#002 - The Reminder

Just 'round about 9:00pm, on my way to Wednesday night Karaoke, I'm going to drop this one in Cedar's mailbox.



Cedar and I had dated for a couple of months. Unfortunately it didn't work out; but we managed to forge one of the most valuable friendships I have. I don't think she's ever gotten a mixed tape. In fact, I don't think she's even seen High Fidelity, which by hipster standards is somewhat of a crime. Our friendship at this point consists of mostly us calling each other or texting or emailing each other and letting each other know how our lives are going. We're huge moral support for each other to be better people. Everyone needs a friend like that. Someone who knows all the intimate details about you, and can tell you straight what they think you might need in your life, but can also listen to you.



Cedar is fairly political, was at the bush protest, and I thought she should have a very limited selection of political tracks on here. Political isn't generally where her music interests lie. Generally I decided to make it mostly about songs that we used to listen together. The first time I saw It Might Get Loud, it was with her, at the Princess Theater.




Side A

1. Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks - Mothership (remasters) 2007


2. Wintersleep - Oblivion - Welcome To The Night Sky 2008


3. Them Crooked Vultures - New Fang - Them Crooked Vultures 2009


4. The Dears - 22: Death Of All The Romance (live) - Thank You Good Night Sold Out 2004


5. Feist - Lonely Lonely - Let It Die - 2005


6. Coeur De Pirate - La Vie Est Ailleurs - Coeur De Pirate - 2008


7. The Clash - English Civil War - The Singles (remasters) 2007


8. The Shins - New Slang - Oh, Inverted World 2001


9. Saosin - It's All Over Now - In Search Of Solid Ground - 2009

Side B

1. Alice In Chains - Check My Brain - Black Gives Way To Blue 2009


2. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (live) - Elevation Live From Boston 2001


3. White Stripes - 300mph Outpour Blues - Icky Thump 2007


4. Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon - Pawn Shoppe Heart 2004


5. Againstme! - Even At Our Worst We're Still Better Than Most - Searching For A Former Clarity 2005


6. Anti Flag - One Trillion Dollars - For Blood And Empire 2006


7. Alexisonfire - Emerald Street - Old Crows Young Cardinals 2009


8. Bedouin Soundclash - Gunships - Street Gospels 2007


9. Matthew Good - On Nights Like Tonight - Vancouver 2009


10. Gaslight Anthem - Great Expectations - '59 Sound 2008

I made a major faux pas on this one. Great Expectations runs out before it gets to the end. I thought I got enough of it not to do it over again. I found some really cool Matt Good rant for just before On Nights Like Tonight on youtube; something from when he used to do a rant on MuchMusic. I remember when I used to read his rant, the 'manifesto' on his website all the time, back in '99. There were no blogs then. I guess you could call him a pioneer. I used to put stuff on our own band website. I would get in shit a lot for that. Now everyone talks about everything and airs out all their dirty laundry. I think I'm safe airing mixed tape playlists.

Oh, and what does the title mean? I mean, I know it's a title of a Feist album, of which none of the songs make the tape. It's because I said I would go to Hawksley Workman with her (also doesn't appear on the tape) on March 14th. She emailed me to remind me the other day, or else I might have totally forgotten. Last time I saw Hawksley? With Jess, in March 2004, the same person I made the last tape for. You only go to Hawksley so you can stand beside someone you have a certain uneasy tension with.

#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?