Friend Blush Response posted in discord this weekend about the power of CDs, and then blogged “Music is a vehicle for human connection. Don’t let streaming strip that power away”, a journey through tween-and-teenhood and compact discs and sharing music.
In between these two posts, I was inspired to finally go through the stack of CD-Rs that had lived for nearly 20 years in a giant CD wallet in my car.
There were three mix CDs included: One titled “Halloween” (no year), one for my 21st birthday (2003), and one for a pair of friends’ 21st birthday “mega-blowout” (their birthdays are a few days before Halloween, so this likely would have been made for a party on Friday, October 31, 2003. It might have been November 1st?
Anyway, interspersed between the songs are audio clips from movies and TV shows (Butthead wants a tattoo of a butt, with a butt-shaped tattoo on it, and he wants it right on his butt).
Try putting THAT on your spotify playlist, where everything has been licensed.
(These brief moments of surprise remind of me of James Jackson Toth’s seasonal Patreon mixes. He sends them out as one long MP3, and follows it up a few days later with the track list. It’s a really great experience, going along for a ride without knowing what’s next! It lets you get obsessed and go looking for a song!)