Back in the 90s—and this is no great exaggeration—much of my personal visual creative energy went into the art of mix tape covers, either ones made for friends or ones made for myself. I spent hours not only on curating the perfect content for these tapes, but also logged a significant amount of time on bedroom floors and Kinko’s color copiers creating complex collages of whatever I was into that week.
This was always one of my favorites, from the period of time when I was slightly obsessed with taking photos of the ocean at night. I finished it off with a blurry, underwater-like Polaroid of our old college cat, Pants (below).
Eclectic track listing for your enjoyment below. Note the third to last song on the second side. That bass player can make some mean raw vegan food….
Side One
1. Superchunk – “Her Royal Fisticuffs”
2. That Dog – “Long Island”
3. Sunny Day Real Estate – “8”
4. Elastica – “Stutter”
5. Discount – “Malarie’s Mission”
6. Slant 6 – “G.F.S.”
7. Lois – “Flamer”
8. Pavement – “Date with Ikea”
9. Sleater-Kinney – “Dance Song ’97”
10. Moped – “Stephaen Hero”
11. Built to Spill – “I Would Hurt a Fly”
12. Skeleton Key – “The World’s Most Famous Underkeeper”
13. Blonde Redhead – “Symphony of Treble”
14. June of 44 – “Rivers and Plains”
15. Retsin – “Foul”
16. Elliot Smith (ft. Rebecca Gates) – “St. Ides Heaven”
Side Two
1. Jawbox – “Mirrorful”
2. The Promise Ring – “Everywhere in Denver”
3. Pixies – “Debaser”
4. The Spinanes – “Uneasy”
5. Huggybear – “Shaved Pussy Poetry”
6. Liz Phair – “Carnivore”
7. Team Dresch – “Deattached”
8. Seven Storey Mountain – “Last Time”
9. Fugazi – “Bed for the Scraping”
10. Tattle Tale – “Arrows”
11. Sparkle – “Her Way”
12. Ruby Falls – “Steal”
13. Kaia – “Peyton Versus Your Boyfriend”
14. Nikki McClure – “Omnivore”
15. Texas is the Reason – “Antique”
16. Karate – “What is Sleep?”
17. Bikini Kill – “Statement of Vindication”
