A few months ago I sent an email out to pretty much everyone I exchange music with. It was a simple request: for this years birthday please share with me 10 songs that you cannot live without. I was graced with 10 replies and a list of 105 songs. In return, everyone who submitted a list would receive a book, handmade by me, and a compilation disc which I ended up calling Anthology. The books are finally done and most of them have been given to their new owners.
(Note: I do a birthday mix every year. Sometimes it’s a song for every year I’ve been alive, sometimes it’s a song from each year I’ve been alive, sometimes it’s songs from the year I was born, etc. It’s always a mix I share with my friends, usually just giving them a mixed cd, but this year I decided to go big and bold.)
Each list is different and when I look at them, exactly fitting for the person that gave them to me. There are songs I love just as much as the submitter and there are songs I cannot bring myself to listen to. (Maroon 5. The guy makes me want to stab my eyes out with something rusted.) I did my list of 12 favorite songs ever and some people submitted their 10 favorite right now. This mix covers everything from Rap to a lone Christmas song to Country to Metal to Pop and on and on.
I don’t plan on sharing the entire mix here because it’s a special event, these mixes, but I do on occasion plan on sharing parts of it. Like this mix, which perplexes me as much as it amuses me. Country, Rap, Heavy Metal…Cats in the Cradle. It’s all there in this jumble of a play list.
Mix order: (which you can download here)
shout at the devil (motley crue)
cats in the cradle (harry chapin)
eze does it (e z e)
bad day (fuel)
plush (stone temple pilots)
goodbye blue sky (pink floyd)
what it’s like (everlast)
i see it now (tracy lawrence)
the river (garth brooks)
far behind (candlebox)
As so often in my world, what would a Birthday mix be without some kind of art? (Clicking them makes them full sized)
Envelope going to Washington DC with an Anthology tucked safely inside of it:
The cover of one of the books:
Page from the above book, for the mix offered today:
Also, if you’re still reading and you’d like a copy of the Anthology minus the book (I burned a few too many), drop me a line and in exchange for your list of 10 songs you can’t live without, I’ll send you a disc in the mail!
