songs per cd

Put 10 if you want, but if you want to do the RIGHT THING no more than one.

As was pointed out by petrajane, one thing that's extremely annoying about mixed tapes is "blocks of songs from the same band/album". However I recently produced a mixed tape with 3 songs from the same band. It was not my intention to overexpose the listener to this particualr band but they're really good songs. Also it's a band from NZ so I thought why not give them the chance to be heard elsewhere. Anyway I take the point. In fact this wouldn't of happened had I not brought a 120 tape. My god, it took an age to fill. I guess that's a different issue though isn't it- appropriate length (NOT Freudian)!

Actually I did Petra herself what I thought was a rather good pair of tapes (she liked them too, as far as I know) w/plenty of blocks of artists (or rather records), the idea was to SCHOOL HER (haha) a bit on Warp but I extended my brief to various other groovy things a bit, a little Alex Chilton and some Al Green and so forth, no more than two songs per record, allocated in aforementioned blocks. BUT that was a specific case, and it was a concious theme to the tapes, giving one band/whatever more tracks than the rest on yr tape is pretty clearly going to make the whole a bit of an unbalanced mess, though that probably/hopefully goes w/out saying, right?