Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Found: Mix tapes

I found four old mix tapes as I was cleaning my place in preparation for my mom. I believe two of the four creators read this, so if you want to identify yours go for it (if you aren't too ashamed).

Title: A lazy eye metaphor on the rocks
Side A:
Charles Mingus - Moanin'
Jim O'Rourke - Therefore, I am
The Kinks - I'm not like everybody else
The Who - I can't explain
Big Star - Holocaust
Pulp - Like a friend
The flaming lips - Slow nerve action
Starlight Mints - The bandit
John Coltrane - Countdown
John Mayall and the bluesbreakers - have you heard
Harry James and his orchestra - I've heard that song before

Side B:
The rolling stones - street fighting man
The Beatles - revolution
Wilco - Misunderstood
...trail of dead - how near, how far
u2 - acrobat
james - ring the bells
the beach boys - I know there's an answer
REM - Sad professor
Ella Fitzgerald - sophisticated lady
Billie Holiday - Big stuff
The smashing pumpkins - if there is a god
x - sex and dying in high society

History: Beat's me. I'm not sure when or why this was made, but it was definitely very early 00's. The sleeve for it is pretty. "DJ Usurp" you know who you are!

Title: Mass Transit.
Stickers on tape: Deez Nutz
Side A:
Rock

Side B:
Cash Money Records

History: Made by a good pal who's name looks like stove and rhymes with sleeve. I don't remember why he made it - I think I must have told him I was bored with my tapes for listening to whilst at my library job in 2000. Side A is total indie pop. Too bad the dude didn't give me a track listing, but I'm positive I remember a Saves the Day song on here. The artwork is very "Sleeve," and when he becomes famous I bet I can sell it on eBay for a zillion trillion dollars.

Title: ?? Case missing
Side A: Title - Cooking with gas (bring the ruckus)
Side B: Title - Cream Cheese? With Salad? Unorthodox economic revenge

History: No clue whats on here but I know some Clash and probably the only They Might be Giants song on earth that I like ("Don't lets start") are on it. I'm starting to really wish people put the tracks in the tapes they made me. Maybe he did and I lost the case...the case it is in is definitely not it's match. An old friend made this - the same one who joined the Israeli special forces, lived on a Kibbutz, gave me his bass guitar (clearly I went really far on that one), and with whom I've sadly lost touch.

And number four (finally! a track listing!):
Title: No one has the clap forever
Side A:
Nuzzle - unbreakable you
Nuzzle - interlude
Nuzzle - no mas
Hoover - weeds
Three Mile Pilot - the house is loss
Three Mile Pilot - silver monkey syndicate
Shotmaker - ??
Shotmaker - Bailer
Shotmaker - Reconstructing barriers
The VSS - Cosmic Retribution
the VSS - Crawling in place

Side B:
The VSS - Lunar weight
!!! - The Funky Branca
The Rapture - Unsighted
The Rapture - the chair that squeaks
Long Hind Legs - Charmed, I'm Sure
Long Hind Legs - Return to me
Angel Hair - Crash Course
Angel Hair - New Rocket
Angel Hair - New Rocket (Reprise)
Clikatat Ikatowi - the appliance
Clikatat Ikatowi - Identity Crisis
Sunshine - Dek 69

History: An old high school pal. I can credit him with my descent into insane music. I remember talking to him on IM while he was making me this, must have been late 90s? I had the biggest crush on him. Yeah, we totally made out like twice in college. Good times.

The one mix-tape I really wish I could find was this one I made for a boyfriend in college and then got too embarrassed to give it to him so I kept it for myself. I listened to it at the library all the time, even after we broke up. Its probably a pretty sweet mix. You can decide which dude I made it for. Hint: he wasn't old.

Mix tapes - I feel like I need to digitize these before I toss my cassette player. It'd be really sad to lose the ability to play these.

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2 Comments:

At 10:21 PM , Blogger PL Underwood said...

I just saw this -- weird!

Dj usurp = me, as you might know. I think I gave it to you around the time we saw B and Sebastian in Chicago (aka the time we slept together -- literally).

What a weird tracklist.

 
At 11:07 AM , Blogger Cyndi LARPer said...

Yeah, I know :)

 

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