What is this all about?

The year was 1999. I was in 8th grade and my brother came home from college and told me to download this great program that allow me download music. There were tons of songs to search for and it was completely free. This is when I learned about the glory of Napster.

Next came the fancy new addition to our computer hardware - a CD burner. Kids would white down playlists and give them to me leaving class and I would set the songs to download immediately when I came home. Since I was the only burning game in town, I turned this scheme into quite the little business and was bringing in $10 a pop.

This was a time when I also learned of some of the songs that would stick with me throughout my life - even though I didn't know it at the time. The one that bothered me the most was an 8+ minute track that was not only taking too long to download, but was slowing down all my other downloads. I said to myself I will always hate Stairway to Heaven and would never again download a Led Zeppelin song ever again. What a dumb 8th grader I was.

17 years later and I still have the majority of the CD's I've ever burned. Whether they were concert downloads or mixes I made to pop into the car on a drive down the shore. Many of them are sitting in my basement, collecting dust.

Not anymore. Throughout the year I clean these personal albums up and load them onto my computer. They will be loaded onto a playlist with no track names or information. After I'm done listening to a CD, I will post onto this website. Some post will simply be track listings and a few notes about some of the songs. Some posts may take an in-depth look at where I was at the time in my life that I made a certain mix. And some may be me rambling about one artist or song that I feel passionate about.

Either way I hope you enjoy some of the songs that have provided me the soundtrack to my life.

So join me on this journey. Maybe you'll learn a little about some new music. And maybe you'll rediscover some that you haven't listen to in a long time. Either way, I promised my wife I'd have these out of the basement by the end of the year. So lets do this.