I considered all kinda different tracks, and as that pool began to exceed four hours I realized that there was a core of several "must include" tracks, and that this core was of a certain...  a certain subset of mostly western pop music.

One might call the subset "guitar pop", maybe contaminated with spill from the ever-damning "singer-songwriter" bucket with a dash of "electronica allspice".  This core was enough of a kind that an attempt to place certain other tracks proved awkward to the continuity of the set.

So in rounding out the collection, I stayed mostly with the feeling of the core.  The result shows my fondness for pop-rock, songwriterdom, and those nemeses both Hippy and Drippy.  A penchant for repetition.  My next round, if there is one, will need to grab from funk, mexico, the balkans and zimbabwe, country _and_ western, not to mention western soul.  It'll be hackneyed as damn.

But that's for later.

Random notes:

The recording by Lush I heard twice on the radio on the drive home from work, two days in a row, and never heard it again. I spent three or four years tracking it down.  (support track on a CD single, turns out) It was the crazy calliope bridges wot snagged me good.   There was another track once that sent me on a similarly long-term hunt.  It was "Here She Comes" by Motorcycle Boy and proved even more elusive: I've never found a hard copy of it in any format.  I did finally track it down as an .mp3.  I felt like the uber trophy hunter, after so many years.  It's not on this collection.

The Bangles and The Three O'Clock were part of "The Paisley Underground" scene in Los Angeles in about 1980+.  One of those bands went on to be pretty big, and it wasn't the Three O'Clock.  Susannah Hoffs of the Bangles co-wrote "BBC" with Matthew Sweet and Mike Myers for _Ming Tea_, a great track for a strictly Austin Powers ensemble. (but that's not on this collection)

Noe Venable is a local gal, relatively speaking. Straight outta Stockton, iirc.

In my search to find more than two albums by The Sugarplastic, I found that they recorded a track for The Powerpuff Girls CD album. =D (but it's not this one)

Self's "Lucid Anne" is also known around the grok house as "Blue Sedan".

Mark Lanegan's pretty recording of "Badi-Da" is the only cover on here that I know of. The author of the original was Fred Neil.  I've never heard the original.  Mark Lanegan used to sing for The Screaming Trees in the early nineties.

Gods all save The Cardigans: I hope they come back.  [ Edit 2/19/2003: They're coming back! http://www.cardigans.net]

-Pogo

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