Artist	Song
Paint Your Wagon	I'm on My Way (main title)
The Dollyrots	Brand New Key
Universal Poplab	Soma Generation
The Honeydrips	(Lack of) Love Will Tear Us Apart
Dinosaur, Jr.	We're Not Alone
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Breathless
Marah	Freedom Park
The Ramones	Swallow My Pride
The Real People	Open Up Your Mind (Let Me in)
Boom Crash Opera	Dancing in the Storm
ELO	Don't Bring Me Down
Smoosh	Find a Way
Mouthful of Bees	The Now
Panda Bear	Comfy in Nautica
Lou Christie	The Gypsy Cried
Bobby	End of Story
Tenacious D	Papagenu (He's My Sassafras)
Martika	Cross My Heart
The Pretenders	Hymn to Her
Amy Winehouse	You Know I'm No Good
Brandi Carlile	My Song
The Decemberists	Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
Yacht	See a Penny (Pick it Up)
Procol Harem	A Whiter Shade of Pale
Cat Stevens	If You Want to Sing Out
Tom Petty	I Won't Back Down
Meryl Streep	Amazing Grace
Joy Division	Love Will Tear Us Apart

Comment:

A bit chaotic, stylistically, but if you spend enough time with it, it all coheres quite nicely, I think. This is like the musical equivalent of a parade float describing a day in my life, a big pastiche to my many different moods and avenues of thought. I got in some incredibly nostalgic '80s pop, lots of indie music (some from Sweden, inevitably), an oldie or two, a power pop thread, some plain old rock 'n' roll, a handful of wistful cuts to elucidate the more thoughtful underpinnings of my theme, a song title duet that was actually just serendipitous (since I found myself listening to both Joy Division and that Honedrips song recently), a brush stroke of sheer happiness, some of the coolest guitar work I've heard in a long time courtesy of new Dinosaur Jr., a soul-stirring version of a famous song I discovered from a movie ("Silkwood"), and I led things off with a musical number - yeah, that pretty much sums me up, I'd say. Cheers!

P.S. Title is from The Broken West. Not only is "Down in the Valley" one of my theme songs lately AND just a flat-out wonderful piece of music, but I can also say that its lyrics describe the point of this mix to an extent, since I live in California in a city called Escondido, which is Spanish for "hidden valley". Ah? ;)

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