Back to the Beach Where Your Clothes Were Stolen

I made you a mixtape on the internets:

1. A Solid Bond In Your Heart -- The Jam (Extras, 1992)
   I am fueled by the idea that this world was made to share, but it never seems to work out...


2. Smells Like Teen Spirit -- Paul Anka ( Rock Swings, 2005)
   I'm worst at what I do best.


3. My Rights Versus Yours -- The New Pornographers (Challengers, 2007)
   The new empire in rags! The truth in one free afternoon!


4. The Trouble with River Cities -- Pela (Anytown Graffiti, 2007)
   Float like a sparrow, T-top Camaro...


5. The Other Side of Summer -- Elvis Costello (Mighty Like a Rose, 1991)
   From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf to the burning forests in the hills of Astroturf.


6. Wouldn't It Be Nice? -- The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds, 1966)
   We could be married and then we'd be happy!
   
7. Pulling Mussels from the Shell -- Squeeze (Argybargy, 1980)
   Squiniting faces at the sky. A Harold Robbins paperback.
   
8. John Saw That Number -- Neko Case (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, 2006)
   His meat was locust and honey: wild honey, lord, wild honey.


9. Valium Waltz -- The Old 97's (Drag It Up, 2004)
   You’re scoring her shipwrecks with fiddles and dobros.


10. A Thousand Tiny Pieces -- The Be Good Tanyas (Hello Love, 2006)
    Let’s play this one out until it explodes.


11. Every Day Is Like Sunday -- Morrissey (Bona Drag, 1990)
    Trudging back over pebbles and sand...


12. Shouting Street -- Joe Strummer (Earthquake Weather, 1989)
    Say you found it in the garbage, say you got it out on Shouting Street, say you got it from Jim Jarmusch.


13. Unisex Chipshop -- Bill Bailey (?)
    "Do you want salt and vinegar?" was what they made her say, but in the language of the ghetto that means "Help, I'm a woman in chains."


14. Baby Faroukh -- Billy Bragg (England, Half-English, 2002)
    Walking, walking all on his own, Baby Farouk draws near.


15. Minuit -- Ernest Ranglin with Baaba Maal (In Search of Lost Riddim, 1998)
    "Like bathing in the cool water of a fragnant ocean," as Joe Strummer described this song.


16. Waterloo Sunset -- The Kinks (accoustic bootleg recording, unknown date)
    As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise.

What are you listening to this summer?