aunt rock

[ironymaiden]

when my niece A was only a few years old, i made a couple mixtapes of "adult" music with kid appeal so that her parents wouldn't go entirely insane listening to The Little Mermaid in the car. they were played for ten years until they deteriorated; then A asked if i could recreate them on CD. she sent me the tracklists, i did, and made her a couple more "grown up" mix CDs. i noticed on my last visit that a) she has a car with a CD player (no bluetooth) and b) one of those second-wave discs was on the top of the stack of discs in the car. A said she would like more, so i brought blank CDs with me and burned a new mix because i guess that happens about every ten years.

Really Big Chickens

1. Really Big Chickens - The Doubleclicks
2. Modern Girl - Sleater-Kinney
3. You Told the Drunls I Knew Karate - Zoey Van Goey
4. Skullcrusher Mountain - Jonathan Coulton
5. Queen of the Surface Streets - DeVotchKa
6. Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine
7. Ask - The Smiths
8. Punk Rock Girl - The Dead Milkmen
9. Hey Nonny Nonny - Violent Femmes
10. I Melt with You - Modern English
11. I Hear the Bells - Mike Doughty
12. This Year - The Mountain Goats
13. Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
14. Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
15. Word Crimes - Weird Al Yankovic
16. The Walker - Fitz and The Tantrums
17. The Nights - Avicii
18. We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe) - fun.
19. Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls
20. Randy Newman's "Theme from 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'" (Studio Version) - Paul & Storm
21. You'll Be Back - Jonathan Groff, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

Comments

[chase_acow]

Just from the songs I know, that is an excellent playlist! I miss mix CDs. I mean, I know Spotify is basically the same, but I also miss recording songs off the radio onto a crappy cassette tape in the early 90s. : )

[ironymaiden]

I know, right? I trimmed all the dead seconds from the ends of all the songs, I carefully wrote all the tracks on the disc in superfine sharpie, and it was so satisfying. Back in the day I used to pride myself on packing every second of a cassette. I'd wind back by hand so there were no breaks between songs and find tiny fillers (like TMBG Fingertips). Very nostalgic, I think I'll do more.

[buhrger]

i miss making mixtaps/mixCDs.

[ironymaiden]

the number of people I know who have a means to play physical media is dwindling, so much so that I assume they don't :/

[varina8]

Before the pandemic, I went to UW and started uploading the mixtapes that a friend made me in the 1990s. It was an intimate walk down memory lane. If you need to do the same, I'd be happy to meet you there and log you in on my account.