Artist	Song
dressy bessy	the things that you say that you do
rilo kiley	wires and waves
palomar	stay out late
cat's miaow	born on a train
the oranges band	open air
elvis costello	what's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?
built to spill	center of the universe
okgo	don't ask me
jimmy eat world	game of pricks [bbc evening session]
discount	clap and cough
bratmobile	gimme brains
sleater-kinney	little babies
tuscadero	nancy drew
neutral milk hotel	ghost
death cab for cutie	transatlanticism
the elected	bank and trust (daytrotter session)
dashboard confessional	the sharp hint of new tears
the get-up kids	out of reach
the promise ring	american girl (v.01)
pedro the lion	transcontinental
rainer maria	lost, dropped, and cancelled
rasputina	brand new key
casiotone for the painfully alone	calloused fingers won't make you strong, edith wong
stars	your ex-lover is dead
the jesus and mary chain	just like honey

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this mix needs a name. i haven't come up with one yet but here's the back story: it's for my friend mel, one of my best friends from college. she always complains about not being able to connect with people because people around her only ever want to talk about music, and she swears she just isn't into music at all. my theory is that she doesn't know enough about good music to be into it (i mean come on - who owns an ipod and isn't into music?!) so this is my attempt to introduce her to some music she might like and maybe make her realize that music is amazing, which is why people use it all the time to connect with other people.
i'm pretty happy with the way it came out, i think. it flows fairly nicely, and the key for this mix was making it listener-friendly; hence there isn't a lot of weirder stuff on here. catchy was the goal and hopefully i have achieved it. some songs are really about her and the current situation between us - she's working on her postgrad in scotland right now so any song that's about being far away - track 2, track 15, track 18, track 21, for example - is pretty much how things are. in truth i may have just wasted my time on this. who knows if she'll give it a chance but hey, you have to try, right?
the jimmy eat world song is a cover of one of my favorite guided by voices songs. the cat's miaow song is, i believe, a cover of the magnetic fields song - i heard this version first so i was never sure who wrote the original. the elected song i can't get enough of lately, and the link provided is to the daytrotter website which is chock full of downloads from bands who have recorded sessions for those lovely people.

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