Side A
Artist	Song
1 The Cars	Let's Go
2 Blondie	One Way Or Another
3 The Go-Gos	Our Lips Are Sealed
4 Marshall Crenshaw	Someday, Someway
5 The Stray Cats	Rock This Town
6 The B-52s	Rock Lobster
7 U2	New Year's Day
8 r.e.m.	Gardening at Night
9 Aztec Camera	Oblivious
10 The Psychedelic Furs	Love My Way
11 The Cure	Let's Go To Bed
12 Generation X	Ready Steady Go
13 David Bowie	Hang On To Yourself
14 The Boomtown Rats	Straight Up
15 The Jam	That's Entertainment
16 X	Los Angeles
17 Madness	House of Fun
18 The Violent Femmes	Prove My Love
19 Thomas Dolby	Screen Kiss
20 Laurie Anderson	From the Air
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
21 Brian Eno	Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
22 The Style Council	Internationalists
23 Joe Jackson	Look Sharp!
24 The Fleshtones	New Scene
25 The Replacements	Kiss Me On the Bus
26 Squeeze	Picadilly
27 Elvis Costello & the Attractions	Radio, Radio
28 The Monkees	Mary, Mary
29 Merry Go Round	Live
30 The Beatles	I'm Looking Through You
31 The Beau Brummels	Still in Love With You Baby
32 The Byrds	Mr. Tambourine Man
33 The Lovin' Spoonful	Till I Run With You
34 Donovan	There is a Mountain
35 The Kinks	She's Got Everything
36 The Small Faces	Itchycoo Park
37 T. Rex	Jeepster
38 Syd Barrett	Octopus
39 Robyn Hitchcock	Insect Mother
40 They Might Be Giants	Don't Let's Start
41 Young Fresh Fellows	When The Girls Get Here

Comment:

This is an autobiographical mix I compiled for my 41st birthday (41 tracks!). I was a relative latecomer to rock music because my family had pretty odd tastes and rock was not really heard much in my household. The songs on these two discs are roughly arranged in the order in which I became aware of them. Tracks 1-20 are from Junior High/High School and tracks 21-41 are from the early college years.

Track 1: Friend's Brother's record collection. He had all the Cars albums.

Track 2: First saw Blondie perform on Solid Gold.

Tracks 3-9: MTV opens up a whole new world of music.

Tracks 10-12 and 15-17: Songs I discovered by taping my friends' record collections.

Tracks 13, 14 and 19: 13 is from the first rock recording I ever bought, 14 from the first vinyl album (Still Rock and Roll To Me by Billy Joel was the first 45), and track 19 is from the first rock album I ever owned (a gift from my sister).

Tracks 18 and 20: Before moving back to California, I asked friends to add a song to a cassette mix I was compiling. These songs were two that really stood out.

Track 21: Upon returning to California, reconnected with a childhood friend who turned me on to Eno and other art rock/progressive artists.

Tracks 22-27: The golden age of college radio.

Track 28: My childhood Monkee Mania re-emerges.

Track 29: I start buying volumes of the Rhino Nuggets series. This is from vol. 4, "Pop Part 2".

Track 30: I finally get into the Beatles. This song goes into heavy rotation after a breakup with a fellow Beatles fan.

Track 31: It was right behind the Beatles at the record store, it looked good, I'm glad I bought it.

Tracks 32-36: I take "The History of Rock 'n' Roll of the Sixties" and life is never quite the same again.

Track 37: My best friend turns me on to T. Rex, The Velvet Underground, Kate Bush and Patti Smith.

Track 38: A lousy boyfriend introduces me to Syd Barrett (who I love), but ends up making me hate the Talking Heads.

Track 39: My sister leaves her Fegmania cassette at my house, leading to a full-blown obsession with Robyn and the Soft Boys.

Track 40: A work friend lends me their first album. I am immediately smitten.

Track 41: TMBG name drops the YFF in the song Twisting... I investigate and discover another band that I hold dear to my heart.
The mix title comes from the name of a Mexican David Bowie rarities cassette that I bought when I was 17.
The download link includes the full liner notes, the CD cover and cover image.

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