Good Morning Friends! It is time for yet another mix to land on yet another Monday. For those who don’t know this series, each Monday I release a new MixTape that is available in both Spotify and YouTube flavors. The idea behind it is that as a kid I was a creator of many mixtapes. I would share them with my friends and often times put a lot of thought and effort into placing songs in just the right order. My goal was trying to create something that was a “listen-through” or an album that you just put in the stereo and let play. Creating an album that could be played start to end had greater significance given that rapidly skipping tracks was just not a thing that was viable. Since I don’t make physical mixtapes anymore, I make them digitally and share them with you, my readers.
Major Party Foul Dude
This album is the soundtrack to a High School or College party that I can visualize in my head summoned from the bowels of my memory. Granted a number of these songs did not exist during my college timeframe, but there is an unmistakable brand of pop-punk that fueled similar events. In my mind’s eye, I can picture a sea of red solo cups, and maybe even a trashcan full of “cowboy Koolaid” with this playing in the background. Essentially I crafted this album out of the late 90s and early 2000s post-punk music that fueled the Warp Tour and Jackass. Granted I am placing this in a very specific time context, but I feel like this sort of music is ultimately timeless. I’ve been sitting on this one for a while because I had cranked out two albums that both included some Blink 182 on them. However that was six weeks ago, and I think plenty of time has passed in order for this to feel fresh again.
Track List
- Swing, Swing – The All-American Rejects
- Flagpole Sitta – Harvey Danger
- Fat Lip – Sum 41
- Over My Head – Lit
- The Rock Show – Blink-182
- The Anthem – Good Charlotte
- The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
- Basket Case – Green Day
- Ocean Avenue – Yellowcard
- Nothing Inside – Machine Gun Kelly
- And I – Box Car Racer
- Santa Monica – Everclear
- Banditos – The Refreshments
- Coolidge – Descendents
- King of Wishful Thinking – New Found Glory
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There we have it friends, the fifteenth Mixtape in this series. I still have a large number of these waiting in the wings and still, find myself every few weeks going through a period of cranking out three or four of them at a time. For now, the inspiration is holding steady, so I am wondering exactly how long I can keep this going. I do realize that if I am going to keep this series going, I will need to start consuming brand new music. If this is your first mix, then I suggest checking out the archive where I keep a list of all of the past albums.
I’m not sure I have any good reason for loving this but I do anyway. Back in the eraly noughties I used to work with a guy who was the right age (although the wrong side of the Atlantic) for this kind of thing and I had many lengthy conversations with him about the nuances of various flavors of emo and pop-punk. He was a fan of Jimmy Eat World and Good Charlotte as I recall. I learned a lot.
I found Harvey Danger all on my own, though. Flagpole Sitta is an absolute classic!