When I was Eighteen

[dotinthesky]

I loved mix tapes when I was in high school. I'd make them for the bus trip to school, or for my bedroom at night, when everyone was asleep and all I could see from my window were the distant ships circling Hong Kong. I spent a lot of time with them, and I started to believe eventually that they were a part of me. I was part of the last mix tape generation.

My 18-year-old essence captured on tape:

Morrissey - Everyday is Like Sunday
Belly - Feed the Tree
One Dove - White Love
Blind Melon - No Rain
The Cure - In Between Days
James - Sometimes
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence
Erasure - Oh L'Amour
Cocteau Twins - Bluebeard
Blur - Clover Over Dover
Suede - Animal Nitrate
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
The Breeders - Cannonball
Shed Seven - Mark

Comments

[yearning.livejournal.com]

you were my type with 18, he.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

You were so cute! Not that you're no longer cute, I ahsten to add, but in a diferent way).

Except....is that a PONYTAIL? THe way the hair's pulled back makes me suspect.

[suede.livejournal.com]

you looked like young richard oakes, well on his cute early days :D

Shed seven!!!!!!! <3

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Want!

[vrax.livejournal.com]

OMG dude. You are smokin hawt.

[live-life-like.livejournal.com]

i want to pinch your cheeks!!!
^_^

so cute!
and ooooh, waht a great taste in music, eh?

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

Aww.

I still have most of the mix tapes I've made for various journeys, all labelled up with stuff like "CORNWALL MIX TAPE!" or "SUNNY DAY TRIP MIX TAPE!" or "CHICKS WILL DIG THIS!" (not even sure what's on that last one).

[sublimevisions.livejournal.com]

weren't you so cute as an 18 y/o :)

mixed tape... hah i remember those.

[idioticpoet.livejournal.com]

I think you and I would've palled around in HS.

[knacker-prince.livejournal.com]

"We're not so different, you and I!"

[kevyn-kronycles.livejournal.com]

I mourn the demise of mixed tapes too...I have tons from my teenage years. I may just have to do what you did and post an old pic with a song list from one of my tapes.

[belacane.livejournal.com]

...you were adorable!

[saint-narcissus.livejournal.com]

how cute!
now I will see if I can find an 18yo pic of myself!
xxoo -David
ps,. and a mix tape play list!

[stormecho.livejournal.com]

I'm working on the photos throughout the ages that you first showed me.
I still have cases FULL of mixed tapes from high school/college days.
I only really know two of your songs. Oh L'Amour was a favorite. The Clash question still applies to various situations.

[phyrephly.livejournal.com]

I am eighteen. For the benefit of myself, I will now list the tracks on "Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving," the mix I listen to everyday:


"Perfidia" Xavier Cugat
"Blue Moon" The Marcels
"Lucky and Unhappy" Air
"I've Told Every Little Star" Linda Scott
"Night and Day" Ella Fitzgerald
"Mr. Sandman" The Chordettes
"Running Up That Hill" Kate Bush
"Fools Rush In" Ricky Nelson
"Coming on Strong" Brenda Lee
"Come Softly to Me" The Fleetwoods
"Theme From A Summer Place" Percy Faith
"Be My Baby" The Ronettes
"Who's Sorry Now?" Connie Francis
"Whispering Bells" The Del-Vikings
"Radioactivity" Kraftwerk
"Lolita Ya-Ya" The Ventures
"Sea of Love" Phil Phillips
"Lay All Your Love On Me" ABBA
"Put Your Leg Up" Diamond K
"Cuanta Te Gusta" Carmen Miranda
"Man Machine" Kraftwerk
"Crying" Roy Orbison
"Popsicles Icicles" The Murmaids
"California Dreamin'" The Mamas & The Papas
"Since I Don't Have You" The Skyliners


I hope you appreciate that I typed all of that out!

[sympetrum.livejournal.com]

I think you and I were the same person back then.

The crossover between our musical tastes as well as the actual songs themselves is uncanny.

I think I had almost this exact mixed tape in my car all the time, lol.

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