Ideas, Music

Nothing says Merry Christmas like a Mixtape.

I love you like a Christmas song baby

Don’t get me wrong I love I-pods and I-tunes, but I have to say… sometimes I miss the good old days of Sharpie markers and cases stacked with my favorite things in the world called MIXTAPES. I was born near the edge of the cassette tape stage where you would spend hours listening to the radio with your finger on the trigger of a record button. It literally took decades of listening to the radio to record all the songs you wanted. Pointlessly time consuming? Yes. Worth the wait? Debatable, but we didn’t have a choice.

Luckily CD’s and the Napster scandal quickly made their break through and a faster revolution of sharing music was born. My first mix tape or should I say mix CD was from my best friend Adam Back in high school. Scribbled on the top of the disk were the words “Walk Back to the Dam Car.” He later explained it was the only sentence he could make out of both of our names. I don’t know if that was cute or awkward, but I LOVED THAT CD. It had all of our favorite songs from Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2 to Teenage Dirtbag by Wheetus.

After that, anytime I really cared about someone I made them a mix tape. The playlists became more than just a smorgasbord of songs. They became a journal. To this day I love listening to them and re-living the good ol days. I don’t believe any song can be recorded without a memory and those memories seem to have lasted longer than any backstreet boys hit ever did.

I apologize. That was a really long intro to two really short messages:

Make someone a mixtape: Spread the love. It means more than anything you could buy off a shelf at Walmart.
Listen to the mixtape I made you for Christmas: I made a Christmas playlist for all of you. You can listen to the best holiday jams via Grooveshark by clicking the link below.