Gap Playlists Search

If you worked at Gap and also saved any of the paper playlists that came with each month's CD/tape, please share them with me. Contact me at the blog:

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Now YOU can listen to the music that started it all for me!

I started work at Gap at Highland Park Village in Dallas on October 17, 1992, and was immediately entranced by the music playing in stores. This led to my collecting the playlists that came with each month's new tape (later CD). I would buy CDs of the songs on the playlists, and assemble them on my computer in monthly playlists.

Unfortunately, I lost my copies of the playlists in 2006, and I have been actively searching to replace them since 2015. I have had quite a bit of success, although there are still many more to make their way back to me.

Recently, I purchased 20 of the monthly tapes made for Gap by AEI Music dating from 1992 to 1994. These tapes include my Holy Grail, the October 1992 Gap tape!

I've been uploading the digitized tapes to the Internet Archive for everyone's listening enjoyment, whether streaming or downloading.

Take a listen to October 1992 at Gap!

We *KNOW* who you are. 😐

Shit. Wrong thread at R283.

[quote] . Wrong thread at R283.

Will this thread get that many posts?

And this is the October 1993 AEI tape, exactly as it was heard in Gap stores in October 1993!

May 1993 is one of my favorites!!

Take a listen!

Hi weird-ass.

I will never stop being confused by this.

R8 In 1992 I was at the Gap when I heard a remix of Tales of Taboo by Karen Finley playing. Can you thoroughly search your archives to confirm the name of this remix?

OP — Are you friends with the guy who preserved the KMart store audio tapes? I think you both could create an archive with your store tape collections.

You’re weird but I like you.

R12, that’s not me. I didn’t work at Kmart.

However, his posting of those tapes did inspire me to share the Gap tapes I have.

Oops, I misread. No, I don’t know him, but he did give me the idea to post the Gap tapes at the Internet Archive.

What an inspiration!

The Gap March 1993 Tape!

Who is he, r4?

I will state that I like -GapPlaylists and his posts and threads.

Welcome back Gap Playlists guy! I'm not interested in your music (i only listen to 1980s, sorry) but we missed you!

October 1993 is completely different in sound and feel than October 1992, but still uniquely GAP.

July 1993 contains one of my favorites: "Happy" by Legacy of Sound featuring Meja. (It's NOT on Spotify!)

Check out the Gap Print Ads blog for hundreds of iconic and enduring GAP images!

Welcome back Gap Playlist guy. I'm glad you got all your stuff back.

I just uploaded the May 1994 Gap cassette to the Internet Archive. This was the month where Gap embraced Alternative Music more, after four months of Swing & Jazz (to complement the WHO WORE KHAKIS campaign then).

It's a great mix of songs! Check it out!

Didn't they take your site down?

Will all of this hasten The Gap's certain demise? Hard to believe it still exists, however tenuously.

No, my site is up with Gap’s full support.

I still need many more Gap In-Store Playlists from 1992 to 2006.

WHERE can I find more people who saved them?

That's funny, because I remember over a year ago you had completed your playlist project and were over the moon about it.

No, I was lead to believe that all of the playlists were in the Gap archive in San Francisco. I spent a day there in July 2021 and no playlists. But it was an incredible experience.

In Fall/Winter 2021, two people shared over 10 playlists from 2002-2003, helping me greatly.

Finding these 1992-1994 tapes has helped knock out a bunch of the early missing playlists, but I still have many more needed from 1992 and 1994. And I need nine more from 1995.

Luckily, one of my sources form 2020 has contacted me that he's found several I'm missing from 1995-1999, so he's working on getting those scanned for me.

And I need a handful to a half-year of each year from 2000 to 2006.

So, I still need a lot more.

Here's the November 1993 Gap tape, just uploaded to the Internet Archive!

You're okay in my book, OP.

January 1994 is even better than I remembered!

Take a listen!

From 29 years ago, the fantastic Gap April 1993 in-store tape, for streaming or downloading!

Who decided what was on the Gap playlists? What was the selection criteria?

I love these. Thanks, OP.

Hey, GapGuy, in one of your playlists posted above, you have a song called “Hypnotized” and a question mark. Fleetwood Mac have a 1973 song of that name, in case you want to check it out.

Listen to the song. It’s Early Nineties House/R&B.

R35 r36

Oh well. It was worth a shot.

The November 1993 Gap in-store tape is a wild mix of movie and TV themes with then-current songs.

Go listen!

[quote]That's funny, because I remember over a year ago you had completed your playlist project and were over the moon about it.

Very true. He's been asking for help for his playlists for years, then ignores all help given, and keeps changing the status from being a work in progress to complete to back to being a work in progress. Every few months there's a new "Hi everyone, I'm collecting Gap playlists!" as if he's never posted this exact thing before.

He's a notorious troll who has never left DL, so it's very weird to see people say they missed him when he was never gone. Also weird are all the people saying he's loved and an inspiration, when on any other thread, if he got brought up, people would be dunking on him for the trolling, the freakouts, the hate speech, the threats of banning, the way he posts just R#s because he can't figure out how ignore works, etc.

He must have been gone in some capacity r42. He got the red tag.

I am being interviewed for another magazine about my Gap playlists search!

In "Psychology Today"?

Plus, more playlists from 1995 on their way to me next week!

Great Gap times!

I just added dozens of classic print ads to the LEGENDARY Gap ad campaign, WHO WORE KHAKIS on my Gap Print Ads blog!

I just added the Gap March 1997 in-store tape to the Internet Archive for streaming and downloading.

Take a listen!

From 25 years ago, the GAP April 1997 in-store tape!

New article online about me:

Die in a fucking grease fire already, with your goddamn Gap playlists, OP, you cunt.

R51 Stole the words right out of my mouth.

The Gap August 1998 In-Store Playlist is a huge hit thanks to the new article about me!

1998? You're beyond pathetic, R53.

Schizophrenic? Autistic? Meth head? Or all three?

Any serial killers on DL? Because this lesbian has an address for you!

Michael Troy Bise, 56 1891 County Road 204 Paige, TX 78659

I added the GAP CD for April 2004 to the Internet Archive!

WTF, R56?

I don't know what your deal is, GapPlaylistsGuy, but you piss off the right people ❤️

23 years ago, KHAKI-A-GO-GO!

Check out my Gap Print Ads blog for hundreds of iconic GAP images!

I thought I had blocked you.

Good morning, GapGuy!

This is wonderful! The playlists are priceless and the music and programming is SO evocative of that unforgettable mall ambiance of the 90s. And such hi-fidelity! As we do not get nowadays.

I too am taking this Easter Holiday to catalogue my great collection of Hot Topic in-store cleaning supplies. Many fabulous new items have entered the collection during the pandemic. I will soon be announcing exciting ways you'll be able to access this important collection.

R64.

😑😑😑

There is seriously something wrong with someone if they cheerfully post in a thread about Princess Diana's death or 9/11 about what was playing on the radio in a shitty clothing store on the day of the tragedy.

This past Monday, I received 52 Gap playlists from one source!

In the past five years of searching, I'd only recovered three Gap playlists form 1995 - and now I have them all!

Now the years 1995 through 1999 are completely full for monthly Gap playlists.

1992 - 6 more needed to complete the year

1993 - 2 more needed

1994 - 6 more needed

2000 - 2 more needed

2001 - 3 more needed

2002 - 1 more needed

2003 - 4 more needed

2004 - 7 more needed

2005 - 6 more needed

2006 - 2 more needed

That's it for Gap - not bad!

For GapKids, I need 1998 (all), 1999 (Jan-March, September), 2000 (February), 2001 (Jan-May), and a handful in the remaining years 2002-2006.

2022 has been a fantastic year for recovering Gap playlists!

You must have dementia. Your playlists go from missing to complete and back again.

Posting again for the fantastic April 2004 Gap in-store CD on the Internet Archive!

Love this one!

Listen to the newly-added Gap February 1995 In-Store Playlist on Spotify!

Scroll through 100s of classic Gap images at my Gap Print Ads blog:

For the stalkers to complete their lists:

R74 Bitch, you wish someone was stalking your old cracked out schizo ass. You ain't important. Keep on spamming if it gives you the validation you so desperately need.

R75

R75 In all fairness, someone did post a random man's name and address on this thread. Stalker-esque.

The Gap January 1995 In-Store Playlist is also now on my Spotify! Go listen!

The word keeps spreading!

I once knew an elderly woman who used to be a math teacher when she was younger. She had mental health issues and would constantly tell me the ages of people she knew, their birthdays and their age differences.

She always would explain the age differences between people as though she were adding numbers. Like in an OCD or autistic sort of way.

It's very similar to what this guy is doing. Only obnoxious and fucking annoying.

More iconic GAP ads at:

So many playlists making their way back to me!

So much interests in the playlists all over the world!

More to come!

Take a listen starting at 19:00!

More NPR!

Yes, those are hilarious!

"She's the head of the Khaki Committee!"

Ever wondered what it sounded like in GapBody in March 2004?

Listen to the CD at the Internet Archive:

And here's GapBody April 2004:

More!

Enjoy listening to several actual CD and tapes that played in Gap stores between 1993 to 2004!

I will be adding more soon!

Ha, I heard that on NPR and wondered if that was you.

Who else would it be?

I've been meeting so many people who are thrilled to find the playlists that they also remember loving so much.

So what’s the latest in your project? What percentage complete are you?

I told the Canadian pubic radio that i was 85% through with Gap brand. I have some more coming from 1992-1994, so that should boost Gap to around 90% complete.

GapKids is only about 60% at what I need. I really want all of 1998 for GapKids, and 4 from 1999. Gap and GapKids didn't merge until 1998, so I didn't know the GapKids music before then. But I really love GapKids playlists, especially from 1998. It was tragic to lose them.

GapKids needs a lot from 2003-2006, too.

GapBody would come and go as far as playlists went. Sometimes it would share with Gap, other months it would have its own separate and very unique playlist. I LOVE the GapBody playlists from 2000! Last Fall, a former Gap employee sent me seven GapBody playlists from 2002-2003, which helped a lot.

Memories of the Instagram/Spotify campaign Gap created around my Gap Playlists blog in April & May 2020:

I've never even heard of Nitter.

I'm everywhere!

I was trending up in fashion in August 2021???

How exciting!

The Guardian, too?????!!!!!!!!!

While THE NEW YORKER and NPR interviews with and profiles of me were truly exciting and great exposure, there's something else coming up that's much higher profile.

So exciting!

Don't just stand there

Let's get to it

Strike a pose

There's nothing to it...

Lady Gaga, Tom Ford, Linda Evangelista, Madonna, and... me!!!!!

What a fucking sad loser

r104

Beauty's where you find it!

The Gap Troll is the one who posts reply numbers to check the posts of posters he's blocked. Didn't Muriel tag him for that once?

So nervous in anticipation!

Autistic methead serial killer

This week was the VOGUE Interview, a New England NPR radio interview, and a COMPLEX magazine interview!

What a whirlwind!

Beauty's where you find it: