06-25-2007, 01:47 PM
Nice question, since this is a huge hobby of mine.
I spend time making mixes, but not in the "throws random songs and burns it" type. No. I put songs that I like, that I think others will like, and have a general mood for the whole disc. I set out to make a "Mellow" series, one disc for every year of high-school to perfectly capture a moment in my life. All the songs have to flow together. It starts off with me flipping through 300 or so albums I think are good and then individually picking the songs. No artist can repeat on the mix, and no same songs on any of them. In one year I did three. It takes a few months before I stamp them out because literally every song has to fit together like its one album with two artists.
I'll listen to the mix about 14 times before burning it, because I tweak it etc. I've come up with a series of old tunes called "Juke My Box" (I name them and make cover art sometimes) and I've done motown music, 60's etc.
So anyway, there's "Let's Go Down to Motown" "Lock, Stock & Rock" and the second disc in that "series" "Lock Stock & Rock: Inject the College In". Oh, and I made an electronic/dance one called "Dance to the Electronic Trance".
The tracklisting for Lock Stock & Rock is:
1. Wolfmother-Dimension
2. Jet-Get Me Outta Here
3. Oasis-Cigarettes & Alcohol
4. My Chemical Romance-Teenagers
5. Weezer-Dope Nose
6. J&TP-Wild Child (People don't notice this song because I don't tell them who did it)
7. The Hives-Hate to Say I Told You So
8. T. Rex-20'th Century Boy
9. AC/DC-If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
10. the Eagles-Victim of Love
11. the White Stripes-Seven Nation Army
12. Jimi Hendrix-Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
I wanted to prove I could make a rock mix since I usually stuck to singer/songwriter type stuff. The second one hasn't been finished yet. My goal with that one was to have half new music/half old. My dad liked it. I sometimes pass them around to see what people think and they're usually liked, so cool.
I spend time making mixes, but not in the "throws random songs and burns it" type. No. I put songs that I like, that I think others will like, and have a general mood for the whole disc. I set out to make a "Mellow" series, one disc for every year of high-school to perfectly capture a moment in my life. All the songs have to flow together. It starts off with me flipping through 300 or so albums I think are good and then individually picking the songs. No artist can repeat on the mix, and no same songs on any of them. In one year I did three. It takes a few months before I stamp them out because literally every song has to fit together like its one album with two artists.
I'll listen to the mix about 14 times before burning it, because I tweak it etc. I've come up with a series of old tunes called "Juke My Box" (I name them and make cover art sometimes) and I've done motown music, 60's etc.
So anyway, there's "Let's Go Down to Motown" "Lock, Stock & Rock" and the second disc in that "series" "Lock Stock & Rock: Inject the College In". Oh, and I made an electronic/dance one called "Dance to the Electronic Trance".
The tracklisting for Lock Stock & Rock is:
1. Wolfmother-Dimension
2. Jet-Get Me Outta Here
3. Oasis-Cigarettes & Alcohol
4. My Chemical Romance-Teenagers
5. Weezer-Dope Nose
6. J&TP-Wild Child (People don't notice this song because I don't tell them who did it)
7. The Hives-Hate to Say I Told You So
8. T. Rex-20'th Century Boy
9. AC/DC-If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
10. the Eagles-Victim of Love
11. the White Stripes-Seven Nation Army
12. Jimi Hendrix-Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
I wanted to prove I could make a rock mix since I usually stuck to singer/songwriter type stuff. The second one hasn't been finished yet. My goal with that one was to have half new music/half old. My dad liked it. I sometimes pass them around to see what people think and they're usually liked, so cool.