Hand-written playlist for “Mystery Tape #2″, one of my many tapes onto which I’d record Boston-area radio programming for later review and editing.
As I mentioned in my previous “mystery tape” post, most every week in high school I'd record WFNX’s local music show, Boston Rocks. This is the playlist from one such tape, a recording of Boston Rocks from March 4, 1990—or so I believed. I’d go back and listen to each tape some time after recording it to create these playlists, and I didn’t always remember to label each cassette with the date.
I put “SAVED” next to the songs or other material I wanted to keep. Those I’d dub onto a fresh tape with segments from other recordings to create custom compilations of my favorites. Here, I was particularly interested in capturing the music by, and interview segments with, garage rock back The Titanics.
The show must have ended just before the tape ran out, as per the note off the the right where I attempted to identify the last bit of recorded music: “Morrissey (?)”. Yes, questionable even in 1990.
