Taking a break this afternoon, I decided to create a happy mix CD (for no good reason, titled Happy Schmidt). I gave myself a couple rules:
- I couldn’t use any songs that I’ve put on another mix cd (that I could remember)
- no techno (electronica, trip hop, etc)
- avoid stuff I listen to all the time.
Here’s what I came up with:
| Title | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| In The Days Of The Caveman | Crash Test Dummies | God Shuffled His Feet |
| Ain’t Goin’ to Goa | A3 | Exile On Coldharbor Lane |
| Count ’em Up Queek | 2NU | Ponderous |
| Underground | Ben Folds | Ben Folds Five |
| Short Skirt/Long Jacket | Cake | Comfort Eagle |
| Rudie Can’t Fail | The Clash | London Calling |
| Brick House | Commodores | Millennium Funk Party |
| Tripping Billies | Dave Matthews Band | Crash |
| You Better Be Doubtful | The Housemartins | The The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death |
| **updated** Rotten World Blues | Eels | rotten world blues EP |
| Glamour Boys | Living Colour | Pride |
| Penguins | Lyle Lovett | I Love Everybody |
| Birds Of A Feather | Phish | Story Of The Ghost |
| Boll Weevil | The Presidents of the United States of America | The Presidents Of The United States Of America |
| Shiny Happy People | R.E.M. | Out Of Time |
| Stay Up Late | Talking Heads | Sand In The Vaseline (Disc 2) |
| What Is Hip? | Tower Of Power | Millennium Funk Party |
| Jack-Ass | Beck | Odelay |
| Once In A Lifetime | Talking Heads | Sand In The Vaseline (Disc 1) |
| **updated** That’s Not Really Funny | Eels | Souljacker |
updated I was listening to the CD in the car and realized that I Wanna Be A Witch, while really happy and bouncy, contains some profanity. This wouldn’t normally bother me, but the CD had to be Max-friendly too, so I’m making a new copy. I dropped that song, and added Rotten World Blues and That’s Not Really Funny, both by Eels. Good, jangly, rocky stuff.
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3 responses to “Happy Schmidt”
I’m just surprised you hadn’t put ‘Glamour Boys’ on any other mix tapes.
Excellent choices! Inspiring. tremendously. …nuts! (but no squirrel nut zippers?)
Tim, it was a mix tape that I remembered… I don’t remember the REALLY old ones. Someone lost my SNZ cd’s, which makes me sad. They would have been a perfect choice for this!