Side A
Artist	Song
Yo La Tengo	Cherry Chapstick
Wilco	Heavy Metal Drummer
Olivia Tremor Control	N.Y.C. -25
Pixies	Allison
Turin Brakes	Save Me
Sigur R=s	Starßlfur (last minute cut)
The Flaming Lips	When You Smile
My Bloody Valentine	When You Sleep
Dukes of the Stratosphear	You're My Drug
Radiohead	Life in a Glasshouse
John Coltrane	Naima
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
King Biscuit Time	I Walk the Earth
XTC	Rocket From a Bottle
Starlight Mints	Submarine #3
Of Montreal	Penelope
Weezer	El Scorcho
Jeff Mangum	I Love How You Love Me (Phil Spector cover)
Super Furry Animals	Sidewalk Serfer Girl
Mercury Rev	Tonite It Shows
Yo La Tengo	Our Way to Fall
The Beach Boys	You're So Good to Me
XTC	Burning With Optimism's Flames
The Flaming Lips	Be My Head

Comment:

This is basically an indie rock romance mix, but there were enough non-message, just cool sounding songs on the tape to push it out of the Romance category. The mix was made as a birthday present for my girlfriend a mere week after I got together with her, so there was lots of pressure to get it right. And apparently I was successful. She's trying to get into more indie rock, so I basically tried to include things she hadn't heard (but I thought she'd like), as well as cater to her old tastes such as Jazz (the Radiohead/Coltrane segue). Other songs were ones that I thought were important to us getting together (for me at least) and she hadn't heard yet. I'm glad that unlike romantic mixes I've made in the past, this one knows how to rock (Pixies, Flaming Lips).

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