Mixtape Mondays: Immaculately Overwhelmed

Good Morning Friends! I hope you had an excellent weekend. Last week was fairly dominated with guide posts about Mastodon/Fediverse, but hopefully this week we can get back to the regular sorts of nonsense that I provide. Today however I am bringing you the second new mix of what I am at least mentally thinking of as “season 2” of this project. For anyone tuning today fresh, I was one of those kids who constantly made mixtapes for myself and for my friends… even used them as a wildly ineffective way of trying to flirt. There is something about the art of placing songs in a specific order that I love, and I even go overboard enough to create some custom fake album art.

Immaculately Overwhelmed

Something that I realized in the time between my previous mixtape spree and now, is that I never really plumbed the depths of Emo Rock. I was way the fuck too old to adopt this as a style and way of life, but I spent plenty of time listening to this music. While as a Gen X I mostly viewed Emo as a resurgence of the Goth roots of The Cure and Bauhaus mixed through the party hard ethic of Blink-182. The end result was an extremely enjoyable rock phase from the mid to late 2000s. As frat rock began to fade it was replaced by this more deeply introspective version that honestly I related to quite a bit more. The scene kids that followed, even felt quite a bit like my little skater punk era. It is funny as you age, how you can clearly seen the connective fabric between different movements in music and culture. The only problem is you age out of being relevant to the oncoming generation, and as such those attempts at wisdom fade into the void. The cycle repeats for eternity.

Track List

  • Welcome to the Black Parade – My Chemical Romance
  • The Kill – Thirty Seconds to Mars
  • The Diary of Jane – Breaking Benjamin
  • Misery Business – Paramore
  • Savior – Rise Against
  • Until the Day I Die – Story Of The Year
  • I Write Sins Not Tragedies – Panic! At The Disco
  • Scars – Papa Roach
  • Face Down – The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
  • Miss Murder – AFI
  • Dance, Dance – Fall Out Boy
  • MakeDamnSure – Taking Back Sunday
  • Can’t Be Saved – Senses Fail
  • Move Along – The All-American Rejects

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Well folks that is it for another round of Mixtape Mondays. I hope this playlist hits the spot as much as it did for me. This would be number twenty two in total, and for those just now catching up you can check out the full list over at my archive page. I have a few mixes that are in a fluid state right now, and I will need to spend some time this week to dislodge them from the logjam they are in currently. I hope you all have a most excellent week, and we will continue this nonsense next week.

1 thought on “Mixtape Mondays: Immaculately Overwhelmed”

  1. “It is funny as you age, how you can clearly seen the connective fabric between different movements in music and culture. The only problem is you age out of being relevant to the oncoming generation, and as such those attempts at wisdom fade into the void. The cycle repeats for eternity.”

    QFT as the kids used to say but almost certainly haven’t for many years. I grew up in the 70s, in the midst of ’50s revival, and there’s been a cycle of revivals as predictable as the turning of the moon ever since. We’re in a noughties revival right now, I hear, including a full-on pop-punk revival. I think the Emo revival was a little while back but they cross over hard.

    I like a bit of retro myself but I’m happier when I find sounds that I haven’t heard before. It’s amazing how, even after a century and more of popular music, people still come up with different ways to put the pieces together.

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