What's your personnal "Back To Mine"?

Let's say, one day in the near future, you get the chance to pick your own fave tracks for a "Back To Mine" compilation (okay, it's unlikely, but hear me out). What tracks would you select? Limit your replies to 16 tracks, as that seems just about right.

Here's mine:

1. PiL - Death Disco
2. Pink Floyd - Nile Song
3. XTC - Living Thru Another Cuba
4. REM - Exhuming McCarthy
5. Ramones - Bonzo Goes To Bitberg
6. Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar
7. The Who - Dancing In The Street
8. Elvis Costello - Party Girl
9. Lou Reed - Wait
10. Doves -Catch The Sun
11. Radiohead - Anyone Can Play Guitar
12. John Lennon - Working Class Hero
13. Beach Boys -You Still Believe In Me
14. Modern Lovers - Modern World
15. The Clash - This Is Radio Clash

in no particular order:

1. marvin gaye--what's goin' on
2. chemical brothers--private psychedelic reel
3. air--kelly watch the stars
4. the beach boys--god only knows
5. patsy cline--crazy
6. the cavedogs--leave me alone
7. the replacements--alex chilton
8. the kinks--waterloo sunset
9. orbital--the box
10. husker du--theme from 'mary tyler moore'
11. blur--for tomorrow
12. new order--perfect kiss
13. unkle--unreal
14. massive attack--unfinished sympathy
15. the clash--spanish bombs
16. bobby womack--across 110th street

I don't fully understand the thinking behind the "Back To Mine" albums and haven't really paid much attention to them because there are so many compilation albums and mix albums nowadays. I watched a few shows in the TV series called "Back To Mine" or "All Back To Mine" where people chose some of their all-time favourite music and talked about it and I guess the "Back To Mine" albums are based on a similar idea. For a while I thought they were chill-out albums but what I've heard of the NO one isn't chill-out music. Since there are mixed CD and unmixed vinyl versions of the NO album (but sadly no unmixed CD) "Back To Mine" albums are mixed but not all the tracks are what would be considered dance tracks.

Are there any traditions or rules that people compiling "Back To Mine" albums are meant to follow (for example are the albums made for people to dance to?) or can people choose any tracks they want and mix them any way they want?

i think they're just meant to be what you'd listen to while chilling at your house after a night out OR continuing the party there. so, whatever you want, really! :D

Great Thread! Joy Division "Decades" New Order "EGG" Echo & The Bunnymen "All my colours" David Bowie "Heroes" The Sound "Total recall" Radiohead "Fake plastic trees" House of Love "Christine" Happy Mondays "WFL" (Oakenfold mix) U2 "Unforgettable fire" This Mortal Coil "Song to the siren" Talking Heads "Once in a lifetime" Bruce Springsteen "Point blank" Go-betweens "Bachelor kisses"

Back To Benny's Cobweb Towers then......

1. Manic Street Preachers - The Intense Humming of Evil
2. Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All
3. The Fall - M5
4. House of Love - Don't Know Why I Love You
5. Radiohead - Bulletproof (I Wish I Was)
6. Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale
7. Wedding Present - Don't Talk Just Kiss
8. Sisters of Mercy - Amphetamine Logic
9. Attila The Stockbroker - Holiday In Albania
10. Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding
11. Echo and The Bunnymen - Show of Strength
12. New Order - Perfect Kiss
13. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Tracks of My Tears
14. The Beloved - Time After Time
15. U2 - All I Want Is You
16. Joy Division - Decades

1.Primal Scream - Screamadelica 2.Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sun 3.Aztec Camera - Working In A Goldmine 4.Product Of Da Neighbourhood - Living In Brooklyn (Beautiful Race Smiling Face mix) 5. One Dove - Fallen 6. World Of Twist - The Storm 7. Stone Roses - One Love 8. Chemical Brothers - It Doesn't Matter 9. New Order - The Village 10. Fire Island - Fire Island 11. Sheer Taft - Cascades 12.Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down 13. Beach Boys - Sloop John B 14. Saint Etiene - London Belong's To Me 15.Jimi Hendrix Experience - 1983 (A Merman I Sould Turn To Be) 16.Jimi Hedrix Experience - The Moon Turns The Tide....Gently, Gently Away

D'oh was just editing my bad speeling.

How da funk.......

oops

1- Gentle Tuesday Primal Scream 2- Living in the past Jethro Tull 3- Under the milky way The Church 4- Norwegian (or was it Danish?) TV St. Etienne 5- Lluvia del Porvenir Radio Futura 6- Heartbeat King Crimson 7- Golden Brown Stranglers 8- Europe under the Rain John Fox 9- Nowhere Girl B Movie 10-Pale Fountains Anything 11-Lemonheads It's about time 12- Biff bang pow! Anything 13- Blue Nile City lights 14- Pink Floyd Anything by Barret 15- Kraftwerk Tour de France

1.ALL THE YOUNG DUDES Mott The Hoople 2.I WANT A DOG Pet Shop Boys (very apt) 3.TINSLETOWN IN THE RAIN Blue Nile 4.THIEVES LIKE US INSTRUMENTAL Not Sure 5.WISH YOU WERE HERE Pink Floyd 6.FIVE YEARS David Bowie 7.BEHIND BLUE EYES The WHO 8.WHEN LOVE BREAKS DOWN Prefab Sprout 9.WON'T STOP LOVING YOU A C R 10.SILVER MACHINE Hawkwind 11. LONE STAR QUEEN Johnny Thunders 12. REELING IN THE YEARS Those Hippy Types...CLASSIC:D (STEELY DAN) 13. LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Joy Division 14. LOOSE FIX (12inch) Happy Mondays 15. NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN Puressence 16. GOD ONLY KNOWS Beach Boys

So many others but these are the ones that get the most played when i chill out or play after yet another girl leaves me!:p

Bette Davis Eyes Kim Cairns Trumpton Riot Half Man Half Biscuit The Headmaster Ritual The Smiths Do It Clean (live version - starts with 'Can you shove them in at the back' and spirals into Sex Machine and back) Echo & Bunnyman Love Missile F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik Planet Earth Duran Duran Perfect Skin Lloyd Cole & Commotions White Lines Grandmaster Flash n the boys Mr Blue Sky ELO So What ? Explotied Temptation NO (Saturday 1984 thingie live mix version) Libarator Cult (Death Cult ??, Southern Dealth Cult ???) Don't Wanna Be Friends With You Shop Assistants Voodoo Ray A Guy Called Gerald (I Love You) When You Sleep Tracie Too Much Too Young Specials

Originally posted by The Village Idiot Nic...how could that be cheating...if you noticed, I didn't follow the rules at all...but that has something to do with the fact that I am one lazy bastard!!!!

or just Stooopid ??

Predictable as it is, here's a different list from moi!

1. The Clash - Janie Jones
2. The Supremes - The Happening
3. New Order - Turn The Heater On
4. Radiohead - Life In a Glass House
5. The Kinks - Victoria
6. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter
7. Talking Heads - Don't Worry 'Bout the Government
8. Weezer - Across the Sea
9. The Beatles - I Don't Wanna Spoil the Party
10. Sex Pistols -Pretty Vacant
11. Velvet Underground - Beginning to See The Light
12. Iggy Pop - Fall In Love With Me
13. XTC - Season Cycle
14. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
15. Jonathan Richman - Back In Your Life
16. David Gray - This Year's Love
17. Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice?

Miles Davis - Calypso Freelimo Neu ! - Hero Joy Division - Autosuggestion La Monte Young - Early Tuesday Morning Blues Organum - Keloid Faust - Jennifer Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes DNA - Egomaniac's Kiss AMM - extract from AMMMusic Pink Floyd - See Emily Play Beach Boys - Little Pad Moondog - Voices of Spring John Cage - Music for Carillon V Nurse With Wound/Stereolab - Simple Headphone Mind Beatles - You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) Takehisa Kosugi - Catch Wave

Okay, this week would include:

1. Stevie Wonder "Living For The City"
2. Velvet Underground "I'm Set Free"
3. The Clash "Complete Control"
4. Cabaret Voltaire "Sensoria"
5. Einsturzende Neubauten "Yu-Gung"
6. The Church "Aura"
7. Joy Division "Decades"
8. Talking Heads "Memories Can't Wait"
9. The Fall "Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul"
10. Meat Puppets "Lost"
11. Husker Du "Divide And Conquer"
12. XTC "No Language In Our Lungs"
13. The Triffids "Billy" (live)
14. Nick Cave "The Mercy Seat"
15. Pop Group "She Is Beyond Good And Evil"
16. Camper Van Beethoven "Ambiguity Song"

1. Blue Monday 12"
2. Blue Monday 88
3. Blue Monday 95
4. Blue Monday (Hawtin mix)
5. Blue Monday (Hardfloor mix)
6. Blue Monday (Hardfloor Edit)
7. Blue Monday (Plutone mix)
8. Blue Monday (Brain mix)
9. Blue Monday by Orgy
10. Blue Monday 12" (non-die cut sleeve)
11. The Beach
12. Blue Monday (Starwash mix)
13. Blue Monday (Manuella mix)
14. Blue Monday (Andrea mix)
15. Blue Monday (Live reading 98)
16. You suffer - Napalm Death

Lovely :D

1. Mercury Rev - Holes
2. Paul Simpson feat. Adeva - Musical Freedom
3. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
4. The Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want)
5. Kraftwerk - Tour De France
6. The Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles
7. Mary J. Blige - Family Affair
8. Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved
9. New Order - Thieves Like Us
10. Talking Heads - Naive Melody
11. Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
12. Ten City - That's The Way Love Is
13. Way Out West - The Gift

Originally posted by Major Tarantino 1. Blue Monday 12"2. Blue Monday 883. Blue Monday 954. Blue Monday (Hawtin mix)5. Blue Monday (Hardfloor mix)6. Blue Monday (Hardfloor Edit)7. Blue Monday (Plutone mix)8. Blue Monday (Brain mix)9. Blue Monday by Orgy10. Blue Monday 12" (non-die cut sleeve) 11. The Beach12. Blue Monday (Starwash mix)13. Blue Monday (Manuella mix)14. Blue Monday (Andrea mix)15. Blue Monday (Live reading 98)16. You suffer - Napalm DeathLovely :D

Please explain track 3!

And you forgot "Beach buggy"!

For what it's worth, with the usual proviso that it'll change tomorrow...

Gene - Where Are They Now? Joy Division - The Only Mistake New Order - Everythings Gone Green puressence - This Feeling The The - Uncertain Smile (12") Flash And The Pan - Waiting For A Train Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Hiway This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren The Edsel Auctioneer - Monuments Kitchens Of Distinction - The 3rd Time We Opened The Capsule Doves - Valley Barry White - You're My First, My Last, My Everything The Sundays - Can't Be Sure Felt - Primitive Painters Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers

Originally posted by Old Blue For what it's worth, with the usual proviso that it'll change tomorrow...Gene - Where Are They Now?Joy Division - The Only MistakeNew Order - Everythings Gone Greenpuressence - This FeelingThe The - Uncertain Smile (12")Flash And The Pan - Waiting For A TrainMercury Rev - Goddess On A HiwayThis Mortal Coil - Song To The SirenThe Edsel Auctioneer - MonumentsKitchens Of Distinction - The 3rd Time We Opened The CapsuleDoves - ValleyBarry White - You're My First, My Last, My EverythingThe Sundays - Can't Be SureFelt - Primitive PaintersMassive Attack - Unfinished SympathyCocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers

Mmmm Felt! So many memories, such a cracking group!