ECLECTICA #18: At Night, The Ice Weasels Come
compiled August 1999 by Paul Estin
http://home.intranet.org/~estin/cd/

I put together this mix by starting with various eclectic songs about love and 
relationships, and then adding a few more favorites to the collection.  Oddly 
enough, most of them are about dysfunctional ties, inappropriate mates, and all-
around unhappy situations.  I don’t know if that represents my state of mind, what 
I happen to have in my CD collection, or the fact that it’s easier to make a good 
eclectic song about a negative relationship!

The rough order of the tracks is to start with relatively happy “meeting” situations 
[1-3], go on to some odd significant others [4-5] and weird sorts of relationships 
[6-12], a section about breakups and aftermath [13-20, including a lot by Weird 
Al], some more “types” of lovers [21-22], and finally a particular relationship as 
sung by Andy Breckman.

A few of these songs have been favorites of mine for a long time, especially 
“Agony” from “Into the Woods,” “Emotional Rollercoaster” (chosen as a “theme 
song” by a couple I used to know in Chicago), and two favorite tunes by Marshall 
Crenshaw which aren’t funny per se but have a tongue-in-cheek quality I like a lot.  
Also, there’s Christine Lavin’s “Sensitive New Age Guys”—and yes, I once did 
indeed get up on stage with her to be a SNAG myself. :-)

Some relationship songs from previous Eclectica mixes:

01-09 (I’ll Love You) Till The End Of The World (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
01-11 Barbie Girl (Aqua)
02-09 Little Skipper (Mel Cooleys)
02-13 Doris & Edwin: The Movie (Christine Lavin)
03-13 Hello, I Love You (The Cure)
04-15 If I Fell (The Beatles)
05-14 When I Go Out With Artists (Crash Test Dummies)
05-17 Frozen Puck To The Head (Captain Tractor)
05-18 Gotohell (Captain Tractor)
06-05 Shopping Cart Of Love: The Play (Christine Lavin)
07-01 My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors (Moxy Früvous)
07-07 Guggenheim Love (Ookla The Mok)
07-18 Tokyo Love Song (The Arrogant Worms)
08-14 Every Day I Write The Book (Elvis Costello)
08-17 Tone Deaf (John Forster)
11-10 Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah! (Violent Femmes)
12-10 Addicted To Love (Ciccone Youth)
12-22 Can’t Help Falling In love (Bono)
13-06 Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind (Christine Lavin)
13-07 I Wish I Couldn’t Read Her Mind (Tom Smith)
16-97 Wild Honey Pie (The Beatles)

About the cover:  The snowmobile photo comes from a World Wide Web page 
devoted to snowmobiles of a particular manufacturer.  The quote comes from the 
“Life In Hell” comic strip by Matt Groening, who also created the TV programs 
“The Simpsons” and “Futurama.”  According to the strip, the quote is actually 
attributed to Nietsczhe.  Uh, yeah.