Side A
Artist	Song
Elton John	Tiny Dancer
Liz Phair	Polyester Bride
The Hollies	He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
Natalie Merchant	In the Ghetto
Cat Stevens	Peace Train
Plumtree	Scott Pilgrim
Material Issue	The Fan
Ramones	Needles & Pins
Wild Strawberries	Heroine
Lisa Loeb	Stay
The Cure	Friday I'm In Love
Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Crosby Stills Nash & Young	Teach Your Children
Billy Joel	Movin' Out
Arlo Guthrie	City of New Orleans
Del Shannon	Runaway
Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians	What I Am
The Guess Who	Share the Land
Harry Chapin	Cat's in the Cradle
Pretenders	I'll Stand By You
Modern English	Melt With You
Letters to Cleo	Cruel to be Kind
The Kinks	Come Dancing

Comment:

I recently listened to a friend complain about mix tapes. The reasons she stopped making them, she said, was because she inevitably ended up including songs that she liked at that time, but couldn't stand listening to three months later. Songs with no staying power. Having fallen into that same trap myself now and again, I decided upon this: a tape of songs that I have loved, not for a day or a week or a month, but for months and months and years and years... there are several I can't remember NOT being a part of my life. Whether they make me happy or not-so-happy, each song on this tape has one thing in common: each will forever make me exclaim "I love this song" as I turn up the stereo. There is no real theme or deep meaning to this tape, and no special order. Simply songs that I love, spun together to form a tape I will never tire of listening to. I know very few people who would enjoy this tape even close to the way I do, which makes it perhaps the most personal tape I've ever made.

PS I would have used the Elvis version of "In the Ghetto" if I had it, since that's the one I really love... alas, this is the only version I have right now.

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