Good Morning Friends! Today would normally be considered “holiday mode” given that in the United States many of us are off today in celebration of the Independence Day weekend. However given that I do a thing on Mondays and only on Mondays… and have a nice backlog of mixtapes to go through I thought I would put forth the effort to keep things rolling. For those who might be new to this blog, each Monday I post a new custom curated mixtape of music, often times with a theme of some sort. As a kid I was a mixtape creator and crafted them for friends and recently I have fallen back into that tradition utilizing things like Spotify and YouTube to craft as close as you can get to the feeling of a digital mixtape.
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Being born in 1976, my “childhood” pretty neatly straddled the line between the 80s and the 90s and as such I largely consider myself a child of both decades. I am a sucker for a good John Hughes film and spent more than more than my share of time watching romcoms and teen movies from that era. This MixTape today is essentially my love letter to the soundtracks of those movies. If you are of a certain age, you can close your eyes and imagine the movies that went along with these songs or instead let it all sort of blend together into one sappy slurry.
Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran
Take on Me – A-Ha
The Promise – When in Rome
Doctor! Doctor! – Thompson Twins
Things Can Only Get Better – Howard Jones
If You Leave – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
I Melt with You – Modern English
Head Over Heels – Tears for Fears
It’s My Life – Talk Talk
The Goonies R’ Good Enough – Cyndi Lauper
The Ghost in You – The Psychedelic Furs
Voices Carry – Til Tuesday
In Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel
Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
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There you have it, my tenth MixTape served on a Monday for you all to enjoy. I hope folks are partaking of this nonsense, but even if they are not it is at the very least causing me to listen to a lot more music which is increasing my overall joy in the world. If you are tuning in late to this series you can check out the entire archive of past weeks collected in a single page: