September 14, 1995

30: The Fast Driving Mix Volume II


"The 30th Anniversary Mix. Recorded at Peak FM, of course."
There are plenty of disadvantages to working the overnight shift. One of the advantages of working all alone in the office is that no one is around if you want to do two things at once, and risk possibly not doing your paid job as well as your boss would like. That is the exact scenario I often found myself in at "Portland's Best Music!" 103.7 "Peak" FM. I would play Ace of Base and Seal in the master control studio, while recording cassettes of my personal music in the second production studio across the hall. I would simply 'chock' both doors open, and leave the monitor speakers on high enough to warn me when the Madonna record was running out. I'm not saying I never missed my cue, but there's no need for me to sit there listening to that same Hootie & The Blowfish record all the way through. This is one of the reasons why so many DJs have been replaced with computers in the last 15 years.

SIDE A
  1. "Few and Far Between" 10,000 Maniacs: Man I love the arrangement on this song. The drums sound amazing, the horn section is terrific too.
  2. "Closer to Fine" Indigo Girls
  3. "If I Can't Change Your Mind" Sugar
  4. "Gee Angel" Sugar
  5. "Rockin Stroll" The Lemonheads
  6. "Sold Me Down The River" The Alarm
  7. "Stop!" Jane's Addiction
  8. "Cannonball" The Breeders
  9. "Basket Case" Green Day
  10. "50 Foot Queenie" PJ Harvey
  11. "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" Lenny Kravitz
  12. "Divine Thing" Soup Dragons
  13. "Interstate Love Song" Stone Temple Pilots
SIDE B
  1. "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)" Van Morrison
  2. "Jump In Line (Shake Shake Senora)" I first heard this Harry Belafonte song at the end of the movie Beetlejuice. This is why I bought Danny Elfman's soundtrack CD (featuring this song and "Day-O" too). I could not wait 15 years for iTunes to be invented.
  3. "Werewolves of London" Warren Zevon
  4. "No Surrender" Bruce Springsteen wanted this song as the leadoff single from Born In The U.S.A. Jon Landau convinced him that he needed to broaden his audience with "Dancing In The Dark" instead. It's a testament to the LP's depth that the album spawn SEVEN top 10 singles, and in the end, "No Surrender" wasn't ever a single.
  5. "Can't Stop This Thing We've Started" Bryan Adams
  6. "After Midnight" (alternate mix) Eric Clapton, from the Crossroads box set.
  7. "Cult of Personality" Living Colour
  8. "Monkey On My Back" Aerosmith
  9. "Hazy Shade of Winter" The Bangles, sounding their best thanks to killer production quality from Rick Rubin.
  10. "Slap & Tickle" Squeeze
  11. "Demolition Man" The Police
90 minute Scotch cassette
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