I struggled with this mix for quite a while, and probably have two other mixes of rejected tracks even though the final version clocks in at 2 CDs’ length. The hard bit is always mood. Summer is easy mixin’ weather; winter, especially this winter, was hard.
And a lot of this mix struggled with the challenge of a world turned upside down. So there are a few more instrumental tracks, a few more down tracks. But it starts in a place of fragile hope, with Lou Reed’s incredibly timely song of transsexual identity which is equal measures crisis and birth of the new, and ends in a place of defiance. And maybe that’s what we have left to ourselves right now.
- Candy Says (Closet Mix) – The Velvet Underground (Peel Slowly and See)
- Silver – Echo & The Bunnymen (Songs To Learn & Sing)
- Boys Keep Swinging – David Bowie (Lodger)
- Damaged Goods – Gang Of Four (Entertainment!)
- Devotion – Mission of Burma (Signals, Calls and Marches (Remastered))
- World Cup Drumming – Mclusky (My Pain and Sadness Is More Sad and Painful Than Yours)
- Electioneering – Radiohead (OK Computer)
- The Great Curve (live) – Talking Heads (Jaap Eden Hall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 11, 1980)
- Wish Fulfillment – Sonic Youth (Dirty)
- As I Went Out One Morning – Bob Dylan (John Wesley Harding)
- Time, As a Symptom – Joanna Newsom (Divers)
- Morning Lake – Weather Report (Weather Report)
- Sense Of Doubt – David Bowie (Heroes)
- What Will You Say (feat. Alim Qasimov) – Jeff Buckley featuring Alim Qasimov (Live at L’Olympia)
- This Room – The Notwist (Neon Golden)
- Politician Man – Betty Davis (The Columbia Years 1968-1969)
- For What It’s Worth – Talk Talk (The Very Best Of)
- Above Chiangmai – Brian Eno (Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror)
- Magpie to the Morning – Neko Case (Middle Cyclone (Bonus Track Version))
- State Trooper – Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska)
- Daphnia – Yo La Tengo (I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass)
- The Sky Is Broken – Moby (Play)
- Here Come the Warm Jets (2004 – Remaster) – Brian Eno (Here Come The Warm Jets)
- Give Me Cornbread When I’m Hungry – John Fahey (The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites)
- After Awhile – Swan Silvertones (Love Lifted Me / My Rock)
- The Last Broken Heart (Prop 8) – Christian Scott (Yesterday You Said Tomorrow)
- Mystic Brew – Vijay Iyer Trio (Historicity)
- Why Was I Born? – Kenny Burrell And John Coltrane (Kenny Burrell With John Coltrane)
- Meeting in the Aisle – Radiohead (Airbag/How Am I Driving?)
- The Last Ray – This Mortal Coil (It’ll End in Tears)
- Cedars of Lebanon – U2 (No Line On the Horizon (Deluxe Edition))
- We Float – PJ Harvey (Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea)
- No Headstone On My Grave – Esther Phillips (Oxford American 2003 Southern Music CD No. 6)