Artist	Song
Bruce Hornsby & Branford Marsalis	The Star-Spangled Banner
Peter Case	I'm On My Way Downtown
Les Savy Fav	Trajic Monsters
808 State	Pacific
Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force	Looking for the Perfect Beat
Ivy	Don't Believe a Word
Sarah Dougher	No-Handed
Matthew Shipp	New Orbit
His Name Is Alive	This World Is Not My Home
The Spinanes	Reach v. Speed
Meat Puppets	Look at the Rain
Nezintombi Zomgoashiyo	Ngicabange Ngaqeda
Hot Water Music	The Bitter End
Braid	You're Lucky to Be Alive
The Go-Betweens	Bye Bye Pride
Tom Waits	Come on Up to the House

Comment:

This was a Christmas CD for my friends in 2001. I was still sad and angry from the attacks but burned out from the free-floating frustration a lot of us were feeling after three months of looking over our shoulders. I almost didn't bother with a mix because the music industry, champing at the bit for "another Vietnam," alienated me with its paranoid radicalism just when I needed an escape most. As a conservative, I never expected the professional bohemians in the business to echo my politics, but there was only so long I could bear reading that Boots Riley was more important now than ever.

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