I found some of my old 90's mixtapes today :) I used to spend entire afternoons recording mixtapes with my favorite songs back when I was 12, 13 and 14. Then I started making mix MiniDisc's and then Mix CD's and now I make iTunes playlists, lol.
I've just had a few hours of nostalgic bliss listening to my old mixtapes, some even made me laugh at their incoherence and/or choice of songs, and I remembered some songs I used to love and had already forgotten, and I remembered the nights spent watching the then amazing and now defunct MTV SuperRock show :)
I found a 1996 Nirvana mixtape, where I only put
Nirvana songs. Another 1996 mixtape with
Metallica and
Nirvana songs. A 1997 Hanson mixtape where I only put
Hanson songs (lololol). A 1997 mixtape that only had
KoЯn songs except for one
Backstreet Boys song somewhere in the middle (wtf? lol). A 1998 mixtape that only had
Morphine songs on one side, and
VNV Nation songs on the other side (again...wtf? lol) And a bunch of mixtapes that had alot of bands.
So here are some of them:
1998 Mixtape:
A Side
Pearl Jam -
Last Kiss
Rammstein -
Du Hast
Rammstein -
Stripped
Green Day -
Brain Stew
Rage Against the Machine -
No Shelter
Foo Fighters -
Walking After You
NOFX -
We Threw Gasoline on the Fire and Now We Have Stumps for Arms and No Eyebrows
Deftones -
Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
The Sisters of Mercy -
Walk Away
Pennywise -
Greed
KoЯn -
Kick The P.A.
B Side
Silverchair & Vitro -
Spawn
Pearl Jam -
Alive
Pearl Jam -
Jeremy
Placebo -
Nancy Boy
Placebo -
I Know
Placebo -
Bruise Pristine
Soundgarden -
Black Hole Sun
Tool -
Forty Six & 2
Coal Chamber -
Loco
Sublime -
Santeria
KoЯn -
Daddy
1999 Mixtape:
A Side
The Cure -
Just Like Heaven
The Cure -
Friday I'm In Love
Bush -
Greedy Fly
Hole -
Malibu
Portishead -
All Mine
Incubus -
Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)
Skunk Anansie -
Secretly
Dead Can Dance -
The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove
Marilyn Manson -
Great Big White World
Spineshank -
Stovebolt
Pinhead Society -
story game
B Side
Type O Negative -
Love You to Death
Deftones -
Mascara
Lit -
Miserable
Anathema -
Make It Right
Primitive Reason -
Hipócrita
Piston -
Grey Flap
System of a Down -
Spiders
Ornatos Violeta -
Tempo de Nascer
Garbage -
You Look So Fine
Millencolin -
Mr. Clean
Nine Inch Nails -
Closer
Fields of the Nephilim -
Moonchild
It was also around 1998 that I discovered Microsoft Publisher and with it discovered my true passion alongside music (Graphic Design) and started making covers for all my Mixtapes, and MixCD's and covers for my MTV SuperRock VHS recordings, lololol (albeit very bad covers, but you can't expect much from a 13 year old + Microsoft Publisher :p)
I don't have most of the mixtape covers anymore, but I found this 1999 mixtape still with the cover:
with this tracklisting:
Side A
The Sisters of Mercy -
Black Planet
Joy Division -
Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Cure -
Just Like Heaven
The Cure -
Burn
Bauhaus -
Third Uncle
Bauhaus -
Passion of Lovers
The Creatures -
Don't Go to Sleep Without Me
Echo & The Bunnymen -
Killing Moon
Dead Can Dance -
Saltarello
Side B
Millennium -
One Last Waltz
Meat Beat Manifesto -
She's Unreal
Moonspell -
Herr Spiegelmann
Rammstein -
Stripped
Type O Negative -
My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
Katatonia -
Deadhouse
Tiamat -
Brighter Than the Sun
Anathema -
Deep
Dimmu Borgir -
Mourning Palace
Lacuna Coil -
Cold
And moving on from the subject of mixtapes but still on the subject of tapes, I also found some really beautiful cassete tapes by portuguese bands from around 1995/1996 that I used to buy from an independent d.i.y. mailorder label & distro. Here are some of them:
I also found my precious The Simpsons -
Do the Bartman cassette single :D And I found an original 1993 "Now!" double cassete, lolol:
It has
The Clash,
Scritti Politti,
Kim Appleby,
MC Hammer,
2 in a Room,
Vanilla Ice,
Rick Astley,
INXS,
Queen,
Belinda Carlisle,
Seal,
The Righteous Brothers,
The Source,
C+C Music Factory,
Nomad Feat. MC Mikee Freedom,
EMF,
808 State,
Kylie Minogue,
Praise,
Oleta Adams,
Robert Palmer,
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes,
Banderas,
Stevie B,
Chris Rea,
Chris Isaak,
The Railway Children,
Thunder, etc....
The early and mid-90's...Sir Mix-a-Lot
liked big butts, John
was the scatman, Jay Supreme was
really vain, MC Hammer
had to pray to make it through the day (but it were the Ace of Base who
saw the Sign), Cypress Hill
were insane in the brain, Aerosmith were
crazy and
cryin', the 4 Non Blondes were screaming
"what's going on?" and meanwhile we kids put on our neon wayfarer sunglasses and our slap bracelets; ate popping candy, ring pops and push pops and played with our Game Boy's and Sticky Monsters...those were the days!
