Artist	Song
The Carpenters	Sing
The Real McKenzies	Loch Lomond
Letters to Cleo	I See
Tenpole Tudor	Swords of a Thousand Men
My Blue Heaven soundtrack	Merengue
The Jam	In the City
Gary "U.S." Bonds	Quarter to Three
Big Star	September Gurls
The Rosebuds	Kicks in the Schoolyard
Abandoned Pools	Sunny Day
The Grapes of Wrath	Backward Town
Tracey Ullman	They Don't Know About Us
All-Time Quarterback	Sock Hop
Mustard Plug	Yesterday
The Wannadies	How Does it Feel
The Toy Dolls	Livin' la Vida Loca
Dick Dale and His Del-Tones	King of the Surf Guitar
Guided by Voices	Chasing Heather Crazy
The Four Freshmen	Graduation Day
Catch 22	Keasbey Nights
Abandoned Pools	Suburban Muse
Coyote Shivers and Renee Zellweger	Sugar High
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds	Red Right Hand
The Beatles	You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Dance Hall Crashers	Pick-Up Lines
J. Geils Band	Centerfold
Catch 22	1234, 1234
The Real McKenzies	Taylor Made
The Doobie Brothers	Listen to the Music
The Real McKenzies	Auld Lang Syne

Comment:

A tad schizophrenic, like most of my submissions, since it's primarily a smattering of cool new (to me) tunes, with some revivals of older faves, though I kind of like how a sense of cohesion slowly begins to form; like when you put a bunch of strangers together on an adventure, eventually they'll probably end up friends, and it becomes increasingly evident that they belong together like bop bop a loo ba shawalla sh-bang sh-bang. I totally just gayed myself. Sorry. This mix includes a touch of my bagpipe addiction (the world needs more Real McKenzies), lost pop gems from the '80s (Tenpole Tudor, Tracey Ullman), out-of-place melancholy (Grapes of Wrath, Beatles), golden oldies (Gary Bonds, Four Freshmen, Dick Dale), a few utter wild cards (Nick Cave, All-Time Quarterback, Carpenters), and a whole lot of songs that seriously inspire me to go dancing crazily down my street ("Sugar High", "Centerfold", Letters to Cleo, Toy Dolls, Catch 22, GBV, "Merengue", etc.). It's not the most bombastic or celebration-happy mix I've ever made, but like the title says, this season-length party's just getting started...;)

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