Help Me Make an Awesome 35-song CD
 

I would like your help in making an awesome CD... The theme is that it needs to have a LOT of songs. So, let's all keep the song length under 02:30, shall we?

Anything's fair game... but try to keep the songs to 1 or 2 per artist please.

What are some good songs that fit the bill?

Some ideas so far:

Madvillain - All Caps (2:10)
The Avalanches - Avalance Rock (0:23)
Prince Paul - What U Got (The Demo) (2:29)
Air - Clouds Up (1:30)
Erlend Øye - Sheltered Life (Remix) / Fine Day (A Capella) (2:04)
Manu Chao - La Marea (2:16)
Death From Above 1979 - Go Home, Get Down (2:19)
Dwight Yoakam - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (2:22)
Pavement - Two States (1:47)
Super Furry Animals - Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir (1:54)
that dog. - Silently (2:26)
The White Stripes- Fell In Love with a Girl (1:51)
The Ramones - Judy is a Punk (1:31)
The Shins - Know Your Onion (2:29)
The Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon (2:15)
Badly Drawn Boy - Body Rap (0:45)
Beck - Puttin It Down (2:22)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Dang (1:59)

I'll think of more later...

Looking through my iTunes list sorted by time, here are a few of my favorites I've picked out

The Replacements - Run It (1:11)
Sublime - Paddle Out (1:15)
Pinhead Gunpowder - At Your Funeral (1:32)
The Vines - Highly Evlolved (1:34) or Get Free (2:06)
Queens of the Stoneage - Quick and to the Pointless (1:42)
Uncle Tupelo - Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down (1:53)
Kings of Leon - Four Kicks (2:09)
Patsy Cline - Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray (2:13)
Jucifer - Hero Worship (2:16)
Joseph Arthur - In the Night (2:20)
Everclear - Heroin Girl (2:23)
Uncle Tupelo - I Got Drunk (2:26)
International Noise Conspiracy - I Wanna Know About U (2:30)

And a couple just over
Pavement - Unfair (2:32)
Wilco - I'm A Wheel (2:34)

The Pixies have a ton of great songs in the 2:00 range.

Pick any Dead Kennedies/Misfits/early Blink songs..or

Yesterday- Beatles (2:05)
Knocking on Heaven's Door-Bob Dylan (2:29)
Coral Fang- Distillers (2:09)
Irish Blood, English Heart-Morrissey (2:26)

The Hives - a.k.a.I-D-I-O-T (2:12)
The Strokes - 12:51 (2:26)
The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba (2:10)
Wax - California (2:15)
Modest Mouse - Wild Pack Of Family Dogs (1:45)
Joey Ramone - What A Wonderful World (2:23)
Green Day - Walking Contradiction (2:30)

Do You Hear the People Sing? - Les Miserables 10th Anniversary CD (1:49)
I Will Find You - The Last of the Mohicans Soundtrack (1:50)
I'll Cover You - Rent Musical CD (2:28)
Sometimes - Depeche Mode (1:54)

The Smiths "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" 1:50
Boo Radleys "Sparrow" (great tune)
They Might Be Giants "Particle Man" 1:59 (of course, they have plenty of VERY short songs as well)
Beat Farmers "Happy Boy" 1:23

Excluding the groups you'v already got and songs over 2:30, this is what I came up with...hope it helps!

#1 Hit Song - Minutemen (1:49)
Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks (2:02)
Here She Comes Now - Velvet Undeground (2:04)
I Can't Explain - The Who (2:04)
Pink Moon - Nick Drake (2:08)
She - Green Day (2:14)
C'mon, C'mon - The Von Bondies (2:15)
Walking with a Ghost - Tegan and Sara (2:30)

Listening to it now so I decided to post it:

The Killers- Under The Gun (2:33)

:up: :up:

Great! I made a real quick one last night a bit after posting this and came out with 39 tracks.

i thought i'd give you a few suggestions from my iTunes library for a 2nd or 3rd possible cd:

2:30 ~ The Beach Boys - Rock and Roll Music
2:30 ~ Smash Mouth - Can't Get Enough of You Baby
2:30 ~ America - Don't Cross the River
2:30 ~ Green Day - Pulling Teeth
2:30 ~ Dixie Chicks - Some Days You Gotta Dance
2:30 ~ Garth Brooks - Beer Run
2:30 ~ Tegan & Sara - Walking With a Ghost
2:30 ~ Gary Portnoy - Where Everybody Knows Your Name (Cheers Theme)
2:29 ~ 3 Doors Down - Smack
2:29 ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival - Who'll Stop the Rain
2:29 ~ Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme
2:29 ~ Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
2:28 ~ The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA
2:28 ~ Olivia Newton John - Let It Shine
2:28 ~ Simple Plan - You Don't Mean Anything
2:28 ~ Blink 182 - What's My Age Again?
2:28 ~ Alan Jackson - Chattahoochee
2:27 ~ Randy Travis - Too Gone Too Long
2:27 ~ Toby Keith - You Ain't Much Fun
2:26 ~ Tracy Lawrence - If The Good Die Young
2:26 ~ Jack Johnson - The News
2:26 ~ Elvis Presley - Crying In The Chapel
2:25 ~ Hall & Oates - Rich Girl
2:25 ~ REO Speedwagon - Shakin' It Loose
2:25 ~ Randy Travis - We Ain't Out Of Love Yet
2:25 ~ Alan Jackson - She's Got The Rythm (And I Got The Blues)
2:25 ~ The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
2:24 ~ Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
2:24 ~ Tom Petty - Anything That's Rock and Roll
2:23 ~ Blink 182 - Dumpweed
2:23 ~ Ritchie Valens - Donna
2:23 ~ Tom Petty - I Need To Know
2:23 ~ Jeff Bates - Lovin' Like That
2:22 ~ Garth Brooks - Against The Grain
2:22 ~ Joe Nichols - What's A Guy Gotta Do
2:22 ~ Elvis Presley - (You're The) Devil in Disguise
2:21 ~ Bryan Adams - This Is Where I Belong
2:21 ~ INXS - Guns In The Sky
2:20 ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
2:20 ~ The Vogues - Five O'Clock World
2:19 ~ The Partridge Family - Could It Be Forever
2:19 ~ Los Lobos - La Bamba
2:18 ~ Shaun Cassidy - Do You Believe In Magic
2:18 ~ George Strait - Heartland
2:18 ~ Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law
2:17 ~ Dave Matthews Band - Smooth Rider
2:17 ~ KC & The Sunshine Band - Boogie Shoes
2:17 ~ Good Charlotte - Riot Girl
2:15 ~ The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Lump
2:15 ~ The Kinks - You Really Got Me
2:15 ~ KISS - Let Me Go, Rock 'n Roll
2:15 ~ Whitney Houston - The Star Spangled Banner
2:14 ~ Collin Raye - Sweet Miss Behavin'
2:14 ~ Del Amitri - Roll To Me
2:14 ~ Clay Walker - If I Could Make A Living
2:12 ~ American Hi-Fi - Vertigo
2:11 ~ The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
2:11 ~ George Strait - The Big One
2:07 ~ James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Pt. 1)
2:06 ~ Huey Lewis and the News - Little Bitty Pretty One
2:02 ~ Queen - We Will Rock you
2:01 ~ Meri Wilson - Telephone Man
2:00 ~ Green Day - She's A Rebel
2:00 ~ Third Eye Blind - Anything
1:59 ~ Billy Joel - Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)
1:59 ~ Rascal Flatts - Lean on Me (live version)
1:53 ~ Jerry Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
1:50 ~ Good Charlotte - A New Beginning
1:40 ~ The Georgie Satellites - Hippy Hippy Shake
1:47 ~ Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
1:07 ~ Van Halen - 1984
1:05 ~ The Partridge Family - Come On Get Happy

and, just for dramatic flair, i'd start the cd with this:

0:22 ~ John Williams - 20th Century Fox Fanfare

Something off Elvis Costello's <i>Get Happy!!!</i>, like "Secondary Modern" or "The Imposter".

Eno - "Over Fire Island"

ETA: <i>"Chant" is much longer than I had remembered.</i>

wendersfan I really expected you to come up with some truly unknown masterpieces. C'mon, I know you can try harder. -rolleyes-







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35 songs exactly! And made up of quality songs too - pretty cool.

Belle & Sebastian - She's Losing It, A Summer Wasting
Radiohead - Banana Co., Killer Cars
Fountains of Wayne - Lost in Space, Survival Car
Sublime - Foolish Fool, Pool Shark (acoustic)
The Beatles - I've Just Seen a Face, Blackbird
Green Day - Stuck With Me, She
Richard Buckner - The Ocean Cliff Clearing, Raze
Elliott Smith - Memory Lane, Let's Get Lost
The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba, Fell In Love With a Girl
The Velvet Underground - After Hours, That's the Story of My Life
Tori Amos - Wesnesday, Mr. Zebra
Weezer - Crab, Photograph

The 5.6.7.8's - Bomb the Twist
The Strokes - 12:51
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
Of Montreal - Requiem for O.M.M. 2
Gorillaz - White Light
Jerry Lewis - Great Balls of Fire
Blur - Song 2
System of a Down - Cigaro
Franz Ferdinand - Tell Her Tonight
Cibo Matto - Beef Jerky
Rancid - Time Bomb

What was the final track list?

Pavement-Perfume-V
Pavement-Shady Lane
Pavement-Zurich is Stained
The Jesus and Mary Chain-You Trip Me Up
The Jesus and Mary Chain-Taste of Cindy
The Jesus and Mary Chain-Fall

Fountains of Wayne - "Yours and Mine" (1:02)
Herman's Hermits - "I'm Henry the Eighth I Am" (1:51)
Herman's Hermits - "Silhouettes" (2:00)
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders - "A Groovy Kind of Love" (2:00)
Frente! - "Bizzare Love Triangle" (2:00)
The Smiths - "Girlfriend in a Coma" (2:03)
Wheatus - "Truffles" (2:10)
Lindsay Buckingham - "Holiday Road" (2:11)
Led Zeppelin - "Immigrant Song" (2:23)
Violent Femmes - "Blister in the Sun" (2:24)
The Beatles - "In My Life" (2:26)
The Lovin' Spoonful - "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" (2:26)
Smashing Pumpkins - "Pennies" (2:29)
Sam Cooke - "Cupid" (2:30)

This song would make an excellent "short song" choice:

Pixies - "Allison" (1:17)

Joe Jackson - "Survival" (2:19)
Sugarcubes - "Motorcrash" (2:24)
Madness - "One Step Beyond" (2:18)

This was the first one I thought of. Also, some other favorites under the 2:30 mark...

Cursive - Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand - 1:52
Sage Francis - Crumble - 2:00
Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 - 2:00
Ok Go - Bye Bye Baby - 2:14
Aqueduct - The Suggestion Box - 2:19
Trashcan Sinatras - Freetime - 2:26

All these bloated one or two minute long songs. Sheesh!

Descendents - "All" (0:01)
Descendents - "No, All! (0:02)
M.O.D. - "Ballad of Dio" (0:12)
M.O.D. - "Bushwackateas" (0:20)
M.O.D. - "Short but Sweet" (0:12)
M.O.D. - "Ruptured Nuptials" (0:14)
They Might Be Giants - "Fingertips" series (21 songs that range from 0:04 to 1:01)

pearl jam - lukin (under a minute)

They Might Be Giants: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too (about 2 minutes)

It's a cool, old campaign song...

You may want to check out the punk/ska compilation Short Music for Short People. 101 songs under 30 seconds each.

D.j.M.

The Beatles - Her Majesty