I spent the last couple hours doing something I should have done a long time ago. For the past few years (read this as about 8 or so) I have been making mix CDs. Before that, it was the mix tape because I didn't have a computer capable of burning CDs . Since I have purchused a new computer, I have yet to re-synch my iPod with it. See, my iPod still has the track listings of most of the mixes that were on my original computer before it broke on me. Now, I am going through those playlists and making a hard list of the songs in case I ever need to make them again.
One of the unfortuneate things is that all of the mixes I have mde aren't represented digitally on my iPod. For that I need to rediscover the actual burned discs I created oh so many years ago.
For the past few years, a group of friends, collectively known as The Schmibb, have been making mix CDs and sharing them with each other. I have done this with them as well. They have produced a grand variety of mixes that I still listen to this day. It's nice that there can be some purpose behind the whole mix CD thing. My only problem with it is that my direction toward these shared mix parties usually makes me think of something either obscure or something to fill their tastes. I personally think some of my favorite mixes I have made tend to be personal, even to the point of just being songs I like at the time.
For example, here is the track listing for one I did probably about 5 years ago. It was around the time the Sin City movie had it's trailer being shown by my seeking out and using the song from the commercial as the opening track.
Kevin 3
The Servent – Cells
Phantom Planet – Big Brat
Sparta – Breaking The Broken
The Killers – Mr. Brightside
Sunny Day Real Estate – Seven
Hum – Stars
Keane – Somewhere Only We Know
Muse – Hysteria
Foo Fighters – The One
Dashboard Confessional – Vindicated
Queens Of The Stone Age – Little Sister
The Mars Volta – The Widow
Interpol – Evil
My Chemical Romance – I'm Not Okay
Beck – Epro
Pavement – Stereo
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Soul to Squeeze
Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta
Living Colour – Cult of Personality
Nine Inch Nails – The Line Begins to Blur
I know. It's such a snazzy title for a mix CD, right? It's Kevin 3 because I made 2 before that. The problem is they were never on my old computer and from my iMAC days. God, I haven't used that thing in forever. It's 9GB hard drive shies in comparison to today's 1TB semi-standard. Still, I have the CDs for them. I have to reliste and transcribe the songs. I'm going to have trouble with the second one. It has a few sound clips from various shows throughout. I think I still have all of them somewhere.
Eventually, I will have them all transcribed. I may even be brazen enough to dig through my mix tapes and attempt a similar thing. That's really going to show some age.
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