I can’t really call this a mixtape. At 40 songs deep, it’s really a 90’s playlist, full of memories deluded by raging hormones and chemicals; good simple times that I somehow made as complicated as I possibly could – adolescence is oh so bitter-sweet.
I’m getting nostalgic, or maybe: just waiting for some new awesome music to be released to make another mixtape. Sooooo – I’m dipping into the archives, charging the memory banks. Of course I can’t fit everything I’d want to in, & as is: this “playlist” is probably over-bloated.
We’re talking about an entire decade, and I’m probably only fixating on what i like/liked when I was 16 (this is a very limited point of view, I hardly liked anything. Sorry if you had the misfortune of knowing me during that period in my life.)
Back on topic: I only had to hunt for a few specific tracks (Sponge & Nada Surf); the rest I miraculously already had in my library. I haven’t head some of these songs in years, which made this all the more fun.
I tried not to pick top-40 bullshit, picking things I thought would be a fun jaunt down memory lane; maybe even introducing a few songs that either someone wasn’t aware had come out during the 90’s, or just hadn’t heard on the radio before.
This is not a serious mixtape. It’s not some pretentious collection, of a bunch of bands that no one has ever heard of – I wasn’t into electronica or rave music or whatever back in the Nineties – sorry to disappoint.
Every single one of these tracks, in one way or another, has some zany high school story attached to it
- & I could write some tumescent meandering POS that explained each, but I won’t bore you.
If there’s a track you enjoy(ed), tell me your story and bore me in the comments with your tale.
Maybe I’ll reply back with my own anecdote 
If you’re too young to remember the 90’s: please shut up and keep to yourself; you make me feel old.
Hopefully 2.66 hours of music might be able to give a whole decade a little justice.