For the past 6 years or so, I have made a birthday CD for the sister just younger than me. There are no rules--I include whatever I like or think she'll like, and the music can come from any time and be any type. I get all psyched up each January to put this together and keep a Word document listing tracks that might make the cut for the upcoming year (nerd!). She's also made several birthday CDs for me, and it's great to share songs with someone with such similar tastes who I also share a lot of history with. Here are the 2009 tracks:
1) You Can Call Me Al: Paul Simon2) Sister Golden Hair: America - probably my sister's favorite on this year's disc
3) Womanizer: Britney Spears
4) Green-Eyed Lady: Sugarloaf
5) Reelin' in the Years: Steely Dan
6) American Boy: Estelle feat. Kanye West
7) Sour Times: Portishead
8) Wild Wild Life: Talking Heads
9) Summer Breeze: Seals & Crofts
10) What Goes Around: Justin Timberlake - probably my favorite on this year's disc; I can't seem to listen to it enough
11) Young Folks: Peter Bjorn and John
12) How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?: Michael Bolton - I kind of put this one on as a joke, but you know what? It's a really fantastic sappy love song, and I will no longer feel ashamed of it.
13) Praise You: Fatboy Slim
14) These Dreams: Heart
15) Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now): C+C Music Factory - I knew my sister would be totally embarrassed by this one, and she was, but I left it on anyway.
16) Heartlight: Neil Diamond - Did you know this one was inspired by the movie E.T.? That makes the song seem pretty silly, but there's some nostalgia attached to the sound of chorus for me having grown up in the 80s.
17) Popcorn: Popcorn - this song played as the lead-in to a video broadcast of school news in elementary school. It featured a stuffed animal bear sitting on a stool, who was supposedly reading the news. Our school custodian Lloyd did the voice, and even as a 9-year-old I remember thinking what a painfully awkward choice that was because he didn't read well. At all.
3 comments:
That is a really great CD! I love that it's such an eclectic mix of songs. "Heartlight" totally reminds me of when we were little. I LOVE Justin Timberlake. Love "American Boy", and I LOVE LOVE LOVE that you put C&C Music Factory on there to embarrass her! Oh, and I've always been a bit of a closet Michael Bolton fan myself....
I just wrote a comment about needed more songs on my ipod becuase I was not cool enough to know what songs to add, then my comment would not post. I am afraid I am only slightly perficent in this tech stuff. Love the post and love the song list!
Sounds fun, I miss random mixes! I'm sure she will Love it!
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