"They tell us "autumn's a-comin', and soon everything around us will die..." (The Flaming Lips)

My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion, The Flaming Lips



For Josh.

"How bad, how good does it need to get?"



Change, Tracy Chapman

For IF.

"If you knew that you would die today, saw the face of love and God, would you change?" (Tracy Chapman)

"How bad, how good does it need to get?"



Change, Tracy Chapman

For IF.

"Punks in the beerlight, two burnouts in love." (Silver Jews)

"Ain't you heard the news?
Adam and Eve were jews."



Punks In The Beerlight, Silver Jews

For Karl.

Diventa Blu (Arizona)

Diventa Blu, Arizona (LISTEN)

For IGIF.

"I like you mostly late at night" (Life Without Buildings)

Super Shine (Boredoms)

My shine
My shine




His shine
His shine

Super Shine, Boredoms (LISTEN)

For Mark.

"What a drag it is, the shape I'm in" (Razorlight)

"I'm not happy when I try to fake it." (Lionel Richie/Faith No More)

Easy, Lionel Richie/Faith No More



For Rebekah

"You're on the bottom." (Bob Dylan)

Idiot Wind, Bob Dylan
Listen

For Andrew.

"Nothing's gonna change this painted frown." (The Magnetic Fields)

"Nobody wants you
When you're a circus clown.
I should know
I looked all over town."

I Looked All Over Town, Magnetic Fields.



For Ken.

"People say she looks like a cow. Let them laugh, you're a real cowboy." (Jocari)

"Love is an animal of the farm,
If you don't fear it.
If you feed it,
Love will do you no harm."



Love Is An Animal of The Farm, Jocari

For Fabien and IF.

"Can you treat it like an oil-well when it's underground, out of sight?" (Pavement)

"And if the sight is just a whore sign
Can it make enough sense to me? "

In The Mouth A Desert, Pavement



"Hard to choose from all the riches of the Slanted and Enchanted album. Am a massive believer in all of it though. I believe in a voice that squeaks for a generation of fragile and pissed-off flaneurs. I believe in cheap, scuzzy, squiggly guitars zipping around like pollocky streaks of strop. I believe in false starts (cf. 'Loretta's Scars'). I believe in the falsetto gibberish of a melodic bonbon: all those lovely woo-woo-woos ('In The Mouth A Desert') and sha-la-la-las ('Trigger Cut'). I believe in snazzy tunes that grow on you after the third (or fourth, or fifth) listen. But I also believe in a certain amount of deranged howling (cf. 'Conduit For Sale', and the neurotic 'Chesley's Little Wrists'). I believe in titles that have (seemingly) nothing to do with the songs they're appended to. I believe in dippy, fleshwound lyrics that make more sense than senescence. I believe in the lackadaisical (at least as an idea). I believe in the effortless, induplicate coil of fiddle-faddle. I believe in drummers who are more interested in standing on their heads and serving french toast to their fans than snapping their snares (cf. Gary Young). I believe in combining West Coast serenity with East Coast sarcasm: 'I'm the only one who laughs/At your jokes when they are so bad/And your jokes are always bad...' I believe in the soul as part of the whole megillah, off the cuff, but swift as a kissing bug: 'I've got one-only life to live/I've got one-only life to give.' I believe in beginnings that that are also endings and vice-versa ('Everything's ending here', sings Malkmus on the ninth track, when in fact, if rumours are to be believed, three albums later, everything's ending here. Wherever that is. ) I believe in cool Italians. Not cool as in de rigueur Rigid-Cool (all Armani shades and slicked back pubes), but cool as in Claudio Galuzzi Cool, my first Musical Guru, who in 1992 who sold me this album from his little shop in Casalpusterlengo saying it would 'shake my cack, kedgeree constellations' (you lose something in translation). And it did. It made me a believer. Believe me."

For Steve (29 and 3/4 years old).

"Come on over baby and I'll make you obscene." (AC/DC)

"I feel safe in New York city,





I feel safe in New York city,













I feel safe in New York city.











Throw away the key."

I Feel Safe In New York City, AC/DC



For IF

Pull Peep (Mortimaz)

Pull Peep, Mortimaz

For Andrew.

"Never for money, always for love." (Talking Heads)

"Home is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me round
I feel numb - burn with a weak heart
So I guess I must be having fun."

This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody), Talking Heads



Suggested by Jonathan (go see his play, it's brilliant!)

"This is the end of the summer." (The Young Knives)

"Hot summer, what a bummer
Me oh my, think I’m going to,
Pull a sicky, do a runner."

Weekends and Bleak Days (LISTEN) The Young Knives

For Jim

Collided with the sign, you're staring at the sun (TV On The Radio)

"There is no such thing as normal." (Morrissey)

The Youngest Was The Most Loved, Morrissey



For Susan.

It really doesn't matter how fast you pedal. You ain't going anywhere.

Almost (Tracy Chapman)

"Almost got what I want
Almost found what I lost
Almost saved you and myself
Almost won but it doesn't count
And never does
Never does
Never does
Never does."



Almost, Tracy Chapman

For Michelle.

"Do you realize, that everyone you know someday will die." (The Flaming Lips)

Do You Realize, The Flaming Lips



For Glen.

Up All Night (Razorlight)

For Juliet.

"Shut me up." (The Strokes)

You Only Live Once, The Strokes



For Gerry.

"I don't want to be old and sleep alone." (Keane)

I need a place
That's hidden in the deep
Where lonely angels sing you to your sleep
Though all the world is broken."

Atlantic, Keane

Five minutes

"Free to be sure of what I am and who I need to be." (Stevie Wonder)

Free, Stevie Wonder

I Want To Live (Talking Heads)

"I want to live,
to feel a face that isn't there
I want to live
I roll over and you're not there."



I Want To Live, Talking Heads

"Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be." (Nirvana)

Come As You Are, Nirvana

"I have been terrified, by the thought of losing you." (The Dears)

I
Have
Been terrified
By the thought of losing you
So very terrified
By the thought of losing you
Stop telling me
I don't want to know
Stop telling me because I just don't ever
Want to know
No no no
No no no
No no no
No no no

Pinned Together, Falling Apart, The Dears