Mix Tapes and Troll Dolls
Because of the IPod-ization of our culture, we've lost certain traditions, certain expressions of love and connection. One of the things lost has been the mix tape. Back in the day, significant others used to spend hours upon hours crafting just the right line-up of songs to record on a cassette and give to me.
This process was arduous -- recording songs from the radio, flipping through CD collections, hitting that play/record button at just the right time. Heady times, those. And before I inevitably dumped that particular girlfriend -- before Christmas or before Valentine's Day or before the end of the school year -- I was touched by the thought and care that had gone into crafting that mix tape. It was always a labor of love.
Where's the love gone? We have 100 song playlists and we can burn CD's with the touch of a button -- but no one really listens to CD's anymore. And so, the art of the mix tape has been lost...
This mix tape is dedicated to the dear, dear readers of NTC (all 5 of you). It was fashioned according to rules (slightly modified) that Z. and I established while playing the "top ten" driving game on the way back from Ohio. They had to be songs currently loaded on my Walmart mp3 player, and I could only use an artist once.
I'm bringing it back bitches. NTC Superfun Remix '06
1. Mix Tape. Brand New
2. Blue Diamonds. The Long Winters
3. Cold Hard Bitch. JET
4. The General. Dispatch
5. The Stars of Track and Field. Belle and Sebastian
6. Help is on the Way. The Animators
7. Pasadena. Modern Skirts
8. Everything I Once Had. The Honorary Title
9. 16 Military Wives. The Decemberists
10. Steady as She Goes. The Raconteurs
**What would your "mix tape 10" look like?
posted by Q. @ 10:54 AM
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5 Comments:
you've never shopped at walmart in your life, which makes me question any mix tapes you may or may not have received.
Those two things are mutually exclusive. And by "Walmart" I meant my non-ipod, ipod. And if by "you've never shopped at Walmart in your life," you meant "Walmart makes your skin crawl and causes you to dive under shopping carts when the loudspeakers in the parking lot screech, 'Sheniquah, you wanted in intimates, yo!'" then, wait, what was my point?
Oh, I remember, YOU'VE FUCKING SEEN ME GO INTO A WALMART AND YOU WITNESSED MY ALLERGIC REACTION TO BARGAIN BASEMENT PRICES COMBINED WITH POOR, POOR SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
There, I said it. Are you happy now?
I've been in a Walmart with Q as well, and I'll attest to his low-cost allergies.
Here's my mix (in no order):
1. Slide Away. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
2. On Your Own. Verve - Northern Soul
3. Powder Blue. Elbow - Asleep in the Back
4. The Girl I Love, She got Long, Black Wavy Hair. Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions
5. The Straight and the Narrow. Spiritualized - Let it Come Down
6. She Said She Said. Beatles - Revolver
7. Good Day to Die. Travis - Good Feeling
8. Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll (Punk Song). BRMC -Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
9. Beautiful. Smashing Pumpkins -Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness
10. The State I am In. Belle & Sebastian - Push Bar Man to Open Old Wounds
Isn't technology supposed to make things easier? A "Mixed tape" is a way to take the music you already own and put it on one thing, which was a cassett tape.
We can do exactly the same by selecting your MP3's and burning a CD out of them, or put it on a flash drive and give to someone, etc.
We're essentially accomplishing the same thing, showing love without the "labor" of love. Technology is great.
The "labor" of love is what makes it special, Paul. You've obviously never made a killer mix tape. Technology is "great," but pointing and clicking is just not the same as what we used to go through...
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