A playlist for a beautiful green-eyed L-Girl in the Birmingham hills, here in summer of the Year Nine...

Holly Beth Vincent, 'Crush'

Tindersticks, 'Rented Rooms'

Doors, 'Roadhouse Blues'

Vitalic, 'Trahison'

Nico, 'These Days'

Cowboy Junkies, 'Sweet Jane'

Leonard Cohen, 'Alexandra Leaving'

Autour de Lucie, 'Sans commentaire'

Slowdive, 'Some Velvet Morning'

Fela Kuti, 'Water No Get Enemy'

She Wants Revenge, 'Sister'

Joy Division, 'Transmission'

Sleepthief f/ Jerri Eckert, 'The Metro'

Sleepthief, 'The Chauffeur'

Duran Duran, 'Ordinary World'

David Byrne & Brian Eno, 'Regiment'

Adele, 'Daydreamer'

Ultravox, 'Dancing With Tears In My Eyes'

Phoenix, 'Rome'

Not quite the list I left for my lovely co-ed at LastFM, but one I do want to hear play while Laura and I walk through her campus late at night or kiss on an overlook at Red Mountain while the Perseid shower streaks through the night overhead. And certainly one she'll have playing on her iPod while we sit on my favourite park bench, just above the Met, there on a New York autumn day.