# Mix Album Challenge #2 - Now With Prize! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996 "2008-03-11T18:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/1 "2008-03-11T18:53:13Z")
As with other mix album challenges, your rules are as follows: 1. Put together a mix album of songs that meet the challenge criteria. 2. You must have at least eight songs, and having ten to twelve gets you max credit. 3. You cannot have two songs by the same artist, although artist cross-pollination is okay (you could have one song by the Beatles and one by John Lennon as a solo artist, but not two by the Beatles.) 4. The songs must be at least moderately well known; no answers from your brother’s screamo band’s self-released EP that sold 496 copies. But there’s a new rule: A PRIZE! In every song challenge, if we have at least 20 entries, I will award points to the three posters who in my estimation have put together the best combinations of songs. The judgment is purely subjective, but will be based on having songs from a broad range of pop/rock styles, time periods, and original or smart song choices. Note that I have very broad musical taste and tolerate almost anything. You will not impress me by avoiding popular bands and just going with bands that “didn’t sell out” but using the same acts over and over won’t impress me either. Be funny, be original, twist the challenge a little if you need to. I’ll keep doing these and the person with the most points after 15 challenges (each thread will be adjudged complete after 7 calendar days, but doesn’t count at all unless there are at least 20 entries) **gets a free year of SDMB!** This week’s challenge: **Compile a mix CD of songs with titles that include a number, but NOT the numbers one or two.** They can include those digits if they are part of another number; a song entitled “Wilt Chamberlain Had 21,000 Girlfriends” is okay, but “One Is The Loneliest Number” or “Two Hearts” are not permitted. We did this category before but let’s do it again. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/2 "2008-03-11T19:05:15Z")
The Seven Angels by Avantasia Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35 by Bob Dylan Tres Hombres by ZZ Top Tres Equis by Cypress Hill Three Marlenas by The Wallflowers 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger Eight Days a Week by The Beatles 867-5309 by Tommy Tutone 100 Bars by Canibus 7 Years by Everlast 100 Years by 5 for Fighting 123 Slam by Guttermouth ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/3 "2008-03-11T19:10:34Z")
1999 - Prince When I’m 64 - Beatles Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson At Seventeen - Janice Ian Thirty Days In The Hole - Humble Pie 25 Or 6 To 4 - Chicago 2000 Light Years From Home - Stones I’m Eighteen - Alice Cooper Love Potion #9 - Searchers 16 Candles - Orbison Eight Miles High - Byrds Four Sticks - Zepplin ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/4 "2008-03-11T19:27:30Z")
Four Dead in Ohio - CSN&Y If 6 Was 9 - Jimi Hendrix 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon Love Potion Number 9 - The Searchers 60 Years On - Elton John & Bernie Taupin D.C.B.A.-25 - Jefferson Airplane 76 Trombones - Harold Hill & Townspeople 1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins Sweet Little 16 - Chuck Berry 5 O’clock World - The Vogues 3 Coins in the Fountain - Frank Sinatra 16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford ---
**Author:** ![Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8797f3/32.png) [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/5 "2008-03-11T19:39:48Z")
“96 Tears” by ? and The Mysterians “In the year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)” by Zager and Evans “Summer of '69” by Bryan Adams “When Yer Twenty Two” by The Flaming Lips “You’re Sixteen” by Ringo Starr “10,000 Days” by Tool “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” by Paul Simon “Three Times a Lady” by The Commodores “Song #8” by Anal Cunt “Three Point One Four” by The Bloodhound Gang “Knock Three Times” by Tony Orlando and Dawn ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/6 "2008-03-11T20:15:22Z")
Am I doin’ right by trying to avoid songs on other compilations? 10:15 on a Saturday Night **the Cure** Five to One **the Doors** Five String Serenade **Mazzy Star** One After 909 **the Beatles** 2112 **Rush** (I think this counts despite the ones and twos) Hey Nineteen **Steely Dan** Pigs (Three Different Ones) **Pink Floyd** (Parentheticals count, yes?) Take Five **Dave Brubeck** Four in One **Thelonious Monk** 8 Ball **N.W.A.** (Would Niggaz 4 Life count?) Three Little Birds **Bob Marley and the Wailers** Three Little Words **Billy Ray Cyrus** (I feel so dirty) ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/7 "2008-03-11T20:42:45Z")
“Three Times a Lady,” The Commodores “Let the Four Winds Blow,” Roy Brown “Obviously Five Believers,” Bob Dylan “Six O’Clock,” The Lovin Spoonful “7 And 7 Is,” Love “Eight Days a Week,” The Beatles “#9 Dream,” John Lennon “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out,” Bruce Springsteen “7-11,” The Gone All-Stars “Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon),” The Mamas and the Papas “Thirteen Questions,” Seatrain ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/8 "2008-03-11T21:07:30Z")
20 Flight Rock – **Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen** 3/5 of a Mile In Ten Seconds – **Jefferson Airplane** 49 Bye Byes – **Crosby, Stills and Nash** Eight Miles High – **Byrds** Three or Four Feet From Home – **Quicksilver Messenger Service** Route 66 – **Rolling Stones** One After 909 – **Beatles** Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do – **Creedence Clearwater Revival** Seven and Seven Is – **Love** Six Man Band – **The Association** Section 43 – **Country Joe and the Fish** 8:05 – **Moby Grape** ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/9 "2008-03-11T21:11:31Z")
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet Mambo No. 5 - Lou Brega 7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am - Herman’s Hermits 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton Morning Train (Nine to Five) - Sheena Easton Sixteen Going on Seventeen - The Sound of Music soundtrack 39 - Queen 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians 99 Luftballons - Nena ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/10 "2008-03-11T21:11:34Z")
1959 – Sisters of Mercy Five Years – David Bowie Four Women – Nina Simone Hymn 43 – Jethro Tull Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 88 Lines about 44 Women – The Nails 867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone 99 Luftbaloons – Nena 1000 Oceans – Tori Amos A Thousand Kisses Deep – Leonard Cohen (In that order) ---
**Author:** ![Redfrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@Redfrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redfrost)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/11 "2008-03-11T21:11:42Z")
1. **Forty Six & 2** - Tool 2. **12XU** - Minor Threat 3. **23 Years Ago** - Paul Westerberg 4. **Four Walls of Raiford** - Lynyrd Skynyrd 5. **War at 33 1/3** - Public Enemy 6. **10 Million Ways to Die** - Revolting Cocks 7. **39** - The Cure 8. **Nine Million Rainy Days** - The Jesus and Mary Chain 9. **No. 13 Baby** - The Pixies 10. **1970** - The Stooges 11. **Dream at Tempo 119** - Silversun Pickups 12. **34 Blues** - Charley Patton ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/12 "2008-03-12T00:53:11Z")
25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) by Simon & Garfunkel 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon Funk #49 by The James Gang Echo Valley 26809 by The Partridge Family 30,000 Pounds of Bananas by Harry Chapin Seven Bridges Road by The Eagles Three Coins In The Fountain by Frank Sinatra 1999 by Prince Route 66 by Nat King Cole 30 Days in The Hole by Humble Pie ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/13 "2008-03-12T01:03:15Z")
How’s this for a twist Tom Dooley by The Kingston Trio Signs by 5 Man Electrical Band Glad All Over by Dave Clark 5 Up, Up & Away by The Fifth Dimension Never Can Say Goodbye by The Jackson 5 The Look of Love by Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch by The Four Tops ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/14 "2008-03-12T04:20:34Z")
The “Bands (or related acts) I Will Hopefully Get To See For Free At South By Southwest” Edition The Breeders - Drivin’ on 9 The Octopus Project - Six Feet Up The Black Keys - 10 AM Automatic UGK - 976 Bun-B Times New Viking - The Early 80’s …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Eight Days of Hell Tapes n Tapes - Crazy Eights Ice Cube - 24 Wit An L Sonic Youth - 100% Old 97’s - Four Leaf Clover ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/15 "2008-03-12T05:06:44Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] As with other mix album challenges, your rules are as follows: 1. Put together a mix album of songs that meet the challenge criteria. 2. You must have at least eight songs, and having ten to twelve gets you max credit. 3. You cannot have two songs by the same artist, although artist cross-pollination is okay (you could have one song by the Beatles and one by John Lennon as a solo artist, but not two by the Beatles.) 4. The songs must be at least moderately well known; no answers from your brother’s screamo band’s self-released EP that sold 496 copies. But there’s a new rule: A PRIZE! In every song challenge, if we have at least 20 entries, I will award points to the three posters who in my estimation have put together the best combinations of songs. The judgment is purely subjective, but will be based on having songs from a broad range of pop/rock styles, time periods, and original or smart song choices. Note that I have very broad musical taste and tolerate almost anything. You will not impress me by avoiding popular bands and just going with bands that “didn’t sell out” but using the same acts over and over won’t impress me either. Be funny, be original, twist the challenge a little if you need to. I’ll keep doing these and the person with the most points after 15 challenges (each thread will be adjudged complete after 7 calendar days, but doesn’t count at all unless there are at least 20 entries) **gets a free year of SDMB!** This week’s challenge: **Compile a mix CD of songs with titles that include a number, but NOT the numbers one or two.** They can include those digits if they are part of another number; a song entitled “Wilt Chamberlain Had 21,000 Girlfriends” is okay, but “One Is The Loneliest Number” or “Two Hearts” are not permitted. We did this category before but let’s do it again. [/QUOTE] Ian and Sylvia: Four Strong Winds Byrds: 8 Miles High John Lennon: #9 Dream Led Zeppelin: Ten Years Gone Bob Dylan: Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35 Steely Dan: Hey 19 50 Cent: 21 Questions James Gang: Funk 49 ? and the Mysterians: 96 Tears Johnny Cash: the Wreck of the Old 97 Rolling Stones: 2,000 Light Years From Home Glenn Miller Orchestra: Pennsylvania 6-5000 ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/16 "2008-03-12T05:22:09Z")
You said the title had to contain a number, right? And we can twist the challenge, right? M’kay… Sl **eight** of Hand - Pearl Jam Of **ten** - Robbie Williams I Al **one** - Live In **ten** se - Alisha’s Attic I **t Wo** n’t Take Long - The Rolling Stones On My Own (Wi **th Ree** l) - Li’l Wayne Talking on the Ph **one** - Timbaland Fast Fr **eight** - The Kingston Trio (Ooh, more numbers! Double points!) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/17 "2008-03-12T07:14:36Z")
Now, I know you were looking for “a broad range of rock/pop styles,” but for some reason, at first, all I could think of was country music. (No, I don’t know why either.) Anyway, after coming up with a few, it became a challenge–how many numbered country songs (or at least, numbered songs by country artists) could I come up with at all? So, here’s some of what I came up with: Six Pack Summer–Phil Vassar 24 Hours from Tulsa–Gene Pitney He Would Be Sixteen–Michelle Wright Twenty Years Ago–Kenny Rogers My Next Thirty Years–Tim McGraw 9 to 5–Dolly Parton It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere–Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett Life #9–Martina McBride Beer Thirty–Brooks & Dunn Six Days on the Road–the Sawyer Brown cover (1997) of the 1963 Dave Dudley song 18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses–Kathy Mattea ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/18 "2008-03-12T07:50:42Z")
Pulling all of these out of my CD collection: **1:** Hymn 43 - **Jethro Tull** **2:** 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds - **Jefferson Airplane** **3:** Seven Seas of Rhye - **Queen** **4:** Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar - **Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen** **5:** Seven Days - **Sting** **6:** 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - **Paul Simon** **7:** 4 + 20 - **Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young** **8:** 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) - **Simon and Garfunkel** **9:** 5:15 - **The Who** **10:** Nineteen Forever - **Joe Jackson** **11:** Too Low For Zero - **Elton John** **12:** Gabriel’s Mother’s Hiway Ballad #16 Blues - **Arlo Guthrie** ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/19 "2008-03-12T09:05:27Z")
Half Man, Half Machine - Goldie Lookin Chain 1,000 Umbrellas - XTC 500 Miles - The Proclaimers 1985 - Bowling For Soup 17 - The Regents Tom Traubert’s Blues (4 Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) - Tom Waits Ol’ '55 - The Eagles 5 Months, Two Weeks, Two Days - Louis Prima 853-5937 - Squeeze 13 Steps Lead Down - Elvis Costello 14th Street - Rufus Waiwright 4 Seasons In One Day - Crowded House That was fun MiM ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996/20 "2008-03-12T12:34:59Z")
1000 Points of Hate-Anthrax 1000 Points of Light-Bruce Dickinson 22 Acacia Avenue-Iron Maiden 24 Hours Ago-Savatge 42nd Street-Golden Earring 5 O’Clock in the Morning-The Donnas 1916-Motorhead 7 Screaming Diz-Busters-Blue Oyster Cult 18 and Life-Skid Row 10th Man Down-Nightwish [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-2-now-with-prize/440996.md?page=2)