FEATURE:
End of a Century
High School Graduation: The 1999 Mixtape
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THINKING back to September 1999…
IN THIS IMAGE: The album cover for Blur’s 13
and that was when I graduated from high school. It was a transformative moment where I was saying goodbye to friends and leaving a school that I had been at for five years. Not only was it emotional on a personal level, it was saying farewell to a routine and way of life that I had got used to. Music was very important in 1999. From songs that scored the opening of my G.C.S.E. results to the tracks that were played during the leavers’ ball, I am being a bit self-indulgent and nostalgic. It does go to show, subjectiveness aside, how many great tracks came out in 1999. School days are very precious when it comes to music and the role in plays in your growth and development. That is especially true of 1999 and my final year at high school. Rather than limiting the track number to what would fit on an actual tape (about ten songs or so, I suppose), I have compiled a longer digital mixtape. This is the very best of 1999: a year that, for me, was a combination of…
EXCITMENT and sadness