoned plus the beginning of that song meanders a little too much at the beginning for mix tape for me.



Tool

1.  Stinkfist
2.  Prison Sex
3.  The Grudge
4.  Pushit
5.  Forty Six and Two
6.  Opiate
7.  Third Eye
8.  H. 
9.  10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)
10.  Eulogy
11.  Lateralus
12.  Schism
13.  Aenima

Nice Tool mix.  H. and Pushit were also hard ones for me to leave off.  Some of my mix was inspired by pairings of songs I had seen in live shows and really liked, such as Opiate -> Flood and Lateralus -> Vicarious -> Aenima. 

I guess I'm the only one that see 4 Degrees as an essential track.  For me it just has such a unique groove and feel to it, I've always been sucked in by it more so than any other of the great songs on Undertow.