ADAPTATION: A haiku covers comp.

Artist Song
  intro 
DMS (Miles Davis)  In A Silent Way 
Saint Etienne (Neil Young)  Only Love Can Break Your Heart 
Radon (Morrissey)  Interesting Drug 
  interlude 
The Wedding Present (Pavement)  Box Elder MO 
Braid (The Foundations)  Baby, Now That I've Found You 
tiltWheel (Icicle Works)  Whisper To A Scream 
  interlude 
This Mortal Coil (Chris Bell)  You And Your Sister 
face to face (The Smiths)  What Difference Does It Make? 
Blink 182 (Billy Idol)  Dancing With Myself 
  interlude 
Blind Boys Of Alabama (Tom Waits)  Way Down In The Hole 
Nikki French (Bonnie Tyler)  Total Eclipse Of The Heart 
Joan Jett (Sonny Curtis)  Love Is All Around 
  interlude 
R.E.M. (The Velvet Underground)  There She Goes Again 
Lady Luck (The Clash)  Lost In The Supermarket 
No Use For A Name (The Vapors)  Turning Japanese 
  interlude 
Grade (The Smoking Popes)  Days Just Wave Goodbye 
Yo La Tengo (The Seeds)  I Can't Seem To Make You Mine 
Dillinger Four (The Pogues)  Sally MacLennane 
  outro 

Comment:

This requires a bit of explaining. My co-workers and I have mix CD competitions periodically. The most recent competition required that people compile a collection of covers. I took it one step further. I limited myself to one song per covering and covered artist and then decided to use only song titles that would construct syllabically and pragmatically valid haiku, which further limited me to covers which had either 5 or 7 syllables in the title and required me to find twice as many titles with 5 syllables as 7 and THEN construct the haiku based on both poetic and musical flow. This is the result. Comments?

Feedback:

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bloodiedup
Date: 3/26/2003
um. wow. very impressive.
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Geoffrey Holland
Date: 3/27/2003
nice work Kirby! now lose some weight, dump the girlfriend and apologize to the fans of Minnesota!
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evilpenguin
Date: 3/27/2003
wow part of me respects this, especially since youve got soem nice songs on here and part of me thinks you have too much free time.
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foyle
Date: 3/27/2003
that's INSANE. in a good way. wow. i would never have the patience.
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Brad123456
Date: 5/8/2003
eee that's a great idea. most great art takes place within resrictions. this don't look to be no exception. the breadth of artists is enjoyable. as well.