49: Tripping, Running, Escape!

This mix marks the first mix I made which was not recorded to cassette. This mix existed only as a Winamp playlist for a few years, between when I first installed Napster and Winamp on my PC circa 1998-1999, and when I finally upgraded to a new PC with a CD burner in 2001.

1. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams
2. A Higher Place, Tom Petty - I will never forget a Liz Phair concert at Avalon: "A Higher Place" was the last song played on the PA system, after the lights were dimmed, but before Liz emerged onstage.
3. Fastball's hit single was "Out of My Head", but I always liked "Fire Escape" better.
4. "Tripping Billies" may be my favorite Dave Matthews song.
5. "Eileen's Song" Burlap to Cashmere was a total one-hit wonder. I have the album "Eileen's Song" is on. I listened to it once all the way through, and I remember thinking that none of the other songs sounded like this.
6. "Holding Back the Years" I always liked this Simply Red song, but I never managed to get it onto a mix until now. It feels very dated now.
7. "Stolen Car" Beth Orton
8. "Ray of Light" Madonna
9. "Alcohol" Barenaked Ladies
10. I recently scored 100% on ROCK BAND 2 while singing "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit.
11. "I'm Not Running Anymore" John Mellencamp
12. "Sunflower" Paul Weller
13. "Circus" Eric Clapton
14. "Sally Ann" I found this song on 10,000 Maniacs' CD single for "Candy Everybody Wants".
15. "Last Night of the World" Bruce Cockburn

48: I Don't Care Anymore

An appropriate title for this collection, as this would be the last numbered cassette music mix I would record. I could check my records, but I must have changed jobs around this time and I no longer had hours to kill on the overnight shift.

SIDE A

1. If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free, Sting
2. Sanctify Yourself, Simple Minds. This album Once Upon A Time, was the moment where they had the most potential to be the Next U2. The production quality is the cleanest and rockingest, and the songs were the strongest.
3. Blame it on Cain, On his debut My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello was backed by most of Huey Lewis' band Clover (someday to become The News.) Listen for Elvis's vocal to distort during the loud parts.
4. What I Am, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
5. 32 Flavors, Alana Davis was a one-hit wonder around the turn of the century. She charted with this Ani DiFranco cover.
6. Song For The Dumped, This Ben Folds Five album, Whatever and Ever Amen, was the one playing on the stereo at Newbiy Comics in South Portland. It was the cliche'd moment where I asked the clerk "who is this awesome artist?" That never happens to me!
7. Get Out of This House, Shawn Colvin's most rocking song!
8. Darkness on the Edge Of Town, Bruce Springsteen
9. Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance), This Green Day song has become their crossover hit. In 2011 it still gets played on every type of radio station!
10. Girl, The Beatles
11. Happy, The Rolling Stones
12. Hooked on a Feeling, Blue Swede

SIDE B

1. Rain King, Counting Crows
2. Without Expression, John Mellencamp
3. Surrounded, Chantal Kreviazuk
4. Three Marlenas, The Wallflowers
5. Positively Fourth Street, Bob Dylan
6. Somewhere Down The Crazy River, Robbie Robertson
7. Adios Hermanos, Paul Simon
8. No Cheap Thrill, Suzanne Vega
9. (Everybody's Else's) Girl, Tori Amos
10. I Don't Care Anymore, Phil Collins

Between 1999 and 2001, I collected MP3s from Napster onto my home PC and assembled music mix playlists with Winamp. My PC did not allow me to rip or burn CDs, so I downloaded all the tracks from Napster, including songs which I owned on CD but I could not rip them to my hard drive. In the spring of 2001 I bought a new PC with a CD-R drive, and the new era began.

The First New Mix Tape In A While: No.47

90 minutes

The Siblings Tape #46

A real odd mix of music. Very atonal. From the cassette insert: "Recorded May 26-29, 1997. Kate and Jon contributed CDs to this mix."

SIDE ONE

1. "Weird Al" Yankovic: "Polkas on 45"
   
2. "Hooked On Polkas"
   
3. "Polka Party!"
   
4. "Polka Your Eyes Out"
   
5. "The Alternative Polka"
   
6. "I Should've Known" Aimee Mann
   
7. "You Got Lucky" Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
   
8. "The Impression I Get" The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
   
9. "Modern Woman" Billy Joel
   
10. "Elvis Is Dead" Living Colour

SIDE TWO

1. "Swingtown" Steve Miller Band
   
2. "Galileo" Indigo Girls
   
3. "Daughter" Pearl Jam
   
4. "How?" John Lennon
   
5. "Lost In The Supermarket" The Clash
   
6. "Atlantic City" Bruce Springsteen
   
7. "Cure for Pain" Morphine
   
8. "Something Ain't Right" David Byrne
   
9. "Semi-Charmed Life" Third Eye Blind
   
10. "Close To Me" The Cure
    
11. "My City Was Gone" Pretenders

Mix Tape 45: All Mixed Up

Also known as "Scripty Cursive" I later remade this cassette mix on CD-R. 100 minutes cassette.
SIDE ONE

1. "All Mixed Up" 311
   
2. "Looking For A Song" Big Audio (aka the third iteration of Mick Jones' Big Audio Dynamite)
   
3. "Eggman" Beastie Boys
   
4. "Annie Get Your Gun" Squeeze
   
5. "Possession" Sarah McLachlan
   
6. "God" Tori Amos
   
7. "Empty" The Cranberries
   
8. "You And The Mona Lisa" Shawn Colvin
   
9. "Something So Right" Paul Simon
   
10. "Philadelphia" Neil Young
    
11. "Believe What You're Saying" Sugar
    
12. "Without You" Bruce Springsteen
    
13. "Paper In Fire" John Cougar Mellencamp

SIDE TWO

1. "We've Arrived (And To Prove It We're Here)" The Rutles
   
2. "There Goes The Neighborhood" Sheryl Crow
   
3. "Baby, Now That I've Found You" The Foundations
   
4. "Stranger Than Fiction" Joe Jackson
   
5. "Running On Ice" Billy Joel
   
6. "When Love Comes To Town" U2 with B.B. King
   
7. "Electrolite" R.E.M.
   
8. "Behind Every Good Woman" Tracy Bonham
   
9. "Monkey Gone To Heaven" The Pixies
   
10. "Nearly Lost You" Screaming Trees
    
11. "Little Bird" Annie Lennox
    
12. "Peg" Steely Dan