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Gideon aboard his Wist Wagon
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Which tunes evoke the spirit of wist? Here're some listeners' suggestions:

Rothko - On The Day We Said Goodbye
Billy Bragg - Walk Away Renee

Brian Eno - Bottomliners
Beatles - There's A Place

Tom Waits - Martha
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries

Rachel's - Water From The Same Source
Steve Earle - Tennessee Blues

Red House Painters - Grace Cathedral Park
Palace Brothers - Ohio River Boat Song

Sufjan Stevens - Holland
Beatles - Julia

Go Betweens - Darlinghurst Nights
Gravenhurst - Grand Union Canal

Maria McKee - Life Is Sweet
Mary Margaret O'Hara - When You Know Why You're Happy

The National - Green Gloves
David Sylvian - The Boy with the Gun

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anemone
Sparklehorse - Heart of Darkness

Luna - Dear Diary
Deus - Sister Dew

Midlake - Chasing After Deer
Fionn Regan - Be Good Or Be Gone

Laura Veirs - Chimney Sweeping Man
Madam - Call America

Counting Crows - Ghost Train
Cat Stevens - Father & Son

Nouvelle Vague - In A Manner of Speaking
Nico - These Days

My Latest Novel - Hope Edition
Low - Sunflower

Sol Seppy - Slo Fuzz
Drugstore - Superglider

Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
Suzanne Vega - Some Journey

Go Betweens - Cattle and Cane

Pavement - Here
REM - The Wrong Child

Kings of Convenience - Manhattan Skyline
The Vines - Ms.Jackson

Jeff Buckley - Opened Once
Radiohead - Bulletproof (I Wish I was)

My Morning Jacket - Death is the Easy Way
Replacements - Here Comes A Regular

Sebadoh - Too Pure
Dinosaur Jr - No Bones

Cat Power - Wild Is the Wind
Nina Simone - Mr Bojangles

Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness
Marvin Gaye - Sunny

Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Neil Young - Philadelphia

Fionn Regan - The Underwood Typewriter
Pajo - Ten More Days

Deus - Magic Hour
Alpha - Sometime Later

Throwing Muses - Teeth
Belly - White Belly

The Lemonheads - Favourite T
Red House Painters - Brockwell Park

Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Nina Simone - Mr Bojangles

Estelle and Ben Watt - Pop A Cap in Yo Ass
People Under the Stairs - More Than You Know

Devics - All Your Beautiful Trees
Sizer Barker - Lowly Song

Love - Andmoreagain
Nick Drake - Things Behind the Sun

This Mortal Coil - You and Your Sister
Rufus Wainwright - Vicious World

Aha - Manhattan Skyline
A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing
 
 Neil Young - Out On The Weekend
Carol King - So Far Away

Cure - Disentegration
Smiths - Asleep

 Grandaddy - He's Simple He's Dumb He's the Pilot
My Latest Novel - Wrongfully I Rested

 Andrew Gold - Never Let Her Slip Away
America - Ventura Highway

 Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World

 Suzanne Vega - Gypsy
Prefab Sprout - Lions in My Own Garden

 David Hurn - Nancy Put Yourself First
Elliott Smith - Pitseleh

 Megan Hickey - Modern Love
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

 Tracey Thorn - Too Happy
M Craft - Emily Snow

Chris Cornell - Seasons
Fiona Apple - Love Ridden

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