Artist	Song
Pink Floyd	Don't Leave Me Now
Nancy Sinatra	"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
Joni Mitchell	Blue
Allison Moorer	Should I Be Concerned
Ella Fitzgerald	Black Coffee
Portishead	Pedestal
Radiohead	Faust Arp
Buckethead	Cruel Reality of Nature
Lou Rawls	Willow Weep For Me
Bon Iver	Skinny Love
Missy Higgins	The Wrong Girl
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's	Broadripple is Burning
Gillian Welch	One Morning
Tim Buckley	Phantasmagoria in Two
The Beatles	Yesterday
Vashti Bunyan	I'd Like to Walk Around in your Mind
Paul Simon	April Come She Will
Bright Eyes	Land Locked Blues
Led Zeppelin	Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Aimee Mann	Humpty Dumpty
Metric	Empty

Comment:

In this weird way I feel like I HAD to make this cd. While my bf and I were together I kept trying to make a mix for him that consisted of songs I really liked for their vocalists/lyrics/emotions. I wanted a further theme besides just that, but I could never find one that fit perfectly, and what I came up with always felt forced or consisted of too many songs that I felt were so-so. After we broke up, I looked at all the failed remains of the playlists I had started and I realized that almost every song I really LIKED out of those was a break-up song and that I already had everything picked out- it was just scattered. After that it came together effortlessly.

The structure basically follows the recovery pattern I followed after the breakup. It goes from complete and utter despair and confusion (Don't Leave Me Now), to sorrow and longing (the entire middle of the cd), to a quiet sort of acceptance of what is inevitable (April Come She Will), and finally to an isolation of emotion and fierce joy and release (Empty).

Usually I really mix up my songs a lot, but this time I tried to group similar sounding songs together, but still gradually bring the mood up and down. The mood does get cheerier as the cd progresses.

If there's a way, I will also include lyrics partially because they reflect the general feeling to each section and partially because they're awesome.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.viewcustom&friendId=24233275&blogId=537502230&swapped=true

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A link to the lyrics

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