Side A
Artist	Song
Roxy Music	Chance Meeting
The Ronettes	Be My Baby
The Kinks	Little Miss Queen of Darkness
The Coral	Dreaming of You
Stevie Wonder	We Can Work It Out
Crosby, Stills, & Nash	Marrakesh Express
The Beatles	Your Mother Should Know
of Montreal	What A Neat Little Domestic Life
The Bee Gees	To Love Somebody
The Beach Boys	Here Today
100 Proof Aged In Soul	Somebody's Been Sleeping
the dB's	The Fight
Marianne Faithfull	Something Better (live)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Ann Peebles	I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
the Rolling Stones	Out of Time ('Metamorphosis' version)
Faith No More	Easy Like Sunday Morning
Ben Folds	Gone
Fleetwood Mac	Never Going Back Again
David Bowie	Pablo Picasso
Pulp	Girls and Boys
Jon Brion	Her Ghost
Tom Waits	The House Where Nobody Lives
Harry Nilsson	Think About Your Troubles
Scott Walker	Mathilde
The Beach Boys	The Old Master Painter/I Am Your Sunshine
The Beatles	Two of Us

Comment:

It's not often that we go into mix-making with an idea or a concept...usually the story (or at least the unified theme) springs from nothingness, a subconscious kind of drive. But we heard Roxy Music's "Chance Meeting" and were struck immediately with the story it lent itself to. A relationship ends, perhaps in bitterness, but there are always reminders, always remnants of the past that lead one on a nostalgic journey back through a very specific time. What we have here is the story of a very typical love affair ("Here Today"), beginning in earnest ("Be My Baby," "Dreaming of You"), with the typical highs ("Your Mother Should Know") and the typical doubts ("We Can Work It Out," "Somebody's Been Sleeping") of a pair in love. There is certainly bliss at points ("Marrakesh Express," "What A Neat Little Domestic Life"), there are the inevitable disagreements ("The Fight"), the denial ("Never Going Back Again," "Easy Like Sunday Morning"), the dreams of a brighter future ("Something Better") in the face of impending doom ("Gone," "Out of Time"), a soft-spoken kind of futility ("House Where Nobody Live"). His eyes may wander ("I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down"), and so may her's ("Girls and Boys"). He might leave for a while, take a bender out on the town...live again ("Pablo Picasso"). Or at least, live differently again. But there are reconciliations ("Mathilde"). There is a development of understanding ("Think About Your Troubles"). And whatever the outcome, whatever the end, there is a sense of peace ("Two of Us").

So, with that in mind, and if you've got the time and "resources" (whatever they may be), sequence this, pop it in your stereo, and see if you can see what we saw. It's a wild ride, if you can hit the narrative line.

--MJB+RR

**(NOTE: This mix, 79min. 46sec., was intended for CD; but the story is best divided into two "sides," hence its being categorized as a tape)

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