At long last, here is the complete track listing for mystery mix tape 1. To recap, I made seven mix tapes over a period from c. 1994-2008. I had already cataloged tapes 2-6 long ago. Yesterday I cataloged tape 7 and posted the results in this thread. Today I catalog tape 1 (created in the mid-1990s):
The Fortunes, “Here Comes that Rainy Day Feeling Again”
Boston, “More than a Feeling”
Van Halen, “When It’s Love”
Queen, “We are the Champions” (including only the last two notes of “We Will Rock You”)
Chicago, “Hard Habit to Break”
Simon and Garfunkel, “Mrs. Robinson”
Queen, “Another One Bites the Dust”
Love and Rockets, “So Alive”
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, “Say Say Say”
Green Day, “Basket Case”
(blank space–there must have been some really objectionable song that I recorded and later erased. Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” maybe???)
Love and Rockets, “So Alive” (a more complete version than the earlier taping.)
(more blank space)
The Eagles, “Hotel California”
Peter Frampton, “Show Me the Way”
(more blank space)
Ray Charles, “Hit the Road Jack”
The Eagles, “Lyin’ Eyes”
Dion, “Abraham, Martin, and John”
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, “Karn Evil 9” 1st Impression, Part 2 (side A ended during this song, so I flipped the tape over to slide B, where the song continues.)
Steve Miller Band, “Jet Airliner”
Fine Young Cannibals, “Good Thing”
Billy Joel, “This is the Time”
Gabrielle, “Dreams”
Collective Soul, “The World I Know”
Left Banke, “Walk Away Renee”
Bush, “Glycerine”
Vanilla Ice, “Ice Ice Baby” (I recorded this one solely for humor value. Word to your mother.)
Seal, “Prayer for the Dying”
Queen & David Bowie, “Under Pressure”
Kansas, “Carry On Wayward Son”
Left Banke, “Walk Away Renee” (a more complete version than the earlier taping.)
Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car”
Cheap Trick, “Surrender”
Jackie Wilson, “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher”
Freda Payne, “Band of Gold”
In my opinion, most of the songs on this tape have held up surprisingly well. My tastes haven’t changed quite as much as I thought over the last two decades. There are a few songs I don’t really need to hear anymore due to overexposure (“More than a Feeling,” “Hotel California,” “Jet Airliner”) and a few real duds (“When It’s Love,” “Ice Ice Baby,”) but most of the others were a pleasure to listen to again.