On a side note, I seem to be gravitating towards live versions with the YouTube links on this one. I must be in a concert-going mood. Also, this has put me in a very sentimental mood, for which I will not apologize.
Side A:
1. All For You - Sister Hazel (Still makes me dance and sing at the top of my lungs. Good stuff. And yes, I do pronounce the words like he does when I sing along.)
2. Running on Faith - Eric Clapton (Beautiful in its simplicity. "Lately I been talking in my sleep. Can't imagine what I'd have to say, 'cept my world would be right, if love comes back my way.")
3. Sexuality - k.d. lang ("How bad could it be, if you amuse yourself with me?" Her voice is like butter.)
4. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye (My favorite memory of this song is dancing with a boy named Brian in a bar on State Street in Santa Barbara. We'd just met that night and for some reason, the slow, sweet dance caused the world to melt away, making it feel as though we were the only people in the room. We did not, in fact, ever get it on, but did date a couple times after we both returned to OC.)
5. Can't Get You Off My Mind - Lenny Kravitz ("Old enough to see behind me, young enough to feel my soul." I always want that to be true. If you know me well at all, you know how dirty hot I think Lenny is and how very much I've always loved his music.)
6. Another Drinking Song - Mighty Mighty Bosstones ("Just a devotion to a potion, please no applause and a dedication to a medication, a crutch, a cure, a cause." This song doesn't demonstrate what I most love about the Bosstones, which is that they have a guy whose sole purpose is to dance wildly on stage.)
7. April 26, 1992 - Sublime (As most Californians do, I remember exactly where I was when I first saw footage of these riots. I was in the student lounge at my private college in the posh hills of Santa Barbara, safe and far away from where this happened. My brother was at UCLA at the time, closer, but thankfully safe as well. Shame that 17 years later there is still the same levels of racial tension and poverty in South Central. That said, 40 oz. to Freedom is still one of my favorite albums to listen to the entire way through.)
8. GWARN! - Pato Banton (Oh this album brings back memories of my Senior year in High School, cruising Balboa with Michelle, top down on her Jeep. Good lord, we were young, foolish and free. "Then its off to the dance to jump and prance and wiggle and jiggle and wiggle and jiggle and wiggle and jiggle and wiggle and jiggle and dance." I'm going to go out on a limb and predict "Pato and Roger Come Again" is on a number of my other mix tapes.)
9. Best of What's Around - Dave Matthews Band ("Turns out not where but who you're with that really matters." I'm not one to say "That album changed my life." and usually scoff when others do, but this one did. Any time I hear a song from this album, I'm transported to a time when I was full of hope and love and happiness.)
10. Lover Lay Down - Dave Matthews Band (Chose this link for the inclusion of Tim Reynolds. So good. "So much we have dreamed. We were so much younger, hard to explain that we have grown stronger. A million reasons life to deny, let's toss them away.")
11. You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (I love the movie Swingers for many reasons. The one reason I hated it was for the light shone on places like The Dresden Room, The Derby, etc. - previously unknown places to go for great music and fun times without ridiculous lines of bandwagoners.)
Side B:
1. The Mountains Win Again - Blues Traveler ("This time in my life, I was hurt enough to care. I guess from now on, I'll be careful what I share...Someday I will find, love again will blow my mind." )
2. Three Little Birds - Bob Marley (A gem - Tracy Chapman "singing sweet songs, a melody pure and true.")
3. Possession - Sarah McLachlan ("Voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time." Prettiest song about stalking ever.)
4. When I Come to You - Jonny Lang (Couldn't find a vid of this, my favorite Jonny Lang song, but here's one of him playing with one of the great blues bands of all time, Double Trouble. Makes me miss Stevie just a smidge less...)
5. Strip - Adam Ant ("I am not a man who believes in lies, like an octopus with big x-ray eyes." What? I forgot how deliciously wonderful this video is.)
6. Something in the Way She Moves - James Taylor (Still so good after so many years. "Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning and I find myself careening into places where I should not let me go.")
7. Closer - Nine Inch Nails (No respectable mix tape from this time would appear without this song. "You can have my isolation. You can have the hate that it brings.")
8. Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac ("You woo me until the sun comes up and you say that you love me." I chose this link, of course, for Lindsey's amazing beard.)
9. Here, There, & Everywhere - The Beatles ("To lead a better life, I need my love to be here." No one writes a love song like these guys. Le sigh.)
10. Helplessly Hoping - CSN&Y (Some of my favorite memories with my father are seeing CS&N at the Santa Barbara Bowl. What both of us wouldn't have given to see Young with them. "Love isn't lying, it's loose in a lady who lingers, saying she is lost and choking, on hello.")
11. Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band ("Sweet like candy to my soul, sweet you rock and sweet you roll." I chose this clip for this: "I will be your Dixie Chicken if you be my Tennessee Lamb. We will walk together down in Dixie Land."*)
*Having listened to this tape the entire way through, going through the memories it provoked, I realize it must have been made right around the time I got engaged, and the man who was supposed to be "best" at the wedding declared his undying love for me, privately, at our engagement party. Heady times those were. He introduced me to the joys of Little Feat.
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