I was cleaning out the truck this evening, and I found The Tape. I can't believe it. Over 21 years ago, I was passing the time on a summer afternoon recording songs off the radio on my dad's cassette radio. Basically, if a song sounded interesting, I kept it. I ended up filling up most of one of those good old cheap "low noise" C-60 cassettes.

A couple of those songs became pretty important to me (see this post and this one for two references). Most of it, though, was just random music I found interesting. It's a real slice of memory that I'm glad I dug up. The cassette itself is going in a case in my "memory box" for safe-keeping (though I don't know how much longer it will last).

However, now that I've had a chance to listen to it again, I've decided to dig up all the music in digital form and turn "The Tape" into "The CD". :) A lot of the songs I already had, of course. All but one of the rest were available from iTunes.

Anyway, just for fun, here it is:

Side A:

1. "Caribbean Queen" by Billy Ocean
2. "Everything She Wants" by Wham!
3. "Smooth Operator" by Sade
4. "Every Breath You Take" (AKA "The Stalker Song") by The Police
5. "Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves
6. "The Search Is Over" by Survivor
7. "I Saw The Light" by Todd Rundgren

Side B:

1. "One More Night" by Phil Collins
2. "Angel" by Madonna
3. "Invisible" by Alison Moyet
4. "Late In The Evening" by Paul Simon
5. "Possession Obsession" by Hall & Oates
6. "Can't Fight This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon
7. "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head (from the Chess soundtrack)