Today, I’m thinking about mixes and compilations of music. I very rarely make them these days, except for people I actually like. Considering the amount of mixes I’ve made, I’ve received very few in return.

Here’s one I made for a boy in 2002:

1. the rapture — out of the races and onto the tracks
2. the vaselines — you think you’re a man
3. the magnetic fields — take ecstasy with me
4. ben lee — cigarretes will kill you
5. the dismemberment plan — the ice of boston
6. quasi — california
7. rufus wainwright — greek song
8. elliot smith — picture of me
9. built to spill — fling
10. jeff buckley — i want someone badly
11. james — laid
12. the get up kids — beer for breakfast
13. pavement — cut your hair
14. spoon — i didn’t come here to die
15. the pixies — where is my mind?
16. mazzy star — fade into you
17. velvet underground — pale blue eyes

for AA
April 9, 2002

here’s one i made for no apparent reason, probably around the same time:

this summer, i want to read foacualt

don’t change your plans — ben folds five
nashville — liz phair
viva anger, viva hate — rainer maria
valency — the spinanes
bang and blame — rem
rasberry rush — the promise ring
a dozen roses — braid
80 windows — nada surf
the company dime — the get up kids
that joke isn’t funny anymore — the smiths
seal my fate — belly
pictures in an exhbition — death cab for cutie
easy mark — nerf herder
canadian girlfriend — the dakota smith
what’s your take on cassavetes? — le tigre
lovesong — the cure
get the time — the descendents
monkey — counting crows
terrible/perfect — built to spill

and here’s one that i said was for the “uptown girl” but god knows if i remember who the hell “uptown girl” was:

tape that was SUPPOSED to be
for the uptown girl -

Side A :

cruel : tori amos
medieval people : helium
kiss off : violent femmes
i think i’m paranoid : garbage
how can i sing like a girl? : they might be giants
superman : glitterbox
wake me up before you go : wham!
one of these days: op ivy

Side B :
(ben folds five messiah megamix)

don’t change your plans
your redneck past
regrets
fair
kate
hospital song
army
lullaby