CD burn - tracks you would include

i signed up for this CD burn thingy* on another site, and I'm at a loss what to include, which is really bad because I've already missed the deadline for sending it off *looks sheepish*

if you had to put together 18 songs or so for a compilation, what would you whack on there?
in this particular instance, the only thing i know about the 2 recipients is their gender (based on their first name) and where they live. i know nothing else about them. i started putting together a compilation of arabic music, but thought that might piss them off.

any ideas? what would you whack on there? am looking for inspiration, stuff you think not many people would know. not stuff that is in the charts, or really famous stuff that *everybody* knows already.
you don't have to list all 18 if you don't want to

* in case you've never come across one before, you put together a compilation of music from your collection, send it off to 2 random people you may or may not have ever met, and in return get 2 compilations of new music back (not necessarily from the same people)

For something a bit "different", I'd include a song or two from the soundtrack of Black Cat White Cat.

come on peeps - don't let me down
i need inspiration, or i'll get in trouble

just name me a band or singer that you think are fab and that people might not have heard of... please!

I just did.

What are you listening to right now?, Music and other sounds whilst reading TT

Well, I guess I'd suggest Ani DiFranco, but maybe she's too well known. Or maybe it's not really what you're looking for. I like the songs "Untouchable Face" or "Shameless"from the "Dilate" album.

@kay - thanks, and I checked out some samples of his stuff

@jennyL - ani difranco is a good idea, thnx

I hope you know that second post was a joke.

"Brass Buttons" or "$1000 wedding" from Gram Parsons if you're putting any kind of sad songs on there.
"Brass Buttons" is in memory of Gram's mother who drank herself to death, "$1000 wedding" has Gram's real-life experience of being jilted at the altar. Lyrics - right now I don't think there is a more heartbreakingly beautiful song in existence.


It's all Gram at my place at the moment, goes with autumn.
Otherwise, the Marie Antoinette soundtrack will give you some ideas - lot of your stuff on it.

Mister Jones - Counting Crows
My favourite game -The Cardigans
Walk - Blind Melon
Black - Pearl Jam
Thirteen - Danzig
Riverboat song - Ocean colour scene
Thank You - Dido
Would - Alice in Chains

below is the setlist of a mixer cd I made in August for a similar style music egroup. Hope there is something there to inspire

Pig by Sparklehorse from Good Morning Spider 1998
Water Boy by Imperial Teen from Imperial Teen 1996
Gotta Getaway by Stiff Little Fingers from Nobody's Heroes 1980
Living Room by Tegan & Sara from If It Was You 2002
Pull Together by Shack from H.M.S Fable 1999
Long Shadow by Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros from Streetcore 2003
Old Fashioned Morphine by Jolie Holland from Escondida 2004
Take Yo' Praise by Camille Yarbrough from Mojo Presents Soul Riot 1975
Crosses by José González from Veneer 2003
Mondo Ikea by Blanket from Blanket 2006
Costa Rita by Euros Childs from Chops 2005
Cardinal Is More by Eric Matthews from Six Kinds Of Passion Looking
For An Exit 2005
Alone In The Make Out Room by The Broken Family Band from Balls 2006
The Day That Thatcher Dies by Hefner from We Love The City 2001
Fuck The People by The Kills from Keep On Your Mean Side 2003

NOFX - Bob

(of course)

Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
Teardrops - Womak and Womak
Everything is Everything - Lauryn Hill
Heaven Help - Lenny Kravitz
Loaded - Primal Scream
Fool's Gold - The Stone Roses
Stupid Girl - Garbage
Chura Liya - Bally Sagoo

ooo, am getting inspired
will whack some SLF on there, for sure

@hams - love bally sagoo, but don't know that track. in fact have only got a couple of his tracks (nourie and mera laung gawacha - think will put mera laung gawacha on there as wel, actually)

cheers

I'll lend it to you the next time we meet. It's fab - I've been trying to practice dancing to it in preparation for my sister's wedding (she's not even engaged as yet but just a matter of time if my mum has anything to do with it! ) Don't want them laughing back home at the uncoordinated Western Paki if you know what I mean...

1 CD?

Just that song in particular Sin.

were you asking me if i'm only making one cd?
or were you asking hams?
*confused*

if you were talking to me, then you only have to make one, but i got a delivery from one of my "makers" and it had 3 cd's in it - and they're all fab
am considering doing an arabic/south-asian cd and a punky/"alternative" one

hams, would love to borrow some bally sagoo

Well, I'd put in that one that goes Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees, dancing to the rhythm of The Guns of Navarone. Always makes me larf.

isn't that the Leyton Buzzards?
I don't think I've got that.

I thought about suggesting doing something like this on TT, but I was too scared I'd get rottweilered for it by the bully-boy-brigade.

Brigade
Disco Ensemble

Both rock genre...

well, thanks all for the suggestions
for those who like closure, i put together 2 cd's in the end, here's the tracklists:

top tunes 2.1 - all kinds of everything
Bauhaus – Dark Entries
Cramps – Garbageman
B52’s – Dance This Mess Around
BowWowWow – I want Candy
The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet
PIL – This is not a Love Song
The White Stripes – Jolene
Leningrad Cowboys – Those were the Days
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message
The Roots – The Next Movement
Die Fantastischen 4 – Le Smou
AfroB – Reimemonster
Seeed – Stand Up
M.C.Solaar – Hasta La Vista
Saian Supa Crew – Maladie
Leftfield – Afro-Left
Refugee Camp Allstars – Sang Fézi
1 Giant Leap – Braided Hair

top tunes 2.2 - arabesque / south asian megamix
Mungal – Awake
C.I.D. (Commercial Indian Dance) – Aag
Bally Sagoo – Mera Laung Gawacha
Kam Dhillon – Aankh Naal
Tarkan – Simarik (Kiss Kiss)
Mustafa Sandal – Aya Benzer
Hisham Abbas – Nary Narin (Habibi Deh)
Amal Hijazi – Alli El Mousiqa
Asalah – Ya Magnoon
Najwa Karam – Ashiqa
Biyouna – Tue es ma vie
Cheikha Rimitti – Nouar
Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart – Yalili Ya Aini
Rachid Taha – Ya Rayah
Khaled – Raba Raba
Nitin Sawhney – Moonrise

does anybody fancy doing this on TT?
it's a fab way to find new music, i've bought quite a few CD's based on tracks that i've got via burns

I was planning on making Bubble Gum a CD but I'll make one for my lovely Topsy also. PS dont tell BG