Other Mixes By rachel stardust
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Alternative - Punk
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Theme
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Theme - Alternating DJ
If I Could Start Again, A Million Miles Away/I Would Keep Myself. I'd Find A Way
Side A | ||
Artist | Song | |
Kansas | Dust In The Wind | |
Nico | These Days | |
The Doors | People Are Strange | |
REM | Losing My Religion | |
Bikini Kill | R.I.P. | |
Moody Blues | Question | |
The Beatles | Carry That Weight | |
The Band | Lonesome Suzie | |
Bob Marley and the Wailers | No Woman No Cry | |
Jimmy Cliff | Many Rivers To Cross | |
The Beatles | Let It Be | |
John Lennon | Mother | |
Goo Goo Dolls | Name | |
Side B | ||
Artist | Song | Buy |
Everclear | Wonderful | |
Bright Eyes | Something Vague | |
Pedro The Lion | Lullaby | |
Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | |
Smashing Pumpkins | Thirty-three | |
The Smiths | Asleep | |
Nine Inch Nails | Hurt | |
The Ramones | She Talks To Rainbows | |
Bob Dylan | Just Like A Woman | |
The Band | I Shall Be Released | |
Ben Folds | Still Fighting It | |
Cat Stevens | Sad Lisa | |
Comment:
Nothing too original here except the theme. It's my "Oh...Just started thinking about Mom...Damnit..." mix. Looking back at other recent mixes of mine, I don't think I should be so surprised that this snuck up on me.Side One:
1. After Mom's wake, Dad made a mixtape for her. I was drifting off to sleep and I heard this song. It was her favorite, and the first song Dad put on his tape, so it's the first song on my tape.
3. The Doors were her favorite band.
4. Dad bought her Out of Time for this song, so I thought it was fitting.
6. Well, the second verse of the quiet part more or less spells out my parents relationship.
8. I feel like this a lot when I think about Mom.
9. I have a friend who used to love Bob Marley, and every time I got sad, he would sing this to me.
11. Every Saturday morning, Mom would put her copy of Let It Be in the CD player and turn it up as loud as we could physically stand it, and we would clean the house. This album was a fixture for everything. Cleaning, roadtrips, hanging out, you name it.
13. The lyrics in this song make me sentimental, and also when I was younger and Goo Goo Dolls were still all over Top 40 radio, they were the only band she really liked and knew the songs.
Side Two:
1. My parents got divorced about a year before Mom died. And then about a year after she died, this song was all over the radio and summed up how I felt perfectly.
3. I guess you could call this wishful thinking.
2-7. Just some songs I like to listen to when I'm feeling sad.
8. When I was 14, I thought Joey Ramone had gone forward in time and written this song about me.
10. "Any day now, any day now, I shall be released" pretty much says it all. I know eventually I'll feel better, but shit. It's been almost seven years. It really does feel like it should be any day now.
That's about it.
Feedback:
Thank you for sharing this difficult mix with us. It is fine on a lot of levels, but your comments make it all very clear.
i agree with little spencer, your liner notes really outline the meanings behind some of the songs, & it looks like you did a great job putting this together. i should mention, however, that "losing my religion" is not on automatic for the people, but out of time. still a great mix though.