Side A
Artist	Song
Wilco	Can't Stand It
Broken Social Scene	Pitter Patter Goes My Heart
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead	It Was There That I Saw You
Ryan Adams	I See Monsters
My Bloody Valentine	When You Sleep
Jeff Buckley	Grace
The New Pornographers	All for Swinging You around
The Velvet Teen	A Captive Audience
French Kicks	Better Time
Metric	Succexy
Ryan Adams	Karina
Interpol	C'mere
The Decemberists	California One / Youth & Beauty Brigade
PJ Harvey + Thom Yorke	This Mess We're in
The Postal Service	Clark Gable
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Radiohead	Hunting Bears
Ryan Adams	City Rain, City Streets
French Kicks	The Trial of the Century
Pixies	Gigantic
Guns N' Roses	You're Crazy
The Unicorns	Jellybones
The Knack	My Sharona
Bob Marley & the Wailers	Waiting in Vain
Daughters	Nurse, Would You Prep the Patient for the Sexual Doctor
Weezer	I Just Threw out the Love of My Dreams
Jeff Buckley	Lover, You Should Have Come over
Ryan Adams	Ah, Life
Radiohead	Let Down
Wilco	Theologians
Talking Heads	Girlfriend Is Better
Superdrag	Baby Goes to Eleven

Comment:

This is actually a two-disc compilation which is better suited for a cassette; unfornuately, the boy for whom this is intended is absolutely too ultramodern to have a tape deck. Regardless of the format, the content is supposed to encapsulate a very delicate brand of teenage languish. Side 1 is the imparting of knowledge to the receiving party; my quiet and violent affection is delivered through these songs. Side 2 is the realization that no matter how tenderly I feel or how beautiful he is, there is nothing to be done. A sound relationship (his with another girl) and blossoming friendship (between us) depends on my adherence to self control. The final track is particularly poignant; its intent is to let the listener know that while I can maintain a brilliant comraderie, I hear this song whenever he comes to mind.

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