Mix CDs/tapes/etc you made when younger

[cobainwasmurdered]

Found a box of burnt CD's and among them were some mix cd's that I made when I was 16/17 maybe. Some of it isn't too bad, some of it's embarressing. I'm sure there are way worse that I haven't come across yet. This is what I've got:

Songs by Bush: Swallowed, glycerine
Bunch of RATM songs
"One Step Closer" by Lincoln Park,
"Paranoid" by Black Sabbath,
Voodoo Child by Hendrix,
Stairway to Heaven by Zeppelin
wait and bleed by slipknot
...and it looks like I tried to fit a few Nickelback songs on but crossed them out when they didn't fit or something.

So there's a few I'm a bit embarrassed by in there. What about you guys? You still have any of your old mixes? Are they any good or are they terrible and shameful?

 

[Smartly Pretty]

I had one mix CD in the 8th grade that I'd listen to in my mom's car. She affectionately dubbed it "the loser CD" because I was a lonely lonely 8th grader. Songs included:

"Teenage FBI" by Guided By Voices
"Wasted and Ready" by Radish
"Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus
"Buddy Holly" by Weezer (didn't every mix cd have this on it?)
"Kiss Off" by the Violent Femmes
Then prolly some White Strovines songs.

 

[Precious Roy]

I'd make lots of rap mixtapes with stuff like Jay-Z, Gangstarr, Redman, Wu-Tang, Outkast, 2Pac, Biggie etc. Probably nothing too embarrassing on those except for the odd dated 1 hit wonder. There was definitely some Ja Rule, Noreaga, Foxy Brown and some other shit I would never listen to anymore

When I first got the internet in the mid-late 90's I made some real ghetto mixtapes by downloading MP3s and recording them via a microphone attached to my boombox held up to the computer speakers. I'd play around with the levels and everything to get it sounding as good as possible. Then I got a cable to connect the computer output to the boombox input, did it real deal!

Ah, the good old days before everybody had a CD burner.....

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Made a metric shit ton of mixtapes. Mainly revolved around me sitting in front of my stereo for hours on end waiting for a song to play on the radio. Since there was no intro and the song just abruptly started, I remember flipping my shit when I finally recorded the entire "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies. *hangs head in shame*

 

[CanadianGuitarist]

"Buddy Holly" by Weezer (didn't every mix cd have this on it?)

And "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something.

 

[Laz]

I found my book of mix CDs I made throughout high school and right after before I had an mp3 player or an iPod a few months ago after I moved. I've been listening to a few of them here and there whenever I forget to grab my iPod before going out. I probably have about 20 or so in that book, some of the songs interlapping, and it's actually somewhat interesting to see the bands I put on there the most and how little I listen to them now (meaning Shadows Fall).

 

[CanadianGuitarist]

I was actually thinking about this the other day - my first car's radio didn't work, but the cassette deck did. LOTS of mixed tapes; I'd probably make one a month. I can recall my first one featuring Tea Party covering "Paint it Black", "Walk" by Pantera, "Bleed American" by Jimmy Eat World, and "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix. The only thing I can vividly remember on the second was the live "Double Suicide" version of "Highway Girl" by The Tragcally Hip.

My buddy Kevin's got the most airplay - his featured, in succession on the middle of the second side "Buddy Holly" (natch), Triple H's "The Game" theme, and "Eat the Rich" by Fozzy.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Found one of my old mix CDs... track listing is as follows

01: Pulp Fiction Theme
02: "Looking For Trade" from the movie Shock Treatment (the "sequel" to RHPS)
03: Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
04: Tara's song from the episode "Once More With Feeling" from BTVS
05: Connie Dover - I Am Going to the West
06: Suspiria Theme
07: Gary Jules - Mad World
08: The Sundays - Wild Horses
09: Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait
10: The Prodigy - Firestarter
11: Roy Orbison - Sweet Dreams
12: TATU - All The Things She Said
13: The Offspring - Come Out and Play
14: The Donnas - Take It Off
15: Alanis Morissette - Your House
16: Black Sabbath - Iron Man
17: Dashboard Prophets - Ballad For Dead Friends (Appeared in "The Harvest" of BTVS)
18: "Chasing the Black Caped Man" from Final Fantasy 7 (IIRC)
19: Space Diva Opera from the movie The Fifth Element

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

I remember taping songs off the radio. CFOX used to play a Metallica song every night at 10PM so I'd be waiting eagerly for that. There was briefly a radio station called XFM and for it's firxt month or so it was commercial (and DJ free) so it was nothing but music. I recorded a lot of stuff from that.

 

[CookieMueller]

I just found a box of tapes full of songs I recorded off the radio when I was about 12/13 (so like 95/96) and wow...I'll have to listen to one straight through and post what's on there. I listened to the "alternative rock" station then and there's no way they'd play about 2/3 of that stuff nowadays. That era of music is in purgatory right now, as far as our local stations go. Too old to be on the standard rock stations, too new to be on classic rock stations.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Mainstream 20th Century British Music, created this on Spotify for a long car journey when I was about 17:

Spoiler

01. The Who - 'I Can't Explain'
02. The Kinks - 'Waterloo Sunset'
03. The Rolling Stones - 'Gimme Shelter'
04. T-Rex - 'Children of the Revolution'
05. David Bowie - 'Starman'
06. Roxy Music - 'Virginia Plain'
07. Mott the Hoople - 'All the Young Dudes'
08. Paul McCartney & Wings - 'Live and Let Die'
09. Sex Pistols - 'Anarchy in the UK'
10. Fleetwood Mac - 'Go Your Own Way'
11. The Only Ones - 'Another Girl Another Planet'
12. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - '(I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea'
13. Kate Bush - 'Wuthering Heights'
14. Gary Numan - 'Are 'friends' Electric?'
15. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - 'Enola Gay'
16. Buzzcocks - 'You Say You Don't Love Me'
17. The Human League - 'Don't You Want Me'
18. Duran Duran - 'Hungry Like the Wolf'
19. The Jam - 'Town Called Malice'
20. The Cure - 'The Lovecats'
21. Prefab Sprout - 'Appetite'
22. The Housemartins - 'Happy Hour'
23. New Order - 'True Faith'
24. The Stone Roses - 'Waterfall'
25. The La's - 'There She Goes'
26. Blur - 'Girls and Boys'
27. Pulp - 'Common People'
28. Elastica - 'Car Song'
29. Supergrass - 'Alright'
30. The Verve - 'Bittersweet Symphony'
31. Radiohead - 'Paranoid Android'
32. Spiritualized - 'Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space'

All of my super embarrassing fourteen year old compilation CDs are in a house I haven't inhabited since late 2009.

 

[Seth82]

lol I made a ton of mix cd's in high school

I still have all of them

I will have to go through them and post a few

 

[Smartly Pretty]

"Girls and Boys" followed by "Common People" on 17 year old Alfie's mix is the most British thing I've ever heard.

 

[Precious Roy]

created this on Spotify for a long car journey when I was about 17:

:-\

 

[BUTT]

The limeys have had Spotify for years, dogg

 

[CanadianGuitarist]

I was actually thinking about this the other day - my first car's radio didn't work, but the cassette deck did. LOTS of mixed tapes; I'd probably make one a month. I can recall my first one featuring Tea Party covering "Paint it Black", "Walk" by Pantera, "Bleed American" by Jimmy Eat World, and "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix. The only thing I can vividly remember on the second was the live "Double Suicide" version of "Highway Girl" by The Tragcally Hip.

My buddy Kevin's got the most airplay - his featured, in succession on the middle of the second side "Buddy Holly" (natch), Triple H's "The Game" theme, and "Eat the Rich" by Fozzy.

I don't think any of my tapes had it, but now that I think about it, there was also a lot of "I Wish" by Skee-Lo in that Mustang.

 

[Rendclaw]

I still rock mixtapes, although they are now playlists in my mp3 player. I think I had 4-10 cassettes of mixed music, then in 2002 I started burning CDs. I still have the cassettes too, along with old Howard Stern shows I used to tape off the radio from 1986-1990 or so.

I still have old school hip-hop Master Mixes from 1985 and beyond... I think the shining accomplishment of mixtapes was a bunch of Run-DMC Master Mixes along with their first two albums, and a couple of Master Mixes on the end.

 

[CookieMueller]

This reminds me of what I spent all of my money on when I was like 17. I'd drive to every thrift store in town and buy all of their blank cassettes. The shit on there was so good. Mostly you'd get religious stuff but the occasional mixtape and some other really weird stuff like karaoke booth recordings or (my favourite) answering machine tapes. I found this one tape marked something like JOHN (SAN DIEGO) on one side and KIM (HAWAII) on the other and it was filled to the brim with the sappiest shit, from like Al Green to NSync. Just a weird mix. And I'd imagine one side was dedicated to his male lover in San Diego and the other to his girlfriend in Hawaii.

 

[Joe Goatee]

I was the talk of Mrs. Lugaszewski's fourth grade class when I put some Martin Denny and Can in between the usual Depeche Mode and OMD.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Bumping this as I try to re-make a Mix CD I made years ago and subsequently lost On the positive side, I remembered the track list well enough thanks to CONSTANT listening to mostly make up the 17 track listing off memory. I can't remember what Track 10 was nor can I remember the final 4 tracks.

If I ever recall/figure it out, I'll be sure to edit this.

Rachel/Ivy Hollows Mix
01: Alanis Morissette - Not the Doctor
02: Joan Jett - I Hate Myself For Loving You
03: Remy Zero - Save Me
04: Evanescence - Going Under
05: The Cranberries - This Is the Day
06: Submersed - Hollow
07: Flyleaf - All Around Me
08: The Servant - Cells
09: Puscifer - Rev 22:20 [Dry Martini Mix]
10: Placebo - Pure Morning
11: Norah Jones - Cold, Cold Heart
12: Eisley - Telescope Eyes
13: Backstreet Boys - Incomplete
14: Smile Empty Soul - Silhouettes
15:
16: Ringside - Tired of Being Sorry
17:

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I was the talk of Mrs. Lugaszewski's fourth grade class when I put some Martin Denny and Can in between the usual Depeche Mode and OMD.

This is really the best post.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Bumping this as I try to re-make a Mix CD I made years ago and subsequently lost On the positive side, I remembered the track list well enough thanks to CONSTANT listening to mostly make up the 17 track listing off memory. I can't remember what Track 10 was nor can I remember the final 4 tracks.

If I ever recall/figure it out, I'll be sure to edit this.

Rachel/Ivy Hollows Mix
01: Alanis Morissette - Not the Doctor
02: Joan Jett - I Hate Myself For Loving You
03: Remy Zero - Save Me
04: Evanescence - Going Under
05: The Cranberries - This Is the Day
06: Submersed - Hollow
07: Flyleaf - All Around Me
08: The Servant - Cells
09: Puscifer - Rev 22:20 [Dry Martini Mix]
10: Placebo - Pure Morning
11: Norah Jones - Cold, Cold Heart
12: Eisley - Telescope Eyes
13: Backstreet Boys - Incomplete
14: Smile Empty Soul - Silhouettes
15:
16: Ringside - Tired of Being Sorry
17:

What I like here:
Love the opening guitar of that Submersed song.
Going Under is pretty good.
PURE MORNING HOLY SHIT!

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Bumping this thread as I remembered a few tracks... I think this is as complete as I'll get although gut says I'm missing like 2 tracks *sigh* Wouldn't surprise me if I threw in a 3rd Evanescence track somewhere.

Fake EDIT: Found that 3rd Evanescence track.

Rachel/Ivy Hollows Mix
01: Alanis Morissette - Not the Doctor
02: Joan Jett - I Hate Myself For Loving You
03: Remy Zero - Save Me
04: Evanescence - My Immortal
05: The Cranberries - This Is the Day
06: Submersed - Hollow
07: Evanescence - Going Under
08: Flyleaf - All Around Me
09: The Servant - Cells
10: Evanescence - Taking Over Me
11: Puscifer - Rev 22:20 [Dry Martini Mix]
12: Placebo - Pure Morning
13: Norah Jones - Cold, Cold Heart
14: Eisley - Telescope Eyes [Original Version]
15: Backstreet Boys - Incomplete
16: Smile Empty Soul - Silhouettes
17: Lacuna Coil - Heaven's A Lie
18: Ringside - Tired of Being Sorry

 

[Mickey Massuco]

I was the talk of Mrs. Lugaszewski's fourth grade class when I put some Martin Denny and Can in between the usual Depeche Mode and OMD.

This is really the best post.

lol it really is

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Random old mix I found... I can definitely see my 'random influences' cropping up here and my lack of an ability to do a proper mix list.

Mix 1
01: 3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite"
02: Alanis Morissette - "Uninvited"
03: Bad Religion - "Struck a Nerve"
04: Rob Zombie - "Dragula"
05: U2 - "With or Without You"
06: Rob Zombie - "Thunder Kiss '65"
07: Len - "Steal My Sunshine"
08: Ja Rule - "It's Murda"
09: Coal Chamber - "Feed My Dreams"
10: Goo Goo Dolls - "Iris"
11: Mandy Moore - "Candy"
12: Paula Cole - "I Don't Want to Wait"
13: The Corrs - "Breathless"

 

[vivisectvi]

What, no Bran Van 3000?

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Discovered a few more mix CDs I made as a kid, I always went for quantity where possible and I find it funny that there's always the random Rap song inclusion somewhere.

HQ's 2nd Custom Mix - Around 17 years old. Definitely can see what I was hot on at the time e.g. the Kill Bill & Ozzy song inclusions
01: Aimee Mann - You Could Make a Killing
02: Back to the Future Soundtrack - Johnny B. Goode
03: Blur - Coffee & TV
04: Spike/Once More With Feeling - Rest In Peace
05: Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
06: Counting Crows - Colorblind
07: Eminem - Stan
08: Garbage - I'm Only Happy When It Rains
09: Kristen Barry - Ordinary Life
10: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
11: Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
12: New Radicals - You Get What You Give
13: Oasis - Roll With It
14: Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
15: Placebo - Every You, Every Me (Single Mix)
16: Simon & Milo - Get a Clue
17: Stone Temple Pilots - Sour Girl
18: The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

HQ's 3rd Custom Mix Probably 16 years old judging by the JLo, Harvey Danger, and Aaliyah inclusions. Definitely influenced by movie ads/MTV videos judging by the list.
01: Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World *cover* (Unplugged)
02: The Offspring - Come Out and Play
03: Letters to Cleo - Dangerous Type *cover* (The Craft Movie)
04: Tito & Tarantula - Dark Night (From Dusk 'Til Dawn Movie) Soundtrack version is done by The Blasters
05: Stone Temple Pilots - Sour Girl
06: Stereophonics - Mr. Writer
07: Lenny Kravitz - American Woman *cover*
08: Johnny Mathis - Winter Wonderland
09: Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love
10: Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
11: Fifth Element - Space Opera Diva Song
12: Beth Hart - L.A. Song Christ I hadn't heard this song in so long I had to look up who did it despite recognizing it immediately
13: Bone Thugs N' Harmony - Tha Crossroads
14: Aaliyah - Try Again
15: Alanis Morissette - Thank You
16: Ricky Martin - She's All I Ever Had
17: System of a Down - Spiders
18: Wycleaf Jean - Gone 'Til November

 

[HarleyQuinn]

I'm making this post so I don't forget the track listing just in case but I had made a Best of TATU CD a few years back with this breakdown.

01 All the Things She Said
02 All About Us
03 Nas Ne Degoniat (They Won't Catch Us)
04 Perfect Enemy
05 Friend or Foe
06 Fly on the Wall
07 Loves Me Not
08 Malchik-Gey
09 Gomenasai
10 Robot
11 Running Blind
12 Beliy Plaschik
13 Ya Tvoya Ne Pervaya (I'm Your First)
14 Sacrifice
15 You and I
16 Cosmos (Outer Space)