Side A
Artist	Song
Billy Joel	The Entertainer
Elvis Costello	Miracle Man
Marshall Crenshaw	Mary Anne
Nick Lowe	When I Write the Book
Joe Jackson	Be My Number Two
Tom Petty	A Face in the Crowd
John Mellencamp	Wild Nights
Graham Parker	Hold Back the Night
Huey Lewis and the News	If This is it
Todd Rundgren	Lysistrata
Neil Young	After the Gold Rush
Van Morrison	Just Like a Woman (live)
Willie Nile	Places I Have Never Been
Warren Zevon	Cadillac Ranch (live)
Bob Seger	Against the Wind
Paul Young	Love of the Common People
Steve Winwood	The Finer Things
Randy Newman	The World isn't Fair
Bruce Springsteen	My Ride's Here (live)
Jackson Browne	The Load Out / Stay (live)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Graham Parker	Back to Schooldays
Warren Zevon	Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Randy Newman	Louisiana 1927
Nick Lowe	Rollers Show
Tom Petty	The Apartment Song
Bob Seger	Jody Girl
Peter Wolf	Lights Out
Graham Parker	You Can't Hurry Love (live)
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet	Get Out of Denver (live)
Bruce Springsteen	Lost in the Flood
Jackson Browne	Rock Me on the Water
Elvis Costello	Sneaky Feelings
Cat Stevens	If You Want to Sing Out

Comment:

Yet another high-concept venture, this one, of course, pertaining to singer/songwriters of the '70s and '80s. I realize not all of these songs are directly from the '80s (or even '70s; there's at least one '90s cut and that Springsteen cover of Warren Zevon is only a couple years ago, actually), but I liked the title I originally came up with, and it's predominantly true enough, so what the hell. I'll be honest, this isn't my favorite type of music - I don't mean that in a euphemistic "in fact I think it blows" tone, but it's not like I've ever spent a great deal of time listening to this sort of thing. I respect and enjoy all of the songs on here, but this isn't quite as essential a mix as my last two were (yes, even that lame party music one). I just happened to realize a few weeks back that I'd been listening to Marshall Crenshaw, Tom Petty, and Elvis Costello a lot lately in-between my usual inklings, so I thought I should put them and other similarly styled and aged artists to good use for once. It was fun to re-discover the joys of some of these songs, which I hadn't listened to in a long time. And I'd been looking for a way to use that final Jackson Browne live track forever.

As for the second side, I call it the bonus disc of "b-sides" (these are CDs, by the way, not cassettes as I've labeled. I just didn't want to list them separately). They're mostly just repeat uses of the same artists, songs that didn't make the final cut but which I wanted to have around for my hearing pleasure anyhow. But the first side is the main one, the one I put the actual effort into. Oh, and sorry for having used some of those songs on past mixes. I don't mind doing that myself, but I realize it can be kind of redundant to do so here on AOTM where you're displaying them to the public. But I couldn't help it - "Lysistrata", "The Entertainer", "The Finer Things" and others are just too awesome to omit. I'm not good at editing myself.

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