Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Time: 8:18 PM
Song: Wish I Knew You
Artist: The Revivalists
Mode of Consumption: Compiling my Mixtape Challenge playlist of songs from 2015-2019
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2EWpa5XnAuSn0sIkSSIhYk?si=1b5b8d3adb8c4c66
The Mixtape Challenge is part of my Facebook group “Playlist Pandemonium.” Most weeks we have a theme and everyone involved is free to add three songs to the playlist.
Once a month, we do what I call a “Mixtape Challenge.” It started as a tribute to the old days when we would make mixtapes for ourselves, our friends, and sometimes even our love interests.
This year, all the Mixtape Challenges have consisted of songs from the first quarter century of this decade. This month, I have accepted the challenge to create a list of some of my favorite songs from 2015-2019.
I thought this would be a pretty easy one. Those five years were one of transition for me. I left Sauk Valley Media and my life as a sports journalist to start at ASE at the end of 2015.
I remembered music being a big part of my first year at ASE, as I often struggled to find my place in my new job and my new life.
Yet, I didn’t have as many new songs in my catalog as I thought I would. In fact, that became sort of a theme.
Oddly, the most songs I found from one year was 2015, a year where I was still at the paper and I would have suspected I was less tuned into the new music scene.
So, I guess either that was a good year, or I just am forgetting how much music I listened to while writing sports stories and designing newspaper pages.
The reality is though is that I am usually behind the times. So, I wouldn’t be surprised that over the next few years I discover songs from that era that I really like.
I am still working on my mix and will share on Friday.
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