Mixtape peeves

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Sequel/companion/whatever to 'Mixtape paranoia' thread: What irks you about the tapes you listen to? And, conversely, what things do you just love to get?

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I love elaborate cover art, mad eclecticism, hearing old songs i'd forgotten existed, soundbites/found-sounds, in-references.

I don't like the ends of songs being chopped off, blocks of songs from the same band/album, and especially tapes with no tracklisting.

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I love hearing songs by bands that exist in the subset of bands that I have never heard before and bands that are good. I don't like the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

― Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know if random nosy nonmembers like me are supposed to post here, so if we're not then shout at me, but I'm curious: putting tracks on and next to each other just because the titles are similar and it amuses your simple brain, classic or dud? I always feel tempted to do it but worry that it's kind of tacky and nasty.

I can't actually think of much that irks me about mixtapes I've got in the past. Not rewinding them back to the start is mildly annoying. Also I remember being peeved once when I got a tape with no labels on but an empty sticky label sheet in the box but now that I've typed that it sounds really irrational.

― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 12 September 2002 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I once did the similar title thing twice in a row and didn't realise til i posted it on art of the mix. But ABBA got away with it on Ring Ring (Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother/He is Your Brother, She's My Kind of Girl/I Am Just a Girl), lucky them.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Sunday, 15 September 2002 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Cutting off a song does bother me. I don''t like it when there is several minutes of blank tape at the end. Unless it's 433, I like my tape to be full of sounds from beginning to end..

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 19 September 2002 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm pretty easygoing, having songs get cut off is annoying but at the same time it compels me to go out and buy the record. The only things that irk me are ten-minute-long Carpenters medleys and also Whitney Houston. I got a tape once where someone had put the same song on twice by accident and thought it was great.

― alex, Saturday, 21 September 2002 05:11 (twenty-three years ago)

aha, so you didn't like the carpenters medley, sorry bro!

― mark rudolph, Monday, 30 September 2002 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

how exactly was it medlified? Did they perform a bunch of songs back to back or was it one of them infernal Megamixes? *shudder*

― petra jane (petra jane), Thursday, 3 October 2002 05:35 (twenty-three years ago)

get this, they did it in the style of a radio show with "caller number ten" dj segues between songs, it's great! possibly not the first time a medley has been done this way, but if there are any cooler then i'd love to hear them. as for the music, it's carpentersified 60's AM radio classics (best one: dead man's curve!), which would probably be the only thing keeping it from being the greatest medley of all time.

― calum, Sunday, 6 October 2002 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

DEAD MAN'S CURVE! i must hear this, obv.

I bought a 7" of 'Solitaire' and i can't stop playing it. One of my flatmates will prob kill me before the week's out, at this rate. Livvie, i hold you personally responsible.

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god please tape me the Carpenters medley!
Hey, I take no responsibility for yr Solitare addiction Petra. It is a really great song, anyway.

― Livvie, Monday, 7 October 2002 07:52 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

I hate not getting mixtapes for over a year while passing out approximately 30 in the meantime.

― webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 21 December 2002 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I don't like ... tapes with no tracklisting.

Then how does one carry the element of surprise, like a radio?

As a caveat, I've listed the songs alphabetically on the inside, but still, it takes away the surprise.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

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