In my head and in my iTunes I am composing a new playlist, one I hope will end up being a successful road CD. I have to admit, as much as I loved making tapes when I was 28, it has become exponentially harder to make a really good road CD. If I may quote the film High Fidelity…
“Now, the making of a good compilation tape is a very subtle art. Many do’s and don’ts. First of all you’re using someone else’s poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing.”
The deal is that after I burn a CD of road songs or songs about some topic, then listen to it for a while, two things happen. 1) I get tired of it, and 2) I start to collect a whole new cadre of songs for my next CD, under the aegis of an iTunes playlist called “Next.”
At the moment, my “Next” CD playlist reads like this…
- Falling by Balligomingo
- Marooned by Balligomingo
- Unknown Track by Conjure One
- You’re Still the One by Shania Twain
- Rainy Monday by Shiny Toy Guns
- Post-Modern Sleaze by Sneaker Pimps
- Love Is by Stevie Nicks, a song I decided to like after I read that Sarah McLachlan played piano and sang background vocals, which only became obvious after I learned that and listened to the song again
- Dare You to Move by Switchfoot, which was a song I got from long-ago girlfriend Michelle, then passed along to Frank when he was having a crisis
- Here Without You by 3 Doors Down
- Lines on My Face by Peter Frampton. Oddly, the lyrics to this song should be obvious, but I find them incredibly ambiguous.
- Only Because of You by Roger Hodgson
- Three Wishes by Roger Waters
That’s about an hour of music. I might be able to cram one or two more songs onto the CD. I really need you, the humble reader, to guide me.