Artist	Song
Durutti Column	Love Is a Friend
Go-Betweens	Was There Anything I Could Do?
New Pornographers	Twin Cinema
Dream Academy	Life in a Northern Town
Pet Shop Boys	It's Just My Little Tribute to Caligula, Darling!
Felt	Trails of Colour Dissolve
Low	Back Home Again
Damian Marley	Beautiful
Britney Spears	Toxic
Peaches	Sex (I'm a)
Kate Bush	King of the Mountain
Postal Service	Against All Odds
Shakira	En tus p·pilas
Dinosaur Jr.	Feel the Pain
Prince	Sign O' the Times
Patti Smith	Because the Night
Go-Betweens	Spring Rain
Furniture	Brilliant Mind
Hilary Duff	Beat of My Heart
Waterboys	Church Not Made With Hands

Comment:

My debut mix!

1. Love Is a Friend - I want to make a Durutti Column mix, and this is one song that will definitely be on it. Sometimes Vini Reilly can take some effort to enjoy, but not this track. It's virtually Top-40.

2. Was There Anything I Could Do? - This is one of my favorite singles from the best Australian band I can think of. The music is intense and the lyrics are desperate - just how I like them.

3. Twin Cinema - This represents one of the newer bands on my playlist. Who knew they still made modern music like this? This track has a variety of textures, making it very appetizing.

4. Life in a Northern Town - One of the best from that life-sucks-up-North genre that dribbles constantly out of Manchester and Liverpool.

5. It's Just My Little Tribute to Caligula, Darling! - Should've been another in the PSB stack of chart-topping singles, but it didn't get the exposure. This is the cast recording, so it has female vocals.

6. Trails of Colour Dissolve - A great little single from the voice that epitomizes British Indie from the '80s.

7. Back Home Again - The atmosphere of Low, with the pop sensibility of John Denver. A winning combination!

8. Beautiful - One of Bob's sons debuts in the family business. I kind of regret putting this on as it feels slightly out of place, but it's good as a stand-alone track.

9. Toxic - I know I'm not alone among serious music fans in indulging this guilty pleasure.

10. Sex (I'm a) - Peaches remakes the old Berlin ditty into driving, slutty gutter music.

11. King of the Mountain - First single from Kate Bush's comeback album. Exactly what I've been expecting all these years.

12. Against All Odds - Down-tempo indie electronic take on Phil Collins.

12. En tus p·pilas - If you've only heard Shakira in English, listen to some of her Spanish stuff - it's a million times better. I like her early stuff best, but this is a surprisingly good track from her latest. I don't think it's a single.

14. Feel the Pain - A Dinosaur Jr. anthem that I somehow overlooked by focusing on their earlier stuff. All the parts work together well. Classic early '90s loud-soft, done perfectly.

15. Sign O' the Times - Supposedly a great song. I think it's alright. I kind of regret putting this one on, too.

16. Because the Night - For all of you who know the 10,000 Maniacs take, this is the original, far superior version.

17. Spring Rain - Another great single from Oz.

18. Brilliant Mind - The one hit from a one-hit wonder. Makes you wonder why their other stuff isn't comparable.

19. Beat of My Heart - Irresistably catchy pop, probably written by top pros. Has a new wave feel, which is why it caught my attention when I saw HD sing it on TV.

20. Church Not Made With Hands - Solid '80s new wave , better than most of the junk that was coming out. Intriguing lyrics, too.

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