I’m deeply annoyed by the metadata now supplied from Apple when you go to convert a CD. Either an album is now put into the Various Artists ghetto, or the same album is listed in parts because of partnered artists even when the album itself and the liner notes make no such distinction.

1. Eternal Lover — Moonwater
2. Karmic Light — Tetsu Inoue
3. They Come in Peace — Tranquility Bass
4. Plateau — Orb
5. A Study of Six Guitars — Amorphous Androgynous
6. Session 3: Wien in E — Tosca
7. Anthropomorphic — Qubism
8. No One in the World [Edit] — W.F.O.
9. Fat Chair — Terra Thaemlitz
10. edit:one — DJ Iri
11. Creatures Made Of Light Glide Softly Across The Slowly Ever-rotating Homeworld In Gentle Undulations Of Warm Dub Through The Encircling Golden Ether Common To System 35 — Mysteries of Science
12. #19 — Aphex Twin
13. Tranquility Base — Omicron
14. A Stream With Bright Fish — Brian Eno & Harold Budd
15. Expanding — Young American Primitive

From a Maxell XLII 90 cassette given to me by my friend Chuck. Side A dated 6/20/94, Missing songs: Marion Diez, Half the Time. Side B dated 6/21/94

1. Get Enough — Ivy
2. You Bite My Tongue — Unwound
3. Our Caballero — Don Caballero
4. Blade of Grass — Versus
5. A Mouthful Of Exhaust — Man Or Astro-Man?
6. Sweet Pea — Seam
7. All Set to Go — Hard-Ons
8. Suki — Unrest
9. Rebound — Sebadoh
10. Alison — Slowdive
11. Bronx Cheer — Mercury Rev
12. Bricks — Crain
13. Solitary Set — Polvo

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

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