Another thing that I’ve been doing during my Christmas of isolation, is finishing up the yearly mix-CD covers. You see, I’m the nostalgic listmaker type, and one of all symptoms of this condition is that I make a mix-CD every year with the songs that I’ve listened to during the year. I started with this in 2004, the first year we had a computer with the possibility to burn CDs. On that first CD, I have golden nuggets like “You are the light” by Jens Lekman, “Are you gonna be my girl?” by Jet and “God only knows” by the Beach Boys, and the cover made up of photos from our ninth grade class trip to Greece, “my” pony Ofelia and New York street art.
The last couple of years, I haven’t had time to do the covers properly. I’ve burned the CDs, but then thought ‘I’ll do the cover later, in the summer, sometime when I have time to spare’. Well, that never happened. Coverless yearly mixes from 2010 and on. About time that I took care of it!
With highlights such as Miike Snow’s “Animal”, Robyn’s “Dancing on my own” and Elias and the Wizzkid’s “Waste of time”.
Including pieces like “Emmylou” by First Aid Kit, “Someone like you” by Adele and “Shake it out” by Florence + the Machine
Containing the songs “Inte vackrast i världen” by Emil Jensen, “Higher numbers, longer names” by the Torn ACLs and “I love it” by Icona Pop, among others.
This year, most of the songs are from this fall. I haven’t listened to music this much for years. I think. So many great songs have been released. Like “Hold on, we’re going home” by Drake, “Cabin down below” by the Royal Concept and “Hädanefter” by Veronica Maggio.
It feels great, being done. Now I have a nice, complete collection to reminisce to.
Katja Malmborg 