I wish I could introduce you to TP3, you'd've gotten on famously.

also a nice gaugebag treat..

he got me into the new asobi seksu disc.....i suggest ya'll check that shit out...

as for the hippos i was a fan of the first album back in the day. i have actually not heard the one that you included the song on. guess i will have to check that out.

The oldest one I could find in my garage was made on 3/1/1991 (which was not only after I was in high school, but almost two years after I had graduated college), and like most of the mix tapes I made during that era, was titled after a quote from Twin Peaks. Other than the hip title reference, the tracklisting shows just how out of touch I was before I discovered the likes of CMJ/Obner a decade later...

"I'm Worried About Coop!"

Side A:
"Lodi" - CCR
"So. Central Rain" - R.E.M.
"In the City" - The Eagles
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" - The Beatles
"Sure as I'm Sittin' Here" - Three Dog Night
"Spinning Wheel" - Blood, Sweat and Tears
"Living in the Past" - Jethro Tull
'Tell Her No" - The Zombies
"One World" - Utopia
"Beginnings" - Chicago
"Presto" - Rush
"China Grove" - The Doobie Brothers

Side B:
"It Can Happen" - Yes
"How Do You Spell Love?" - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
"The Waiting" - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
"Cold as Ice" - Foreigner
"Josie" - Steely Dan
"No Time" - The Guess Who
"The House is Rockin'" - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
"The Way It Is" - Bruce Hornsby and The Range
"Fashion" - David Bowie
"Glamour Boys" - Living Colour
"Let My Love Open the Door" - Pete Townshend
"Two Tickets to Paradise" - Eddie Money

I was pretty much an unpaid DJ for an imaginary classic rock station the first 30 years of my life.

For what it's worth, this is the only Eagles tune that doesn't turn my stomach. Had it not been used for the closing credits to The Warriors, it may even have lost that distinction.

I still have a few mix tapes from High School. The one below is from the spring of 1992. It's mainly CCM-based alternative stuff...most of which I still like but don't listen to much anymore....

Side 1

1 "those that kill" sincerely paul
2 "ocean blue" l.s. underground
3 "dance with me" dead artist syndrome
4 "mytho-x" mortal
5 "spill" deitiphobia
6 "colours" painted orange
7 "through your eyes" code of ethics
8 "windswept place" dance house children

Side 2

9 "all these questions" mad at the world
10 "if you let me" the violet burning
11 "tell" the throes
12 "this is the way love is" the 77s
13 "children of time" the choir
14 "new year's day" u2
15 "ballerina out of control" the ocean blue
16 "circle slide" the choir

Yeah, Bob, but those are still good songs, regardless of your broadened tastes in ensuing years. There's a lot of knocking of classic rock when many indie rock bands are slavishly imitating the genre. It's not the genre that should be criticized, but specific songs, just like any other genre.

I'd rather hear "Flirting With Disaster" riding down the road than some Bright Eyes song anyday.