Music Nostalgia
I recently came across a CD in a CD Player that I hadn’t used in years. It was an Acer CD-R that was blank except for my trademark “X” that I put on everyone of my CDs with a permanent marker
I wasn’t that surprised by the tracks I chose to put on the CD, but since I hadn’t listened to any of them at all in 4 or 5 years, it was nostalgic. I remember being in my dorm room on campus and having one of the first CD burners out of anybody I knew. I think it must have been around 1998, and I was hittin’ up the pre-Metallica Napster like there was no tomorrow. It was over dial up too. The dorm I was in didn’t get wired for broadband internet access until the year after I left campus. So I’d set my download list every night and then head to bed and hope the connection didn’t hang.
The coolest thing about the true P2P music sharing phenomenon back then was that you could get exposed to music you would never be able to get in stores. I found unauthorized remixes, unreleased tracks, and all kinds of stuff most record labels don’t want the average consumer getting their hands on.
Here’s a list of what I found on there:
- “Brass Monkey” - License to Ill, Beastie Boys
- “Root Down” - Ill Communication, Beastie Boys
- “Sabotage” - Ill Communication, Beastie Boys
- “Damnit” - No Bullshit, Blink 182
- “Ruff Ryders Anthem” - Best Collection, DMX
- “Get You Mad” - Unrelease V, Eminem
- “My Name Is” - The Slim Shady LP, Eminem
- “The Rockafeller Skank (Remix)” - Fatboy Slim
- “Vivrant Thing” - Amplified, Q-Tip
- “Scar Tissue” - Californication, Red Hot Chili Peppers
[tags]music, playlist, multiply, napster, rap, hip-hop, CD, nostalgia, MP3[/tags]
Nice, I think we have similar taste in music. I have about half of those.
Riss: Well, then I absolutely approve of your musical taste. If you haven’t already, try Last.fm. I’ve found a few artists and tracks through friends I’ve met on there that I probably never would have otherwise.
That’s a pretty good mix of music there. Everytime I hear “Sabotage” I think of the time I glued a frat brother’s remote control to his desk.
Phoenix: Thanks! I think some guys I new in high school actually made a video of themselves doing all these crazy flips and stuff to ‘Sabotage’.
Q-Tip was never the same after Low End Theory. Do you know tha importance of a sky-pa-ga?
Here’s another thought…. Does Q-Tip realize that “vivrant” isn’t a word? Then again, “applebum” probably isn’t in the dictionary either.
Oh yeah, those were the days weren’t they??
And those Q-Tip questions from JJ were hilarious. Maybe his vocabularly went to hell after what happened in El Segundo?
That’s a helluva CD! All that nostalgia; now I’m wallowing on it!
Old music always reminds you how you are getting older and it’s already 6 years since the 90’s. Whoa!
Gosh, what ever happened to my life? Maybe I should go an get one…
Cool mix - isn’t it interesting how hearing music that we haven’t listened to for a long time can take us back to that time/place we were at when into it?
Those are all pretty good, and I think discovering something like this can be pretty cool. It’s fun to look back and see where we were at a particular time in our lives.
Unless of course, the mix cd would have been filled witha medley of Backstreet Boys/Nsync hits. That wouldn’t have been fun at all.
Of course if that were the case, you probably would have just destroyed it and never written about it at your site.
Did dialup suck or what? I think we’ve all done the go to bed and hope the piracy gods smiled upon us while we slept.
Later!
JJ: I always thought so too… I think he was poised to become one of the best rappers ever, but I’ll be damned if I know what happend. And I actually had a hell of a time looking up the name and the album of the track because I kept spelling “Vivrant” the right way.
Nicole: Oh snap! An ‘I left my wallet in El Segundo’ reference!
Rockyjay: It is weird how the nostalgia just comes flooding back.
Laurie: I thought the same thing. Suddenly I was back at my desk in a dingy ass dorm room trying to think up the next way I was going to sneak booze into the dorm.
ZFB: If I had anything like that burned on CD anywhere, you can bet there wouldn’t be evidence anymore! And hell yeah dial-up sucked! I was so pissed that they made the whole campus broadband the year after I move off…