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   Friday, March 12, 2004

LIBRARY OF FEAR

One of my latest kicks has been the joy of making CD's for myself and friends. It's been fun finding 20 or so songs to
fit any given mood but a little frightening when I wade into the brambled forest of my own musical tastes. I have way too many discs for any reasonable person. How else to explain the following two collections:

The first was for a classic-rock-lovin' co-worker:

Led Zeppelin -- In the Evening
The Guess Who -- American Woman
Three Dog Night -- Joy to the World
The Doobie Brothers -- China Grove
Alice Cooper -- No More Mr. Nice Guy
Deep Purple -- Smoke on the Water
Bachman Turner Overdrive -- You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Golden Earring -- Radar Love
Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Free Bird
America -- Sister Golden Hair
Steve Miller -- Rock'N'Me
Boston -- More than a Feeling
Queen -- We Will Rock You/We are the Champions
Warren Zevon -- Werewolves of London
Cheap Trick -- I Want You to Want Me
Foreigner -- Hot Blooded
E.L.O. -- Don't Bring Me Down
The Knack -- My Sharona
Cheech and Chong -- Earache, My Eye!

The second was conceived as a peppy music-for-the-morning-shower disc for myself that I thought my friend Robert would enjoy:

Peter Gabriel -- Growing Up
Touch and Go -- So Hot
Perry Como -- Papa Loves Mambo
Dee-Lite -- Groove is in the Heart
Apache Indian -- Boom Shack-a-lack
Lords of Acid -- Am I Sexy?
Outkast -- Hey Ya!
Mint Royale -- Shake Me
Joey Dee -- The Peppermint Twist
Kylie Minogue -- Love at First Sight
Spice Girls -- Who Do You Think You Are?
Pet Shop Boys -- Flamboyant
Carole Pope -- High School Confidential (remix)
Britney Spears -- Toxic
Bloodhound Gang -- The Bad Touch
Offspring -- Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
Dandy Warhols -- Bohemian Like You
OK Go -- You're So Damn Hot
Bif Naked -- I Love Myself Today
Chumbawamba -- Tubthumping
Chris Isaak -- American Boy

Even as I thoroughly enjoy each and every song on these lists, I'm a little bit afraid of myself.
And I haven't even mentioned the "hymns for agnostics" I came up with for Darrell and Josh...

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