Side A
Artist	Song
Starlight Mints	Submarine #3
Quasi	Our Happiness Is Guaranteed
Death Cab For Cutie	Pictures in an Exhibition
The Delgados	Accussed of Stealing
Bright Eyes	Falling Out of Love at This Volume
Starflyer 59	Do You Ever Feel That Way
Unwound	Look A Ghost
Pinback	Concrete Seconds
Modest Mouse	Out of Gas
Jason Falkner	The Plan
Mazarin	Suicide Will Make You Happy
Beulah	Popular Mechanics For Lovers
The Shins	One By One All Day
Snow Patrol	Ask Me How I Am
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Apples in Stereo	Go
The New Pornographers	The Body Says No
The Strokes	New York City Cops
Lilys	Socs Hip
Elbow	Any Day Now
The Kingsbury Manx	Fields
Jump, Little Children	Mother's Eyes
Doves	Here It Comes
The Aislers Set	My Boyfriend (Could Be a Spanish Man)
Clem Snide	Ice Cube

Comment:

One of three tapes, along with "Walt Disney Cannot Make Me Happy" and "No Friend or Doctor," created in early 2002 for an ex-girlfriend who I was hoping to introduce to a lot of great new idependent rock. Sadly, through a few mix-ups, these tapes never got to her.

I tried a few straegies on this tape. First off, never repeating an artist. I blended some similar songs together, especially early in the album, to give flow (although later on, I resisted playing Doves' "Sea Song" after Jump, Little Children's "Mother's Eyes" because they are far too similar, and opted for a different Doves song). I built up the momentum on the first side with rather short songs, and purposely slowed down the pace on the second side after Strokes "New York City Cops" with a number of six or seven minute long songs, to give the second side a distinctly different feel.

I would highly recommend downloading these tracks whereever you can find them.

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