songs for an existential crisis

For a 90 minute tape.

side a.
 helpless

01. The Sound - “I Can’t Escape Myself” (Jeopardy)
02. Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal (Scott 4)
03. Townes Van Zandt - “Waiting Around To Die” (Townes Van Zandt)
04. Echo and the Bunnymen - “The Disease” (Heaven Up Here)
05. Modest Mouse - “Make Everyone Happy Mechanical” (This Is A Long Drive…)
06. Karate - “Die Die” (In Place of Real Insight)
07. Low - “Always Fade” (Drums And Guns)
08. Women - “Untogether” (Public Strain)
09. Broadcast - “Dead the Long Year” (The Noise Made By People)
10. Songs: Ohia - “At Certain Hours It All Breaks Down” (Ghost Tropic)
11. Spacemen 3 - “Lord Can You Hear Me?” (Playing With Fire)

side b.
hope more or less

01. Brian Eno & David Byrne - “Help Me Somebody” (My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts)
02. The Replacements - “Hold My Life” (Tim)
03. The Wipers - “Now Is The Time” (Over The Edge)
04. Fugazi - “Bad Mouth” (13 Songs)
05. Josef K - “Crazy To Exist” (Entomology)
06. Mount Eerie - “What I Actually Am” (No Flashlight)
07. Daniel Higgs - “Fearfully And Wonderfully” (Love Is Love)
08. The Olivia Tremor Control - “No Growing (Exegesis)” (Dusk at Cubist Castle)
09. Leonard Cohen - “There Is A War” (New Skin For The Old Ceremony)
10. Defiance, Ohio - “Anxious And Worrying (The Fear, The Fear, The Fear)
11. Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - “Fly Into The Mystery” (Rock ‘N’ Roll With The Modern Lovers)
12. Typhoon - “The Honest Truth” (A New Kind Of House EP)
13. Arthur Russell - “Being It” (World of Echo)

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