Quick Update……. Again

I’M NOT DONE I PROMISE.

To do:
– 14 tapes capped and needing tracklists & my witty and charming commentary and whatnot
– 31 tapes to cap
– 7 randos that miiight already be capped and uploaded but I’m not positive because the more organized I try to be, the less organized I am.

I’ll be working on knocking some of these out for the next few days/weeks 😊

I’m also still looking into a better method of sharing my tapes and realized…. why not just use WordPress’ built in music player. Duh. I’m not in love with its design but I think it’s the best we’re gonna get. I just can’t with Youtube anymore.

Tape 44

We start this one off with Sunday Night Arena, starring Mazzy Star, which is odd because I didn’t really care for them at the time. As I don’t even remember recording this, thus, don’t remember ever hearing Mazzy Star live before, I’m quite taken by how beautiful and good it is. Maybe because I’m older and depressed so I can appreciate it now, haha.

Once again, I captured the sides in the wrong order. The Jesus and Mary Chain’s portion of Sunday Night Arena comes later at 57:35. Oops.

I have noooo clue when the majority of this tape was recorded. A contest ends April 30, Grant Hill Shoes were released in 1995, and one of the Mazzy Star songs was released in October 1996. So your guess is as good as mine 🙂

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Quick Update

I’ve got 4 posts ready to go and they are queued to post each Sunday. I hit a snag for a minute there but I figured it out (you can take the girl out of webmastering but I guess you can’t take the webmastering out of the girl). I will probably increase the frequency when I have more posts drafted 🙂 I am so happy to be back!

If you wanna cheat, you can listen to the four tapes at my Hearthis page – https://hearthis.at/94analog/ (Hi, David X! :D)

Come back Sundays! 🙂

I’m Still Here, Promise :)

I can’t believe it’s been more than two years since my last tape. I definitely didn’t intend for my hiatus to last so long, but a very dark depression hit me in July 2020. I’m still working through it, and while I can’t say with honesty that I’m getting better, at least I can say I’m rising above it and finding beauty and joy again.

I struggled to enjoy my hobbies and interests, this blog sadly included. But I always felt so guilty, knowing I had a small but very faithful following who still come around looking for new tapes. I’m sorry I abandoned my project, but I’m so thankful you’ve come back.

I had a few already digitized that needed to be listened to and tracklisted, and I actually just brought the last (?) dozen or so home from my mother’s house last night – tapes that have been buried in a tub of teen mementos, lost in her garage for over 20 years. Should be fun!

Correction…. I appear to have 18 digitized and awaiting tracklisting, 18 chilling here in my closet that I found in storage back in April that I already forgot about and I THINK are awaiting digitization, and another 14 brought from my mom’s garage. 50 tapes. Oh my lord, this blog isn’t even halfway done yet! Hahaha.

(Did these new tapes survive 20+ Pittsburg summers in a garage? They smell kinda funny. I’m nervous.)

Also, there was a critical error here for a while after a server upgrade in July, so I’ve disabled my plugins until I can narrow down the issue. Some tapes using a service other than YouTube might not work yet. Bah.

I need to continue rising above this, and doing these last tapes will take me there. They make me smile 🙂

Watch this space <3

Hiatus – But I’m Not Done Yet

Hey guys! I’m all out of tapes for now but I do have a few left to do as soon as I get the time. I don’t know when that will be, so check back, or follow my Facebook page to be notified when the posts are published.

In the meantime, any tapes still on Youtube are going to be moved over to HearThis over time, so I can share them complete, as intended. Plus the player is so much more attractive. Haha.

Since they will include songs that Youtube forced me to cut out, the tracklistings may not be complete until I get around to fixing that too.

If you find ANY errors at all (with the player, if the wrong file is on the wrong post, or if an artist or song is listed incorrectly) please let me know.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my tapes so far, and I hope you have a great day 🙂