Artist	Song
Portastatic	Autumn Got Dark
Switchfoot	Oh! Gravity
The Oohlas	Across the Stars in Blue
The Alfee	Innocent Love
Say Anything	Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too!
Tears for Fears	Floating Down the River
La Oreja de Van Gogh	Mi Vida Sin Ti
Hooray for Earth	Heartbeat
Bertine Zetlitz	Midnight
Roxette	One Wish
Mika	Grace Kelly
Andrew Gold	Lonely Boy
Wreckless Eric	Whole Wide World
The Thermals	A Pillar of Salt
Manfred Mann	My Name is Jack
Poison	Fallen Angel
The Skids	Into the Valley
The Move	Fire Brigade
The Barracudas	Summer Fun
The Yachts	Look Back in Love (Not in Anger)
The Adverts	One Chord Wonders
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Carcass
Mixel Pixel	At the Arcade
Camera Obscura	Let's Get Out of This Country
Jarvis Cocker	Black Magic
The Shins	A Comet Appears
Elizabeth Cotten	Shake Sugaree
Rock Plaza Central	My Children, Be Joyful
Tom Waits	Bottom of the World

Comment:

Wow, what a month...such wonderful music to my ears. Sorry for the Switchfoot - I used to hate them, but they have a spanking new single that just came out of nowhere with power pop awesomeness. Sorry also for Poison - they don't really fit anywhere on the mix, but I've been trying to find a place for that song for a while now. Lame, yes, but so fist-pumpingly entertaining. It's hard to decide what the centerpiece here is, since I love so many of the songs - I'm inclined to say Wreckless Eric, as it inspired the mix (I hadn't thought about it in years, until I heard it used in "Stranger Than Fiction") and is an unheralded masterpiece, but there's also the joyful bombast of Portastatic and Switchfoot, the Queen-esque music hall throwdown of Mika, the destined-to-be-a-lost-classic track by The Oohlas that packs in more catchy moments than you could ever want, the transcendental qualities of the last 7 tracks, and Roxette, the most unlikely revival of the year. I didn't even think they were still a band, but then here comes this simply perfect dance pop single and suddenly I'm hooked on Roxette like it's 1990 all over again.

All in all, I'm in music ecstasy, as always :)

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