Side A
Artist	Song
ARETHA FRANKLIN	sweet bitter love
THE KINKS	you really got me
ELLIOTT SMITH	clementine
THE VINES	highly evolved
TOM PETTY	here comes my girl
HOMEGROWN	barbie girl
WAR	why can't we be friends?
FRANK ZAPPA	would you go all the way?
THE CURE	boys don't cry
THE ROOTS	thought @ work
OK GO	get over it
DEAN MARTIN	don't let the blues make you bad
OZMA	in search of 1988
JOHNNY CASH	a boy named sue
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
THE CLASH	train in vain
WEEZER	the good life
LED ZEPPELIN	rock and roll
MUSTARD PLUG	lolita
OASIS	don't look back in anger
NIRVANA	about a girl (unplugged)
REEL BIG FISH	alternative girl
JAMIRIQUAI	all right
JURASSIC 5	high fidelity
JOHNNY CASH	sunday morning coming down
THE FLAMING LIPS	all we have is now
BILLY JOEL	she's always a woman

Comment:

This tape was started for a friend around Christmas time before she returned to college up in New York, many miles from my home in Central Pennsylvania. I am a greedy bastard so I got half-finished and decided I wanted to keep it. Now a month later she's going through a bit of a rough patch, so I've decided to wrap it up and send it to her. I can't be there in person to comfort her, so this is a vague attempt to sympathize/self-medicate, if you will. Most of this was made before I found out she wasn't in the best of spirits since her return to school so some of this seems prophetically-melancholy.

NOTES: "Barbie Girl" is a punkified cover of the Aqua tune done by a band who opened for Reel Big Fish when I went to see them in the spring. I bought their EP. Okay, okay, the Mustard Plug tune has turned up on two straight mixes but I love it and it's happy and it might help her so there. This is the last time for a while, promise. I didn't have a track listing for the first half I did, so I forgot that I'd included "A Boy Named Sue" and that explains the double dose of Cash. I'm not sure you can ever hear too much of the man in black, though, so whatever. The title is derived from the Interpol song "NYC" which isn't on this tape but easily could be if I felt like putting it up but I didn't. I just realized that almost half the songs have either "girl" or "woman" in the title, a fact I was not aware of while making the comp. Maybe I was getting at something subconsciously. What, precisely, however, I don't know.

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