Mix Tape Love

Are good DJ's good lovers?

they don't usually got the time.

(I'm sure this thread has been done before, but I don't remember it so forgive me.)

The best tape (though not strictly a mixed tape) I ever received from an admirer had "Straight Outta Compton" on one side and the best of the Troggs on the other and it was entitled "I CAN'T CONTROL MYSELF".

rowr, as they say.

I still remember Mr. Mod's story about interviewing some girl and then putting bits of the interview into a mixtape he made for her. That was a good story. Tell it again, Jimmy.

give me Mds or give me death

I am going to make one of these for the boy who only likes classical music. I keep changing what I want to put on it, so it's not made yet. And I don't know whether it should be a CD or tape.

I was about to say that anyone who gets seduced by a tape someone makes them is a moron. But then I saw Fritz's nwa/troggs one and I have changed my mind.

An ILM thread broadly on this subject

When I was younger and just getting into making music, people would come to me with their lover-mix tapes and ask me to chop up samples of their voice and freak out with them over latin dance beats and whatnot. They thought this would impress their girlfriends. Also, halfway through the tape, I'd record them saying some sappy monologue and play it over rain and minor chord pianos as an interlude.

I still remember Mr. Mod's story about interviewing some girl and then putting bits of the interview into a mixtape he made for her. That was a good story. Tell it again, Jimmy.

So I had a sound recording project for film class last spring semester where I had to record whispering and there was this girl who I was absolutely crazy about who, at the time, thought kind of liked me too.

So naturally I half-corner her and ask her if she'd do a recording project with me because "I'm in a pinch and this is due tomorrow," and she says "yes" because she was (and still is, for the most part) a real sweet kid with big green eyes and a lip ring, which can be very, very sexy.

Anyway we're recording out in front of her place and we're whispering about this and that -- how work was, what she's got on the bill tomorrow, and we flirt a bit, because we're whispering and the mic is very close to the both of us, and her eyes are HUGE and slightly sad and at that moment she is radiant.

And what happened was totally unplanned, because I didn't really have the balls before and so I, out of the blue, asked her to the movies. She said yes, and we did, and it was grand.

Later, I made her a mix-tape, because girls like her go for that sort of thing, and I put the usual "I love you" stuff on it and I took that sound that we recorded that night and spaced it out in the tape as little intermissions. I don't know what she did with it, but it was my most clever, sappy -- and ultimately fruitless -- moment ever. She was a real sweet girl tho, even though she nearly killed me.

Much to my eternal shame, but once did I try to woo a lass with a mixtape.

It most certainly did not produce the desired effect. She sent me a postcard which ended with the words "Stereolab: Why??"

From that moment onwards, I knew that our love could never be.

I wooed my first kiss with a tape that finished with Ask by The Smiths. And it worked aswell.

I have been wooed with a song called I love her so much (it hurts me) by The Majestics.

Back to the original question. It doesn't take cd-r to win my love. A tape seems to me like the traditional, right and proper method of wooing. Specially designed covers are always a bonus.