Tag: mixtape

  • Discs for Laurel #1

    Discs for Laurel #1

    Sometime after Laurel and I got together, I realized that she spent a fair amount of her time in her car for her job, and that her car had a CD player. So I made her a set of CD mixes for when she was driving around. Here’s the first of these discs: A few…

  • Mixtapes for Laurel: SONG

    Mixtapes for Laurel: SONG

    When Laurel and I first began dating, we made each other a series of mixtapes, not the most original idea, but it was an important part of our getting to know each other. For me, I decided to make a series of four discs BULL WORK BIRD SONG that were both a play on Laurel’s…

  • Mixtapes for Laurel: BIRD

    Mixtapes for Laurel: BIRD

    When Laurel and I first began dating, we made each other a series of mixtapes, not the most original idea, but it was an important part of our getting to know each other. For me, I decided to make a series of four discs BULL WORK BIRD SONG that were both a play on Laurel’s…

  • Mixtapes for Laurel: WORK

    Mixtapes for Laurel: WORK

    When Laurel and I first began dating, we made each other a series of mixtapes, not the most original idea, but it was an important part of our getting to know each other. For me, I decided to make a series of four discs BULL WORK BIRD SONG that were both a play on Laurel’s…

  • Mixtapes for Laurel: BULL

    Mixtapes for Laurel: BULL

    When Laurel and I first began dating, we made each other a series of mixtapes–not the most original idea, but it was an important part of our getting to know each other. For me, I decided to make a series of four discs BULL WORK BIRD SONG that were both a play on Laurel’s last…

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2010

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2010

    Here the last of the 21 mixtapes I made for my sister as a Christmas present in 2010 (each one with only music released during each year of her life). Joanna Newsom’s “Does Not Suffice” appeared on the original disc between “Truth” and “Cold War,” but Spotify doesn’t have the song available in their library. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2009

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2009

    Here’s the 2009 mixtape I made for my sister. The second song was Nouvelle Vague’s cover of “Blister in the Sun,” which Spotify doesn’t have available in the US. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2008

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2008

    Here’s the 2008 mixtape I made for my sister. Frakkur’s “7” and Glasvegas’ “Go Square Go” appeared between “Halfway Home” and “The Hunter’s Star” and Seasick Steve’s “Walkin’ Man” appeared just before “Song to Bobby” on the original disc, but Spotify doesn’t have those songs. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2007

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2007

    This is the 2007 mixtape I made for my sister. Antony and the Johnson’s “You Are My Sister” (with Boy George) and Sun Kil Moon’s “Glenn Tipton” originally appeared on the disc just before “1234,” but Spotify didn’t have these songs available. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2006

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2006

    Here’s the 2006 mixtape I made for my sister. The second track was Primal Scream’s “Country Girl” and Nouvelle Vague’s “Dancing with Myself” and Serena Ryder’s “Sisters of Mercy” cover versions came between “Maybe Sparrow” and “The Greatest” on the actual disc, but Spotify doesn’t have those songs. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2005

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2005

    Here’s the 2005 mixtape I made for my sister. Sun Kil Moon’s cover of Modest Mouse’s “Neverending Math Equation” was included between “Made for TV Movie” and “You are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son,” but Spotify doesn’t have that song. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2004

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2004

    Here’s the 2004 mixtape I made for my sister. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2003

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2003

    Here’s the 2003 mixtape I made for my sister. I spent the first 8 months without any music, living in England, before returning to college in August of this year. On the plane ride home, I listened to the airplane music station, taking obsessive notes and soaking up all the sounds. It had been a…

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2002

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2002

    Here’s the 2002 mix I made for my sister. This was the first full year that I lived entirely without any popular music (and outside of the United States), so I heard none of these songs when they were first released. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2001

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2001

    Here the 2K1 mixtape I made for my sister. All songs included on Spotify. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 2000

    Mixtapes for Camille: 2000

    Here’s the 2000 playlist I made for my sister. All songs included by Spotify (for the first time, I think). Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 1999

    Mixtapes for Camille: 1999

    Here’s the 1999 mix I made for my sister. I included the live acoustic version of Live’s “They Stood Up for Love” as well as two missing tracks right before Built To Spill’s “The Plan” at the end of the disc: Bonny ‘Prince’ Billy’s “A Minor Place” and Smog’s “Let’s Move to the Country,” but…

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 1995

    Mixtapes for Camille: 1995

    Here’s the mixtape I made to represent the year 1995. Some real howlers on this one, and a couple of gems which stand up nicely. Spotify didn’t have The Rentals’ song “These Days,” which fit in the original mix between “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” and “Just A Girl”. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 1994

    Mixtapes for Camille: 1994

    In 1994, I was 12. What??? The songs on this mixtape are still all out of order, but here’s the essential 1994 mix. Enjoy!

  • Mixtapes for Camille: 1993

    Mixtapes for Camille: 1993

    Here’s the playlist I made for the year 1993. Sequencing problems once again on this one, and Spotify didn’t have Palace Brothers’ “Idle Hands are the Devil’s Playthings“, but other than that, here’s the mix: