response 1 of 52:

Apr 13 05:31 UTC 1997

Funny this should come up.  Just today I found the last mix tape I made
about 18 months ago.  Side 1 alternates British Isles folk-rock tracks
with an assortment of classic rock tracks; Side two continues with the 
folk-rock stuff but alternates with one-track obscure wonders.
 
I really would like to do more tapes, but they usually take me about four
hours each.

response 3 of 52:

Apr 14 01:14 UTC 1997

I have a constantly running mix of singles theat aI get that I don't usually
listen to because they aren't albums, it's pretty cool.

response 5 of 52:

Apr 17 23:41 UTC 1997

I always get confused-- are the 'mix tapes' you're talking about called
'sample tapes,' too?  In the industry, when you release a selected single from
a group's album, you often have a number of alternate 'mixes,' other than the
one that was featured on the album.  So mix here refers to the arrangement
of the vocal and instrumental tracks.  Some DJs and mix masters take a
particular song, re-arrange the vocals and instrumentals, or strip it down
to vocals, adding new instrumentals (which usually contain several samples
or distortions of the old ones-- well, in other words, they heavily tweak with
the instrumentals), or whatever.  There's usually room to overdub samples of
the vocals or some other audio source, but then the recording is usually
called a dub.

Ok-- if I now understand you right, I don't think I remember any one great
sample tape.  My fave right now is a tape I'm making of various 80's synthpop
tunes (with the exception of George Michael's "Fastlove").  Most I get from
a retro hour on our Top 40 radio station.  I don't make as many mix tapes as
I used to-- too easy to lose sound quality in the recording-- but a friend
of mine and I used to do it a bit to try to justify a little piracy in our
minds.  These days I try to avoid it if I can.

response 7 of 52:

Apr 24 23:26 UTC 1997

        It's been one I made a long time ago but each time I give a 
copy away it gets cloned at least one more time:

KCUF - FM 96  - a mix tape of variuos songs with dirty lyrics and/or
sexual inuendo.  One person said something on the order of that he
was not only surprised I found so many for one tape, but I had good
stero copies of them.

        When we where reviving 80's about a year ago, I got out my
tapes I made of popular 80's.  Quite a wide variety.

response 9 of 52:

Apr 26 03:23 UTC 1997

An underground band called The Levitz put out an album entitled SEX, which
altered the lyrics to popular songs to make them overtly sexual.  High
(low?)lights include a version of Hold My hand by Hootie, go by pearl jam,
and others which I don't recall.  Being underground, the don't worry too much
about copyrights, so they have a slightly modified version of Closer by NIN
on there too.  modified in instrumentals, otherwise unchanged.

response 11 of 52:

May 20 10:08 UTC 1997

I love mix, aka sample, tapes.  I've made a bunch over the years, although
the last time I made one was January 1993.  I have a couple of new ones
planned out on index cards.  One will concentrate on acappella singing
(mostly pop and folk, no classical choral music), and one will concentrate
on favorite rock album tracks from the last 5 years or so.  I frequently
find myself only liking one or two tracks from many recent rock or pop
albums, and playing those particular tracks repeatedly.  It's nice
to collect them and then play the tape over and over again in the car.

response 13 of 52:

May 24 16:57 UTC 1997

haven't made a mix tape in a while...the one I made in high school, I made
one side of happy music and one side olf music that makes me nostalgic. . .

response 15 of 52:

Jun 1 18:48 UTC 1997

Oh, I still make mix tapes, usuall based on mood.  It just bugs me when that's
the only way someone listens.

response 17 of 52:

Jun 12 01:43 UTC 1997

My latest project is a mix tape of music that no sane person would listen to,
for my friend Caitlin who is Not a Sane Person.
David Byrne, Brian Eno, King Crimson, Anna Holmer, Ashley MacIsaac, Surrender
to the Air, and other weirdness.

response 19 of 52:

Jun 13 02:02 UTC 1997

I've got to make a couple mix tapes of stuff that's so cool or colpex or
whatever that it can bear listening to many, many times. . .I'mn going on a
long trip to this jazz conference in Itraly, and looks like we're going to
be on grains alot. ..
set "grains"="trains"(man, I gotta learn to type better. . .)

response 21 of 52:

Jun 15 15:34 UTC 1997

I tend to either cram all the good stuf onto side one, or deliberately put
filler into side one so as to have good stuff left, and then run out of tape
before I have everything I want to on it.

response 23 of 52:

Jun 24 06:44 UTC 1997

I remember I used to get mix tapes of songs from the Dr. Demento show from
a friend of mine.  (Speaking of that, the good old Dr. D was practically
mixing 'em for us!)  Unfortunately, the sound quality was EXTREMELY poor--
the show was on an AM station when we listened to it.  Even when our Adult
Contemporary station started playing the show in FM, it was an extremely short
run.  The station also picked up our local Top 40 audience when our Top 40
station folded to a country one, so I doubt I'll ever hear the show again :`(

Of course, these days the syndicates banned Dr. D from doing his show live
in L.A. ever again-- the show is bound to syndication.  I hear the live show
was even better.
(or so I've heard)