Artist	Song
Mazarin	I Should Be Sleeping
The Apples in Stereo	Touch the Water
Lilys	Elsa
Swamp Dogg	Synthetic World
Wire	Outdoor Miner [Long Version]
Yo La Tengo	The Cone of Silence
A Band of Bees	Chicken Payback
Supergrass	Alright
The Radio Dept.	Where Damage Isn't Already Done
Radiohead	Fog
The Beach Boys	Surf's Up
Belle and Sebastian	We Rule the School
The Meters	Funky Miracle
R.E.M.	Sponge
My Bloody Valentine	Strawberry Wine
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Plastic Factory
The Flaming Lips	1,000-Foot Hands [Early Mix]
The Wedding Present	Once More
Dominique Leone	Conversational
Lazy Smoke	How Did You Die?

Comment:

This started (and mostly remained) a mix of some fun and enjoyable rock stuff that was on my laptop and had been unloved by past mix projects. The title and cover are a play on a beloved tune by Belle and Sebastian, a band included here. Allow me, however, a slight detour to mention the weirdness of taking 20 mp3s in late August and throwing them into a folder 'cos they sound good... only to revisit them in early September and find the persistent themes of death, sleep, urban decay, and, erm, water a little distracting. I mean I'm not gonna wax superstitious or nothin'. This applies more vaguely to some songs than others -- and to be truthful, most of them not at all. But it's a little eerie to try and escape from the death and destruction on one's mind (and on one's television) by turning to Swamp Dogg's story of a man "up from the bayou" decrying the ills of the modern city; the Beach Boys' mournful reading of lines like "Columnated ruins domino" and "Surf's up, aboard a tidal wave"; and, damn, all of "Sponge" (http://www.remrock.net/remrock/lyrics/others.html?song=sponge). And listen to Thom Yorke murmuring, "baby alligators in the sewers grow up fast"; in this context, an extra layer of disquiet blankets an already spooky moment. But anyway, enough of that. Just wanted to tell a skewed story. Mostly this is just another one of those "listen to these cool tracks I like" discs. Enjoy.

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