Side A
Artist	Song
Shiver Me Timbers	Tom Waits
Ships are Sailing	Eileen Ivers
The Storms are on the Ocean	Doc Watson
Polly on the Shore	Fairport Convention
Greenland Whale Fisheries	Joan Collins and Theodore Bikel
Cruel Mistress	Flogging Molly
Wreck of the Hesperus	Procol Harum
The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns	Phil Ochs
Make Room in the Lifeboat for Me	The Delmore Brothers
Message in a Bottle (live)	Sting
Recorder	Pete Townshend
A Salty Dog	Procol Harum
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Frozen Man	James Taylor
Dry Land	Joan Armatrading
Pleasures of the Harbor	Phil Ochs
Every Dog Has its Day	Flogging Molly
Singapore	Tom Waits
Tahitian Moon	Porno for Pyros
Spanish Main	The Coral
The Water is Wide	Bob Dylan
Baroque Ippanese	Pete Townshend
Shipyards of New Zealand	Midnight Oil
Beyond the Sea	Robbie Williams

Comment:

- I think I gravitated unconsciously towards a more folk, particularly "celtic," sound on this tape. In other sea-related mixes I've made the force of contemporary rock tends to dominate, but here I eschewed any large blocks of modern music.
Also evident here is some early experimentation of mine in side-mirroring, especially in the paired Pete Townshend instrumentals in the end-blocks, and in the rough ordered correlation between 'Cruel Mistress' and 'Tahitian Moon,' two loud songs with highly audible electric guitar bases.
I dunno, maybe it's just a bunch of tunes about the ocean.

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