This information spans every significant relationship I ever had. Back before Spotify, before iTunes, Apple Music and CDs; we used to make mix tapes for our girlfriends or for parties we were either hosting or attending. Without fail, the first track on my first tape would always be the first 30 seconds or so of UB40’s D.U.B Dub. There was just something about it that set the whole tape up and ensured its place as the opening song on side A. At nineteen I was still a teanager when I first heard it and I hadn’t heard it in the last twenty years or so because it was never re-released on CD or digitally in the time since I stopped sampling off vinyl. I finally got to hear it a few days ago when I purchased a turntable and hooked it up to my computer via a USB cable. Wow, the emotions that ran through me; not to mention a tear or two. Yep, that was vinyl; you only had to play an album a few times before it developed crackles from the dust and scratches. Back then it used to drive me crazy (like she did: Fine Young Cannibals, She Drives Me Crazy 1988) but now it is so fitting and appropriate that I’m inspired to make it part of the b-roll of a yet-to-be-decided short feature. Here it is for you to enjoy the way I did back in 1984 and again in 2023.