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More CD building, can you help?

uncle retrospective

05:56 / 05.06.02

Ok, so I have some MP3's on my hard drive that need burning off but I can't think of what else to add to the cd. That's where I'm hoping you can help out.
The songs are
Hotel Yorba. the white stripes
Hate to say. the hives
last nite. the strokes
Stereo. Pavement
Superfire. GvsB
Now I wanta be your dog. Iggy.
I Just Dropped In To See What Condition my Condition my Condition Was In. Kenny rogers.

80 minutes of CD space. Your my only hope.

ONLY NICE THINGS

06:53 / 05.06.02

How about "Hit me Baby One More Time"? Because you are clearly a sucker for really commercial stuff. You may think the White Stripes are less commercial than Britney Spears, but you would be wrong. I am a CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND of someone who knew Jack White once, and he distinctly remembers him saying that he wanted to be like Moby and sell all his songs to adverts.

More obscure Pavement. More Chimney Factory. More Coldwater Suplex bands.

(Just thought I'd get it over with...)

uncle retrospective

07:40 / 05.06.02

thanks Haus, I was waiting for that one. I didn't want to put the disclaimer on it to see who'd leap first. Mind you now I'll never know if the person I expected to attack would.

But suggestions please.

And Haus before you leave... [indie sulk]I was listening to Chimney Factory years before you ever heard of them.[/indie sulk]

15:59 / 05.06.02

Early Kinks.
The first Nuggets compilation.
Stuff off "Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy."

16:11 / 05.06.02

I in a circle
3 Stick Figurs
Ick Van Ike

But I'd stick with Britney if I was you, much more fun.

Murray Hamhandler

17:03 / 05.06.02

Bobby Conn's "Winners".
Richard Hell And The Voidoid's "Liars Beware".
Spoon's "Take The Fifth".
Jim O'Rourke's "All Downhill From Here".
Love's "Can't Explain".

But only if you're looking to rock.

Locust No longer

17:40 / 05.06.02

Anything by Xiu Xiu or Hella. just check them out they are fucking amazing.... I swear you will at least find them interesting. Then head on over to the Boredoms or Holy Molar.

06:55 / 06.06.02

"Are You On the Inside Or the Outside of Your Pants" by the Makers will fit into the general vibe that you have going on with the rest of the music, very rock'n'roll in the "everything-that's-good-about-rock'n'roll-these-days" type way.

"Little White Trash" by the Didjits is another one of those songs that could restore one's faith in rock'n'roll (and it's from the late eighties to boot).

"He's A Whore" by Cheap Trick is flat out the best power pop song ever written.

"Raining Blood" by Slayer, just cuz it fits on just about any compilation cd or tape.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:05 / 06.06.02

'Mystery Girl' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs... and something by the Von Bondies.

uncle retrospective

14:30 / 15.06.02

Ok, I'm bumping this back up to try get a few more ideas. Thanks for the above but the vibe I'm going for is a new music indie CD party comp. Something I know bugger all about. But it has to be recognisable enough for people not as versed in the obscure as you seem to be.

Ok. I'll say it. I want a mainstream rockin' cd.
I am a pleb.
Help me.

Matthew Fluxington

15:01 / 15.06.02

Hmm.

I second "Take The Fifth" by Spoon

accessable, upbeat and popular songs by good indie/indiefriendly bands:

Sonic Youth "Teenage Riot" "Bull in the Heather" "100%" "Kool Thing"
Sleater-Kinney "You're No Rock N' Roll Fun" "Little Babies" "Get Up"
The Make Up "Pow! To The People"
Guided By Voices "Teenage FBI" "Glad Girls"
Le Tigre "Deceptacon"
Blur "On Your Own" "Coffee and TV" "Girls and Boys"
Modest Mouse "Polar Opposites"
Belle & Sebastian "Dirty Dream #2" "Legal Man" "The Boy w/t Arab Strap"
Beck "Where It's At" "Sexx Laws" "Devil's Haircut" "Mixed Bizness"
Apples In Stereo "Go!" "The Bird That You Can't See"
The Breeders "Cannonball"
Clinic "Walking With Thee" "The Second Line"
Cornershop "Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III" "Brimful of Asha"
Dub Narcotic Sound System "Fuck Shit Up"
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion "Dang" "Blues X Plosion Man" "Can't Stop"
Elastica "How He Wrote Elastica Man" "Connection" "Car Song" "Stutter"
Elvis Costello "Pump It Up" "You Belong To Me" "Accidents Will Happen"
Imperial Teen "You're One" "Yoo Hoo" "The Beginning" "Baby"
Jonathan Fire*Eater "When The Curtain Calls For You"
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers "Roadrunner"
Joat Jett "Cherry Bomb"
Ladytron "He Took Her To A Movie"
Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend"
Mission of Burma "Academy Fight Song"
Moldy Peaches "Downloading Porn With Davo"
The New Pornographers "Letter From An Occupant" "The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism"
Papas Fritas "Sing About Me"
Bis "Tell It To The Kids"
Pixies "Debaser" "Here Comes Your Man" "Monkey Gone To Heaven" "Where Is My Mind?" "U-Mass" "Head On" "Dig For Fire"
The Slits "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
The B-52s "Private Idaho" "Rock Lobster" "Love Shack" "52 Girls"
The Clash "Train In Vain" "I Fought The Law" "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" "London Calling" "This is Radio Clash"
The Flaming Lips "Race For The Prize" "Buggin" "She Don't Use Jelly" "Lightning Strikes The Postman"
Weezer "Dope Nose" "Hash Pipe" "Say It Ain't So" "Buddy Holly" "The Good Life" "Tired of Sex" "El Scorcho" "Keep Fishin'"
Wilco "Heavy Metal Drummer"
Wire "I Am The Fly" "Three Girl Rhumba" "Map Ref"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Bang" "Mystery Girl"

hopefully this was helpful, and gets you in the direction you want to be in.

uncle retrospective

15:37 / 15.06.02

Thanks flux. My modem's going to hate me.

19:37 / 16.06.02

You should also put "Personality Crisis" by the New York Dolls on there as it kicks fucking ass.

19:56 / 16.06.02

Am i the only one that doesn't like Heavy Metal Drummer or Jenny and the Ess-dog?