ok. i'm finally going to do it -- join me if you dare

i'm going to compile a CD of the songs that shaped my life.

im limiting it to 17 songs. they all have some sort of meaning/impact on who i am today.

go ahead and post yours, but edit your original post to add/delete songs on your playlist.

it's tough as hell, but my fist shot at this is:

1. Beat Box Diversion One -- The Art of Noise
2. Song for a Future Generation -- The B52s
3. Another Satellite -- XTC
4. I Just Can't Get Enough -- Depeche Mode
5. King of Birds -- REM
6. Children's Story -- Slick Rick
7. Bizarre Love Triangle -- New Order
8. How Soon is Now? -- The Smiths
9. Paid In Full -- Eric B. and Rakim
10. Always Saturday -- Guadalcanal Diary
11. This Corrosion -- The Sisters of Mercy
12. Bedbugs and Ballyhoo -- Echo and the Bunnymen
13. Our House -- Madness
15. Funkytown -- Lipps, Inc.
16. Mars Needs Women -- MARRS
17. Straight Outta Compton -- NWA

holy crap. this is going to be hard. i need to go home and check my CDs.


THIS PLAYLIST IS MOST DEFINATELY NOT COMPLETE!

 

Funkytown -- Lipps, Inc.

I hear you Disco D.

 

1. Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys
2. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End - The Beatles
3. Do You Feel Like We Do? - Peter Frampton
4. Roundabout - Yes
5. Chilly Winds - The Kingston Trio
6. Rocky Road - Peter, Paul, & Mary
7. Pirates - Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
8. Echo - Joe Satriani
9. Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
10. Red Barchetta - Rush
11. How Great Thou Art - gospel standard
12. That Lonesome Road - James Taylor (The Kings' Singers version is excellent, also)
13. When I Feel This Way - Allen Griffin
14. American Pie - Don McLean
15. It Don't Matter To Me - Bread
16. Shaft - Isaac Hayes
17. Love's Recovery - Indigo Girls

 

1. I'm a Girl Watcher - The O'Jays
2. Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
3. Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf
4. Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
5. You're Sixteen - Ringo Starr
6. Karn Evil 9 - ELP
7. Heard it in a Love Song - Marshall Tucker Band
8. Gator Country - Molly Hatchet
9. Midnight Flyer - The Eagles
10. Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
11. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
12. Takin Care of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive
13. Hurricane - Bob Dylan
14. Layla - Eric Clapton
15. Walk This Way - Aerosmith
16. Sweet Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac
17. Call Me - Blondie


That's just the 60's to the 80's, can't really think of anything that "shaped my life" in the 90's til now. But I could think of a few hundred more songs from the 60's to the 80's.

 

Blueberry Hill----Fats Domino
You Ain't Nothing But a Hounddog------Smelvis
Good Golly Miss Mollie---Little Richard
Great Balls of Fire-----Jerry Lee "Killer" Lewis
Little Brown Jug----Glen Miller
Tuxedo Junction----Glen Miller
Harlem Nocturne----alto sax solo
Theme From Peter Gunn-----Henry Mancini
Chasin' The Trane----John Coltrane
Softly As In a Morning Sunrise------Coltrane's version
Crescent---Coltrane
88-----Ron Carter

 

1. Walk Like a Man - Frankie Valli
2. Hero of the Day - Metallica
3. Dust in the Wind - Kansas
4. Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
5. Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana
6. Last Kiss - The Cavaliers
7. Here's to the Night - Eve 6
8. Who wants to Live Forever - Queen
9. Brick - Ben Folds Five
10. The World I Know - Collective Soul
11. Time in a Bottle - Jim Croche
12. Horse With No Name - America
13. Lean On Me - Temptations
14. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
15. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
16. Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
17. The Crossroads - Bone Thugs 'n Harmony

theres's a lot more.

 

I don't think I could limit myself to 17 songs. I'll have to try and see how it goes...... but a little bit later.

 

cool thread...Imma take some notes cause they's tons rollin round my head.

 

I think I'm on CD #22. No way I fix seventeen songs.

Meanwhile, seeing High Fidelity and noting Cusack's character filing his record collection autobiographically blew my mind.

 

1. Black Magic Woman – Santana
2. My Old School – Steely Dan
3. Swingtown – Steve Miller Band
4. Sultans Of Swing – Dire Straits
5. I Know A Little – Lynyrd Skynrd
6. Heartbreaker – Led Zeppelin
7. Surfing With The Alien – Joe Satriani
8. Can’t Stop Now – New Grass Revival
9. The Pretender- Jackson Browne
10. Dig The Ditch – The Dixie Dregs
11. Highway To Hell – AC/DC
12. Tom Sawyer – Rush
13. Heard It On The X- ZZ Top
14. Magic Man – Heart
15. Feel Like Making Love- Bad Company
16. Slow Ride – Fog Hat
17. Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan

and I wish I could add more. I'm going to d/l and burn me a cd tonight - if I can fit more on the cd I'll add to my list