What Should I Put on My Mixtape?

We used to talk for weeks trying to decide what order to put the 10 songs on our new record. These conversations were happening in dorm rooms too because people talked obsessively about what order, you know, should this album be reordered? Here's my mixtape idea. What should I put on it? It wasn't just bands that were having these kind of obsessive conversations about the album as a unit. This was an era from about, it's about 20 years early in the compact disc era, basically.