Side A
Artist	Song
unbelievable truth	settle down
echo and the bunnymen	rescue
liz phair	batmobile
liz phair	dead shark
tugboat annie	contact
palace	i send my love to you
old hickory	pretty girlfriend
the spinanes	entire
east river pipe	kill the action
tugboat annie	landlock swim
jets to brazil	sea anemone
mogwai	year 2000 noncompliant cardia
my bloody valentine	sometimes
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
hayden	instrumental with mellotron
tortoise and the ex	pooh song
jesus in drag	innies and outies
yo la tengo	double dare
jeremy enigk	fallen heart
future bible heroes	lonely days
archers of loaf	harnessed in slums
folk implosion	checking in
throwing muses	shark
my bloody valentine	blown a wish
damien jurado	ohio
unrest	isobel
hayden	i'll tell him tonight

Comment:

and again. (justunder/notquite three years ago.) the scatchy tapes, the earnestness. it's like--the tapes i made myself, of kate bush...say, "the dreaming" and "wow." on the way back this evening it was all joni and kate and beth and even tori yes tori. and remembering the others i don't even like at all anymore--ani comes to mind. in seventh grade. and in the eighth grade, my social studies teacher, whose first name was thomas, mentioned kate bush. that kind of recommendation--it meant a lot to me. you know the weight, the sincerity of first listen, of falling out. the naivete and the hope in your grip. overcomes, at times, today's relative glibness. is it (kate bush, for instance) "good" or were you just so damn impressionable, so ready, relatively speaking, then? how wonderful. it can't even be compared exactly, to what i listen to today. that sort of thing--yes, you know. mm. first things, no, first loves. (and yes, this is bigtime digression from the idea of an f tape in the first place--i think of j, and high school earnestness, giddiness, more now.) "with liner notes and everything!" gosh and an ee. the crackle in the goddamn tapes. the east river pipe, i mean the drunk sad song, is all awash in imminent radio scatter. fuzz. it's beautiful, to me only, maybe. my favorite trying, not that kind of trial. i think of chelsea.

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