MixMaster: Jorge
THEME: The Years of Our Lives
1. We will each be submitting 30 minutes of music, finalized. There will be no shared picking of the songs for this mixtape. Each of us will bring our 30 minute package to the table done and finalized.
2. The songs for your 30 minutes will be limited to ONE year of your choosing. This year should be a significant year in your lifetime. Examples: The year you were born, the year you first kissed a girl, the year you got married, the year you made a significant life change, the year you graduated from high school, etc. You pick the year and why it is important to you and you select thirty minutes of music from that year.
3. Final assembly of the mixtape: Our individual thirty minutes are run sequentially one after the other chronologically. With one of us having to split our thirty minutes over both sides.
Year Choices:
Jorge - 1976
The year my parents and I moved to the USA and I began to be exposed to rock and pop. Many memories and new experiences.
Robert - 1980
I was a sports kid growing up. Life in Miami revolved around the Dolphins and getting outside to play the sport of the season with my neighborhood friends. Music was completely peripheral. That isn't to say music wasn't played in my house - it was. Both of my parents were theater people so we always had lots of musical cast recordings playing and my mom, a left-over beat/hippy had an impressive folk collection on vinyl. I distinctly remember listening to AM radio in my room at night - hits from the 70s but, without an older sibling or hip parents, no proper rock education.
That all changed in December of 1980. In the wake of John Lennon's assassination every news outlet had a feature on him and The Beatles and it was in watching one of those that I heard "A Day In The Life" for the first time. That Christmas, at my insistence, my mom bought me their greatest hits "blue album" and there was no turning back. I forgot sports and music became my obsession. Though my musical journey started in discovering The Beatles and other 60s music initially, I'll pay tribute to that year with selections from it.
Manuel - 1991
I'm going to go with 1991, which is the year I graduated from High School and the music of the day had a HUGE influence in my overall taste. Of course, i was lucky enough to have Jorge as an uncle, so I was listening to all kinds of stuff dating as far back as the early 80s when I was 9-12 years old. However, I resisted certain types of genres and stuff until 1991. To top it off, that was quite the year in rock and alternative rock.
SIDE A
1976 - Jorge
Carry on Wayward Son (Kansas)
Don't Fear the Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
More Than A Feeling (Boston)
Magic Man (Heart)
Say Goodbye To Hollywood (Billy Joel)
Fernando (ABBA)
1980 Part 1 - Robert
Ace Of Spades (Motorhead)
Dragon Attack (Queen)
Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie)
Stolen Car (Bruce Springsteen)
1980 Part 2
News At Ten (The Vapors)
Freedom Of Choice (Devo)
Family Snapshot (Peter Gabriel)
Watching The Wheels (John Lennon)
1991 - Manuel
Live and Let Die (Guns & Roses)
Lithium (Nirvana)
Half a World Away (R.E.M.)
The Struggle Within (Metallica)
Breaking the Girl (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Acrobat (U2)
Nightingale Song (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
Bring Tha Noize (Public Enemy w/Anthrax)
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