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Neil Young has never made a compilation tape.....fact!.
I remember years ago when i would make cassette compilations for friends there were rules that i always stuck to which i generally refered to as "Cassette etiquette". First rule was you would always start and finish the tape with your 'best' songs. Second rule was you never put two songs by one band on the tape even if if it was a solo venture from one of the band, and last but not least you never put a live track on a tape where all the other songs were studio based as this just ruined the flow of the tape and here lies my point. I was listening to Neil Young's 'Harvest' the other day and he commited the cardinal sin of dropping a live version of 'The Nedle And The Damage Done' on side two thus ruining the album for me from the day it came out right up to the present. I know it all sounds very geeky but there has to be more of us out there ?
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Cassettiquette
even.
I imagine everyone's rules are [were] different, though.
You´re absolutely
right about the never-more-than-one-song rule. But a live song is fine by me as long as it´s placed last (for some reason). Solo songs from people featured elsewhere in a band is fine with me - as long as it´s not the singer of the band.
I miss making compilaion tapes. The CD-R is also out by now, isn´t it? A Spotify playlist isn´t the same.
But it works on Harvest
...because there's no fadeout - the applause segues directly into the opening chord of Words, and sounds almost as if the song begins with a drumroll. Doesn't sound out of place at all.
But you're right, it doesn't fit on compilations, as the applause doesn't fade out. And when putting live songs on compilations - which broadly I'm fine with - the applause has to fade out or it sounds awful (unless you can repeat that segueing into another song trick, which requires pinpoint accuracy on the record/play/pause buttons).
Favourite compilations
I used to have loads I'd recorded off the radio - mainly from Annie Nightingale's Sunday Night request show and the Friday Rock Show. A few featured some wonderful - and completely accidental - segues. Whenever I hear Cadillac Ranch, I always expect it to fade into Robert Palmer's Johnny and Mary. Which works a treat.
Nope. Sorry. I've done it.
Nope. Sorry. I've done it. Sometimes two tracks from the same band one after the other. Works especially well if you want to make the point that THIS BAND ARE WORTH CHECKING OUT. This has worked really rather well well with the Pixies and Husker Du. As long as you get the pauses between songs right (that is, virtually non-existant).
No I was never
keen on placing a live track amongst studio ones. And I would seek to avoid having the same artist featured more than once.
Aah, making mixtapes - a labour and token of love
Live songs
It is permissable to have a live song as the first and last tracks on each side.