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- From: dmccart@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy)
- Subject: Compilation tapes in my car, or, How My Taste Changed in Three Years
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:36:43 GMT
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- 1989 -- Side A: Side B:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Let The Day Begin The Cowboys
- (The Call) 3:50 (Williams) 8:51
- Wouldn't It Be Good Akhnaten: Hymn To The Sun
- (Danny Hutton Hitters) 3:44 (Glass) 6:16
- You Really Got Me Theme from "Batman"
- (The Kinks) 2:13 (Elfman) 2:38
- Moving in Stereo John Somebody [Part I]
- (The Cars) 4:45 (Johnson) 5:25
- Scarborough Fair / Canticle Tromba Lontana
- (Simon & Garfunkel) 3:08 (Adams) 4:11
- Think Symphony #3
- (Aretha Franklin) 3:13 (Harris) 18:28
- Leave It
- (Yes) 4:10
- Ship of Fools
- (Robert Plant) 5:01
- I Am A Rock
- (Simon & Garfunkel) 2:50
- Toy Soldiers
- (Martika) 4:47
- Sunset Grill
- (Don Henley) 6:22
-
- NOTES:
- This was my "drive to work in the morning (and listen up to Leave It)
- and drive home at night without changing the tape" tape. Scarborough
- Fair is the only one I'd move from the bright-morning half to the
- dark-evening half of Side A, but then the two S&G songs would be too
- close to each other.
-
- In my car, with the windows rolled up, is the only place I don't feel
- self-conscious listening to John Somebody. I always have the feeling
- someone's going to look at me funny while it's playing.
-
-
- 1992 -- Side A: Side B:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Beautiful World _Tocatta_ [from Symphony #5]
- (Devo) 3:32 (Widor) 6:20
- Pocket Calculator [1991] Ecce Gratum [from _Carmina Burana_]
- (Kraftwerk) 4:32 (Trad.) 2:58
- Carribean Blue Fugue in G Minor [Brass trans.]
- (Enya) 3:58 (Bach) 3:16
- Chorus Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- (Erasure) 4:25 (Cale) 5:25
- Talk Normal Appalachian Spring
- (Laurie Anderson) 5:27 (Copland) 22:19
- Babydoll Maple Leaf Rag
- (Laurie Anderson) 3:38 (Joplin) 3:13
- I'd Do Anything
- (Dead or Alive) 4:12
- So Alive
- (Love and Rockets) 4:15
- Autobahn [1991]
- (Kraftwerk) 9:27
-
- NOTES
- My taste for long, asymmetrical, American classical music hasn't gone
- away. Williams and Harris on the '89 Side B and Copland on this one.
-
- I like the organ version of Fugue in g better, but with Widor just three
- minutes before, I didn't want to overdo it. Speaking of which, I *like*
- blasting Widor with my windows rolled down and get weird looks from
- people. My self-consciousness only encompasses John Somebody.
-
- Ecce Gratum is the only _Carmina Burana_ song that sounds good in both
- the Orff and the traditional versions.
-
- Now that I look back at it, I'm really surprised I didn't put a Philip
- Glass song on this tape anywhere.
-
- Talk Normal and Babydoll both start out with the same percussion intro,
- even though they're on albums made about six years apart. So I had to
- put them next to each other. I had a tape that had both the
- Anderson/Gabriel and Gabriel/Anderson versions of "Excellent Birds"
- back-to-back at one time too, but it got stolen.
-
- The Dead or Alive / So Alive juxtaposition was unintentional.
-
- I should have put Maple Leaf Rag before Appalachian Spring. The longest
- song on a tape should always be the last.
-
-
-
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- D. J. McCarthy <dmccart@gomez.intel.com>
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