A CD player in a car, let alone a multi-CD changer, was a rich person sort of thing. Also it would be some years before they didn't skip going over a speedbump, or choke on their own guts and scratch your CDs. A beat-up pile of cassettes breeding in a glove box or roaming around under a car seat was still the way to go.
I had about a dozen cassettes with mixes on them, and they all broke or washed out or got lost before I had the time and the hardware to dub them into a computer and stick them on an iPod. Except for four of them.
The first three I rescued from the car, and the fourth one I mailed to my friend Breakpoint, who dubbed it and sent the file back to me ... twenty-five years later! The fourth one is partly a driving tape, and partly just a bunch of stuff I thought he would like. So it's labeled a 'bonus mix'.
What are the other three like? Well... Manic. Wacky. Designed mostly to make you grip the steering wheel and go, go, go!
Old Driving Tape 1, Side 1.m4aOld Driving Tape 1, Side 2.m4aCoil, Lard, Shonen Knife, John Zorn, KMFDM, Laurie Anderson, Siouxsie and the Banshees, David Bowie, Intermix...
...Sheep On Drugs, Front Line Assembly, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy... (etc)
Old Driving Tape 2, Side 1.m4aOld Driving Tape 2, Side 2.m4aKMFDM, T-99, Skinny Puppy, David Bowie, Jimmy Jackson, The Butthole Surfers, Laibach, Machines Of Loving Grace, Nine Inch Nails, Monty Python, Negativland...
...Pink Floyd, Intermix, Shonen Knife, Skinny Puppy, Pop Will Eat Itself, Front 242... (etc)
Old Driving Tape 3, Side 1.m4aOld Driving Tape 3, Side 2.m4aDJ Zog, T-99, (weird KDVS tape loop burp insanity), Meat Beat Manifesto, Moby, MST3K Theme Song, Steve Roach, Front 242, Shonen Knife, Pink Floyd, Coil, Monty Python, Nine Inch Nails...
...My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Grotus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Intermix, John Zorn... (etc)
Old Driving Tape 4 (Bonus Mix), Side 1.m4aOld Driving Tape 4 (Bonus Mix), Side 2.m4aAphex Twin, The Young Ones, Liquid Television, Deep Forest, Michael Kamen's Dead Zone Soundtrack, Jack's "Long E Pete", Biosphere, rather a lot of Meat Beat Manifesto... (etc)