Artist	Song
Tom Waits	The Black Rider
Screamin' Jay Hawkins	Whistlin' Past the Graveyard
The Flaming Lips	Ego Trippin' At the Gates of Hell
Queens of the Stone Age	Hangin' Tree
The Rolling Stones	Beast Of Burden
Van Morrison	These Dreams Of You
Neko Case	Christmas Cards from a Hooker in Minneapolis
Fiona Apple	The Way Things Are
Ben Folds Five	Evaporated
The Starlight Mints	The Bandit
Tom Waits	I'll Shoot The Moon
Elliott Smith	Somebody That I Used To Know
Lydia Lunch f.Nels Cline	Heartattack and Vine
Missy Elliott f.Ludacris	Gossip Folks
Blondie	Rip Her To Shreds
The Beatles	She's Leaving Home
Modest Mouse	Medication
Blonde Redhead	Speed x Distance = Time
Iggy Pop	The Passenger
Sonic Youth	Unwind
Rufus Wainwright	In A Graveyard
The Blacks	Poncho's Lament

Comment:

I was wandering aimlessly at Amoeba records late last night, and I stumbled upon the 2000 Tom Waits' tribute album "New Coat Of Paint." I worked at a music store for several months in 2001 and was tempted to get it then, but for whatever reason, I didn't. I was in kind of a pensive mood last night and when I was buying it, the guy behind the counter took, without exaggeration, about two minutes to study the CD. The songs, the cover, the artists. I was kinda hungry and sorta tired (in addition to the pensive factor), but I didn't mind the time that he took. He wasn't flirting, he wasn't being weird, he was just really interested in the CD. That musta been a good omen. I'm pretty sure I've listened to the Neko Case and The Blacks tracks about 50 times today. I realize that the Tom Waits' versions will always reign superior, but, listening to the same lyrics I've heard for years interpreted by different (especially female) artists managed to free up a few roadblocks of the mind I've had of late.

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