Artist	Song
Quasi	Nothing from Nothing
The Dismemberment Plan	What Do You Want Me To Say?
Spoon	Anything You Want
Alfie	Check the Weight
The Brian Jonestown Massacre	Wisdom
that dog.	To Keep Me
Death Cab for Cutie	Fake Frowns
Mazarin	Deed to Drugs
The Hang Ups	Cornerstore
The Essex Green	Tinker (She Heard the News)
Jim O'Rourke	Get a Room
Lusk	Undergarden
The Shins	Sphagnum Esplanade
Pinback	Loro
Oranger	A View of the City from an Airplane
Clem Snide	1989
Merrick	Flick
Modest Mouse	Truckers Atlas

Comment:

Okay, this is sort of a Break Up album... except its a year after the break up, and I don't really intend to give it to the person with whom I broke up. This mix tape sort of follows the theme of having been alone for a year, and looking back, reminding yourself why the relationship didn't work, but still questioning whether it should have ended or not. I haven't actually laid this down on CD yet, (I think the time roughly clocks out at 80 minutes, so one of the tracks may need to go), but I have figured out the mix concisely, in terms of flow and transitions. The transition from Tracks 6 to 7 goes back to cassette tape mixing, where when one song ended abruptly when transitioning into another song, I would use a song that starts abruptly to mask any stray sounds from the end of the first song. I wanted to include something off disc one of Unwound's "Leaves Turn Inside You" on this album, but it just never fit... well, "Look a Ghost" probably would have, except I intentionally only used songs that I have never used on mix tapes before (though I'm sure songs like "Get a Room" and "Deed to Drugs" will turn up on future mixes). Alternate titles for this album: "You're Late For Your Funeral," "It Had to End," "Fall on your Ear," "Something Has Died." Of course, all the titles come from lyrics of songs contained on this tape. I almost always title mixes that way. If you like some of the artists on this album and haven't heard of the others, I seriously suggest you seek them out.

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