The Outfield - Your Love
Greg Kihn Band - Break Up Song
Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover
Queen - I Want It All
The Outfield - Your Love
Yvonne Elliman - Love Me
Yazoo - Only You
Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes or I'll Be Where The Heart Is
Dr Hook - Sharing The Night Together
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
Bryan Ferry - Slave To Love
Toto - Africa
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
Trans-X - Living On Video
Thank you, but I wasn't asking for song suggestions.
My son is at that age where everything we parents say and do is an embarrassment and that all our opinions and rules are wrong. We're his number-one enemy at the moment, which makes his request for a mix tape a pleasant surprise. It's very likely he won't ask again so I'm making most of this request.
The problem? I like more than 16 tracks. I was wondering how would the others make their selection for an one-off mix tape if they were in my shoes. Hence, this thread.
Responses from DavetheSensible, Hannah Martin and the others offer some good ideas, which I'll try tonight. Thanks.
Forty quid from Maplin but you only get the light edition software for it....
Its better than [aying over a h.undred quid for a big ****er that won't fit on the desk and comes with complicated software. But you can do scratching with it
I'd use the auto-playlist set up on my computer of all my 5★ rated tracks. By sorting that in order of year, I could easily make a varied selection of one track from each year of his life like so:
1998: Every You, Every Me - Placebo
1999: Xpander - Sasha
2000: I'll Never Stop - 'N Sync
2001: In The End - Linkin Park
2002: Always Your Way - My Vitriol
2003: Bring Me To Life - Evanescence
2004: Lose My Breath - Destiny's Child
2005: Cool - Gwen Stefani
2006: Starlight - Muse
2007: M4 (Part II) - Faunts
2008: Geraldine - Glasvegas
2009: Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
2010: The Space In Between - How To Destroy Angels
2011: A Real Hero - College (feat Electric Youth)
2012: Sovereign Light Cafe - Keane
2013: Strong Hand - Chvrches
Thank you, but I wasn't asking for song suggestions.
My son is at that age where everything we parents say and do is an embarrassment and that all our opinions and rules are wrong. We're his number-one enemy at the moment, which makes his request for a mix tape a pleasant surprise. It's very likely he won't ask again so I'm making most of this request.
The problem? I like more than 16 tracks. I was wondering how would the others make their selection for an one-off mix tape if they were in my shoes. Hence, this thread.
Responses from DavetheSensible, Hannah Martin and the others offer some good ideas, which I'll try tonight. Thanks.
It used to be that a mixed tape was to give to a girl you liked, is he just being lazy and asking you to put one together for him to pass on to a young lady? If so, make it really, really cheesy
ETA: In answer to your question though, if I were making a mix for myself, I'd choose favourite songs that I never get tired of hearing.
Forty quid from Maplin but you only get the light edition software for it....
Its better than [aying over a h.undred quid for a big ****er that won't fit on the desk and comes with complicated software. But you can do scratching with it
Sounds good. That Mixxx software has potential I think, but I haven't got a clue really about how to mix, not even a cut mix, let alone merging two tracks.
Both are modern but keep in theme with the cassette mixed tape idea. He can even add more music to them if needed or move the music of them and onto another device.
It used to be that a mixed tape was to give to a girl you liked, is he just being lazy and asking you to put one together for him to pass on to a young lady? If so, make it really, really cheesy
ETA: In answer to your question though, if I were making a mix for myself, I'd choose favourite songs that I never get tired of hearing.
Oh, no. Friends and I used to swap mix tapes, so it's not just a 'I like you a lot, but I'm too shy/awkward/cowardly to say it so here's a mix tape' thing.
Frankly, son would sooner disown me than allow me within one mile of the girl he likes, let alone having anything to do with her. I think that's due to when I met the other girl he liked last year. I asked if she had a signed permission slip from her parents to allow her date son. I was just kidding, though. No sense of humour, that lad.
I'd use the auto-playlist set up on my computer of all my 5★ rated tracks. By sorting that in order of year, I could easily make a varied selection of one track from each year of his life like so:
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I'd probably mix up the order a bit.
Nice idea. I wish I had seen that before I finished my list last night. I decided in the end to go for the 1980s, along with some tracks from the films of that era, to show son what I grew up with.
This decision made the selection surprisingly easy. The first on the list is 'Pass the Dutchie' by Musical Youth. Last on the list is 'Mad About the Boy' by Dinah Washington, used in a TV advert for Levi jeans at the time.
motsy, jra, dont_be_hasty - thank you. I wish you hadn't introduced me to those sites, though. My cards will be abused in a bit.
If he likes the Guardians soundtrack I would suggest some good early 80's/late 70's music for it.
Some suggestions:
Good Times - INXS
Under Pressure - Queen/David Bowie
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
Hammertime - MC Hammer
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Say Say Say - Jackson/McCartney
Never Gonna Give you Up - Rick Astley
Hmm How about making a list of songs that make up the initials of his first and last name? So for instance if he is called Jack you could start with a song like Jailhouse Rock, then follow in order with A Rush of Blood to the Head, Carry on My Wayward Son and Killer Queen.
I did this for my kids on each 21st birthday. It was so emotional.
I started with their earliest best songs, the ones the danced to when they first stood up in nappies lol *goes Mummish and wells up*
Then on,to the first songs that they told me about and loved on the radio.
Then go on to the junior disco years and senior years.
It really is a very emotional thing to do. I still have all my kids mix tapes.on my pooter and get very wet eyed listening to them even now.
I'm jealous I wish I could do mix tapes.on again. I have to wait for grand children lol
I loved making mix tapes for people, but I remember how frustrating it was when the tape would run out about 20 seconds before the end of a song. I would always rearrange the tracklisting and start again. It was a lot more fun than just transferring lots of songs to a USB stick or burning tracks to a CD. I even enjoyed writing the tracklisting on the cassette insert and the name of the mix on the long stickers than you had to stick on either side of the cassette.
Why is the OP making such a Bette Davis drama out of a simple request ?
I suppose because I lack confidence.
My husband will be the first to admit he can be a bit of a **** when comes to music. This is the guy who actually dumped his girlfriend for liking a song he deeply detested when they were teenagers. The same guy who told me the moment he knew he was in love was when he "didn't mind" me liking a singer whom he nicknamed 'walking abortion'. He even once suggested we should stay in Headley, Hampshire, for our honeymoon. Apparently Led Zeppelin and The Pretty Things recorded their albums in that village. He's that geeky.
Although he's good at biting his tongue these days (the last time he tried to explain why one song I enjoyed was crap, I threatened divorce), my confidence is largely gone. Not his fault, really, as I allowed it to happen.
However, doing up a list last night reminded me how much I used to enjoy it. I'm going to create a playlist of my own this weekend. I'll just ignore him if he does weep in despair over my choices. Long-winded, but there you go.
Make him a mix tape of music that was mainstream when you were young, say 16-21. Make sure you make a decent selection, though I don't know how old are you, but if you were young in the 70's and 80's, anything you choose from that period can't be wrong in my opinion.
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Thank you, but I wasn't asking for song suggestions.
My son is at that age where everything we parents say and do is an embarrassment and that all our opinions and rules are wrong. We're his number-one enemy at the moment, which makes his request for a mix tape a pleasant surprise. It's very likely he won't ask again so I'm making most of this request.
The problem? I like more than 16 tracks. I was wondering how would the others make their selection for an one-off mix tape if they were in my shoes. Hence, this thread.
Responses from DavetheSensible, Hannah Martin and the others offer some good ideas, which I'll try tonight.
Forty quid from Maplin but you only get the light edition software for it....
Its better than [aying over a h.undred quid for a big ****er that won't fit on the desk and comes with complicated software. But you can do scratching with it
1998: Every You, Every Me - Placebo
1999: Xpander - Sasha
2000: I'll Never Stop - 'N Sync
2001: In The End - Linkin Park
2002: Always Your Way - My Vitriol
2003: Bring Me To Life - Evanescence
2004: Lose My Breath - Destiny's Child
2005: Cool - Gwen Stefani
2006: Starlight - Muse
2007: M4 (Part II) - Faunts
2008: Geraldine - Glasvegas
2009: Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
2010: The Space In Between - How To Destroy Angels
2011: A Real Hero - College (feat Electric Youth)
2012: Sovereign Light Cafe - Keane
2013: Strong Hand - Chvrches
I'd probably mix up the order a bit.
ETA: In answer to your question though, if I were making a mix for myself, I'd choose favourite songs that I never get tired of hearing.
Sounds good. That Mixxx software has potential I think, but I haven't got a clue really about how to mix, not even a cut mix, let alone merging two tracks.
Personalised Mixed Tape Mp3 Player
https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/mixpixie/product/personalised-mp3-player?kpid=260649&gclid=CNL5rumbm8ICFYJaMgodrxgAig
USB Mix Tape
http://www.prezzybox.com/usb-mix-tape-by-suck-uk.aspx
Both are modern but keep in theme with the cassette mixed tape idea. He can even add more music to them if needed or move the music of them and onto another device.
Oh, no. Friends and I used to swap mix tapes, so it's not just a 'I like you a lot, but I'm too shy/awkward/cowardly to say it so here's a mix tape' thing.
Frankly, son would sooner disown me than allow me within one mile of the girl he likes, let alone having anything to do with her. I think that's due to when I met the other girl he liked last year. I asked if she had a signed permission slip from her parents to allow her date son. I was just kidding, though. No sense of humour, that lad.
Nice idea. I wish I had seen that before I finished my list last night. I decided in the end to go for the 1980s, along with some tracks from the films of that era, to show son what I grew up with.
This decision made the selection surprisingly easy. The first on the list is 'Pass the Dutchie' by Musical Youth. Last on the list is 'Mad About the Boy' by Dinah Washington, used in a TV advert for Levi jeans at the time.
motsy, jra, dont_be_hasty - thank you. I wish you hadn't introduced me to those sites, though. My cards will be abused in a bit.
Some suggestions:
Good Times - INXS
Under Pressure - Queen/David Bowie
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
Hammertime - MC Hammer
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Say Say Say - Jackson/McCartney
Never Gonna Give you Up - Rick Astley
Hmm How about making a list of songs that make up the initials of his first and last name? So for instance if he is called Jack you could start with a song like Jailhouse Rock, then follow in order with A Rush of Blood to the Head, Carry on My Wayward Son and Killer Queen.
I did this for my kids on each 21st birthday. It was so emotional.
I started with their earliest best songs, the ones the danced to when they first stood up in nappies lol *goes Mummish and wells up*
Then on,to the first songs that they told me about and loved on the radio.
Then go on to the junior disco years and senior years.
It really is a very emotional thing to do. I still have all my kids mix tapes.on my pooter and get very wet eyed listening to them even now.
I'm jealous I wish I could do mix tapes.on again. I have to wait for grand children lol
Put your 16 favourite EVER songs on a playable device. Simples
Everyone has loads more than 16, but that's the fun ,
Mmmmm , should I ditch American Pie or More Than A Feeling ? [ sucks teeth ]
My husband will be the first to admit he can be a bit of a **** when comes to music. This is the guy who actually dumped his girlfriend for liking a song he deeply detested when they were teenagers. The same guy who told me the moment he knew he was in love was when he "didn't mind" me liking a singer whom he nicknamed 'walking abortion'. He even once suggested we should stay in Headley, Hampshire, for our honeymoon. Apparently Led Zeppelin and The Pretty Things recorded their albums in that village. He's that geeky.
Although he's good at biting his tongue these days (the last time he tried to explain why one song I enjoyed was crap, I threatened divorce), my confidence is largely gone. Not his fault, really, as I allowed it to happen.
However, doing up a list last night reminded me how much I used to enjoy it. I'm going to create a playlist of my own this weekend. I'll just ignore him if he does weep in despair over my choices.