Need help on a mix tape

[sensesfail18782]

I was thinking the other day...and I'm sure it's been done a thousand times but I wanna do one of my own...but it'd be cool to do a mix tape from the beginning to the end of a relationship, using different songs and artists to tell the story. It'd be kinda concept album-ish in the fact that it told a story and the songs tied in together, but it'd be by different bands.

What I need help with is suggestions for songs. I definitely want to include "Emily" by From First To Last (man that song is so good for something like this)...and it'd probably end with "All Hail the Heartbreaker" by the Spill Canvas.

So basically I need songs telling the beginning of a relationship all through it, to the rocky times, then the breakup. Any suggestions? And I'd prefer it to generally be somewhere in the 'scene' for lack of better term of music that I like...just a few bands I like are Taking Back Sunday, Northstar, the Format, Fall Out Boy, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Spill Canvas, etc...

[OCNickLTJ13]

the get up kids- valentine is a good one for a long distance relationship
the get up kids- close to me is a good one for getting ready for the first day
dashboard confessional- so impossible ep follows the steps from meeting until the first date

[copenovember]

I think that this is a great idea. Here's the type of mix that I thought of, I don't know if you'll like the songs or artists, though.

First Meeting and First Dates
1. DC - For You To Notice
2. DC - So Impossible
3. DC - Remember To Breathe
During The Relationship
4. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
5. From First To Last - Emily
Where It Starts Going Wrong
6. Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria
7. The Early November - Sunday Drive
Bitterness Sets In
8. Fall Out Boy - Tell That Mick...
9. Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is For Lovers
Now More Sad, Instead Of Bitter
10. Finch - Letters To You
11. The Early November - Ever So Sweet
12. Matchbook Romance - The Greatest Fall (Of All Time)
Starting To Move On
13. American Football Never Meant
14. Deftones - Teenager
Things Will Get Better
15. Modest Mouse - Float On

I had a lot of other songs but they wouldn't fit. Let me know what you guys think of this one! Thanks.

[weezer182]

blink 182- first date is a good first song

[sensesfail18782]

the get up kids- valentine is a good one for a long distance relationship
the get up kids- close to me is a good one for getting ready for the first day
dashboard confessional- so impossible ep follows the steps from meeting until the first date

I think that this is a great idea. Here's the type of mix that I thought of, I don't know if you'll like the songs or artists, though.

First Meeting and First Dates
1. DC - For You To Notice
2. DC - So Impossible
3. DC - Remember To Breathe
During The Relationship
4. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
5. From First To Last - Emily
Where It Starts Going Wrong
6. Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria
7. The Early November - Sunday Drive
Bitterness Sets In
8. Fall Out Boy - Tell That Mick...
9. Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is For Lovers
Now More Sad, Instead Of Bitter
10. Finch - Letters To You
11. The Early November - Ever So Sweet
12. Matchbook Romance - The Greatest Fall (Of All Time)
Starting To Move On
13. American Football Never Meant
14. Deftones - Teenager
Things Will Get Better
15. Modest Mouse - Float On

I had a lot of other songs but they wouldn't fit. Let me know what you guys think of this one! Thanks.

weezer182 blink 182- first date is a good first song

Good call guys. All of these are really good. I'll definitely use some of these suggestions when I make my own. The only one, I dunno if I would put Deftones or Hawthorne on it...the Hawthorne song is ridiculously catchy, I find myself singing along to it when I hear it, but the lyrics at some points just don't do it for me...I'll definitely have to put "I Want To Know Your Plans" by Say Anything on there as well, I think it would fit well at some point. I like "Float On" being at the end, that's cool.

Overall I probably will use most of yours, cope...cuz I have most of the CDs that you've named songs from, and they're great and would fit perfectly for this idea.

I'll post my final tracklisting once I finish it.

My next one after this would probably be something like a "from the beginning of life to the end of life" thing...or maybe one that chronicles the "coming of age" of a person...I just think it's so cool to do something like this, but it feature all these different bands. It seems like a way of bridging music that might not be so closely related together...

[bigjim1327]

Tiger Lily- Matchbook Romance
Play Crack the Sky-Brand New
Magazines-Brand New

[storts87]

i swear to you i was working on this mixtape to put on here...but all the songs on my computer got deleted...so i had to start over....but heres a couple

a small victory- farewell capeside
weezer- butterfly
bayside- guardrail (for after the end of the relationship bitterness)
ben folds- bitches aint shit
lola ray- shes a tiger
mae- the ocean (for when the guy thinks the girl is everything he needs?)
say anything- every man has his molly
brand new- magazines
name taken- this was never
limbeck- honk + wave
A new found glory- sucker
butch walker-mixtape
brandtson-mexico ("holding onto you is like playing with broken glass")

hope i helped a little

[sensesfail18782]

Well my mix CD is complete. 22 songs of emo goodness. Heh.

My girlfriend suggested the amusing name "Emo Romance'" for it. So that's what I shall call it.

Emo Romance

1. Dashboard Confessional - For You To Notice
2. Dashboard Confessional - So Impossible
3. Dashboard Confessional - Remember to Breathe
4. Blink 182 - First Date
5. Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down
6. From First To Last - Emily
7. The Spill Canvas - The Night Will Go As Follows
8. Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades
9. The Early November - Sunday Drive
10. Dashboard Confessional - Saints and Sailors
11. Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without the E
12. Taking Back Sunday - You're So Last Summer
13. Fall Out Boy - Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things To Do Today
14. Alkaline Trio - Stupid Kid
15. Brand New - Jude Law and a Semester Abroad
16. The Spill Canvas - All Hail the Heartbreaker
17. Matchbook Romance - The Greatest Fall (Of All Time)
18. The Early November - Ever So Sweet
19. Fall Out Boy - Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy)
20. Dashboard Confessional - Screaming Infidelities
21. American Football - Never Meant
22. The Spill Canvas - 3685

The CD is about a foreign exchange student from England named Emily (yeah yeah but I HAD to tie the songs in together somehow heh), and a guy who lives in America...who is never mentioned by name.

The first four tracks are pretty obvious. It's from the first meeting leading up to the first date they have.

Tracks 5-7 are the "feeling good" part of it...heh it doesn't last long, but what emo romance does? Hands Down is the perfect song for the "perfect night" and basically perfect ending of the "First Date'. "Emily" is the guy's feelings for the girl, and how he hopes all this time he's waited for someone is worth it here. Emily brings him to his knees like no other girl ever has. He's overcome with emotion...which leads into "The Night Will Go As Follows", another perfect night...

Tracks 8-12 are when things start going hill. After the perfect earlier stages of the relationship, Emily begins pressuring our "hero" for sex and stuff of that nature. He feels as if he perhaps isn't ready for this intense of a relationship, and also wonders in the back of his head if she really just wants him for sex, and she doesn't feel the same way. "Sunday Drive" is the painful realization that the communication is gone, he realizes something is wrong here. "Saints and Sailors" continues with that realization, and mentions that basically the only time they ever DO communicate is when they argue. The final line of the chorus, "and your eyes say the joke's on me" is foreshadowing to what he finds out in the next song. In "Cute Without the E" he discovers she is cheating on him. He is obviously angry and hurt about it, which leads in to "You're So Last Summer", when they break up. She tells him there's a ton of guys out there like him, and all he wants to know is that she'll miss him when he leaves. He breaks up with her.

Tracks 13-15 is the angry part of the album, where he is pissed off beyond words at Emily. He hates her, and wishes nothing but the worst upon her and her other guy. In the Alk3 song he says he doesn't love her anymore, and he never did. In "Jude Law" she returns to England, and he has a bitter sendoff and tons of bad wishes for her.

16-20 are the sadder tracks. He transforms from angry to depressed and feeling worthless. All he wants by track 20 is somebody else to take his mind off her.

Track 21 is his moving on anthem...he realizes how bad everything was, and he just wants to forget about it and move on.

Track 22 is his message to her, how she made him see something in himself he never saw before. He says they were both the fault of the relationship failing. He says it was fun, but they were young and stupid and didn't know what they were getting themselves into. He ends the album with the line "But the truth is I've found something new...and she easily towers over you"...he's moved on, and found something better...at least, for now.

So yeah there's my writeup. I was bored...and I just thought it was cool to put it all together in story kinda form. This was a lot of fun doing this, thanks for the suggestions guys, and especially you cope, as you basically provided my basic outline for this CD.

And storts, how cool that you were doing that too. I see we both signed up in Dec. 03, are from the Southeast, and don't have many posts. Kinda weird huh? Heh...

Anyway I think I might post this in a separate thread too to see if the finished product gets any responses there. Thanks a ton though guys.

And another thing storts, I cannot believe I didn't put "Mixtape" by Butch Walker on here...that was a gross overlooking on my part. Oh well, I can always do another one.

And I also can't believe I didn't put Tiger Lily on there...I kept wanting to but I never did...didn't have enough room. Meh oh well.

[sensesfail18782]

I gave all you guys positive scene points...so I hope it wasn't one of you that gave me negative...

[copenovember]

thanks for the recognition senses, and by the way what are scene points?

[sensesfail18782]

Some "rating scale" thing or something on this site, the more you have the more seriously you're taken I guess, I dunno. Apparently after you get so many you get access to some other part of the board or site or something but I dunno what's on it.