Side A
Artist	Song
Cowboy Junkies	Something More Besides You
Sonic Youth	Becuz
The Clash	Brand New Cadillac
Dave Matthews Band	Two Step
Beck	Lord Only Knows
Sonic Youth	Candle
Prince	Right Back Here In My Arms
Suzanne Vega	Stockings
Prince	Gett Off
Chris Isaak	Only the Lonely
Laurie Anderson	Langue d'Amour
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Aretha Franklin	Respect
James Brown	Super Bad, Pts. I & II
Tori Amos	Not the Red Baron
Beck	Hotwax
Porno for Pyros	Tahitian Moon
Elvis Costello and the Attractions	Poor Fractured Atlas
Smashing Pumpkins	Stumbleine
Sonic Youth	Little Trouble Girl
Tori Amos	Way Down
Suzanne Vega	World Before Columbus
Me'Shell NdegeOcello	Who Is He and What Is He To You
REM	Undertow
The Clash	Train in Vain (Stand By Me)
Chris Isaak	Think of Tomorrow

Comment:

Recorded circa late 1996/early 1997. Most of the tracks on this tape are pretty well known. Title mangled from the chorus to the Elvis Costello song "Poor Fractured Atlas." The actual chorus goes:

Poor fractured Atlas
Threw himself across the mattress
Waving his withering pencil
As if it were a pirate's cutlass
I'm almost certain
He's trying to increase his burden
He said, 'that's how the child in me planned it
A woman wouldn't understand it'


Not coincidentally, this was around the time that I was sucking it up and making the decision to ask my wife to marry me.

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