Challenge #1: Till The Heart Caves In (Marc's Entry)

1. Trust-Billy Bragg. Have never been able to figure out if this is sung from a girls or boys POV. Rape is never upbeat. 
   
2. I Love You, Creedence-Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. Song for the hipster lonely. 
   
3. Damage-David Sylvian. "I only want to be in love"
   
4. $35-The Aluminum Group. What makes this one sad is it is a true story. Listen to the lyrics and I'll tell you the story relayed to me offline. 
   
5. Medicine Bottle-Red House Painters. "I drank so much tea I wrote my letter in Kanji"
   
6. Mexican Wrestler-Jill Sobule. Guess you can't force love. 
   
7. Il Adore-Boy George. This placement was a toss up between this and Culture Club's Less Than Perfect. Still not 100% on my choice. 
   
8. Scorn Not His Simplicity-Sinead O'Connor
   
9. Marie-Townes Van Zandt. Homeless people and miscarriages. Fun. 
   
10. Till The Heart Caves In-kd lang. Lost unrecorded Roy Orbison tune. 
    
11. Half-Life Duncan Sheik. Always thought this was a song about being in the closet. Take it as you see it. 
    
12. Your Next Lover-Lori McKenna. and it goes a bit rootsy, sorry. 
    
13. Would You Still Have Fallen-Holly Williams. Got me through my dad's death. 
    
14. New Favorite (Edit)-Alison Krauss
    
15. Come Pick Me Up Ryan Adams. The last 2 are more angry than sad. And he says Fuck. 
    
16. Why Don't You See Me?-Concrete Blonde. My default breakup/unrequited love song. 
    

Bonus Track: Make It Easy On Yourself-Jerry Butler. Before my second attempt at uploading I realized I have 3 minutes of space left so stuck this on. I remember a break up in 98 where I went out to Hunters for a rebound the next day. As my friend Paul drove my drunk ass home, i turned this up on the car radio and screamed this out the window till I cried. 

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Challenge #1 - Into The Mist (Jeff's Entry)

I feel exposed by this project, but I guess that's the point. Each of the songs is an anchor to an event or episode in my past, which makes this collection exceptionally personal, yet in all likelihood difficult to relate to without ad nauseum liner notes. It was interesting to search the recesses of my past in search of these - and even more surprising how listening to them brought back feelings I thought had faded away....

I hope you enjoy, and I seriously can't wait to listen to yours. Oh yeah, special thanx to Colin for motivating me with this challenge, and for hosting my mix so that I could post it to the blog.

Jeff

A Thousand Years -- Sting
Julia -- The Beatles
Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from "Top Gun") -- Berlin
We Belong -- Pat Benatar
Human -- The Pretenders

Time and Tide -- Basia
At Last -- Etta James
I Know The Truth (Aida Act 2 Original Cast) -- Sherie René Scott
The Wings -- Gustavo Santaolalla
Big Log -- Robert Plant
Streets of Philadelphia (From "Philadelphia") -- Bruce Springsteen
How Soon Is Now? -- The Smiths
Rough Boy -- ZZ Top
Surround Me With Your Love (Mental Overdrive Remix) -- 3-11 Porter
Blue -- LeAnn Rimes
Come What May -- Nicole Kidman & Ewin McGregor
Witness -- Sarah McLachlan

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Challenge #1 - Left Alone (Colin's Entry)

Tough to do one that speaks to more people than you just you on this one since most of the songs I flagged as "ache" are so intertwined with personal stories... But I think these do a good job of spanning a lot of themes and hopefully get those deep emotions -- the ones you only access when drunk or a really good song comes on -- will get dredged up.

Track Listing:
1 Lonely Soul Unkle
2 Back to the Lake Guided By Voices
3 Cinema Air Gloria Record
4 The Sulphur Man Doves
5 Inside of Love Nada Surf
6 Leave Me Alone Trash Can Sinatras
7 Wonderwall Ryan Adams
8 Philadelphia Neil Young
9 Fake Plastic Trees Radiohead
10 Switching Off Elbow
11 Somebody Depeche Mode
12 The Luckiest Ben Folds
13 Your Hand In Mine (Goodbye) Explosions In The Sky
14 Miss you (lulu rouge feat asger baden remix) Trentemøller
15 Clementina Xymox
16 Adagio For Strings Samuel Barber

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Challenge #1 - Songs that Make Your Heart Ache

Due: Saturday April 25th.

The Rules

Short and Sweet.

1) Keep mixes under 80 minutes.
2) Upload album in zip / RAR format. Individual tracks should be in either mp3 or AAC form.
3) Must make album art
4) Any mixes should be turned in on "due" date.
5) Don't use same track twice. If used on any compilation, its retired.