Mefi Mixtape Help! I'm currently in love with "The Swimming Song" by Loudon Wainwright III. Does anyone have suggestions for songs that are equally fun, carefree and generally badass? I tried the iTunes Genius playlist but it failed. Thanks in advance.
posted on Sep 29, 2008 - 9 answers
I'm looking for some pretty songs about Ohio, or finding a home. [more inside]
posted on Sep 19, 2008 - 21 answers 
Help me make a play list of music that has to be listened to while watching fireworks. [more inside]
posted on Jul 4, 2008 - 17 answers
I'm looking for songs that reference television in the lyrics or the title that are relatively new (no music before 1980) for a mix.
Blur's Coffee and TV and Arcade Fire's (Antichrist Television Blues) are on the list already.
I'd like to get the hive mind's suggestions for others.
posted on Jul 3, 2008 - 53 answers
Please help me compile a set of music for my dad to use in his video projects. [more inside]
posted on Jun 23, 2008 - 2 answers
I'm driving cross country and am looking to make a mix CD for the road using songs about America. Ask Metafilter has previously tackled similar questions dealing with songs about Los Angeles, California, New York, New Jersey and even Europe, but what are some of the best songs about America?
posted on May 15, 2008 - 41 answers
"Your mother is a whore" mixtape suggestions? [more inside]
posted on Apr 2, 2008 - 33 answers
What are some songs about flying, preferably in a plane of some kind? My friend is a pilot and I want to make a mixtape for him with some songs about flying. So far, all I've come up with is the following:
AF607105 - Charlotte Gainsbourg (even if it does involve a crash, it's lovely)
Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
Come Fly with Me - Frank Sinatra
Anyone have any ideas? Thank you in advance!
posted on Feb 2, 2008 - 71 answers
Help me find this song which features a great number of answering machine messages over pretty guitars. Please? [more inside]
posted on Oct 18, 2007 - 4 answers
I'm making a compilation CD for my little girls (ages six and three) and I'm looking for happy stuff with female vocalists that has the same sort of vibe as Manu Chao's bongo bong, and/or Sublime's happier stuff, but that is appropriate for, you know, little kids. [more inside]
posted on Oct 16, 2007 - 30 answers
Help me put together a ghoulishly good Halloween mix cd! [more inside]
posted on Sep 16, 2007 - 43 answers
I'm looking for some lesbian friendly indie songs for a mixtape, as well as just regular old indie love songs. [more inside]
posted on Jul 8, 2007 - 32 answers
Songs about a relationship which starts off enthusiastically, but where someone gets cold feet early on? The song quoted in the post title would be a good example/starting point.
posted on May 27, 2007 - 15 answers
I have to do a mix tape at work and the subject that I got lumbered with was songs about communal living. Assitance in this matter would be greatly appreciated! [more inside]
posted on May 16, 2007 - 27 answers
What are some songs about countries or cities in Europe?
posted on Apr 8, 2007 - 46 answers
Nuke related songs of the 80s and 90s. [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2007 - 66 answers
Is the mixtape episode of This American Life available anywhere online? I think it was done by Sarah Vowell, I remember hearing it sometime before 2003, and probably much before. But it doesn't appear on the show's archives. Am I going crazy? Maybe it wasn't TAL but I'm almost positive... Please help! [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2006 - 15 answers
Suggestions for indie/alt (ish) rock type love songs? [more inside]
posted on Sep 29, 2006 - 40 answers
Songs about the end times: tell me about songs whose lyrics give a sense, either overt or oblique, of the world ending, civilization collapsing, etc. [more inside]
posted on Aug 11, 2006 - 100 answers
What makes a good mix CD, in general terms? [more inside]
posted on Aug 8, 2006 - 27 answers
What songs should I put on a CD for someone turning fifty? [more inside]
posted on Aug 1, 2006 - 22 answers
Mixtape filter: I need songs that reference any of the states of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah. [more inside]
posted on Jun 28, 2006 - 70 answers
ObscureHipHopFilter: identify this sample. [more inside]
posted on May 12, 2006 - 5 answers
Song ideas for a mix tape themed around writers and/or literature, please. [more inside]
posted on Apr 30, 2006 - 63 answers
Looking for songs about math! My girlfriend's sister just got into a Ph.D. program for mathematics and we're making her a mix CD to help celebrate. Poppy indie rock especially good. [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2006 - 68 answers
If you had $200-500 you could use in obtaining an entirely new stereo system, solely for the purpose of making mixtapes, what'd you do with it? [more inside]
posted on Aug 14, 2005 - 10 answers
What wedding-day songs would you recommend? [more inside]
posted on May 20, 2005 - 48 answers
Any ideas for songs to put on the quintessential Music to Fuck To Mix?
(John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Barry White need not apply.)
posted on Dec 9, 2004 - 44 answers
Can you name these tunes?
1. This one sounds like movie music, but I haven't been able to track it down.
2. I think this is the bonus track on Spell's "Mississippi" album. Can anyone verify?
3. This was recorded off a college radio station in Lowell MA in the early 90s. It's a mix of a song, and a woman speaking about pleasuring herself (the "I am satisfied" parts..... Can anyone find the source of either?
4. And another one from the same mix tape...
posted on Jul 15, 2004 - 12 answers
