this is getting to be rather annoying...

I'm not sure about this one. It sounds rather Alanis Morissette-ish to me.

Wow, look at that!  Here we have a professional member of the recording industry endorsing the piracy of copyrighted material!  Refreshing!

 fredriley wrote: 
1980-1990s = mixtape. 2000+ = playlist.  Same thing, different terminology.  And current technology makes it soooo much easier to put together and playlist.  I think the availability of a wider range of music and the ease of which songs can be put on and off lists will take away from the art of making a thoughtful and meaningful mixtape/playlist.

 dogpound wrote: 
One of my FAVOURITE things to do in the 90s was to discover new songs by recording (as many hours as a cassette tape would hold) each night of the CBC's late night "alternative" radio show Brave New Waves, identify the best songs of the previous night by re-listening to it on the drive to work, and then later when I got home, painstakingly extract songs from one tape to another on my dual tape deck, and compile them into custom mixed tapes. Each mixed tape was completed with a hand-lettered track listing and a lovingly crafted cover consisting of original artwork or a cool collage (mostly of space photographs derived from my dad's telescope magazines.) The best mixed tapes and most awesome covers went to the guys I loved, of course :)

I was just over at my ex's looking through some of the ones I made for him in the mid-late 90s. Such cool and interesting time capsules.

However did I manage to have so much spare time?

 fredriley wrote: 
Hey, I'm your age and it caught ME  off guard.
I had to think back for a moment. 

 DaMoGan wrote: 
"Dated"?  I guess everyone has some sound or recording effect that annoys them.  Remind your producer to leave that effect off of your next album.

I don't really like how the song sounds, but I love the reference of making mixed tapes with home made covers and audio love letters.
 

In ten years time, maybe even just five, young folk will be wondering wtf is a "mixtape". How quickly, historically, something so cutting-edge as cassette tapes were becomes a historical curiousity. These days it's all compilation CDs courtesy of iTunes, but that'll be obsolete soon enough, I'm sure.

Wow. Very catchy.

This song caught me the first time I heard it. It's reaallllllyy good!

 brookap wrote: 
Very well said. My sentiments exactly.

 mandolin wrote: 
dude: you just keep rockin'!

 bavanw wrote: 

I was just thinking how outdated the technological reference was. Hey, that's a minor issue—a great song about young love. 

I've been a fan of her work since she put out her first CD.

haven't tried it.   is it good reply please

Sometimes a simple pop melody with a good hook is just what the soul needs.

Only getting better...

I'm really not a big fan of the dated "handclap" sound effect.  3.

 janemilliman wrote: 
There is a message there for you.  Maybe you are supposed to hear it.

(edit: y-magoo had a better answer!)

 janemilliman wrote: 

Its a long song.

This was playing when I turned off RP yesterday, and again when I turned it on today. 

 ptooey wrote: 

LOL. 

Not too memorable, but pleasant sounding.   and a yawny yawn.

 govna wrote: 
Here. I got you a present.

I saw her this summer and she talked about having a crush on a boy while in high school and making him a "mixtape".. the equivilant of burning a CD for someone special, now-a-days....

i'm not sure why thing song touches me in such a bad way, but...man, i literally can't stand it.  LITERALLY. 

 mandolin wrote: 
Linguistically, it makes sense to me - the concept of a "mixtape" is perhaps now divorced from its underlying medium.

Similarly, I might "tape" a TV show even though I'm using DVR software running on my desktop computer. A much older example is "ship": it's a verbed noun (the underlying noun has a proto-Germanic roots, the verb has been around for centuries), but we still use it even if we're not sending packages on a literal ship.

  Bill makes Mixtapes for us all.    Thank you Bill and Rebecca, Merry Christmas too! 

I really liked the mix of the one guitar chord on the break.