Artist	Song
The Mighty Lemon Drops	Pass You By
Stereolab	The Light That Will Cease To Fail
The Psychedelic Furs	Sister Europe
Spacehog	In The Meantime
Joe Henry	Trampoline
The Stranglers	Hanging Around
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead	Relative Ways
Guided By Voices	Surgical Focus
Einsturzende Neubauten	Stella Maris
Low	July
Kak	Rain
Primal Scream	Velocity Girl
Gang of Four	Call Me Up
Clinic	Walking With Thee
Blur	This Is A Low
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	Head Up High
Jesus and Mary Chain	Come On
The Damned	Is It A Dream
Ned's Atomic Dustbin	Grey Cell Green
Straitjacket Fits	Life In One Chord

Comment:

Not much to say about this one. Made it with a friend in mind whose musical tastes are not exactly diametrically opposed to mine, but, well, she likes things like Train, Taxiride, Tal Bachman, Blood Sweat & Tears, Ben Folds, Alanis Morrisette... i.e. not the sort of stuff I generally listen to myself. (I was astonished to discover that she also likes Edgard Varese, though that's another story.) Anyway, she not very subtly hinted the other day that I should make a CD for her, so I have done, this is it... I asked her what sort of things did she not want on the CD (easier than asking what she *did* want), and all she said was "no death metal". That didn't make the task any easier at all (and I don't have much death metal anyway), but I blundered on regardless, operating on the general principle that there shouldn't be anything overly terrifying on it. We need to take these things slowly, after all; no use hitting her with some of the estimable lo-fi jr's esoteric punk collections just yet... glorious as they are, if I tried those on her now she'd probably never speak to me again. Maybe somewhere down the track it'll be safe for the scarier stuff...

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