Dude, you rock!

I look back at my youth, making mix tapes, and I think I've romanticized the whole thing.  It was labor intensive, and the people I gave the mixes to never quite seemed to get all the hidden messages I was putting in with my song selections.  Either that, or I regretted my song decisions later but it was so much work making the tape that I just gave it to them anyway.  I remember once I made a mix tape for a girl that I kind of liked.  One of the songs I put on there was by this Dallas band called Last Rites that was playing in the late 80s/early 90s.  I found them on a compilation album that I picked up cheap at Hastings, called "Dude, You Rock!" Actually, here's the track list from that cassette:

Course of Empire - God's Jig

Three On A Hill - Overdrive

Decadent Dub Team - Makin' Funky Money

Rigor Mortis - Grudge F---

Loco Gringos - Texas Ranger Man 

Scam - The Culprit

Shallow Reign - Walk With Me

Sedition - Sedition

Lithium X-Mas - Love Buzz

Hash Palace - Let's Get Lost

Reverend Horton Heat - Speed Demon

Last Rites - You're So F-----n Great/Train Girl

End Over End - Bringin' It Down By Hand

Anyway, I put "You're So F'in Great" song on the mix, because it's chorus was basically "You're so f'in great, but I suck!"  About forty times in a row.  It kind of summed up how I felt about her.  But then I was worried that she would think I was trying to say something with that song, so then I wrote her a letter explaining that that song didn't have anything to do with anything.  It was one of those "the lady doth protest too much" moments.

I wish I could find that song, but so far it's not coming up anywhere, on youtube or anywhere else.

So I think I'm a convert to the CD burning mix list world.  Super easy.  Easy to change the order, to add or subtract, to think about it for a few days and get back to it, to throw something together for a drive, to toss some tracks on a disc to introduce someone to a band you like.  Maybe I like that it means less - then I don't worry that I'm sending a message with the medium, as it were.

Here's "Texas Ranger Man" by the Loco Gringos, from Dude, You Rock!

I kind of wish I still had this cassette, since some of the songs don't seem to be available any other place.  Apparently it was also released on red vinyl - that would be pretty cool to have.