High School Mix CD

[rosiedoes]

So @GHowell on Twitter wanted me to make him a mixtape which was based on the theme of high school, so I made him one featuring some of the bands and songs I was into from the age of around 16-18. The latest track on this was first released in 2000.

Download.

I even made a cover, look (it's in the zip folder)!








Making this really made me quite nostalgic for when returntosender and I were about 17 and she made me a couple of mixtapes. Hefner would have made it onto this if I had a CD copy...

It feels like a lifetime ago, seriously.

Comments

[klashfor.livejournal.com]

The cover you made is gorgeous and I'm loving the music, I haven't heard most of it before-so thanks!

How did you come up with the title?

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

The title is a line from the first song on the mix, which basically summed up a lot of my teenage years. I grew up in the suburbs of West London, and my best friend and two of my girlfriends lived on the opposite side of London, in a town called Brentwood. Tracey was also a huge Suede fan, and we really bonded over that, but the imagery of pylons and grey skies and concrete, which is such a Suede-esque thing (a lot of their tracks talk about that kind of greyish, concrete dullness that was so familiar to us growing up) really just fitted with the mentality at the time. There was a lot of depressiveness, self-harm and suicides around that time in people I knew from the scene as it was back then.

I've posted this video before, but it's basically a really good representation of what it's like to grow up in a British suburban council estate and the kind of depressing drudgery and alienation people felt. It came out a long time after I left high school, or it would have been on the mix for sure.