From: dmccart@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy)
Subject: Compilation tapes in my car, or, How My Taste Changed in Three Years
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:36:43 GMT

1989 -- Side A:				Side B:
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Let The Day Begin			The Cowboys
	(The Call)		3:50		(Williams)		 8:51
Wouldn't It Be Good			Akhnaten: Hymn To The Sun
	(Danny Hutton Hitters)	3:44		(Glass)			 6:16
You Really Got Me			Theme from "Batman"
	(The Kinks)		2:13		(Elfman)		 2:38
Moving in Stereo			John Somebody [Part I]
	(The Cars)		4:45		(Johnson)		 5:25
Scarborough Fair / Canticle		Tromba Lontana
	(Simon & Garfunkel)	3:08		(Adams)			 4:11
Think					Symphony #3
	(Aretha Franklin)	3:13		(Harris)		18:28
Leave It
	(Yes)			4:10
Ship of Fools
	(Robert Plant)		5:01
I Am A Rock
	(Simon & Garfunkel)	2:50
Toy Soldiers
	(Martika)		4:47
Sunset Grill
	(Don Henley)		6:22

NOTES:
This was my "drive to work in the morning (and listen up to Leave It)
and drive home at night without changing the tape" tape.  Scarborough
Fair is the only one I'd move from the bright-morning half to the
dark-evening half of Side A, but then the two S&G songs would be too
close to each other.

In my car, with the windows rolled up, is the only place I don't feel
self-conscious listening to John Somebody.  I always have the feeling
someone's going to look at me funny while it's playing.


1992 -- Side A:				Side B:
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Beautiful World				_Tocatta_ [from Symphony #5]
	(Devo)			3:32		(Widor)			 6:20
Pocket Calculator [1991]		Ecce Gratum [from _Carmina Burana_]
	(Kraftwerk)		4:32		(Trad.)			 2:58
Carribean Blue				Fugue in G Minor [Brass trans.]
	(Enya)			3:58		(Bach)			 3:16
Chorus					Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
	(Erasure)		4:25		(Cale)			 5:25
Talk Normal				Appalachian Spring
	(Laurie Anderson)	5:27		(Copland)		22:19
Babydoll				Maple Leaf Rag
	(Laurie Anderson)	3:38		(Joplin)		 3:13
I'd Do Anything
	(Dead or Alive)		4:12
So Alive
	(Love and Rockets)	4:15
Autobahn [1991]
	(Kraftwerk)		9:27

NOTES
My taste for long, asymmetrical, American classical music hasn't gone
away.  Williams and Harris on the '89 Side B and Copland on this one.

I like the organ version of Fugue in g better, but with Widor just three
minutes before, I didn't want to overdo it.  Speaking of which, I *like*
blasting Widor with my windows rolled down and get weird looks from
people.  My self-consciousness only encompasses John Somebody.

Ecce Gratum is the only _Carmina Burana_ song that sounds good in both
the Orff and the traditional versions.

Now that I look back at it, I'm really surprised I didn't put a Philip
Glass song on this tape anywhere.

Talk Normal and Babydoll both start out with the same percussion intro,
even though they're on albums made about six years apart.  So I had to
put them next to each other.  I had a tape that had both the
Anderson/Gabriel and Gabriel/Anderson versions of "Excellent Birds"
back-to-back at one time too, but it got stolen.

The Dead or Alive / So Alive juxtaposition was unintentional.

I should have put Maple Leaf Rag before Appalachian Spring.  The longest
song on a tape should always be the last.



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D. J. McCarthy <dmccart@gomez.intel.com>
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