Your Favorite Stevie Mixtape?

HighPassion · #1 05-01-2012, 06:30 PM

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!

starshine · #2 05-01-2012, 06:57 PM

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.

HighPassion · #3 05-01-2012, 07:47 PM

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.

Blueletter18 · #4 05-01-2012, 10:42 PM

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!

Blueletter18 · #5 05-01-2012, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by HighPassion

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!

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

HighPassion · #6 05-01-2012, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Blueletter18

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 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.

Blueletter18 · #7 05-02-2012, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by HighPassion

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.

Macfanforever · #8 05-02-2012, 01:47 PM

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.

egg cream · #9 05-02-2012, 02:05 PM

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.

HighPassion · #10 05-02-2012, 06:35 PM

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

Macfanforever · #11 05-02-2012, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by HighPassion

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.

HighPassion · #12 05-02-2012, 07:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Macfanforever

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!

**mylittledemon** · #13 05-02-2012, 08:11 PM

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)

HighPassion · #14 05-02-2012, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

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.

Macfanforever · #15 05-03-2012, 12:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HighPassion

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.