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A Mix, Circa 2003

Last month one of my closest friends and I met up in Chicago. She drove down from Minneapolis, bringing with her a mix cd I’d made during our first year of college. We’ve been friends since third grade and hadn’t spent much time apart before heading off for college, so going to schools approximately 1000 miles apart was an adjustment. The mix is a collection of our favorite songs from junior high and high school. After listening to the mix while driving around Chicago, I wish I’d included some of our favorite songs from elementary school, which probably would’ve been mostly Boyz II Men and show tunes. We were pretty big fans of Bette Midler.

Here is a selection of songs from that mix:

“April Fools” – Rufus Wainwright

“Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” – Broken Social Scene

“Stay Where You Are” – Sleater-Kinney

“2:45AM” – Elliott Smith

“Electioneering” – Radiohead

“Midnight A Go-Go” – Beat Happening

“Never is a Promise” – Fiona Apple

“Teen Age Riot” – Sonic Youth

“Legal Man” – Belle and Sebastian

“Finale” – Bikini Kill

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Comments

Missed Elliot's show in Kzoo circa 1997 by a month but I was lucky enough to see him twice while living in Denver. He's a top fiver for me in terms of favorite band/musicians.

By Ryan, 02/03/2012

I just found an old mix CD that I had made back in '02. 'Electioneering' was the first track. Good stuff.

By Patrick, 02/06/2012

Yes! Midnight A Go-Go!

By katie, 02/07/2012