Artist	Song
Q. Lazzarus	Goodbye Horses
The Cure	Fascination Street
Saint Etienne	Only Love Can Break Your Heart
My Bloody Valentine	Blown A Wish
The Sundays	Goodbye
Pet Shop Boys	Dreaming Of The Queen
Madonna	Human Nature
Pavement	Grounded
DJ Shadow	What Does Your Soul Look Like
Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott	The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Lambchop	The Saturday Option
The Magnetic Fields	Long-Forgotten Fairytale
Eminem	Amityville
Tiga & Zyntherius	Sunglasses At Night
Atomizer	Hooked On Radiation
Colder	Crazy Love

Comment:

The main inspiration for this mix came from John Peel's "Peelennium", tapes of which I was listening to recently. The running order is a chronology of my favourite songs, one from every year from 1988 (Q. Lazzarus) through to 2003 (Colder). I wasn't born in 1988, btw, nor do I intend to die in 2003; but for a hypothetical "Sadly, This Was My Life Vol. 2" (preceding 1988) to be strictly accurate in its title I would be obliged to include on it four songs only, and I can't do a Vol. 2 covering the years *after* 2003 "for obvious reasons". I may also have been motivated by my current academic fixation - namely the Victorian fin-de-siecle - and I suppose I was looking for 20th Century fin-de-siecle subtexts to emerge in the selection of the songs I chose, though I selected every one of them on the sole criterion (?) of "best song of the year" and didn't pay any conscious heed to "cultural impact" and suchlike. Anyway, I think everyone should compile one of these.

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