01 Young Jeezy - Air Forces
02 Crime Mob - Stilettos (Pumps)
03 Dem Franchize Boyz - White Tee
04 Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Casiotone For the Painfully Alone In A Yellow T-Shirt
05 Randy Newman - Red Bandana
06 The Hold Steady - Charlemagne In Sweatpants
07 Weezer - Undone - The Sweater Song
08 The Promise Ring - Red & Blue Jeans
09 All Girl Summer Fun Band - Grass Skirt
10 The Lucksmiths - T-Shirt Weather
11 Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor Put Your Boots On
12 Johnny Boy - You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve Mix 5: Don’t Drive Your Truck When You’re All Jacked Up
01 Fountains Of Wayne - Mexican Wine
02 Fall Out Boy - Of All The Gin Joints In The World
03 Death Cab For Cutie - Champagne In A Paper Cup
04 Busta Rhymes - Pass The Courvoisier
05 Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gin and Juice
06 The Streets - Too Much Brandy
07 Last Days Of April - Aspirins And Alcohol
08 The Get Up Kids - Beer For Breakfast
09 The Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey
10 Blitzen Trapper - Whiskey Kisser (Kittenz Remix)
11 Cam’ron - Sippin’ Sizzurp*
12 Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine
*Although Sizzurp usually refers to codeine-laced cough syrup, since Cam’ron sells an alcoholic drink called Sizzurp, I believe this counts. Mix 6: The Red Thing’s Connected To My Wristwatch
01 Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
02 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
03 The Vaselines - Molly’s Lips
04 Interpol - Slow Hands
05 Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart
06 Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes
07 Basement Jaxx - Where’s Your Head At?
08 Kano - Brown Eyes
09 The Clipse - Pussy
10 Destiny’s Child - Bootylicious
11 The White Stripes - I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother’s Heart
12 Blur - Battery In Your Leg Mix 7: Like Pets? Me Too; Mines Are Dead
01 Big and Rich - Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)
02 The Testicicles - Boa vs Python
03 Foo Fighters - For All The Cows
04 Pearl Jam - Rats
05 The Smashing Pumpkins - Rhinoceros
06 Sage Francis - Sea Lion
07 Big Star - Kangaroo
08 Wilco - Muzzle Of Bees
09 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
10 Animal Collective - Who Could Win A Rabbit
11 The Walkmen - The Rat
12 R.E.M. - Wolves, Lower
MIX 8: Devise a mix CD of songs with numbers in the title, EXCEPT for 1 or 2. So U2’s “One” is no good. “Just the Two of Us” is also out. But “In The Year 2525” is in.
MIX 9: A very challenging one: cite 10-12 songs with fabrics in the title. Not articles of clothing; types of fabric, either artificial or natural.
“Ten Years Gone” by Led Zeppelin
“2000 Light Years From Home” by the Rolling Stones
“Funk 49” by the James Gang
“Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” by Bob Dylan
“#9 Dream” by John Lennon
“Gimme 3 Steps” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
“I Got the 6” by ZZTop
“Star 69” by REM
“Hey 19” by Steely Dan
“25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago
#9
Black Velvet by Alannah Myles
Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues
Chantilly Lace by the Big Bopper
Cotton Jenny by Gordon Lightfoot
Blue Suede Shoes by Elvis Presley
J-Live - 3 Out Of 7
Neutral Milk Hotel - Three Peaches
Old 97’s - Four Leaf Clover
Ted Leo - Six Months In A Leaky Boat
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
Less Than Jake - Ask The Magic 8 Ball
Ryan Adams - Shakedown on 9th Street
The Black Keys - 10 AM Automatic
Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl
Sonic Youth - 100%
Dr. Octagon - 3000
Oh How I Want To Be In That Number
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[li]“Three Times a Lady” - The Commodores[/li][li]“Five Years” - David Bowie[/li][li]“Seven Year Ache” - Roseanne Cash[/li][li]“Eight Days a Week” - The Beatles[/li][li]“Sixteen Tons” - Tennessee Ernie Ford[/li][li]“25 O’Clock” - The Dukes of Stratosphear[/li][li]“40” - U2[/li][li]“50 Ways To Leave Your Lover” - Paul Simon[/li][li]“99 Luftballons” - Nena[/li][li]“I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” - The Proclaimers[/li][li]“22,000 Days” - The Moody Blues[/li][li]“If I Had $1,000,000” - Barenaked Ladies[/li][/ol]
01 Brand New - Seventy Times Seven
02 Jay-Z - 99 Problems
03 Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
04 You Am I - Fifteen
05 The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
06 Architecture In Helsinki - It’5!
07 The Ataris - Song #13
08 M.I.A. - 10 Dollar
09 Murs - 3:16
10 Dashboard Confessional - Age 6 Racer
11 Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl
12 Jimmy Eat World - 12.23.95
Mix 9: Like Egyptian Cotton
01 Pearl Jam - Corduroy
02 Nirvana - White Lace and Strange
03 Modest Mouse - Satin In A Coffin
04 Morrissey - Suedehead
05 Liz Phair - Polyester Bride
06 Cody ChestnuTT - Look Good In Leather
07 Regurgitator - Polyester Girl
08 Red Hot Chili Peppers - This Velvet Glove
09 Prince - Pink Cashmere
10 Outkast - Red Velvet
I’ll do my usual thing and quote some obscure folky ones - What can I say? I’m a geek.
The Wounded Whale - Fairport Convention
Mr Fox - Mr Fox
Poor Old Horse - The Albion Band
The Lark in the Morning - Steeleye Span
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
The Angels Have Taken my Racehorse Away - Richard Thompson
The Wurm - Jack the Lad
Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull
The Spotted Cow - Steeleye Span
Rabbit in the Headlights - Bluehorses
Faster Than the Hound - Horslips
In Numeric Order - By Title
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[li]Dink - 3 Big Bags[/li][li]Aphrodite’s Child - The 4 Horsemen[/li][li]Buddy Guy - 5 Long Years[/li][li]ZZ Top - I Got The 6[/li][li]White Stripes - 7 Nation Army[/li][li]REM - Driver 8[/li][li]Dr. Lonnie Smith - Track 9[/li][li]Cop Shoot Cop - $10 Bill[/li][li]Was (Not Was) - 11 MPH (Abe Zapp Ruder Version)[/li][li]NRBQ - 12 Bar Blues[/li][li]Big Star - 13[/li]Cranes - 14[/list]