{"id":2772,"date":"2012-12-24T04:37:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T10:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2012-12-24T04:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T10:42:42","slug":"mixtape-monday-september-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/mixtape-monday-september-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Mix Tape Monday – September 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After my tape deck crapped out in 1997, I was stuck listening to either the radio or full albums in whatever order the artist intended. \u00a0That all changed in 2001, when the new-fangled MP3 technology got combined with my new CD burner.<\/p>\n

This CD was likely the first one I burned here in the (then) new house, which is now just the house. \u00a0It includes the latest from Eminem, Pink, and Avril Lavigne.<\/p>\n

Eminem – Cleaning Out My Closet<\/p>\n

Eminem’s latest is another ode to all of the bad things that happened to him growing up.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats: 14 plays, most recently on 10\/23\/2012<\/p>\n

Whale – Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe<\/p>\n

The first single from the Swedish pop group reached #24 on the US Modern Rock charts.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a03 plays, most recently on 3\/31\/2012<\/p>\n

Pink – Just Like A Pill<\/p>\n

The third single from Missundaztood<\/em> was Pink’s first number 1 single in the UK.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a03 plays, most recently on 5\/14\/2012<\/p>\n

Bjork – Big Time Sensuality<\/p>\n

The fourth single from Bjork’s first post-Sugarcubes solo album.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a02 plays, most recently on 11\/19\/2012<\/p>\n

Avril Lavigne – Sk8r Boi<\/p>\n

The second single from the debut album from the Canadian pop punk princess.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a07 plays, most recently on 11\/9\/2012<\/p>\n

Weezer – Keep Fishin<\/p>\n

The video for this remix featured the Muppets.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a07 plays, most recently on 9\/27\/2012<\/p>\n

Me First And The Gimmee Gimmees – The Rainbow Connection<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Muppets, this punk cover of Kermit’s big hit is from the group’s second album.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats: 18 plays, most recently on 11\/23\/2011<\/p>\n

The Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So<\/p>\n

Originally released in 2000, this signature hit for the Swedish garage band was re-released in 2002 and became a hit.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a06 plays, most recently on 7\/30\/2012<\/p>\n

Sponge – Plowed<\/p>\n

Rotting Pinata<\/em> first charted on the Billboard 200 nearly a year after its release thanks to this song.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a07 plays, most recently on 9\/27\/2012<\/p>\n

Nirvana – Verse Chorus Verse<\/p>\n

A hidden track from the AIDS-benefit compilation No Alternative\u00a0<\/em>that apparently should have been called “Sappy.”<\/p>\n

iTunes stats: 10 plays, most recently on 10\/16\/2012<\/p>\n

Green Day – J.A.R.<\/p>\n

A B-side contributed to the Angus<\/em> soundtrack and named after\u00a0a dead childhood friend of bassist Mike Dirnt.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a08 plays, most recently on 11\/7\/2012<\/p>\n

Bad Religion – 21st Century Digital Boy<\/p>\n

Originally recorded in 1990, the song was re-recorded for their 1994 album Stranger Than Fiction<\/em>, where it became a hit.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a04 plays, most recently on 3\/16\/2012<\/p>\n

The Vines – Get Free<\/p>\n

The first hit for the Australian garage band.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a07 plays, most recently on 10\/10\/2012<\/p>\n

Superdrag – Sucked Out<\/p>\n

The one hit for the alternative rockers out of Tennessee.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats: 11 plays, most recently on 5\/12\/2012<\/p>\n

The Strokes – Someday<\/p>\n

The final single from debut album from The Strokes.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a06 plays, most recently on 6\/13\/2012<\/p>\n

Bloodhound Gang – Fire Water Burn<\/p>\n

The first hit for the comical rockers from Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats: 11 plays, most recently on 5\/21\/2012<\/p>\n

Dada – Dizz Knee Land<\/p>\n

The first single from the California rockers has, as they are wont to tell you, nothing to do with Disneyland.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a03 plays, most recently on 6\/22\/2011<\/p>\n

The Lemonheads – Into Your Arms<\/p>\n

The only Lemonheads single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a06 plays, most recently on 7\/14\/2012<\/p>\n

Beck – Where It’s At<\/p>\n

The first single from Beck’s Odelay<\/em> album.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a03 plays, most recently on 6\/13\/2012<\/p>\n

Michelle Branch – All You Wanted<\/p>\n

The second single from Branch’s debut album.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a02 plays, most recently on 7\/11\/2012<\/p>\n

Avril Lavigne – Complicated<\/p>\n

The first single from the Canadian pop princess.<\/p>\n

iTunes stats:\u00a04 plays, most recently on 12\/4\/2012<\/p>\n

Eminem – Business<\/p>\n

The song that left such an impression that I never imported it into iTunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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