Playlist: 1990s “Beach Mix”

It was the late 1990s and I spent every day of summer at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett with my friends. My baby blue portable cassette player would rotate our mix tapes. Some songs were only half songs, when I didn’t press record in time while recording them off FM radio, but that was alright. I had a beeper that would alert me when my parents were coming to pick me up at the end of the day. Life was good.

Our featured Spotify playlist this week is my 1990s “Beach Mix.” (Strange radio segues between songs not included.)

The Doors – Break on Through

Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone

Everclear – Santa Monica

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Aeroplane

Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower

Aerosmith – Ain’t that a Bitch

Santana – Black Magic Woman

Weezer – Undone – The Sweater Song

Sublime – What I got

Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Impression I get

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird

Steve Miller Band – Rock’n Me

Beck – Where It’s At

Wyclef – Gone Till November

Janis Joplin – Piece of my Heart

Blind Melon – No Rain

Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs – Wooly Bully

Aerosmith – Dream On

The Beatles – I Want To Had Your Hand

Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life

Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Co-Publisher/Editor

Jessica Mackin-Cipro is an editor and lifestyle writer from the East End of Long Island. She was previously the Executive Editor of The Independent Newspaper and co-founded James Lane Post in 2020. She has won multiple NYPA and PCLI awards for journalism, design, and social media, including the Stuart C. Dorman Award for Editorial Excellence. In 2023, she was a recipient of the President's Volunteer Service Award at the United Nations 67th Annual Commission on the Status of Women. She aims to share the stories of inspirational people and places on the East End and beyond.