My first mix tape

As mentioned in my introduction to this blog, I have to this day had a lifelong passion for music and its various aspects. Among them which has been a continuous hobby that started in my preschool years and persists in the present day is the act of making mixtapes and, in more recent years, mix CDs. Back in 1992, my parents started to introduce me to the music of the Beatles and other rock and pop artists with songs that had lyrics which were appropriate for my age at the time. At one point, my dad made a mixtape consisting of songs picked specifically with me in mind, titled "Corey's Rock and Roll Tape." Here's an interesting story about how the last two tracks on that mix came to be picked: As a preschooler who read as well as I could (and who learned plenty from the Muppets and their human friends), I was really into playing with letters and numbers. Thus, for the latter, my dad included the famous Beatles song "I Saw Her Standing There." When I heard it for the first time, I noticed it began with the line, "Well she was just 17," and wondered out loud in my dad's presence if there was a rock song that mentioned the number 18; as a matter of fact, my dad found a track from, perhaps, not the most appropriate rock star for a preschooler, but nonetheless fulfilled my request: Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen." As I got older and more and more exposed to myriad songs, I started picking the tracks from my own memory and eventually went through a technological transition from cassettes to CDs. I continue discovering more and more music every year by way of reading, searching, and especially listening, and prepare and make mix CDs to this day.