Tuesday's Rotation, Back from Vacation

The following rotation came from a friend of mine with outstanding musical taste. ENJOY!:

Apparently, I'm in the mood to listen to the bands that would have been in heavy rotation had I had a college radio show in the 90's. Granted, there would have also been a lot of the Cure/Depeche Mode/the Smiths/Morrissey/Joy Division/New Order and the Trash Can Sinatras. But rather than go that obvious, here are 5 other songs that I would have played:

1) "Be My Light, Be My Guide" - Gene: it was a bonus track on the US edition of "Olympian", and probably my favorite song on the album.

2) "If I Can't Change Your Mind" - Sugar (on "Besides"): I can't tell you the number of times I listened to this after telling some guy how I felt about him and getting turned down.

3) "Our Story" - The JudyBats (from the album "Down in the Shacks Where the Satellite Dishes Grow"): late 80's/early 90's alt-rock band from Tennessee, they were definitely a college radio station kind of band. It was hard for me to pick just 1 song by them - I still listen to all their albums. But I went with this, because there are few things that say boarding school/liberal arts college chick teen-angst than "I want you, but I really want to leave you too."

4) "Soul and Fire" - Sebadoh (from "Bubble & Scrape"): Sad. The end of a relationship. The lead singer, Lou Barlow, put out an album called "Emoh" a couple years ago - I recommend that as well.

5) "I Can't Escape from You" - The The (from "Hanky Panky"): a whole cover album of Hank Williams songs. So good. I love Matt Johnson's vocals.

Two honorable mentions:

a) also check out "Down in the Shacks Where the Satellite Dishes Grow" by the JudyBats- one of my all time favorite song lines: "I'm sorry but when I left you, you were an asshole, on those cold nights when you were out there, running 'round with your drunk friends"

b) "True Happiness This Way Lies..." on Dusk by The The: The intro is too true, but spoken, so I left that song off. Still, who hasn't felt like this? "Have you ever wanted something so badly that it possessed your body and your soul through the night and through the day until you finally get it? And then you realize that it wasn't what you wanted after all. And then those self-same, sickly little thoughts now go and attach themselves to something, or somebody, new. And the whole goddamn thing starts all over again."

Damn - now I'm all nostalgic. I want to go and dig out some mix cassette tapes from boarding school and college...