Your Favorite Stevie Mixtape?
 

I'm being really old school today made a Stevie Mix Tape for the car (It doesn't have a CD player). I'm pretty satisfied with it I'd say.

I used a 60 Minute tape. Side A finished just in time! Side B had about a minute left on it, so I filled it in with an instrumental from Final Fantasy (the inner nerd in me), but the song always reminded me of something Stevie-ish.

SIDE A
1. In Your Dreams
2. Ooh My Love
3. Blue Lamp
4. After the Glitter Fades
5. Moonlight
6. Greta
7. Love Is

SIDE B
1. Nightbird
2. Violet and Blue
3. Bella Donna
4. Love Is Like a River
5. Trouble in Shangri-La
6. Sleeping Angel


Anybody else find an old Stevie cassette tape, or made one recently? If so, what's on it!

I still have a cassette deck in my car too but I haven't listened to any tapes in awhile now but I do have Stevie/mac tapes to listen to if I wanted too (in my car/in my house) I don't have a cd player either in my car. I have made tape mixs before. It was never easy esp when songs were on cassette (what a pain before cds ) esp all those demos/outtakes etc. I know I'd made up a mix tape the time TISL came out that had demo's outtakes/extended versions etc on it. It was really a great tape. I do still have it but I don't recall exactly what I'd put on it though. I can try to locate it if you wanted me to? Just let me know. Cool to know I'm not the only one that still has a cassette player still. I still have an old sony walkman cassette player too. And a double cassette player along with my cd player in my room. Cool. Nothing wrong with old school. Not to me anyway.:thumbsup:

Haha, don't worry starshine you don't have to dig for it if you don't want. Just thought I'd start up the topic cause I was curious to see what stevie songs others would put on a mix tape. I love to see other people pick their favorites and how they sequence them.

Great idea for a thread! I made my own Stevie 'greatest hits" CD last summer- I'll need to update it this summer, but this is what I had from last year's mix:

1. Silver Springs
2. Dreams
3. After the Glitter Fades (demo)
4. Gypsy (rock demo)
5. Edge of Seventeen
6. How Still My Love
7. Sara (cleaning lady)
8. Angel (Tusk rehearsal)
9.Gold Dust Woman (Rumours outtake)
10. Gold and Braid (HBO special)
11. Storms
12. Bella Donna
13. Rooms on Fire
14. Beautiful Child
15. Sisters of the Moon (Tusk rehearsal)
16. Rhiannon (Rosebud version)

I'm really pleased with the running order here!

That is a nice, eclectic mix!! Creative sequencing too. Side B looks awesome, and the IYD-Ooh my love would be great.

That is a good collection. I have tried again and again to mix solo/mac/unreleased altogether but always fail. I end up having way too much and can't cut anything out. So now I always make a JUST solo, or JUST Mac, or JUST demos compilation.

So I admire that you were able to pull it off!!

And yeah, I thought my sequencing turned out pretty good. Sequencing is one of my favourite parts of making mixes like this. I was gonna close it off with "For What It's Worth" after Sleeping Angel, but there wasn't enough room in the end.

Thanks! Yeah, sequencing is the fun (and challenging!) part.

I made about 5 mixtapes on cassettes about 25 years ago and played the crap out of them.I have to look at the selection index.

I've never made a mix tape, but I did make a Spotify playlist to help introduce some friends to Stevie a while back. It's 48 tracks and 3 hours long, so I won't list everything here unless someone asks, but here's the link for anyone with Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/girlboy...6qaRgRVMzubhUM

The unfortunate thing about Spotify is the selection is limited to what the record companies put on there, so I couldn't include all the songs I wanted them to hear (no The Wild Heart, no '90s soundtrack cuts, no "At Last") -- but I still end up listening to it at work a lot when I just want to Stevie out.

Heh. Playlists are the MixTapes of the 2012's I suppose. They are convenient, but not as challenging because there really isn't a limit to what you can put on them.
Except for how you're explaining Spotify. Sounds interesting though! I'll have to look into it

I haven't done any mixtapes of IYD yet .but I will soon before I travel this summer to the shows.

Yes this was my first to incoporate IYD songs !

I'm trying to make my friend a BEST OF STEVIE mix and I just keep failing. There's too many I want to put on it!

I made a Stevie tape (aka CD) for someone a year ago. I still have the playlist in iTunes:

Planets of the Universe
Stand Back
Landslide (The Dance)
Reconsider Me
If You Ever Did Believe
After The Glitter Fades
Blue Denim (single mix)
Silver Springs (The Dance)
Sara
Leather And Lace
Stop Draggin My Heart Around
Talk To Me
Edge of Seventeen
Gypsy
Thrown Down (SYW)

That's a really good "hits" type CD!
I just made one for my friend tonight. It actually turned into a 2 disc set. I left off a lot of mainstream Stevie because he knows alot of the hits. And I've made him a tonne of Fleetwood Mac CDs before. So this was all solo. It was still hard though. There's 34 songs altogether when there originally was 50.

Here's how it turned out:

LEATHER & LACE: THE ESSENTIAL STEVIE NICKS

Disc 1: "Through the Looking Glass"
1. Wild Heart
2. Greta
3. Long Way to Go
4. In Your Dreams
5. Leather & Lace
6. Nothing Ever Changes
7. Blue Lamp
8. It's Only Love
9. Bella Donna
10. Violet & Blue
11. Love Is Like a River
12. Sleeping Angel
13. Planets of the Universe
14. Moonlight
15. One More Big Time Rock & Roll Star
16. Alice
17. Doing The Best I Can

Disc 2: "A Dream Begun In Wine"
1. Twisted (demo version)
2. No Spoken Word
3. Enchanted
4. Candlebright
5. The Nightmare
6. Ghosts Are Gone
7. Nightbird
8. If You Ever Did Believe
9. Two Kinds of Love
10. Juliet
11. For What It's Worth
12. Blue Denim
13. Battle of the Dragon
14. Trouble In Shangri-la
15. The Highwayman
16. I Still Miss Someone
17. Not Fade Away


I really like the flow of it. I added "Not Fade Away" last minute - I was trying to make this as Stevie-written as possible, (with a couple exceptions of course), but I had to put it on! I love it. So it replaced "Rose Garden", which was a hard pick, cause that's definitely a favorite of mine.

Wow .Love It.great choice ot tunes.Old mix with the new.

Nice work. This is a pretty solid collection! Love the inclusion of Thrown Down, which is my favourite song from Say You Will, same goes for If You Ever Did Believe. Great choice.

As ever, I could add a few to your list etc but that would end up just being mymix - which is to follow! I'vemade so many over the years.

I used to make Stevie mix tapes all the time, I have dozens of them lying around. But one of my favorite ones I made was called "The Rock & Roll Life Of Stevie Nicks" (made in July 0f 1999), the idea of it being her life as told thru her lyrics. Due to space limitations it only goes up thru the death of Robin. I planned on doing a part two, but never got around to it. Here's what is on it:

My Grandfather (radio excerpt)
I've Loved And I've Lost (radio excerpt)
Garbo (demo)
After The Glitter Fades
Kind Of Woman
Gold & Braid
The Dealer (demo)
Landslide
Leather & Lace
Silver Springs (demo)
Dreams (radio interview version)
Outside The Rain
How Still My Love
If You Ever Did Believe
Storms
Beauty & The Beast (bluesy demo)
Sara (cleaning lady version)
The Tower (demo)
Sisters Of The Moon (demo)
Bella Donna
Edge Of Seventeen
Gypsy
Nightbird
City Of Hope (demo)
God's Garden (demo)
I Sing For The Things

I always planned on "I Sing For The Things" to end it. Maybe I should do a CD/MP3 version of this and fully update it!!

Yes the same here .The last one that I made up was in the late 1980's around her 1989 tour was going on. At the same time. I remember very clear because one of my co-workers accidently dropped my boom box cassette recorder at work and ruined it by the record button got jammed on record. when it hit the floor.So the beginning got trashed.I had to re-record the segment over again to fix the tape.I almost killed her .but it was not worth losing my job over it.I repaired the boom box anyway..Most of my mixtapes were mixed with FM tunes too.Plus the two tv concerts sound tracks.I did some mp3 mixes over the years with the tunes similar what you guys listed already

OK its only in my car 'if' your interested but I guess your not.:confused:

Im totally interested! But I don't want you to have to go an extra mile just for my curiousity. lol

@skuncles that's a really interesting idea for a Mix! I love how you're making it tell a story, and how you have the radio excerpts to make it more authentic.

@Silver Springs - cliche'd stuff is sometimes the best! Especially for us dedicated fans. Sometimes we get so lost in the obscure it's fun to go back to basics like that.

Mmmm. I wanna make playlists of all your guyses stuff

This is a fun thread. I love seeing everyone's favorite songs grouped together. Especially how some of you name the mixes. Mine were often very uncleverly named Nicks Mix. One I named I Can't Wait which I made for the drive down to one of her concerts, I think it was OSOTM tour.

I haven't made mixed tapes in years. Probably since Street Angel era. I would not even know where to begin to try and make one now, with all her decades of songs. Do you find her newer stuff (TISL - IYD, including SYW) mixes and flows well with her older stuff?

I used to make them whenever a new album came out. I made one called "Enchanted ~ The Best of Stevie Nicks" about two years BEFORE the boxed set of the same name came out. Made one called "From Bella Donna to Street Angel" that was simply that, tracks from all the solo albums in that period. The "hook" of the tape was that it included the title tracks from all of the solo albums from BD to SA.
I just found one of the last mix CD's I made, I called it "Touched By An Angel" and it's a collection of Stevie's songs that mention angels somewhere in the lyric. I was going to do one called "Running In The Shadows" that would be all of her songs that mention shadows somewhere, but never got around to it. Here's the "Touched" track list:

Touched By An Angel
Sleeping Angel
Blue Lamp ("go find some Christmas angel")
Whole Lotta Trouble ("and the angel said, you must have had some kind of dream")
Street Angel
Ooh My Love ("there was a time you used to call her angel")
Angel
The Second Time ("do you remember how the angels sang")
God's Garden ("sometimes I hear angels sing")
Jane ("there are angels here on earth")
Inspiration (doesn't mention angels, but fits the theme)
Desert Angel

Impressed! I've yet to do themed CD's. INteresting concept:)

I find her newer stuff flows very well with her older stuff if done properly. I can sometimes just start "hearing" the next song as one of the previous songs conclude. That's how I know it'll work good on a mix. Like In Your Dreams to Ooh My Love.

Oh, I love that idea! I always love when the word 'angel' is included in a song...anyone's song, for that matter, it just sounds nice whenever it's sung.

Well, I think my mix is the most rare...or not...

Moon's mixtape of Stevie (well, the songs I always hear on my earphones!) :P


Solo Work:
01. Edge of Seventeen
02. I can't wait
03. Silver Springs
04. Rhiannon (from Crystal Visions)
05. Rooms on Fire
06. Talk to me
07. Stand Back
08. Planets of the Universe
09. Rock & Roll (from Crystal Visions)
10. Edge of Seventeen (from Crystal Visions)


With Fleetwood Mac:
01. Gold Dust Woman
02. Sara
03. Sisters of the Moon
04. That's Alright
05. Gypsy
06. Straight Back
07. Welcome to the room...Sara (yes!)
08. Paper Doll
09. Landslide (from The Dance)
10. Illume
11. Say you will
12. Smile at you
13. Everybody Finds Out


A 3rd disc - Special mentions or Bonus Tracks:
01. Dreams (from Live)
02. Joan of Arc
03. If You We My Love (demo - "sparkly piano")
04. Sisters of the Moon (instrumental)
05. Silver Springs (instrumental)
06. Edge of Seventeen (instrumental)
07. Stand Back (instrumental)
08. Goodbye Baby

Lot of songs, I konw...
Regards!

Wow, that's a really nice compilation with some unique choices! Did you pick your favorites, or ones that would sound nice together?

Haha thank you! :D No, I choose them because they're really my favourites. I think the live versions are so strong, specially Rhiannon. Planets of the Universe is definitely one of my favourites from the last Stevie's works, with her FM songs in SYW, and I love all the songs she did for Mirage and TITN, except for When I see you again, that I still don't understand very much :sorry: . Paper Doll is rare but nice, and this demo of If you wer my love is the longest and I liked it since the first time I heard it!!
Regards!!!!!

@moon - that is a really unique set. love it!
How come two Gypsy's? Is one The Dance version?

Hi HighPassion, thank you! To be honest, I put the three songs of Mirage in order, and I forgot to delete the first Gypsy! But, I like the two versions too!
Regards and thanks!!

nice. Can't get enough of it. :D

I just made an updated Best of SN collection on 2 CDs, and I'm pretty excited about it:

Volume 1: Is Love So Fragile?
1. Silver Springs (Rumours 30th Anniversary)
2. Dreams
3. After the Glitter Fades
4. Crying in the Night (single mix)
5. Gypsy
6. Edge of Seventeen
7. How Still My Love (outtake)
8. Planets of the Universe (Rumours 30th Anniversary)
9. Sara (cleaning lady)
10. Landslide (Paris 1977)
11. Angel (Tusk tour rehearsal)
12. Gold and Braid (HBO concert)
13. All the King's Horses
14. The Dealer
15. Leather and Lace
16. Sisters of the Moon

Disc 2- Come in Out of the Darkness
1. Rhiannon (Rosebud 1976)
2. Gold Dust Woman
3. Outside the Rain
4. Sanctuary
5. Imperial Hotel
6. If You Ever Did Believe (extended outtake)
7. Bella Donna
8. Rooms on Fire
9. Violet and Blue
10. Think About It
11. Sister Honey
12. Stand Back
13. All the Beautiful Worlds
14. Storms
15. Wild Heart
16. Goodbye Baby (piano demo)

Holy cow! You managed to make the perfect blend of demos/solo/mac material!
I may have to steal a copy of this ;)

Thanks! Yeah, I would post a link, but a lot is commecially available. I was happy with how it turned out!

That's cool I have all the tracks.:blob2:

but where's BARRY WHITE singing GOD'S GARDEN????:lol: