Artist	Song
me first & the gimmie gimmies	leaving on a jet plane
nofx	falling in love
james	crash
don henley	new york minute
cranberries	animal instinct
limp biskit	break stuff
supertouch	vendor
nirvana	territorial pissings
nirvana	lake of fire
beastie boys	stand together
john cougar mellencamp	pink houses
dave matthews band	cry freedom
xtc	dear god
linkin park	crawling
tool	prison sex
incubus	the warmth
depeche mode	people are people
wallflowers	one headlight
guns n' roses	civil war
peter, paul & mary	leaving on a jet plane (quiet resignation mix)

Comment:

mixed in remembrance on 29 september 2001...

i read in a local paper this week that some radio stations were banning songs like the steve miller band's "jetliner" and don mclean's "american pie" for being inappropriate. frankly, i disagree. they may be upsetting but that's part of the point - to recover you must grieve - music has always been part of my healing process...

i first listened to this mix on my drive to work last monday morning - fortunately i didn't have much on the table that day for it was rather disturbing and distracting... especially the song from which i took the title. i listened again this morning and i felt just a little bit better. interestingly, "break stuff" was the song i now felt most disturbed by - we must not let our anger be uncontrolled, unfocused or unjust.

"leaving on a jet plane" is the tune that kept coming to mind that tuesday almost a month ago and ended up being the platform from which i built this mix. we start out with a punk version - a happy, energetic businessperson off on a trip on a regular tueday morning and we end with the solemn and resigned sadness of the orignal version - a young person ships out for war . . .

long live america. this time rome has better firefighters.

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