Mix TapesEveryone's made a mix tape (or CD, USB stick, or whatever kids do these days). Mostly to get in someone else's pants, but we're sure there are other, lesser, reasons too.
So, who did you make it for and why?
And... what was on it?
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chthonic, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 13:41)
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Tiny Tim Ranting About the ApocalypseThe most notable thing on most of my tapes is the stuff that goes on to prevent a gap at the end. I would always make the playlist first and add up the track times and if there was a gap of anywhere from 3 minutes to 10 seconds, I would come up with some random nonsense to pad that time out.
Usually, this meant reaching for my enormous collection of especially odd records. Children's stories being read aloud, Tiny Tim ranting about the coming apocalypse, crazed evangelical preachers condemning rock and roll, ping-pongy test signals for calibrating 1950's era hi-hi quadraphonic sound systems. It was always an effort to come up with the strangest shit possible.
Usually I'd spend several days slaving over the track listing of actual songs for the tape. But invariably it was the random fragment of Longshanks saying that he was going to gouge out someone's eyes that resulted in the most sincere compliments for my efforts.
Length, around 45 seconds. Breadth, at least 500 LPs.
(, Fri 8 Feb 2008, 17:24, Reply)
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