Artist	Song
Eveline	Nostalghia
The Stone Roses	Ten Story Love Song
Ride	Vapour Trail
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?
The Magnetic Fields	The Book Of Love
Siouxsie & The Banshees	The Last Beat Of My Heart
Sigur R=s	Nj=snavTlin
U2	Love Is Blindness
Duran Duran	Perfect Day
Bryan Ferry	Slave To Love
Death Cab For Cutie	A Movie Script Ending
Reeves Gabrels & Robert Smith	Yesterday's Gone
The Magnetic Fields	The Things We Did & Didn't Do
The Innocence Mission	Moon River
The Smiths	I Won't Share You
Depeche Mode	Somebody (live)
The Cure	Pictures Of You

Comment:

*I submitted this mix in February, but while editing some of the commentary, something odd happened & it got deleted! So I've had to re-submit it* -- I made this mix exactly a year ago as a pre-wedding gift for my cousin. A wonderful person, whom I became much closer with in my teens through early 20's. It proved kind of difficult for me when her engagement came. We couldn't really be attached at the hip, any more. This mix pertains to love & in some ways letting go... & opening the way for new chapters. -- First, I composed a song called "Nostalghia" comprising of one lone guitar. It begins with a simple riff & as I played on, emotion evoked me to gradually improvise until it felt right to end the song at almost 7 minutes. It sounded a bit repetitious at more fervent moments, although I feel that just shows when a song is more emotionally charged. -- "Ten Storey Love Song" -the lyrics strike a hard chord. -- Not all of these songs pertain directly to the intended listeners. "Vapour Trail" seems to recount a constant failure to ascertain a relationship. -- Some songs seem hopelessly `lovesick' & appropriate to a Betrothed Pair... Just listen to every lyric in "Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?" you'll feel instant efficacy! In "The Book Of Love" Stephin Merritt sings poignant lyrics that just strum at your heartstrings. Siouxsie integrates yearning libretto in "The Last Beat Of My Heart". -- Sigur Ros' "Nj=snavTlin" -simply just a beautiful song. I can't accurately interpret their `hopelandic', so I usually make my own interpretation, which I've read they encourage. So, with the initiative to interpret a song, as you like, is U2's "Love Is Blindness". While it's believed this song is actually about the Irish Republican Army & nationalism, making it a very thought-provoking song, I choose to manoeuvre the meaning of Bono's lyrics to the gutted side of a Love which someone feels for another. I feel it's interesting to take lyrics & transmit them to your own situation. You aren't actually changing what the lyrics mean to the lyricist, but merely using them as a narrative to an occurrence in YOUR life. And so, to interject something Joy Division's Ian Curtis said regarding their own songs, "We Haven't got a message really; the lyrics are open to interpretation. They're multi-dimensional. You can read into them what ever you like." I completely agree! The late Curtis' wife wrote: "Ian himself had always enjoyed reading into other people's lyrics. We used to argue about the last line of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day". I thought the words were "You're going to reap just what you sow", but Ian's interpretation was "You're going to read just what you saw". One of his ambitions was to witness events as they happened, before reading about them in the press." On that note, Duran Duran did a great cover of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" which I've also included. I feel they're very melodic, as their album of cover songs `Thank You' proves. -- "Slave to Love" -I can always picture people however young or elderly, slow-dancing to it at a wedding reception. There's a certain great lyric in "Movie Script Ending", "now we all know the words were true in the sappiest songs (yes. Yes.)" -- Some songs are more generalized. "Yesterday's Gone" & "The Things We Did & Didn't Do" -focus on nostalgia & regret. "Moon River" one of the best songs ever written. "I Won't Share You" -I'm taking that `your own interpretation' theory into account again. -- "Somebody" the age-old story of `give and take', what love is all about really. A live rendition of Martin Gores' perfect lyrics sang with even more so emotional idealism. And "Pictures Of You" delves into the topic of nostalgia once again. A most perfect song as it also embodies everything conferred here along with perfect melody and all-around atmosphere. -- Trust me, or please, hear for yourself, there's much emotion flowing here.

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