"Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" is a jazz standard from 1955, with lyrics by Fran Landesman set to music by Tommy Wolf. The title is a jazz rendition of the opening line of T.S. Eliot 's The Wasteland, "April is the cruelest month". This mix includes versions by Julie London, Lou Rawls, Bobbi Boyle & The Trio, Betty Carter and Norah Jones.
One other song repeats across the mix: Van Morrison's "Come Here My Love" from his 1974 album Veedon Fleece, here with a cover by This Mortal Coil from their 1986 album Filigree & Shadow.
The rest: a cover of Sly & The Family Stone's "Running Away" by The Raincoats, the elegant "Lorelei" by Rosebud, Sly & The Family Stone's doo wop-inflected "This Is Love" from their 1974 album Small Talk, Steely Dan's Mark Knopfler feature "Time Out Of Mind" from their 1980 album Gaucho, the sample-heavy "Prayers" by Mike, a cover of Sly & The Family Stone's "Everybody Is A Star" by the family group The Stairsteps, Clipse's "Intro" from the opening of their 2002 debut album Lord Willin', The Last Poets' righteous "E Pluribus Unum", the plaintive "Sometimes" by DMX, the mellow "It Is So Nice To Be Stoned" by Ted Lucas, the giddy nearly eponymous 1985 B-side "Like 1000 Violins" by One Thousand Violins, the demo version of Madvillain's "Figaro", the playful "Punch Line" by Doreen Davis & Bobby Lyons, Woody Guthrie's then-seventeen-year-old daughter Nora's ethereal "Emily's Illness", Bruce Springsteen's jazzy "Spirit In The Night" from his 1973 debut album "Greetings From Asbury Park" and a demo version of Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black".
