Anyone under 25 would probably call this the Ultimate Playlist, but I’m about a decade beyond that and therefore the MixTape it is.
I went by the blank CD rule of having to fit everything in a time limit of less than 78 minutes, which resulted in some tough cuts, especially once I was about 10 minutes over and had to kill off the last couple tracks.
I spent literally seconds on the track order here, and kept myself to a hard limit of 1 track per artist for the decade. Perhaps if you aren’t much of a hip hop head some tracks may not be your cup of tea, but if you have “broad tastes” I really think there is something for everyone here.
Firstly, apologies to the following artists, they are all exceptional tracks but mostly due to time constraints met the axe, I have *’d the hardest few cuts:
Archive – Again (16 minutes long!) *
Augie March – The Hole In Your Roof
Black Eyed Peas – Weekends *
Bodyjar – One In A Million *
Cee-Lo – Bad Mutha
Faithless – Muhammad Ali *
Jebediah – The First Time
Massive Attack/Mos Def – I Against I
Morphine – The Night
Outkast – Morris Brown *
Papa Roach – Time And Time Again
Reef – Give Me Your Love
Snoop Dogg – Snoop D.O.G.G.
Unkle – An Eye For An Eye
Wu-Tang Clan – Protect Ya Neck II (The Jump Off)
(Once again from the list above there is another excellent MixTape in waiting, 15 tracks in 78 odd minutes.)
The Final List
Not in order, and I’m chickening out and not picking an outright “winner”.
1/ Ash – Burn Baby, Burn – 3.28
2/ Ms Dynamite – Dy-Na-My-Tee – 3.39
3/ The Beatnuts – It’s Da Nuts – 4.07
4/ Supergrass – Mary – 4.00
5/ Roots Manuva – Witness (1 Hope) – 4.16
6/ Handsome Boy Modelling School – Sunshine – 6.00
7/ Lucy Pearl – Don’t Mess With My Man – 3.38
8/ A Perfect Cirle – Judith – 4.07
9/ Outkast – So Fresh, So Clean – 4.00
10/ Common – Be – 2.24
11/ Finley Quaye – Dice – 4.15
12/ The Hives – Hate to Say I Told You So – 3.23
13/ David Gray – Please Forgive Me – 5.36
14/ Coldplay – The Scientist – 5.09
15/ Nas – Made You Look – 3.23
16/ Blackalicious – Make You Feel That Way – 3.26
17/ Buck 65 – Wicked And Weird
18/ Weezer – Island In The Sun – 3.17
19/ People Under The Stairs – Acid Raindrops – 4.56
Total – 19 Songs = 76.45 minutes
Happy Listening.
