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I started collecting midis before mp3s hit it big and when wav files were still popular. It was also during the start of my novice career in web design, when it was important to have the coolest midis playing on all my pages.
[shudder]

I've outgrown that stage, but the midis are still cool; some really cool.
A few are painfully nostalgic.

Hazy Shade of Winter my best friend and I would drive to the local greasy spoon at 2am for chicken sandwiches and play the table jukeboxes and sing to the hanging plants, sober.

Eyes Without A Face In one night, I managed to get drunk for the first time, develop a crush on a friend's older brother, pass out under a picnic table, and wake up on his bed to overhear him telling his sister I was a nice girl, but too young for him.

No More Mr Nice Guy My best friend was going insane. She swallowed a bottle of pills, ran out of the house, and passed out on the high school lawn. I visited her in the mental ward until they deemed her better, and then we did it all again.

Love Bites I fell for a guy friend, who fell for a girl, who fell for another guy. When he finally got the girl, he told me all about their relationship. It was agony.

Never Let Me Down My best friend and I had a fall out when she excluded me in preference for her abusive boyfriend.

One Thing Leads to Another When my friend was released from the ward, we weren't allowed to see each other. I'd sneak out at night and hang out at her house and we'd listen to this album.

Sweet Child O' Mine My friend and I lived in a condemned trailer for four months. This was all I played. I fell in love, fell out of love, got beaten up, got scammed, ate Ritz crackers and brown sugar because that's all we had, and we had a pet cockroach who came out to sit on the counter whenever the cracker tube rustled. There was a lot of sadness and this song was so beautiful.

Immigrant Song No matter where she is, my friend can't hear it without thinking of me. I've immortalized myself through it.

Down Under My Mom thought they were cute and would do her tribal duck dance around the living room to it.

Live to Tell Came on the heels of a very bad experience. Never leave a bar with a man you don't know, even if someone you know says they're okay.

California Dreamin' My best friend, another, and I would hang out in front of the school football stadium singing this sans music. They were backup while I belted out the chorus. People cheered.

Nine Inch Nails The lowest points of my life.

Wish You Were Here An earlier best friend moved away. She came back to visit one time only. She said I was wearing too much black shit on my eyes and we started to cry. And this was before Breakfast Club made black shit famous.

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy Dad would take me and my brother to a little pizza place. He'd start the jukebox and teach us to dance by having us put our feet on top of his.

Fast Car My best friend and I would invent places we were going to travel to when we got out of this podunk town. She got away. I'm still here.


Bangles
Hazy Shade of Winter

Billy Idol
Catch My Fall
Eyes Without A Face
Do Not Stand in the Shadows

Billy Joel
Goodnight Saigon

Black Sabbath
WarPigs

Bon Jovi
Blaze of Glory

Bush
Army Of Dreams
Cold Contagious
Glycerin
Greedy Fly
Machine Head
Swallow

Counting Crows
A Long December
Anna Begins
Mr. Jones

Creed
My Own Prison

Alice Cooper
No More Mr. Nice Guy

Cure
Love Song

David Bowie
Ashes
Sorrow
This is Not America

Danzig
Mother

Dave Mathews Band
Crash

Def Leppard
All I Want Is Everything
Animal
Love Bites
Armeggedon It

Deep Purple
Perfect Strangers
Soldier of Fortune

Depeche Mode
Barrel Of A gun
Everything Counts
Behind the Wheel
Love Thieves
Never Let Me Down

Dire Straits
Brothers In Arms

Duran Duran
Save A Prayer

Eagles
I Can't Tell You Why
Long Run

Eagle Eye Cherry
Save Tonight

Fixx
One Thing Leads to Another

Fleetwood Mac
Landslide
The Chain
Go Your Own Way

Foo Fighters
Everlong

Garbage
Number One Crush
Only Happy When It Rains

Guns n Roses
Yesterdays
Patience
November Rain
Get In The Ring
Estranged
Sweet Child O' Mine

Hole
Celebrity Skin
Violet

INXS
Never Tear Us Apart

Jewel
Hands
Down So Long
You Were Meant For Me

Jimi Hendrix
Little Wing

John Mellancamp
Lonely ol' Nights
Wild Nights

Kinks
Lola

Kiss
Hard Luck Woman

Lenny Kravitz
Fly Away

Lit
Own Worst Enemy
Miserable

Live
Lightning Crashes
Turn My Head
Dolphins Cry

Led Zeppelin
Kashmir
Immigrant Song

Meatloaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Manfredd Mann
Blinded by the Light

Men At Work
Who Can it Be Now
Down Under

Madonna
Used to Be My Playground
Live to Tell

Motley Crue
Home Sweet Home

Metallica
Disposable Heroes
Hero of the Day

Mamas and Papas
California Dreamin'
Monday, Monday

Nazareth
Hair of the Dog

Nine Inch Nails
A Warm Place
Closer
Dead Souls
Last
Perfect Drug
Suck
Terrible Lie
Piggy
Something I Can Never Have
That's What I Get
Hurt

Ozzy and Lita
Close My Eyes

Pachebel
Canon in D (Strings)
Cannon in D (Piano)

Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Pigs-Three Different Kinds
Have A Cigar
Run Like Hell
Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Peter Gabriel
In Your Eyes

Phil Collins
Rain Down
Another Day in Paradise

Poison
Something to Believe In
Every Rose Has it's Thorn

Police
King of Pain

Prince
I Would Die 4 U
When Doves Cry

Queen
Who Wants to Live Forever

Queensryche
Silent Lucidity
I Will Remember

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Scar Tissue

REM
Drive
Country Feedback
E-Bow The Letter
Fall On Me

Rod Stewart
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy

Rolling Stones
Under My Thumb
Paint It Black
Fool To Cry
Wild Horses

Sheryl Crow
If it Makes You Happy

Smashing Pumpkins
Disarm

Stabbing Westward
Shame

Sarah McLaughlin
Sweet Surrender

Stone Temple Pilots
Interstate Love Song

Supertramp
Breakfast In America
Take the Long Way Home
The Logical Song

Tracy Chapman
Fast Car

Tool
Aenima
Sober

Tori Amos
Cornflake Girl

Toto
Africa

U2
Do You Feel Love

Verve
Freshman

Wallflowers
One Headlight

Who
The Real Me

Misc:
Oompa Loompa Song
Psycho Theme
Halloween Theme
The Good the Bad, and the Ugly
Time Warp (RHPS)
Dance of the Macabre
Nightmare Before Xmas
and Jack's Lament
Moonlight Sonata
Camelot

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