April 23, 2013

The Collection Vol. 20 (Spring 1999)


Side A
The Beatles-Getting Better
Fastball-Out Of My Head
Redman-Let Da Monkey Out
Smashing Pumpkins-Muzzle
Sly & The Family Stone-Everyday People
The Jackson Five-ABC
Shawn Colvin-Sunny Came Home
Kid Rock-Bawitdaba
Live-The Dolphins Cry
Buckcherry-For The Movies
snippet of Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing"
Santana feat. Rob Thomas-Smooth
Smashing Pumpkins-Lily (My One & Only)

Side B
Mary J. Blige-All That I Can Say
The Cranberries-Linger
Sheryl Crow-My Favorite Mistake
Nine Inch Nails-Starfuckers Inc.
Blink 182-What's My Age Again?
Garbage-#1 Crush
Foo Fighters-Big Me
Christina Aguilera-Genie In A Bottle
Chris Isaak-Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
Len-Steal My Sunshine
U2-Mysterious Ways
Kid Rock-Cowboy
The Beatles-A Day In The Life


I remember being in physics class and letting my lab partner look at one of the tracklists for my tapes (Vol. 9, to be exact) and her playfully giving her approval and disapproval one song at a time. To give you an idea of how our relationship worked, we sometimes flipped each other the bird in the hallways with straight faces initially and laughed about it right after. Her critique went something like this: "That's a cool one. That's cool. You put that on here? Hate that. They're cool. They're cool."

The one criticism she gave me that stood out was how random it was. "You can't follow up Cake with Barry White." Of course I can, I thought to myself! Only a passionate, open-minded, music-loving fanatic with taste as diverse as mine could stomach having genres crash into each other with very little care and gather enjoyment from it. My lab partner didn't know what she was talking about. I was being a typical defiant adolescent and just brushed it off.

Her words came back to me when I revisited this volume in the present day,