For Halloween this year I went as a Music Pirate. I wore a pirate costume, and then sewed blank CD's to my belt. Diane says it was quite dashing.
I also wanted to give away some "Silver Doubloons", so I made data CD's with a mix of music from the many odd corners of my music collection. I wanted to guarantee the listener that there was something on it they'd never heard and something they didn't like. Here's what the contents ended up being:
Aimee Mann - All Over Now
AK1200 - Pornstar Style (VIP Mix)
Alice Donut - Lisa's Father (Waka Baby)
Amon Tobin - Big Furry Head
Asher Senator (from Rumble in the Jungle) - One Bible
Atari Teenage Riot - Speed
Beastie Boys - She's Crafty
Billie Holiday - Body And Soul
Bolia We Ndenge (from Buzz 'n' Rumble from the Urb 'n' Jungle) - Bosamba Ndeke
Chihiro Onitsuka - Innocence
Deee-Lite - Smile On
DJ Hyper (Bedrock Breaks) - Lo Life
Frank Hovington (From Deep Blues The Rounder 25th Anniversary Blues Anthology) - Mean Old Frisco
Gamelon Son of Lion - Sleeping Braid
Gang of Four - I Love a Man in a Uniform
Godsmack - Sick of Life
Hamza El Din - Your Love is Ever Young
Harry Partch - Pollux
Junkie XL - Saturday Teenage Kick
Juno Reactor - Song for Ancestors
Kava Kon - The Atomic Clock
Lamas and Monks of the Four Great Orders - A Buddhist Prayer
Lee Scratch Perry - Roast Fish & Corn Bread
Man or Astroman - Jonathan Winters Frankenstein
Moby - Everytime You Touch Me
Music of Upper and Lower Egypt - Allah
Nerdy Girl - Hate Me
Nine Inch Nails - Sin
Original Punjabi Pop - Nishani Pyar Di
Panacea - Tron Rmx
Pantera - By Demons Be Driven
Patsy Cline - She's Got You
Paul Van Dyk - Forbidden Fruit
Portishead - Machine Gun
Seatbelts - Tank!
Steel Guitar Masters 1928 to 1934 - Wang Wang Blues
Steel Rails Under Thundering Skies - White Mountain Scenic Railway (ex Sierra Railroad)
Tettix - Typhoid
The Humans - I Live in the City
The Specials - Stereotype
The Tandems (From Big Noise From Waimea!) - The Rising Surf
Veruca Salt - Spiderman '79
Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got
Zoe Keating - Sun Will Set
I gave away a few copies at the party, but the contents are really odd enough that I was disinclined to thrust it on just anyone. I just listened to it at work, though, and I like it. Mood and style-wise, it's all over the map, but that (apparently) is what I like.
