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The American't Dream - Hobey Echlin
There's more than nostalgia resonating when I hear music from 10 and 20 years ago - it's a strange familiarity. What Freud called the uncanny and what I call sort of wisfully awesome. These are songs from the last two depressions that have an energy at once enduring and maybe a little gauzy and hollow at times, but they are also songs that to me suggest, apart from their immediate awesomeness, a guilty pleasure that sounds kind of right right now. A little shoegazing as a result of frustrated soul-searching, as it were. I had been kind of dreading making a mix because it just seemed so irrelevant with a president of hope and change having such a hard time making any meaningful change, arguably just because his efforts really spoke to how big and endemic the problems we face as a country, as a culture, as families, as people, really are. There is a desperation to hope that acknowledges how sorely needed it is, and I hope in this hope you can hear some of that soreness. And not just because my iTunes EQ was flat for most of it.

Ronald Reagan - Inaugural Address
Ride - Leave Them All Behind
Verve (before the 'The') - Slide Away
The Cure - A Screw
The Beatles - It's All Too Much
Richard Pryor - Cocaine
Billy Joel - Big Shot
Radiohead - The National Anthem
Crazy Girl - Kick Yo' Booty
Hush - Poetic Justice
Outkast - Elevators (Me& You)