Recently, Eric, Chrispy, Dcooney and Eric's friend John conducted a music swap of the music that we used to listen to in high school. You are allowed to include anything that you used to listen to in high school. But nothing beyond your high school graduation. And, like a cassette tape, there should be 2 sets of 45min music compilations.
I was a little handicapped by this constraint because 1) I graduated from a Singapore Secondary school (high school?) at age 16,in 1988 and 2) the bulk of my music collection is either in Singapore or on vinyl which I sold off when I moved here. Regardless, I rose to the challenge and have managed to burn my contributions to the music swap. Behold below! The tracks that I have chosen to be representative of my teenhood:
Side A:
1. Zoe Tay (2:55) Boredphucks
2. Communication Breakdown (3:12) Led Zeppelin
3. Tame (1:56) Pixies
4. Natural's Not In It (3:06) Gang Of Four
5. Work (2:37) Lou Reed & John Cale
6. Motorcycle Emptiness (6:08) Manic Street Preachers
7. The Hardest Walk (2:40) The Jesus And Mary Chain
8. Love Will Tear Us Apart (3:26) Joy Division
9. Not Too Soon (3:09) Throwing Muses
10. The Shyest Time (3:35) The Apartments
11. Mean To Me (3:14) Crowded House
12. Head Over Heals (3:43) Overnight Jones
13. Jennifer She Said (3:02) Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
14. Blister In The Sun (2:24) Violent Femmes
15. Thirteen (2:37) Big Star
16. Under The Milky Way (4:58) The Church
17. Bad (5:51) U2
Side B:
1. Vapour Trail (4:18) Ride
2. When You Sleep (4:11) My Bloody Valentine
3. But Not Tonight- Extended Remix (5:13) Depeche Mode
4. Perfect Kiss (8:02) New Order
5. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (4:54) Talking Heads
6. When Love Breaks Down (3:46) Prefab Sprout
7. Moments In Love (10:15) The Art Of Noise
8. Wolf In The Breast (3:32) Cocteau Twins
9. Shadow Of A Doubt (3:32) Sonic Youth
10. Briliant Trees (8:23) David Sylvian
11. The Wild Ones (4:50) Suede
12. The Whole Of The Moon (5:00) The Waterboys
OK, I have to admit that after burning the discs, I realized that I cheated on 2 counts. One, I took my graduation year to be 1990 and not 1998, as I assumed graduating from Junior College as my graduation year. And two, I was a little careless with the time limits for each side of the mix tape. And lastly, I also think that a number of tracks slipped the 1990 constraint imposed. See if you can guess which ones ;) Also, feel free to compose your own high school mix tapes and share them with us in the comments.
6 comments:
I did this for a CD swap recently. My tracklist:
1. The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get - Morrissey
2. Stay - Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
3. Just Walk Away Renee - Left Bank
4. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
5. Tennessee - Arrested Development
6. Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
7. Linger - the cranberries
8. Downtown - Petula Clark
9. In My Life - The Beatles
10. Satellite - Dave Matthews Band
11. An Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night
12. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul McCartney & Wings
13. 98.6 - Keith
14. The 13th - The Cure
15. Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden
16. Standing outside a broken phonebooth with money in my hand - Primitive Radio Gods
17. Go All The Way - The Raspberries
18. Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
19. All I Want - Toad the Wet Sprocket
20. Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
What a coincidence! I just bought some George Michael tracks last night: 'Too Funky', 'Father Figure', 'Faith', 'Freedom', 'Careless Whisper', and 'Flawless' [New]. Lot's of F's, huh?
Anyway, there's no way I'm putting 'Who Let the Dogs Out' on here. I will put down the entire albums for Ricky Martin, Lauren Hill, Alanis Morissette (Jagged Little Pill), BB King and Pure Moods (OMIGOD!). Probably also the full scores for The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, and the Pirates of Penzance.
"Brilliant Trees".....excellent
OMG Srah, I actually know and have interviewed fool's garden before. As I recall they were pretty annoying in the phone interview. I need to dig it up and re-publish that interview here ...
George Micheal huh Allision. You like 'em greek boys now huh. What happened to the Irish object of fantasy?
Chrispy, I was about to put Scritti Politi's Perfect Way on the compilation as well.
Greek, Irish, (apparently) gay, former boy-band members...in my fantasy, they're all there! Singing and dancing! Kum-Bay-Ya all around!
I think that's the plotline of a gay porn film....
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