Mix CD Challenge #3

Cafe Society
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It’s time for more Mix CD Challenge categories!

As per the previous threads, here are the rules:

  • For each CD theme put together a CD of 10 to 12 tracks with songs that fit the specific theme.
  • No one CD can include two songs by the same artist. Related artists are okay; you can have one song by the Eagles and another by Glenn Frey as a solo artist, for example.
  • For bonus points, give the CD a neat title.

Here are the new themes:

Easy Level: Compose a CD of songs that include the name of an animal, but NOT the word “dog.”

Intermediate Level: Compose a CD of songs with titles that include a word or phrase that is offensive, obscene, or a curse word. (Words like “God” or “Jesus” are not permissible unless they are used as a curse in thatcontext. So “Jesus Walks” by Kanye West is not allowed because it’s not used as a curse there; “God Damn You,” if it were a song, would be.)

Hard Level Compose a CD of songs that include a brand name, or the name of a company that produces brand name products. Nonspecific references to customer products (e.g. “There’s a Tear in my Beer”) are no good; we need something specific, like if “I Love Heineken” was a song, that would be good.

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Question: are novelty songs, like “Pac-Man Fever” or Weird Al’s “The Brady Bunch”, disqualified from the “Hard” level? Seems like they should be, but I’m just askin’.

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Easy Level
Menagerie
“Pigs (Three Different Ones)” - Pink Floyd
“Night of the Swallow” - Kate Bush
“Wooden Horse” - Suzanne Vega
“Rock Lobster” - B-52s
“Sharks Can’t Sleep” - Tracy Bonham
“For The Birds” - Julianna Hatfiled Trio
“Wolves, Lower” - R.E.M.
“Porpoise Song” - The Monkees
“Roadrunner” - The Modern Lovers
“Praying Mantis” - Don Dixon
“Two Egrets” - Collapsis
“I Dig A Pony” - The Beatles

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Easy Level

If I Ran the Zoo

  1. Where’s the Walrus - The Alan Parsons Project
  2. Rock Lobster - The B-52s
  3. Shooting Shark - Blue Oyster Cult
  4. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
  5. The Nightingale - Julee Cruise
  6. Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
  7. Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
  8. Pigs - Pink Floyd
  9. The Vultures Fly High - Renaissance
  10. Tweeter and the Monkey Man - The Travelling Wilburys
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The Food Chain

Origin:
Was (Not Was) “Walk the Dinosaur”
Traditional “La Cucaracha”

Herbivores:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov “Flight of the Bumblebee”
Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit”
Henry Mancini “Baby Elephant Walk”

Carnivores:
Elton John “Crocodile Rock”
The Tokens “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”

Omnivores:
B-52s “Rock Lobster”
Beatles “Piggies”
Sarah McLachlan “Blackbird”
Human League “Human”

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(Intermediate Level – I also limited myself to music that I either currently own, or at least have owned in the past)

A Fucking CD
Fucked - Less Than Jake
Totally Fucked - NOFX
Fucked Up - Murphy’s Law
All Fucked Up - Nashville Pussy
Fuck The Police - N.W.A.
Get The Fuck Out - Skid Row
Fuck Like A Beast - W.A.S.P.
Fuck You - Overkill
Fuck The Mods - The Exploited
Ass-Fuckin’, Butt-Lickin’, Cunt Suckin’ Masturbation - G.G. Allin

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  1. Year of the Cat- Al Stewart
  2. Eye of the Tiger- Survivor
  3. Elephant Man- Mastodon
  4. 99 Dead Baboons - ? (99 Red Balloons parody I heard on Dr. Demento)
  5. Horse With No Name- America
  6. Where Eagles Dare- Iron Maiden
  7. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway- Genesis
  8. The Rooster- Alice in Chains
  9. Paper Tiger- Thrice
  10. The Lion Sleeps Tonight- ?
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Easy Challenge: Menagerie
[limited to songs on my iPod]

  1. Gerbil - Stephen Lynch
  2. Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
  3. The Ballad of Queen Bee and Baby Duck - Eagles of Death Metal
  4. Union of the Snake - Duran Duran
  5. Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head - Gorillaz
  6. Tiger Rag - Art Tatum
  7. Birdland - Weather Report
  8. Three Little Birds - Bob Marley & The Wailers
  9. Cat People - David Bowie
  10. Dig a Pony - The Beatles
  11. Strange Meadowlark - Dave Brubeck
  12. When Doves Cry - Prince

The others I’ll have to think about.

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The Animal I’ve Become

  1. A Perfect Circle - Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drum
  2. Laika - Black Cat Bone
  3. Tori Amos - Black Dove (January)
  4. Charlie Mars - Gather The Horses
  5. Duran, Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
  6. The Beta Band - Liquid Bird
  7. Low - Monkey
  8. Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes
  9. Toadies - Possum Kingdom
  10. Kittie - Raven
  11. Sage Francis - Sealion
  12. Throwing Muses - Snake Face

Here’s Your Fucking Mix CD

  1. Liz Phair - Fuck and Run
  2. Stroke 9 - Kick Some Ass
  3. Hot Hot Heat - Oh, Goddamnit
  4. Meredith Brooks - Bitch
  5. The Catherine Wheel - Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck
  6. NiN - Starfuckers, Inc.
  7. Harvey Danger - Cream and Bastards Rise
  8. Fear - Fuck Christmas
  9. Ugly Kid Joe - Goddamn Devil
  10. Motion City Soundtrack - Let’s Get Fucked Up And Die
  11. Headstart - Bitches and Bastards
  12. Conelrad - Power For Fucking
    MixTM
  13. David Byrne - Dance On Vaseline
  14. Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
  15. Caviar- Tangerine Speedo
  16. 69 Boys - Tootsie Roll
  17. Nirvana - Lithium
  18. Communique - Ouija Me
  19. The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy!
  20. Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
  21. Big Sky - Cellophane
  22. Alan Jackson - Mercury Blues
  • possible 11 & 12
    Nine Black Alps - Cosmopolitan (the magazine)
    Bettie Serveert - Greyhound Song (bus company, so service rather than goods)
    The last one there nearly defeated my MP3 collection. Obviously I need to rip more of my cds!
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I don’t know if I’ll be able to do #2 or #3, though #3 might be possible if I lean heavily enough on car makes and models. (Clarification: The product names have to be in the song titles, right?) So to make up for it, I split #1 into three CD’s: Mammals, Birds, and Creepy Crawly Critters (insects etc.).

Mammal (the song of that name by They Might Be Giants would make a good bonus track)

  1. Stray Cat Strut, by The Stray Cats
  2. Elephant Talk, by King Crimson
  3. Ride the Pony, by Cheap Trick
  4. Monkey Grinder, by Chagall Guevara
  5. Rat in the Kitchen, by UB40
  6. Sheep, by The Housemartins
  7. Shake You Donkey Up, by XTC
  8. Whining Horse, by Chris Mars
  9. Hungry Like The Wolf, by Duran Duran
  10. I Am the Walrus, by The Beatles

Feathered Friends

  1. Birds in Perspex, by Robin Hitchcock
  2. Fly Like an Eagle, by The Steve Miller Band
  3. Mockingbird Franklin, by E
  4. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, by Tom Lehrer
  5. Blue Jay Way, by The Beatles
  6. Bluebird, by Paul McCartney & Wings
  7. Rook, by XTC
  8. Vulture Culture, by The Alan Parsons Project
  9. Donna Nietzsche and her Super Race of Kick Boxing Über Parrots, by Daniel Amos
  10. Wings of a Dove, by Madness

Squish!

  1. Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over), by Elvis Costello
  2. Praying Mantis, by Don Dixon
  3. Doctor Worm, by They Might Be Giants
  4. Spider In My Room, by Barenaked Ladies
  5. Gypsy Moth, by John Austin
  6. Humble Bee, by John Welsey Harding
  7. Flyswatter, by Eels
  8. Inchworm, by Danny Kaye
  9. Firefly, by Damn Yankees
  10. Across This Antheap, by XTC
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  1. Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky
  2. All Hat, No Cattle - Trace Adkins
  3. Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy) - Big & Rich
  4. Just Playin’ Possum - Alan Jackson
  5. Dixie Chicken - Garth Brooks
  6. Chicken Truck - John Anderson
  7. The Snake Song - Billy Gilman
  8. Lonesome Dove - Trisha Yearwood
  9. Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet) - Tom T. Hall
  10. Beer For My Horses - Toby Keith
    Bonus Track: Old Bird Dog - Kenny Chesney (It includes the name of an animal that is not a dog, but also the word “dog”)

Drivin’ and Drinkin’

  1. Silver Thunderbird - Jo Dee Messina
  2. Cadillac Ranch - Chris Ledoux (originally I used Ledoux’s Copenhagen here, but I changed songs to fit the theme)
  3. Jose Cuervo - Shelly West
  4. Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo - Tracy Byrd
  5. Buicks To The Moon - Alan Jackson
  6. Jack Daniels - Miranda Lambert
  7. Jack Daniels If You Please - David Allen Coe
  8. Guitars, Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakam
  9. Cadillac Jack Favor - Clint Black
  10. Cadillac Style - Sammy Kershaw
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Hard level: “Brand X” (note songs grouped thematically by nature of product)

  1. Maybelline - Chuck Berry
  2. Kleenex - Generation X
  3. Hoover Factory - Elvis Costello
  4. Camarillo Brillo - Frank Zappa
  5. Carbona Not Glue - Ramones
  6. EMI - Sex Pistols
  7. Zig Zag - George Harrison
  8. Marlboro Man - Blink 182
  9. Heinz Baked Beans - The Who
  10. A Rose and a Baby Ruth - George Hamilton IV
  11. Abba Zaba - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  12. Rum and Coca-Cola - Andrews Sisters
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Dang!

  1. Pussy Galore - Cunt Tease
  2. The Roots - Pussy Galore
  3. The Coup - Mind Fuck (A New Creation)
  4. Drive-By Truckers - Goddamn Lonely Love
  5. Modest Mouse - Shit Luck
  6. Ice Cube - We Had To Tear This Mothafucka Up
  7. Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker
  8. Liz Phair - Fuck And Run
  9. Less Than Jake - Where The Hell Is Mike Sinkovich?
  10. Geto Boys - Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
  11. Bikini Kill - I Like Fucking
  12. J-Live - Do That Shit
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Hard Level

Songs To Bleach Your Brain By

  1. The TIDE Is High - Blondie
  2. ABC - Jackson 5
  3. Town With No CHEER - Tom Waits
  4. When We Was FAB - George Harrison
  5. ALL Things Must Pass - George Harrison
  6. BOLD - Simon Says
  7. No Pain, No GAIN - Scorpions
  8. JOY To The World - 3 Dog Night
  9. Delta DAWN - Helen Reddy
  10. SUNLIGHT - Natalie Imbruglia
  11. Ebony & IVORY - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
  12. Around the DIAL - Kinks
  13. CAMAY - Ghostface Killah
  14. On The Wings Of A DOVE - Dolly Parton
  15. SHOUT - Isley Brothers
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DOH!

Meant to substitute:
#5: ALL Of Me - Frank Sinatra

to comply with the “No 2 Songs By The Same Artist” rule.

My Bad

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#1: I Am Not An Animal; I Am A CD

  1. “Do the Funky Penguin,” Rufus Thomas
  2. “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight,” REM
  3. “Barracuda,” Heart
  4. “Cool for Cats,” Squeeze
  5. “Milk Cow Blues Boogie,” Elvis Presley
  6. “Fly on the Windscreen,” Depeche Mode
  7. “Rockin’ Robin,” Bobby Day
    8 "The Grasshopper Unit,"The Beastie Boys
  8. “Will the Wolf Survive?,” Los Lobos
  9. “Mockingbird,” Inez and Charlie Foxx
  10. “I Am the Walrus,” The Beatles
  11. “Chestnut Mare,” The Byrds

#2: Parental Advisory? Fuck Yeah!

  1. “Fuck It (I Don’t Want You Back),” Eamon
  2. “(If You Don’t Want to Fuck Me Baby) Fuck Off,” Wayne County
  3. “Get the Fuck Out of Dodge,” Public Enemy
  4. “Fuckin’Up,” Neil Young
  5. “Fuck Tha Police,” NWA
  6. “Fuck Compton,” Tim Dogg
  7. “The Wrong Nigga to Fuck With,” Ice Cube
  8. “Too Drunk to Fuck,” The Dead Kennedys
  9. “Tough Fuckin Shit,” G G Allin
  10. “Starfucker (Star, Star),” The Rolling Stones
  11. “Starfuckers, Inc.,” Nine Inch Nails
  12. “The Man Don’t Give a Fuck,” Super Furry Animals

#3: CDTM

  1. “The Cover of the Rolling Stone,” Dr Hook & The Medicine Show
  2. “The Playboy Mansion,” U2
  3. “GTO,” Ronny and the Daytonas
  4. “Mustang Sally,” Wilson Pickett
  5. “Little Honda,” The Hondells
  6. “2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song),” The Byrds
  7. “Pan American,” Hank Williams, Sr.
  8. “My Adidas,” Run DMC
  9. “Mr. Good Bar,” LL Cool J
  10. “The Jolly Green Giant,” The Kingsmen
  11. “Old Mountain Dew,” Bascom Lamar Lunsford
  12. “Letter to Johnny Walker Red,” Asleep at the Wheel
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Please sir, may we have another challenge?

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[Mr Bumble] MORE?!?[/Mr Bumble]

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Hard:

  1. Paul Simon - Kodachrome
  2. Prince - Little Red Corvette
  3. Tom Waits - Burma Shave
  4. Dead Milkmen - Bitchin’ Camaro
  5. The Coolies - Coke Light Ice
  6. Dr. Hook - Cover of the Rolling Stone
  7. Pete Seeger - Pepsi Cola
  8. Ben Vaughn Combo - Lookin’ for a 7-11
  9. Ray Stevens - Jack Daniels, You Lied To Me Again
  10. Pianosaurus - Barbie
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The easiest reply to the Easy:

The cast CD of CATS