St. Patrick’s Day, 1998
Discovered a printout to a mix I made during spring break of my junior year in college. I believe this actually was a cassette tape mix (!) as I don’t think I owned my minidisc player until senior year.
- Sarah Vaughan’s “Misty”
- Velvet Underground’s “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
- Iggy Pop’s “Success”
- Lush’s “Sweetness and Light” **
- Jane’s Addiction’s “Obvious”
- U2’s “Even Better than the Real Thing”
- The Sundays’ “what do you think?”
- The Pharcyde’s “Passing Me By” **
- Lush’s “Starlust”
- Mono’s “Life In Mono”
- Poe’s “Fingertips”
- chemical brothers’ “Alive Alone” **
- Lauren Christy’s “Walk This Earth Alone”
- Catherine Wheels’ “Delicious”
- Oasis’ “Wonderwall” **
- No Doubt’s “Excuse Me Mr.”
- Tori Amos’ “Siren”
- The Sundays’ “I can’t wait”
- Pulp’s “Like a Friend”
- Pancho Kryztal’s “Silent Treatment”
- Future Bible Heroes’ “Hopeless” **
- David Garza’s “Slave”
These tracks were definitely in heavy rotation that semester — my clove-smoking, tea-drinking semester. Had you visited my dorm room, you probably would have heard one of those songs playing.
The asterisked tracks can still get me to that reminisc-y place, but to paraphrase Alec Baldwin, I’ve got more things to do these days than rock black turtlenecks and pen angsty zine pieces about imaginary lost love.
I guess it was “fun” to be able to get wrapped up into music back then, but perhaps that obsessional quality prevents a different kind of getting wrapped up — the getting wrapped up in the kind of real life that involves actual other real live human beings. And as it turns out, non-imaginary life is not — sorry Bono — better than the real thing.
