While having a frankly rare ridy up I found a shoe box with some old mix tapes in it. Stuff i'd totally forgotten about...I guess it was made in1992 (I think) for that summer going camping with mates and a few festivals.

Talk about a trip down memory lane. It's weird how this whole culture of mix tape has disappeared with digital technology. Sure you can make an awesome mix on itunes with gapless playback but it's not the same. You need that little pause between songs while you dug out the tape or CD to copy a tune.

Here's the tape playlist (side 1 more indie, side 2 more of a hip hop flavour) for you all to laugh at the teenage angst:

Side 1
"Touch me i'm sick" - Mudhoney
"Teenage Riot" - Sonic Youth
"Negative Creep" - Nirvana
"Debris Slide" - Pavement
"Grey Cell Green" - Neds Atomic Dustbin
"Everything Flows" - Teenage Fanclub
"Sheena-na-gig" - PJ Harvey
"September Gurls" - Big Star
"Never Talking to you Again" - Husker Du

Side 2
"Black Country Chainstore Massacre" - PWEI
"Kool Thing" - Sonic Youth
"Sliver" - Nirvana
"Peter Piper" - Run DMC
"They want money" - Kool Moe Dee
"Ain't no half-stepping" - Big Daddy Kane
"Follow the Leader" - Eric B and Rakim
"You Must Learn" - Boogie Down Productions
"Know how" - Young MC
"Say No Go" - De La Soul

Now I have to hunt them all down to stick on the iPod!