Artist	Song
Jem	They
Tears For Fears	Pale Shelter
Franz Ferdinand	This Fffire
They Might Be Giants	Climbing The Walls
Blur	Girls And Boys
Men At Work	It's A Mistake
ABBA	Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
George Benson	Give Me The Night
New Musik	Straight Lines (Extended Mix)
The Bird And The Bee	F*cking Boyfriend
Spoon	Stay Don't Go
Talk Talk	Happiness Is Easy
Sparks	The Lady Is Lingering
Squeeze	Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
The Smiths	Nowhere Fast
Associates	Party Fears Two
Kenickie	I Would Fix You
William Shatner	It Hasn't Happened Yet
Lou Reed	Perfect Day

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A completely random mix I decided to make this evening as I was going through a bunch of stray mp3s I'd downloaded. Like many random mix CDs I make, some of the songs are ones that have been on my mind or that I have been particularly enamored with lately, and others are ones I picked out going through my collection (in this case, iTunes folders), with choices based purely on mood. Oh, and the "extended mix" of "Straight Lines" was something I edited myself about a month ago, adding about a minute of instrumental passages onto the beginning of the song. ("Perfect Day" was just downloaded today after I discovered, much to my chagrin, that I still did not own it.)I find random mix CDs work best if I assemble them on the fly, real time, as if I'm DJ-ing. That way I get a good sense of flow and mood. I only made a few minor adjustments to the sequence here (and added one or two songs) before I burned.

A friend and I once discussed how a mix CD tends to be a better overall representation of one's taste if you don't automatically reach for all your heavy hitters. For instance, whenever I set out to make a mix, I usually have to strongly resist the temptation to just reach for mainstays like Talking Heads, Devo and Elvis Costello. While there are a few personal Hall of Famers here (TMBG, The Smiths, Sparks), most of these are artists that are woefully neglected by me or that I don't listen to that often.
The Jem track is one I'd been looking for for years. I first heard it in a restaurant when it came out. I asked around on message boards if anyone knew what it was and no one had a clue. I forgot about it, but heard it again this weekend in yet another restaurant, this time recording a bit of it on my phone so I could get the lyrics. A quick search on Google finally gave me the results I was looking for. So I guess you could say this mix is in partial celebration of that mystery being solved.
The title of this mix is from the Spoon track. Speaking of, I really need to pull "Kill The Moonlight" out again. I haven't listened to it in quite a while...probably because I literally played it a few times a week for about six months when it came out.

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