archiving my mixed CDs created over the years! i'll be uploading these in small batches going forward since i decided to sunset my spotify and move away from streaming services entirely, so these are just lists on a page...exactly the way i used to discover and build playlists before streaming platforms took off!

linked songs are my personal favourites/highly recommended songs from each mix! and yes, track order DOES matter to me. no shuffling unless i say so!

this issue collects the following playlists:

  • vomiting out of a 1970s holden commodore at 2pm whilst wearing a tiara

  • swamp witch blues

  • those 70s songs you know all the lyrics to like seasons in the sun and beautiful day

  • grapefruit

  • macho pizza places that only play 90s/00s commercial rock

vomiting out of a 1970s holden commodore at 2pm whilst wearing a tiara

or, 'scenes from the australian suburbs'

  1. 1.

    Sabotage - Beastie Boys

  2. 2.

    King Of The Road - Fu Manchu

  3. 3.

    Sick, Sick, Sick - Queens of the Stone Age

  4. 4.

    Swallow My Pride - Soundgarden

  5. 5.

    High Roller - Dozer

  6. 6.

    Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney

  7. 7.

    Aneurysm - Nirvana

  8. 8.

    You Fucked Up - Ween

  9. 9.

    A Certain Shade Of Green - Incubus

  10. 10.

    Wild In The Streets - Circle Jerks

  11. 11.

    Nervous Breakdown - Black Flag

  12. 12.

    Green Machine - Kyuss

  13. 13.

    Throw Up - Red Fang

  14. 14.

    Down With The Sickness - Disturbed

  15. 15.

    Spit It Out - Slipknot

  16. 16.

    Tension Head - Queens of the Stone Age

  17. 17.

    White Limo - Foo Fighters

  18. 18.

    Wolf Like Me - Local H

Archived: Dec 24, 2019

Length: 1hr, 5 mins

Notes: This is one of my favourite ever mixed CDs ever made, inspired by witnessing a Grade 12 Scavenger Hunt incident where this exact scene played out right before my eyes! This contains a lot of 90s rock bands and some real cheeky song title choices. I'd say I made this around 2013-2015.

grapefruit

night drivin' vibes

  1. 1.

    拒絕再玩 - Leslie Cheung

  2. 2.

    街のドルフィン - Kingdo Hamada

  3. 3.

    Angel Disco Love - Sunset Rollercoaster

  4. 4.

    怎麼天生不是女人 - Grasshoppper

  5. 5.

    Fantasy - Earth, Wind & Fire

  6. 6.

    SUMMER BLUE - Bread And Butter

  7. 7.

    We Ride - Brave Girls

  8. 8.

    BOSSA MARINA - Chisato Moritaka

  9. 9.

    Bullet Proof Soul - Sade

  10. 10.

    Like Yesterday - Paul Cherry

  11. 11.

    Girl of My Dreams - Donny Benet

  12. 12.

    Baby I'm Sacred Of You - Womack & Womack

  13. 13.

    Give Life Back To Music - Daft Punk

Created: Sept 20, 2021

Length: 57 mins

Notes: This is one of my favourite mixes I ever made! I don't exactly remember why it's called 'grapefruit' but, whatever, it doesn't matter. It contains a mixture of old and modern cantopop, citypop and other easy listening disco/funk tracks. Leslie Cheung (forever my favourite actor, and I really adore his music career!), Grasshopper, Earth Wind & Fire, and Sade are some of my favourite artists of all time, even though I don't talk about them nearly as often as I should!

Because I can't resist, I wanted to talk about Grasshopper's 怎麼天生不是人. Sadly I'm not a Cantonese speaker, but this loosely translates to "why aren't I born a woman?". The theme of the lyrics expresses frustrations of being unable to cry and express your true emotions because you were born as a man, and the sensual allure of wanting to become a woman. It's a really fascinating queer coded song in the scope of 1990s Hong Kong.

swamp witch blues

mostly 80s and 90s australian punk/psych i guess

  1. 1.

    Swampland - Scientists

  2. 2.

    Save My Soul - Lime Spiders

  3. 3.

    Sad Girl - The Stems

  4. 4.

    Say A Spell - The Birthday Party

  5. 5.

    Slave Girl - Lime Spiders

  6. 6.

    Johnny - The Celibate Rifles

  7. 7.

    Love 200 - Tully

  8. 8.

    Another Sin - The New Christs

  9. 9.

    51st State - Exploding White Mice

  10. 10.

    You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators

  11. 11.

    Cherry Red - Lime Spiders

  12. 12.

    Gimme Gimme Gimme - The Celibate Rifles

  13. 13.

    How Do You Know? - Lyres

  14. 14.

    Blood Red River - Scientists

  15. 15.

    Swampland - The Birthday Party

  16. 16.

    Faceache - Exploding White Mice

  17. 17.

    Under Your Mushroom - The Stems

  18. 18.

    Reverberation - 13th Floor Elevators

  19. 19.

    Mr Clean - The Eastern Dark

  20. 20.

    Born Out Of Time - The New Christs

  21. 21.

    Crying Sun - Radio Birdman

  22. 22.

    Ride On - Beasts of Bourbon

Created: April 14, 2018

Length: 1hr, 31 mins

Notes: Some classic Aussie pub psych/punk bands!

those 70s songs that you know all the lyrics to like seasons in the sun and beautiful day

from a tumblr ask box request in 2013

  1. 1.

    Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

  2. 2.

    You're So Vain - Carly Simon

  3. 3.

    Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival

  4. 4.

    Wild World - Yusuf/Cat Stevens

  5. 5.

    Into The Mystic - Van Morrison

  6. 6.

    Old Man - Neil Young

  7. 7.

    Roxanne - The Police

  8. 8.

    Heroes - David Bowie

  9. 9.

    The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

  10. 10.

    Tiny Dancer - Elton John

  11. 11.

    Dark Lady - Cher

  12. 12.

    L.A. Woman - The Doors

  13. 13.

    Lola - The Kinks

  14. 14.

    Tangerine - Led Zeppelin

  15. 15.

    Baba O'Riley - The Who

  16. 16.

    Miss You - The Rolling STones

  17. 17.

    A Horse With No Name - AMerica

  18. 18.

    Hotel California - Eagles

  19. 19.

    Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

  20. 20.

    Layla - Derek & The Dominos

  21. 21.

    Sweet Surrender - Tim Buckley

  22. 22.

    Fire and Rain - James Taylor

  23. 23.

    Summer Breeze - Seals and Crofts

  24. 24.

    Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

  25. 25.

    More Than A Feeling - Boston

Archived: Dec 24, 2019

Length: 1hr, 54 mins

Notes: I grew up listening to classic rock, and these are all songs I know better than the back of my own hand!

macho pizza places that only play 90s/00s commercial rock

eating woodfired pizza listening to the greatest hits of triple m

  1. 1.

    Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows

  2. 2.

    Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind

  3. 3.

    Closing Time - Semisonic

  4. 4.

    Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers

  5. 5.

    Fly - Sugar Ray

  6. 6.

    She's So High - Tal Bachman

  7. 7.

    You Get What You Give - New Radicals

  8. 8.

    Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve

  9. 9.

    All Star - Smash Mouth

  10. 10.

    Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters

  11. 11.

    Every Morning - Sugar Ray

  12. 12.

    Kyrptonite - 3 Doors Down

  13. 13.

    With Arms Wide Open - Creed

  14. 14.

    Change (In The House Of Flies) - Deftones

  15. 15.

    How You Remind Me - Nickelback

  16. 16.

    The Reason - Hoobastank

  17. 17.

    Shimmer - Fuel (*)

  18. 18.

    In The End - Linkin Park

  19. 19.

    Cochise - Audioslave

  20. 20.

    Drive - Incubus

Archived: Dec 24, 2019

Length: 1hr, 20 mins

Notes: Exactly what it says on the tin. Based on my personal experiences at a woodfired pizza place I used to frequent when I lived in Newcastle, NSW.

(*) look if you can't admit this is absolute peak 90s divorced dad rock...when those strings kick in? i feel like trent reznor when he said he cried to dua lipa's levitating...