Side A
Dave Matthews Band-What Would You Say
The Roots-The Next Movement
D'Angelo-Brown Sugar
Stevie Wonder-Isn't She Lovely?
Beck-Cold Brains
Beastie Boys-Threw MCs & One DJ
Beastie Boys-Song For The Man
Soundgarden-Burden In My Hand
Led Zeppelin-D'yer Ma'ker
Jamiroquai-Use The Force
Pearl Jam-Last Kiss
Beck-Nobody's Fault But My Own
Side B
Jamiroquai-Virtual Insanity
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Scar Tissue
snippet of John Mellencamp's "Jack & Diane"
Lauryn Hill-Everything Is Everything
Madonna-Candy Perfume Girl
Lenny Kravitz-American Woman
Ricky Martin-Livin'La Vida Loca
Stone Temple Pilots-Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart
Madonna-Beautiful Stranger
The Who-Eminence Front
Hole-Doll Parts
snippet of Portishead's "Sour Times (Nobody Loves Me)"
There are a few repeats on this volume, not because I had started running out of songs, but I just wanted to improve on the quality of some I had recorded before. Some of the beneficiaries of this were "Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart," "Virtual Insanity," and "Burden In My Hand", where I didn't catch the songs in their entirety the first time around. In the case of Jamiroquai, I used the album version since I had recently bought Travelling Without Moving and saw this as my chance at retribution.
My CD collection (not counting my brother's) was now at a total of five with the addition of Beck's Mutations as well. One of the tendencies I had when I was younger was my anxiety about going into stores or restaurants I had never been into before, which would partly explain why I started so late in buying my own music. I became more comfortable with the K-Mart by our place, which naturally led to a few new CDs per month, as you'll probably pick up on as these posts go on.
The biggest change now was that my mixtapes also included album tracks from genres outside of hip hop and I like to think that it gave things a more intimate appeal. No longer was The Collection just solely dominated by radio, but it would also include little heard favorites from albums I bought with my own money. There were times I couldn't believe that I had as many five CDs in my collection. Every time I looked at them, I felt like a rich man.
