Side A
Artist	Song
Bettie Serveert	Tom Boy
Bettie Serveert	Kid's Allright
Bettie Serveert	Under The Surface
Bettie Serveert	Balentine
Bettie Serveert	This Thing Nowhere
Bettie Serveert	Smile
Bettie Serveert	For All We Know
Bettie Serveert	Ray Ray Rain
Bettie Serveert	Cybor*D
Bettie Serveert	Re-Feel-It
Bettie Serveert	Something So Wild
Bettie Serveert	Totally Freaked Out
Bettie Serveert	Trigger Cut
Bettie Serveert	Look Back In Anger
Bettie Serveert	I'll Keep It With Mine
Bettie Serveert	Geek
Bettie Serveert	What Friends?
Bettie Serveert	Story In A Nutshell
Bettie Serveert	Sugar The Pill
Bettie Serveert	Rudder
Bettie Serveert	Pork & Beans
Bettie Serveert	After Hours (live)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Bettie Serveert	Stephanie Says (live)
Bettie Serveert	Sunday Morning (live)
Bettie Serveert	Wild Horses (live)
Bettie Serveert	Unsound
Bettie Serveert	Private Suit
Bettie Serveert	Sower & Seeds
Bettie Serveert	White Tales
Bettie Serveert	John Darmy
Bettie Serveert	Wide Eyed Fools
Bettie Serveert	Smack
Bettie Serveert	Have A Heart
Bettie Serveert	Not Coming Down
Bettie Serveert	Log 22
Bettie Serveert	Dreamaniacs
Bettie Serveert	Don't Touch That Dial!
Bettie Serveert	Attagirl
Bettie Serveert	Hands Off
Bettie Serveert	Love & Learn
Bettie Serveert	Hell = Other People
Bettie Serveert	Certainlie

Comment:

An updated version of an old single-disc mix, adding selections from their last few releases. Sad to say, I suspect that this fine Dutch band will be overlooked when the contributions of the great indie acts of the 90's are given their due. And, sure, maybe they didn't quite have the cred of, say, Pavement, Sebadoh, Guided by Voices, Yo La Tengo, and the other post-Nirvana bands that (briefly) threatened to capture alternative radio/video back in the mid-90s, but they had a slew of great songs and albums that certainly warrant their inclusion alongside those other innovators. Their '92 debut, Palomine, remains one of my all-time favorite albums, with Carol van Dijk's smoky vocals and catchy melodies battling against a wall of grunge guitars, like Joni Mitchell fronting Crazy Horse. The next two revisited the same formula, perhaps wearing it a bit thin but with plenty of great songs nonetheless.
After that it got a little less predictable, for better & worse. Embarking on a brief tour doing nothing but Velvet Underground covers was actually a pretty cool move, though releasing a live album culled from those shows was a somewhat strange (and not exactly forward-looking) move (albeit one that still offered its pleasures). When they got back to the studio, they tweaked the formula, cleaning up the distorted guitars and adding elements of keyboard-driven pop and light jazz, with Carol coming across as more and more of a torch singer. Sometimes they got the mix right (particularly on the eclectic Log 22), but there were undeniably some dull spots, and last year's largely acoustic Bare Stripped Naked was a bit of a bummer. Still, they've outlived most of their '90's peers and, though arguably of minimal relevance these days, there are still enough bright spots in their catalog to make for a solid mix.

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