The Mixtape
For my birthday recently, I got a present from one of my daughters. It was a keyring with a little code on it that when scanned with an app took you to a well known music streaming service and a personalised playlist for me to listen to of some of the songs we both liked. The technology impressed me at first, but then it struck me that this was just a modern take on an old idea - 'The Mixtape'. Anyone of a certain age will have made or listened to one of these home-made compilations of music on audio cassette in the 70s or 80s. They became part of popular culture, a form of self-expression, and in making one of these curated collections of songs people were elevated from a consumer of music, to a type of creator or editor of it.
Here are some of songs that were on that birthday playlist.
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Cryptic Hint
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Trivia Hint
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A
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Ironmongery that is precisely 22.86cm
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In the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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B
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Number of pence by which this band were not better off
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Band name inspired by CS Lewis
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C
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A sharpe lead singer and his friends who find metal alluring
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Album reached No.1 in the US Indie Chart
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D
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A mixture of concrete and clay added to this stand-alone band’s success
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Scored a UK No.1 in the mid 60s
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E
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A solitary form of democracy
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Had a huge hit in a collaboration with producer Timbaland
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F
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Motion picture association with a choice of entrances
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Northern Irish band who were highlighted in BBC's annual 'Sound Of' poll as an emerging artist
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