Artist	Song
Pixies	Bone Machine
David Bowie	It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
Interpol	NYC
Eartha Kitt	My Heart Belongs To Daddy
Morrissey	The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
Chocolate Genius	Love
PJ Harvey	Good Fortune
Lou Reed	I Love You,Suzanne
Charlie Parker	Loverman
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Art Star
Dismemberment Plan	Time Bomb
Tindersticks	Dying Slowly
Joseph Arthur	Good About Me
Joy Division	She's Lost Control
Bush Tetras	Stand Up And Fight
The Cure	Burn
Neil Finn	Addicted
Jeff Buckley	Last Goodbye

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This is a mix I have been thinking about doing since I read the book Widow Basquiat. I like doing soundtracks for books and this is my favorite. I included songs that I felt had something to do with Jean and Suzanne's relationship or described one of them in some way or an event in the book. The Eartha Kitt song is what Jean played on the jukebox over and over when he went to where Suzanne worked. I added the Bush Tetras song in reference to Suzanne's part in standing up for Michael Stewart after he was killed by New York City Police. Pixies' Bone Machine I felt would be a great start off to the soundtrack and I used it because of Suzanne and Jean's love of Gray's Anatomy. If you read the book I feel you will get the purpose of all the songs so I encourage anyone who is interested in Basquiat or just wants to read something new to check it out. I believe this will be my submission for the make a mix for Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston project someone told me about.

Book Description
In this extraordinary and unusual book, Jennifer Clement explores the turbulent relationships that Jean-Michel Basquiat had with his muse Suzanne Malouk and with the art establishment. The result is a distressing yet beautiful profile of a strange, powerful love striving to flourish in the face of horrendous outside pressures. And while Suzanne held firm, Basquiat sought refuge in a fatal heroin addiction. Widow Basquiat also presents an eye-witness account of the drug-fueled insanity of the New York art scene of the 1980s.

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