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Making mix tapes in college was something of a ritual for me, mostly after the breakup with Rose Marie. I had a great deal of time on my hands, so I'd spend it adding up song lengths and arranging contrasting styles, getting as close to that 90 minute mark as I could. I'd stick odd 10-second songs off punk comps on the ends to fill time, and bogue dialogue from soundtrack albums like Reservoir Dogs or Mallrats.
I'm sure some of my roommates and all the people I gave rides to got pretty sick of some of the stuff I always listened to, so I'd just go ahead and make yet another mix tape.
I fell out of the habit of making these things when I got a portable CD player for the car, with the audio tape adapter pretty much permanently ensconced in the player. I would, on occasion, make a mix CD, but it wasn't quite the same.
About nine months ago, I picked up a decent MP3-CD player--what I've been doing lately is recording a bunch of random MP3s along with a few albums together on a CD-R and listening to everything in sequence. I don't have to swap CDs as much anymore, but I still get a bit bored with the stuff that I've thrown together from time to time.
So last friday night, I somehow decided to recompile ( my old college mix tapes onto MP3 CDs, staying up until about 7:00 am ripping songs from the original CDs. )
It's taken about five nights of on-and-off ripping (and some ripping from work to prevent jittery rips), but I'm largely done with recompiling. I skipped two of the tapes (one's a dedicated punk tape repeating a lot of what's already been ripped), but since it looks like I might have enough for about two CDs worth, I might go ahead and grab some more for filler.
The problems? I compiled one of the tapes with CDs from Rose Marie's collection. Honestly, I don't particularly care about those songs (Billy Joel's "She's Got A Way" and "Goodnight Saigon" and Belinda Carlisle's "Mad About You")--I really fast-forwarded through those songs anyways.
Another tape has a song (Cheap Trick's "The Flame") from an 80s comp CD I loaned to a friend for use in her wedding reception like seven years ago, and I forgot to get it back. I've got an a capella song ("Breathe") from the BOCA college competition, and one from the Wellesley Widows ("Solsbury Hill")--both CDs in the ownership of an old college roommate. Those're no big loss either.
There are two songs, however, that I am a bit miffed about--songs from CDs which I'll be pissed if I lose: Pegboy's "Strong Reaction" and the Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees." And there's a 'Murder Barney the Dinosaur' song from the Baggy Pants Waste Precious Fabric No Idea comp which pretty much goes perfectly after the cut-off from Jawbreaker's "You Don't Know..."
I think my brother borrowed that Radiohead CD-single, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tiiguy might have the Pegboy CD. I can probably snag a copy of "Fake Plastic Trees" from one of the many Radiohead fans I'm well-acquainted with, but at the root of it all, where the hell's my damned CDs?
I'm sure some of my roommates and all the people I gave rides to got pretty sick of some of the stuff I always listened to, so I'd just go ahead and make yet another mix tape.
I fell out of the habit of making these things when I got a portable CD player for the car, with the audio tape adapter pretty much permanently ensconced in the player. I would, on occasion, make a mix CD, but it wasn't quite the same.
About nine months ago, I picked up a decent MP3-CD player--what I've been doing lately is recording a bunch of random MP3s along with a few albums together on a CD-R and listening to everything in sequence. I don't have to swap CDs as much anymore, but I still get a bit bored with the stuff that I've thrown together from time to time.
So last friday night, I somehow decided to recompile ( my old college mix tapes onto MP3 CDs, staying up until about 7:00 am ripping songs from the original CDs. )
It's taken about five nights of on-and-off ripping (and some ripping from work to prevent jittery rips), but I'm largely done with recompiling. I skipped two of the tapes (one's a dedicated punk tape repeating a lot of what's already been ripped), but since it looks like I might have enough for about two CDs worth, I might go ahead and grab some more for filler.
The problems? I compiled one of the tapes with CDs from Rose Marie's collection. Honestly, I don't particularly care about those songs (Billy Joel's "She's Got A Way" and "Goodnight Saigon" and Belinda Carlisle's "Mad About You")--I really fast-forwarded through those songs anyways.
Another tape has a song (Cheap Trick's "The Flame") from an 80s comp CD I loaned to a friend for use in her wedding reception like seven years ago, and I forgot to get it back. I've got an a capella song ("Breathe") from the BOCA college competition, and one from the Wellesley Widows ("Solsbury Hill")--both CDs in the ownership of an old college roommate. Those're no big loss either.
There are two songs, however, that I am a bit miffed about--songs from CDs which I'll be pissed if I lose: Pegboy's "Strong Reaction" and the Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees." And there's a 'Murder Barney the Dinosaur' song from the Baggy Pants Waste Precious Fabric No Idea comp which pretty much goes perfectly after the cut-off from Jawbreaker's "You Don't Know..."
I think my brother borrowed that Radiohead CD-single, and
tiiguy might have the Pegboy CD. I can probably snag a copy of "Fake Plastic Trees" from one of the many Radiohead fans I'm well-acquainted with, but at the root of it all, where the hell's my damned CDs?
