december snapshots

Artist Song
the cure  cut here 
plumtree  was it all? 
jann arden  the sound of 
sloan  chester the molester 
til tuesday  coming up close 
beulah  emma blowgun's last stand 
dexy's midnight runners  jackie wilson said 
teenage fanclub  december 
dar williams  the christians & the pagans 
nick drake  time of no reply 
largo  medallion 
elvis costello & the attractions  you bowed down 
jimmy eat world  the authority song 
atom & his package  pumping iron for enya 
ben folds  not the same 
beulah  a good man is easy to kill 
sloan  the marquee & the moon 
starjets  schooldays 
neil young  from hank to hendrix 
simon & garfunkel  silent night/7 o'clock news 
(the smurfs)  (smurfing bells) [hidden track] 

Comment:

*not* a christmas/holiday-themed mix at all, but the teenage fanclub, dar williams and simon & garfunkel tracks acknowledge the time of year it was made during (ditto the smurfs, included as a kind of punchline). i stole the title of this mix from a park ave song, but strangely enough didn't bother to include it here. the recipient of this mix requested both sloan and beulah, so i gave them a double shot of each.

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PradaMeinhof
Date: 9/2/2004
It always seems a little pointless and pretentious commenting on a mix as a whole when you don't know half the songs. So I won't :)

But I've always loved that Starjets' song and still have the single somewhere. And that Dar Williams song is always on my internal jukebox these days. "But Christmas is like Solstice" ...

So, enough respect as I believe the young people say these days.