what band can you make an expert mix tape for?

[Jon T.]

My RUSH mixtape of 13 songs is probably around 3 hours long

1. Fountains of Lamneth
2. Jacob's Ladder
3. La Villa Strangiato
4. Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres
5. Xanadu
6. Camera Eye
7. Cygnus X-1 Book I
8. YYZ
9. By-tor and the Snowdog
10. The Necromancer
11. Working Man
12. Natural Science
13. 2112

  It doesn't get any better than this Sweatboard!

That's a great list; I went for Rush 101. This is an advanced Rush listening opportunity.

I was perplexed by the first song, however. It sounds familiar to me and I searched and searched but couldn't find Fountains of Lamneth anywhere. So, I re-listened to all of the Rush I own and still, nothing. Then it dawned on me: Did he Ruckus mean The Fountain of Lamneth? Hhhmmmmm. Is that what you mean? The Fountain of Lamneth?

I don't believe you could have listened to all your RUSH in 15 hours.  however I imagine a single fountain has the potential to be more majestic because of its singularity.
Just don't tell jon t. that I spelled Manziel with two Ls to pay homage to his nickname which I believe ends in two Ls unless you were in Spain or Mexico or something and then there wouldn't be two Ls and the bad joke wouldn't work.

He's a freshman.  A FRESHMAN!  Someone needs to give that damn kid a swirlie not appoint him the second coming.  Shit.
 

[BH]

Pink Mountaintops

Axis:Thrones Of Love
Execution
Single Life
I (F*ck) Mountains
While We Were Dreaming
Outside Love
Plastic Man, You're The Devil
Slaves
Lord, Let Us Shine
Sweet '69
Tourist In Your Town
The Gayest Of Sunbeams
How Can We Get Free

[Shug]

Can I do an 8 Track?



1. Working Man
2. Fly By Night
3. Bastille Day
4. Closer to the Heart
5. The Trees
6. La Villa Strangiato
7. The Spirit of Radio
8. Freewill
9. Tom Sawyer
10. Limelight
11. Subdivisions
12. New World Man
13. Between the Wheels

I listened to a bunch of Rush this AM and it sounded so good!  Its my brother's bday and he's seeing them in San Diego tonight, but I can't make it, unfortunately.

I've seen them do La Villa Strangiato live (and Natural Science on another tour), so I can die a contented man, so what I'd love to hear them do is Cygnus Book 1 and Book 2 straight through.  Now that would be epicly epic!!!  They might be due to do all of Permanent Waves live, too.

[exist10z]

exist10z bravely took on the Beatles and did a fine job (although I raise an eyebrow to his choice of Rocky Raccoon  )  so I'll take on the Stones, even harder because they have five decades of stuff to represent.  This is probably too much of a "greatest hits" mix and too obvious to be hip and cool, but I still think its some of their strongest songs/performances.  Too frickin' hard!

Honky Tonk Women
Tumbling Dice
Brown Sugar
Gimme Shelter
Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Midnight Rambler (live)
It All Over Now
Rocks Off
Before They Make Me Run
Start Me Up
Saint Of Me
Wild Horses

That's a nice mix Shug.  I know just what you mean about the greatest hits thing, but how could you not include some of those songs - those are just amazing songs that happen to be hits.  Mine would have been similar, though I probably would have tried to included Black Limousine, Dancing With Mr. D, and a couple tracks from Some Girls (Miss You, Shattered, Imagination, etc.) because I have an unreasonable attraction to that album for some reason.

It was either Rocky Racoon or Bungalow Bill, I was going for a certain style/sound from the White Album.

[Shug]

Saint of Me and Before They Make Me Run were my wild cards.  The later is the single greatest summary in song form of a rock 'n' roll life I know of!  Long live Keef!

My Beatles would have some choice White Album, too, of course, but I need more Revolver and Rubber Soul in mine.

[markcel]

I'll give shot at a Replacement's mix:

1. If Only You Were Lonely
2. Talent Show
3. Alex Chilton
4. Color Me Impressed
5. I Will Dare
6. Achin' To Be
7. Valentine
8. Bastards of Young
9. Unsatisfied
10. Can't Hardly Wait
11. Left of the Dial
12. Skyway
13. Here Comes a Regular

[pawpaw]

David Bowie

1. Oh! You Pretty Things
2. Speed of Life
3. Moonage Daydream
4. Ashes to Ashes
5. Watch That Man
6. Black Country Rock
7. Fascination
8. Blackout
9. Always Crashing in the Same Car
10. Panic in Detroit
11. Look Back in Anger
12. Queen Bitch
13. Modern Love

I was thinking of doing Bowie as well, but in thinking about it, I kept coming up with a greatest hits collection.  This is good.

Black Country Rock would have been on mine as well, my favorite less known Bowie song.

A greatest hits mix plays out pretty well too!

1. Space Oddity
2. Young Americans
3. Let's Dance
4. The Man Who Sold the World
5. Changes
6. China Doll
7. Suffragette City
8. Rebel Rebel
9. Blue Jean
10. Fame
11. Golden Years
12. Ziggy Stardust
13. Heroes

I just picked some of my favorite songs of his for my original 13. Bowie is amazing. There are some days I'd argue that he has the best discography in popular music.

Tracy, your Eno mix is great! So's your Stones mix, Shug!

[el_chode]

I'll start with Ween

   
• Roses are Free
• Transdermal Celebration
• Mutilated Lips
• Gabrielle
• Piss Up a Rope
• Buenos Tardes Amigo
• Buckingham Green
• Monique the Freak
• Baby Bitch
• Exactly Where I'm At
• Big Jim
• It's Gonna Be A Long Night
• Stay Forever

Chosen to highlight actual songmanship/lyrical ability/Deaner's chops and avoid the typical LOLFRATROCK comments about HIV and Spinal Meningitis.

Ween has so many good songs I think it is statistically impossible to come up with just 13.  But that's a good bunch right there.

How about we add

A Tear for Eddie
Chocolate Town
Flutes of Chi
The Argus
Did You See Me?
Freedom of '76
With My Own Bare Hands
Joppa Road
Back to Basom
You Were the Fool
Dr. Rock
I Can't Put My Finger On It
What Deaner Was Talking About
The Stallion Pt. 3
Tried and True
Your Party
Among His Tribe
Even if You Don't
The Grobe
Powder Blue
I Fell in Love Today

solid choices, but let me have a crack at this:

Pork Roll Egg & Cheese
Transdermal Celebration
Nan
Sketches of Winkle
Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?
Boys Club
Mutilated Lips
You Were The Fool
Stallion Pt. 3
Stallion Pt. 4
Stallion Pt. 5
Demon Sweat
Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain
Did You See Me?
Stay Forever
I Can't Put My Finger On It
Right To The Ways And The Rules Of The World
Wayne's Pet Youngin'
I Saw Gener Cryin In His Sleep
I'll Be Your Jonny On The Spot
Joppa Road
Put The Coke On My Dick
Tear For Eddie
Chocolate Town
What Deaner Was Talking About
She's Your Baby

Indeed there are a ton of songs. I just tried to keep it as "accessible" as possible while giving a taste of Boognish dogma. The stallions for example are better understood in the context of Ween generally, as are the autobiographies (what Dean was talking about, deaner crying in his sleep). Plus you guys cite to a lot of Guava and pod, or other rarities that were done first on a four track. Songs like "put the coke on my dick" I always play from the Stubbs album because most people have no patience for the rough cuts on the early albums, even if Pollo Asado is genius

[zanjam]

I'll start with Ween

   
• Roses are Free
• Transdermal Celebration
• Mutilated Lips
• Gabrielle
• Piss Up a Rope
• Buenos Tardes Amigo
• Buckingham Green
• Monique the Freak
• Baby Bitch
• Exactly Where I'm At
• Big Jim
• It's Gonna Be A Long Night
• Stay Forever

Chosen to highlight actual songmanship/lyrical ability/Deaner's chops and avoid the typical LOLFRATROCK comments about HIV and Spinal Meningitis.

Ween has so many good songs I think it is statistically impossible to come up with just 13.  But that's a good bunch right there.

How about we add

A Tear for Eddie
Chocolate Town
Flutes of Chi
The Argus
Did You See Me?
Freedom of '76
With My Own Bare Hands
Joppa Road
Back to Basom
You Were the Fool
Dr. Rock
I Can't Put My Finger On It
What Deaner Was Talking About
The Stallion Pt. 3
Tried and True
Your Party
Among His Tribe
Even if You Don't
The Grobe
Powder Blue
I Fell in Love Today

solid choices, but let me have a crack at this:

Pork Roll Egg & Cheese
Transdermal Celebration
Nan
Sketches of Winkle
Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?
Boys Club
Mutilated Lips
You Were The Fool
Stallion Pt. 3
Stallion Pt. 4
Stallion Pt. 5
Demon Sweat
Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain
Did You See Me?
Stay Forever
I Can't Put My Finger On It
Right To The Ways And The Rules Of The World
Wayne's Pet Youngin'
I Saw Gener Cryin In His Sleep
I'll Be Your Jonny On The Spot
Joppa Road
Put The Coke On My Dick
Tear For Eddie
Chocolate Town
What Deaner Was Talking About
She's Your Baby

Indeed there are a ton of songs. I just tried to keep it as "accessible" as possible while giving a taste of Boognish dogma. The stallions for example are better understood in the context of Ween generally, as are the autobiographies (what Dean was talking about, deaner crying in his sleep). Plus you guys cite to a lot of Guava and pod, or other rarities that were done first on a four track. Songs like "put the coke on my dick" I always play from the Stubbs album because most people have no patience for the rough cuts on the early albums, even if Pollo Asado is genius

Boognish dogma!  Yeah, you totally did that!  It's a good cross section, that's for sure.  I prefer my Ween on the mellow/psychedelic side, if you couldn't tell from my picks.  My brother is quite the fan of Speed Metal Ween.  Chocolate and peanut butter.

[el_chode]

I'll start with Ween

   
• Roses are Free
• Transdermal Celebration
• Mutilated Lips
• Gabrielle
• Piss Up a Rope
• Buenos Tardes Amigo
• Buckingham Green
• Monique the Freak
• Baby Bitch
• Exactly Where I'm At
• Big Jim
• It's Gonna Be A Long Night
• Stay Forever

Chosen to highlight actual songmanship/lyrical ability/Deaner's chops and avoid the typical LOLFRATROCK comments about HIV and Spinal Meningitis.

Ween has so many good songs I think it is statistically impossible to come up with just 13.  But that's a good bunch right there.

How about we add

A Tear for Eddie
Chocolate Town
Flutes of Chi
The Argus
Did You See Me?
Freedom of '76
With My Own Bare Hands
Joppa Road
Back to Basom
You Were the Fool
Dr. Rock
I Can't Put My Finger On It
What Deaner Was Talking About
The Stallion Pt. 3
Tried and True
Your Party
Among His Tribe
Even if You Don't
The Grobe
Powder Blue
I Fell in Love Today

solid choices, but let me have a crack at this:

Pork Roll Egg & Cheese
Transdermal Celebration
Nan
Sketches of Winkle
Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?
Boys Club
Mutilated Lips
You Were The Fool
Stallion Pt. 3
Stallion Pt. 4
Stallion Pt. 5
Demon Sweat
Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain
Did You See Me?
Stay Forever
I Can't Put My Finger On It
Right To The Ways And The Rules Of The World
Wayne's Pet Youngin'
I Saw Gener Cryin In His Sleep
I'll Be Your Jonny On The Spot
Joppa Road
Put The Coke On My Dick
Tear For Eddie
Chocolate Town
What Deaner Was Talking About
She's Your Baby

Indeed there are a ton of songs. I just tried to keep it as "accessible" as possible while giving a taste of Boognish dogma. The stallions for example are better understood in the context of Ween generally, as are the autobiographies (what Dean was talking about, deaner crying in his sleep). Plus you guys cite to a lot of Guava and pod, or other rarities that were done first on a four track. Songs like "put the coke on my dick" I always play from the Stubbs album because most people have no patience for the rough cuts on the early albums, even if Pollo Asado is genius

Boognish dogma!  Yeah, you totally did that!  It's a good cross section, that's for sure.  I prefer my Ween on the mellow/psychedelic side, if you couldn't tell from my picks.  My brother is quite the fan of Speed Metal Ween.  Chocolate and peanut butter.

Yeah when I saw chocolate town I immediately regretted not including that.

[sweatboard]

Have to do some disagreeing.... PJ mix tape with no Given To Fly..........

You have no idea how hard it was for me going back and forth between Do The Evolution and Given To Fly.  Given To Fly was actually my first choice and then I thought "I've already included to many emo songs, I need to show some balls here"  Plus, Do The Evolution has the trifecta of emotion, balls and brain.  It's funny that you called me out on that song though, I ended up getting called out on trying NOT to be a pussy.     

[Tracy 2112]

Guns N' Roses

Welcome to the Jungle
It's So Easy
Nightrain
Out ta Get Me
Mr. Brownstone
Paradise City
My Michelle
Think About You
Sweet Child o' Mine
You're Crazy
Anything Goes
Rocket Queen
Civil War

[ralph]

Gram Parsons (songs he wrote/co-wrote)

International Submarine Band
Blue Eyes
Luxury Liner

The Byrds
Hickory Wind
One Hundred Years From Now

Flying Burrito Brothers
Sin City
Hot Burrito #1
Hot Burrito #2
Wild Horses***

Solo
A Song For You
She
Return of The Grievous Angel
In My Hour of Darkness

The Fallen Angels
Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man (live)

***Bonus Track cause its just too damn a good version to leave off even though he didnt write it

[MarkW]

Guns N' Roses

Welcome to the Jungle
It's So Easy
Nightrain
Out ta Get Me
Mr. Brownstone
Paradise City
My Michelle
Think About You
Sweet Child o' Mine
You're Crazy
Anything Goes
Rocket Queen
Civil War

I see what you did there...

[exist10z]

Another effort at the impossible, but at least I've gotten to do 3/5 of my all time favorites (Beatles, Radiohead, LZ).

Led Zeppelin

1. Black Dog (IV)
2. In The Evening (ITTOD)
3. Ten Years Gone (PG)
4. Bring It On Home (II)
5. Over The Hills And Far Away (HOTH)
6. The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair (BBC Sessions)
7. When The Levee Breaks (IV)
8. Ramble On (II)
9. How Many More Times (I)
10. That's The Way (III)
11. In The Light (PG)
12. Since I've Been Loving You (III)
13. No Quarter (HOTH)

So hard, so much left off.  Again, this isn't the 'best of' or even necessarily my favorite Zeppelin, but a mix I thought shows their brilliance, and the breadth and depth of the band.  Just missing the cut: Nobody's Fault But Mine (Presence), Fool In The Rain (ITTOD), In My Time Of Dying (PG).  Really there were twenty or thirty just missing the cut, but again I was going for a certain mix.  I tended toward longer tracks, because they were so great at them, and because more Zeppelin is better Zeppelin.

Maybe someone wants to make one excluding these songs, which would still be easy, and maybe even more fun than having to choose from the whole catalogue.

[e_wind]

Here is my Wilco, but I just started listening to them about two weeks ago and I am yet to own Summer Teeth, Whole Love and Wilco

Spiders (Kidsmoke)
Misunderstood
I'm The Man Who Loves You
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
At Least That's What You Said (Maybe my favorite song from them so far)
Via Chicago
Jesus, Etc.
Impossible Germany
Sunken Treasure
Ashes Of American Flags
Hell Is Chrome
Theologians
Heavy Metal Drummer

Shot in the Arm, California Stars

Mine wouldve been similar-ish:

1. Misunderstood (Kicking-Tele versions. Too good of a intro)
2. Monday (can't go from Misunderstood into something slow)
3. At Least Thats What You Said
4. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
5. Pie Holdin' Suite
6. Via Chicago
-----END side one: emotionally dark side.  Start the fun side:
7. Art of Almost
8. Jesus Etc.
9. Impossible Germany
10. Theologians
11. California Stars
12. Shot in the Arm
13. Spiders (Kidsmoke)


I think that this would best represent every era of Wilco, and I think that Cali Stars and Shot in the Arm are almost musts for a Wilco mix tape.

[e_wind]

Pearl Jam

1. Once
2. Breath
3. I Got I.D.
4. Corduroy
5. In My Tree
6. Unthought Known
7. Present Tense
8. Immortality
9. State of Love and Trust
10. Do The Evolution
11. Why Go
12. Rearview Mirror
13. Indifference/Yellow Ledbetter

Have to do some disagreeing.... PJ mix tape with no Given To Fly..........

You have no idea how hard it was for me going back and forth between Do The Evolution and Given To Fly.  Given To Fly was actually my first choice and then I thought "I've already included to many emo songs, I need to show some balls here"  Plus, Do The Evolution has the trifecta of emotion, balls and brain.  It's funny that you called me out on that song though, I ended up getting called out on trying NOT to be a pussy.   

Ha! I don't know that making a PJ mixtape limited to 13 songs would be possible, but GtF is probably my favorite song of all time. Do the Evolution is right up there with it though. (didn't Ed at one point say it's his favorite song hes written?) Yield is my favorite PJ record and my favorite record of all time on certain days. 


My PJ mixtape would probably go like this. Release is just a great opener, then it would kick your ass around for awhile, until slowly settles to Thumbing My Way, and then builds back up to another ass-kicking.

1. Release
2. Why Go
3. Do the Evolution
4. Not For You
5. Faithful
6. Glorified G
7. Given To Fly
8. I Am Mine
9. Thumbing My Way
10. Black
11. Hail, Hail
12. Leash (if we wanna show some balls here)
13. Rockin in the Free World (Live w/ Neil, obviously)


After making that, I can't help but see how personal it is. I mean I don't see Glorified G and Leash being on many "perfect mixtapes", but fuck I love those songs.

[el_chode]

Another effort at the impossible, but at least I've gotten to do 3/5 of my all time favorites (Beatles, Radiohead, LZ).

Led Zeppelin

1. Black Dog (IV)
2. In The Evening (ITTOD)
3. Ten Years Gone (PG)
4. Bring It On Home (II)
5. Over The Hills And Far Away (HOTH)
6. The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair (BBC Sessions)
7. When The Levee Breaks (IV)
8. Ramble On (II)
9. How Many More Times (I)
10. That's The Way (III)
11. In The Light (PG)
12. Since I've Been Loving You (III)
13. No Quarter (HOTH)

So hard, so much left off.  Again, this isn't the 'best of' or even necessarily my favorite Zeppelin, but a mix I thought shows their brilliance, and the breadth and depth of the band.  Just missing the cut: Nobody's Fault But Mine (Presence), Fool In The Rain (ITTOD), In My Time Of Dying (PG).  Really there were twenty or thirty just missing the cut, but again I was going for a certain mix.  I tended toward longer tracks, because they were so great at them, and because more Zeppelin is better Zeppelin.

Maybe someone wants to make one excluding these songs, which would still be easy, and maybe even more fun than having to choose from the whole catalogue.

I would do this exact same list except I'd swap No Quarter for Black Country Woman

[Jaimoe]

this was a pretty quick one where I just grabbed some of my personal favorites and a couple of classics

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Hello Operator
Do
Same Boy You've Always Known
Wasting My Time
Death Letter (has to be the Peel Sessions Death Letter)
Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)
I Fought Piranhas
Truth Doesn't Make a Noise
Jolene
A Martyr For My Love for You
300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues
Seven Nation Army

I tried to cover their discography here, but to be honest, I probably wouldn't put anything from Get Behind Me Satan on a mix for someone. 

If you haven't heard the Peel Sessions version of Death Letter:
http://youtu.be/AaCTxcnfB6Y

Pretty good list. Anything from De Stijl would work (I think it's their best overall album) and I'd have a tough time not including all three of these tracks: "Little Bird", "Apple Blossom" and "You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)".

However, there are a few suitable candidates from GBMS, first and foremost one of the best white blues songs from the last decade, "Instinct Blues". And "As Ugly as I Seem" is wonderful Zeppelin III kind of folk song.

And any White Stripes mix tape must include "Ball and Biscuit".

[zanjam]

this was a pretty quick one where I just grabbed some of my personal favorites and a couple of classics

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Hello Operator
Do
Same Boy You've Always Known
Wasting My Time
Death Letter (has to be the Peel Sessions Death Letter)
Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)
I Fought Piranhas
Truth Doesn't Make a Noise
Jolene
A Martyr For My Love for You
300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues
Seven Nation Army

I tried to cover their discography here, but to be honest, I probably wouldn't put anything from Get Behind Me Satan on a mix for someone. 

If you haven't heard the Peel Sessions version of Death Letter:
http://youtu.be/AaCTxcnfB6Y

Pretty good list. Anything from De Stijl would work (I think it's their best overall album) and I'd have a tough time not including all three of these tracks: "Little Bird", "Apple Blossom" and "You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)".

However, there are a few suitable candidates from GBMS, first and foremost one of the best white blues songs from the last decade, "Instinct Blues". And "As Ugly as I Seem" is wonderful Zeppelin III kind of folk song.

And any White Stripes mix tape must include "Ball and Biscuit".

Word.  Probably my fave White Stripes song ever.  Was the opening scene of The Social Network.   :happy: