Becoming an Adult: The Psychological Tasks of Adolescence by Royce

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Submit Date: 8/3/2000
Format: Cassette
Category: Mixed Genre

Becoming an Adult: The Psychological Tasks of Adolescence

Side A
Artist	Song
momus	complicated

pencil tin	dumb

guided by voices	i am a scientist

nancy sinatra	the last of the secret agents

soft boys	i wanna destroy you

poppy family	which way you goin', billy?

belle and sebastian	i don't love anyone

nick lowe	mary provost

future bible heroes	hopeless (stephin merrit vocal version)

syd barrett	waiving my arms in the air/i never lied to you

daniel johnston	life in vain

the beatles	paperback writer

the fall	neighborhood of infinity

curtis mayfield	freddie's dead







Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
mothers of invention	let's make the water turn black

shonen knife	i wanna eat choco bars

smog	i am star wars!

the who	disguises

elvis costello & the attractions	welcome to the working week

subway sect	ambition

grit	everybody wants something

television personalities	part time punks

mission of burma	academy fight song

komeda	happyment

donner party	why bother?

little girls	the earthquake song

tom waits	i don't want to grow up

loveletter	barbarella

broadcast	come on let's go

the verlaines	hurricane

the vaselines	dum dum

Comment:

The tape is named after an educational slide presentation produced in 1978. It's deliciously cheezy. Audio bits (almost the entire recording actually) were placed between tracks of the mix and helped inspire song selection. Most of the tracks are about delusion, deception, isolation, ill will, and escape. One song is about chocolate.
"Everybody Wants Something" is a cover of the classic tune by the Zits, of Degrassi Junior High fame. Of course, listening to the song has me itching to see some of the early episodes of that fine, fine show (especially the Zit episodes). So if anyone can hook me up or if anyone knows what happened to Joey Jeremiah, please contact me.
Another point: Elvis Costello's "Welcome to the Working Week", is there a more blissful minute and 22 seconds in popular music? Discuss below.

Feedback:

mike1
Date: 8/6/2000

A more blissful 1:22 would be VERY hard to come by. Although Snuff did a pretty damn good cover, as did my friend's band eww ... you're a girl and girls suck (they were also Degrassi fetishists and covered that theme song shit)

Joey Monotone
Date: 10/29/2000

Welcome to the working week would've made a great television sitcom theme song.

dave e.
Date: 5/1/2001

jesus. i just sat here uttering the song titles out loud in rapture, really. there's just so many very-very-faves on this. i used to have this thing about link wray...

Doug Smooth1
Date: 5/24/2001

i know everything about degrassi high, and the infamous jerimiah.....

sara k.
Date: 7/20/2001

...but did you know that there's a NEW SERIES comming out called 'degrassi: the new generation" or something starting in october? i know you can see it in canada on ctv starting then. 5 people are comming back from degrassi to be on it, but it's mostly a new cast.

Rob Conroy
Date: 7/20/2001

Wow, how did I miss this before? Stephen, would you like to trade me for a copy of this?

spoon
Date: 7/20/2001

kick ass.

Andrew Forbes
Date: 7/20/2001

Joey Jeremiah was last seen in a car commercial in Canada. His head is shaved and he's is upstaged by a dog. The music is "Who Let the Dogs Out?" Ugh.

Andrew Forbes
Date: 7/20/2001

Oh, and great mix.

Deceon
Date: 7/20/2001

Oooo, Danial Johnston, very cool

KellyB
Date: 7/20/2001

What an incredible mix! I don't know how I missed it before. Absolutely splendid. More Joey Jeremiah updates (by another DH addict) - he's getting married in like 2 weeks. No kidding! He was on a local radio show here in Toronto earlier this week with his wife-to-be. He's doing an episode or two of this new Degrassi show I believe... and that's all I know.