#001 - Genuinely Thinking Of You

I generally wouldn't want to post a tape before the recipient had found it in the mail, or had it handed to them, but in this case it's going to Toronto, and it may take a while to get there. Also, as it were, Jess, whom requested the tape, had posted her post-card to me in her blog (see http://deltiologicalstudies.blogspot.com/) and because curiousity killed me, I went ahead and read it before it appeared in my mailbox. I suppose she could do the same if she really wanted, but it would really ruin things.

Here is #001 - Genuinely Thinking Of You

Track Listings:

Side A

1. Songs For Sarah Jane - Hawksley Workman - Meat 2010
2. These Eyes Are On The Exit - Grade - At Both Ends Split EP 2010
3. Robots 3 Humans 0 - Norma Jean - Vs. The Anti Mother 2008
4. Rest My Chemistry - Interpol - Our Love To Admire - 2007
5. Metal Airplanes - Matthew Good - Hospital Music 2007
6. Complete Control - The Clash - The Clash 1979 (remaster - The Singles 2007)
7. The Patient Ferris Wheel - The Gaslight Anthem - '59 Sound 2008
8. Our Age - The Constantines - Kensington Heights 2008
9. Milk Lizard - The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works - 2007
10. Drive (Cars cover) - Deftones - rumored Saturday Night Wrist (export? bootleg?) 2006

Side B

1. Roman Holiday - Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic 2009
2. Come Undone (Depeche Mode cover) It Dies Today - Lividity 2009
3. Maybe I'll Catch Fire (Acoustic) Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony 2009
4. Bitches In Tokyo - Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War 2007
5. I Still Remember - Bloc Party - Weekend In The City 2007
6. Pale Bride - Von Bondies - Love, Hate & Then There's You 2009
7. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart EP 1980 (Essentials 2007)
8. Love Has Lead Us Astray - Thursday - Common Existence 2009
9. Talking Through Glass - Thrice - Beggars 2009
10. Everything Must Go - Taking Back Sunday - New Again 2009
11. (Bonus Track Not Listed) Black Gives Way To Blue - Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue 2009

There were indeed some problems with this one. For one, I found that TDK's D90 Type I, 0 bias tapes are somewhat garbage. I can hear attenuation wavering on some of the tracks. I'm not buying those again. I got them from Staples next door to the bank I work at. I'd prefer to go with Memorex tapes if I could still find them. Second, there were some substitutions. The tape was originally supposed to start side B with Them Crooked Vultures No One Loves Me, Niether Do I, but my CD deck wouldn't recognize the CD for some reason as being loaded, and I had a major problem with my computer output missing an entire channel of audio. So I had to scratch it entirely. Also left off was Marvelous Slut by Everytime I Die. On the CD, both Roman Holiday and Marvelous Slut are too short to probably stand alone, so I thought I would splice them together. It ran too long, and I decided to leave off Marvelous Slut, especially since it includes an appearance by Greg Puciato of The Dillinger Escape Plan, and I already used one of their songs on the tape. Stars was a last second addition, and my original track listing had Von Bondies Only To Haunt You instead of Pale Bride, but I think all things aside (whether I'm sending a message or not) Pale Bride is just a better song.

This one goes in the mail tomorrow and will likely take up to two weeks to reach Jess based on when her postcard is dated and how long it took to reach me. I only hope she absolutely DOES NOT READ THIS POST before it gets to her. I put that warning in the wrong place, didn't I?