Take whatever title you want for this week’s installment of Friday Mix Tape. I compiled these tunes because in November every year I put these same songs in a playlist as an ode to the seven women who have changed my life forever. I guess I’m just a sentimental fool or have some inability to let go of these past lives. I feel that the emotion harbored inside these songs is a constant reminder of everything these women have taught me, bestowed upon me, and given to me, for the good and the bad. They are not in chronological order of when they appeared in my life, just in an order that made sense to the DJ in me.
To these women, wherever they are today, thanks for spending so many years of your life with an emotional wreck. I hope that my unbridled ambition inspired you more so than drove you crazy. Though deep down I know I did both. As you get to the end of the mix, picture holding onto your middle school girlfriend at the last dance of the year, last song of the night, and the last time you would lay eyes on each other…
Playlist:
Tell Me Baby (Have You Had Enough) – Phosphorescent [Here’s to Taking It Easy]
Don’t Change Your Plans For Me – Ben Folds Five [The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner]
Are You Alright? – Lucinda Williams [West]
Who We Were – Ryan Adams [Live at Carling Academy]
I Know This Bar – Ani Difranco [To The Teeth]
Mona Lisa – Guster [Parachute]
End of The Road – Boyz II Men [Greatest Hits]
