SO: I've been on an upswing in terms of music as of late, which means both buying lots of music and making a ton of mix cds. Becky and I have debated this before, but whatever gets lost in the making of cds (the planning and intentionality, mostly) is gained back in "I had this song in my head this morning, so I'll make a cd with it and some other stuff for myself." This does tend to mean that I look back on some of them and wonder what I was thinking: was I really ever at a point in my life where I needed to hear five Bob Dylan songs from different albums in a row?* So it has been surprising to me that one I made in mid-December for the drive up to Pennsylvania (and ended up playing over and over for most of the trip) still sounds good to me:
All Hands on the Bad One:
1. "You're No Rock and Roll Fun" -Sleater-Kinney
2. "Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down" -Interpol
3. "Private Idaho" -B-52s
4. "Sabotage" -Beastie Boys
5. "The New Pollution" -Beck
6. "You Just Know" -Bernard Butler (sometimes, the best thing you can do with a mix cd is just stick to alphabetical order)
7. "Yeah Yeah" -Blackrock
8. "Take Me Out" -Franz Ferdinand
9. "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" -Buzzcocks
10. "Heroes" -David Bowie
11. "Good Shit" -Cornershop
12. "Out On the Tiles" -Led Zeppelin
13. "Been Caught Stealing" -Jane's Addiction
14. "Basket Case" -Green Day (look, I still hate Green Day, but nothing makes me think '7th grade' more than this song)
15. "Since I Left You" -The Avalanches
16. "Unforgiven" -The Go-Gos
17. "Been It" -The Cardigans
18. "Tainted Love" -Gloria Jones
19. "The Double Life" -Rainer Maria
20. "Free Money" -Patti Smith
*yes
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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