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Need advice for Bon Voyage mix

04:33 / 12.01.02

Okay.
Exboyfriend/friend has officially been accepted to the University of Edinburgh next fall(See dual threads in Conversation if you don't believe me.) and is going to China this summer.

I'm going to miss him much, so I'm trying to start a mix CD based on "I'm going to miss you, Bon Voyage and all that stuff" music.

He doesn't leave for China until June, so I have six months, but I'm hoping the 'Lithers will be able to help me out. Please? I need all the song suggestions I can get.

uncle retrospective

05:06 / 12.01.02

Is this a bitter sweet thing?
The lover you should have come over jeff buckely

Deus, hotel lougne (be the death of me).

23:33 / 12.01.02

"Answering Machine"--The Replacements
"Lochinvar"--Rod Stewart
"Williing To Wait"--Sebadoh
"Thousands Are Sailing"--The Pogues
"I'll Miss You"--Ween
"American Wake"--Black 47
"Way Out West"--Big Star
"Silver Wings"--The Knitters
"Someone Who Cares"--The Only Ones

14:48 / 14.01.02

ON the other hand,

"You're gonna miss me" by the 13th Floor Elevators (the title music for High Fidelity movie)

"You're gonna miss me (when I'm dead and gone)" - a completely different song by George Thorogood - on an acoustic slide, unlike his traditional chainsaw guitar.

Back on the first hand,
"The Way That It Used To Be" by Bacon Ray.
It's available here as an mp3, and I think here in another format. Written about an SO gone to Europe.

And maybe "Waiting for a Girl" by me.

Of course, almost anything by the Magnetic Fields. I'm thinking "Jeremy" or "Summer Lies or "Dancing in Your Eyes" or maybe "When You Were My Baby" -- all off the Distant Plastic Trees/Wayward Bus CD.
(lyrics here.

Depending on your camp level, there's a great version of "Sealed With a Kiss" by Teisco Del Rey - a guitar instrumentalist. He got some French dude to speak the lyrics for a verse in the middle. ("So you wan' say goodbah, for duh summeh. Darrlen, I promise you dis. I will sen' you all mahy louhv, ever' day in a leddr... sealed wid uh kiss.")

Vera Lynn, "We'll Meet Again." There's a version on that "REAL pop" site I plugged in that other thread, under WWII music.

The Return Of Rothkoid

14:53 / 14.01.02

Tom Waits "Foreign Affair" - pretty good, but also has slightly negative tunes. But killer lyrics! But kinda bumming. Aw, feckit. Just put it on.

14:59 / 14.01.02

Ooo! Yeah - the song "Singapore" (the captain is a one-eyed dwarf, he's throwing dice along the wharf, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king - so take this ring) and the spoken word bit "Shore Leave" (I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank
and I'd left all my papers on the Ticonderoga
and was in a bad need of a shave
and so I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein
and shot billards with a midget
until the rain stopped
and I bought a long sleeved shirt
with horses on the front
and some gum and a lighter and a knife
and a new deck of cards (with girls on the back)
and I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife...

Regrettable Juvenilia

15:02 / 14.01.02

Hey, if you're going to have a Magnetic Fields track, surely it has to be 'All My Little Words'?

"Now that you've made me want to die
You tell me that you're unboyfriendable
And I could make you pay and pay
But I could never make you stay..."

Or is that kind of thing too close to the bone? You could possibly have 'Come Back From San Francisco' instead. Both of those are on the first CD of 69 Love Songs.