Preservation

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This is where the “preservation” part of my blog title comes in.

The internet is unceasingly interesting because you can find virtually anything that you want on it. It is like exploring the woods when you were a kid, only so much more. You turn here, you look there, and you always find something new. Except, in the woods you more often than not explored the unknown. Of course the internet encourages that, but with the added bonus of rediscovering things that you have either forgotten about, or in this case, been actively trying to remember for the rest of your life. I stumble across things i’ve either lost or forgotten about all the time.

for instance:

Dr. Marten’s Music Sampler

Tracklist:

Kowalski ~ Primal Scream
Last Cup Of Sorrow ~ Faith No More
Pitiful ~ Failure
Quark ~ BT
Why? ~ GusGus
Fun For Me ~ Moloko
Soft Serve ~ Soul Coughing
Candyman ~ Cornershop
Let Me Clear My Throat ~ DJ Kool
Rip Stop ~ T.D.F.
House Of Fire ~ Arkarna
Peppermint ~ Drill Team
In Your Car ~ Kenickie
I Got You (At The End Of The Century) ~ Wilco
Don’t Wanna Be Here ~ Cool For August
0For1 ~ Poster Children
90′ Fuzzwalk ~ Rockers Hi-Fi

This particular sampler cd was a staple in my CD collection, circa summer 1997. If I heard it now, I would immediately be transported emotionally to the summer before my freshman year in high school. I spent a week in El Campo with my grandmother, I spent a week in Katy with my aunt, and I spent the rest of the summer on the roof of my friend Justin’s house talking and looking for U.F.O.s. (No drugs were involved. Just two friends that got really, realllly into the X-Files.)

The highlighted tracks are music that I love now, but probably skipped over then (considering I don’t remember them on this particular sampler). Crazy how perspective changes things. How many more lost sampler cd’s like this are there in my life? or yours?

(Is that album cover dated or what? )

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