Artist	Song
The Band	In A Station (3:34)
Paul Robeson	Ol' Man River (3:13)
Sarah McLachlan	Fear (3:59)
Mr. Bungle	Retrovertigo (4:59)
Bob Dylan	Mississippi (5:21)
Bea Arthur	Barbara Song (3:17)
Andy M. Stewart	The Man In The Moon (4:33)
Common	Jimi Was A Rock Star (8:32)
Allen Ginsberg	Airplane Blues (4:25)
Robert Lloyd	Behold, I Tell You A Mystery / The People Who Walked In Darkness (from Handel's Messiah) (5:47)
They Might Be Giants	My Evil Twin (2:37)
Van Morrison	In The Garden (5:47)
Michael Crawford	The Music Of The Night (5:14)
Tom Waits	Hold On (5:33)
Sophie B. Hawkins	As I Lay Me Down (4:08)
Neil Young	After The Gold Rush (3:46)

Comment:

"Wonder, could you ever know me? / Know the reason why I live? / Is there nothing you can show me? / Life seems so little to give." - Richard Manuel, "In A Station". Wonder, could you ever know me by hearing all my favorite songs of all-time? I was inspired to make this mix, back in October of '04 (so it's probably slightly inaccurate now), by seeing the CD-length selections of favorite-ever songs by such luminaries as Emmylou Harris, in a Starbucks i went to to relax after a songwriting class in which my assignment was to analyze the structure of my three favorite songs. I didn't know what my three favorite songs were, of course, and so eventually it expanded into this 16-song selection here. 16 songs, because that's the length of all the compilation albums in this Starbucks series; probably a seventeenth song could fit without much of a problem. i've limited it to one song per artist, and i've also tried to reach back to prior, younger incarnations of myself: thus we have the musical theater songs (tracks 2, 6 and 13) and a classical song (track 10) that was one of my favorites when i helped sing it in ninth-grade chorus, eight and a half years ago, in addition to the rock, folk and pop stuff you're more likely to see me promulgating now. Two of these tracks, "Fear" and "As I Lay Me Down", I first heard as musical accompaniment to my schoolmates' proud choreography lo these many years ago, both of the female persuasion, naturally; can i help it they've stayed stuck in that special place all these years? (Nota Bene: Sophie B. Hawkins is my hero. at least, my female singer/songwriter hero. don't anybody knock her, now.)

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