jesus
I've kept a lot of the listings of my mixtapes over the years, and the modern equivalent seems to have now manifested as a compulsion to create iTunes playlists. I now pretty much create them for me rather than anyone else, being 33 and all that.

Reviewing old mix tape listings thought, I noticed a worrying trend on pretty much all of them. I would usually start out by thinking of one song I know she'd have liked and would start off all sensitive - "What do I think she'll like that will make her think I'm in touch with the modern woman" etc. Most of these were stolen from the Woman To Woman complilation album, circa 1994.

I would play the track and make sure the lyrics were suitable and basically said "I respect you as a woman" rather than "I would like to fuck you in every orifice". Then choose the second song as the one that pops into my head on completion of playback of the 1st. This would continue for a while and then slowly but inexorably, decline. At somepoint I would lose all interest in making the tape for someone else and it just turned in to a load of songs i liked listening to at the time. This is why Clare at University who I fancied for years got this tape:

1. Neneh Cherry - Womans World
2. Sophie b Hawkins - Damn I Wish I was your lover
3. Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
4. Joan Armatrading - Love and Affection
5. Cyndi lauper - Time After Time
6. Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
7. Suzanne Vega - Marlene on the Wall
8. Shakespear's Sister - Stay
TURN OVER
9. Cathy Dennis - Waterloo Sunset
10. Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
11. Metallica - Through The Never
12. Metallica - Wherever you may Roam
13. Metallica - Dont Tread on Me
14. Metallica - Sad But True
15. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
16. Slayer - Reign In Blood
17. Sade - Smooth Operator
18. Ozzy Ozbourne - No More Tears (big finish)
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 15:31, 2 replies)

So it goes...
...yes, I'm sensitive, I'm strong, I'm in touch, I'm - actually I'm FUCKIN ROCK *bangs head until neck snaps*

Yeah with you on that one :)
( Fathter Puddytat Kill Kill dat widdle boid is mine on, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 15:34, closed)

....
Metallica AND Sade on the same side?
That actually sounds quite lovely


Could have done without Motley Crue though
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sat 9 Feb 2008, 1:16, closed)