Artist	Song
cowboy junkies	"misguided angel"
gram parsons	"a song for you"
r.e.m.	"so. central rain (i'm sorry)"
the shins	"australia"
jon brion	"meaningless"
the kinks	"she's got everything"
the magnetic fields	"the sun goes down & the world goes dancing"
the broken west	"baby on my arm"
fleetwood mac	"save me a place"
the who	"sunrise"
the jam	"english rose"
lindsey buckingham	"under the skin"
bob dylan	"love minus zero/no limit"
the beatles	"don't let me down"
al green	"i'm glad you're mine"
ray charles	"you are my sunshine"
the postmarks	"weather the weather"
the velvet underground	"i'm sticking with you"

Comment:

another mix for the girl who makes my life infinitely brighter -- part romantic, part whimsical. this is still filed under the "romantic" category, even if i wasn't strictly so mushy or serious in execution this time around: alot of the songs are light & bouncy as opposed to smolderingly passionate. i even decide to break from love song tradition altogether a few times, mostly because i felt like the songs fit really well & that she would really like them (which is what love is all about, right? sharing!). this one careens stylistically, which normally i wouldn't take to but here i feel really holds together strongly -- it starts off with a country twang before segueing into sprightly pop territory, then hits a long acoustic middle stretch before a couple soulful tracks, until we fade out with a few sweet, wistful pop songs (always good closers). a bit far-reaching perhaps, but i think it came out okay.

a big thanks to signor barrydali for the sweet & wistful (& excellent & wonderful) postmarks track.

title from the w.b. yeats poem, "he gives his beloved certain rhymes."

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