Artist	Song
The Sounds	24 Hours
Bedouin SoundClash	When the Night Feels My Song
Neko Case	Karoline
Stephin Merritt	This Little Ukulele
Lowest of the Low	Black Monday
The Huntingtons	'80s Girl
The Toy Dolls	The Final Countdown
Art Brut	Good Weekend
Rancid	If the Kids are United
Built to Spill	Conventional Wisdom
Hawksley Workman	Little Tragedies
The Proclaimers	One More Down
The Clash	Safe European Home
Face to Face	Velocity
Calexico	Letter to Bowie Knife
Chris Knight	Flesh and Blood
Adam Green	Pay the Toll
MC Lars	Download This Song
Led Zeppelin	Moby Dick
Erasure	Stop!
Mates of State	Punchlines
Neko Case	The Tigers Have Spoken
Ringo Starr	Oh My My
The Cottars	Captain Campbell Medley
Van Morrison	Sweet Thing
Against Me!	Tonight We Give it 35%
Led Zeppelin	Over the Hills and Far Away
Stephin Merritt	One April Day
Indigo Girls	All That We Let in
Great Lake Swimmers	See You on the Moon!

Comment:

Songs that move me, even more so in collaboration with one another. I had something in mind about simultaneously looking to the future and waltzing with the past, of celebration and mourning, carrying on and on through the relative madness, but I don't know if I expressed it well. Probably not. Oh well. A few notes: I'm not a fan of MC Lars (couldn't stand that "punk rock" hit) but his "Passenger"-derived simplistic diatribe against the music industry somehow struck the right chord with me (maybe I just love vague profundity and Iggy Pop), and I've been listening to it incessantly for weeks. Also, if any of the songs or styles seem to clash, think of the mix as just a deranged amalgamation of my various personality tropes (of the many examples, I keep thinking mainly of the Huntingtons and Erasure tracks, which don't jive too well with the prevalence of reflective/folksy/rock music, but which I had to include for my love of them - plus they each have a certain time-specific meaning to me). That'll be my official excuse: this is just a splattering of Mike-isms. I think that's always my excuse, though. Well, at least I'm somewhat consistent.

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