Mittwoch Mixes - Memento Mori 2026 - Part 1

Each year I celebrate my birthday with some now traditional Memento Mori mixes and this year will be no different...

I am starting this blast from the past off with I was an Angry Teenage Weirdo Vol. 2, picking up where the first volume left off, providing thirteen more tracks that were on repeat on my disc-man when I was 16-18. Feel ancient with me as you realize that all of these songs are over a quarter century old...

#	Artist	Track
1	Pigface	Asphole
2	MDFMK	Gasoline
3	Gravity Kills	Guilty (Juno Reactor Mix)
4	KMFDM	Flesh
5	Hate Dept.	Hit Back
6	Skinny Puppy	Assimilate
7	Atari Teenage Riot	Delete Yourself [You Got No Chance to Win!]
8	Pig	SAVE ME
9	Stabbing Westward	Save Yourself
10	Nine Inch Nails	Please
11	Nitzer Ebb	Kick It
12	Sister Machine Gun	What Do You Want from Me
13	Machines of Loving Grace	Suicide King

Next, continuing the inexorable march of time, a cover mix of Nine Inch Nails now that they're firmly ensconced in the Dad Rock pantheon and hitting the point of having albums hit thirty year anniversaries...

#	Artist	Track
1	The Lion’s Daughter	Mr. Self Destruct
2	Bella Lune	Into the Void
3	Unwoman	Every Day Is Exactly the Same
4	The Body & Thou	Terrible Lie
5	Nonexistent Night	The Perfect Drug
6	George Sara and Lara Peterson	Something I Can Never Have (Bleak Mix)
7	Espi Kvlt	reptile
8	Pig	Head Like a Hole
9	Allie Goertz	Ruiner
10	Camille O’Sullivan	Hurt
11	Bussy Kween Power Trip	Bish
12	Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize	Closer (Nine Inch Noize Version)
13	Pigface	Suck (Live)

Mittwoch Mix - I was an Angry Teenage Weirdo

 

Long before I was an eccentric middle-aged hipster, I was an angry teenage weirdo—in honor of the Thanksgiving tradition of revisiting yr. hometown, here is a mix of the music I was listening to at 16-17 . An audio snapshot of the disaffected youth certain he’d never escape the tedium of school or the conformist hell of the ‘burbs… Soak in the awkward rage of a nerdy suburban boy of the late 90’s, at least his musical taste showed promise.

#	Artist	Track
1	Nine Inch Nails	Wish (Remixed by J.G. Thirlwell)
2	Skinny Puppy	Dig It – Mark Walk remix
3	Atari Teenage Riot	Delete Yourself (You Got No Chance to Win)
4	Gravity Kills	Drown
5	Pig	The Sick
6	Stabbing Westward	Ungod
7	Front Line Assembly	Millennium
8	MDFMK	Be Like Me
9	Snake River Conspiracy	Somebody Hates You
10	Hate Dept.	Little Let Down
11	Ministry	So What
12	Nitzer Ebb	in decline
13	The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets	Big Robot Dinosaur

Notes:

These weren't necessarily my favorite songs during high school, but looking back many of these songs were songs that I felt (or wanted to feel) deeply attached to. There was many a between period break where I'd blast "Little Let Down" or "Be Like Me" on my portable CD player before angrily slumping into another uncomfortable school desk. Maybe at another time I'll try to fit myself back into the headspace to figure out my favorite songs from high school and there's definitely a mix to be made about songs/albums/artists that shaped my musical taste, but these are songs that mostly strike to the core of how angry and out of place I felt.