Mixtape Monday Compendium

For reference and perusal

For your reference and perusal — the first 99 Mixtapes Monday, each with a brief blurb describing their contents (a post highlighting “best of” mixtapes can be found here).

EDIT: Updated through Mixtape Monday #143.

1. WAVY.

2. Songs I remember my dad playing when I was a kid.

3. Chill 90s.

4. Summer radio jammin’.

5. Favorite bass guitars.

6. 90s rap.

7. Music for coffee shops.

8. Punchy political cuts.

9. Instrumental electronic and ambient.

10. Music for joy, part one.

11. Potpourri.

12. Music for driving around at night.

13. Best of 1992.

14. Best of 1980.

15. Celebrating 30 years of hip hop.

16. LIGHT songs.

17. Best of 1969.

18. Best of 2007.

19. Music for joy, part two.

20. Climate apocalypse concept album.

21. Potpourri.

22. JAZZ.

23. Music for autumn, or when the weather mellows.

24. Best of 1997.

25. Potpourri.

26. Best of 1978.

27. Songs used to great effect in movies.

28. Potpourri.

29. Songs I played on the radio in the middle of the night in Tallahassee in the summer of 2013.

30. Beatles compilation.

31. Music for Christmas.

32. Best of 2018.

33. Best of 2019.

34. Best of 2020.

35. Best of 2021.

36. Sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll.

37. Music videos, part one. (Video mixtape.)

38. Potpourri.

39. Favorite voices.

40. Music videos, part two. (Video mixtape.)

41. Music for a dance party.

42. Songs with cool guitars on ‘em.

43. Potpourri.

44. Best of 2001.

45. Music from movies.

46. Mirror, part one.

47. Best of 1973.

48. Potpourri.

49. Best of 1985.

50. A track from each album of the year since the LP was invented in 1948.

51. Music for being mad at someone you like.

52. Music for wanting to fuck someone you like.

53. Potpourri.

54. Songs with a strong sense of place.

55. Potpourri.

56. Songs I hear in public that I loathe.

57. Reader requests.

58. Potpourri.

59. Best of 2011.

60. Songs that contain the secret of life.

61. JAZZ.

62. Songs from when I was a teenager.

63. Best of 1965.

64. Potpourri.

65. Best of 1984.

66. Music for dancing.

67. Best of 1994.

68. Best of 2022.

69. Music for my college “roommates.”

70. Potpourri.

71. Best of 2006.

72. Mirror, part two.

73. POLITICAL MUZAK.

74. Music from Paul Thomas Anderson movies.

75. Prince compilation.

76. Potpourri.

77. Best of 1977.

78. Songs from when I opened my Apple Music and chose an artist for each letter.

79. Music for pretty girls.

80. Gender questions.

81. Music from Adult Swim.

82. Potpourri.

83. De La Soul lives.

84. Favorite drums.

85. The Wheel of Time.

86. I played myself.

87. Name songs.

88. Potpourri.

89. Electronics.

90. A woman in aviators firing a bazooka.

91. Songs with punchy first lines.

92. Potpourri.

93. Big Thief compilation.

94. Songs that aren’t very nice.

95. Onomatopoeic songs.

96. André 3000 solo album.

97. Best of 2004.

98. Best of 2016.

99. Best of 2023.

100. Personal top 50 artists of all time. (as of 12/18/23)

101. Potpourri.

102. Canonically sad.

103. Talking Heads compilation.

104. Best of the 2010s.

105. Music for chilling.

106. Best of 1975.

107. Music for flirting.

108. Music for housecleaning.

109. James Bond.

110. Music videos, part three. (Video mixtape.)

111. Beatles openers.

112. Charles Mingus compilation.

113. Potpourri.

114. Best of 1990.

115. Strange bedfellows.

116. Steely Dan compilation.

117. Covers, part one.

118. RIP Steve Albini.

119. The one where I try to stump Tommy.

120. George Clinton compilation.

121. Best of 1988.

122. Potpourri.

123. Our Band Could Be Your Life.

124. German music.

125. Covers, part two.

126. Songs from the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

127. Best of 1967.

128. Potpourri.

129. Music for being twenty-two as the weather changes.

130. Dope band names, part one.

131. Dope band names, part two.

132. Dope band names, part three.

133. Dope band names, part four.

134. Dope band names, part five.

135. Dope band names, part six.

136. The one where every song is “Get Back.”

137. Potpourri. (from when we blew it)

138. Best of 2024.

139. Potpourri.

140. Best of the 2020s (so far).

141. Rock’n’roll.

142. Best of 1970.

143. Potpourri.