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+title: "Blast off... / Decidedly more calm"
+description: 
+date: 2025-01-30
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+categories:
+    - Mix Tapes
+---
+
+![](liner.jpg)
+
+## Side A
+- Impressed - Charlie Sexton
+- Turning Japanese - Vapors
+- To Be A Lover - Billy Idol
+- Shake Your Hips - Rolling Stones
+- Graceland - Paul Simon
+- Crumblin' Down - J. Mellencamp
+- Real Wild Child - Iggy Pop
+- Tear It Up - The Cramps
+- Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
+- So Long - Blasters
+- Love Struck Baby - Stevie Ray Vaughn
+- Let's Go Go Go - George Thorogood
+
+## Side B
+- Spanish Eyes - Van Morrison
+- Bird on a Wire - Jennifer Warnes
+- The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby
+- Sweetest Taboo - Sade
+- Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac
+- Blue Velvet - Tony Bennett
+- Where Did Our Love Go - Soft Cell
+- Send Me Some Loving - Chuck Price
+- To Know Him - Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt
+- Sailfish Evening - Ry Cooder
+- Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders
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+Listening to Marvin Gaye sing the National Anthem this evening --
+the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and, perversely, also the
+inauguration of President Trump's second term -- I cannot help but
+mourn America's lost potential.  It seemed we were so close -- at
+least I believed so, in the naivety of my youth.
+
 ## Side A
 - The Road to Hell - Chris Rea
 - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Edie Brikell