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

[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.