I missed the record store. I made a mix for my friends but mostly to show I was still edgy and cool. I never sent it. This track list was made for a 100-minute cassette tape. Label On Side A said “Disclaimer: Not for Customers”. Label on Side B said “Hello from Minnesota!”

1. Psychoactive Drugs (Uncut Mix) — Emergency Broadcast Network
2. Just Say No to Drug Hysteria [Excerpt] / Dead Souls — William S. Burroughs
3. Words of Advice for Young People [Pete Arden Mix] — William S. Burroughs
4. Hey Man, Nice Shot — Filter
5. More Human Than Human — White Zombie
6. Anthem — Brian G./DJ Spinn
7. Voodoo-U — Lords of Acid
8. The Hustle — Soul City Orchestra/Van McCoy
9. Horror Head — Curve
10. Zombie — The Cranberries
11. Halcyon + On + On — Orbital
12. Sanctuary — Madonna
13. Bedtime Story — Madonna
14. A Dream Away — The Cars
15. Sudden Organ — Yo La Tengo
16. Souvlaki Space Station — Slowdive
17. People Get Real — Saint Etienne
18. Krazy — Seal
19. Feeling So Real — Moby
20. bang — Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Insanely Great Nineties Songs You Aren’t Sick Of, as seen on Secret History of Rock ‘n’ Roll

1. Stop! — Jane’s Addiction
2. Rave Down — Swervedriver
3. No Kid (Acoustic Version) — Urban Dance Squad
4. Birdbrain — Buffalo Tom
5. Lullaby — Warrior Soul
6. Pretty Pink Rose (Duet With David Bowie) — Adrian Belew
7. Step On — Happy Mondays
8. Lullabye — Concrete Blonde
9. Soon — My Bloody Valentine
10. Manna and Quail — Caterwaul
11. The Beautiful Dead — Killing Joke
12. Falling to Pieces — Faith No More
13. Grey Cell Green — Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
14. High Monkey Monk — Cocteau Twins
15. You’re Not the Only One I Know — The Sundays
16. De-Luxe — Lush
17. Sliver — Nirvana
18. Bury Me — Smashing Pumpkins
19. Pushin Forward Back — Temple Of The Dog
20. Vapour Trail — Ride
21. I Want to Touch You — Catherine Wheel
22. Sometimes — My Bloody Valentine
23. Paper Doll — P.M. Dawn
24. Adoration — Cranes
25. Star Sign — Teenage Fanclub
26. Ten Little Girls — Curve
27. Counting Backwards — Throwing Muses
28. Virus (Hybrid Mix) — Front Line Assembly
29. Emmaline — Urge Overkill
30. Baby Universal — Tin Machine
31. Divine Intervention — Matthew Sweet
32. There You Are — The Goo Goo Dolls
33. The Act We Act — Sugar
34. My Drug Buddy (Remastered) — The Lemonheads
35. Everything’s Ruined — Faith No More
36. Murder, Inc. — Murder Inc.
37. Unsung — Helmet
38. Low Self Opinion — Rollins Band
39. Circles — Meat Beat Manifesto
40. Nothing Natural — Lush
41. Black Metallic — Catherine Wheel
42. Horror Head — Curve
43. Love — The Sundays
44. Love Your Money — Daisy Chainsaw
45. My Umbrella — Tripping Daisy
46. Push Th' Little Daisies — Ween
47. Find the River — R.E.M.
48. Gentlemen — The Afghan Whigs
49. Detachable Penis — King Missile
50. Mayonaise — Smashing Pumpkins
51. Break It Down Again — Tears for Fears
52. Coming Right Along — The Posies
53. Strawberry Wine — Massive Internal Complications
54. Pack Yr Romantic Mind — Stereolab
55. Thunder Kiss ‘65 — White Zombie
56. Regret — New Order
57. Easy (Bonus Track) — Faith No More
58. Sexual Healing — Soul Asylum
59. Missed — PJ Harvey
60. Scentless Apprentice — Nirvana
61. I’ve Seen the Man — The God Machine
62. Dream Machine — The God Machine
63. Seven — The God Machine
64. Evangeline — Cocteau Twins
65. Industrious — Seefeel
66. Gepetto — Belly
67. Here and Now — Letters to Cleo
68. The Carnival Is Over — Dead Can Dance
69. Sister Havana — Urge Overkill
70. Chemical World (Including “Intermission”) — Blur
71. Pets — Porno for Pyros
72. Easy Does It — Coverdale–Page
73. Shock to the System — Billy Idol
74. F Sharp — Nudeswirl
75. Sabotage — Beastie Boys
76. Dead Souls — Nine Inch Nails
77. Rite of Shiva — Machines of Loving Grace
78. So Real — Jeff Buckley
79. Shrine — The Dambuilders
80. Still Remains (2019 Remaster) — Stone Temple Pilots
81. Spin the Black Circle — Pearl Jam
82. I Alone — LIVE
83. Rock ‘n’ Roll Star — Oasis
84. Poison — The Prodigy
85. Wandering Star — Portishead
86. Karmacoma — Massive Attack
87. Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix / Us Radio Edit) — Everything But the Girl & Todd Terr y
88. Bull In the Heather — Sonic Youth
89. Supernova — Liz Phair
90. Power Shack — Fitz Of Depression
91. Soul In a Jar — The Veldt
92. Green Mind — Dink
93. Millenium — Killing Joke
94. She Don’t Use Jelly — The Flaming Lips
95. Blast ‘Em Out (1994) — Renegade Soundwave
96. L.A. Song — Deconstruction
97. Screenwriter’s Blues — Soul Coughing
98. Voodoo Lady — Ween
99. Light From a Dead Star — Lush
100. Rise & Shine — The Cardigans
101. Morning Glory — Oasis
102. Planet Caravan — Pantera
103. Street Spirit [Fade Out] — Radiohead
104. Jellybelly — Smashing Pumpkins
105. Heroin Girl — Everclear
106. Consider This — Filter
107. Big Me — Foo Fighters
108. Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver — Primus
109. Vow — Garbage
110. More Human Than Human — White Zombie
111. Waydown — Catherine Wheel
112. We Prick You — David Bowie
113. Black Steel — Tricky
114. In The Meantime — Spacehog
115. Natural One — Folk Implosion
116. Stars — Hum
117. Angry Johnny — Poe
118. 6 A.M. Jullandar Shere — Cornershop
119. Plowed — Sponge
120. Can’t WaIt One Minute More — CIV
121. Rilkean Heart (Acoustic Version) — Cocteau Twins
122. Long Snake Moan — PJ Harvey
123. Blow Up the Outside World — Soundgarden
124. Adhesive — Stone Temple Pilots
125. Thick of It All — Porno for Pyros
126. Down — 311
127. Peaches — The Presidents of the United States of America
128. Popular — Nada Surf
129. If I Could Talk I’d Tell You — The Lemonheads
130. Salvation — The Cranberries
131. 6 Underground — The Sneaker Pimps
132. She’s Unreal — Meat Beat Manifesto
133. Midnight in a Perfect World — DJ Shadow
134. Seekers Who Are Lovers — Cocteau Twins
135. Hypo-Allergenic — Spooky
136. Sugar Water — Cibo Matto
137. Super Bon Bon — Soul Coughing
138. Iron Man — The Cardigans
139. Fire — Komeda
140. Bluster — Salt
141. Spark Plug — Stereolab
142. Green Man — Type O Negative
143. Absent Friends — Killing Joke
144. Stereo — Pavement
145. Discothèque — U2
146. We Have Explosive — Future Sound of London
147. I’m Afraid of Americans — David Bowie
148. (Can’t You) Trip Like I Do [feat. The Crystal Method] — Filter
149. Block Rockin’ Beats — The Chemical Brothers
150. Come to Daddy (Pappy Mix) — Aphex Twin
151. Toxygene — Orb
152. Chukhung — Biosphere
153. Modular mix — Air
154. Let Down — Radiohead
155. Baker street — Foo Fighters
156. Silver Springs — Fleetwood Mac
157. The Background — Third Eye Blind
158. Wide Open Space — Mansun
159. One Man Army — Our Lady Peace
160. Boys Better — The Dandy Warhols
161. Sex & Candy — Marcy Playground
162. Leave This City — The Sundays
163. Generations — Electric Dog House
164. New Music Machine — Cornelius
165. Walking After You — Foo Fighters
166. David Duchovny — Bree Sharp
167. One — Filter
168. Celebrity Skin — Hole
169. Never Ending Math Equation — Modest Mouse
170. Sidewalk — Built to Spill
171. Circles — Soul Coughing
172. Slipped Away (The Ballad of Lauretha Vaird) — G. Love & Special Sauce
173. Lucky Man — The Verve
174. Pure Morning — Placebo
175. Group Four — Massive Attack
176. Open the Light — Boards of Canada
177. Angelene — PJ Harvey
178. Thank U — Alanis Morissette
179. My Own Worst Enemy — Lit
180. The Dolphin’s Cry — LIVE
181. Aisha — Death In Vegas
182. Nookie — Limp Bizkit
183. Honey — Moby
184. Trimm Trabb — Blur
185. Take a Picture — Filter
186. Days of the Week — Stone Temple Pilots
187. Slide — Goo Goo Dolls
188. Kiss Me — Sixpence None the Richer
189. Yalla Yalla — Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

Side A of a mix tape I made for a friend but never sent.

1. Welcome — Gino Latino
2. Buffalo Gals II — Malcolm McLaren
3. Dream of Me (Based on Love’s Theme) — Orchestral Manœuvres in the Dark
4. Sour Times — Portishead
5. Army of Me — Björk
6. Stars — Hum
7. Leave Them All Behind — Ride
8. Without Warning — Dokken
9. Alone Again — Dokken
10. Believe — Dig
11. Fake Plastic Trees — Radiohead
12. Beautiful World — Devo

More Music than Will Fit on a C90 Cassette (best played randomized)

1. Don’t You Know What Love Is? — Touch
2. Raise A Little Hell — Trooper
3. Fantasy — Aldo Nova
4. Juke Box Hero — Foreigner
5. Hot Blooded — Foreigner
6. Cold as Ice — Foreigner
7. Head Games — Foreigner
8. Double Vision — Foreigner
9. Dirty White Boy — Foreigner
10. Feels Like the First Time — Foreigner
11. In the Dark — Billy Squier
12. The Stroke — Billy Squier
13. My Kinda Lover — Billy Squier
14. You Know What I Like — Billy Squier
15. Too Daze Gone — Billy Squier
16. Lonely Is the Night — Billy Squier
17. Whadda You Want from Me — Billy Squier
18. Nobody Knows — Billy Squier
19. I Need You — Billy Squier
20. Don’t Say No — Billy Squier
21. More Than a Feeling — Boston
22. Peace of Mind — Boston
23. Smokin' — Boston
24. Hitch a Ride — Boston
25. Something About You — Boston
26. Let Me Take You Home Tonight — Boston
27. Tom Sawyer — Rush
28. Red Barchetta — Rush
29. YYZ — Rush
30. Limelight — Rush
31. The Camera Eye — Rush
32. Witch Hunt — Rush
33. Vital Signs — Rush
34. Ah! Leah! — Donnie Iris
35. Jane — Jefferson Starship
36. Find Your Way Back — Jefferson Starship
37. Rockin' Into The Night — .38 Special
38. Hold on Loosely — .38 Special
39. Fantasy Girl — .38 Special
40. Tell Me What You Want — Zebra
41. Who’s Behind the Door? — Zebra
42. Dream Police — Cheap Trick
43. You’ve Got Another Thing Comin' — Judas Priest
44. New York Groove — Ace Frehley
45. Ain’t Talkin' ‘Bout Love — Van Halen
46. And the Cradle Will Rock… — Van Halen
47. Bad Reputation — Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
48. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) — Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
49. Bad Reputation (Live) — Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
50. I Love Rock ‘N Roll — Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
51. Crimson and Clover — Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
52. Let’s Go — The Cars
53. It’s All I Can Do — The Cars
54. Candy-0 — The Cars
55. Dangerous Type — The Cars
56. Good Times Roll — The Cars
57. My Best Friend’s Girl — The Cars
58. Just What I Needed — The Cars
59. You’re All I’ve Got Tonight — The Cars
60. Moving In Stereo — The Cars
61. Working for the Weekend — Loverboy
62. Jump — Loverboy
63. The Kid Is Hot Tonite — Loverboy
64. Turn Me Loose — Loverboy
65. Isn’t It Time — The Babys
66. Every Time I Think of You — The Babys
67. Back on My Feet Again — The Babys
68. Midnight Rendezvous — The Babys
69. Change — John Waite
70. Lorelei — Styx
71. Too Much Time on My Hands — Styx
72. Renegade — Styx
73. Come Sail Away — Styx
74. Roll With the Changes — REO Speedwagon
75. Take It on the Run — REO Speedwagon
76. Don’t Let Him Go — REO Speedwagon
77. Time for Me to Fly — REO Speedwagon
78. Ridin’ the Storm Out — REO Speedwagon
79. Love Stinks — J. Geils Band
80. Centerfold — J. Geils Band
81. Since You Been Gone — Rainbow
82. Feelin’ Satisfied — Boston
83. Keep On Runnin' — Journey
84. Lay It Down — Journey
85. Crazy Train — Ozzy Osbourne
86. Lunatic Fringe — Red Rider
87. Jessie’s Girl — Rick Springfield
88. The Best of Times — Styx
89. Free-For-All — Ted Nugent
90. Burnin' for You — Blue Öyster Cult
91. Hold the Line — Toto
92. Raise a Little Hell — Trooper
93. Ace of Spades — Motörhead
94. No One Like You — Scorpions
95. Heat of the Moment — Asia
96. Only Time Will Tell — Asia
97. Sole Survivor — Asia
98. One Step Closer — Asia
99. Time Again — Asia
100. Wildest Dreams — Asia
101. Without You — Asia
102. Cutting It Fine — Asia
103. Here Comes the Feeling — Asia
104. I Don’t Know — Ozzy Osbourne
105. Flying High Again — Ozzy Osbourne

Side B of a mix tape I made for a friend but never sent. In the 90s when I put this playlist together it wasn’t nearly so sentimental as now…

1. Talk Talk — Talk Talk
2. Kids In America — Kim Wilde
3. The Metro — Terri Nunn
4. Let the Music Play — Shannon
5. I Know There’s Something Going On — Frida
6. The Ghost in You — Psychedelic Furs
7. Perfect Way — Scritti Politti
8. Voices Carry — Til Tuesday
9. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) — Dead Or Alive
10. Revenge of the Gardian — T99

1. Teotihuacan — Noel Gallagher
2. This Love — Craig Armstrong Feat. Elizabeth Fraser
3. Pharaohs — Tears for Fears
4. Wicked Game (feat. Annaca) — Ursine Vulpine
5. Wicked Game — Emika
6. Do 4 Love [Emerald City 4am Mix] — Fuel
7. The Body Wah — Tears for Fears
8. A Stream With Bright Fish — Brian Eno & Harold Budd
9. Violet — Seal
10. Midnight in a Perfect World — DJ Shadow
11. Teardrop — Massive Attack
12. Above the Fog (Pt.2) — The Best Pessimist
13. Porcelain — Moby
14. Last Night — Moby

1. Valparaiso — Elements Of Ambience
2. Forget Me Not — St Germain
3. Films — Gary Numan
4. Arpegiator — Jean-Michel Jarre
5. the slab — Slowdive
6. Man With A Gun — Jerry Harrison
7. High Roller — The Crystal Method
8. Rebel Yell (The Crystal Method Remix) — Billy Idol
9. you should see me in a crown — Billie Eilish
10. Angel — Massive Attack
11. Jezebel (Seductress Mix) — Recoil
12. Trench — FETISH
13. Blood, Milk And Sky (Miss September Mix) — White Zombie
14. Slowblow — Depeche Mode
15. The Rose Room — Caia
16. TRON Legacy (End Titles) — Daft Punk
17. Teenage Sensation — Gus Gus
18. Post Punk — The Crystal Method, Hyper & Iggy Pop
19. Black Tie White Noise — David Bowie
20. Very Cruel — Poliça

Mental Continuing Noise Process

1. Firestarter [Edit] — The Prodigy
2. Loops of Fury — The Chemical Brothers
3. Miracle — System 7
4. Unknown — Resistance D
5. Araqua — Inner Space
6. Avatar — Link
7. Sex and Gender — Alter Ego
8. The Third Planet — Biosphere
9. Protection — Massive Attack
10. Heat Miser — Massive Attack
11. Sanctuary — Madonna
12. Bedtime Story — Madonna
13. Dream on Dreamer — Brand New Heavies
14. The Hustle — Soul City Orchestra/Van McCoy
15. Theme from S.W.A.T. — Rhythm Heritage
16. Undertow (The Spooky Mix) — Lush
17. Summerblink — Cocteau Twins
18. Already There — The Verve

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1. Drop the Hate — Fatboy Slim
2. Come With Us — The Chemical Brothers
3. Block Rockin' Beats — The Chemical Brothers
4. Ya Mama — Fatboy Slim
5. Afrika Shox — Afrika Bambaataa/Leftfield
6. Where’s Your Head At? — Basement Jaxx
7. Acid 8000 — Fatboy Slim
8. Music [Deep Dish Dot Com Remix] — Madonna
9. Days Go By — Dirty Vegas
10. One More Time — Daft Punk
11. Xpander — Sasha

1. Moon Over Bourbon Street — Sting
2. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue — Falco
3. Thank You Boys — Jane’s Addiction
4. Kissing a Fool — George Michael
5. Sally — Sade
6. Baby Grand — Billy Joel/Ray Charles
7. Do U Lie? — Prince & the Revolution
8. Some Kind Of Lover — Apollonia 6
9. Bring Me the Disco King — David Bowie
10. Standing on the Corner of the Third World — Tears for Fears
11. San Jose — Frankie Goes to Hollywood
12. More Than This — Charlie Hunter Featuring Norah Jones
13. Bookhouse Boys [Instrumental] — Angelo Badalamenti
14. Baby — Bebel Gilberto
15. Det Du Tänker Idag Är Du I Morgon — Dungen
16. Last Night — Moby
17. Sister Moon — Sting

1. Move (You Make Me Feel So Good) — Moby
2. Feeling So Real — Moby
3. Music 4 da People — Yolk
4. Portal — Sunscreem
5. Tragedy (For You) [Neurodancer] — Front 242
6. Religion (The Prodigy Trance U Down Mix) — Front 242
7. Voodoo-U — Lords of Acid
8. Zombie — 7734
9. Panties — Xpando
10. Anthem — Brian G./DJ Spinn
11. Just One Fix — Ministry
12. Mega Dose — Disciples of House
13. Valparaiso — Elements Of Ambience
14. Mya Yadana — Tranquility Bass
15. Belgium [Deep Space Filter Mix Edit] — Megatonk
16. Mantra [Praying Mantra Mix Edit] — Material
17. Past — Sub Sub

1. Alfadhirhaiti — Heilung
2. Krigsgaldr — Heilung
3. Hakkerskaldyr — Heilung
4. Schlammschlacht — Heilung
5. Carpathian Forest — Heilung
6. Fylgija Ear — Heilung
7. Futhorck — Heilung
8. In Maidjan — Heilung
9. Afhomon — Heilung
10. Vardlokk — Wardruna
11. Skald — Wardruna
12. Ein sat hon uti — Wardruna
13. Voluspá (Skaldic Version) — Wardruna
14. Fehu (Skaldic Version) — Wardruna
15. Vindavla — Wardruna
16. Ormagardskvedi — Wardruna
17. Gravbakkjen — Wardruna
18. Sonatorrek — Wardruna
19. Helvegen (Skaldic Version) — Wardruna
20. Opening Ceremony — Heilung
21. In Maijan — Heilung
22. Alfadhirhaiti — Heilung
23. Carpathian Forest — Heilung
24. Krigsgaldr — Heilung
25. Hakkerskaldyr — Heilung
26. Fylgija Futhorck — Heilung
27. Othan — Heilung
28. Hamrer Hippyer — Heilung
29. Galgaldr — Heilung
30. Norupo — Heilung
31. Othan — Heilung
32. Traust — Heilung
33. Vapnatak — Heilung
34. Svanrand — Heilung
35. Elivagar — Heilung
36. Elddansurin — Heilung
37. Hamrer Hippyer — Heilung
38. Prologus — Sigur Rós
39. Alföður orkar — Sigur Rós
40. Dvergmál — Sigur Rós
41. Stendur æva — Sigur Rós
42. Áss hinn hvíti — Sigur Rós
43. Hvert stefnir — Sigur Rós
44. Spár eða spakmál — Sigur Rós
45. Dagrenning — Sigur Rós
46. Synkverv — Wardruna
47. Kvitravn — Wardruna
48. Skugge — Wardruna
49. Grá — Wardruna
50. Fylgjutal — Wardruna
51. Munin — Wardruna
52. Kvit hjort — Wardruna
53. Viseveiding — Wardruna
54. Ni — Wardruna
55. Vindavlarljod — Wardruna
56. Andvevarljod — Wardruna
57. Asja — Heilung
58. Anoana — Heilung
59. Tenet — Heilung
60. Urbani — Heilung
61. Keltentrauer — Heilung
62. Nesso — Heilung
63. Buslas Bann — Heilung
64. Nikkal — Heilung
65. Marduk — Heilung

1. All Along the Watchtower — Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. Sympathy For the Devil (Cover) — Motörhead
3. Knockin' on Heaven’s Door — Guns N' Roses
4. With a Little Help From My Friends — Joe Cocker
5. Mad World (feat. Puddles Pity Party & Haley Reinhart) — Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
6. Blue Monday — Flunk
7. The Boys Of Summer (Humate Remix) — DJ Sammy
8. Song to the Siren — This Mortal Coil
9. Noir C’est Noir — Johnny Hallyday
10. Fly on the Windscreen — God Lives Underwater
11. Sympathy For The Devil [Lp Version] — Guns N' Roses
12. Crimson And Clover — Prince
13. Mad World (feat. Gary Jules) — Michael Andrews
14. Ces bottes sont faites pour marcher — Eileen
15. Immigrant Song — Karen O, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
16. Song To The Siren — Vengeance Feat. Clare Pearce
17. 25 or 6 to 4 — Pacifika
18. Blue Monday — Orgy
19. True Faith [Live] — Flunk
20. Here’s Where The Story Ends — Tin Tin Out
21. San Jose — Frankie Goes to Hollywood
22. More Than This — Charlie Hunter Featuring Norah Jones

1. You Know Who You Are — Nine Inch Nails
2. Welcome to Paradise — Front 242
3. Capital Heaven — Moev
4. Crucify Me — Moev
5. Justify My Love (The Beast Within Mix) — Madonna
6. Body — Megan Thee Stallion
7. I Sit on Acid [Original] — Lords of Acid
8. Want — Recoil
9. Slippage — Goldfrapp
10. WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) — Cardi B
11. Tales of Taboo — Karen Finley
12. Religion (Lovelace A Go-Go Mix By JG Thirlwell) — Front 242
13. Fascination Street — The Cure
14. Shock of Point — My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
15. Head Like a Hole [Clay] — Nine Inch Nails
16. What You Want — FETISH
17. Mental Distortion — Front Line Assembly
18. What Time Is Love? [LP Mix] — KLF
19. Quite Unusual — Front 242
20. Sex (I’m a…) — Berlin
21. Justify My Love — Madonna
22. Yeah Whatever — Moev
23. Phoenix — The Cult
24. Watching Me Fall — The Cure
25. Dark Things — Shannon Bourne
26. John the Revelator — Curtis Stigers & The Forest Rangers
27. To Bring You My Love — PJ Harvey
28. Domingo — Yello
29. Fear: The Mindkiller — Eon
30. Kooler Than Jesus — My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
31. Reverence (Al Jorgensen Mix) — Jesus and Mary Chain
32. Velvet Dreams — Genitorturers
33. Hey Man, Nice Shot — Filter
34. We’re in This Together — Nine Inch Nails
35. Where Violence Is Golden… — Electric Hellfire Club
36. Ted, Just Admit It… — Jane’s Addiction
37. House of Shame — Genitorturers
38. Religion (Pussy Whipped Mix By JG Thirlwell) — Front 242
39. Level 3 — Genitorturers
40. Freak on a leash — Korn feat NIN
41. Closer (Further Away) — Nine Inch Nails
42. Ultra Obscene — Break Beat Era
43. SFM - Basement Jaxx
44. Jenny — Armand Van Helden
45. Facts Of Life (The Chocolate Layers Remix) — Black Box Recorder
46. including the ballad of 32 — Frankie Goes to Hollywood
47. NBK — Niykee Heaton
48. Vigilante Shit — Taylor Swift

1. Motivated — NF
2. The Perfect Drug — Nine Inch Nails
3. Dragula [Hot Rod Herman Remix] — Rob Zombie
4. Reload — Rob Zombie
5. Ebihara Shinji — Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re
6. Ace of Spades — Motörhead
7. Jesus Built My Hotrod — Ministry
8. Anthem — Brian G./DJ Spinn
9. Mega Dose — Disciples of House
10. Hey Man Nice Shot [Big Mac] — Filter
11. Rocket Skates — Deftones
12. This is the New Shit — Marilyn Manson
13. Bawitdaba — Kid Rock
14. El Phantasmo And The Chicken Run Blast-O-Rama (Wine, Women And Song Mix) — White Zombie
15. Control — Puddle of Mudd
16. Bruises — Ünloco
17. Real Solution #9 (Mambo Mania Mix) — White Zombie
18. Warped (Edit) — Red Hot Chili Peppers
19. Still In Hollywood — Concrete Blonde
20. Bodies — Drowning Pool
21. Satan [Industry Standard] — Orbital

1. Fantastic Garden — Bruno Coulais.
2. In The Middle Of Infinity Pt. 4 — 3:33
3. Ghost Town — DJ Shadow
4. What’s the Matter? — Yppah
5. Ancient Voices — Broadway Project
6. Voice of Chunk — The Lounge Lizards
7. Nickel & Dime — Journey
8. Deep Delirium — Lamb
9. Praying Mantra — Material
10. The Big Sea — Funki Porcini

I’m ripping my physical CDs one more time.

Really, twice each. Once ripped to WAV for Plex, a second ripped to lossless for iTunes.

I’m hedging my bets against Apple not letting me serve my collection locally any longer. ITunes continues to be iTunes. I can’t believe how slowly it all runs, aggravated by needing to use external storage—but it works.

With Plex, I have a migration path to an open source OS and commodity hardware. This is assuming Plex remains viable as a project, of course. But with WAV files I sould be able to convert to other formats with ease, and I hope that need won’t arise for years.

Streaming is lovely, but rights being what they are, you can’t stream everything you remember hearing.

Back to iTunes, of course I have made a mess of my library. I have been using iTunes Match, which is a backup of sorts, and a streaming library of sorts, and boy it helped me through a massive file loss (self-inflicted) a few years ago.

What iTunes Match has done, which is pretty cool in a lot of ways, is replace low-bitrate MP3 files with higher bitrate AAC files on my local PC. So, many CDs that I ripped to MP3 (when disk space was more expensive) now have better sounding files on disk than I had in, say, 2003. I started ripping to MP3 circa 1998, so you might imagine.

This did not go perfectly, naturally.

Many of my albums have matched AAC files in addition to some MP3 files. This inflates the number of tracks in an album. Track order is preserved, but there could be two copies of several tracks per album. Further, where re-ripping is concerned, if there is the slightest metadata difference, iTunes will not necessarily replace tracks or albums but add them as net-new.

So. For each “album,” my process has been to find the one I’m replacing, delete the iTunes Match downloads, then I delete the album and the files from my library altogether. Finally, I import the CD, doing a spot check of the tracklist and production year. ITunes has been doing a decent job of finding cover art. I would estimate out of the discs I’ve ripped so far, the art matched 9 times out of 10.

Tonight, though, I noticed an eventuality I hadn’t anticipated. With albums winking out of existence and back in, that is going to mess with the playlists I have been carefully curating since I went all-in on MacOS in 2005.

Remember a post ago I mentioned how I keep inventing new ways to lose information?

So, unless I can figure out how to export playlists from iTunes wholesale, I am going to be recording my playlists here so that I can rebuild them. This a bit like how I take a screenshot of the taskbar on one Windows PC to replicate pinned applications and organization on another.

Re-ripping must pause.

With this project, I’m repairing damage and in doing so I am creating more damage.

The “Smart Playlists” I believe should be self-healing. It’s the ones I have created manually, and OMG there are so many, that are going to break.

The plan is to create a new Playlist category here, then there will be individual titled posts per playlist, and the Archive page will collect them in one place.

Follow along if you like.

**Update

I found a method to export playlists in the online Apple Music User Guide.

This will make my “backup” go faster than I feared.

Ripping is still going to take a month of Sundays.

Apple Music infinite autoplay lead me to Money’s Money - EP on the heels of listening to Kraus’s Path. Purchased both. Listening to more Kraus ATM

Saga Conversations — For reasons I don’t understand, this song has been an earworm for weeks. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

From their Worlds Apart album, which is an old favorite of mine.

Listening to a lot of Seasurfer lately. I discovered them a few years ago and was reacquainted with them again a few weeks ago. Most recent album has what would call more of a dark wave sound, more synth. Earlier albums I would call more shoegaze. But layers, distortion, reverb and harmonies all throughout

Just listened to an album from 1991 that I had forgotten about, Culture Beat’s Horizon.

I got the cassette as a promo from a record store I worked at. Clearly it was in-store play, because it had one of the stickers we used. And it was something I liked enough to put my initial on, to claim once it was rotated out in favor of something newer.

That’s the main reason I looked it up to stream. Because back then, I had to wait for it. And I kept it after a lot of exposure to it.

It’s super much a statement of the time, with several tracks leaning heavily on other popular tracks and popular samples. One of the tracks was so much like Pump Up the Jam that a decent DJ could probably have faded between the two tracks very easily.

I did not buy the whole album digitally, but a few tracks stood out. Namely No Deeper Meaning, due to the sampling of Change by Tears for Fears, which still makes me squee.

The second half of the album, roughly Side 2, is much less caught in 1991, if still referential (if not reverential). The drums from Running Up that Hill in the outro was a nice touch.

That was a fun time machine ride.

We never wax steady, we wax and wane.
We never wax steady, we wax and wane.

Brought to you by Deftones covering Cocteau Twins' Wax and Wane

Inaugurating the movement of my Den to the main floor of my house with a viewing of the R40 concert film. Playback started before wiring was complete, but halfway through everything seems well dialed in.

It’s Complicated

A playlist I’m developing. Track order needs sorting. Linking or uniting the tracks is what I would call a rhythmic complexity, even if the time signatures aren’t unusual. If you get lost, the beat will bring you back. You’ll need a tolerance for ‘90’s and 2000’s Electronica, but other genres are included.

There are some low notes. I recommend over-the-ear cans or a place you can feel the noise.

Apologies to Gaping Void for the theft of his artwork. Art on the back of business cards was a thing when I needed it.

The Ambitions Are:

• Wake Up
• Breathe
• Keep Breathing

Shuffle Play unearthed a favorite. Nicole Blackman vocals with The Golden Palominos