Artist	Song
Strong Bad	The System is Down
Real Life	Send Me An Angel
Erasure	Oh l'Amour
Marc Almond	Tears Run Rings
Anything Box	Living In Oblivion
Adam & the Ants	Stand and Deliver
Culture Club	Church of the Poison Mind
The Fitness	Phones Ex
Divine	You Think You're A Man
Klaus Nomi	Total Eclipse
Shockheaded Peters	I, Bloodbrother Be (The ú4,000 Love Letter)
The Magnetic Fields	Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood	Some Velvet Morning
Cinema Strange	Time
Roxy Music	2 H.B.
Brian Eno	Dead Finks Don't Talk
Blixa Bargeld	Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Cockney Rebel	Tumbling Down
The Postal Service	The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

Comment:

A bit more of liner notes here, as all these songs have meaning to them...

A good friend of mine recently moved to Baltimore, back closer to DC where she and I are both from (currently, I am in Denver). Aurora is a 6'3" Amazon deathrocker with a mohawk, lots of tattoos, lots of piercings, and one of the sweetest people you would have the pleasure to meet. I made this for the drive.

One of the first times I really hung out with Aurora was at the Dark Arts Festival here. Our mutual friend was making fun of the techno-goths by singing The System is Down. Naturally, I joined in. Now she can remember it.

Aurora and I both love 80's synthpop, particularly the song Send Me an Angel. It's like our song. If you've been to a goth club, you've probably heard a bad version of it. This is the original in all it's glory, followed by a few other great 80's synthpop tracks we've discussed through the course of our friendship (that takes us up to the Boy George, who we both adore).

Aurora works in phone sex. Hence, "Phones Ex" is kind of self-explanitory. Divine and Klaus Nomi fall in the "weird stuff" category that I thought she might enjoy. The Shockheaded Peters song is due to her exploration of gender and sexuality issues at school, I thought she'd enjoy a good gay-pride anthem, and then just a funny song about sex (she'd never heard the Magnetic Fields before I played them for her, but she quite liked I Thought You Were My Boyfriend, so I gave her a happier one).

Then the covers/originals section. Cinema Strange is one of her favorite bands, so here's them doing a fab Bowie cover. 2 H.B., Dead Finks Don't Talk, and Tumbling Down are all originals of songs found on the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack (ahh to raspberry vodka and drunkenly explaining who each character was supposed to be). Blixa Bargeld doing Somewhere Over the Rainbow must be heard to believed.

I closed with a song about DC, our shared hometown, which she is close to now. I hope she finds happiness in Baltimore.

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