what band can you make an expert mix tape for?

[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

[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

[EverythingChanges]

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 is the ultimate Rush set, but I would prefer Spirit of the Radio over maybe Natural Science.

[EverythingChanges]

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

[MrWhippy]

This is a fun exercise, but also brutally difficult.

Radiohead

1. Reckoner
2. Everything In It's Right Place
3. Gagging Order
4. Planet Telex
5. Nude
6. Dollars & Cents
7. There There
8. Fake Plastic Trees
9. The National Anthem
10. Optimistic
11. A Punchup At A Wedding
12. Lotus Flower
13. Paranoid Android

Pairing it from even 20 'musts' was brutal.

I love that you put Punchup at a Wedding on here.  Such a great and seemingly under appreciated song in their catalog. 

[wolof7]

Here is a real Ween Mix I made for a friend to get into Ween, it's not 13 but it all fit on a cd:

Fiesta
Touch My Tooter
Freedom of 76
Buckingham Green
Hey There Fancypants
Piss Up a Rope
Flutes of Chi
It's Gonna be a Long Night
I'm Dancing in the Show Tonight
Mr. Would You Please Help My Pony
Captain
It's Gonna be Alright
Transdermal Celebration
Even if you Don't
I'm Holding You
Chocolate Town
Waving My Dick in the Wind
Bananas and Blow
Sweetheart
the Mollusk
Zoloft
Ocean Man
Your Party
With My Own Bare Hands

[MrWhippy]

A Mostly Early and Noisy Flaming Lips Mix: 

1. Turn It On   (Transmissions from the Satellite Heart)
2. Gingerale Afternoon [The Astrology of a Saturday]   (Hit to Death in the Future Head)
3. Unconsciously Screamin'   (In a Priest Driven Ambulance)
4. Everything's Exploding   (Oh My Gawd!!)
5. One Million Billionth Of A Millisecond On A Sunday Morning   (Oh My Gawd!!)
6. Mountain Side    (In a Priest Driven Ambulance)
7. Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles   (Clouds Taste Metallic)
8. Superhumans    (Transmissions from the Satellite Heart)
9. Frogs   (Hit to Death in the Future Head)
10. The Ceiling Is Bendin'   (Oh My Gawd!!)
11. Lightning Strikes the Postman   (Clouds Taste Metallic)
12. Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung   (At War with the Mystics)
13. Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World   (Clouds Taste Metallic)

I also have a "Mostly Later and Nice Flaming Lips Mix," but it's 18 tunes and I can't take enough out. Why 13, sweatboard, why?

Love that Luna stuff, exist10z.

Really cool mostly early Flaming Lips mix, though I would have switched out a couple of songs to be able to include Five Stop Mother Superior Rain and Halloween on the Barbary Coast.

[Tracy 2112]

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?

[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

[Tracy 2112]

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

nice! I don't think I could wrap my brain around creating a Bowie one

[ItBeats4Jew]

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

[exist10z]

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.

[ItBeats4Jew]

Sublime

Steppin Razor
40 Oz To Freedom
Same In The End
Boss DJ
Superstar Punani
5446 That's My Number/Ball & Chain
Pawn Shop
DJ's
All You Need
Trenchtown Rock
Pool Shark (Acoustic)
Saw Red
Don't Push
STP
Chica Me Tipo
Mary
Burritos
KRS-One

[exist10z]

Sublime

Steppin Razor
40 Oz To Freedom
Same In The End
Boss DJ
Superstar Punani
5446 That's My Number/Ball & Chain
Pawn Shop
DJ's
All You Need
Trenchtown Rock
Pool Shark (Acoustic)
Saw Red
Don't Push
STP
Chica Me Tipo
Mary
Burritos
KRS-One

Ummm, I think you went over 13...

Funny thing is, as much as I loved Sublime at one time, I think I could easily have done it with 10 songs or less.  That said, I would for certain have included Jailhouse.

[ItBeats4Jew]

Sublime

Steppin Razor
40 Oz To Freedom
Same In The End
Boss DJ
Superstar Punani
5446 That's My Number/Ball & Chain
Pawn Shop
DJ's
All You Need
Trenchtown Rock
Pool Shark (Acoustic)
Saw Red
Don't Push
STP
Chica Me Tipo
Mary
Burritos
KRS-One

Ummm, I think you went over 13...

Funny thing is, as much as I loved Sublime at one time, I think I could easily have done it with 10 songs or less.  That said, I would for certain have included Jailhouse.

ahh, didn't see the 13 song limit.  don't even go to my earlier Ween list.  waaaayyyyy over. 

[Shug]

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

[parkervb]

excellent, someone mentioned The White Stripes but no mix was done. Now I have something to do for the next 15 minutes...BRB

[parkervb]

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

[BH]

I once made a 3 disc Pink Floyd Greatest Hits that took one song from every album for each of three main themes:

Delicate
Pow R. Toc H.
Remember A Day
More Blues/Spanish Piece
The Narrow Way (Part 1)
If
Julia Dream
Fearless
Wots...uh the Deal
Us and Them
Shine On 6-9
Pigs on the Wing (Part I)
Nobody Home
Two Suns in the Sunset
On the Turning Away
Lost For Words

Interstellar
Interstellar Overdrive
Set the Controls
Dramatic Theme
Astronomy Domine
Fat old Sun
Arnold Lane
A Pillow Of Winds
Obscured by Clouds
On the Run
Welcome to the Machine
Dogs
Goodbye Blue Sky
When the Tigers Broke Free
A New Machine Part I
Marooned

Axe
See Emily Play
Jugband Blues
The Nile Song
Careful with that Axe, Eugene
Biding My Time
San Tropez
Free Four
The Great Gig in the Sky
Have a Cigar
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
One of My Turns
Not Now John
Sorrow
Coming Back to Life

[Ruckus]

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.