Comments on: Mixtapes, The Original Social Media?

By: Abandoned Mixtapes | Lee Jordan - West Midlands Photographer

Abandoned Mixtapes | Lee Jordan - West Midlands Photographer — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:07:48 +0000

[...] walkman to my PC and am listening on a 1993 tape to Tom Petty – Learning to Fly! Which in my previous mixtape post is the song you can hear on the Eilizabethtown trailer. How serendipitous is this? These tapes have [...]

By: Peter Tonner (babyhippo)

Peter Tonner (babyhippo) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:33:45 +0000

Great Post Lee. Keep up the good work:))

By: Dad

Dad — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:15:44 +0000

That’s made me so proud and the “memorex” will not fade away super.

Dad xxx

By: Dan Slee

Dan Slee — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:27:57 +0000

That’s a great, great post, Lee.

Thinking about it, music is hugely powerful. It can also capture a time and a space brilliantly. At a time when I was younger music was a way of articulating something I struggled to in polite conversation.

It’s why people felt so sad when John Peel died. It may have been years since they last listened. But they felt the excitement of hovering over the pause button at 11 o’ clock at night waiting for a new ‘B’ side by The Smiths…