Nostalgic for worse times
November 17, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Photo: Yoann Lemoine.
- Clinic - Porno
Porno single (Golf/ 1997) - Boards of Canada - Seeya Later
Twoism (Music70 / 1995) - Modest Mouse - Worms vs. Birds
Worms vs. Birds single (Suicide Squeeze / 1997) - Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea (edit)
Little Trouble Girl single (1996) - Piano Magic - Snowfall Soon
Low Birth Weight (Rocket Girl / 1999) - Gustavo Cerati - Te llevo para que me lleves
Amor Amarillo (1994) - A.R. Kane - Lollita
Lollita Ep (4AD / 1987) - Young Marble Giants - Final Day
Final Day 7″ (Rough Trade / 1980)
Cleaning my room this weekend I found a cd mix that brought back a huge block of memories from my highschool years and which is dated as being created on ‘June 2001′ when I was 15 years old. Even though my taste has shifted through the years, I was pleasantly surprised to listen to this collection of songs years later and discover most of them still sound very good on my ears. The original playlist is actually 16 songs long but half of it is so sincerely embarrasing that I’ve decided to just give away a synthetized version with the good stuff instead.
The idea behind the playlist, as far as I recall, was driven by the nostalgia of a musical life that wasn’t mine - to capture this dated, lo-fi type of sound which reminded of a friend who was 6 years older than me and all the music I discovered by hanging out at her house, gazing at her huge cd collection while she was busy with college projects. They were a distant past that was hard to learn about and I was in an age when we all want to swallow the world whole.
Nice mix. Thanks for reminding me of a couple of oldies-but-goodies I hadn’t thought about in years myself — “Worms vs. Birds,” “Diamond Sea.”
And that Piano Magic song is just completely beautiful. I’d never heard of them before. Oh yes, oh yes.
How wonderful
woah you’re as old as me
my mixes from that period consist of a lot of tool and other maynard related projects.
does that inspire you?
guapo!
me haces compañía
sin saberlo
y desde lejos.
Surprised to hear you’ve never listened to Piano Magic. Personally I don’t think they have an album that stands out from the rest, I’d recommend listening to a compilation they have… I think its titled ’seasonally affective’.
PS: your site is great.
brandon: I’ve never been too much into metal, have a couple of doom and stoner metal records around but that’s it. One of my best friends is a huge maynard fan, he kept playing me the stuff on highschool but the only record that stuck for me is the first ‘perfect circle’ one, the slower songs like Breña and Orestes were my favorites.
I enjoyed that commentary of your past. Just to let you know, this is my fav mp3 blog–the tunes and mix you get here are just a notch above the rest!
And then there’s the distinctive artistic edge to it too…
Long live the music here!
thank you for this list, moka.
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