CDs for all seasons
 

I'm sure lots of folks around here like making mix CDs for themselves and others. So why not a thread about them? Threads about things that people like are fun, right? So, what do you make mix CDs for, and what are some of your favorites that you've made?

It's about that time for me to bring out my Fall Mix that I made for myself last year. Most of the songs don't necessarily have anything to do with autumntime, but they put me in a very fall mood, chill in the air, leaves falling down, all that crap. My tracklist:

1. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
2. Nico - These Days
3. The Smiths - Cemetery Gates
4. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Little Dawn
5. Cat Stevens - The Wind
6. Tom Waits - Hold On
7. The Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice
8. The Shins - Pink Bullets
9. David Bowie with Queen - Under Pressure
10. Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hands
11. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Powderfinger
12. Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends?
13. Smashing Pumpkins - Lily (My One And Only)
14. Fleetwood Mac - I Know I'm Not Wrong
15. Johnny Cash - Wichita Lineman
16. Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike
17. Wilco - Wishful Thinking

On paper (or on a computer screen), I think it looks like a pretty frantic collection, going through so many different bands from different time periods with very different styles, but I think it really works. I'm all about the sequencing when I make a CD, trying to find those songs that suddenly, when you put them back to back, illuminate each other in a way you might not have thought about them before. Like what Cameron Crowe does with a movie soundtrack.

I've got a great (well, I love it, anyway) Spring Mix as well, but I'll post the tracklist to that tomorrow after others have hopefully added some responses of their own. Go nuts, people!

I'm not a mix...
 

person myself, but I do have discs that I consider my seasonal discs:

Winter-Disc #2 of the 1990 Led Zeppelin boxed set

Fall-Keeper of the Seven Keys-Helloween

I never bother to try to find discs that are considered my Spring & Summer discs since those are my least 2 favorite seasons of the year.

Mixed Bag of Tricks

You Sexy Thing (Remix) - Hot Chocolate
I Think I Love You - David Cassidy
Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
Baby, What A Big Surprise - Chicago
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
Africa - Toto
Walls - Tom Petty
Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats
Tempted - Squeeze
Hippychick - Soho
Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels
Young Hearts Be Free Tonight - Rod Stewart
Work For Love - Ministry
Violently Happy - Björk
Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak - Macy Gray
Peacekeeper (Tin Tin Out Mix) - Fleetwood Mac
Music vs. Planets Of The Universe - Madonna vs. Stevie Nicks

Thanks, Richard! That looks like a really fun mix. I love the idea of "Werewolves of London" into "Africa." Awesome opening three tracks, too.

By the way, I think the actual title of that Rod Stewart song is "Young Turks."

Thank you! I love your mix too.
That Hot Chocolate remix is so juicy. It's actually a remix with both 'Sexy Thing' and 'Everyone's A Winner, Baby.' So fun. This CD has made the rounds. It gets passed along to lots of friends and my family in Portugal. They love it.

Funny about 'Young Turks.' I sucked it down off the net and never bothered to retag the file info. Nice catch!

I'm definitely saving your mix and making a point of tracking down some of those songs!

It's just one of those tracks that constantly gets mislabelled, since I don't think Rod actually ever sings the phrase "Young Turks" at any point during the song, and definitely not during the chorus.

I think there are a lot of people whose favorite Fleetwood Mac song is "Thunder Only Happens When It's Raining"...

Here's a little gift of Hot Chocolate for you:
http://homepage.mac.com/osxsurf/FileSharing3.html

It's hard to find (I think) Let me know what you think of it.

I make a lot of mix or compilation cds, but not for particular seasons. I tend to put my favorite songs by the same artist or from the same genre together, mostly so that I can listen on my discman (yes... that's right a portable cd player, I do not own an IPod or any similar device) on the bus ride to work and while doing chores before the office opens. Lately I've been listening to a compilation of songs from a certain artist whom you're all probably sick of hearing about. But I've also recently listened to the following compilation:

1. "Seven Nation Army" The White Stripes
2. "Rock Your Body" Justin Timberlake
3. "Float On" Modest Mouse
4. "Play" Jennifer Lopez
5. "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" Fuel
6. "Roses" Outkast
7. "Shine" Collective Soul
8. "New Sensation" INXS
9. "Man in the Box" Alice in Chains
10. "This Love" Maroon 5
11. "Whenever, Wherever" Shakira
12. "Unwell" Matchbox 20
13. "Hella Good" No Doubt
14. "Escape" Enrique Iglesias
15. "Dolphin's Cry" Live
16. "Get the Party Started" Pink
17. "I Belong to You" Lenny Kravitz
18. "Carry On Dancing" Savage Garden
19. "Ode to My Car" Adam Sandler (I know... WTF? I hate AS, but I love this song so I had to put it somewhere.)

Oh and here's an old mix I just discovered and am listening to now (some duplicates from previous list):

1. "Let's Get it Started" Black Eyed Peas
2. "New Sensation" INXS
3. "Float On" Modest Mouse
4. "Make It Better (Forget About Me" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
5. "Lonely and Gone" Montgomery Gentry
6. "Hey Ya!" Outkast
7. "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor
8. "Seven Nation Army" The White Stripes
9. "There Goes My Girl" Walter Egan
10. "Anybody Seen My Baby?" The Rolling Stones
11. "Rhythm of My Heart" Rod Stewart
12. "I Hate Myself for Loving You" Joan Jett
13. "Somebody's Watching Me" Rockwell
14. "The River of Dreams" Billy Joel
15. "The Man Who Loves Women" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
16. "Rock Your Body" Justin Timberlake
17. "What You Waiting For?" Gwen Stefani
18. "Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind" Lindsey Buckingham
19. "Keep Me In Your Heart" Warren Zevon

How's that for one really random collection?

I was gonna ask you for this before I even scrolled to this post! Thank you!!! :xoxo: Loves it! :thumbsup:

I used to make compilation tapes a LOT!....I just never have time anymore...but two of my faves - one I called Funk You - and I only wrote the song titles on the tape cases, so I don't remember some of the artists:

Free Your Mind-En Vogue
Fire-Ohio Players
Got to Get You-Maceo Parker
Sexy MFer-Prince
In the Bank-Mingo Fishtrap
Shake Your Thang-Salt 'n' Pepa
Make it Funky, Part I - James Brown
Sir Psycho Sexy-Red Hot Chili Peppers
Lunacy-Rhythm Child
People Person-Mingo Fishtrap
Aquarius-Hair Soundtrack
Head-Prince
Funkin' for Fun - Parliament
Hot-James Brown
Whatta Man-En Vogue w/ Salt 'n' Pepa
Shining Star-Earth, Wind & Fire
Soul Power '92-Maceo Parker

The other favorite - songs that all had "Rain" in the title:

Only Happy When it Rains-Garbage
Red Rain-Peter Gabriel
Rainmaker-Partridge Family
Shadows in the Rain-Sting
Purple Rain-Prince
Listen to the Rain-Stevie
Prayers for Rain-The Cure?
Surrender the Rain-?
Rain-Madonna
Rainin'- ?
Come Rain or Come Shine-Don Henley
Outside the Rain-Stevie
Hard Rain's Gonna Fall-Yeah, the Dylan song, but this is a cover and now I can't remember who?
Rainy Days & Mondays-Carpenters
Rain Will Fall-I Mother Earth
Rhythm of the Rain-Buddy Holly

Oh man, that is delicious. It's a perfect morning for some Hot Chocolate here. This remix is so in-your-head! It makes me think of "Sledgehammer"-era Peter Gabriel, in the best way possible. Thanks for sharing! "You Sexy Thing" is actually on my Spring Mix, which goes a little something like this:

1. Bruce Springsteen - The Ties That Bind
2. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
3. The Cure - Doing The Unstuck
4. The Muffs - Kids In America
5. Loggins & Messina - Danny's Song
6. Rick Springfield - Love Is Alright Tonite
7. Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
8. Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No Cry (live)
9. Weezer - El Scorcho
10. The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song
11. Friends Of Distinction - Grazing In The Grass
12. The Clash - Spanish Bombs
13. Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
14. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl
15. The Romantics - What I Like About You
16. REM - Shiny Happy People
17. Enigma - Return To Innocence
18. Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
19. U2 - Sweetest Thing
20. David Bowie with Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
21. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding

I've also got my Drivin' To Milwaukee mix, since I used to live in Chicago, and that great city of beer and cheese is just one CD away by car:

1. Cheap Trick - That 70's Show theme song
2. Van Halen - Panama
3. Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender
4. Tom Petty - Running Down A Dream
5. Nena - 99 Luftballons
6. Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
7. "Flaming Moe's" from The Simpsons
8. The Darkness - Friday Night
9. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
10. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
11. Foreigner - Hot Blooded
12. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
13. Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
14. Violent Femmes - American Music
15. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
16. AC(lightningbolt)DC - Moneytalks
17. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
18. John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
19. Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town

It's okay. I was once like you.

That's a really awesome opening three. I can imagine that does the job of pumping you up to go to work!

Oh lord, the end of this mix would make me cry.

No "Blame It on The Rain" by Milli Vanilli?!

I know someone who does this a lot, making mixes of songs that all have a certain word in the title, it can make for some really interesting compilations!

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now we are friends forever. That is one of the best singles EVER made. And soooooooo "fall-ish".

Glad you like Sexy Thing!

I LOVE your rain mix. Is the Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall cover by Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians? She covered it on her Ultimate Collection CD. Rather well done actually.

You are very good at these mixes. I want them. All of them.

A Drivin' to Milwaukee Mix and no Bodeans??? Blasphemous.
I love me some Bodeans, let me tell you.

Yeah, I guess I figured that once I had pumped myself up (I try to use music instead of caffeine to wake up in the morning) I'd depress the hell out of myself as a reminder that it is work that I'm going to. :laugh:

I make a soundtrack playlist for myself every week or so on iTunes- whatever I'm really digging on, and it often either sets the tone for that period of time or reflects it. I never worry about repeating artists multiple times or anything like that.

This is the most current one:

Life on Mars?- David Bowie
Yellow- Coldplay
Bring It On Home To Me- Sam Cooke
Fade Into You- Mazzy Star
Stars and Boulevards- Augustana
Tangerine- Led Zeppelin
You Send Me- Sam Cooke
Life on Mars? Seu Jorge
Breathe Me- Sia
Orange Sky- Alexi Murdoch
Soul Meets Body- Death Cab for Cutie
Long Time Coming- Delays
My Winding Wheel- Ryan Adams
Rest In Peace- Spike/BTVS soundtrack (shut. up.)
Cupid- Sam Cooke
I Hear The Bells- Mike Doughty
Wonderful World- Sam Cooke
Dice- Finley Quaye
Nocturn- Kate Bush
In The Sun- Joseph Arthur
Caught by the River- Doves
Come Pick Me Up- Ryan Adams

That's an awesome mix, I love all the Sam Cooke stuff, and Seu Jorge's "Life on Mars?" is great. (He's got a new solo album out that I have heard good things about.)

(And don't worry, I've got the "Once More, With Feeling" soundtrack too, though I always wish the guitars on "Rest In Peace" were more in-your-face...)

If you're talking about Cru, it IS great. Also, if you like Sam, Sony just put out a couple of great reissues- a really good remastered Night Beat and Live at the Harlem Square Club, which is FANTASTIC.

I'm with you on the guitars. Spike singing just gives me a girl boner. Can't help it.

I haven't made a mix CD for ages but the last one I made did have a seasonal theme. I called it the Super Sunny Spring mix and it was for a fellow Wes Anderson obsessive. Here's the tracklisting.

Waiting For Somebody - Paul Westerberg
It's The Nighttime - Josh Rouse
Cold Hands (Warm Heart) - Brendan Benson
Kimiko's Dream House - Mark Lanegan
Jolene - Ray LaMontagne
Lights - The Jayhawks
I Think I See The Light - Cat Stevens
I Figured You Out - Mary Lou Lord
Angelina - Ryan Adams
Good Woman - Cat Power
Tribute To Hank Williams - Evan Dando
I Know I'm Not Wrong - Fleetwood Mac
V - Golden Smog
Fancy - The Geraldine Fibbers
Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair - Twilight Singers
Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
Here Comes The Sun Again - M Ward
Moonbeams - The For Carnation

Yes, that's it - Edie Brickell!

I was in the car with my friend yesterday and Hunger Strike came on and immediately I began singing the Chris Cornell part and he did the Eddie Vedder part. It was so funny, but why do I always end up being Chris Cornell?

The best part about singing along to Eddie Vedder is that you don't have to know any of the words.

By the way, Sharon, if you do BitTorrent, there's what looks like a fantastic Neil Diamond concert from LA earlier this month up on DimeADozen.org . I'm downloading it right now, however slowly.