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Would anyone be willing to either make a mix tape for me to change my life, or else tell me exactly what would be on it so that I can try and make it for myself with the help of Kaazaa? Everything I have bought for the past year has just seemed at best very good, but it just doesnt seem to mean as much as it could when I was 15/16. Maybe music can never mean Everything to you in the same way once you're older (not that I am even much older). I hope not. I've only ever been made about 6 tapes in my life, but practically every one I listened to so much I could probably still tell you the exact order of the tracks, and some of them introduced me to music that really did change my life. So I hope the idea of changing the life of a total stranger appeals to someone.

Cathy x

― Cathy Leech, Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, first a key question -- do you have any general likes or hates, or do you want to try anything and everything?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. After you answer Ned.

But it's much much harder for music to change your life when you're not 15-16. Music has changed my life, but it's a lot to ask of a particular song or album.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 8 May 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

tapes only, or are CDs ok?

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 May 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

also, to add to Ned's q's: what does it need changing from?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 8 May 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, what are these CDs you've bought in the last year that aren't satisfactory?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 May 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I make a mean mixtape/CD (whichever you prefer... the ol' cassette player needs more attention, actually). I'm there for you, man. Tracklistings to mixes sent to Cathy to be posted on this thread in one week!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

(I meant "man" in the general sense, BTW. I know you're not a man.)

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be entirely willing, since I've just rediscovered the joys of mix tapes. How did I manage to forget how fun they were to make?

Ned and Gaz' questions are very important, though; and, also, would you want just new music, or from a range of eras?

― cis (cis), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks to everyone that showed an interest, I'm quite excited now.
Well, I wouldn't like to rule any type of music out, because I know I often spontaneously like music I'd always thought I hated (Pavement and Basement Jaxx are two random examples that come to mind). I havent had much money to buy CDs this past year, but the last few I bought were:
Delgados - Domestiques/The Great Eastern/Hate
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Yo La Tengo - And then nothing turned itself inside out
Edwyn Collins & Orange Juice - A Casual Introduction
Death in Vegas - Scorpion Rising
White Stripes - Elephant
Beta Band - Three EPs
Stereolab - ABC Music

I don't mean that I've found these records *dissatisfactory* (well, except Scorpion Rising), some of them I really like, its just that I don't feel as passionate about them as I have in the past about other music, and I feel like I need something new and exciting.
In the next few weeks I'll be doing my A-Levels and finally finishing school, so any tapes I receive will be providing a soundtrack to that. When I was sitting my GCSEs, all I listened to was Belle and Sebastian and Syd Barrett (on tapes made by my sister's boyfriend) -- both shaped and seemed to perfectly fit the way I felt at the time and have become inseparable in my mind with May 2001, sitting in my garden trying to revise anaerobic respiration and Catullus poems. That is what I mean when I talk about music changing my life.

So, I'm quite willing to try anything and everything, old or new, CD/tape/minidisc, all are good.

Oh, and I really don't like Jeff Buckley. Anything else, I'm willing to try.

― Cathy Leech, Friday, 9 May 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Platinum Korean Adult Contemporary 3"
Need I say more.
Spoon Feed or Spoon Bent

― PeterALopez, Friday, 9 May 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and I really don't like Jeff Buckley.

You have already risen high in my estimation. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned beat me to it.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

What you need is some Fugazi, Throwing Muses and early Blur in your life. And if you have the time, throw in '91-'95 Smashing Pumpkins and some Red House Painters. And "Loveless".

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Strong words, JP. You got the tape to back that up?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

ha! i could tape you some stuff but you might hate it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

lol... no, but I'm willing and able to ACTUALLY DO IT!!

(Will CD-R do?)

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I've already owed Tracer Hand a mixtape for about four months now! (I've not forgotten! Honest! I'm just... slow!)

― kate, Friday, 9 May 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

hrrm, i'd like to join in too!

although i'm already way behind in owing people things. including a mix tape meant for cis, actually. must play with turntable this weekend---finish off that tape, ship it off---and listen to that pile of 7"s i picked up last week. :)

― janni (janni), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yea, that Death in Vegas album is the pitts, inn'it? Handy rule for electronic music: if nothing's happened in the first three songs, nothing's going to happen.

Anyway. I have a sneaking suspicion that you need some funky breaks. Free your ass, etc.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

People still make CDs?

― gage o (gage o), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Gage awakens 200 years in the future to find all conventional wisdom turned on its head. Smoking is good for you, and CDs cause cancer. He is bewildered by the strange new world, and has hilarious adventures dressing as a robot and beating a huge pudding with a broom.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, is a CD-R just the same as a normal CD? I'm such a techno-fool...

― Cathy Leech, Friday, 9 May 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way just email me and I'll give you my address...I'll welcome anything anyone chooses to send me. CDs, tapes, minidiscs are all fine, just no anthrax.

― Cathy Leech, Friday, 9 May 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

If I mail you this pound of pot, can you keep it in your apartment for me for a while? Thanks. I owe ya one.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The only problem is that I live in Portugal... Probably there will be a lot of postage to pay... But I can give you a ruff guide of the bands I mentioned for you to search...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Suggestions are very welcome. If you can name specific tracks then I will happily download them. I'm going to make a minidisc with people's suggestions on it, so if you live outside the UK thats probably more cost-effective.
Thanks x

― Cathy Leech, Friday, 9 May 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"just no anthrax"

Awl, I guess I'll have to take them off the Thrash mixtape I was working on.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 9 May 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

specific tracks can be found here too (there are a lot):

List Your Mix-CD

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 9 May 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

To Chris Xii:
I can't seem to reply to the email you sent, it keeps coming back with failure notices saying you dont exist. Do you have a different email address I could use? Thanks x

― Cathy Leech, Saturday, 10 May 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Cathy - check your email.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Saturday, 10 May 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and a message for Nordicskillz - I haven't forgotten yr Sightings/Noxagt CDs

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Saturday, 10 May 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Skip James, "Illinois Blues"
Roky Erickson, "Laughing Things"
Apryl Foole, "Motherland"
ZZ Top, "Asleep in the Desert"

― dave q, Saturday, 10 May 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll make you a CD!!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 10 May 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

HIS NAME IS ROBERT PAULSON
HIS NAME IS ROBERT PAULSON
HIS NAME IS ROBERT PAULSON

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

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