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.
Churlita, as always, you are louder than a bomb.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteAlien got the '64 totally wrong...it's 6-4. All the graffiti pics are rubbing off on me.
ReplyDeleteActually 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,
ReplyDeleteI 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..
ReplyDeleteWhat, no "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta"? :)
ReplyDeleteHaven'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...
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
ReplyDelete"If you want me to stay" is my fave too.
Nick Drake - Listen to "Pink Moon" once and you'll never be the same.
ReplyDeleteNot a soundtrack I would pick, but definitely one that could get ya moving.
ReplyDeletehow is it that I haven't heard of most of these?
ReplyDeleteSorry about messing up with 6-4, I guess I'm not that street. Actually, everything Curtis Mayfield ever did is genius.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteMr Atrocity,
ReplyDelete...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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