Artist	Song
Arctic Monkeys	Fluorescent Adolescent
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band	Rosalita
Bob Dylan	Like A Rolling Stone
Rosie Thomas & *******	Say Hello
Mutya Buena with Amy Winehouse	B-Boy Baby
The Specials	Do the Dog
Drunken Maria	Standing in the Way of Control
Zena James	Fine and Mellow
Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit	Eyeless in Holloway
Mae	Awakening
Seal	Walk on By
Warren Zevon	Carmelita
Moros Eros	I Saw the Devil Last Night
Kings of Leon	On Call
G. Love & Special Sauce	Stepping Stones
Terry Reid	Brave Awakening
Annie Lennox	Don't Let It Bring You Down
Curtis Mayfield	Keep On Pushing
RJD2	Just When

Comment:

Last year I had a new house built. The only part still undone is the landscaping, which will include a vegetable garden. In attempting to come up with some ideas that were avant but not too costly for the yard, I happened to hear the Arctic Monkeys song. "Was it a Mecca dobber or a betting pencil?" is one line from this ska groover. So the song was saying to me, mix it up to your heart's content. It doesn't really matter as long as you like the outcome.

To paraphrase the french philospher Michael de Montaigne, I want death to find me planting my vegetables, but caring little for them, and even less for my imperfect garden. Seems to me an apt statement about cultivating a mix, at least this one.

So many plants, so many songs, so little time.

quiz alert - Two copies of this mix tracked in full audio (.wav) format with artwork are being made available (a) to the first AOTMer who can tell me the name of the guy singing with the lovely Rosie Thomas on track 4, and (b) anyone wishing to trade a mix.

Feedback: