Side A
Artist	Song
sunset valley	skylab love scene
exploding hearts	rumours in town
elastica	stutter
the soviettes	bottom's up, bottomed out
the briefs	(looking through) gary glitter's eyes
fountains of wayne	denise
the cardigans	never recover
moth	hearing things
manic street preachers	found that soul
spoon	take a walk
the mooney suzuki	a little bit of love
the apples in stereo	go!
bratmobile	come hither
husker du	could you be the one?
sleater-kinney	go!
tiger army	incorporeal
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
pixies	caribou
the weakerthans	illustrated bible stories for children (live)
lullaby for the working class	the sunset & the electric bill
jonah's onelinedrawing	14 to 41
red house painters	new jersey (electric version)
elvis costello	beyond belief
sebadoh	willing to wait
talking heads	heaven (stop making sense version)
clem snide	i can't stay here tonight
pedro the lion	never leave a job half-done
crooked fingers	surrender is treason
the dismemberment plan	pay for the piano
r.e.m.	so. central rain (i'm sorry)
the folk implosion	waltzin' with yr. ego

Comment:

i definitely owe the recipient a mix tape, by now, so i tried to make it as perfect as possible. the transitions on the first side are great, i think--a lot of the songs move into one another just the right way: you can tell it's a new song, but it sounds like it's built right onto the previous one. the second side is lacking, a little bit, but i still really liked it. i wanted to put a sonic youth song on the b-side to close--"nyc ghosts & flowers"--but it's eight minutes long, so that'd make the sides really really uneven. there are louder moments on the second side (e.g., pixies, pedro the lion, displan) but it's really, for the most part, the quieter side. all i know is i hope she likes it!

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