Any Recent Homemade Compilations You Are Particularly Proud Of?

I’m a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to making my homemade compilations. The track listing, flow, and playing time has to be just right all the way through. When making these, I usually stick to albums or versions of albums that have only one or two good songs. I like to make my compilations 10 -12 tracks depending on the ‘theme.’ I use my home CD recorder so I can play the CD’s in my car or home stereo.

Recently I finished making a Bowie Ryko Bonus Tracks compilation. Sure I enjoy the albums but don’t particularly care for the Ryko versions. However, I do like some of the bonus tracks available on the Ryko versions.

1. Putting Out Fire (Cat People soundtrack)*
2. Space Oddity ‘80
3. I Pray Ole
4. Some Are
5. Who Can I Be Now?
6. John I’m Only Dancing ‘75
7. Dodo
8. Growing Up
9. Velvet Goldmine
10. Holy Holy

* - Yeah I know Cat People isn't a Ryko bonus track but it starts my compilation off beautifully. Flow over theme in this case.

Any recent Homemade Compilations You Are Particularly Proud Of?

 

Every Christmas I make a comp of mostly mid-tempo recent music for my wife. She always tells me she likes it, although I sometimes wonder if she's just trying to find something for me to do. I almost certainly end up listening to it myself. This is the 2011 comp:

1. Wye Oak, "Remember, Above" (from Daytrotter)
2. Fleet Foxes, "Lorelai"
3. Acrylics, "The Catacombs"
4. The National, "Pretty in Pink" (from Daytrotter)
5. Beach House, "Take Care"
6. Low, "Silver Rider" (from "Live at Eindhoven" EP)
7. Vampire Weekend, "Bryn" (from Daytrotter)
8. TV on the Radio, "Second Song"
9. Dum Dum Girls, "Hold Your Hand"
10. Air, "Seven Stars"
11. Zola Jesus, "Sea Talk"
12. Wilco, "Whole Love"
13. They Might Be Giants, "Tubthumping" (from the Onion AV Club)
14. Tune-Yards, "Gangsta"
15. Sunbears, "They Think They're Soooooo Philosophical"
16. Milagres, "Glowing Mouth"
17. The Sea and Cake, "Up on the North Shore"
18. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., "Nothing But Our Love" (from Daytrotter)

"Daytrotter", by the way, is a super-cheap ($2 a month) subscription service for live-in-the-studio sessions from indie musicians. It's a great place to hear lots of new acts and get alternate versions of tracks you might already have.

 

I recently did a four disc James Taylor collection entitled, "The James Taylor Studio Albums Collection (1967 - 2002)." It's the best tracks, IMHO, of all of his studio albums, save the Covers collections and Christmas collections. No live tracks, either, of course.

I divided it up this way: Disc 1 is the WB Years (1970 - 1976), Disc 2 is the Columbia Years (1977 - 1988), Disc 3 is the Columbia Years (1991 - 2002), and Disc 4 is Rarities and Extras. That is where I put some Apple tracks, the special edition bonus tracks, a couple of soundtrack songs, and his only (I believe) non-lp B side, "I Can Dream of You," written by his brother, Livingston, which was the B side of "Shower The People." Unfortuately, the only version of this I could find was a vinyl rip on YouTube so it's not the best quality.

I'm still working on the art work but I plan to use a collage of all the studio albums as the cover and a basic tracklisting on the back, with the track details being inside.

 

I did a Who compilation a few months ago. It took a few weeks to get it to my liking.

Not perfect but I enjoy it, and that's all that really matters.

1. Can't Explain - MBB&B (SH)
2. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - WBWB (US)
3. My Generation - The Who Sing My Generation (Canadian MCA)
4. The Kids Are Alright - Max R&B
5. A Legal Matter - Max R&B
6. Substitute - WBWB (US)
7. I'm A Boy (stereo mix) - The Who Collection
8. Happy Jack - WBWB (US)
9. Boris the Spider - MBB&B (SH)
10. Pictures of Lily - MBB&B (SH)
11. I Can See For Miles - MBB&B (SH)
12. Magic Bus (long version with alt. vocal orig on MB&B vinyl) - The Who Collection (folded)
13. Pinball Wizard - Tommy (MFSL)
14. Summertime Blues - Singles (Polydor)
15. The Seeker - MBB&B (SH)
16. Won't Get Fooled Again (single version) - Singles (Polydor)
17. Let's See Action - The Who Collection
18. Join Together - The Who Collection
19. Relay - The Who Collection
20. 5:15 - Quadrophenia (MCA orig mix)
21. Love Reign O'er Me - Quadrophenia (MCA orig mix)
22. Squeeze Box - Singles (Polydor)
23. Who Are You (5:00 version) - Singles (Polydor)

All sources from CD.

 

The British Invasion on 45s (1963-1966)--7 cdr collection I worked on for two years--consisting of nearly 200 tracks--all taken from original mono UK vinyl 45 sources in mint to NM condition. On several songs it took 3-5 copies to get one that was eithr in the NM to Mint to unplayed condition to include it. Nothing was extracted from an LP--nothing. No reissues were allowed.

 

Now that sounds like one fine collection.

 

I recently made needledrops of the entire Smiths Complete vinyl boxed set and added all the tracks from The World Won't Listen and Louder Than Bombs as well as all the rarities that can be found on compilations like The Sound Of The Smiths, The Very Best Of The Smiths and various B-sides to the regular albums as bonus tracks. So now I have 6 discs which are basically expanded editions of the band's 4 regular albums, Hatful Of Hollow and the live album Rank. There's still a few things that couldn't fit on the 6 discs, but nothing that I care about. I think this is what last year's CD set should have been.

 

Many years ago I locked myself into a couple of radio production studios, and made some Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel comps, on cassette, all segued...one pass each side (that is, I hit "record" on the cassette deck, and then beat/chord-segued everything). I did some overlapping mixes of different versions, creative segues both from chord modulation and lyrical juxtaposition, flew-in some segments from 12" mixes and live versions to capture some great moments. They were awesome, if I do say so, and I do. Also did a nice 2-cassette version of my favorites of everything the Paul Winter Consort had done up to that point. Ran two turntables, three reel-to-reels, and at one point actually tied one studio to the other just to see if I could make it all work (at least, it did on the second attempt )!

Recently however...I'm lucky if I can compile the coffee and the breakfast cereal in time for my morning "break"




Now playing on Ariel Stream: Tina Dico - Your Waste Of Time

 

I made a whole cassette of just guitar breaks from mid '60s songs (Beach Boys, Beatles, etc.) . It was sorta cool but could drive you crazy after a few listens.

 

My three disc set The Best Music You Never Heard. Updated it recently.

 

Forever Autumn Volume 2: Baroque pop rarities 1967-1973

1 EDWARDS HAND – FRIDAY HILL (1969) UK
2 KENSINGTON MARKET – IF IT IS LOVE (1968) CANADA
3 RICHARD TWICE – IF I KNEW YOU WERE THE ONE (1970) USA
4 THE MILLENNIUM – THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO SAY (1968) USA
5 ITHACA – FEELINGS (EDIT) (1973) UK
6 BERGEN WHITE – THE BIRD SONG (1969) USA
7 NOEL HARRISON – THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND (1968) UK
8 THE KLAN – AND I LOVE IT SO (1967) BELGIUM
9 MARGO GURYAN – SUNDAY MORNING (1968) USA
10 THE JOYRIDE – THE CRYSTAL SHIP (1967) USA
11 BRIGITTE FONTAINE – IL PLEUT (1968) FRANCE
12 THE LEFT BANKE – DARK IS THE BARK (1968) USA
13 COLIN BLUNSTONE – SMOKEY DAY (1971) UK
14 THE NEW YORK ROCK N’ROLL ENSEMBLE – MR. TREE (1968) USA
15 SUMMERHILL – FOLLOW US (1969) USA
16 PHILAMORE LINCOLN – THE NORTH WIND BLEW SOUTH (1970) UK
17 CULPEPER’S ORCHARD – AUTUMN OF IT ALL (1972) DENMARK
18 AXIS – LONG TIME AGO (1971) GREECE
19 THE NEW WAVE – WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE (1967) USA
20 LES IRRESISTIBLES – LANDS OF SHADOW (1968) USA
21 MARK•ALMOND – TRAMP AND THE YOUNG GIRL (1971) UK
22 DAVE BERRY – AND I HAVE LEARNED TO DREAM (1967) UK
23 THE SMOKE – OCTOBER COUNTRY (1968) USA
24 ETERNITY’S CHILDREN – MY HAPPINESS DAY (1969) USA
25 EARTH OPERA – THE CHILD BRIDE (1968) USA

 

Must be quite an interesting collection. Out of curiosity what record/reference chart did you use for this?

 

This sounds interesting.

 

bumping THIS THREAD.

BEATLES67 - any chance we could see your British Invasion track lists? TIA

 

Sure--Ill scan and post in the next few days.

 

I remember when I heard riders on the storm first....That run during the intro. What is that sound? I love it. It was a fender rhodes electric piano.
Ever since then I've loved the sound of the Rhodes. So far I've done up 3 volumes of spacey jazz fusion featuring the fender rhodes.

Many Rhodes: Volume 1 - Spaced out jazz instrumentals featuring the fender Rhodes electric piano

1 DUNCAN LAMONT - THE APARTMENT (1975)
2 JOAO DONATO - ME DEXIA (1973)
3 LONIE LISTON SMITH - ASPIRATIONS (1973)
4 RUPERT COBBETT - AIN'T DONE NOTHING (1976)
5 PHAROAH SANDERS - ASTRAL TRAVELING (1971)
6 ALAN PARKER - BLACK LIGHT (1973)
7 BENNIE MAUPIN - THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS (1974)
8 YUSEF LATEEF - MYSTIQUE (1976)
9 JOE ZAWINUL - IN A SILENT WAY (1971)
10 CHICK COREA - CRYSTAL SILENCE (1972)
11 GEORGE DUKE - AU-RIGHT (1971)
12 DUNCAN LAMONT - FLUTE IN FIVE FOUR (1975)
13 GEORGE DUKE - PEACE (1971)
14 FRANK STRAZZERI - CLOUDBURST (1976)
15 ALAN TEW - THE PETERMAN (FROM THE OST THE HANGED MAN: PERFORMED BY BULLET) (1975)
16 GEORGE DUKE - SWEET BITE (1971)


MANY RHODES : VOULME 2 - MORE SPACED OUT JAZZ FUSION FEATURING THE FENDER RHODES ELECTRIC PIANO

1 AZYMUTH - LIGHT AS A FEATHER (1979)
2 PATRICE RUSHEN - BEFORE THE DAWN (1975)
3 HERBIE HANCOCK - SUN TOUCH (1975)
4 GEORGE DUKE - SOME TIME AGO (1973)
5 AHMAD JAMAL - TUCSON (1976)
6 HERBIE HANCOCK - YOU'LL KNOW WHEN YOU GET THERE (1971)
7 ALAN TEW - SMOKEY JOE THE DREAMER (1975)
8 JORGE LOPEZ RUIZ & FERNANDO GELBARD - ODA PARA MI NINA (1972)
9 BAYETE (TODD COCHRAN) - EURUS (1972)
10 JULIAN PRIESTER - PROLOGUE / LOVE, LOVE (1974)


Many Rhodes: Volume 3 - further explorations in cosmic jazz

1 MIKIO MASUDA - I SAW THE LIGHT (1976)
2 BOB JAMES - NAUTILUS (1974)
3 HIROSHI SUZUKI - ROMANCE (1975)
4 ALAN HAWKSHAW & BRIAN BENNETT - 20 MILE HIGH SWINGER (1974)
5 CLIVE HICKS - STORYTIME (1973)
6 HYSEAR DON WALKER - CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT (1972)
7 GEORGE DUKE - MANYA (1973)
8 ALAN TEW - THE RUB (1975)
9 MASARU IMADA QUARTET - SEA WEEDS (1978)
10 MICHEL SARDABY - GAIL (1975)
11 MASABUMI KIKUCHI - CITY SNOW (1980)
12 HERBIE HANCOCK - BUBBLES (1975)
13 JOHN CAMERON - LIQUID SUNSHINE (1973)
14 NAT ADDERLEY - HOME (1976)

Kudos to the never enough rhodes blog

 

Many thanks!

 

Bump hoping for the track list as I am about to add to my "Invasion" compilation discs. Thanks

 

A recent one I've made, the third Joe Meek themed one (the first two were various artists comps). This one focuses on Heinz. I filled it up with his best material (except Dreams Do Come True which is a guilty pleasure), although there is the odd track or two which were left off (I deliberately left off 'Just Like Eddie'), and there's probably another disc worth of the 'worst' material.



Track List:
Somebody To Love (live at The Cavern)
Dreams Do Come True
Been Invited To A Party
Don't You Knock At My Door
Country Boy
You Were There
No Matter What They Say
Please Little Girl
The Beating of My Heart
Diggin' My Potatoes
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Big Fat Spider
The End of The World
Heart Full of Sorrow
Don't Worry Baby
Movin' In
I'm Not A Bad Guy
Come On, Let's Go
I Get Up In The Morning
Talkin' Like A Man
Lonely River
Live It Up
Hush-A-Bye (Baby)
(Sorry) I Ran All The Way Home
Summertime Blues
Come On And Dance
Twenty Flight Rock
I've Got A Woman (live at The Cavern).

28 tracks total, remastered by myself.

 

I just completed this one last night. In the style of Sony's Essential series. 2 discs, all digitally remastered by myself, mostly just getting a natural sound for each track, sounds great. Photo colorized by myself as well.

The Essential Pat Boone


Disc 1:
Two Hearts
Tra-La-La
Ain't That A Shame
Tennessee Saturday Night
At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)
Gee Whittakers!
I'll Be Home
Tutti Frutti
I Almost Lost My Mind
I'm In Love With You
Bingo
Don't Forbid Me
Why Baby Why
Love Letters In The Sand
Bernardine
Remember You're Mine
April Love
A Wonderful Time Up There
For My Good Fortune
Good Rockin' Tonight
The Wang Dang Taffy-Apple Tango
Rock Boll Weevil

Disc 2:
(Welcome) New Lovers
Words
Walking The Floor Over You
Candy Sweet
Delia Gone
Alabam
Moody River
Johnny Will
Speedy Gonzales
Ten Lonely Guys
The Main Attraction
Beach Girl
July, You're A Woman
Bonus Tracks:
Rock Around The Clock
Shot Gun Boogie
Great Googa Mooga
Love Letters In The Sand (1959)
Don't Forbid Me (1959)
A Wonderful Time Up There (1959)

 

I wish I would have kept a copy (I didn't), but sometime in the early 90s I created a compilation of "rock" songs that, interspersed with dialog from the film, loosely told the story of "It's a Wonderful Life" as a sort-of rock opera. I gave them to friends for Christmas. I can only remember some of the songs on there - I know it opened with the people of Bedford Falls praying for George Bailey, which gave way to Eric Clapton's "Holy Mother". When George was turned away by his mother (when he "had never been born") I used Bob Dylan's version of "Rank Strangers To Me". And of course Old Man Potter's "theme" was "Silas Stingy" by The Who.

EDIT: Just noticed the word "Recent" in the Thread Title. I'm 25 years late to the party.

 

Yes, I just made a pretty cool comp; the opening songs of various shows Ive seen over the years--

smashing pumpkins - where boys fear to tread
roxy music - remake, remodel
rush - force ten
prince - erotic city
duran duran - a view to a kill
aerosmith - toys in the attic
the who - substitute
rolling stones - not fade away
U2 - zoo station
REM - these days
david bowie - space oddity
Depeche mode - world in my eyes
elvis Costello - accidents will happen
psychedelic furs - midnight to midnight
black Sabbath - war pigs

 

I wanted to make an addendum to the 11-disc Simon and Garfunkel boxed set that came out recently, so I put together a disc of officially released studio songs not included on that (or the Pickwick Tom & Jerry compilation, which I burned a needledrop of).

01) Baby Talk [Tom and Jerry]
02) Bleecker Street - demo
03) He Was My Brother - alternate take 1
04) The Sun Was Burning - alternate take 12
05) Blues Run The Game
06) Comfort and Joy
07) Star Carol
08) Patterns - demo
09) A Poem On The Underground Wall - demo
10) You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
11) Old Friends - demo
12) Bridge Over Troubled Water - Paul Simon demo
13) Feuilles-Oh - demo
14) Bridge Over Troubled Water - demo take 6
15) Barbriallen - demo
16) Rose Of Aberdeen - demo
17) Roving Gambler - demo
18) The Break-Up - sketch
19) Down In The Willow Garden
20) My Little Town
21) (What A) Wonderful World
22) In Cars

 

Ian McLagan – Your Secret: The Best of Ian McLagan 1979-2014



Disc 1:
1. Truly
2. Movin’ Out
3. Little Troublemaker
4. Hold On
5. Mystifies Me
6. Little Girl
7. Alligator
8. So Lucky
9. Last Chance to Dance
10. Big Love
11. Pictures Of Lily
12. Best Of British
13. I Only Wanna Be With You
14. She Stole It!
15. Don’t Let Him Out Of Your Sight
16. Hello, Old Friend
17. You’re My Girl
18. Date With An Angel
19. The Wrong Direction
20. Your Secret

Disc 2:
1. Itchycoo Park
2. Debris
3. Show Me The Way
4. You’re So Rude
5. Glad And Sorry
6. Never Say Never
7. I Will Follow
8. I’m Hot, You’re Cool
9. Loverman
10. Get Yourself Together [Live}
11. Been A Long Time [Live]
12. Cindy Incidentally [Live]
13. Trapped [Live]
14. Kuschty Rye [Live]
15. All I Wanna Do
16. Sha-la-la-la
17. Mean Old World
18. How Blue
19. Love Letter

I have a few I've done, but that's my most recent.

 

Just made a "White Album II" - all of the outtakes/major alternate versions, with chatter trimmed to make it a more flowing album.

[Side One]
01) Mean Mr. Mustard - 1:57
02) Polythene Pam - 1:25
03) Junk - 2:20
04) Child Of Nature - 2:29
05) Circles - 2:11
06) Revolution 1 (take 20) - 10:27

[Side Two]
01) Helter Skelter / Gone Tomorrow, Here Today - 3:20
02) Sour Milk Sea - 3:54
03) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (take 5) - 2:50
04) Revolution (take 15) - 3:25
05) F*** A Duckie - 0:42
06) Brian Epstein’s Blues - 2:13
07) A Beginning - 0:48
08) While My Guitar Gently Weeps (take 1) - 3:14

[Side Three]
01) When I Was A Robber - 0:18
02) Las Vegas Tune - 0:15
03) St. Louis Blues - 0:52
04) Hey Jude (mono mix) - 7:19
05) Not Guilty - 4:21
06) Jam - 1:14
07) What’s The New Mary Jane - 6:40

[Side Four]
01) Thingumybob (aka Etcetera) - 2:02
02) Lady Madonna / While My Guitar Gently Weeps Jam - 2:20
03) Can You Take Me Back - 1:57
04) Down In Havana - 0:38
05) Step Inside Love - 1:27
06) Los Paranoias - 3:53
07) The Way You Look Tonight - 1:14