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I noticed that some of the new Euro coins are made of "Nordic gold". Is this actual gold or some other yellowish alloy that they call "gold" just to make it sound good?

My first mix tape.

Er, is it still a mix tape if you tape it off the radio?

Throughout junior high school, I listened to the Top-40 hip-hop station and feigned interest in hopes of being cool. But as I adolesced, I decided to rebel against that, and thus embraced good old rock and roll wherever I found it. I suppose it was my rite of passage to create my own collection of favorites from the broadcasts of 98-KUPD.

• First, the last note of Stone Temple Pilot's "Plush". That long sustained one. Lucky I got a song that ended nice and slow like that, because I was really going for the next song.
• Then, "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes. I'd heard the unplugged version that was all the rage in the early 90's, but made no connection to the original until I overheard it on the radio at school in early 1993. I listened to the lyrics and I'm like, "THAT's the same song? That is SO COOL!" So naturally I had to tape it next time I got the chance.
• Late one Saturday night at home, I taped a double-shot of Black Sabbath: "Iron Man" and "War Pigs". They seemed to transition together so smoothly, that I actually left the intro on "War Pigs" when I taped over it later.
• The morning DJ, Dave Pratt, noticed that the next three songs he had queued up were all track 6, and they made little beelzebub jokes for a few seconds, and then played this Queen parody song called "Another One Says the Vows". Don't know why I kept that.
• It probably also had "Tom Sawyer" by Rush.
• It ended with the Breakfast Club song. You know the one. I'm not naming it, though, in case it's not really called "Don't You Forget About Me."

blergeatkitty does this better than me, but I think I do this quite well.