# Mix CD Challenge #2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786 "2006-09-07T14:49:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/21 "2006-09-07T21:38:52Z")
OK: **Challenge 2** 1. Los Shakers - Break It All (Uruguay) 2. ABBA - Dancing Queen (Sweden) 3. Air - Sexy Boy (France) 4. Fantastic Plastic Machine - Dear Mr. Salesman (Japan) 5. The Notwist - Consequence (Germany) 6. Bettie Serveert - Ray Ray Rain (Holland) 7. Cibo Matto - Beef Jerky (Japan) 8. Sondre Lerche - Two-Way Monologue (Norway) 9. Fela - Gentleman (Nigeria) 10. The Cardigans - Rise & Shine (Sweden) **Challenge 3** 1. R.E.M. - How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us 2. Husker Du - Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely 3. XTC - Train Running Low On Soul Coal 4. Sugar - If I Can’t Change Your Mind 5. X - Sex And Dying In High Society 6. The Beatles - Everybody’s Got Something To Hide (Except Me And My Monkey) 7. The Clash - Julie’s Been Working For The Drug Squad 8. Yo La Tengo - How To Make A Baby Elephant Float 9. Man or Astroman? - Spectrograph Reading of the Varying Phantom Frequencies of Chronic, Incurable Tinnitus 10. Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/22 "2006-09-07T21:43:46Z")
Challenge #1 - _Nine songs that are cool and one that sucks_: Fire in Cairo - the Cure London’s Brilliant Parade - Elvis Costello Anarchy in the U.K. - Sex Pistols A Favour House Atlantic - Coheed and Cambria Dominion / Mother Russia - Sisters of Mercy (I don’t want to go to) Chelsea - Elvis Costello Sister Europe - Psychedelic Furs Ferry Cross the Mersey - Gerry and the Pacemakers Champs Elysees - NOFX Panama - Van Halen ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/23 "2006-09-07T21:59:09Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] Challenge #1 - _Nine songs that are cool and one that sucks_: Fire in Cairo - the Cure London’s Brilliant Parade - Elvis Costello Anarchy in the U.K. - Sex Pistols A Favour House Atlantic - Coheed and Cambria Dominion / Mother Russia - Sisters of Mercy (I don’t want to go to) Chelsea - Elvis Costello Sister Europe - Psychedelic Furs Ferry Cross the Mersey - Gerry and the Pacemakers Champs Elysees - NOFX Panama - Van Halen [/QUOTE] You got Elvis Costello in there twice. Quick - redeem yourself! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/24 "2006-09-07T22:01:28Z")
Okay, Chelsea was by Elvis Costello and the Attractions 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/25 "2006-09-07T22:14:43Z")
Challenge Three CD Name-Sixism _In the Lap of the Gods_ -Queen _I Was Born To Love You_ -Freddie Mercury _Let Your Heart Rule Your Hand_ -Brian May _The Seige & Investiture of Baron Von Frankenstein’s Castle at Weisseria_ -Blue Oyster Cult _Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict_ -Pink Floyd _Three Boats Down from the Candy_ -Marillion _The Ballad of Billy The Kid_ -Marty Robbins _Thank God I’m a Country Boy_ -John Denver _Looking for the Next Best Thing_ -Warren Zevon _Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight_ -Spinal Tap ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/26 "2006-09-07T22:41:36Z")
Challenge 1: 1. White Man in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash 2. Essex Dogs - Blur 3. Rusholme Ruffians - The Smiths 4. Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks 5. Heathrow - Level 42 6. Wedding Cake Island - Midnight Oil 7. Mexico - Morrissey 8. Dream Home in New Zealand - The English Beat 9. Mull of Kintyre - Paul McCartney & Wings 10. London Town - Bucks Fizz Challenge 3: 1. The World Is Full of Crashing Bores - Morrissey 2. It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M. 3. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths 4. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police 5. When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best of What’s Still Around - Sting 6. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle - Nirvana 7. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police 8. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles 9. You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby - Kirsty MacColl 10. The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul - David Bowie ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/27 "2006-09-07T23:41:28Z")
Sorry, **Hippy Hollow** , that’s two Polices. Got a replacement? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/28 "2006-09-08T00:06:52Z")
Non-US locations 1. Hopewell - Calcutta 2. Guano Apes - Big In Japan 3. The Faint - Southern Belles in London 4. Urge Overkill - Sister Havana 5. Christine McVie - Coventry Carol 6. Guster - Amsterdam 7. Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill 8. Field Mice - Canada 9. Jeff Buckley - Vancouver 10. My Favorite - 17 Berlin Six Words Long 11. Econoline Crush - You Dont Know What It’s Like 12. Josh Rouse - Why Won’t You Tell Me What 13. Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me? 14. John Oszajca - Where’s Bob Dylan When You Need Him? 15. Relient K - Which To Bury; Us Or The Hatchet 16. Nouvelle Vague - This Is Not A Love Song 17. The Notwist - The Incredible Change of Our Alien 18. Surfjan Stevens - The Dress Looks Nice on You 19. Mono Puff - The Devil Went Down To Newport 20. Cursive - Some Red Handed Slight Of Hand 21. Earlimart - All They Ever Do Is Talk 22. The Twilight Singers - Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair I adore this song because I strongly perfer dark haired fellows 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/29 "2006-09-08T00:56:08Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Sorry, **Hippy Hollow** , that’s two Polices. Got a replacement? [/QUOTE] oops… missed that. How about: Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight - The Rezillos ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/30 "2006-09-08T01:16:13Z")
Challenge #3 - The “Negative Bonus Points” Mix (all emo and whiny modern rock bands) The Places You’ve Come to Fear the Most - Dashboard Confessional It was There That I Saw You - … and you will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Velorium Camper III: Al the Killer - … Coheed and Cambria It’s the End of the World as we Know It (And I Feel Fine) - Riddlin Kids I’m a Loner, Dottie, a Rebel - Get Up Kids The Vast Spoils of America (From the Badlands Through the Ocean) - Saves the Day The Good Times Are Killing Me - Modest Mouse No One Will Remember You Tonight - Maritime We Might as Well be Strangers - Keane I Woke Up in a Car - Something Corporate ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/31 "2006-09-08T01:36:24Z")
Trying to avoid duplicating anything already used… #1: Around the World in 80 Days and 12 Songs 1. “Mexico,” James Taylor 2. “Funky Kingston,” Tootsand the Maytals 3. “Streets of London,” The Anti-Nowhere League 4. “April in Paris,” Count Basie 5. “Port of Amsterdam,” Jacques Brel 6. '(There’ll Be a Hot Time) In the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go Marching In)," Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters 7. “Zimbabwe,” Bob Marley and the Wailers 8. “Troy,” Sinnead O’Connor 9. “Still in Saigon,” The Charlie Daniels Band 10. “(Why Did I Tell You I Was Going to) Shanghai,” Doris Day 11. “Woman from Tokyo,” Deep Purple 12. “Van Diemen’s Land,” U2 #3: Untitled (Cause We Can’t Fit the CD Title On Here) 1. “I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I’ll Get It Myself),” James Brown 2. “Life During Wartime (This Ain’t No Party… This Ain’t No Disco… This Ain’t No Fooling Around),” Talking Heads 3. “Objects in the Review Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are,” Meat Loaf 4. “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?” Lonnie Donnegan 5. "“Pink Cookies in a Plastic Bag Getting Crushed by Buildings,” LL Cool J 6. “Sartorial Eloquence (Don’t You Want to Play This Game No More?),” Elton John 7. “If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me?” The Bellamy Brothers 8. “Anaheim, Azuza & Cucamonga Sewing Ciricle, Book Review and Timing Association,” Jan and Dean 9. “Indian Reservation (Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian),” The Raiders 10. “Hey Won’t You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” B. J. Thomas 11. “(How I Spent My Summer Vacation) Or a Day at the Beach with Pedro & Man,” Cheech and Chong 12. “If You Don’t Like the Effects, Don’t Produce the Cause,” Funkadelic ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/32 "2006-09-08T02:04:45Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] 2 questions. 1. Does the song HAVE to be in their own language? For instance, if I have a song by a group from Norway (from there and currently living there), but they’re singing the song in English, is that disqualified? [/QUOTE] It didn’t say it had to be in another language. It simply said the artist had to be from a country where the majority native language is not English. And yeah, I’d listen to your CD! Incidentally, the lists I came up with before starting the Challenge, but I did not want to post them for fear of poisoning the well: Don’t Know Much About History, But Geography, I’ve Got Nailed 1. “Africa,” Toto 2. “Werewolves of London,” Warren Zevon 3. “Back in the USSR,” The Beatles 4. “Tea in the Sahara,” The Police 5.. “One Night in Bangkok,” Murray Head 5. “China Grove,” The Doobie Brothers 6. “London Calling,” The Clash 7. “Bobcaygeon,” The Tragically Hip 8. “Rio,” Duran Duran 9. “Waterloo,” ABBA Expatriate Act 1. “Final Countdown,” Europe (Sweden) 2. “99 Luftballons,” Nena (Germany) 3. “All That She Wants,” Ace of Base (Sweden) 4. “All The Things You Said,” TATU (Russia) 5. “Take On Me,” A-Ha (Norway) 6. “Rock You Like a Hurricane,” The Scorpions (Germany) 7. “Hips Don’t Lie,” Shakira (Colombia) 8. “It’s Oh So Quiet,” Bjork (Iceland) 9. “Rock Me, Amadeus,” Falco (Austria) 10. “Oh Yeah,” Yello (Switzerland) So Verbose 1. “God Moving Over the Face of the Water,” Moby 2. “De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da,” The Police 3. “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 4. “Escape is at Hand For The Travelling Man,” The Tragically Hip 5. “Everyone’s Got Something to Hide Except Me And My Monkey,” The Beatles 6. “Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard,” Paul Simon 7. “Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town,” Pearl Jam 8. “Six Months In A Leaky Boat,” Split Enz 9. “For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)”, AC/DC 10. “My Baby’s In Love With Eddie Vedder,” Weird Al Yankovic ---
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Challenge #1 “West to East” 1. “Trenchtown Rock,” Bob Marley and the Wailers 2. “Curacao,” Cal Tjader 3. “Guns of Brixton,” The Clash 4. “The Battle of Epping Forest,” Genesis 5. “Costa Brava,” Bela Fleck and the Flecktones 6. “Luxembourg,” Elvis Costello 7. “Short Tales of the Black Forest,” Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia 8. “A Night in Tunisia,” Ella Fitzgerald 9. “Back in the U. S. S. R.,” The Beatles 10. “Goodnight Saigon,” Billy Joel ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/34 "2006-09-08T03:16:55Z")
Challenge 1 and 3 combined _I Have Not Been to Oxford Town_ -David Bowie _It’ll Be Half Time In England Soon_-Bows _Raoul and the Kings of Spain_ -Tears for Fears _South of the Border(Down Mexico Way)_ -Chris Isaak _Might As Well Be on Mars_ -Alice Cooper _Set Your Controls for the Heart of the Sun_ -Pink Floyd _In France They Kiss on Main Street_ -Joni Mitchell _Rocky Mountain Suite(Cold Nights in Canada)_ -John Denver _How’d I Wind Up in Jamaica_ -Tracy Byrd _On a Slow Boat to China_ -Jimmy Buffet ---
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Challenge #1: 1. “O’er the Town of Pedro” – fIREHOSE 2. “Palo Alto” – Radiohead 3. “God’s Gallipolli” – Poi Dog Pondering 4. “Memphis Exorcism” – Squirrel Nut Zippers 5. “I Learned to Dance in Mississippi” – Southern Culture On the Skids 6. “Warsaw” – Joy Division 7. “North Bronx French Marie” – Stew 8. “Clover Over Dover” – Blur 9. “Portland” – The Replacements 10. “Sister Havana” – Urge Overkill Challenge #3: 1. “Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale” – Love 2. “Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worryin’ 'Bout That Girl” – The Kinks 3. “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey” – The Beatles 4. "You’re a Good Man Albert Brown (Curse You Red Barrel) – The Dukes of Stratosphear [XTC] 5. “I Was the Fool Beside You For Too Long” – Yo La Tengo 6. “I’ve Been Waiting for Tomorrow (All of My Life)” – The The 7. "Who Is He? (And What Is He To You?) – Bill Withers 8. “Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight” – The Rezillos 9. “The Fall of the World’s Own Optimist” – Aimee Mann 10. “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” – James Brown ---
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Challenge 3 _Cry for Freedom (Prayer for Passive Resistance)_ Charles Mingus - Mingus at Antibes _Better Git Hit in Your Soul_ Charles Mingus - Mingus at Antibes \*Oh Lord, Don’t Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me \*Charles Mingus - Mingus Oh, Yeah! \*Orange Was the Color of Her Dress _Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano \* Don’t Be Afraid, The Clown’s Afraid Too_ Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music _The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers_ Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music _Three or Four Shades of Blues_ Charles Mingus - Three or Four Shades of Blues \* Free Cell Back F, 'Tis Nazi U.S.A.\* Charles Mingus - Changes Two \*Once Upon a Time, There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America, Pt. 1/3 _Charles Mingus - Music Written for Monterey 1965. Not Heard… Played in Its Entirety at UCLA, Vol. 1&2 \* Meditations (Meditation on a Pair of Wire Cutters)_ Charles Mingus - Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vol. 1 ---
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Challenge 1 - Worldbeat 1. Siouxie and the Banshees - “Hong Kong Garden” 2. Pere Ubu - “30 Seconds Over Tokyo” 3. The Fall - “Iceland” 4. Wire - “Brazil” 5. Pavement - “Zurich Is Stained” 6. The Magnetic Fields - “Love Comes Home To Paris In The Spring” 7. The Arcade Fire - “Haiti” 8. Neutral Milk Hotel - “Holland 1945” 9. Yo La Tengo - “Stockholm Syndrome” 10. Luna - “23 Minutes In Brussels” 11. Galaxie 500 - “King Of Spain” 12. Dead Kennedys - “Holiday In Cambodia” Challenge 1A - “Bonus Roundabout” 1. Blur - “Clover Over Dover” 2. Pulp - “Mile End” 3. Robyn Hitchcock - “No, I Don’t Remember Guildford” 4. Sex Pistols - “Anarchy In The UK” 5. Elliott Smith - “Baby Britain” 6. The Magnetic Fields - “All The Umbrellas In London” 7. The Clash - “The Guns Of Brixton” 8. The Delgados - “Blackpool” 9. The Kinks - “Waterloo Sunset” 10. Belle And Sebastian - “Mornington Crescent” 11. Pop Will Eat Itself - “Black Country Chainstore Massacreee” 12. Television Personalities - “Parties In Chelsea” Challenge 2 - Language Learners 1. Air - “Sexy Boy” (France) 2. Yann Tiersen - “Monochrome” (France) 3. Amon Duul II - “Marcus Leid” (Germany) 4. Kleenex - “Ain’t You” (Switzerland) 5. Can - “Spoon” (Germany) 6. Kraftwerk - “Airwaves” (Germany) 7. Jacques Dutronc - “Le Responsable” (France) 8. Love Is All - “Felt Tip” (Sweden) 9. The Sugarcubes - “Birthday” (Iceland) 10. Os Mutantes - “Panis Et Circenses” (Brazil) 11. Juniper Moon - “El Resto De Mi Vida” (Spain) 12. Shonen Knife - “Cookie Day” (Japan) Challenge 3 - The Lyrics Alone Are Not Enough For My Purposes 1. The Magnetic Fields - “Either You Don’t Love Me Or I Don’t Love You” 2. Dusty Springfield - “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” 3. X - “Your Phone’s Off The Hook, But You’re Not” 4. The Temptations - “The Way You Do The Things You Do” 5. Arctic Monkeys - “You Probably Couldn’t See For The Lights But You Were Staring Straight At Me” 6. Teenage Fanclub - “Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From” 7. Yo La Tengo - “I Was The Fool Beside You For Too Long” 8. The White Stripes - “I’m Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman” 9. The Smiths - “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” 10. Nina Simone - “I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free” 11. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - “Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?” 12. Talking Heads - “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel” ---
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All songs are on my iPod: Challenge #1 1. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin 2. Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks 3. Brighton Rock - Queen 4. Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto 5. My Girlfriend Who Lives In Canada - Avenue Q Cast Recording 6. Rio - Duran Duran [ha!] 7. Albion - Babyshambles 8. China Girl - David Bowie 9. Portobello Belle - Dire Straits 10. Africa - Toto 11. London Calling - The Clash Challenge #2 1. Ue O Muite (Sukiyaki) - Sakamoto Kyu [Japan] 2. Dancing Queen - ABBA [Sweden] 3. Take on Me - a-ha [Norway] 4. 99 Luftballons - Nena [Germany] 5. Oye Como Va - Santana [Mexico] 6. Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto [Brazil] 7. Rock Me Amadeus - Falco [Austria] 8. The Final Countdown - Europe [Sweden] 9. Bamboleo - Gipsy Kings [France] 10. Sa Wakas - Eraserheads [Philippines] Challenge #3 1. I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles 2. (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding 3. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2 4. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band 5. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers 6. What’s Love Got to Do With It? - Tina Turner 7. I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner 8. Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack 9. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears 10. One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five 11. I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor - Arctic Monkeys 12. I’m In Love With My Car - Queen 13. Our Faces Split the Coast in Half - Broken Social Scene 14. It’s the End of the World as We Know It - R.E.M. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786/39 "2006-09-08T04:29:36Z")
Challenge 1 again _Hungary Like the Wolf_ -Duran Duran _Wherever I May Rome_ -Metallica _Please Mister Potsdam_-The Carpenters _Belize Belize Me_ -The Beatles _Gabon Get Happy_ -The Partridge Family _I’m Ghana Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair_-Peggy Lee _Greece_ -Olivia Newton-John _Good Golly Miss Mali_ -Little Richard _While My Qatar Gently Weeps_ -George Harrison _Here,Zaire and Everywhere_ -The Beatles Sorry had to use the Beatles twice. ---
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Challenge 1: Put together a CD for me of songs with titles that contain a geographic place name - the name of a city, province, state, region, country, whatever - that is not located in the United States. Non-geographic places (“the kitchen”) or metaphorical places (“my heart”) are not permissible, nor are nationalist or geographic possessives (“Russian.”) 1. “Jerusalem” by Emerson, Lake and Palmer 2. “Kathmandu” by Bob Seger 3. “Woman From Tokyo” by Deep Purple 4. “Voices of Babylon” by the Outfield 5. “Africa” by Toto 6. “London Town” by Paul McCartney & Wings 7. “One Night in Bangkok” by Murray Head 8. “China Grove” by the Doobie Brothers (even though it’s really about Texas) 9. “Mexico” by James Taylor 10. “Havana Moon” by Santana 11. “Jamaica Jerkoff” by Elton John 12. “Scotland’s Story” by the Proclaimers * * * Challenge 2: Put together a CD of songs performed by artists who are not from countries where the majority first language is English. (Celine Dion is out, party because Canada is mostly English even if Quebec is not, and mostly just because I don’t like Celine Dion) 1. Scorpions: “The Zoo” 2. Focus: “Hocus Pocus” 3. Los Bravos: “Black Is Black” 4. The Singing Nun: “Dominique” 5. Falco: “Rock Me Amadeus” 6. Taco: “Puttin’ On the Ritz” 7. Abba: “Knowing Me, Knowing You” 8. aha: “Take On Me” 9. Mocedades: “Eres Tu” 10. Johnny Halliday: “Viens, Danser le Twist” 11. Vandenberg: “Burning Heart” 12. Krokus: “Stayed Awake All Night” Challenge 3: Put together a CD of songs with titles at least six words long. For bonus points, do this without including any song put out by an emo band in the last three years. 1. “I’m On the Lamb But I Ain’t No Sheep” by Blue Oyster Cult 2. “In the Court of the Crimson King” by King Crimson 3. “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey” by the Beatles 4. (Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" by BJ Thomas 5. "Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right " by Bob Dylan 6. “For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her” by SImon & Garfunkel 7. “When The Apple Blossoms Bloom In The Windmills Of Your Mind I’ll Be Your Valentine” by Emerson, Lake and Palmer 8. “All the Young Girls Love Alice” by Elton John 9. “People Take Pictures of Each Other” by the Kinks 10. “The Needle and the Damage Done” by Neil Young 11. “You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here” by Frank Zappa and the Mothers 12. “No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Required” by Yes (via Richie Havens) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-cd-challenge-2/371786.md?page=3)