Fond Relations Mouthing Words of Love and Tragedy

Today’s first fifteen…

1. “New York” by U2

2. “Enemies Foreign and Domestic” (Episode 62 of ‘The West Wing’)

3. “Peg and Awl” by The Carolina Tar Heels

4. The unmistakable “How Stupid Mr. Bates” by The Police

5. Chuck Jackson proving how square Burt Bacharach can be with “Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)”

6. Ronny Jordan’s “The Jackal”

7. “Is that You, Mo-Dean?” by the B-52’s

8. “Graih My Cree” by Emma Christian

9. “In the Midnight Hour” by Roxy Music

10. “Zirkusmusik” by Laurent Petitgand from the ‘Wings of Desire’ soundtrack

11. “Long Gone Buddy” by ‘Til Tuesday

12. “L’etranger” by Edith Piaf

13. “Think of Tomorrow” by Chris Isaak

14. Erasure’s helium-filled version of “Take a Chance on Me”

15. Elvis Costello’s haunting “Just a Curio” sung by Anne Sofie Von Otter