Inspired by the "Golden Age of Classic Rock" songs board discussion which I created and have been a participant, I have begun a series of mix tapes based on my selections. I plan for these to be a series of 110-minute tapes with each 55-min side representing a year. The first volume is "Best songs of 1967/68" and here are the tracks chosen for each side.

SIDE A (1967)
"Alone Again Or", LOVE
"Brown-Eyed Girl", VAN MORRISON
"Come In The Morning", MOBY GRAPE
"A Day In The Life", THE BEATLES
"Daydream Believer", THE MONKEES
"I See The Rain", MARMALADE
"Incense and Peppermints", THE STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK
"Little Wing", JIMI HENDRIX
"Nights In White Satin", THE MOODY BLUES
"Our Love Was", THE WHO
"Purple Haze", JIMI HENDRIX
"Ruby Tuesday", THE ROLLING STONES
"Shades Of Gray", THE MONKEES
"She's a Rainbow", THE ROLLING STONES
"Soul Kitchen", THE DOORS
"Strawberry Fields Forever", THE BEATLES

SIDE B (1968)
"Afterglow", THE SMALL FACES
"America", SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
"As We Go Along", THE MONKEES
"Born To Be Wild", STEPPENWOLF
"Jumping Jack Flash", THE ROLLING STONES
"Looking Glass", THE GODS
"Magic Carpet Ride", STEPPENWOLF
"Point Me At The Sky", PINK FLOYD
"Three-Four", MOBY GRAPE
"Tin Soldier", THE SMALL FACES
"Trust", THE PRETTY THINGS
"Wasn't Born To Follow", THE BYRDS
"The Weight", THE BAND
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps", THE BEATLES

Making compilation tapes/CDs... I kind of thought that was one of the points of those lists! Having gone through these lists, I also would be interested in compiling my own tape or CD, and to get a good variety, would even include the songs that I normally might not be inclined to listen to. (Well, except for "Come On Eileen in the 1980's.)

Thank you Todd Pence and CR. Please stay where you are, and we will have federal agents arrest you for being Evil Content Pirates™.

Gee, and I thought the RIAA was only trying to make "fair use" impossible, not illegal. Guess I underestimated you guys...

Sorry, RIAA. All my copies of those songs on the list above come from commercial CDs I bought and paid for. The only exception is one song that a friend burned me a copy of, because the CD of the album at the time was not commercially availible.

That was merely political commentary.

"...I would be interested in compiling..." partial quote from me, emphasis added.
Intent versus actual action: does the RIAA make the distinction?

Well, I've recently acquired a CD burner, and have created my first collection. The disc is called Silly Love Songs of the Seventies. A little background on it. I had been thinking about putting together a few '70s discs. I started to d/l some of the songs I don't have in my CD or tape collection that I thought would be nice to have; to hear whenever I wanted to. However, I got to noticing that the songs I was picking tended to be romantic love songs. So, I decided to go with the flow. Originally, this was going to be called Romance Songs of the Seventies or something like that. But a couple of tunes were admittedly guilty pleasures, so I thought of Paul M^cCartney's "Silly Love Songs" and opted to include that with the rest of the tunes.

Adding songs from my CD collection, I had over two hours worth of material to chose from. (Realistically, I could have had several more hours than that. I mean, love songs are a dime a dozen. At least.) I narrowed to playlist to 20 songs and began the process of sequencing the tracks. As I began to sequence it, the album took a bit of a darker turn towards the end. Thanks to a conversation with Snick on AIM, I changed the final cut on the playlist. I spent a couple of days listening to the tracks to see if I liked the sequencing. Eventually I decided to take out one cut ("Accidentally Like a Martyr" by Warren Zevon). The result is Silly Love Songs of the Seventies.

Here's the tracklisting:

1. "Silly Love Songs" - Wings
2. "The Things We Do for Love" - 10cc
3. "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)" - Marilyn M^cCoo and Billy Davis, Jr.
4. "The Air That I Breathe" - the Hollies
5. "You Make Me Feel Brand New" - the Stylistics
6. "Loving You" - Minnie Ripperton
7. "Miracles" - Jefferson Starship (the full version)
8. "Afternoon Delight" - the Starland Vocal Band
9. "Slow Dancing (Swayin' to the Music)" - Johnny Rivers
10. "Took the Last Train" - David Gates
11. "Love Will Keep Us Together" - the Captain and Tennille
12. "Right Back Where We Started From" - Maxine Nightingale
13. "Sad Eyes" - Robert John
14. "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" - Johnny Mathis with Deniece Williams
15. "I'm Not In Love" - 10cc
16. "Cinderella" - Firefall
17. "Lost Without Your Love" - Bread
18. "Love Hurts" - Nazareth (The original final track for this disc.)
19. "Love Is Alive" - Gary Wright (To inject a little positive, optimistic ending to the album.)

Congrats, Benn. Welcome to the club, as it were!

(so that's what you meant by burn it?...man, I really am old school sometimes )


I normally use about half-obscurities, half-well-known tracks on my compilations. This one has one or two. - Benn

A wise choice, I think. It usually is best to play the set list a few times and then take it where it wants to go.

BTW- what site do you download from, if you don't mind my asking? Dell Musicmatch came with my computer but they never seem to have the songs I'm looking for.

Also- I still have a mix tape I made for my now-wife from when we were dating- they tend to sound like this

I use WinMX, which is similar to how Napster was setup.

I've d/led all the songs I think I need for Instrumentally. Among the tunes I'm adding are "The Force Theme" by Meco and "Drum Dreams" by ELO (this has to be d/led. The only place to find it is the B-side to "I'm Alive" and "All Over the World". It has never appeared on an official CD or tape.) I may add more though. All the other tracks for it will come from my CD collection.

I'm also working on a collection of novelty songs (to be tentatively called, Demented in honor of Barry Hanson's alter ego. ). There may possibly a 70s/80s rarity disc, too.

"Music is a world within itself and a language we all understand."

I'd like to thank the creators of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" for coming up with a playlist worthy of it's own mix cd which I am currently compiling. If you have the game, it is radio station K-DST (with Axl Rose as Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith who spouts some great dj-ing lines). Some songs are darn near impossible to find but here is the list-

Foghat- Slow Ride (file under impossible to locate- whose ever heard of Foghat??)
CCR- Green River (own)
Heart- Barracuda (own)
KISS- Strutter (own)
Toto- Hold The Line (own)
Rod Stewart- Young Turks (own)
Tom Petty- Running Down A Dream (own)
Joe Cocker- Woman To Woman (VERY difficult to find)
Humble Pie- Get Down To It (this one IS impossible to find. I can only find it on an expensive Japanese import)
Grand Funk Railroad- Some Kind of Wonderful (hard to find)
Lynard Skynard- Free Bird (own)
America- Horse With No Name (own)
The Who- Eminence Front (own)
Boston- Smokin' (don't own, but easy to get)
David Bowie- Somebody Up There Likes Me (own)
Eddie Money- Two Tickets To Paradise (own)
Billy Idol- White Wedding (own)

Now, assuming I can fit these all onto one cd, what order would be a good one? The only definate is that "Running Down A Dream" will be halfway because there is a cute message about turning the record over after the song concludes. I would like some input if possible.

Foghat- Slow Ride (file under impossible to locate- whose ever heard of Foghat??) - Rodney Hrvatin

Anyone who grew up in the U.S. in the Seventies? "Slow ride/Take in easy!" They had another fairly big hit with the song, "Fool For the City". A good, cheap disc with it and other Foghat hits can be found here.

Joe Cocker- Woman To Woman (VERY difficult to find)

Try here.

Humble Pie- Get Down To It (this one IS impossible to find. I can only find it on an expensive Japanese import)

This is available on two CDs according to All Music Guide: Eat It, which is the Japanese import you refered to. However, you can find it on the album, Classics 14 for quite a bit less here.

Grand Funk Railroad- Some Kind of Wonderful (hard to find)

Try this.

"Music is a world within itself and a language we all understand."

Foghat- Slow Ride (file under impossible to locate- whose ever heard of Foghat??) - Rodney Hrvatin

Anyone who grew up in the U.S. in the Seventies?- Benn

....which rules me out as I a)grew up in Australia and b)in the 80's.


Thanks for the info Benn, unfortunately I don't think I can justify importing those cd's for 1 song. Quickly checking some local sites(as well as e-bay) none of those are available here.

I suspect I may have to use some [cough cough] alternate methods [cough cough] of procuring those tracks.

I actually own the Humble Pie Eat It CD. It is the Japanese import version. I got it at my local tower originally.

....which rules me out as I a)grew up in Australia and b)in the 80's. - Rodney Hrvatin

Yeah, I knew the Australian part and had pretty well guessed the '80s. "Slow Ride", here in the States, has been a classic rock staple since then. It still gets its share of airplay on classic stations.

With eBay, you have to be patient. If something's not currently available, give it time. It'll come back around - usually.

Pretty much all of those songs you listed as "impossible" to get are ones I'd use "alternative methods" to obtain for simple fact that I'm not too fond of the acts who performed the songs. Therefore I wouldn't be that inclined to buy a whole CD by them.

"Music is a world within itself and a language we all understand."

Well, I've lived in America my whole life but I've still managed to hear of seventies Aussie rock bands like Buffalo, Healing Force, The Master's Apprentices, Khavas Jute, Rose Tattoo, and Blackfeather.

Has it really been that long since I posted that list???

Well the good news is that I found all the tracks and made a pretty good running order out of it. For the record it goes like this...

Two Tickets To Paradise
Slow Ride
Horse With No Name
Some Kind Of Wonderful
Green River
Young Turks
Barracuda
Eminence Front
Running Down A Dream
White Wedding
Smokin'
Get Down To It
Hold The Line
Strutter
Woman To Woman
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Free Bird (my friend had the full 10 minute studio version and it rounded things off brilliantly)

My thought was to do a second cd of other tracks from the same artist. As I know little of the output of Foghat, America, Grand Funk Railroad and Heart I thought I might ask for some suggestions.
I'm also unsure of what Joe Cocker or Rod Stewart song to pick. I want to keep it in the same era as the original song. That's why, for example, I'll use Bowie's "Young Americans" as opposed to anything else as it is from the same album as "Somebody...". I was going to use Heart's "All I Wanna Do..." for them but upon listening to it I realised how very different in sound it was to "Barracuda". Some of my definate choices....

Skynard- "Sweet Home Alabama" (predictable, I know, but still a great song. Will probably open the compilation seeing as "Free Bird" finished the other one)
Tom Petty- "Free Fallin'"
Kiss- Deuce
Eddie Money- "Take Me Home Tonight"
Toto- "Africa"
Boston "More Than A Feeling"
The Who- "Who Are You?" (probably the only one that's caused me to break my rule about same era. But let's face it, "It's Hard" is NOT a brilliant album....)
CCR- "Lookin' Out My Back Door"
Billy Idol- "Rebel Yell"

All the others are open to suggestions. I would really like some help.

Thanks in advance.