Mixed Tapes - DIY Compilations

emigre80 wrote: ClemofNazareth wrote: This isn't a mix tape, it's a playlist on Spotify.  This is one of the ones I run to (not all prog songs but they'll all get your heart rate up): Mr. Blue Sky - ELO Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin Don't Kill it Carol - Manfred Mann's Earth Band Eminence Front - The Who Forgotten Sons - Marillion (this is the one that makes the time go by) Dance of the Manatee - Fair to Midland Don't Bring Me Down - ELO The Quiet Offspring - Green Carnation Joey - Concrete Blonde Mr. Jones - Counting Crows Alone With You - Mike Pinera (winding down now) Unforgiven - The Go-Gos (finish strong!)   Nice playlist. I'd exercise to that.

When I was running cross country in high school I started trotting off one day with Script For a Jester's Tear (which I still absolutely love) in my walkman. I noticed right away how it was not rhythmically conducive to running. I was dreadfully tired by the time I got to the part of Forgotten Sons where it says "I am but mortal and mortals can only die", and nearly collapsed right there.

ClemofNazareth wrote: This isn't a mix tape, it's a playlist on Spotify.  This is one of the ones I run to (not all prog songs but they'll all get your heart rate up): Mr. Blue Sky - ELO Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin Don't Kill it Carol - Manfred Mann's Earth Band Eminence Front - The Who Forgotten Sons - Marillion (this is the one that makes the time go by) Dance of the Manatee - Fair to Midland Don't Bring Me Down - ELO The Quiet Offspring - Green Carnation Joey - Concrete Blonde Mr. Jones - Counting Crows Alone With You - Mike Pinera (winding down now) Unforgiven - The Go-Gos (finish strong!)

Any list which wastes a spot for a second ELO tune is suspect.

schizoidman wrote: Here's my Chamber Prog Mix (about 80 minutes).  1. MediaBanda - "Carón" 2. Art Zoyd - "Ballade" 3. Orange Tulip Conspiracy - "Fall Creek" 4. Eberhard Weber - "The Colours of Chlo" 5. Weather Report - "Dream Clock" 6. Pure Reason Revolution - "Aeropause" 7. North Sea Radio Orchestra - "Morpheus Miracle Maker" 8. Panzerpappa - "Astromalist" 9. Slivovitz - "CO2" 10. Gatto Marte - "Barbara" 11. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - "Perpetuum Mobile" 12. Roz Vitalis - "Lavoro D'Amore" 13. Ian Anderson - "In the Pay of Spain" 14. Calomito - "Cane Di Schiena" 15. Aranis - "Finale"

Very intriguing.

HackettFan wrote: I had been listening for quite awhile in the car to a Best of Tull album, one of the many. It went largely in chronological order, but it didn't have Minstrel in the Gallery conveniently on the first disc, so I switched Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day) out for Minstrel in the Gallery. I also had to add Witches Promise, and made a few other tweaks as well. 1. A Song For Jeffrey 2. A New Day Yesterday 3. Back to the Family 4. A Christmas Song 5. Bourée 6. Nothing is Easy 7. Living in the Past 8. To Cry You a Song 9. With You There to Help Me 10. Teacher 11. The Witches Promise 12. Cross-Eyed Mary 13. Cheap Day Return 14. Mother Goose 15. Aqualung 16. Locomotive Breath 17. Life is a Long Song 18. Minstrel in the Gallery It's still in rough chronological order. I might decide to mix things up a bit more later, I'm quite sure. My favorite song on my favorite album is My God, but it's such a signature piece of that album that I can't see it yet as part of a compilation, but I have been wondering what it would be like right before or after Dharma For One!! I don't like where the extract from Thick As a Brick ends, so I haven't included that. What would your best of Tull compilation be like?

OK, my best of compilation of Tull would be as follows (a list on ITunes, about 2 hours long, so it would have to be a double album).

- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (from the Christmas album).
- Greensleeved (from the Christmas album).
- Bourée (from Live at Montreux).
- Pavane (from the Christmas album).
- My Sunday Feeling (from Living with the Past).
- Living in the Past (from Live at Montreux).
- Sween Dream (from Live Bursting Out).
- A New Day Yesterday (from Live Bursting Out).
- Nothing is Easy (from Living with the Past).
- With you there to Help Me (from Live at Montreux).
- Aqualung (from Live at Montreux).
- Cross Eyed Mary (from Live Bursting Out).
- My God (from Live at Montreux).
- Locomotive Breath (from Live at Montreux).
- Thick as a Brick (from Live Bursting Out).
- Thick as a Brick (excerpt from side 2, 8:40 min long since the guitar tune similar to the one that similar to the one that begins the album).
- Minstrel in the Gallery (from Live Bursting Out).
- Too Old to Rock and Roll (from Live Bursting Out).
- Hunting Girl (from Live at Montreux).
- Velvet Green (from Songs from the Wood).
- The Whistler (from Songs from the Wood).
- No Lullaby (from Live Bursting Out).

So, as you can see, I mostly like their songs live. I find them so much more enjoyable compared to the studio ones which I often find more less energetic, more apathic, incomplete, etc.

HackettFan wrote: schizoidman wrote: Here's my Chamber Prog Mix (about 80 minutes).  1. MediaBanda - "Carón" 2. Art Zoyd - "Ballade" 3. Orange Tulip Conspiracy - "Fall Creek" 4. Eberhard Weber - "The Colours of Chlo" 5. Weather Report - "Dream Clock" 6. Pure Reason Revolution - "Aeropause" 7. North Sea Radio Orchestra - "Morpheus Miracle Maker" 8. Panzerpappa - "Astromalist" 9. Slivovitz - "CO2" 10. Gatto Marte - "Barbara" 11. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - "Perpetuum Mobile" 12. Roz Vitalis - "Lavoro D'Amore" 13. Ian Anderson - "In the Pay of Spain" 14. Calomito - "Cane Di Schiena" 15. Aranis - "Finale" Very intriguing.

My latest CD series undertaking, Seasons of Prog: