The Best Of New Music - 1988

[Undertoad]

O man o man thanks so much for digging that MMM, and wow, all that is now available on YouTube! S'outstanding.

It was so much fun putting those mix tapes together for everyone/anyone who gave a shit! I was just looking at the "master tapes" the other day... thanks for checking in mah man!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, mix tapes were something special, they were personal. You could tell if the tape creator was just throwing some shit they liked on a tape, or if the were thinking. How the songs worked with each other, formed a chain. If there was a jarring transition, was it intentional? You know, like the alarm clocks in Dark Side of the Moon.

Good tapes would carry you half way through a song when suddenly you realize you've been humming along with a song you don't know. Also an good tape didn't make you wait 30 seconds for the start, chop the last song off, and didn't leave dead tape so you had to fast forward to the end or listen to hiss.