Middle School Flashback

I've been listening to really old mixed tapes while doing my evening driving lately.

Yesterday's was a nauseating gem of diversity.

A cross-cut of content for your entertainment (not the full tracklist):

Iron Butterfly's 20 minute long "Inna Gadda Da Vida"

XTC's "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"

Monie Love's "It's a Shame (My Sister)" (I still heart this song--watch the video HERE)

John Lennon's "Imagine"

That fricking "Life is a Highway" song which makes my skin crawl with a big big hate

Three fricking songs from Les Miserables

Digital Underground's "Freaks of the Industry" which I could not stop laughing at because the lyrics are so nasty for my middle-school self

Some nauseating Phil Collins song

A whole bunch of songs from Wayne's World (including "Dreamweaver" and the RHCP's "Sikamikanico"--I'm pretty certain I also have Alice Cooper's "Feed My Frankenstein" on another mix somewhere as well)

EMF's "Unbelievable"

That "Hello Cruel World" song (which I just realized is by the Eels--rock on with your bad-ass middle-school self, LL!)

Poi Dog Pondering's "Be the One" (I still absolutely love this song)

And of course, the obligatory version of "Creep" by Radiohead

(which appears to be on pretty much every mix that I've made in the past 15 years)

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