Artist	Song
The Style Council	Solid Bond in Your Heart
INXS	Do Wot You Do
Velocity Girl	Crazy Town
XTC	Dear Madam Barnum
The Blake Babies (with Evan Dando)	Brain Damage
Duran Duran	Shadows On Your Side
The Bangles	Eternal Flame
Elvis Costello and the Attractions	This Year's Girl (Alternate Eden Studios Version)
Chris Isaak	Wild Love
The Delfonics	Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
Dionne Warwick	Walk On By
The London Suede	Trash
Hub Moore and The Great Outdoors	Gonna Miss You
Liz Phair	Crater Lake
Weezer	Island In The Sun
The Smiths	You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
O.M.D.	Souvenir
The Strokes	Trying Your Luck
The Motels	Total Control
Swing Out Sister	Don't Say A Word
Throwing Muses	Him Dancing
Yo La Tengo	Center of Gravity

Comment:

The title comes from a line in a strange short-short story (250 words) by the teacher of the fiction writing class I took when I was a college sophomore. To follow the theme suggested by the title very loosely, I thought I'd start off on an exuberant foot with The Style Council song and end with an equally optimistic Yo La Tengo doing breezy bossa nova, and stuff twists and turns and mood swings in between. Desperate? Satisfied? Same difference. Actually, the big challenge was seeing if I could create a playlist with "Eternal Flame" on it--and actually burn the mix with the song still intact. The Hub Moore song is a studio version of the live song performed in the Hal Hartley short "Surviving Desire". "Dear Madam Barnum" is one of those laugh as I cry kind of songs with especially clever desperately satisfied-type lyrics by Andy Partridge. Speaking of desperation, "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" was the only thing that got me through Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown"....

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