CD Mix #4 - The Track Listing

Before the hard drive crash, I meant to blog about the CD Mix over at stennieville.com. I wanted to encourage other friends to play along, but alas, this was not to be.

For any reader out there who might be unfamiliar with what I'm talking about, here's the deal. Stennie posts a list of items, and using this list, each player creates a CD from his/her own collection. Everyone who plays sends a CD to all the other participants, and voila! New music!

The following is the track listing for my CD

1. Song with a day of the week in the title. "Monday Morning Rock" by Marshall Crenshaw.

2. A song you disliked as a youngster that you like now. "Beth" by Kiss.
This song came out while I was still quite young, and I just didn't understand it, and the tune was annoying. But now I have a niece called Beth who I'm sort of attached to, and this song reminds me of her.

3. Sellout - song from a TV commercial. "I Turn My Camera On" by Spoon. (Jaguar)
I always had a lot of respect for this band, and then they go and pull a Sting. I really like the song, and it doesn't make me more likely to buy a Jag.


4. Kickass cover song. "She Came in Through The Bathroom Window" by Joe Cocker.
I've always liked this version best.


5. Musical question..."Who's Gonna Help A Brother Get Further?" by Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint

6. And the answer - "I Will" by the Beatles.
Just in case anyone thought I was dissing the boys in #4.

7. Third person song "Queen Bitch" by David Bowie

8. Uplugged - a favorite acoustic song. "The Man Who Sold The World" by Nirvana.
Another cover, another great song. I love both versions.

9. A song about food. "Soup Is Good Food" by the Dead Kennedys.
Fun, fun, fun, I love this song.

10. Trains, Planes and Automobiles: song about a mode of transport"Travelling without Moving" by Jamiroquai
Funky!


11. A song that cheers you up. "Suddenly I See" by K.T. Tunstall A catchy, bouncy tune with positive lyrics. A favorite on the walk from the train to work in the morning.

12. Media - songs about radio, TV or other type of media"On Your Radio" by Joe Jackson.
Stenns and Mikey both used a different Joe Jackson song. I was original, see?


13. Add it up: “One More Time" The Pretenders

14. Plus "14th Street" by Rufus Wainwright

15. Equals "15 Petals" by Elvis Costello.
Yeah, so I used two songs by E.C. What are you going to do about it?

16. Banned! A song that is, or was in its day, controversial. "Bobby Brown" by Frank Zappa.
Lots and lots of stuff that Zappa did freaked people out. This song was probably one of the most disturbing. An upper class handsome boy grows up a slimy, S&M loving homosexual after scoring with a transsexual prostitute - just the kind of story parents want filling the airwaves. It came out when I was in third grade, and one of my classmates with an older brother started singing about being able to take an hour on the tower of power during recess. Boy, did she ever get in trouble. But none of us knew what the tower of power was. If the school had just left it alone, the song never would have caught on with the class as it had. But we all knew it was dirty somehow,and we all learned as much of the lyrics as we could from the girl.

17. A song about a family member"Brother Louie" by Modern Talking.
This song was popular during my year as an exchange student. It turns out that this band is German and quite annoying. Catchy tune though.


18. A favorite song that you have discovered since our last CD mix. "Apres Moi" by Regina Spektor.
I heard her on NPR for the first time a couple of months ago and ended up buying some of her stuff on iTunes. She's like Bjork, only not annoying.

19. A song that reminds you of an old friend."Peace Frog" by The Doors.
This funky little ditty reminds me of my friend Paul from grad school. He pretty much just listens to The Doors, and while this isn't his favorite song by the Band, it is mine. I made him listen to it over and over if he put this tape on in my presence. I would have played THE song that makes me think of him, but the version of The End I recorded from him is 15 minutes long.

20. Amnesty song" I See You Baby" by Groove Armada.
I don't remember what I wanted to use this song for in past mixes, but it is in my "maybe" folder. Besides, it's damned funky.

And there you have it! I hope you enjoy the music.