Artist	Song	Buy
Lou Barlow	Holding Back the Year
Divine Comedy	The Happy Goth
Lazlo Bane feat. Colin Hay	Overkill
Kosheen	All in my Head
Pocupine Tree	Lazarus
The Books	Tokyo
Album Leaf	On You Way
Bjork	Joga
Durutti Column	Sketch of a Manchester Summer 1989
Beck	Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes
The Flash Girls	Banshee
The Other Two	The River
Postal Service	Nothing Better
Au Pairs	We're So Cool
The Go! Team	Bottle Rocket
Dj Shadow	The Number Song
Cornershop	We're in Yr Corner
Curve	Horror Head
Cocteau Twins	Iceblink Luck
Jesus Christ Superstar	Everything's Alright (reprise)

Comment:

A friend declared yesterday that she had 'gone off music'. She was worried, saying she didn't like her previous favourites in rock/jazz/whatever. So I decided to make her a cd featuring lots of stuff she's never heard. Tried to fit as many moods and sounds into this as possible, without really sacrificing feeling for genre-bending. Quite like the subtle shifting of 1-5, all based around singy pop songs, but with the variation between folk, scott walker pop, dance and prog etc. It's all like that really. Or at least I went for it. There's a good hour of out-takes that I scrapped for sake of being more song-oriented/unified (no Broken Social Scene/Do Make Say Think/Shining/long Miles Davis/Zappa jams), and less random (ie Architecture in Helsinki, Polyphonic Spree), and more up to date (ie no Stones/Big Star/Cars/Marley/Small Faces/Slits etc)... I also tended to try to fit as many female-vocalled songs into the mix, because she's a singer herself and I don't know, an album full of male singers wouldn't go down as well I guess. Wasn't that much of a problem anyway, because before I knew it I had a about half the album that way inclined anyway. We'll see what she thinks.

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