Encore: Hallelujah
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New episodes drop every Tuesday and Friday with deep dives every other weekend. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, watch on YouTube, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts for ad-free episodes. Pushkin Years ago, and this is going to date me, my best friend Bruce and I used to make mixtapes for each other, actually mixed CDs. We used to spend enormous amounts of time picking the songs, and then an even more enormous amount of time on the art for the CD box.
My mixes were always named after popes, for reasons I cannot remember, like Pope Pius XII, with a big photocopied picture of him in some ermine robe. Anyway, the point of the mixes, and I think this is true of everyone who grew up in the mix era, was to find songs that you knew about and liked, and that you believed that your best friend didn't know about and would like, which, if you're talking about someone with whom you've been sharing music your whole life, is a pretty narrow window. Anyway, Bruce put the acoustic re release of Elvis Costello's Deportee on a special mix. I think it was for one of my birthdays in my roaring twenties. I just remember thinking two things as I listened to that song over and over again.
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