Side A
Artist	Song
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields	The Coral Sea (Part I) (live)
from The Coral Sea [22.06.05] (2008)
The Mars Volta	Vicarious Atonement
from Amputechture (2006)
The Beatles	Only A Northern Song
from Yellow Submarine [O.S.T.] (1969)
Queens Of The Stone Age	I Never Came
from Lullabies To Paralyze (2005)
Sparta	Unstitch Your Mouth
from Threes (2007)
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields	The Coral Sea (Part II) (live)
from The Coral Sea [22.06.05] (2008)
Yes	Give Love Each Day
from Magnification (2001)
Manic Street Preachers	This Joke Sport Severed
from Journal For Plague Lovers (2009)
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields	The Coral Sea (Part III) (live)
from The Coral Sea [22.06.05] (2008)
Smashing Pumpkins	Frail And Bedazzled
from Pisces Iscariot [1994 compilation] (1993)
Suede	Lost In TV
from A New Morning (2002)
The Smiths	There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
from The Queen Is Dead (1986)
Stone Temple Pilots	Hello It's Late
from Shangri-La Dee Da (2001)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Helmet	Pure
from Aftertaste (1997)
Bob Dylan	Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
from Together Through Life (2009)
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields	The Coral Sea (Part IV) (live)
from The Coral Sea [22.06.05] (2008)
The White Stripes	Ball And Biscuit
from Elephant (2003)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
from Raising Sand (2007)
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields	The Coral Sea (Part V) (live)
from The Coral Sea [22.06.05] (2008)
Green Day	21 Guns
from 21st Century Breakdown (2009)
Kings Of Leon	Talihina Sky
from Youth & Young Manhood [hidden track] (2003)
Radiohead	You
from Pablo Honey (1993)
Blue Oyster Cult	Mes Dames Sarat
from Secret Treaties [bonus track] (1974)
Faith No More	Pristina
from Album Of The Year (1997)
The Mars Volta	El Ciervo Vulnerado
from Amputechture (2006)
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields	The Coral Sea (Part VI) (live)
from The Coral Sea [22.06.05] (2008)

Comment:

Well...I don't know! This one was a bit of an experiment, actually. I had recently purchased the double-CD of Patti Smith performing her epic poem "The Coral Sea," a tribute to her friend the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who had died of complications from AIDS in 1989. (He had taken the cover photos for her albums "Horses" and "Dream Of Life.") Patti's reading of the poem is backed by Kevin Shields' (formerly of My Bloody Valentine) emotive and dynamic guitar atmospherics.

What I did was use the performance from June 6, 2005, at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. It was subdivided into six tracks. (Whereas the performance on the other disc, from September 12, 2006, is subdivided into six. Apparently the divisions have more to do with Shields' playing than Smith's words.) I then separated the individual sections and spread them throughout, using them as a kind of backbone for this mix. Like I said, it's sort of an experiment, and I'm not all that sure whether or not it's contextually correct, or whether it works with all these other songs. So I'll simply let you be the judge! ;-)

"Vicarious Atonement" / "El Ciervo Vulnerado" - The first and last tracks from the Mars Volta's 2006 disc "Amputechture." They struck me as being sort of bookend tracks for that particular album, so I used them in a similar fashion, bookending them within the beginning and ending of Patti Smith's "The Coral Sea." Maybe it works...maybe it doesn't. So once again, you be the judge! :-)

Today's eliminations (#210 - 9/2/09):
Sparta - "Threes" (2007)
The Mars Volta - "Amputechture" (2006)
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields - "The Coral Sea" (2008) (Even though I used only one performance, from the first disc, since I used the piece once already, I'm counting it as eliminated!)

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