Early College Mix CDs

Up through my first year of college, I was still making mixtapes with cassettes, and all the attention and fussiness that that entails. The technology had been available for mix cds by then, but not so much at my house. By the time I came home for that first summer after college, Napster had been replaced by Audiogalaxy and my parents had updated both their computer and their internet connection, and were sitting at just-about eye level with the digital age. I made a bunch of mix cds that summer, mostly intended for the car.

I found a few of them today. Scribble whose companion is Scrabble, and Quick Assorted, whose companion is the cleverly named Quick Assorted 2. It was a year before I had started working as a DJ and my tastes got weirder. I was beginning to eschew the Fat Wreck and Epitaph style pop-punk I'd favored in high school, for more old school and hardcore, but I was a sucker for novelty songs. Scribble stands as a testament to my obsession with the band Sublime, not just by featuring two of the band's own songs, but a collaboration between singer Brad Nowell and No Doubt, also the drummer Bud Gaugh's short-lived side project Eyes Adrift, with Curt and Krist of the Meat Puppets and Nirvana, respectively. Quick Assorted was made with the intention of being listened to at my friend Charles' house while we got high, with the exception of the Murphy's Law blitz at the end, which only I could stand, and tells me that the cd was made right after I saw one of my friend's bands open up for them at the House of Blues.

Quick Assorted
1. Camper Van Beethoven - Eye of Fatima Pt. 1
2. Perez Prado - Mambo #5
3. Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
4. They Might Be Giants - Oder
5. Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Sex, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
6. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Sex on Wheelz
7. Melanie Safka - Brand New Key
8. Camper Van Beethoven - Eye of Fatima pt. 2
9. Del Shannon - Runaround Sue
10. Blondie - Call Me
11. Bad Religion - Americn Jesus
12. Frank Zappa - Catholic Girls
13. Frank Zappa - Jewish Princess
14. Frank Zappa - Titties and Beer
15. Murphy's Law - Panty Raid
16. Blondie - One Way or Another
17. The White Stripes - Fell in Love with a Girl
18. The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
19. Murphy's Law - Secret Agent S.K.I.N.
20. Murphy's Law - Quest for Herb
21. Murphy's Law - Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head KLicked In Tonight
22. Oysterhead - House of the Rising Sun (live Animals cover)



Scribble
1. They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
2. Marilyn Manson - Cake and Sodomy (Tony Wiggins remix)
3. NOFX - Fucking My Mom
4. Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues (live)
5. The Moldy Peaches - Steak for Chicken
6. Asylum Street Spankers - Winning the War on Drugs
7. Juice Bros - Thirteen Years Old
8. They Might Be Giants - Older
9. Sublime - Rivers of Babylon (Boney M cover)
10. Sublime - Falling Idols (Falling Idols cover)
11. Madness - One Step Beyond
12. No Doubt feat. Bradley Nowell - Total Hate '95
13. Eyes Adrift -
14. The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
15. The Dead Milkmen - I Dream of Jesus
16. GG Allin - Bite It, You Scum
17. Guttermouth - Asshole
18. The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
19. Offspring - Smash It Up (The Damned cover)
20. Del Shannon - Runarond Sue
21. Sid Vicious - My Way (Frank Sinatra/Paul Anka cover)
22. Stretch Armstrong - Get the Party Started (P!nk cover)
23. Hi-Standard - Theme from The Pink Panther
24. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
25. The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
26. Buck Satan & the 666 Shooters - Friend of the Devil (live Grateful Dead cover)