# Mix Album Challenge Week of March 17 - The Drive To The Prize! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883 "2008-03-19T01:42:31Z")\ **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 19, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/1 "2008-03-19T01:42:31Z")
Following up on our wildly successful first Mix Album Challenge With a Prize, here is challenge #2: **Compile a mix CD of songs that include the name of a place that is not in the United States of America.** The place cited must be identifiable as not being in the USA and cannot be a theoeretical place or position, so song titles like these are allowed: “My Baby Lives in Moscow” “The Waters of the Meditteranean” “Rockin’ In Poland” “Antarctica’s Warmer Than You” “I’m Cryin’ Over You In The Green Zone” The following would not be: “New York, New York” (In the United States) “America the Beautiful” (IS the United States, which is the same as in it) “You’re In My Heart” (Not actually a physical place) “Up In My Room” (Isn’t identifiably in or out of the USA) “I’m On Top” (Euphemistic) The reference may be in the form of a modifier, so “Your Supposed Canadian Girlfriend” is permissible. As per the last thread, points will be handed out for the best entries based on a mix of song styles, innovative entries, choice of good songs, and which mix CD would be the coolest, as well as just sheer random chance. In the case of this thread you will also get some credit by avoiding mention of the same place twice, or somehow coming up with a CD that only mentions ONE place. The other rules, for clarification: 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. 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! ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/2 "2008-03-19T04:36:54Z")
“Sydney From a 747” - Paul Kelly “Melbourne” - The Whitlams “Australia” - The Shins “Chelsea Girl” - Nico “Waterloo Sunset” - The Kinks “London Calling” - The Clash “Cambodia” - Kim Wilde “One Night In Bangkok” - Murray Head “The Heat Is On Saigon” - Miss Saigon, Original 1989 London Cast Recording “Fly Me To The Moon” - Frank Sinatra “53 Miles West Of Venus” - The B-52’s “Life On Mars” - David Bowie ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/3 "2008-03-19T05:15:05Z")
“The Girl from Ipanema” by Stan Getz and João Gilberto ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/4 "2008-03-19T05:17:14Z")
Back in the USSR - The Beatles Rosarito - Long Beach Dub All Stars Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys Jamaican Monkey Man - Toots and the Maytals (or The Specials - take your pick) Waterloo - ABBA Girl from Ipanema - Norman Gimbel Stupid Canadiens - NOFX Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo Radio Havana - Rancid La Isla Bonita - Madonna Caribbean Connection - Big Punisher Trenchtown Rock - Bob Marley ---
**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 19, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/5 "2008-03-19T05:35:12Z")
London Calling - The Clash One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head Never Been to Spain - Three Dog Night Shanghai Breezes - John Denver Runnin’ Back to Saskatoon - The Guess Who Marrakech Express - Crosby, Stills, and Nash Tijuana Taxi - Herb Alpert Back in the USSR - The Beatles Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina - Madonna Venus and Mars - Paul McCartney and Wings ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/6 "2008-03-19T07:24:09Z")
**Old World Tour** **Blink-182** – Stockholm Syndrome **the Chieftains** – The Rocky Road to Dublin \*\*Peter Bjorn and John \*\* – Amsterdam \*\*Beirut \*\* – Nantes **Nickel Creek** – When In Rome **the Mammals** – Follow Me To Carthage **Steve Earle** – Jerusalem **Outkast** – B.O.B. (stands for Bombs Over Baghdad) **Euphoria** – Kolkata **the Pogues** – Summer in Siam **Bruce Cockburn** – Postcards from Cambodia ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/7 "2008-03-19T11:20:20Z")
**London calling** - The Clash **April in Paris** - Count Basie **Vienna** - Ultravox **My woman from Tokyo** - Deep Purple **Warszawa** - Bowie **One night in Bangkock** - Murray Head **Berlin** - Lou Reed **(Port of) Amsterdam** - Bowie **On a little street in Singapore** - Manhattan Transfer **Kingston Town** - UB40 **Jerusalem** - Black Sabbath I had to check the"lyrics" for Panama, but my guess was right, those numbnuts in Van Halen wrote a song with no connection whatsoever to the country or city of Panama. ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/8 "2008-03-19T16:39:24Z")
Canada Is Really Big- The Arrogant Worms Last Saskatchwan Pirate- Captain Tractor The Black Cross of Crumlin- Blood or Whiskey Norwegian Wood- The Beatles The Battle of Brisbane- The Pogues Havana Daydreamin’- Jimmy Buffet Guns of Brixton- The Clash Istanbul (Not Constantinople)- They Might Be Giants Kashmir- Led Zeppelin Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen Alberta Bound- Gordon Lightfoot Mexican Radio- Wall of Voodoo And perhaps the song that inspired it all: I’m So Bored With the U.S.A.- The Clash 😉 ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/9 "2008-03-19T17:30:51Z")
Alphabetized, By Continent: Christmas in Capetown - Randy Newman (_Africa_) Durban Deep - Elton John (_Africa_) My Antarctica - Duran Duran (_Antarctica_) Mountains of Burma - Midnight Oil (_Asia_) Road to Moscow - Al Stewart (_Asia_) Come You Not From Newcastle? - Sarah Brightman (_Australia_) Holiday in Berlin - Frank Zappa (_Europe_) Back to Rome - Frank Black (_Europe_) Living Through Another Cuba - XTC (_North America_) A Montreal Song - Bruce Cockburn (_North America_) The Coffee Song (They’ve Got An Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil) - Frank Sinatra (_South America_) Rio - Nirvana (_South America_) ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/10 "2008-03-19T17:57:38Z")
I bring you Canadian Edition, running from east to west, more or less… **Canadian Customs** - Frank Zappa **Farewell to Nova Scotia** - Stompin’ Tom Connors **Montreal** - Autechre **Bobcageon** - The Tragically Hip **Dundas, Ontario** - Manitoba **F\*ck Toronto Jungle** - Venetian Snares **Girl in Saskatoon** - Johnny Cash **Alberta Bound** - Gordon Lightfoot **Vancouver** - Violent Femmes ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/11 "2008-03-19T18:16:14Z")
Jamaica Farewell – Harry Belafonte FDR in Trinidad – Ry Cooder Nuevo Laredo – Doug Sahm Romance in Durango – Bob Dylan Galway Girl – Steve Earle Streets of Arklow – Van Morrison Ghost of Belfast – Bap Kennedy Northumerland West – The Sadies Dark Streets of London – The Pogues Paris 1919 – John Cale Impossible Germany – Wilco Andalus/Radio Marrakesh – Richard Thompson Telephone Call from Istanbul – Tom Waits Kashmir – Led Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/12 "2008-03-19T18:53:24Z")
All the same place, but all different places… **London’s Brilliant Parade** - Elvis Costello **Baker Street** - Gerry Rafferty **Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square** - Jethro Tull **Waterloo Sunset** - Kinks **Dagenham Dave** - Stranglers **Sunny South Kensington** - Donovan **Battle of Epping Forest** - Genesis **Electric Avenue** - Eddy Grant **Guns of Brixton** - Clash **Gilbert Street** - Sweet Thursday **Oh Baby Won’t You Come Back Home to Croydon Where Everybody Beedle an’ Bo’s** - Brian Auger & the Trinity ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/13 "2008-03-19T19:06:04Z")
[ul] [li]China Girl - David Bowie[/li][li]Jerusalem - Emerson, Lake and Palmer (okay, so it’s not an original, but this is the version I know best)[/li][li]Katmandu - Bob Seger[/li][li]My Woman from Tokyo - Deep Purple[/li][li]A Passage To Bangkok - Rush[/li][li]Russians- Sting[/li][li]Turning Japanese - The Vapors[/li][li]Walk Like an Egyptian - Katrina and the Waves[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/14 "2008-03-19T20:40:04Z")
1. Veruca Salt “Shutterbug” (Bristol) 2. Garbage “Hammering in My Head” (Tokyo) 3. Refreshments “Mekong” (Bangkok) 4. Jump, Little Children “Cathedrals” (Rome) 5. Catatonia “International Velvet” (Wales) 6. Bloc Party “Song For Clay” (London) 7. Tom Cochrane “Life Is A Highway” (Vancouver; Mozambique) 8. Carly Simon “You’re So Vain” (Nova Scotia) 9. Sage Francis “Makeshift Patriot” (the West Bank) 10. System Of A Down “Metro” (Paris) 11. Rasputina “Rats” (Bolivia) ---
**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 19, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/15 "2008-03-19T21:27:42Z")
The “Blues For Allah” set Babylon Sisters – **Steely Dan** World Goes To Riyahd – **Al Stewart** Tea In The Sahara – **The Police** Walk Like An Egyptian – **Bangles** Bangladesh – **George Harrison** Honeymoon In Beirut – **Rick Springfield** The Mines of Mozambique – **Bruce Cockburn** Marrakesh Express – **Crosby, Stills and Nash** Miss Sarajevo – **U2** ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/16 "2008-03-20T00:27:02Z")
Can I enter more than once? Here’s my St. Patrick’s Day edition: **Irish Boy** - Cowboy Mouth **Irish Drinking Song** - Buck-o-nine **The Broad Majestic Shannon** - The Pogues **Donegal Express** - Shane Macgowan & The Popes **Inniskillen Dragoons** - The Dubliners **Streets of Arklow** - Van Morrison **The Kilburn High Road** - Flogging Molly **The Rocky Road to Dublin** - Dropkick Murphys **The Black Cross of Crumlin** - Blood or Whiskey **Carrickfergus** - The Chieftains **Moorlough Shore** - Sinead O’Connor Middle East Edition **Middle East** - Mark Sandman **Turkish Song of the Damned** - The Pogues **Istanbul (Not Constantinople**- They Might Be Giants **Lebanese Blond** - Thievery Corporation **Run, Come See Jerusalem** - Arlo Guthrie **Walk Like An Egyptian** - The Bangles **Babylon** - David Gray **Downtown Baghdad Blues** - Black47 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/17 "2008-03-20T04:42:08Z")
“London Calling” by the Clash “Havana Moon” by Carlos Santana “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” by They Might Be Giants “Woman From Tokyo” by Deep Purple “Katmandhu” by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band “A Passage to Bangkok” by Rush “Tales From the Vienna Woods” by Johann Strauss, performed by Boston Pops “Jerusalem” by Emerson, Lake & Palmer “Rocky Road to Dublin” by the Chieftains with the Rolling Stones “Buenos Aires” by Patti LuPone (From “Evita”) “Going Down to Liverpool” by the Bangles “The Bells of Rhymney” by the Byrds ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/18 "2008-03-20T06:35:00Z")
Free Man in Paris – Joni Mitchell Streets of London – Ralph McTell Caledonia – Dougie Maclean Mother Russia – Renaissance Green Fields of France - The Corries Norwegian Wood - The Beatles Roads To Moscow - Al Stewart Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square - Jethro Tull London Still – The Waifs Greece - George Harrison Sunny Goodge Street - Donovan Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel Rome and Bored – Martin Mull ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/19 "2008-03-21T17:32:18Z")
**(bump)** don’t let this die so soon! ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883/20 "2008-03-22T22:16:17Z")
On the grounds that there’s no requirement that the places be terrestrial… 1. “Fly Me to the Moon,” Tony Bennet 2. “Why Does the Sun Shine (The Sun Is a Ball of Incandescent Gas),” They Might Be Giants 3. “Venus and Mars/Rockshow,” Paul McCartney & Wings 4. “Life on Mars,” David Bowie 5. “Drops of Jupiter,” Train 6. “Plutonian Nights,” Sun Ra and His Arkestra 7. “CTA 102,” The Byrds [Note: It’s a pulsar] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-album-challenge-week-of-march-17-the-drive-to-the-prize/441883.md?page=2)