CDs for all seasons

[Richard B]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

Oh man, that is delicious. It's a perfect morning for some Hot Chocolate here. This remix is so in-your-head! It makes me think of "Sledgehammer"-era Peter Gabriel, in the best way possible. Thanks for sharing! "You Sexy Thing" is actually on my Spring Mix, which goes a little something like this:

1. Bruce Springsteen - The Ties That Bind
2. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
3. The Cure - Doing The Unstuck
4. The Muffs - Kids In America
5. Loggins & Messina - Danny's Song
6. Rick Springfield - Love Is Alright Tonite
7. Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
8. Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No Cry (live)
9. Weezer - El Scorcho
10. The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song
11. Friends Of Distinction - Grazing In The Grass
12. The Clash - Spanish Bombs
13. Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
14. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girls
15. The Romantics - What I Like About You
16. REM - Shiny Happy People
17. Enigma - Return To Innocence
18. Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
19. U2 - Sweetest Thing
20. David Bowie with Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
21. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding

You are very good at these mixes. I want them. All of them.

Originally Posted by Jyqm

I've also got my Drivin' To Milwaukee mix, since I used to live in Chicago, and that great city of beer and cheese is just one CD away by car:

1. Cheap Trick - That 70's Show theme song
2. Van Halen - Panama
3. Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender
4. Tom Petty - Running Down A Dream
5. Nena - 99 Luftballons
6. Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
7. "Flaming Moe's" from The Simpsons
8. The Darkness - Friday Night
9. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
10. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
11. Foreigner - Hot Blooded
12. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
13. Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
14. Violent Femmes - American Music
15. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
16. AC(lightningbolt)DC - Moneytalks
17. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
18. John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
19. Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town

A Drivin' to Milwaukee Mix and no Bodeans??? Blasphemous.
I love me some Bodeans, let me tell you.

[Miss Vicky]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

Oh lord, the end of this mix would make me cry.

Yeah, I guess I figured that once I had pumped myself up (I try to use music instead of caffeine to wake up in the morning) I'd depress the hell out of myself as a reminder that it is work that I'm going to.

[hayley]

I make a soundtrack playlist for myself every week or so on iTunes- whatever I'm really digging on, and it often either sets the tone for that period of time or reflects it. I never worry about repeating artists multiple times or anything like that.

This is the most current one:

Life on Mars?- David Bowie
Yellow- Coldplay
Bring It On Home To Me- Sam Cooke
Fade Into You- Mazzy Star
Stars and Boulevards- Augustana
Tangerine- Led Zeppelin
You Send Me- Sam Cooke
Life on Mars? Seu Jorge
Breathe Me- Sia
Orange Sky- Alexi Murdoch
Soul Meets Body- Death Cab for Cutie
Long Time Coming- Delays
My Winding Wheel- Ryan Adams
Rest In Peace- Spike/BTVS soundtrack (shut. up.)
Cupid- Sam Cooke
I Hear The Bells- Mike Doughty
Wonderful World- Sam Cooke
Dice- Finley Quaye
Nocturn- Kate Bush
In The Sun- Joseph Arthur
Caught by the River- Doves
Come Pick Me Up- Ryan Adams

[Jyqm]

Originally Posted by hayley

I make a soundtrack playlist for myself every week or so on iTunes- whatever I'm really digging on, and it often either sets the tone for that period of time or reflects it. I never worry about repeating artists multiple times or anything like that.

This is the most current one:

Life on Mars?- David Bowie
Yellow- Coldplay
Bring It On Home To Me- Sam Cooke
Fade Into You- Mazzy Star
Stars and Boulevards- Augustana
Tangerine- Led Zeppelin
You Send Me- Sam Cooke
Life on Mars? Seu Jorge
Breathe Me- Sia
Orange Sky- Alexi Murdoch
Soul Meets Body- Death Cab for Cutie
Long Time Coming- Delays
My Winding Wheel- Ryan Adams
Rest In Peace- Spike/BTVS soundtrack (shut. up.)
Cupid- Sam Cooke
I Hear The Bells- Mike Doughty
Wonderful World- Sam Cooke
Dice- Finley Quaye
Nocturn- Kate Bush
In The Sun- Joseph Arthur
Caught by the River- Doves
Come Pick Me Up- Ryan Adams

That's an awesome mix, I love all the Sam Cooke stuff, and Seu Jorge's "Life on Mars?" is great. (He's got a new solo album out that I have heard good things about.)

(And don't worry, I've got the "Once More, With Feeling" soundtrack too, though I always wish the guitars on "Rest In Peace" were more in-your-face...)

[hayley]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

That's an awesome mix, I love all the Sam Cooke stuff, and Seu Jorge's "Life on Mars?" is great. (He's got a new solo album out that I have heard good things about.)

(And don't worry, I've got the "Once More, With Feeling" soundtrack too, though I always wish the guitars on "Rest In Peace" were more in-your-face...)

If you're talking about Cru, it IS great. Also, if you like Sam, Sony just put out a couple of great reissues- a really good remastered Night Beat and Live at the Harlem Square Club, which is FANTASTIC.

I'm with you on the guitars. Spike singing just gives me a girl boner. Can't help it.

[trackaghost]

I haven't made a mix CD for ages but the last one I made did have a seasonal theme. I called it the Super Sunny Spring mix and it was for a fellow Wes Anderson obsessive. Here's the tracklisting.

Waiting For Somebody - Paul Westerberg
It's The Nighttime - Josh Rouse
Cold Hands (Warm Heart) - Brendan Benson
Kimiko's Dream House - Mark Lanegan
Jolene - Ray LaMontagne
Lights - The Jayhawks
I Think I See The Light - Cat Stevens
I Figured You Out - Mary Lou Lord
Angelina - Ryan Adams
Good Woman - Cat Power
Tribute To Hank Williams - Evan Dando
I Know I'm Not Wrong - Fleetwood Mac
V - Golden Smog
Fancy - The Geraldine Fibbers
Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair - Twilight Singers
Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
Here Comes The Sun Again - M Ward
Moonbeams - The For Carnation

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Richard B

Glad you like Sexy Thing!

I LOVE your rain mix. Is the Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall cover by Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians? She covered it on her Ultimate Collection CD. Rather well done actually.

Yes, that's it - Edie Brickell!

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

now we are friends forever. That is one of the best singles EVER made. And soooooooo "fall-ish".

I was in the car with my friend yesterday and Hunger Strike came on and immediately I began singing the Chris Cornell part and he did the Eddie Vedder part. It was so funny, but why do I always end up being Chris Cornell?

[Jyqm]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

I was in the car with my friend yesterday and Hunger Strike came on and immediately I began singing the Chris Cornell part and he did the Eddie Vedder part. It was so funny, but why do I always end up being Chris Cornell?

The best part about singing along to Eddie Vedder is that you don't have to know any of the words.

By the way, Sharon, if you do BitTorrent, there's what looks like a fantastic Neil Diamond concert from LA earlier this month up on DimeADozen.org . I'm downloading it right now, however slowly.