C30, C60, C90... Go!
I seem to remember that the real skill of the mix tape (apart from ensuring a sublime segue from song to song, obviously) was trying to time it so that you weren't left with either a big gap or half a song at the end of the tape. This is a lost art in these digital days.

My favourite & often used song to fill an awkward 1'45''ish gap was The Smiths' Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want from Hatful Of Hollow - a beautiful and even hopeful song. Being the anal type I couldn't let a song be cut off halfway through at the end of the side. I once ended a relationship because the bastard mistimed his mixtape and only gave me half of Kiss by Age Of Chance. Well, really. It was obvious we weren't suited.
(I Love Your Shoes, Fri 8 Feb 2008, 15:32, 3 replies)

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You're quite right, I'd forgotten about that. I'd get round this problem by filling the gap with tubular bells, where I figured it didn't really matter where it started and stopped.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Fri 8 Feb 2008, 15:48, closed)

Yay!
Kiss by Age of Chance rocks! Got it on green 7" vinyl somewhere
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 8 Feb 2008, 16:10, closed)

yeah, what a clueless cnut!
Honestly, what was he thinking? I have always been extremely anal, boardering on autistc with such issues. If I couldn't find a song the perfect LENGTH (*hee hee* that made me think of willies) I'd rather leave a gap at the end than have a track cut off before it's END (belly shaking now).
Wish I'd twigged about that Smiths track, though - I still have that album on vinyl (33" not 78").
I've gone back to length and inches again... sorry ;o)
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Fri 8 Feb 2008, 16:10, closed)