Mix Tape
Originally published via Armageddon Prose Substack:
“April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain”
-T.S. Eliot
One of the lingering regrets of my life is that I never produced an angst-ridden, hormone-fueled high school mix tape in the cruel grip of springtime for a girl with whom I was hopelessly enamored yet didn’t know how to impress my feelings upon so that they would be reciprocated, so I channeled them through the artform of music by compiling what was, in the days of cassettes, called a “mix tape” in a desperate bid to express myself, in the process creating an artifact of undying devotion that would be looked upon fondly in perpetuity by all involved parties.
Having never done any of that, at the tender age of 37, here is my sweet redemption, the first and last (digital) mix tape I’ll likely ever make, which I dedicate to my wife, a living saint.
Track #1: Leaving on A Jet Plane, John Denver
https://youtu.be/SneCkM0bJq0?si=xxZwjVYE7bDM85ES
Track #2: San Francisco, Alkaline Trio
https://youtu.be/ruFNQyhpviU?si=3RUVRN5i6bsdXFHT
Track #3: Are You There, Margaret? It’s Me, God, The Lawrence Arms
https://youtu.be/xc29d2R7t6Q?si=tFq1WbhRryVjfn9_
Track #4: Another Girl, Another Planet
https://youtu.be/ilDD5SeHxXE?si=xAA-tY-JU9yMPJdF
Track #5: Tonight, Tonight, Smashing Pumpkins
https://youtu.be/NOG3eus4ZSo?si=FO2rHB-VSWXziEvS
Track #5: Accident Prone, Jawbreaker
https://youtu.be/EgxhQN8X0u8?si=0kW3wNXL2S_BkHYu
Track #6: Black Box, Tony Sly
https://youtu.be/59osItAxKjQ?si=gQBboSVWiaJCep_n
Track #7: Blinded, Third Eye Blind
https://youtu.be/G9o4FTTQkDM?si=v2zs5JQhybZCw68m
Track #8: Heart-Shaped Box, Nirvana
https://youtu.be/by6lyNC3D9Y?si=j3tvefQeMZi01ftr
Track #9: AM/PM, American Nightmare
https://youtu.be/sXJPTNKjjFY?si=eBIgo2m4Z3qXwmpp
Track #10: I Walk the Line, Johnny Cash
https://youtu.be/J-6fW66IUY4?si=RNX8py_EO3PDLw7v
Track #11: I Guess This Is What Brains Look Like, Anorexic Olsen twin
https://youtu.be/C5-fmUubEAM?si=m28aFeSeAl1Lkfj2
Track #12: Wagon Wheel, Old Crow Medicine Show
https://youtu.be/1gX1EP6mG-E?si=IjdiUbZEqp2fcmut
Track #13: Stuff’s Weird, Mischief Brew
https://youtu.be/fXt0pHTF_tY?si=tRtOImGM7sFHy3vp
Bonus Track: Closer, Nine Inch Nails
https://youtu.be/PTFwQP86BRs?si=JRomGghB0NLx3pKl
Feel free to let me now where I went wrong in the comments and berate me for being an emo hipster.
Ben Bartee, author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile, is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.
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