I love my iPod, I do. It's nice to peruse one's music collection with the rotation of one's thumb. But I miss Mix Tapes.
I know, there are people who will say - "Put together a Playlist" blah, blah, blah...
It's just not the same. It really isn't.
Sitting cross-legged on your living room floor, cd's strewn about, looking at cover art, checking out who wrote the songs, trying to discern the various stages of Cher's plastic surgery - you can't beat that kind of quality time with a stick.
And if we're really getting to the heart of it - I miss the storytelling capacity of a Mix Tape. How I can go back to Mixes I've made and know exactly who I was dating, who I was obsessing over, who I had just broken up with based on the sappy or sassy soundtrack I'd compiled. Who needs a diary when music really does reflect our lives, exactly as they were at any given moment in our lives?
I can't quite remember which dodgy relationship bookended Josh Groban and Violent Femmes on the same Mix, but I'm sure if I give it one more listen - it'll all come rushing back.
God, how I love a Mix Tape.
5 comments:
I do enjoy creating a mix tape, but not back when they really were tapes. Trying to pause the darn cassette tape recorder at exactly the right moment before the next song on the LP started was a little nerve racking and frustrating wasn't it? Does anyone even know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, I remember the Memorex XL90s, then they came out with metal ones. The last one I remember putting together involved The Police and Men at Work. It was definitely much more involved then. Once you made it, you were committed to it.
While I never had the honor of LP to Tape mixing, I remember trying to tape music off the radio. Similar issues. Stupid DJ's
Okay, out of respect for this blogger (and friend) I have changed my nickname from m to mb. Sorry, didn't mean to cause any confusion. That's what meetings are for.
mb - you're a good man. your aquiescence (spelled while drunk) is appreciated.
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