favorite mixtape asks June 3, 2011 12:29 AM   Subscribe

Best of mixtape AskMes?

I saw the robot sex mixtape question on Ask Metafilter. I know there's been a lot of these questions asking for songs within a certain theme, and they are usually pretty great!

Anyway, I was hoping people could link to their favorites. Because this is something MeFi is really fricken' good at.
posted by NoraReed to MetaFilter-Related at 12:29 AM (18 comments total) 17 users marked this as a favorite

http://ask.metafilter.com/160795/Were-gonna-lean-this-ladder-up-against-the-water-tower wait, what?
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 12:49 AM on June 3, 2011


http://ask.metafilter.com/185746/Alls-you-needs-a-hug
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 12:54 AM on June 3, 2011




Self link: all sorts of vampire songs.
posted by nicolas léonard sadi carnot at 4:08 AM on June 3, 2011


slappy_pinchbottom asks for intergalactic hip hop. Gets some great suggestions. Revisits the thread a couple weeks later to post the resulting mix. Awesome.
posted by googly at 4:36 AM on June 3, 2011 [1 favorite]




To be perfectly honest I don't think MeFi is that good at this. Most music questions seem to attract folks who just want answer questions, so they say whatever obvious band or song pops into their head. Like as if someone yesterday in a thread asking for Cold War songs similar in tone to Arthur Russell had mentioned Bow wow wow's "I Want Candy". (well that was me but usually it's somebody else dropping turds in the fishbowl)
posted by Potomac Avenue at 5:58 AM on June 3, 2011 [1 favorite]


Your favorite AskMe-compiled mixtape sucks.
posted by McGuillicuddy at 6:18 AM on June 3, 2011 [1 favorite]


Please avoid "help me name my kitten/computer/website" and "help me make a mix CD" questions.

I don't care for this guideline and think that with even a minimum of direction those questions can go well and be super fun, especially when people share the results. Then again I'm not a huge AskMe user. Also: please put "International Feel" by Todd Rundgren on every mix CD. Thanks.
posted by mintcake! at 6:32 AM on June 3, 2011


Please avoid "help me name my kitten/computer/website" and "help me make a mix CD" questions.

Huh. It seems the mods are really lax on that one. Perhaps it should be reworded or removed? Google finds 664 results for name kitten on ask.metafilter.com, and 4,450 results for name cat, though the latter appears to include anything with cat OR name in the page.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:23 AM on June 3, 2011


I don't care for this guideline and think that with even a minimum of direction those questions can go well and be super fun, especially when people share the results.

Yep, chatfilter is fun. It's just not what this site is for.
posted by londonmark at 8:22 AM on June 3, 2011




Yep, chatfilter is fun. It's just not what this site is for.

That's what they say, but I think a lot of us here disagree.
posted by Rash at 9:09 AM on June 3, 2011




You know what this site is best at? Telling everyone what it isn't for.

MetaFilter: What it isn't for
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:33 AM on June 3, 2011 [3 favorites]


What Does The Future Sound Like?

One of my own AskMes. Not so much mixtape-specific but it did certainly educate me somewhat and lead to the creation of a few very cool mixtapes.
posted by philip-random at 9:35 AM on June 3, 2011






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