2007
my one and only friend statistics
maura @ 6:36 pm
It’s been blast from the past time for me in the car lately. I’ve been listening to a copy of a mix I made for a friend’s birthday in early 1992 (!) that I excavated from the box of car cassette tapes.
So many of these songs are still so very excellent: Close Lobsters’ “Just too Bloody Stupid,” Ultra Vivid Scene’s “Special One,” and Pale Saints’ “True Coming Dream” to name just a few. The extended dreamy guitar outro on Field Mice’s “Of the Perfect Kind” STILL slays me to this day.
Some of these records I just bought because of label lust, say, anything on 4AD or Creation. And the songs were okay, but now I find myself using our car tape deck’s handy skip feature to fast forward over them. More than one of these songs is on the new Rhino Records Brit Box (e.g. Wonderstuff’s “Unbearable” and the Primitives’ “Crash”).
Some of these songs haven’t quite held up to the test of time, to my ears at least. I remember LOVING Voice of the Beehive, but now they sound corny and overproduced. They probably were always corny and overproduced, and maybe it’s just my preference, as I age, for corny and underproduced? Who’s to say.
And some of these songs make me a little sad, because this tape is the only copy I have of them. Like Felt’s “The Day the Rain Came Down” and Momus’ “Hairstyle of the Devil,” both of which I borrowed from a friend to make this mix. Are the consequences of thrifty living coming back to haunt me?
