Artist	Song	Buy
Mark Eitzel	The Boy with the Hammer
My Morning Jacket	O Is The One That Is Real
Mission of Burma	The Setup
U2	Crumbs From Your Table
Sonic Youth	The Sprawl
PJ Harvey	You Come Through
Radiohead	Gagging Order
Gastr Del Sol	The Relay
U2	11 O'Clock Tick Tock (original single version)
Joy Division	Disorder
Death Cab for Cutie	A Lack of Color
PJ Harvey	The Desperate Kingdom of Love
Elliott Smith	Pretty (Ugly Before)
Sun Kil Moon	Duk Koo Kim
Ted Leo/Pharmacists	Bridges, Squares
Richard Buckner	Once

Comment:

I don't know what it says about me that all these songs are stuck in my head. Probably not good.


For me this mix is about looking into the depths of the soul and taking responsibilty for what you find there.

I tried to be careful about sequencing here, and there is a definite progression both in key and in mood throughout the mix. I wanted to use "My Body May Die" by Pulp with the Swingle Sisters instead of the Joy Division song, but I only had a 64K recording of it and it sounded lousy.

Most of the songs are self explanatory. I had "Pretty (Ugly Before)" on a 7" before Elliott Smith died, and thought it was a beautiful song; still do. The Gastr track has been trying to get onto one of my mixes for about 7 years. I'm glad I finally found one with enough space between its bones for it to climb aboard. Likewise "The Sprawl", which picks up from the lyrical theme of the U2 track right before it and the pace of the Mission of Burma track and winds it out to a sunburnt infinity. The Radiohead track is a b-side from the "Hail to the Thief" album and is well worth checking out.

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