When I first got back from school I didn't have a job, we were in the middle of what I used to think of as a bad recession (till this one) and I was writing stuff constantly. I hadn't really learned how to sing out yet, I was still teaching myself how to play guitar, I didn't know how to record hardly at all and most of what I was writing was pretty sappy. I eventually went through a bunch of tapes and made a couple of compilation CDs from the mixes I had. The songs were split up into more introspective tunes and more aggressive tunes - this CD is the former.