Side A
Artist	Song
Toots and the Maytals	Take Me Home, Country Roads
The Clash	Revolution Rock
Screamin' Jay Hawkins	I Put a Spell On You
Public Enemy	Louder Than a Bomb
James Brown	Hot (I Need to be Loved, Loved, Loved)
The Capitol Years	Jet Black
Archers of Loaf	Wrong
Cat Power	He War
Steven Dall and the Urban Legends	Information
Aimee Mann	Lost in Space
Lenny Bruce	The Philadelphia Hotel Room Raid
Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Freaks for the Festival
King Curtis	Memphis Soul Stew
Eddie Harris	Listen Here
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Solomon Burke	Fast Train
Elvis Costello	I Want You
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	The Good Son
Albert Ayler	Bells ("Love Cry" vers.)
Lew Welch	From "Hermit Poems"
Neutral Milk Hotel	The King of Carrot Flowers Pt I
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks	(Do Not Feed the) Oyster
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers	Modern World
Cotton Mather	Camp Hill Rail Operator
Bob Dylan	Masters of War
The Carter Family	Sunny Side / XET Station Break
Marc Ribot	Happiness is a Warm Gun

Comment:

This tape represents my admittedly inconsequential and frivolous reaction to GW's announcement of impending war on Monday evening. My emotional response was an unexpectedly complex one, ranging from utter disgust, to fear, to a need for simple escape. I think that entanglement of emotions is fairly well depicted by the song selection; from outrage (Clash, PE, Dylan, etc.), to the nonsensical (Malkmus, Kirk, etc.), to a yearning for escape either pastoral (Toots) or of a more visceral nature (King Curtis), or that sense I think we get at such times that all we have is those we love (JB, Costello). I was moved to a rare pride when my own (Cdn) Prime Minister broke away from the US and indicated that we would not be involved in any action unsanctioned by the UN, but somehow that feels like a terribly small consolation. People will die by the scores, or hundreds, or most likely by the thousands. I'll still go to work, I'll still listen to my CDs, I'll still shop for goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes at my local mega-grocery store. Does anyone else feel powerless here? I don't know. I guess the interceding 36 hours have done nothing to alleviate my confusion. Whatever. Fuck war.

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