Side A
Artist	Song	Buy
Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue	Where the Wild Roses Grow
Madonna	Drowned World/Substitute for Love
Oasis	Cast No shadow
Bangles	Make a Play For Her Now
Ben Folds Five	Mess
U2	Angel of Harlem
Falling Joys	Lullaby
Ben Lee	Burn To Shine
In Vivo	Om Mani Padme Hum
Massive Attack	Unfinished Sympathy
Coldplay	Sparks
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Radiohead	Just
Macy Gray	I Try
The Whitlams	Where's the Enemy?
Jeff Buckley	Grace
No Doubt	The Climb
The B-52's	Private Idaho
Portishead	Sour Times (Live)
Andy Prieboy & Johnette Napolitano	Tomorrow Wendy
The Beatles	I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Comment:

Don't you hate rejection? And don't you hate it when all your best friends are out of town and there's no-one to talk to? What better way to get it all out than to make a tape of music that expressed exactly how I was feeling. That was basically my only criterion for choosing songs.

Side A is mainly songs I find dark, passionate and beautiful (with a much-needed needed hint of joy at "Angel of Harlem"). By "Unfinished Sympathy" I was starting to feel less depressed - and then I just started feeling angry at myself. So Side B is a bit more torturous (although its starts off fairly fun).

I played this in the car with some friends recently. By "Tomorrow Wendy" they were saying they wanted to kill themselves. I felt proud.

(Sorry for all the detail - I just have really distinctive memories of choosing each and every song on the tape. It was intense 90 minutes.)

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