things were good when we were young.

Artist Song
the white stripes  we are going to be friends 
neutral milk hotel  song against sex 
neutral milk hotel  my dream girl don't exist 
rilo kiley  ripchord 
elton john  tiny dancer 
the clash  train in vain (stand by me) 
the von bondies  c'mon, c'mon 
tuscadero  nancy drew 
queen  you're my best friend 
supersnazz  sometimes 
cub  FB song (sicko cover) 
shonen knife  one week 
shonen knife  lazybone 
casiotone for the painfully alone  jeane, if you're ever in portland 
casiotone for the painfully alone  oh, illinois! 
casiotone for the painfully alone  tonight was a disaster 
casiotone for the painfully alone  dying batteries 
the zombies  this will be our year 
the cars  just what i needed 
six cents and natalie  boyfriends 
tullycraft  pink lemonade 
the donnas  drive-in (beach boys cover) 
the donnas  let's go mano! 
the beach boys  wouldn't it be nice? 
weezer  devotion 
they might be giants  birdhouse in your soul 
stephen malkmus  death and the maiden 
the oranges band  success. 

Comment:

this is for my best friend of seven years and what else can i really say? the title is from the von bondies song. each track has a story - learning to play the cars song when you were home on x-mas break with you on my roomate's drums and me on guitar in the kitchen, playing lazybone in my bedroom when we were in tenth grade (me on bass, you on guitar). some of these you've never even heard but they all have a story to me and you'll love them all because we love the same things. all of the CFTPA songs are short and while there are four of them, i know you'll love owen ashworth as much as i do, i even thought of you the first time i heard him. some of them are the stories of our lives (weezer, the white stripes). springsteen was supposed to be the last track but "no surrender" wouldn't fit and i wasn't comfortable with putting anything else at the end. you and i, we're like two peas in a pod, and i will give this to you when we drive to north carolina tomorrow to see pedro the lion like we did in november (except then it was DC) and we'll always be best friends.

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OvertheNeptune
Date: 9/15/2005
i love shonen knife! plus mad kudos to the zombies, malkmus, TMBG, and of course NMH.