My First Mix Tape Ever!

Dug this out of a box the other day. It was my first Mix Tape I ever made.

I called it Picks… But I spelled it with an X… To be cool.

It was assembled by the 45s I bought at the mall and a cassette tape of the Miami Vice soundtrack.

Here’s what was on it:

Side A

We Built This City – Starship (Hands down my favorite song in 1985)

Weird Science – Oingo Boingo

Take On Me – Aha (The only song that still seems to get rotation.)

Never – Heart (I totally forgot about this song.)

Head Over Heels – Tears for Fears

Lay Your Hands On Me – Thompson Twins (Another forgotten gem. I don’t even hear it at Karaoke ever. People only to do “Hold Me Now.”)

You Belong to the City – Glenn Frey

Say You Say Me – Lionel Richie (I guess it didn’t give much thought to how the songs flowed into each other.)

Election Day – Arcadia

When the Going Gets Tough – Billy Ocean

Miami Vice Theme – Jan Hammer (This song made it on the tape because I still had space on this side but it wasn’t long enough for a full length pop song.)

Side B

Dancing in the Streets – David Bowie and Mick Jagger

Smuggler’s Blues – Glenn Frey (Miami Vice gave me the padding I needed to fill 90 minutes.)

Sun City – Artists United Against Apartheid

St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) – John Parr (The only song that could unseat We Built This City)

That’s What Friends Are For – Dionne Warwick and Friends (I guess to kill any momentum from the last song)

Sisters are Doing it for Themselves – Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin

Kyrie – Mr. Mister

Rock Me Amadeus – Falco

Sanctify Yourself – Simple Minds

Digital Display – Ready for the World

Secrets – OMD (Big finish?)

Now that I look at it,  I think the song order was determined by which record I bought next.

Now to convert this into a Playlist.

(With some edits.)