Mix Tape #3: Sinking
Genre: Melancholy Pom/Sooky LaLa/Twisted Tenderness
Date: July 2002
Compiled in the middle of Year 12, this mix tape documents the melancholy of a doting lyricist with a fondness for the unattainable. The tape explores the themes of sadness, unrequited love and futility. Yet the most beautiful aspect of these songs is the painful sense of hope. There is such warmth when Bernard Sumner insists that good times are around the corner, such reassurance when the very ill Freddie Mercury advises when the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are. Such a sense of relief when Andy Bell declares that he's never going home. However, the beauty and poetics of my description is nothing compared to the mix tape itself so I suggest you download it immediately.
Playlist for Mix Tape #3: Sinking
Side 1
1. The Cure - Sinking (1985)
2. Radiohead - High & Dry (1995)
3. Blur - Clover Over Dover (1993)
4. The Beatles - For No One (1966)
5. Queen - Don't Try So Hard (1991)
6. Coldplay - Trouble (1999)
7. Depeche Mode - Only When I Lose Myself (1998)
8. George Michael - Spinning the Wheel (1996)
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Side 2
1. Suzanne Vega - Left of Centre (1986)
2. New Order - Run Wild (2001)
3. Joy Division - Shadowplay (1979)
4. Erasure - Home (1991)
5. The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (1984)
6. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye (live) (1995)
7. Muse - Unintended (1999)
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