My mix CD is out the door, hopefully everyone in my group will receive it soon and all will be awesome.

Got it today.

After one listen, I think tracks 16 and 17 are the ones that stand out.

And track 18 reminds me of a certain red robot... Hmm...

Got mine in today's mail. Here are some quick impressions after a first listen. I'll listen to it more and maybe post again tomorrow.

Tracks 15 through 18 are solid. My kind of music.

I've been meaning to listen to Sebadoh for a long time, but never got around to it. I like it. And it does remind me of your Brad Sucks songs. And both of them remind me of Beck for some reason.

I'd heard Snail Dust before. It's good.

A lot of people I've talked to seem to really like Cake, but I'm not big on them. "Distance" is IMO one of their best songs, though.

Tracks 0 and 1 are 1 on the CD, right?

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Tracks 0 and 1 are 1 on the CD, right?

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Here's my track list with brief commentary.

I started to make a really eclectic mix cd but then at some point decided to just put tracks that I find fun and accessible on it. The only rule was to not put anything I had heard on the radio in the past year or two.

0. Bill Hicks - Rockers Against Drugs Suck

I don't necessarily agree with everything Bill Hicks says, but I find his rage really funny.

1. The Pixies - Isla De Encanta

Despite usually having a problem with pop songs with non-English lyrics, I really like this one.

2. Burning Brides - If I'm a Man

This is one of their less aggressive tracks, but I find the chorus extremely catchy.

3. Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

This was kind of a hit around here a year or two ago. It features a Rolling Stones riff and is fun.

4. Ween - The Rainbow

This is off the South Park: Chef Aid album, I think. It was a toss up between this track and "Ocean Man" as the catchiest Ween track.

5. Shonen Knife - Tomato Head

This song could do with being sped up a bit and cut in half, but it's still pretty fun. I saw them perform this on Late Nite with Conan O'Brien a long time ago and they were pretty neat to watch.

6. Cake - Distance

I used to really enjoy Cake but I kind of wore them out. Distance is the first track I liked by them and the only one I still drag out on a regular basis.

7. Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (readymade 524 mix)

The original "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5 is great and this remix cranks it up a few hundred notches. This is probably one of the happiest, highest energy and catchiest songs I've ever encountered.

8. Money Mark - Cry (dust brothers mix)

A sped up remix of the original, which was kind of a slow organ tune. I like this song because it has a cool mix of sadness and funk.

9. They Might Be Giants - Snail Dust (dust brothers mix)

I've listened to a ton of They Might Be Giants and I just don't seem to like any of their songs. Except when the Dust Brothers are involved.

10. Big Jeezuz Truck - Bone Structure

These guys are a local Ottawa band. I probably should have put their song "Curse of the Undead Trucker" on here because it honestly rocks more, but I really like the ending of "Bone Structure" when they start yelling "true love will never die". He's talking about the undead.

11. Hot Piss - Danger Mouse

Another local band. A fun track and with a really cool slow part in the middle.

12. Pigface - Auto Hag

Off of the album "Fook", which was an album I played over and over and over again when I was teenager.

13. Sebadoh - Flame

Most people who like Sebadoh seem to be huge Sebadoh fans. I have one album, which I like a lot. This is my favorite track off of it.

14. Ash - Jackie Chan

This played during the Rumble in the Bronx credits where they showed outtakes of Jackie Chan hurting himself during production of the film. It took me a couple of years to find a copy for some reason.

15. Queens of the Stone Age - If Only

Queens of the Stone Age just had a hit single, which is fun. This was my favorite track of the earlier stuff of theirs I had listened to.

16. Killing Joke - Millenium

Killing Joke is good for the big guitars and yelling.

17. Skatenigs - Chemical Imbalance

The Skatenigs have a couple of songs I like. This one I taped off the radio when I was seventeen and loved how goofy aggressive it was. "Microwave me - watch me come alive!!"

18. Arling & Cameron - Dirty Robot

Not my absolute favorite A&C track, but it makes me think of everyone's favorite red robot on here and I thought I'd spread it around.

19. Peaches - Sucker

This girl's from Toronto, I believe. I have an EP called "The Teaches of Peaches" and it has some pretty good stuff on it.

I do believe that's about it. Probably if I had known that both of you guys were all about the hard rock/metal, I would have cranked it up a few notches in the guitar department.

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13. Sebadoh - Flame

Most people who like Sebadoh seem to be huge Sebadoh fans. I have one album, which I like a lot. This is my favorite track off of it.

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Tracks 15 through 18 are solid. My kind of music.

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Also, the Skatenigs track reminds me of an MP3 I have: "Run-DMC vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That". The voices sound similar, and the music too, a little bit.

It is the homo rainbow, yes. If you were familiar with Ween, that wouldn't have even been a question. Their stuff is all over the place but very fun and often extremely juvenile.

The remix definitely cranks the intensity of that Jackson 5 track up, but it was pretty awesome to begin with. Besides, he was only a *future* weirdo screw-up child molester there. At the time of that recording he was still a freaky amazing child prodigy.

I don't know much about the Skatenigs, so maybe it's actually him. All I seem to know is that the girl in the intro (which is much longer in the full version -- I snipped most of it out) was somebody in the band's sister and she died of an overdose and Al Jourgensen of Ministry was apparently blamed for it but not charged or anything.

I really like the guy's voice. I'll have to check out that song.

I'll give you a better rundown on this CD soon, brad. I have been putting it off because of weirdness going on.

16 and 17 are still my favorites, though.

I can't say that I got into as many tracks as evil_d did. Many of the songs had some element in them that I think would have been nice if it had been more of a focus in the song, or repeated more often, or if the music were slightly heavier. The first two tracks would be examples of that, definitely. Track 10, also. Whenever I hear big drums like that in an intro, it gets me all pumped up to be crushed under a massive wall of sound.

You're right that the Shonen Knife song should be half as long, but I don't think it needs to be any faster. It's good, but it wears out its welcome with me somehow after it's half over. (Yeah, that coming from the guy who went around putting 8 - 12 minute tracks all over his mix).

The "Snail Dust" track took me off guard because I'd actually gotten the album with "Snail Shell" on it years and years ago. I kinda liked the song back then, but for the most part I really never liked TMBG, and I can't say I thought the remix was much better.

Now that I get another listen to it, there's something I can't quite put my finger on that I like about track 13. It kind of slipped past me on my first couple of listens, but it's caught onto me the last time... once again, I can't really define why.

There's something in track 16 that brings to mind a certain type of video game I'd like to see more of... while none of the Megami Tensei games actually feature music quite like this, I think it would fit really well in one of them. The chorus is kind of out of place for a video game, but the apparaisal still stands. Good music for a video game = good music.

You know, I would like to have heard the full version of track 17 since it's clearly my favorite from the CD. As you can guess, I don't care if a song is really long if I like it. That's sad about the woman though... I heard that song intro and it was like instant erection time.

I still think track 18 should be Tobor's theme music. There should be a Tobor CD, and on it would definitely be my voice over, Slaget Vid Blodsalv, and Dirty Robot. What else, I wonder?

Your CD got here today, b. I haven't listened to it yet, but still can already tell you two things.

One is that I that the case had a crack in it and at first I was like "Bummer." But then my mom pointed out - "Hey, Rock Against Drugs and it has a crack." (+10 to mom) So that made me glad it was there.

The second is that I nearly shit myself (I'm talking a big rubbery one) when I saw the faux-record CD. I'm in love with that.