July 5, 1996

039 Unfinished Mix Tape

Documenting my own history is sometimes easiest  by looking at my mixtapes: my tenure at WMGX, "Portland's Best Music" ended in July 1996, after I completed a six-hour Saturday morning overnight  shift, and the teenager scheduled to relieve me did not show up. I woke up my boss. He told me I had to cover the shift = work a double, until noon Saturday. Bob's employee didn't show up, and I was paying the price? I told him to come in within an hour or I was leaving, and the station would go off the air. He slammed the phone down in frustration. Twenty minutes later, he arrived and I left with no words exchanged. I don't remember whether he  called to fire me that day or the next. I wonder who he found to fill my shifts on such short notice? This mix tape was begun July 5, 1996, and finished at my new job at WMGX.

Side A

  1. "Here In Your Bedroom" Goldfinger
  2. "Big Bang Baby" Stone Temple Pilots
  3. "Dangerous Type" The Cars
  4. "Mint Car" The Cure
  5. "Mother Mother" Tracy Bonham
  6. "Tonight, Tonight" Smashing Pumpkins
  7. "6th Avenue Heartache" The Wallflowers
  8. "Change The World" Eric Clapton
  9. "St Teresa" Joan Osbourne
  10. "Where It's At" Beck
  11. "Baby I Love You" Natalie Merchant
  12. "Everything You Know Is Wrong" "Weird Al" Yankovic
Side B
  1. "Desire" (Hollywood Remix) U2
  2. "57 Channels (and nothin' on)" Little Steven remix
    Bruce Springsteen
  3. "E-Bow The Letter" R.E.M. w/Patti Smith
  4. "Senses Working Overtime" XTC
  5. "Better Than Nothing" Jennifer Trynin
  6. "Zero From Outer Space" Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  7. "I Hung My Head" Sting
  8. "Tupelo Honey" Van Morrison
  9. "Around The Bend" Pearl Jam
  10. "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" Edie Brickell
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