Notes
Christmas Day 1990 was spent up in the music room of my childhood home in Texas, playing records and making this mix. I was 17, and just days away from leaving my home, my town, and all my friends and family for California on a desperate whim. The tape recently randomly resurfaced, 22 years later, in a brown paper bag crumpled into a tangle of vintage lights just a few days before Christmas.
3 comments on Misc Sampler 12-25-1990
Ski Taylor April 06, 2013
SST was not a bad thing to be ruled by...
This was just all the music I came up on, and I'm certainly thankful for that!
More mixes will happen, yes. Thanks for all your entertaining mixes!
⃠Ski Taylor April 03, 2013
(con't)
Mix tapes are little time capsules, and this one shows me who I was in the absolute darkest hours of my life. Introspective, a bit melancholy, and full of sass, yes- but the tape also contains silliness, and hope, and even the twinklings of first love.
Certainly nowhere near as dark as I expected the tape to be...
The other side of the mix tape is The Beatles' Abbey Road, my all time favorite Beatles album. Both sides are slightly warbled, and full of glorious record cracklings. Digitizing the mix made it sound a lot worse, unfortunately.
⃠Ski Taylor April 03, 2013
This posting starts with a play of the original mixtape all the way through, and then individual mp3/4s.
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