On this day, I revisit one of my favorite mixes: August 16, 2002 (Elvis is still dead.) total playing time: 1:16:48 The Time – Dreamland (abridged)/Pandemonium (Paisley Park/Warner Bros.) Elvis Vs. JXL – A Little Less Conversation (radio edit) (RCA) James Brown – Sex Machine (Polydor) Scritti Politti – Scritti Politti Turntable Mix by Mastermind [...]
Tag: The Lifelong Mixtape
Flashback: Found, 7 August 2013
This was my final entry on The Lifelong Mixtape blog. [missing image of found CD] I found this succinctly labelled disc in a small bag sitting on the free table at Wallingford Senior Center, where I was attending an Artist's Way meetup. (This bag also contained a mixtape—perhaps the subject of a later post.) The [...]
Flashback: All Bound for Mu Mu Land Again
I made quite the score about a week or so ago. While out and about performing the day's tasks, I finally stopped at the Silver Platters flagship store's new location. Apparently, they recently acquired a huge amount of vinyl from Masa, one of the DJs at KEXP. And when I say "huge", I'm not exaggerating: there's a [...]
Flashback: Elton John Custom Mix
A while back—I'm not exactly sure when—I assembled a playlist of Elton John songs in iTunes. I narrowed down the playlist to CD length so I could listen to it in the car. Recently, while moving for the second time in less than six months, I gave it a spin. Subsequently, it provided the soundtrack [...]
Flashback: 50/50 Playlist
As I mentioned in a corresponding post (two in one day!) on my other blog, today is my 50th birthday. To mark the occasion, here is a cobbled-together playlist of songs: Prelude Frankie Goes To Hollywood—Born to Run http://youtu.be/BTStMImOtuU Elvis Costello—Less Than Zero http://youtu.be/LCZoI26or4k Playlist Harry Nilsson—One http://youtu.be/-nB5VxPOoio The Beatles—Two of Us http://youtu.be/MP74a2jQhDM De La Soul—The [...]
Flashback: The Summer of My Discontent, 2012 Edition
Prelude It has been a while since my last post—over two months, in fact. I had intended to continue the saga of the Summer of 1987 in my next post—but, alas, real life decided to intervene. (You are forewarned—this could be a long one…) First, I lost the one source of (somewhat) regular income I [...]
Flashback: 1987 (part 3): Summer 1987 (part 1)
This was to be my last post about the trials and tribulations of the summer of 1987, as things took several turns for the worse… If I thought that the first half of 1987 had been difficult, well, nothing quite prepared me for that summer in Tokyo. When I came back to Seattle in October [...]
Flashback: The Official Lenn Tapes—Japan Survival Series (Summer 1985)
A "Larger than life itself…" Ringo Starr – "Oh My My" (Apple) Rod Stewart – "Dock of the Bay" (from Motown Returns to the Apollo) Go West – "Call Me" (Chrysalis) The Human League – "Fascination (extended remix)" (A&M) The Style Council – "The Lodgers (or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter)" (Polydor) Phil Collins [...]
Flashback: 1987 (Part 2)
The 24th Birthday State of Mind Tapes March 16, 1987 Part 1: A David Sylvian – "Gone To Earth" (Virgin) Kate Bush – "Running Up That Hill" (EMI) The Style Council – "My Ever Changing Moods" (Polydor) Joe Jackson – "The Verdict" (A&M) Prince – "Sometimes it Snows in April" (Paisley Park) Ryuichi Sakamoto – "Ballet Mécanique" (School/Midi) Supertramp – "The Logical Song" (A&M) Simply Red – "Holding Back the Years" [...]
Flashback: 1987 (Interlude)
The Beatles Please Please Me CDP 7 46435 2 With the Beatles CDP 7 46436 2 A Hard Day's Night CDP 7 46437 2 Beatles for Sale CDP 7 46438 2 Help! CDP 7 46439 2 Rubber Soul CDP 7 46440 2 Revolver CDP 7 46441 2 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band CDP 7 46442 2 all Parlophone 1987 One [...]
Ordinary Average Thoughts 