Side A
Artist	Song
Camper Van Beethoven	Take The Skinheads Bowling
Le Tigre	My My Metrocard
Rolling Stones	Ruby Tuesday
Morrissey	I Like You
Sugar	If I Can't Change Your Mind
The Shins	Saint Simon
Hot Water Music	Trusty Chords
Nada Surf	Blizzard of '77
Alkaline Trio	Mercy Me
The Snorks	Theme of the Snorks
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Jawbreaker	Fireman
Against Me!	Baby, I'm An Anarchist!
The Cure	Cut Here
The Get Up Kids	The Worst Idea
The Smoking Popes	I Was Right
The Psychedelic Furs	Run and Run
Wilco	Jesus, Etc.
CommuniquT	Ugly Moon

Comment:

This was my first mixtape of the year. I made it for this girl that I really, really like, inspired by Thurston Moore's book "The Art of the Mix", where curiously enough, I found about this site.
Side A, dubbed "The Concept Tape" contains a narrative arc where I selected the songs that either reminded me of her or where I wanted to get some sort of message across. The first track is the first tune I remember hearing on her radio show. When I met her, she was carrying a Le Tigre tote bag. We both love the "Royal Tenenbaums", so I chose my second favorite song on that movie (Elliott Smith's "Needle in the Hay" may have been too dark for this compilation). Track four is pretty much self explanatory.
Side B is more about songs that I really like that I wanted to share with her. Can't call it didactic though, considering that she knew most of the bands in it (She's THAT cool!).
The cover art was nber-photographer (and great friend) Chrissy Piper's snapshot of a barb wire fence.

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