Victor's Ultimate Birthday "Meh"-ga Mix '18

I was going to say I really slacked on posting the follow up to my best of Mega Mix this year but looking at the span of time between posts last year I might be slightly ahead of schedule. Bully.

Perhaps I should have gotten these out sooner since the task of culling out the bottom two tracks per mix should be 33% easier this year. I only received two mixes this time around instead of the usual three. Although I did have to come up with 4 personal songs I disliked to hit the minimum 8 needed to post an 8Track.

It's an interesting exercise trying to come up with songs you hate. It's easy to recognize a song you hate when it randomly comes on the radio or while streaming, but to sit down and intentionally list out a few is not an effortless process. One normally doesn't think too often about songs they dislike nor are they readily available; you have to do a little mental searching. Coming up with the four additional tracks wasn't a significant struggle or anything but I would have an easier time coming up with 100 tracks I loved versus 100 tracks I hated.

That's not to say I hated any of the bottom songs I got this year, it's all relative with them. I had to pick two. As for the four personal songs I added to the end, I would say they'd likely be in my 100 most hated tracks list if I ever sat down and thought about it.

Roll the ugliness!

Victor's Ultimate Birthday "Meh"-ga Mix '18 from VictorSellsOut on 8tracks Radio.

Victor's Ultimate Mega Mix '18

Things tend to slow down as one gets older including the time it takes from getting mixes on your birthday (mid May) to actually putting together the yearly best of Mega Mix (early August).

On the plus side though, this isn't even the longest delay in putting out a Mega Mix. Just two years ago it took me until late August to get my post out. The worst of "Meh"-ga Mix came out in early September! So really I'm doing better than the spry young me of two years ago. Not too shabby.

This year's list on 8Tracks will literally be 8 tracks. The musical harvest was a little thin this year. I'm blaming it on Brexit, increased US trade tariffs, and of course those darn millennials. Still, while the quantity has lowered the quality still remains high.

Once again my friends' familiarity with my mix tastes (which I'm sure is influenced in no small part from my years of putting out these critical lists) make it harder and harder to make these cuts. It's something I say pretty much every year, but it is quite true.

I also just wanted to quickly note that I am a little bit surprised that 8Tracks is still around. When I saw all the restrictions and limitations they put on the site last year, it seemed to signal a MoviePass-esque death spiral into bankruptcy and oblivion. I'm glad that it (and I) are still here in 2018.

Let's pump up the jams!

Victor's Ultimate Mega Mix '18 from VictorSellsOut on 8tracks Radio.