Artist	Song
Lionel Richie	All Night Long
David Bowie	Golden Years
OK Go	I Want You So Bad I Can't Breathe
from Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (2010)
Janelle Monße	Tightrope
from The ArchAndroid (2010)
The Tallest Man On Earth	Like the Wheel
from Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird (2010)
Tame Impala	Solitude Is Bliss
from InnerSpeaker (2010)
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele	You Can't Force a Dance Party
from The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (2009)
Alicia Keys	No One
from The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (2009)
Dirty Projectors	Remade Horizon
from Bitte Orca (2009)
The Beatles	Get Back
from The Beatles-#1 Hits (1969)
Patrick Watson	Beijing
from Wooden Arms (2009)
Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings	Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
from Wooden Arms (2009)
Josh Ritter	Long Shadows
from So Runs The World Away (2010)
The White Stripes	Fell In Love With A Girl
from White Blood Cells (2001)
Junip	It's Alright
from Fields (2010) Amazon.com Song ID: 218321069
LCD Soundsystem	Drunk Girls
from This Is Happening (2010) Amazon.com Song ID: 218321069
Seabear	I'll Build You A Fire
from We Built A Fire (2010) Amazon.com Song ID: 218321069
Dee Dee Warwick	You're No Good
from Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another [Disc 1] (1963) Amazon.com Song ID: 218321069
Budapest Festival Orchestra	Suite in A Minor, Op. 98b, B 190 - 'American': IV. Andante
from Dvorßk: Symphony No. 7 & Suite in A Major (2011) Amazon.com Song ID: 218321069

Comment:

I suppose the common thread is that these are all songs I wanted to hear on my commute.

Track #5 is so gorgeous and sad that it made me cry when I heard it live in Portland, and I sometimes have to skip it, but I thought you should all know about it.

I think about how you can't force a dance party (#7) as a metaphor for so many things that I wanted to clue you in.

I know every single word to track #12, and have as long as I can remember. That's a secret for you.

The line in #16 about drunk girls knowing love is an astronaut is the best song lyric written in years, in my opinion.

#19 was my biggest discovery when I was in Pittsburgh learning about Dvorak this summer, except that it hasn't been recorded on the piano, which is the way I discovered it. SO lovely. Dvorak wrote it after spending a summer in Iowa. Doesn't it sound like the Great Plains?

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