Variation Three of A Prelude to Interpol's Our Love To Admire: Waving, Not Drowning (the final installment, see Tuesday's post for the (cranky) introduction).

[There's a poem, by Stevie Smith, about a man, far from shore -- the spectators on the beach think he's waving, when he is in fact drowning: 'I was much too far out all my life/And not waving but drowning.' What's presented here means to convey the inverse of that melancholy statement. ]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -- (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World
from The Soundtrack to Until The End Of The World

Hank Williams Sr. -- They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
from American Legends: Best Of The Early Years

Calexico -- The Black Light
from The Black Light

Johnny Cash -- Cry, Cry, Cry
from American Music Legends: Johnny Cash

The Beach Boys -- Sloop John B
from Pet Sounds

Sarah Vaughan -- What'll I Do
from Benny Carter Sessions: The Lonely Hours

Laura Nyro -- New York Tendaberry
from New York Tendaberry

Sugar -- A Good Idea
from Copper Blue

Cursive -- The Night I Lost The Will To Fight
from Domestica

New Order -- Regret
from Republic

The Hope Blister -- Hanky panky nohow
from Smile's Ok

Big Star -- Nighttime
from Sister Lovers/The Third Album

This Mortal Coil -- I Am The Cosmos
from Blood

Roxy Music -- Avalon
from Avalon


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