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Terrible Mix From 2001, Part 2: The Perspicacious Geek

by on December 16, 2014 at 7:58 am
Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

20141208_194936Ok, so where were we? Joan Jett was still hot and we were working our way through a mix CD that I made when I was 17. Obviously if you haven’t read last week’s article where I detail the first 11 tracks of this mix, you should go do that. Before we get started, I thought it might be cool to paint a more vivid picture of the world in Spring of 2001.  Perhaps clues into what sort of mindset I was in when making this mix (events from History Orb.com):

  • Jan 4th – Rapper Vanilla Ice spends night in jail after allegedly ripping out some of his wife’s hair during a row
  • Jan 8th – 28th American Music Award: Faith Hill & Kid Rock win
  • Jan 9th – Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos. Now widely used by Windows and Mac users.
  • Jan 15th – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
  • Feb 21st – 43rd Grammy Awards: Beautiful Day, Shelby Lynne wins
  • Feb 28th – 15th Soul Train Music Awards: The Isley Brothers, Destiny’s Child & Jay-Z win
  • Mar 24th – 21st Golden Raspberry Awards: Battlefield Earth wins
  • Apr 1st – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands – first country in the world.

That would bring us up to around the time I made this mix. What a world! Now,  Joan Jett had just led us off with some classic early punk rock, it was time for me to put my punk rock cred on display (only to completely destroy it by the end of the album). ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Terrible Mix from 2001 – Part 1 (The Perspicacious Geek)

by on December 9, 2014 at 9:13 am
Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Cracked Case for IMPACT

This wasn’t originally going to be a two parter, but then I realized this was getting pretty long and I was only half way through. This thing has 23 tracks, so I’ll do 11 here today and 12 next week.

So we moved the TV room around a little (to make room for a beer fridge!) and it exposed the lower shelf of a bookcase that had a pretty big stack of old CDs on it. I thought it might be fun to see what the ole’ CD collection had in store for me and looked for a CD to bring with us to listen to in the car while we ran some errands.

Then I saw it. I saw an old mix CD. Not just any mix CD. A mix CD that I seemed to care about enough that I made jewel case art. Don’t be fooled by the fact that it says “antisocial,” that’s not what I named the mix. In fact, that was a reference to my extremely old website “antisocialites”. So old that I can’t seem to find it on the internet anymore. No, this mix was called “The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dog. Yes, the fact that it’s “jumped” and not “jumps” was intentional (thereby meaning that the sentence doesn’t actually contain all 26 letters of the alphabet and is missing the “s”). I thought I was fucking hilarious. I was right. That is hilarious.

That symbol/face thing? That was something I called “The Squidgy”. Not sure why. I did use to draw and paint it on things though from time to time. I was a real badass.

Most of these songs have the telltale little blips and skips of a badly ripped song. Most of these songs came from LimeWire. Remember LimeWire guys? Only 90s kids will remember LimeWire. LimeWire was what we all turned to when it started to be hard to find the tracks you wanted on Napster. I remember trying to somehow convince my parents that this wasn’t illegal at one point. Something about it being “just like the radio”. Oh parents. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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