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Pop
12/21/2002
Nineteen songs is a bit paltry for a C-90; there are a few long ones on here. Also, I misidentified a Dinosaur Jr song a few tapes back, so I evened it out by crediting "Even You" though it's really "T …
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Cassette
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Pop
12/17/2002
From such acorns grow the mighty oaks of our tape archives; this is my Ur-mix, from 1984. Full of stylistic gaffes: Too much reliance on The Cars, ready-made segues straight from record, gaping spaces …
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Cassette
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Theme
12/14/2002
Made a few years back at the height of the cocktail craze, this tape was a bear to transcribe. It was made mostly from borrowed CDs, and most of the songs are instrumentals. Had I known I was going to …
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Cassette
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Pop
12/5/2002
One of my earliest efforts: Iron Maiden's "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" was a spanking-new release when this was minted. Guilty pleasures are here for all to witness. Kind of like being seen with a Eu …
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Cassette
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Theme
12/3/2002
The theme of this tape lies in the segue between "Countdown" and "Basic Hip": Too dopey for jazz but too streamlined to be pimp. Serge Gainsbourg pulls triple duty in the absence of Jacques Brel and An …
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Cassette
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Mixed Genre
12/1/2002
These are really the B-sides of two separate tapes; the A-sides are recordings of borrowed CDs. The two sides of my tapes are rarely made to complement one another, anyway.
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Cassette
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Mixed Genre
11/28/2002
How old is this tape? I was listening to "Elected" the night Bill Clinton beat George Bush! Side 2 was retaped some time after that, though. Some industrial music was lingering from my club days; I hav …
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Cassette
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Pop
11/27/2002
"Timer" comes from those little "Time for Timer" cartoons that used to pop up on ABC Saturday mornings. Side One used to be slow and countryish, I completely retaped it several years ago. There are ple …
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CD
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Theme
11/27/2002
All album-enders: All crucial. Final songs sort of make sweeping statements so they tend to bully one another when all programmed together... and try picking one for a leadoff track!
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