Mix #3: "A-Side Up, B-Side Down"

Mix Tape #3: "A-Side Up, B-Side Down," Side A

Mix Tape #3: "A-Side Up, B-Side Down," Side B

MIX TAPE REVOLUTION MIX TAPE #3
“ A-SIDE UP, B-SIDE DOWN”
A  UP                                                           B DOWN
1) ‘Time Served’ Dispatch		1) ‘Rusy Halo’ The Script
2) ‘Animal’ Neon Trees		2) ‘200,000 (In Counterfeit 50 Dollar Bills)’ Citzen Cope
3) ‘The Luckiest’ Ben Folds		3) ‘Breakdown’ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
4) ‘Outta My Head’ Denver Harbor		4) ‘Feelin Free’ Michael Franti & Spearhead
5) ‘Soul Refreshing’ Robert Randolph & The Family Band		5) ‘Around My Way’ Talib Kweli (featuring John Legend)
6) ‘Closer’ Kings Of Leon		6) ‘I’ll Find My Way (Live)’ The Derek Trucks Band
7) ‘Fuck You’ Cee Lo Green		7) ‘Coyotes’ Jason Mraz
8) ‘Color Lines’ Watsky (featuring Catch Work)		8) ‘Nutshell’ Alice In Chains
9) ‘Am I Wrong? (Love Spit Love)’ Brand New		9) ‘The Science Of Selling Yourself Short’ Less Than Jake
10) ‘Steam Will Rise’ Silverchair

This mix was contributed by my buddy Sean. I just listened to this mix again and it is really good. Sean has great taste in music and it shows in this mix. Enjoy and leave Sean some love in the comments.

I'll have a fun, nostaligic, quick mix ready for tomorrow, but expect a new, great mix on Wednesday morning. 

(written on 4/16/10)
Sean is one of the most fun loving guys I know. He always has been. We played baseball together forever. He is the best all around athlete I know; if you don't believe me, watch him hit a fucking baseball and just hope it's not a line drive at your head. In 7th grade, Sean's sister Megan was diagnosed with cancer. His parents spent a lot of time at the hospital with her, so my parents kind of took Sean in. He would sleep over on school nights and the next morning we would walk to school together. It was great, despite the circumstances. We would walk home from a boring day of school to find my mom baking cookies, brownies, etc; When Megan got better and he stopped staying over, mom rarely baked. Thanks Sean for stunting my bakery needs. Many nights we would play ping pong and listen to Ozzy Osbourne albums. That, or play basketball in my bedroom, which made the ceiling sound like it was caving in. On any given week, Sean and I would switch girlfriends. We were young and stupid, but it worked for us. Our attention spans were as short as our chin hairs. That working only made our bond stronger.

Sean always had an interesting taste in music. He liked hard music like Metallica and Black Sabbath, but as time progressed, he began to shock me (in a good way) with some of his choices. Supertramp was always a band I knew of, but never paid close attention too. Sean made me pay attention to them. They were strange, but catchy. Classical but rock. He also got me into one of my now favorite bands/artists: Citizen Cope. A year or two ago, we went up, with our ladies, to Hampton Beach to see Cope. The ladies met us up there; I picked up Sean in the afternoon at work and we drove up together. Traffic was terrible, but we smoked cigarettes and took turns playing songs off my iPod. We talked about life how it was affecting us; in a little over a year, Sean and his beautiful fiance Sara would be married. And a house would follow. This was the first time I realized we weren't kids anymore; we were growing up, which scared me, but made Sean excited. Seeing him excited about the future made me excited. When we finally got to Hampton, and our beautiful lodging, the one and only Riviera Motor Inn, we began drinking and laughing, and enjoying great music at the Hampton Ball Room. The trip was not ideal: the mattresses were held together with duct tape. At breakfast the next morning, the sweatiest waiter ever dropped cranberry and vodka all over me. The ride back was good because I knew we would be seeing all our friends that afternoon for the Braintree 4th of July party at the Hulke Complex, similar to Kennedy's, but not as lame. But it is a great story I will always cherish. And the drinks that were spilled on me and the following round were free. Doesn't make up for the rooms, but still a great way to wind down the trip with one of my best friends.