Article: More than just a cassette tape

Shareem Amry
New Straits Times
03-18-2001
More than just a cassette tape
Byline: Shareem Amry
Edition: New Sunday Times - Style; 2*
Section: Aside

NEXT to the CD player in my apartment lies a stack of homemade mixed tapes which I don't have the heart to throw away.

Some of them date back to when I was a teenager, and the songs on them recall another time.
There's music from Madonna before she settled down and became a mother, groups like the Thompson Twins and Level 42 before they went bust, and Sting when he was just striking out on his own.

Grunge hadn't hit yet, Mariah Carey was still running around fully clothed and "Eminem" meant nothing more than candy-coated chocolate. Like I said, ...

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