7/20/2005
Doing some housecleaning recently I unpacked a box of pix from my college days. A much younger friend saw said pictures and marveled at how "period" the hair and clothes were. Anyway, I put this tape t …
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7/19/2005
My inner history geek came out on this one. Hey, it's what I majored in in college. My original idea for this mix was to have a song for each major war America has fought. Then I found that I needed mo …
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7/19/2005
All songs that refer to themselves. I tried to stick mainly to songs with multiple self-references (hence, leaving out things like XTC's "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love", where the self-reference is jus …
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7/18/2005
From travelling through Texas and the Southwest in July 05. A selection of music that felt the way the landscape looked.
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7/18/2005
i made this mix in the summer of 2002. i was 16 years old, and i'd just started getting into more 'classic' rock. no idea why i put that jane's addiction track on there though. ah well. this mix sent u …
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7/18/2005
I wouldn't want to live there, but I do visit the sad side of town once in a while. Actually the germ of this mix was the impulse to make a film noir musical, but I just couldn't come up with the righ …
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7/17/2005
Part Two! One more Boswell Sisters track and plenty more Mills Brothers songs (just to keep you happy, Mr Lally!)...along with several tracks from the other great proto-Doo Wop group - The Ink Spots. ( …
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7/17/2005
A mix for those lonely nights on the highway...
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7/16/2005
Some people enjoy extreme sports (sky-diving, bungee jumping, para-gliding, etc,) but personally I prefer 'extreme mixing' - having a relatively simple idea for a CD and taking it to such a ludicrous e …
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