Artist	Song
The Velvet Underground	Who Loves The Sun
David Byrne	Dura Europus
Raul Malo	Bailare (El Merecumbe)
Big Star	Watch The Sunrise
The Swan Silvertones	Oh Mary, Don't You Weep
Sanders Cooper & Sons Of Glory	I'll Journey On
Paul Simon	Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
Jeff Buckley	Monologue - Nusrat, He's My Elvis
Jeff Buckley	Yeh Jo Halka Halka Saroor Hai
Asha Bhosle	Dil Cheez Kya Hai
Youssou N'Dour	Don't Walk Away
Ryan Adams	Oh My Sweet Carolina
The Walkmen	We've Been Had
Spain	Before it All Went Wrong
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The World Of Broken Hearts
Neko Case	Hold On, Hold On
Wilco	red-eyed and blue
Ryan Adams	Please Do Not Let Me Go
Peter Schickele/Turtle Mountain Naval Base Tactical Wind Ensemble	Last Tango in Bayreuth
The Connells	Lay Me Down

Comment:

Music that makes me happy, music that makes me pensive. Notes:


I didn't really appreciate "Who Loves the Sun" or the Loaded album generally until I listened to it start to finish one May afternoon five years ago in a Seattle bar.
Beautiful music, creepy lyrics, and the boy soprano vocals are somewhere inbetween.
From the soundtrack to the Wim Wenders film "The End of Violence."
Because Big Star rules.
The original and still amazing.
Deep in the gospel groove.
A different kind of groove, but I believe still related.
A different kind of devotion.
The first time I heard this track the hair stood up on my head and I shouted out loud. When I was in college I wanted more than almost anything to be able to sing like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and here was this white boy who was doing it--and providing his own accompaniment in traditional style to boot.
A direct line, I suspect, between Asha and Nusrat, though I don't understand her words so I can't tell.

Much of the rest is good love-gone-wrong music that carries out the blues under the gospel and devotional of the first half.

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