Fairly simple. Program a fantasy compilation album, pick a theme (style, whatever you want). 10 songs or less, think "LP length" (45 minutes or so). Come up with a name for it.

I'll post my first one soon.

My last year of substitute teaching I got real bored, so I wrote a novel. Then I made up lists of compilations by genre that I wanted to burn and mix. Sometimes there were just one song by an artist sometimes 3 or 4 by an artist (cuz they had sort of a theme). This is also before I expanded my collection by 1,000 cd's so there was a lot of duplication. I was inspired by reading about the Metal Massacre comps on Ult's site and some tapes I had when I was a kid called the Concrete Corner samplers. Here goes:

Metal Favorites Mix III

Judas Priest (Defenders of the Faith)
1.) Jawbreaker
2.) Rock Hard, Ride Free
3.) The Sentinel
4.) Love Bites

Leatherwolf (Street Ready)
1.) Wicked Ways
2.) Black Knight
3.) Thunder
4.) Spirits in the Wind

Dream Theater (When Dream and Day Unite)
1.) A Fortune In Lies
2.) The Killing Hand
3.) Afterlife
4.) A Matter of Time

Iron Maiden (Brave New World)
1.) The Wicker Man
2.) Ghost of the Navigator
3.) Dream In Infared
4.) Nomad

I'll name the cd Dusk til Dawn. Its based on the beginning of metal til the end of metal.

Dusk til Dawn

1. The Beatles - Helter Skelter
2. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3. Deep Purple - Space Truckin
4. Judas Priest - Tyrant
5. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
6. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
7. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
8. Megadeth - Peace Sells
9. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
10. Machine Head - Davidian
11. Iced Earth - Burning Times
12. Nevermore - Inside Four Walls
13. Trivium - Ascendancy
14. Mastodon - The Wolf is Loose

There you have it from the start of Heavy Metal til what we call metal nowadays. If I seen that cd I would buy it..

I would do a list of songs for every day, but the Moody Blues beat me to it.

So I'll list the songs that got me into metal (in no specific order):

Queen - Brighton Rock
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Van Halen - You Really Got Me
Metallica - Fuel
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
Creed - Higher (No joke. They helped me discover heavy rock.)
AC/DC - Back In Black
Collective Soul - Heavy
KISS - Rock And Roll All Nite
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

Time - 45:50

My favorite mix tapes as a teenager always came from break-ups. So this would be in honor of those.

Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Giant - I'll See You In My Dreams
Killer Dwarfs - Doesn't Matter
Lillian Axe - The World Stopped Turning
Motley Crue - Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
Tesla - The Way It Is
White Lion - Farewell To You
Damn Yankees - High Enough
Tigertailz - Livin Without You
Shotgun Messiah - Living Without You
UDO - We're History

70's "sorta-but-not-quite" metal

AC/DC-Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Blue Oyster Cult-Godzilla
Deep Purple-Space Truckin
Aerosmith-Last Child
Heart-Magic Man
Thin Lizzy-Jailbreak
Rush-Freewill
KISS-Hotter than Hell
Jethro Tull-Cross Eyed Mary
Ted Nugent-Cat Scratch Fever
ZZ Top-Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers

My Tape is entitled 'Monica Lewinsky's Presidential Pardon"

Foreigner-Head Games
The Divinyls-I Touch Myself
AC/DC-Love at First Feel
Alice Cooper-Muscle of Love
Iggy Pop-kitten Power
The Rolling Stones-Little T & A
Queen-Get Down Make Love
Whitesnake-Slide it In
KISS-Keep Me Comin'
Pursuit of Happiness-Cigarette Dangles

My first compilation is called "Virtual Ass-Whoopin"

1. Thin Lizzy - Ballad Of A Hard Man
2. Blackfoot - Queenie (Every Man Should Know)
3. The Rezillos - Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight
4. AC/DC - Walk All Over You
5. Riot - Outlaw
6. Judas Priest - Delivering The Goods
7. Raven - Wiped Out
8. Aerosmith - My Fist Your Face
9. The Rods - Rockin' 'N' Rollin' Again
10. Motorhead - Steal Your Face

"Keeping Up With The Jonesings"........

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
Beasts Of Bourbon - Chase The Dragon
Hanoi Rocks - Mental Beat
Gun Club - She's Like Heroin To Me
The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks
The Birthday Party - Mutiny In Heaven
Black Sabbath - Hand Of Doom
Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
Love - Signed DC
Rolling Stones - Coming Down Again

Mine is called "No Hit Wonders"


The Writer-Odin
Steel The Light-Q5
Mon Cherrie-Ruby Slippers
Teenage Suicide-Emerald
The Last In Line-V.V.S.I
Van Goughen-Seventh Sign
Night Of The Blade-Tokyo Blade
The War Drags Ever On-Tank
Crazy Motorcycle-Rouge Male
Call To Arms-Savage Grace

I just had the same idea today, but decided to check if it was posted before.

So here goes mine.

MOVING FORWARD OR NEVER SURRENDER



divinefire - never surrender
amos - stranger land
rob rock - when darkness reigns
rob rock - move on
metal church - badlands
metal church - the powers that be
savatage - he carves his stone
JOP - The Answer
Scorpions - humanity
accept - run if you can
balance of power - can't close the book
Dio - burn in the sun
black sabbath - after all

Yeah sure, why not

My "Balls to the Wall: Heavy Fuckin' Metal" Compilation

1. Accept - Fast as a Shark
2. Iron Maiden 2 Minutes to Midnight
3. Megadeth - This Day we Fight!
4. Judas Priest - Battle Hymn/One Shot at Glory
5. Angel Witch - Angel Wtch
6. Manowar - The Dawn of Battle
7. Candlemass - Black Stone Weilder
8. Saxon - Strangers in the Night
9. 3 Inches of Blood - The Goatriders Horde
10. Riot - Swords and Tequila
11. Judas Priest - Rock Hard, Ride Free
12. Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
13. Anvil - Shadow Zone
14. Iron Maiden - Sea of Madness
15. Anthrax - I am the Law
16. Dio - I Speed at Night
17. Motorhead - Stone Dead Forever
18. Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
19. Primal Fear - Metal is Forever

Whew, once I started I couldn't stop!

"My Bubbie's Favorite Toe Tappers"

1. The Mentors - Golden Shower
2. Arghoslent - Flogging the Cargo
3. Johnny Rebel - Affirmative Action
4. Battlecry - Triumph of the Will
5. Abba - Dancing Queen
6. AC/DC - Let Me Put My Love Into You
7. Turbonegro - I Got Erection
8. Landser - Sturmfuhrer
9. Barry Manilow - Copacabana
10. S.O.D. - F*ck the Middle East
11. Judas Priest - Love Bites

Forgot about this thread!!!!!! OK - LP length...

"80's Progressive METALpieces"

Side 1:
Metallica - Frayed Ends Of Sanity
Queensryche - Roads To Madness

Side 2:
Iron Maiden - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Fates Warning - Nothing Left To Say

I'll listen to "80's Progressive METALpieces" from ThejokerIv
AND: "Balls to the Wall: Heavy Fuckin' Metal" from APPROVAL BOY