One of the trends and best things about high school days in the 90’s is the cassette tape. I remember how I used to make
mixtapes,
I would call a radio station to request for songs and waited for it to
be played. I would be pissed when the DJ would start speaking on air
without waiting for the song to fade. There is just something special
about selecting the songs you thought were good enough to be on the tape
and thinking what song would go next.
Today I made one for Mel, not with the old school Sony 90
minute cassette tape but with a blank CD which is more available in
stores. It is filled with songs we longed to be ours for years now as we
marked the 7-year milestone of being together. We definitely grew up
living and breathing cassette tapes. It will always have a special place
in our heart.
On our first few months of being girlfriend/boyfriend, he had
made me listen to his mix tape full of songs he thought I had never
heard before. He was thinking aside from the music my band and I played I
only listened to what’s on the radio, Paramore, Fall Out Boys, Panic at
the disco and the
like. His mix has tracks of STP, Live, Alice and Chains, Candlebox and Hole and Oasis, which mostly I have been listening to ever since I was 7 with the influence of my older cousins whom he shares the same age.
I used to make mix tapes for everyone I knew. I would carefully
select each track, and even the order they were in always had meaning
with doodles and stickers and writing all over on the packaging. I’m
glad I made one today.
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