“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention [...], and then you've got to up 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.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
(Unfortunately, these playlists don't follow Rob Fleming's recommendation, but the songs are pretty good, in my opinion)