Posts Tagged ‘mix’
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
An incredible mix tape dated 2/8/87 from an old college friend from Allentown PA, thanks Paulie K., your gift to me has survived the test of time, and travel. I have listened to this tape up and down the east coat, and coast to coast. One of my oldest non self made mix tapes.
Side 1
Trampoline – Julian Cope
Angels Don’t Cry – Psychedelic Furs
It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way – The Blow Monkeys
It Didn’t Matter – The Style Council
Man With A Gun – Jerry Harrison
In A Lovely Place – The Smithereens
Greetings To A New Brunette – Billy Bragg
The Answer Is Clear – Peter Murphy
This Wheel’s On Fire – Siouxsie And The Banshees
Side 2
Angels Of Deception – The The
V Thirteen – B.A.D.
Shoplifters Of The World Unite – The Smiths
That’s What I Call Love – Crowded House
Ever Fallen In Love – Fine Young Cannibals
Earn Enough For Us – XTC
Bludgeoned – Shreikback
Buoy – Mick Karin
Not My Slave – Oingo Boingo
Seven Year Scratch – Madness
This tape is playable.
Submitted by:
Peter J. Daley
Tags: 1987, B.A.D., Billy Bragg, Crowded House, Fine Young Cannibals, Jerry Harrison, Julian Cope, Madness, Mick Karin, mix, mix tape, Oingo Boingo, Paulie K., Pete Daley, Peter Murphy, Psychedelic Furs, Shreikback, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Blow Monkeys, The Smithereens, The Smiths, The Style Council, The The, Xtc
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
I have no back story for Uncle Jim. I can’t remember who gave me the tape, or anything about it. I found it yesterday when I was going through my tape box, and thought you might find it interesting.
Submitted by:
Peter J. Daley
Tags: Jim, mix, mix tape, Peter J. Daley, tape, Uncle
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
[audio:mix.mp3]
This is one of the mix tapes that I probably made for myself, but I am not sure. The cursory and careless treatment of the label just about guarantees it. I would estimate that this is from as far back as 1991 or 1992. It had to be pretty close to the Ten release date. All the other songs are 1990 or earlier. I generally split alt rock from industrial when I made tapes. I am not exactly sure why, but they seemed pretty incompatible. The tape is just labeled with the word mix. It is pretty standard stuff that I liked and still like for the most part. The best thing on this tape is a live track from R.E.M that I recorded from WXRT. It is a pretty rough recording. Radio recordings are pretty cool. A definite thing of the past. I have not listened to anything from Ten for years, but I think I will revisit it after hearing Once on this mix tape when digitizing it. Maybe this tape was just a way to get some variety while mowing the lawn. I have no idea.
Side B is Revolting Cocks Beers Steers and Queers that I dubbed from Randy. That album also has a 1990 release date so it all makes sense, I guess.
Submitted by:
Nick De Pirro
Tags: cassette, Maxell, mix, Nick, Nick De Pirro, Once, Pearl Jam, Rev Co, tape, Ten, WXRT, XL II 90
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
So, I went to the mall with my bud, Nick, to buy a CD I think… one of those Music-Go-Round kind of mall music stores with $35 CD’s. They were giving out these tape samplers at the counter – normally, I wouldn’t care but I happened to see Testament on the label so I grabbed it as I was a big fan. I remember playing it in the car on the way home, and it must’ve been obvious that I liked it cause Nick started laughing when he saw my reaction. Every other one of the bands/songs sucked but I always kept this tape in my car just to crank Electric Crown (and then rewind and play again). This song ended up being the first song on what would be one of my all-time favorite metal albums, The Ritual, which my metal band covered a song from several years later at Berklee College of Music. This was the last album Alex Skolnick played on with Testament for probably a decade or so when they reunited. While I don’t listen to this sampler any more of course, I do listen to Testament and The Ritual frequently today still.
Submitted by:
Chris Janus
Tags: 6 song, Alex Skolnick, cassette, Chris, commercial, copy, Electric Crown, free, Metal, mix, Music-Go-Round, Nick, plastic, Promotional, sampler, tape, Testament, The Ritual, turn it up and pass it on, white
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Sarah and were I both pianists for our high school orchestra. (Un)fortunately for us, many pieces didn’t have a piano part, so Sarah and I would hang out in the music director’s office during practice. She made this tape for me around 1998 and sent it to me at college. In the early days of emails and mixed CDs, Sarah would send a letter and a tape.
In some ways, this tape represents my relationship with music. I don’t think in terms of artists or bands. I have very little context for time or categories. Joy Division and Carly Simon both appear here, along with Radiohead and Pattismith (who I once thought was a band because of this tape – you know, Pattismith… In my defense, it makes as much sense as the name Mogwai.) I had no idea who was current and who was not.
While the other students were listening to the Dave Matthews Band and Phish, I was enjoying the last days of the mixed tape. Long live the cool tape!
Submitted by:
Lianne Hartman
Tags: Beck, college, Does Your Final Curtain Swing?, Maxell, mix, mix tape, Mogwai, Radiohead, XL II
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
[audio:london.mp3]
I found this tape in the space I took over in the BFA studio my final year at Indiana University. It’s not the greatest mix, for sure, but it is pretty good. I did listen to it in my car a bunch of times driving between Bloomington and Indianapolis. It contains some French Punk and Bowie and other songs that are site-specific, you could say. Side A is all about London, and Side B is more London songs, but I guess the person ran out of songs and filled the remaining space with songs about other places. Yes, London Calling is on there. Would you like to listen to it?
Submitted by:
Nick De Pirro
Tags: Bloomington, found, Indiana University, Indianapolis, London, mix, mix tape, other places, studio, tape
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
In my Junior year of high school I met this kid named Adam. He wore ripped clothes and had a mohawk, kind of scary looking. I wasn’t all punked out like that, but I guess I was odd looking enough that one day he walked up to me and started talking. He made me this tape a week or so later. It is a weird combination of songs. Side A is bunch of poppy punk or kind of punk (Carter USM) bands while Side B is all selections from albums released by anarcho-punks Crass. The former was mostly familiar territory (I had listened to Carter in my UK new wave/synth-pop time) though this was most first exposure to the Pogues (songs which actually turned me off from them for a long time as this is not their best work). The latter was completely new. The shift from the hardcore political shouting of Conflict to the glossy pop sounds of ex-Damned Captain Sensible is odd and things get stranger with the minimalist song from Zounds. Then, of course, there’s Crass. This tape opened a whole new avenue of punk to me, one which I have explored off and on since then. I still love singing along to Big A Little A.
(I threw the tape out months ago, but scanned the liner notes and photographed the tape before doing so.)
Submitted by:
Derik Badman
Tags: Adam, Captain Sensible, Carter, Damned, High School, Junior, lost, mix, mix tape, mohawk, UK, USM, Zounds
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
I used to have a lot of pen pals, such as Chad from Tennessee. We exchanged letters for a few years before losing touch. Over that time we did meet once. He was on a cross-country trip, and it turned out his aunt lived very close to me. We spent a day hanging out in Philly. He made this tape for me. It introduced me to artists that I still love. Side A is some Jonathan Richman, a tiny bit of Dylan, and Tom Waits. This was my introduction to both Richman and Waits. I still listen to both of them a lot. Side B starts with John K. Sampson’s (now of the Weakerthans) solo album, which is brilliant and was for a long time very hard to find. I probably wore out the tape for those songs. The rest of the side didn’t really do much for me, and I couldn’t tell you what those bands sound like now.
Submitted by:
Derik Badman
Tags: Chad, Dylan, missing, mix, mix tape, Philly, Richman, songs, Tennessee, Waits
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
This is a missing tape from my collection that I really wish that I still had. It was originally some kind of free tape that I picked up somewhere and re-purposed. Remember AOL discs? Same thing, I guess, except these could be reused. It was some kind of tape that was sent to my house. I needed a mix tape to play in art class to regain some credibilty with the cool kids, and the Big Boy Mix was born. I don’t remember what was on it except for one Front 242 track, Geography II, that I know I put there because I can recall sitting in class listening to it like it was yesterday.
The most striking feature of this tape was a paper sticker of the Big Boy restaurant chain’s mascot that I stuck to it. The tape itself was one of those white plastic jobs and I put masking tape over the tabs so I could record on it. The playtime was very short, probably 15 min. on each side, maybe less.
Submitted by:
Nick De Pirro
Tags: Add new tag, Big Boy, cassette, dub, Geography II, ghost, missing, mix, Nick De Pirro, re-purposed tape, white plastic
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
[audio:Logan_Mix.mp3]
This tape is titled Logan Mix because Side B was a mix recording that this total wooker Mike Logan made for me in high school. I believe it was sophomore year, but it could have been junior year. I am not sure. Maybe after I think about it for a few days I will put it all together in my head. Whichever it was, it was right at the begining of the year and this dude known as Logan sat behind me in Spanish class. We both hated Spanish so we talked about music. He was talking up Pearl Jam’s Ten album and was amazed that I had the tape. He said he had a concert recording, so I gave him a blank. Turns out it was just recorded from 93 XRT and I had already heard it. The concert dub is on Side A. I recall that Logan went to the last Chicago Naked Raygun show at Metro and I was so jealous. He also liked Fishbone, but what do you expect, right?
The gem was not the Pearl Jam, the real deal here is the mix tape that is found on Side B. The B Sides in this case were an assortment of new hippie bands that I had not heard such as Afghan Wigs, Clock Hammer, and Swerve Driver. He also put a Rollins track on here and Bury Me by Smashing Pumpkins. Because he was a wookie, he slacked off and didn’t fill the tape. I rounded out the mix with Renegade Soundwave and a Negative Land track at the end. So the tape starts off long-hair alt rock, and ends with proto-techno tracks.
Submitted by:
Nick De Pirro
Tags: 93 XRT, Add new tag, Afghan Wigs, Alt Rock, blur, Bury Me, dub, High School, Logan, Maxell, Mike, mix, mix tape, Pearl Jam, Renegade Soundwave, Rollins, Side B, Swerve Driver, Ten, wigs, Wookie, XL II 100
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