Friday, January 17, 2025
Time: 9:46 AM
Song: Mixtape
Artist: Butch Walker
Mode of Consumption: Spotify – List of possible songs from the year 2004 for
Mixtape Challenge.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/7h5Z6sSNDZ6DWe5EdB0gnX?si=4f7589db692b4d40
This is the fifth and final post for my Mixtape Challenge for
my Facebook Group Playlist Pandemonium for songs from 2000-2004. This post is
for songs from 2004.
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I remember hearing or reading something from Tom Petty where
he was deriding people about CDs because they were too lazy to get up and flip
a tape or record. I don’t remember where that comes from, it might even be him
talking between tracks on one of his albums.
For Mr. Petty, the physical aspect of listening to an album
was part of the experience. Albums were planned and mixed, the artists wanted certain
songs to kick off the album, and then when it was flipped for a new song to
introduce the second half. Each song played a role in whatever story the artist
was trying to tell.
For us music enthusiasts, we couldn’t create the songs, but
we could make our mixes. Painstakingly planning out playlists for friends, crushes,
and whoever else we shared music with.
It was a chance for us to express ourselves through music. A
chance to let someone know how we feel. A chance to just share music we wanted
the people closest to us to hear.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, it was hard to not doomscroll
through all the things going on with both the virus and with politics and with social
media. Everywhere we turned there was contention and anger and anxiety.
I started the Pandemonium as a place where a community of
people could share music and take a break from everything else. Each week we
have a different theme, and members get to contribute three songs to each list.
I think we’ve made somewhere around 250 playlists, each serving as a distraction.
I don’t know if anyone else listens to them, but I know I have listened to each
one from beginning to end while I am working away.
This week my Mixtape Challenge brought back a lot of
memories from my college years, and the music that really shaped the first decade
of this century for me. I was able to include it in this journal that I’ve committed
to this year. I would like to have spent more time researching songs and
refining my list, but I can say that the result was truly a mix of the most popular
tunes and the tunes that reached me the most. What tunes from 2000-2004 hit you
most. Let me know in the comments.
My picks for 2004
- Mr. Brightside by The Killers
- Float On by Modest Mouse
- Confusion by The Zutons
- Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show
- Mixtape by Butch Walker
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