Side A
Artist	Song
Elvis Costello	Every Day I Write the Book
The Beatles	Paperback Writer
Moxy Frnvous	My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors
PBS or whatever	Reading Rainbow Theme Song
The Monotones	The Book of Love
Green Day	Who Wrote Holden Caufield
The Clash	Killing an Arab
Loreena McKennit	The Highwayman
The Smiths	Shakespeare's Sister
Pat Benatar	Wuthering Heights
Eels	Manchester Girl
Phil Ochs	The Bells
Ryan Adams	Sylvia Plath
Iron Maiden	Phantom of the Opera
Thomas Hanson (lyrics Walt Whitman)	Song of Democracy
Bruce Springsteen	The Ghost of Tom Joad
The Police	Don't Stand so Close to Me
Piebald	Holden Caufield
Music Man Soundtrack	Marian the Librarian
Cake	Open Book
10,000 Maniacs	Hey Jack Kerouac
Rainer Maria	Breakfast of Champions
Kate Bush	Wuthering Heights
Loreena McKennit	Lady of Shalott
Hanson	MmmBop
The Smiths	Cemetry Gates
Dropkick Murphies	Finnegan's Wake
Loreena McKennit	Prospero's Speech
Radiohead	2+2=5
Eurythmics	Doubleplusgood
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Thomas Hampson, Lyrics Emily Dickinson	Heart, We Will Forget Him
The Reflections	(Just Like) Romeo + Juliet
Radiohead	Subterranean Homesick Alien
Radiohead	Paranoid Android
Phil Ochs	William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park & Escapes Unscathed
Phil Ochs	The Highwayman
Led Zeppelin	Battle for Evermore
Loreena McKennit	Dante's Prayer
Eurythmics	For the Love of Big Brother
Spiritualized	Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating
Eurythmics	Julia
Eurythmics	Sexcrime (1984)
Fame Soundtrack	I Sing the Body Electric
Iron Maiden	Flight of Icarus
Phil Ochs	Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore

Comment:

You know you want to have a great mix to play at your sitting-around-reading party, right? Right! I am so very `umble that I say this is great. Right.

So I go to this tiny "radical" liberal-arts school, and we're so pretentious that we can't say "party". We have to say "wall". And my friend Purple and I are so extra-special we can't say "wall." We have to say "Ball," because nobody can resist alliteration! This is what we have so far for the party of the century, or at least the week (of sundays): Booktard Ball! The Lit majors need to have some fun. And look how cool & smart I am: this is a party that will likely never take place (we are anti social & shy). Therefore, it is fictitious. Look! A meta-mix! 20 Pretentious Points for me.

The main criteria for putting a song in was 1. Having some kind of reference to a literary work or persona in the lyrics, or at least a librarian or library, or 2. in the title or 3. someone else recommended it (special thanks to the livejournal community Booktards that way) or 4. We just plain liked the song. Additions welcome. I wasn't really caring about the order when I did this. But I do think it's funny to put (Thomas)Hanson right after Iron Maiden. I've got no respect for anything. Just think of it as a very embryonic start to a party in my mind.

Hanson is only on here because I'm crazy and I think in the very beginning they are paraphrasing Shakespeare. I think we'd get lynched if we actually played it but Look! The Bard: "If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which one will not; speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear, your favor nor your hate."-Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act I, Scene iii in case you care. Hanson: "Mmbop!" (no, just kidding). "Plant a seed, plant a flower, plant a rose
You can plant any one of those
Keep planting to find out which one grows
It's a secret no one knows
It's a secret no one knows" (Stanza 2, hahaha for some reason I think that's hilarious) So that's it and I thought it was niftyish and that's the only reason it is on there. Yay for middle school nostalgia!
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As with every mix I make, it's rather heavy on the Phil Ochs (this one is just heavy on Loreena McKennit due to necessity). Deal. "Lenny" is on here 'cause I am [the only person in the world who is] convinced that at the end there is a very small allusion to a Cortßzar short story called "The Idyll of the Cyclades," but then again I'd have to look up publication dates and translations and such to really prove it, so let's just say it's my favoritest song ever and this is MY mix and Lenny can be there if I want him to be, dammit! ...and leave it at that.
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I talk too much. Sorry. Enjoy it or at least don't hate it too much. I had fun doing it.

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