Putting together the songs for this evening, I intended to play mainly songs that had stark and simple statements about the joys and sorrows of being alive. Interestingly enough, the process led me to many songs about, well, not being alive. I decided to let the songs’ titles lay against each other and point to the simple fact of how alive we are, before and after dying.
| Hour 1 | |||
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
| R.E.M. | Maps & Legends | Fables of the Reconstruction | 1985 |
| James | Bubbles | Hey Ma | 2008 |
| Garland Jeffreys | I’m Alive | The King of In Between | 2011 |
| John Mellencamp | Your Life Is Now | On the Rural Route 7609 | 2010 |
| Patty Larkin | Me and That Train | Strangers World | 1995 |
| Brandi Carlile | Turpentine | The Story | 2007 |
| Brandi Carlile | Until I Die | The Story | 2007 |
| Dawes | When My Time Comes | North Hills | 2009 |
| Gomez | How We Operate | How We Operate | 2006 |
| Garland Jeffreys | Coney Island Winter | The King of In Between | 2011 |
| The The | December Sunlight | NakedSelf | 2000 |
| David Byrne | What A Day That Was | The Catherine Wheel | 1981 |
| Washed Out | Amor Fati | Within and Without | 2011 |
| Hour 2 | |||
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
| Wussy | Happiness Bleeds | Wussy | 2009 |
| The Fiery Furnaces | Leaky Tunnel | Gallowsbird’s Bark | 2003 |
| Broken Bells | Your Head Is On Fire | Broken Bells | 2009 |
| R.E.M. | Life And How To Live It | Fables of the Reconstruction | 1985 |
| Emma Pollock | Nine Lives | The Law of Large Numbers | 2010 |
| Fiona Apple | Extraordinary Machine | Extraordinary Machine | 2005 |
| Erin McKeown | (Put the Fun Back in) the Funeral | Hundreds of Lions | 2009 |
| Holly Tannen | Gone Gonna Rise Again | Between the Worlds | |
| Lisa Germano | simple | Magic neighbor | 2009 |
| Iron & Wine | No Moon | Around the Well | 2009 |
| Pearl Jam | I’m Open | No Code | 1996 |
| Elvis Costello | Broken | Mighty Like A Rose | 1991 |
| Bob Dylan | Everything Is Broken | Oh Mercy | 1989 |
