Now, the making of a good compilation tape is a very subtle art. Many do’s and don’ts. First of all you’re using someone else’s poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing.
I once made a mix strictly for the more sexual, intimate moments of my life and while the intent was to place the other person in the mood for love, it was a giant fail. Music and sex go hand in hand; some of the best songs are about making love, about fucking, about going at it. Listening to music while making out, feeling up, or having sex is encouraged, done often, and can seriously help set the mood. The problem with making a mix just for this sort of business is that sex is never the same. You can’t make a mix just for sex, with the same songs, and expect it to work like magic every time.
People often ask me what songs I would recommend for putting on a mix such as this and I often laugh and shake my head. Just don’t do it, please, for the love of all that is holy and sacred, do not make a mix to have sex to. But if you do, do NOT put “Closer” by NIN on there. Just don’t do it. Do you realize how many people have had sex to that song? You think it is sexy, romantic, a turn on? That is the most unoriginal thing in the entire world.
Anyway, regarding the video. Pay close attention to the end.
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter. There’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with “Got to Get You Off My Mind,” but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and…oh, there are loads of rules.
