Artist	Song
Graham Coxon	Gimme Some Love
Edguy	Lavatory Love Machine
Y&T	Summertime Girls
Burning Brides	Heart Full of Black
Tilly and the Wall	Bad Education
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Phenomena
Neutral Milk Hotel	King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
Korpiklaani	Midsummer Night
Neko Case	That Teenage Feeling
Mink DeVille	Maybe Tomorrow
Van Morrison	Wonderful Remark
Age of Electric	Remote Control
Drive-By Truckers	Feb 14
ELO	Summer and Lightning
Neil Sedaka	I Must Be Dreaming
Queen	Misfire
Roy Wood and Wizzard	See My Baby Jive
Bobby Vee	The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Brendan Benson	You're Quiet
Tsar	I Don't Wanna Break Up
Osaka Popstar	Wicked World
The Sorayas	Perfect Endings
The Frames	Red Chord
Snow Patrol	Chasing Cars
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs	Different Drum
Jackie De Shannon	Splendor in the Grass
Neko Case	Duchess

Comment:

Sometimes when I think about things - like, ALL things at once, when I try to cram every thought and feeling and experience and person and place and object into my mind at the same time, I am (naturally) overwhelmed by how much it all means to me. All the good and the bad, the happy and the sad, the pointless moments and big events, the boredom and the excitement, the love and the hatred, the joy and the depression, the unbearable regret and the everlasting hope, the infinity of memories so precious regardless of their content, and just the sheer beauty of the world, everything in it, and my meaningless journey through its grand expanse...it brings me to my knees.

To the untrained eye, this mix doesn't suggest any of that. But it does to me, I guess because I was dwelling on this stuff while listening to this music. So I arranged it and themed it best as I could; there's a heavy love angle here, which is more than appropriate given the current lovelorn circumstances in my life, but it almost came about by accident (virtually every song in existence relating one way or another to that most poignant of emotions). There's also an emphasis on big rock and roll numbers on the outset, because even though the inspiration for this mix is intensely personal, I wanted to express it in a way befitting my values; that is, I wanted it to be outwardly happy and grand, with wistful undercurrents. Oh, and lastly, there's kind of a summer feel to parts of it, for the same reasons (summer's coming up, and it's my favorite season, the most conducive to my innate outlook of positivity and appreciation for all things). Okay, sorry to sound so lame, but there it all is.

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