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Don't rely on a mix tape to tell her how you feel. Just TELL HER --- BEFORE she goes.

Having said that, make sure you include One By One.

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Here's one that I made up last night to introduce one of my friends to the band. I hope she (and you all) likes it..

 

1. Can't Stand It

2. Lost Love

3. New Madrid

4. At My Window Sad and Lonely

5. One by One

6. Hummingbird

7. Magazine Called Sunset

8. Nothing'severgonnstandinmyway (again)

9. Was I In Your Dreams

10. I'm the Man Who Loves You

11. I Got You (At the End of the Century)

12. Hate it Here

13. Pot Kettle Black

14. Pieholden Suite

15. Jesus, etc.

16. True Love Will Find You in the End (Daniel Johnston Cover)

 

i can't belive it took three pages and 47 posts for someone to suggest one by one. "a must in your home"(voice of harold). but seriously can you have a wilco mix without that song?

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This is proving to be an exciting challenge.

 

A little background:

 

She's not too familiar with Wilco, and I'm taking her to the Count Basie show. Possibly Merriweather, too. We're driving in her car and she tells me she's never really heard them. So I told her I'd make her a mix tape! She laughed and jokingly told me it had to be an actual tape (no Cd's or ipod mixes). So that's what I'm going to do. I dug up a secret stash of Maxell XLII's at my parent's house and am going to make the world's first Wilco "ipod playlist --> cassette tape" mix.

 

She's not my girlfriend, but I love her and we've had a thing going here or there for the past year. She's moving to Arizona this summer which is exciting and heart-wrenching all at the same time.

 

Somehow I want to say it all in the perfect Wilco mix tape. With the perfect old high-school-era baring of the soul mix tape nuances, but still as light and fun as our relationship has been with each other.

 

I've begun some serious work on it, but I'm open to any suggestions. I've decided not to limit it to just Wilco, but include a little Tweedy, Uncle Tupelo, Golden Smog, etc.

 

Each side 45 minutes, with an opener & closer that leads into the next side of the tape. Hopefully the kind of tape that you stick on in your car and listen to over and over as it flips from side to side driving across the country.

 

I'd love to hear some suggestions before I post the work in progress. :)

Oh, that is sooooo sweet! I'm sorry this is a late response, but it is coming from the opposite end of a similar story. My fiancee had feelings for me before I did for him, but I think the Wilco/Tweedy mix he made for me made me fall for Wilco AND him. His mix was perfect...

 

True Love Will Find You iN the End**

No More Poetry

Love and Mercy

Should've Been in Love*

Kamera

Jesus Etc.*

We're Just Friends***

How to Fight Lonliness

Heavy Metal Drummer

Wishful Thinking***

One By One*

All the Same to Me

California Stars

Remember the Mountain Bed

Theologians

Someday Some Morning Sometime**** (This is our song to this day.)

War on War

Pot Kettle Black

Reservations***

 

* Denotes songs of particular significance. All the others just have good hooks for a new Wilco listener.

 

This mix did it for me!!!

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wishful thinking

pot kettle black

i am trying to break your heart

should've been in love

impossible germany

handshake drugs

magazine called sunset

sunken treasure

you are my face

i'm always in love

why would you wanna live

muzzle of bees

in a future age

sky blue sky

more like the moon

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Ok, so months later and I'm almost ready to give this mix to her. A few updates - we went to the Red Bank show and I figured out some of the songs she likes. Two, she does actually want a CD now, so it's scaled back to one 75-minute 'side'. Three, she is now my girlfriend. Still, she leaves for Arizona next week and I want to give her the CD before she leaves.

 

So the mix I ultimately decided to make isn't a start-to-finish lovefest, but I think is a nice balance. Here's what I have so far, critique away:

 

You Are My Face

Handshake Drugs

Forget the Flowers

Hummingbird

I'm Always in Love

Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)

Remember the Mountain Bed

Kamera

Jesus, Etc.

She's A Jar

I'm the Man Who Loves You

Wishful Thinking

Hate it Here

New Madrid

Company in My Back

Pieholden Suite

When You Wake Up Feeling Old

Someday Some Morning Sometime

Magazine Called Sunset

 

Good stuff, I can personally vouch for On and On and On it works I won't tell you that story here, but trust me get that on there. Reservations is also brilliant. I love the song She's A Jar, but you have to be careful with one as the ending can be interpreted many different ways. Other than that, good work and good luck my friend.

 

--Mike

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