Here is a picture of a barrel containing candy cigarettes.On Friday one of the things I did to piss away time was to obsess over my music. While I was cleaning, I found a bunch of old CD's. I still have another box of CD's in a closet somewhere that I can't find. It's making me a little crazy, because Coadster has asked me several times lately where my Nick Drake is, and I think it's in that box. Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah. I found some CD's and I was obsessing over music, and so I decided to make another whacky mix CD for my friend's K and T.
Because of the kind of music I found, I decided to call it "Now That's What I Call Street" and put a bunch of dirty, gritty, "living just enough for the city" kinds of songs from many different decades on it. Also, I think you all know how hard it is to live on the mean streets of an overeducated, college town like Iowa City, right? Yeah. Everyday is a never ending struggle to find all your organic produce, wait for your soy latte to be made and then talk about Proust with your check-out guy at the Co-op. So, I made this compilation for those of you who are also feeling the pressure of these mean Midwestern bucolic streets. I'll warn Evil-E in particular that there is a lot of rap on here, so he may not be super into it. Okay, here's what I put together:
1. Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
2. Flashlight - Parliament
3. Bitches Ain't Shit - Ben Folds. This cover is hilarious if you've never heard it.
4. Roll With Me Henry - Etta James
5. The Next Episode - Dr. Dre and Snoop
6. Don't Push Me - Grand Master Flash
7. Don't You Just Know It - Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns
8. Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin
9. Gangsta Boogie - Love Stink
10. Me So Horny - 2 Live Crew. One of the first songs to deserve a parental advisory label made it on the compilation, of course.
11. Paper Planes - M.I.A. Also, any song with shooting noises made it in the compilation.
12. Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye
13. Lose Control - Missy Elliott
14. Fuck tha Police - Public Enemy. Yes, they apparently did a cover of this song too. Don't ask me where I got this, on the grounds that it may incriminate me.
15. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan. Ch-Ch-Chaka KHAN!
16. If You Want Me to Stay - Sly and the Family Stone. My favorite song of theirs.
17. Pressure Drop - Toots and the Maytals.
18. Random - Lady Sovereign
19. Pusherman -Curtis Mayfield
So, there it is. The soundtrack of my not so urban, Iowa plight.
15 comments:
Churlita, as always, you are louder than a bomb.
I just scrolled down and saw it after wondering where "Pusherman" was. I've been to Iowa a couple times and I know just how street it is. I was rollin' in my '64.
Alien got the '64 totally wrong...it's 6-4. All the graffiti pics are rubbing off on me.
Actually we are going to have one song in common this week. I have already published my next tremendous iPod play list for Wednesday and lo and behold, we have a match. Try and guess...
Pusherman is an awesome song.
Churlita,
I think I'm lost in the back streets of Iowa city.
I'll follow Etta and see where she leads me.
rel
That's a rockin List.. Some I have heard of and some not..
What, no "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta"? :)
Haven't heard of most of these, but I'm sure they sound good in a mixed CD, especially when the mood strikes.
Oh, I so want that CD...
The first time I heard the Ben Folds version, I could barely breathe from laughing so hard.
AWESOME! This town is rough-I almost clocked some bitch for her comments on Kerouac that I overheard while she was taking her eco-friendly laundry detergent to her hybrid car.
"If you want me to stay" is my fave too.
Nick Drake - Listen to "Pink Moon" once and you'll never be the same.
Not a soundtrack I would pick, but definitely one that could get ya moving.
how is it that I haven't heard of most of these?
Sorry about messing up with 6-4, I guess I'm not that street. Actually, everything Curtis Mayfield ever did is genius.
I love this mix! LOVE it! now all the song are in my head. Except the Sly Stone song - I don't know if I know it - and I'm curious enough to go buy it off itunes just to hear.
Mr Atrocity,
...And you're saying that like it's a good thing, right?
AliencG,
See, you've seen these hard, hard streets before, so you know what I'm talking about.
Evil-E,
I'm more than a little curious to know which song it could be.
Rel,
Etta may get you in trouble, but I bet you'd want that from her.
Mrs.,
I'm not surprised. It's really all over the place, with some super old songs too.
Tara,
I originally had over two hours in the playlist. I couldn't keep them all on there to fit in 80 minutes. Some had to go. Sorry.
Nor,
I wish you lived in town, so I could drop a copy off for you.
DJ,
That's exactly what I'm talking about. It's hard out here for a pimp.
Matt,
Wouldn't you know it, that's the exact same CD Coadster keeps asking me to find for her.
MrMAnuel,
I like everything, but I know that some of the stuff I like isn't for everyone.
Stepping,
Probably because you can't listen to a lot of these songs around young children, and then some of them are older and obscure tracks.
Alien,
I'm right there with you on that. Curtis Mayfield was amazing.
Poptart,
I bet you'd know the Sly Stone song if you heard it.
Any chance you could pass along an mp3 of the Public Enemy version of Fuck tha Police? I would be indebted to you.
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