Side A
Artist	Song
Suede	Introducing the Band
t.a.T.u.	All the Things She Said
Pulp	Seductive Barry
Radiohead	Like Spinning Plates
Slowdive	Souvlaki Space Station
Super Furry Animals	Arnofio / Glo in the Dark
The Buzzcocks	Orgasm Addict
Supergrass	Caught by the Fuzz
Guided by Voices	Glad Girls
Spoon	The Way We Get By
Pavement	Flux = Rad
Pixies	Hey
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
t.a.T.u.	Not Gonna Get Us
Bjork	Hyperballad
April March	Sugar
Madonna	Justify My Love
Macy Gray	Relating to a Psychopath
Pink	Don't Let Me Get Me
That Dog	Retreat from the Sun
The Spinanes	Sunday
Erin McKeown	Le Petit Mort
Tift Merritt	Are You Still in Love with Me?
Neko Case	Ghostwriting

Comment:

This mix started off as a lark, but quickly transformed into something more sinister and despairing. There is something very disturbing about this whole t.a.Tu. phenomenon, and it doesn't have to do with age or exploitation. I came across the infectiously catchy single "All the Things She Said" before I knew about the back story - as throw away pop confection, it is almost unassailable. Then I started to uncover the.."truth" about what might be the most cynical music marketing gimmick to come down the pipe in quite some time, and it just made me terribly sad, and seemed to be an appropriate metaphor for the much that is going on around me. So instead of the intended Top 40/Dance mix, I started to infect the tape with songs about obsession, betrayal, substance abuse, lust, lies, fucking people over, getting high, drifting off into a haze of indulgent self-pity, and pretending to be a lesbian when you're not. Or something like that - I'm not sure, I was in the grip of a mighty awful cold when I made this, so whatever fever dream narrative this is supposed to convey is completely lost to me now. But the general feeling is of having a pretty fucking awful fast one pulled on you, recognizing it, and consenting to it even though you are aware of the moral damage it causes. Just like listening to t.a.T.u. Good times.

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