Your Mix CDs

Alexisonfire - Side walks when she walks
Hondo Maclean - Don't forget to feed the Fish
From Autumn to Ashes - Royal crown vs blue duchess
Converge - Heaven in her arms
Dillinger escape plan - baby's first coffin
Dillinger escape plan - Weekend sex change (interlude type thing..)
My Chemical romance - Honey, this mirror isnt big enough for the two of us
One Minute Silence - New dogs new tricks
Panic DHH - Simplex
Alec Empire - New world order

Originally posted by Deathblow
I did a Glassjaw/Deftones/Tool/A Perfect Circle mix for my girlfriend last night, mainly because she has a god awful taste in music which needs to be rectified immediately 😖

So dump the b!tch... 😖hifty: 🥷

since when have there been rules?

My definition of a mix is a compilation of songs by any number of different artists or different albums. Also, when hip-hop artists compile tapes of all their own material, they are called 'mix-tapes'. Honestly, I don't see the problem. Does it really bother you that much?

My definition of a mix CD is a mix of various songs by various artists that you like ✅

1. Make sure you are getting bang for your buck. Your disc only has 74 or 80 minutes. If you are using a seven-and-a-half-minute song, it must be good enough that it's worth sacrificing three two-and-a-half-minute tunes. Will you get more pleasure from Songs😮hia's "Didn't It Rain" or from those three White Stripes tracks? (Answer: "Didn't It Rain".)

2. On a single Mix CD, you may never use more than two songs by the same artist. This includes duets.

3. Never use novelty songs. No matter how amusing they are now, on the twentieth listen, they will be like having your nerves splayed.

4. Your first track should be smooth and fairly energetic. It must embrace you into the mix, and bring you up to speed.

5. Your second track must be even higher energy than the first. It must give you enough intertia to coast through the next several tunes, without reconsidering your album choice.

6. Your last song must either close things with a bang, or let you down slow and easy. No in-betweens.

7. Use variety. Follow long songs with shorter ones, fast songs with slower ones. Don't go overboard on this rule - it is sometimes quite lovely to go through an extended period of same-paced music. Four or five songs in a row, however, without a respite, can be exhausting.

8. Transitions are the single most important aspect of a good Mix CD. Once you've chosen 74 or 80 minutes of music, determine the track order by listening to the end of a song and then listening to its flow into the next. Successful transitions are nearly impossible to predict - sometimes it's instrumental (a mournful trumpet closes B, a zesty trumpet opens A), other times contrast (an intense ballad followed by a glitchy, white-noise heavy electronic piece), or even based on songs with musical similarities (the same key, the same notes). Transitions make or break a compilation.

9. Pauses between tracks. Once you've picked the track order, make sure your burning software gives you the ability to select the pause between each individual track. Listen to every song on your planned disc, letting one song transition into the next, and decide how long a silence you desire. Often, for contrast, you will use 0s. Other times, the listener will need a moment to breathe. Pauses are usually 0-2s.

10. A disc is not complete until you have designed the art for its jewel-case. Find a title that sums everything up. Find art for the cover (for those of us who can't draw, exploding dog, devoted bee and little rocket are wonderful sources). Write a story for the back. Choices of font and colour are of vital importance.

11. Listen to your mix. If it does not quite 'click' (and you will know if it clicks -- it will feel perfect), you have failed. Destroy it, or give it away (with proviso) to someone who doesn't mind.

12. Brew your mixes. Don't burn them until you're ready. Make sure you've distilled your tracks down to the finest possible contenders; give everything time - a new favourite may grow stale fast, a new gem may be just around the corner.

13. Stand by your songs. Tracks are your currency in the Mix CD game: your little discoveries are more valuable than gold. Ignore artists, ignore indie cred - if there is a song you love, if there is a song that moves you, use it. I have a Mix CD with Madonna ("Remember Me"😉; I have a Mix CD with POTUSA ("We're Not Gonna Make It"😉.

Here's a Peanuts and Corn mix CD I made:

1. mcenroe - Good Corporate Citizen
2. Farm Fresh - Hugs and Kisses
3. Gruf - Out of the Traffic Into Fresh Goodies
4. Fermented Reptile - King Size
5. Park-Like Setting - Francais
6. Hip-Hop Wieners - Poor Folk
7. John Smith - Climb Everything
8. Pip Skid - Hypochondriac
9. Break Bread - No Other MC
10. Moves and Birdapres - In My Life
11. Billy's Vision

I know I'm breaking the "rules", but here's a John Smith mix CD I made with all of my favorite songs by him.

1. Blunderbussin'
2. Of No Fixed Address
3. Brains and Brawn
4. Sometimes...
5. I'm Rollerblading featuring Josh Martinez and Pip Skid
6. Wooden Polar Bear
7. Psychology pt II
8. Look Ma, No Hands
9. Kinship of the Down and Out
10. Personal Development
11. Last Trip featuring Gruf the Druid
12. Work Experiance
13. Baypak
14. Extracurricular Activities pt II
15. My Spot
16. Battle Cry
17. One Sided Trees
18. Crantinis at 15,000 with Pip Skid

http://www.artofthemix.org/FindAMix/Getcontents.asp?strMixId=80563

I just made a thumping great (house) club party mix cd.
I'm so pleased with it I had to post!

(Intro) party monster soundtrack - Money, Success, Fame, Glamour
Armand Van Helden - My My My
DJ Keoki - Crash
Junior Vasquez Club Mix Skin
Darude Vs ATB - Sandstorm In The Summer (DJ NJ)
Platinum Hits 2000 - Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby
Jamiroquai- Superstylin
Whitney Houston - Whatchulookinat (swissmix by dj bands)
Emergency On Planet Earth 2002 (Soul Avengers Mix)
Thunderpuss & Barnes - Welcome To My Head
+this really wild song by the prodigy and mixed with chemical brothers I found by accident...it's mind blowing.

I've never heard of any of those songs, here's a CD I made last week:

Vindicated- Dashboard Confessional (this song rocks!!)
Hero- Nickelback
Dream Warriors- Dokken
Into the Fire- Dokken
Adams Song- Blink 182
Clocks- Coldplay
Beginning of the End- Spineshank
Nightmare - Tuesday Knight (weird, I know......)
It's been Awhile- Staind (awsome song!)

Or is this thread about songs done by the same bands but made on the same soundtrack? 😕

oh well.............

i'm gonna make a romantic one sometime today or tomorrow...stay tuned...

9. Pauses between tracks. Once you've picked the track order, make sure your burning software gives you the ability to select the pause between each individual track. Listen to every song on your planned disc, letting one song transition into the next, and decide how long a silence you desire. Often, for contrast, you will use 0s. Other times, the listener will need a moment to breathe. Pauses are usually 0-2s.

10. A disc is not complete until you have designed the art for its jewel-case. Find a title that sums everything up. Find art for the cover (for those of us who can't draw, exploding dog, devoted bee and little rocket are wonderful sources). Write a story for the back. Choices of font and colour are of vital importance.

my cd follows your rules pretty well except these 2.

9. should have followed this rule..but wasn't a hundred 100% on the flow.since I am pleased..I will probably re-make the cd following this.

10. I make lables for the cd's not the case,because I keep my cd's in large binders.

i'm gonna make a romantic one sometime today or tomorrow...stay tuned...

yeah, i don't really follow the labels thing. i'm too lazy, i normally just write on the front what it is (ie "LP Romantic Mix 1)

I'm gonna finish this up right now, post it in a 1/2 hour tops

1 Jeff Buckley -- I Want Someone Badly
2 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles -- You Really Got a Hold On Me
3 Marvin Gaye -- How Sweet It Is (to be Loved by You)
4 Sam Cooke --Wonderful World
5 Sloan --Dreaming of You
6 The Shins --The Gloating Sun
7 Queen --Crazy Little Thing Called Love
8 Eric Clapton --Wonderful Tonight
9 Stevie Wonder --You Are the Sunshine of My Life
10 Percy Sledge --When a man loves a woman
11 THE BEATLES --ALL MY LOVING
12 The Jimi Hendrix Experience --Foxey Lady
13 Sly & the Family Stone -- M'Lady
14 The Temptations --Get Ready [*]
15 The Jackson 5 --The Love You Save
16 Jamie Cullum --I Get A Kick Out Of You
17 frank sinatra --the way you look tonight
18 Miles Davis --Prelude To A Kiss
19 Bob Marley & the Wailers --Is This Love
20 Four Tops --Standing In The Shadows Of Love
21 Blackalicious -- Purest Love
22 Stevie Ray Vaughan --Love Struck Baby

Heres my latest one:

System Of A Down - Psycho
System Of A Down - P.L.U.C.K.
System Of A Down - Shimmy
System Of A Down - Toxicity
System Of A Down - Jet Pilot
System Of A Down - War!
Rob Zombie - Reload (Matrix Reloaded Theme)
Rob Zombie - Dragula
Rob Zombie - Dragula Remix
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - Metal Militia
Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
Living Sacrifice - Reject
Tool - Schism
Led Zeppelin - The Immigrant Song
Blindside - King Of The Closet

just sticking a bunch of songs by the same artist in a playlist doesn't make it a mix. it takes no skill. c'mon, at least try.

...and my newest mix will be completed in about half an hour or so.
It's entitled:
"Everything Was Better Before You Were Born"

1 al greene -- lets get together
2 Otis Redding --Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay
3 Johnny Nash --I Can See Clearly Now
4 Tommy James --Draggin' The Line
5 Three Dog Night --Joy to the World
6 Chicago --Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?
7 The Beatles --Getting Better
8 The Who --Behind Blue Eyes
9 Rolling Stones -- Sympathy For The Devil
10 Santana --Oye Como Va
11 Beach Boys --Good Vibrations
12 The Animals --House of the Rising Sun
13 The Jimi Hendrix Experience --Castles Made of Sand
14 James Brown --I Feel Good
15 Johnny Cash-- Ring of Fire
16 Pink Floyd --Comfortably Numb
17 Emerson Lake and Palmer --Lucky Man
18 Elton John --Tiny Dancer

ohhh great stuff there EB both of your latest mixes will be great to play at parties

I think my romantic mix would be better in an intimate situation. i don't mean THAT kind of intimate, but in a small group of people maybe.

The last one can just be played for anyone; I mean, everyone knows enough of at least ONE of those songs to sing along to.

I'm gonna start working on my depressed mix in a while.