It was June 2000. I was back in Durham just before we went on a trip cross country and like any good last minute efforts your attention turns to music. We need some favorites. We need new stuff. Do we have enough? I cut together all the soundbites I could think of on my dad's tape deck (which was EQed and hooked up to the VCR and gave me all the soundbites I needed from high school on). I took the tape to Chad and Drew's. Since my collection was packed away I needed someone else's and they had this glorious stretch of vinyl - just row after row blocking out a fifth of the living room and ridding high on inch high shag carpeting. I needed suggestions, there were a few I knew I wanted in but it was their collection and so Chad wrote out some stuff (it's included). I marketed off some of the list as I put it on, and forgot on some of the others. You should get the idea - hope it helps you. This really was a last minute thing (even though it had been an idea for a while). We were leaving soon. I stayed up either the night before or the night before that - head weaving in and out of consciousness as metal played low and all the sleeping heads lay in rooms nearby.
I played it a few times on that trip. One time in particular many hours north of New Orleans in the late late afternoon sun bathing orange and red glow drippy sweat swaying moss from wise old trees. Our arrival back in town brought upheaval with my stuff over here and our stuff over there. In all the moving and time this mix bit a premature bullet. It was made. And I never gave it out.
So Finally here is Robocop: The Metal Years.
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