Side A
Artist	Song
Bono	Driving to Midnight Mass
U2	New Year's Day (Special US Mix)
Neil Young	Let's Roll
John Lennon	Instant Karma
Aerosmith	Living on the Edge (Acoustic)
Queen w/ David Bowie	Pressure
Nickelback	Leader of Men
Foo Fighters	My Hero
Pearl Jam	Blood (Live)
NIN	We're in this Together Now
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
U2	Peace on Earth (WTC Mix)
Leonard Cohen	The Great Event
George Harrison	While my Guitar Gently Weeps (Acoustic)
Rage Against the Machine	Beautiful World
Paul Westerberg	Even Here We Are
Peter Gabriel	I Grieve
Suzanne Vega	Blood Sings
Santana with Everlast	Put your Lights On
Ramones	I Remember You
U2	New York (Live on David Letterman)
Johnny Cash	One

Comment:

This is my First Visit to this site, and I only realized recently how my own obsessive mixing hobby was in fact widely shared across such a broad population.

I am born and raised in Brooklyn, and had returned from a research visit to Africa on 1 Sept. 2001. I spent the next three months trying to figure out how to deal with hate, rage, and sadness. I made this tape to deal with it. Pretty simple layout: Side 1 is Angry, Side 2 is just fuckin' sad.

Songs:

Bono: Captured from a radio bradcast years ago. A poem by John Dean

NYD: Special Mix that really hammers the song home.

Let's Roll: Makes me more uncomfortable now, but worked at the time.

Instant Karma: What in the world do you think you are?

Living on the Edge: Sure, it's Aerosmith, and it's bloated, but it's their most desparate song, I think.

Under Pressure - One more chance

Leader of Men - I HATE Nickelback as a concept, but this is a truly great song.

My Hero - Obvious

Blood - From the Dissident CD single set. Early performance with all the hate and rage intact.

NIN - summing it all up

X2

Peace on Earth - a mix of audio snippets in a great song questioning killing people in Omagh. One of dozens of exploitative mixes, but I'm a U2 fan. At least it's not fuckin' Enya.

Great Event - happened on a Tuesday, according to Cohen.

Harrison - obvious

Westerberg - finding beauty in nothing, anything.

Gabriel - saddest song outside of anything by Joy Division.

Vega - unforgettable

Everlast and Santana - great track on an otherwise slick record. Monsters aren't always under the bed.

Ramones - I remember you - another idol gone

U2 - New York - From Letterman, Bono was shot from singing in NY and NJ for days before, but this haggard version really works.

J Cash - One. More soul, regret, and promise than Bono can ever hope to have.

This is one of those mixes that I don;t listen to too often anymore. I used to, but now it's a timepiece, a scar. All it does is make memories well up, and hate and fear rise again. I guess that's what these tapes are for - to remember their genesis, and remind you of the people you made them for, or the events that forced you to pick a bunch of odd music out of thousands of choices.

Thanks.

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