Artist	Song
Sufjan Stevens	All The Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands
Sister Seven	The Only Thing That's Real
Jon Brion	Meaningless
Pavement	Grave Architecture
Beth Orton	Central Reservation
Brendan Benson	What I Am Looking For
Patty Smyth	Out There
The Spinners	One Of A Kind (Love Affair)
Sinead O'Connor	You Do Something To Me
Texas	Tired of Being Alone
Travis	You Don't Know What I'm Like
Fairport Convention	Matty Groves
The Police	Murder By Numbers
Carrie Newcomer	When One Door Closes (Another One Opens)
Louis Jordan	Never Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand Is Doin'
Cat Power	I Found A Reason
Van Morrison	Sweet Thing
Madeleine Peyroux	Don't Wait Too Long
The Wallflowers	Murder (101)
The Go-Betweens	Streets Of Your Town
Regina Spektor	Love Affair

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A narrative of songs inspired by Julian Symons' novel ...

In a small wooded area known as Lover's Lane in Barley Commons, a body is discovered. The corpse leaves a troubled enigma to be solved - as well as a long haunting shadow across the life of one Judith Lassiter, wife of a renowned architect, who writes herself imaginary love letters. Symons writes a tale of lust, infidelity and murder. This is much more than a who-done-it. It questions the dark motives half-buried in every human heart.

Symons is one of the best writers of the cerebral British mystery novel, using dreadful irony and macabre humor to make his points. His characters often find themselves in moral conundrums, like Mrs. Lassiter here, and are treated sympathetically even when making horrifying choices.

Tomorrow for the young the poets exploding like bombs.
Like many tomorrows, that never came.
Yet still, in this elderly today, you smilingly
Give poetry a shape, a rhyme, a name.

Symons wrote about Gavin Ewart, a British poet who died in 1995. The author quotes from Ewart's work in many of his stories. This was written shortly before Symons' death in 1994.

Quiz: Though most people think the musician is French, his/or/her nationality is actually American. Who is it? The correct answer wins a copy of the mix with artwork.

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