Sarah's Sufferin' Succotash
A Tasty Mix for the 2010 NEDoD CD Swap

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Sarah probably won't get around to writing up notes, but she said I (Dave) could do a few for her. I've got three anecdotes to share.

The very first mix CD she ever made for me, A Taste of Sarah, included "Melting" on it. When we were making our mixes for the swap I figured it was obvious that she would include Tristan, but initially her reaction was much like a motorcyclist who has found a great but obscure road — she wanted to keep it a secret just for herself. It made me feel twice as special that she had put it on the first CD for me, and I'm glad she finally decided to share Tristan with the rest of you.

When we sat down to watch the movie Once, we hadn't even made it to the end of the first scene before she was ready to eject the DVD and pass on the whole film because she expected it was going to be yet another Irish movie with a bunch of blokes speaking in unintelligble brogues the whole way through. Fortunately she gave it enough of a chance to watch a little more and ended up loving it. We bought the soundtrack immediately after finishing the movie.

As I mentioned in the notes for Tale's Spin, you can fill a CD with tracks titled "Jump". Making that gimmick CD was how I first found James McKenna, and now Sarah is introducing him to you. He's a New Englander who served on the USS Enterprise before attending UMass Boston for his music degree.

Sarah's goal with her mix was to provide a little more estrogen balance to a swap that was over 85% male. She also likes heavy rock/metal and hip-hop quite a bit but figured most of the guys already knew most of those bands, although she did include Seether and Wyclef Jean "because they're just great songs". She hopes that if you don't particularly dig her mix then maybe your wives and girlfriends will.

	Song	Artist	Album	Genre	Time
1	Feel This	Bethany Joy Galeotti feat. Enation	Single	Rock	3:51
2	Fast Car	Wyclef Jean feat. Paul Simon	Carnival, Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant	Hip-Hop/Rap	4:04
3	Wasted	Low vs Diamond	Low vs Diamond	Alternative	3:52
4	I'm Not Okay (I Promise)	My Chemical Romance	Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge	Alternative	3:11
5	Fake It	Seether	Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces	Alternative	3:14
6	Letters from the Sky	Civil Twilight	Civil Twilight	Alternative	4:35
7	Trees	Marty Casey & Lovehammers	Marty Casey & Lovehammers	Rock	3:35
8	Plastic Flowers	The Cheese	CMJ (Vol 40)	Rock	3:58
9	Jump	James McKenna	Seven Cigarettes	Pop	3:08
10	Sweet About Me	Gabriella Cilmi	Lessons to be Learned	Pop	3:22
11	Steer	Missy Higgins	On a Clear Night	Pop	3:50
12	How Lucky We Are	Meiko	Meiko	Singer/Songwriter	2:57
13	Lost	Anouk	Single	Pop	3:45
14	Melting	Tristan Prettyman	t w e n t y t h r e e	Singer/Songwriter	3:40
15	Falling Slowly	Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova	Once	Soundtrack	4:04
16	Oh Boy	Duffy	Rockferry	Pop	2:31
17	One and Only	Teitur	Poetry & Aeroplanes	Rock	2:52
18	Everything	Material Issue	Destination Universe	Pop	3:52
19	Comes and Goes (In Waves)	Greg Laswell	Three Flights from Alto Nido	Rock	4:14
20	Existentialism On Prom Night	Straylight Run	Straylight Run	Alternative	4:04
21	Busy Bee	Ugly Kid Joe	America's Least Wanted	Rock	4:11

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