Once upon a time, over a decade ago now, a very young girl became addicted to a mixtape that one of her dad’s colleagues had made him. It was called the Shine Mix and it became a firm favourite for all car journeys and Saturday afternoon kitchen dancing. Many years later that young girl is suddenly very close to being 19 and the tape has taken up near permanent residence in her stereo. The box was lost years ago, taking with it all the track names. Cars now only provide for CDs and MP3 players and the Shine Mix is becoming redundant…

Which brings about my project of the moment. Now officially a university dropout (until I restart somewhere else in September at any rate) and not being able to face getting a job yet, I feel I need a project. I’m remaking the Shine Mix, exactly as it was, so I can have it on my MP3 player and have a CD of it to play in my own car.

Luckily, some of the songs on it are such classics that I automatically know what they are. Some others I have employed the oh so useful technique of googling the lyrics…which has been working pretty well. However a couple of tracks are managing to evade me and the all-powerful Google. So I thought I’d open them up to the blog community and see if any of the wonderful folk reading this have a clue what they are.

The reward at the end of it will be that I’ll zip up a copy of the Shine Mix available for download. Which will be just lovely won’t it? Yes, it will.

More later on this afternoon, for now I need to go listen to the tape and finish compiling the track list as best I can.