what band can you make an expert mix tape for?

[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".

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

It is indeed. Brought a smile to my face when I watched the film.

Got to see solo Jack do "Ball and Biscuit" in October in Toronto and witnessed it three times with the Stripes, the first being in 2003 in Mississauga, Ontario (large suburban city beside Toronto) then in 2005 and finally during their now historic cross-Canada "Under Great White Northern Lights" 2007 tour (ranks in my Top 3 concerts of all time). BTW, here's the 2007 Toronto encore (I have the limited editon gig poster too!). All songs would fit nicely onto a mix tape:

Black Math
In the Cold, Cold Night
My Doorbell
The Union Forever   
Fell In Love With A Girl
Ball and Biscuit
Seven Nation Army
Boll Weevil 

[MrWhippy]

Smashing Pumpkins 1991-1998 (original lineup)

1.  Cherub Rock
2.  Siva
3.  Muzzle
4.  Soma
5.  Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
6.  To Sheila
7.  1979
8.  Rocket
9.  Starla
10.  Thru the Eyes of Ruby
11.  Mayonnaise
12.  Window Paine
13.  Silverfuck

[MrWhippy]

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.  The Pot
10.  4 Degrees
11.  Lateralus
12.  Vicarious
13.  Aenima

[iLikeBeer]

Velvet Underground:

What Goes On
Pale Blue Eyes
I'm Set Free
Rock And Roll
Femme Fatale
Sweet Jane
Run Run Run
White Light/White Heat
Here She Comes Now
Heroin
Sister Ray
Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
After Hours

[YimYodd]

                                                      Tom Waits
Kiss Me
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
Warm Beer, Cold Women
Romeo Is Bleeding
Ol' 55
The Piano Has Been Drinking
Fish & Bird
Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Singapore
Lucinda
Goin' Out West
I Wish I Was In New Orleans
Day After Tomorrow

[Jaimoe]

Well, my name is Jaimoe for a reason:

Statesboro Blues (At Fillmore East)
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (At Fillmore East)
Midnight Rider
Revival
Whipping Post (At Fillmore East)
Dreams
Please Call Home
One Way Out (Eat a Peach)
Stand Back
Blue Sky
Jessica
Seven Turns
Little Martha

[MrWhippy]

Velvet Underground:

What Goes On
Pale Blue Eyes
I'm Set Free
Rock And Roll
Femme Fatale
Sweet Jane
Run Run Run
White Light/White Heat
Here She Comes Now
Heroin
Sister Ray
Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
After Hours

Pretty much perfect in my opinion for a VU mix.

[MrWhippy]

Gillian Welch mix

1.  Orphan Girl
2.  Elvis Presley Blues
3.  The Way it Will Be
4.  My First Lover
5.  Look at Miss Ohio
6.  Annabelle
7.  Hard Times
8.  Pass You By
9.  Caleb Meyer
10.  Everything is Free
11.  Revelator
12.  Tennessee
13.  Wrecking Ball

[Shug]

Rolling Stones Non Hits

Sway
Loving Cup
Dead Flowers
Down The Road Apiece
Let Me Go
All Down The Line
Just My Imagination
Salt Of The Earth
You Got The Silver
Dancin' With Mr. D
Blinded By Rainbows
Shine A Light
Moonlight Mile

[parkervb]

Rolling Stones Non Hits

Sway
Loving Cup
Dead Flowers
Down The Road Apiece
Let Me Go
All Down The Line
Just My Imagination
Salt Of The Earth
You Got The Silver
Dancin' With Mr. D
Blinded By Rainbows
Shine A Light
Moonlight Mile

certainly some of my favorites there.  I'd add Ventilator Blues too. 

Dead Flowers and Moonlight Mile could be my two fave Stones songs and probably why I give the nod to Sticky Fingers just barely over Exile

[Shug]

Beatles

She Said She Said
If I Needed Someone
Rain
Got To Get You Into My Life
Every Little Thing
Nowhere Man
Sexy Sadie
I Dig A Pony
I've Got A Feeling
One After 909
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey
She Came In Thru Bathroom Window/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End

I'm crazy for the '65/'66 jangly Rickenbacker guitar power pop of the Beatles, can't get enough of it.  I've always thought of Every Little Thing as an underappreciated little gem from the early years. Also had to include a little Let It Be triple shot.  Also, I couldn't not include the end of the Abbey Road medley just like exsit10z did, its just too good!

[Ruckus]

Rolling Stones Non Hits

Sway
Loving Cup
Dead Flowers
Down The Road Apiece
Let Me Go
All Down The Line
Just My Imagination
Salt Of The Earth
You Got The Silver
Dancin' With Mr. D
Blinded By Rainbows
Shine A Light
Moonlight Mile

certainly some of my favorites there.  I'd add Ventilator Blues too. 

Dead Flowers and Moonlight Mile could be my two fave Stones songs and probably why I give the nod to Sticky Fingers just barely over Exile

I'm no Stones afficionado but Salt of the Earth has been my favorite Stones' song since I bought a real dinged up copy of Beggar's  Banquet the first year I started collecting vinyl.

[zanjam]

Rolling Stones Non Hits

Sway
Loving Cup
Dead Flowers
Down The Road Apiece
Let Me Go
All Down The Line
Just My Imagination
Salt Of The Earth
You Got The Silver
Dancin' With Mr. D
Blinded By Rainbows
Shine A Light
Moonlight Mile

That's my kind of set!

[pawpaw]

Great stuff in here! Anyone done Neil yet?

Neil Young

Borrowed Tune
Comes A Time
The Loner
Cinnamon Girl
For the Turnstiles
Helpless
Bite the Bullet
Barstool Blues
Thrasher
Cortez the Killer
Ambulance Blues
Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown
Cowgirl in the Sand

As you can see, I tend to not stray too far from the 70s with Neil (though the new album is pretty rad). Who's going to do Bob Dylan?

[Shug]

I'll bite, bbill!

Not Dark Yet
Jokerman
Shelter From The Storm
Where Are You Tonight?
Idiot Wind
Just Like Tom Thumb Blues
Mr. Tambourine Man
Visions Of Johanna
I Threw It All Away (live from Hard Rain)
The Man In Me
I Believe In You
Every Grain Of Sand
Tomorrow Is A Long Time

Whew! So hard to cover all his decades and styles.  This ain't too bad for avoiding most of the "hits" (except Tambourine Man, which is just so perfectly perfect).  And I even got the reviled "gospel" period in there, too.  I have a thing for his stream of consciousness/mystical lyrics.

[Shug]

Great stuff in here! Anyone done Neil yet?

Neil Young

Borrowed Tune
Comes A Time
The Loner
Cinnamon Girl
For the Turnstiles
Helpless
Bite the Bullet
Barstool Blues
Thrasher
Cortez the Killer
Ambulance Blues
Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown
Cowgirl in the Sand

As you can see, I tend to not stray too far from the 70s with Neil (though the new album is pretty rad). Who's going to do Bob Dylan?

Nice work.  good to see Barstool Blues. A few of those I'm not familiar with.  Any room for Neil's I Believe In You?  Or maybe Natural Beauty from Harvest Moon?

[zanjam]

Who's going to do Bob Dylan?

Desire
Blood on the Tracks
done.

[Crispy]

Here's one for The Decemberists, whom I fucking love, I don't care what all you assholes think, and I refuse to limit it to only 13 songs, I like even numbers and it can't be done besides.
(No, it's not ALL sea shanties and murder ballads)

1. July, July!
2. Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
3. Los Angeles, I'm Yours
4. Leslie Anne Levine
5. Calamity Song
6. The Crane Wife, Pt. 3
7. The Island
8. When the War Came
9. 16 Military Wives
10. Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
11. On the Bus Mall
12. Red Right Ankle
13. The Crane Wife, Pts. 1 & 2
14. California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade

None from The Hazards of Love, because that one all goes together.

[Fully]

Here's one for The Decemberists, whom I fucking love, I don't care what all you assholes think, and I refuse to limit it to only 13 songs, I like even numbers and it can't be done besides.
(No, it's not ALL sea shanties and murder ballads)

1. July, July!
2. Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
3. Los Angeles, I'm Yours
4. Leslie Anne Levine
5. Calamity Song
6. The Crane Wife, Pt. 3
7. The Island
8. When the War Came
9. 16 Military Wives
10. Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
11. On the Bus Mall
12. Red Right Ankle
13. The Crane Wife, Pts. 1 & 2
14. California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade

None from The Hazards of Love, because that one all goes together.

But there are a few... Love what you love, dude

[Penny Lane]

Here's one for The Decemberists, whom I fucking love, I don't care what all you assholes think, and I refuse to limit it to only 13 songs, I like even numbers and it can't be done besides.
(No, it's not ALL sea shanties and murder ballads)

1. July, July!
2. Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
3. Los Angeles, I'm Yours
4. Leslie Anne Levine
5. Calamity Song
6. The Crane Wife, Pt. 3
7. The Island
8. When the War Came
9. 16 Military Wives
10. Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
11. On the Bus Mall
12. Red Right Ankle
13. The Crane Wife, Pts. 1 & 2
14. California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade

None from The Hazards of Love, because that one all goes together.

i feel ya, man! and i love the hazards of love, too...live they were the most boring concert ever....but love their albums..