What you expect on the mixtape

I was going through another Velvet Underground phase recently, because it's been a while, but every time Heroin fades out, I always expect it to immediately launch into the operatics of Carmina Burana, because that's how the tracks ran on the cassette tape for The Doors movie soundtrack, which I absolutely slayed on my tiny stereo in the early 90s.

There are some mix tapes I made more than a quarter of a century ago, and I haven't played them in years, but I still know the order I put the songs on the tape, and when I hear something like Wilco's I'm The Man Who Loves You, the right order of things is that it should always be followed by Psycho by The Sonics.

We've all got these weird connections between songs that only make sense to ourselves, and this is the way the world should be.