Tape Recipes


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[Pretty Boy Mix][Yeah! Mix] [Haunting Mix][Machine Mix] [Nostalgic Mix][Pretty Boy Mix, Vol. 2]

Here are the recipes to some of the most successful mixed tapes I've made.
You can use these like you would any other recipe; you can either
follow them exactly or just use them as examples or starting
off points, adding your own ingredients and style.


Pretty Boy Mix

Pretty Songs with Male Singers.
Tape Length: 90 Minutes

  • Side A:
  • Crash - Dave Matthews
  • Soldier's Daughter - Tonic
  • Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
  • She's So High - Tal Bachmen
  • Under You - Better Than Ezra
  • Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla
  • Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
  • Gone to the Movies - Semisonic
  • Bleeders - The Wallflowers
  • Compliment - Collective Soul
  • Last Ride In - Greenday
    (tape cuts off mid-song)

  • Side B:
  • High - Feeder
  • The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
  • Acoustic #3 - The Goo Goo Dolls
  • Hang - Matchbox 20
  • The Ballad of El Goodoo - Evan Dando
  • Farther Down - Matthew Sweet
  • Mr. Golden Deal - Tonic
  • Umbrella - Dog's Eye View
  • Beautiful Mistake - Better Than Ezra
  • At My Most Beautiful - R.E.M.
  • Lemon Parade - Tonic
  • Sister - Adam Cohen


Yeah!

An adrenaline rush. Generally fast, loud, and/or happy songs.
Tape Length: 120 Minutes

  • Side A:
  • Local God - Everclear
  • Know - System of a Down
  • Spybreak! - Propellerheads
  • Nice Guys Finish Last - Greenday
  • Richard Allen George... No, It's Just Cheez - Less Than Jake
  • Of World And Man - Metallica
  • Get Back - Zebrahead
  • Life In The Fast Lane - The Eagles
  • Again - Alice in Chains
  • Boring - Blink 182
  • Surf Wax America - Weezer
  • Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
  • Living in the USA - The Steve Miller Band
  • School's Out - Soul Asylum
  • Ready, Steady, Go - The Meices
  • Anyway - Dynamite Hack
  • Jesus or a Gun - Fuel
  • Leave You Far Behind - Lunatic Calm
  • Around the World - Red Hot Chili Peppers

  • Side B:
  • Wake Up - Rage Against The Machine
  • The Instinct - Killer Instinct Soundtrack
  • Prisoner of Society - The Living End
  • Same In The End - Sublime
  • Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
  • I Don't Want To Live Today - Ape Hangers
  • Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins
  • Suite-Pee - System of a Down
  • Check - Zebrahead
  • Diggin' Your Scene - Smash Mouth
  • White Girl - Soul Coughing
  • Open Road Song - Eve 6
  • Five State Drive - Less Than Jake
  • Bad Habit - The Offspring
  • Untitled - Fuel
  • Enter the Pheonic/Desire to Fire - Machine Head
  • Bombtrack - Rage Against the Machine
  • Quitter - Toadies
    (tape cuts off mid-song)


Haunting Mix

It's all in the name...Songs in a minor key.
Tape Length: 90 Minutes

  • Side A:
  • Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead
  • Country Livin' - Esthero
  • Amen - Jewel
  • Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkle
  • The Box - Orbital
  • Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
  • Undenied - Portishead
  • Frank Sinatra - Cake
  • Smoke Two Joints - Sublime
  • Lather - Jefferson Airplane
    (tape cuts off mid-song)

  • Side B:
  • Lather - Jefferson Airplane
    (cont. from side A)
  • Maybe Someday - Flick
  • What's Left For Me? - Days of the New
  • Talk Show Host - Radiohead
  • Only You - Portishead
  • I Could Have Lied - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Rock Bottom - Eminem
  • Whatever - Butthole Surfers
  • Paris Nocturne - Fogelberg and Weisberg
  • Possible - Baxter
  • Oh Daddy - Tallulah
  • The End - Flick
    (tape cuts off mid-song)


Machine Mix

Mostly electronica and music done with things other than regular instruments
Tape Length: 90 Minutes

  • Side A:
  • Clubbed to Death - Rob D.
  • Jaded - Crystal Method
  • Lesson 6: The Lecture - Jurassic 5
  • Out There Somewhere? - Orbital
  • Spybreak! - Propellerheads
    (tape cuts off mid-song)

  • Side B:
  • Spybreak! - Propellerheads
    (cont. from side A)
  • Magic Carpet Ride - Philip Steir featuring Steppenwolf
  • You're not from Brighton - Fat Boy Slim
  • Fading - Baxter
  • Mindfields - Prodigy
  • Adnan's - Orbital
  • Leave You Far Behind - Lunatic Calm
  • Right Here, Right Now - Fat Boy Slim
  • Elysium - Portishead


Nostalgic Mix

Songs that put you in the mood to stroll down memory lane.
Tape Length: 90 Minutes

  • Side A:
  • Graduation - Vitamin C
  • Good Riddance - Greenday
  • Eddie Walker- Ben Fold's Five
  • Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
  • Water's Edge - Seven Mary Three
  • She's Not There - Santana
  • #1 Crush - Garbage
  • My Old Man - Tonic
  • The Bells - Pedro the Lion
  • I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan
  • Lonely - The Lovin' Spoonful
  • Red Hooded Sweatshirt - Adam Sandler
    (tape cuts off mid-song)

  • Side B:
  • Merry Christmas - Judy Garland
  • I Will Not Take These Things For Granted - Toad the Wet Sprocket
  • Butterfly - Weezer
  • I Will Remember You - Amy Grant
  • Waxing or Waning? - Better Than Ezra
  • Man's Road - America
  • St. Teresa - Joan Osborne
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Nigel Kennedy
  • Colorblind - Counting Crows
  • Reflection - Christina Aguilera
  • Hotel California - The Eagles
  • She's Like the Wind - Patrick Swayze
    (tape cuts off mid-song)


Pretty Boy Mix, Vol. 2

MORE pretty songs with male singers.
Tape Length: 110 Minutes

  • Side A:
  • Name - The Goo Goo Dolls
  • I Better Be Quiet Now - Elliott Smith
  • Don't Change Your Plans - Ben Fold's Five
  • 'Round Here - Counting Crows
  • Change - Good Charlotte
  • Mean to Me - Tonic
  • Tonite Reprise - Smashing Pumpkins
  • Out of Reach - The Get Up Kids
  • Santa Monica - Savage Garden
  • Up From Under - The Wallflowers
  • Shade - Silverchair
  • No One Else - Semisonic
  • Younger Generation - The Lovin' Spoonful
  • Everything Means Nothing to Me - Elliott Smith
  • The World I know - Collective Soul

  • Side B:
  • Amy Hit the Atmosphere - Counting Crows
  • Bad Diary Days - Pedro the Lion
  • Love A Diamond - Tonic
  • Magic - Ben Folds Five
  • Porcelain - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Years Ago - Super Deluxe
  • Hidden track on Breach - The Wallflowers
  • Long Goodnight - The Get Up Kids
  • Everything Reminds Me of Her - Elliott Smith
  • Always - Good Charlotte
  • Speedway - Counting Crows
  • Blew Away - Smashing Pumpkins
  • Waiting for the Light to Change - Tonic
  • Better Man - Pearl Jam
  • Give You Back - Vertical Horizon
    (tape cuts off mid-song)


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