EPIC MIX TAPE

[colls]

For reasons unknown, you suddenly find yourself trapped in 1989 with your best friends, a beat-up Datsun hatchback and a unavoidable need to drive to a destination that is three days away.

This clearly calls for a MIX TAPE!!!


WHAT SONGS DO YOU PUT ON YOUR MIX TAPE???
Remember, these are songs you and your friends are going to hear OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN over the next three days. (the idea is pre-1990 songs -- but I don't really care)

Comments

[colls]

A few off the top of my head to get started...
(JUDGEMENT FREE ZONE, RIGHT?)



Jesse's Girl Rick Springfield

I Love Rock 'n Roll Joan Jett

Pour Some Sugar on Me Def Leppard

Tainted Love Depeche Mode

[leia_solo]

I love all these songs! Especially Pour Some Sugar On Me!

[ar]

Well, they should be fun songs for the car! And there should be a good mix of old and newish ("new" by 1989 standards, anyway). A few selections I might take with for singalongs:

"Karma Chameleon" - Boy George and Culture Club
"If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)" - Eddie Cantor
"Wild Wild West" - The Escape club
"Marrakesh Express" - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
"Luck, Be a Lady" - Frank Sinatra
"Back on the Chain Gang" - The Pretenders
"Bad Reputation" - Joan Jett and the Black Hearts
"Careless Whisper" - George Michael

And in the evenings, you need a few songs that're a little more chill, I think:

"Guinnevere" - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
"500 Miles" - Peter, Paul, and Mary
"Someone to Watch Over Me" - Ella Fitzgerald
"Hold Me Now" - Thompson Twins
"In Your Eyes" - Peter Gabriel
"Time After Time" - Cyndi Lauper

Beyond that, I hope I'd tape some weird stuff off the WFMU of the time, but I wouldn't know what it'd be. :D

(Let's be honest, I'd probably bring five or six tapes, but this is a good enough start!)

[colls]

Karma Chameleon!!! /lulz

[levendis]

~~ohhhh, ohhh, whadda geerrrrrrrl~~

That's a great singalong/shoutalong if drunk era of music . "Bill Bailey", "Ma She's Making Eyes at Me", "Congratulate Me", "When You're Smiling", etc etc. Bonus points for dropping it in after Boy George.

[ar]

I maintain that if I ever do drag again, it'll be to traditional pop from the 1890s-1950s and nothing else. ♥ It's been my favourite stretch of time in American popular music for some years now.

[levendis]

Oh, I'd like to see that drag show. Yeah.

I've been in a string band for, what, five years? But I've only recently glommed onto the fact that the standards were actually recorded and I could listen to them without sitting next to the old banjo players who have mental jukeboxes. The Internet Archive is my new best friend.

[sylvaine]

If it's with my best friends, we'd have to find music that suits everyone's taste... which would basically amount to The Beatles and Queen. :D

[colls]

nothing wrong with some Beatles or Queen

[sylvaine]

True that!

[ngakmafaery]

...well, except for the Beatles part...(ducks)

[sylvaine]

... clearly you need a steady application of the Beatles over hours and hours of driving to give you an appreciation of their music. ;)

[ngakmafaery]

...I have had that stuff applied to me since the late 1960s, and even lately my partner (not the Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Garchen Rinpoche, in the photo, incidentally) has been playing all the friggin Beatles songs on acoustic guitar, over and over...even though he is quite good at it, I just don't like them much: they were new at the time, and yet I felt like they weren't the kind of vibes or energy or whatever that I want in my life...the one time we drove hundreds of miles way back when we had only one 8-track tape, and it was an AC/DC album...over and over and over and over...

[sylvaine]

Wow, 100s of miles of AC/DC... I can't decide if that's awesome or terrible! :D

[aryas_zehral]

Mid-nineties my family just used to listen to Queen endlessly on repeat on long car journeys for precisely that reason- we all liked it. :)

[levendis]

Oh man it'd probably be 100% Motown and Stax. Everyone loves soul! and I don't think cars even ~run without frequent applications of "Green Onions".

[everythingshiny]

I WOULD WALK 500 MILES


thats the only song.
repeated ;D


hmmm total eclipse of the heart?
cocaine - zz top
have you ever seen the rain - ccr


i'm sure i could think of others but i'm too lazy

[ngakmafaery]

...ZZ Top did Cocaine, the song...? I only ever knew the Clapton version, and the Grateful Dead one, both different tunes...

[everythingshiny]

yup they did a cover, which i have on my mp3 player.

[ngakmafaery]

...hmm, it must have passed me by...they seem like they might do a very odd version, so I might check it out...thanks!

[peacekeeper]

Metallica - Creeping Death
Cameo - Word Up
ZZ Top - Tush
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
Iron Maiden - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Def Leppard - Kashmir
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Run DMC - Walk This Way
Bananarama - Cruel Summer
REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Madonna - La Isla Bonita

I dunno how many more would fit!

[ninety6tears]

Harry Nilsson - Coconut
Joy Division - No Love Lost
Wang Chung - Don't Be My Enemy
The Beatles - I Am the Walrus
Deep Purple - Hush
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - American Girl
The Cult - Love Removal Machine
New Order - Age of Consent
The Rolling Stones - Bitch
Bill Withers - Use Me
The The - This Is the Day
Little Walter - Hate To See You Go
Billy Idol-White Wedding
The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual
Ennio Morricone - Morton

[leia_solo]

If it were me and Ashleigh. Realistically we'd been listening to Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Madonna, and Paula Abdul for my tastes. Then we'd listen to Guns N' Roses, Metallica, AC/DC, and Poison for her tastes. I'm more of a pop girl while she's rock!

[brisus]

I think Roxette was around the late 80's and early 90's.. I loved that song "The Look" and most of that album, "Look Sharp" ahahha.

[aryas_zehral]

Late eighties? That would have been Kylie Minogue and Sinita from what I remember. :)

[aryas_zehral]

Should point out, maybe not my choices now (well maybe not only those two), but back then that's what it was. Little bit later maybe some Shakespeare's Sister (seriously, I had a tape that just had Stay repeated on it over and over and over and over and over again for 90 minutes). Now it'd probably be a mix between cheesy 80s pop and 70s rock. Almost certainly The Logical Song would be on there. Cos I sorta love that song. :)

[skieswideopen]

Eighties music! And seventies. Let's see. Something you can sing along to.

"American Pie" - Don McLean
"It's My Life" - Bon Jovi
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper
"Africa" - Toto

There probably ought to be some U2 on there too. And Madonna.

[aryas_zehral]

I think something to sing along to is really very important for epic mix tapes. :D

[skieswideopen]

ABSOLUTELY. Especially for car trips.

[realrose]

Ooh a bunch of Simon and Garfunkle, and some Bette Midler!