The 3" Mix CD Challenge

How about "really really dark Outkast songs"? You know, "Gasoline Dreams," "Bombs Over Baghdad," "Xplosion," "Da Art of Storytellin' pt II" ("All's well / Nothing's well"), and so forth. The Outkast War mix.

1) They cannot be Wire or Minutemen songs
2) They cannot be from the Residents' Commercial Album, the Miniatures comp or any similarly themed microtrack release
3) They cannot be introductions, coda or bridging skits.

Go.

Song title = band name >> CHAIN!

And, if you make it a perfect circle (the last song name is the name of the first band), then it will be a thing of great beauty which will be studied by scholars for ages. The CD should come wrapped in a Moebius strip (on which, of course, the track listing is printed). The list should also instruct the listener to play it only on "Repeat All" mode.

ONE (20:31)
1. Escape Mechanism: “Theme” (1:16)
2. The Redd Stripes: “Little Room” (:50)
3. Lifter Puller: “The Bears” (1:53)
4. Jonathan Richman: “The Heart of Saturday Night” (1:54)
5. The Beatles: “There’s a Place” (1:49)
6. The Burns: “I Saw Her Standing There” (2:49)
7. The Streets: “Sharp Darts” (1:33)
8. Orbital: “Chime” (3:13)
9. Tweet: “Oops (Oh My)” (2:56)
10. Jim Reeves: “He’ll Have to Go” (2:18)

TWO (21:01)
1. Carlos Malcolm & His Afro-Jamaican Rhythms: “Bonanza Ska” (3:02)
2. Little Eva: “The Loco-Motion” (2:26)
3. The Supremes: “You Can’t Hurry Love” (2:55)
4. Elvis Costello & the Attractions: “Beyond Belief” (2:34)
5. BBC Radiophonic Orchestra: “Dr. Who (Original Theme)” (2:22)
6. Buchanan & Goodman: “The Flying Saucer” (4:21)
7. Future Bible Heroes: “I’m a Vampire” (3:23)

THREE (21:08)
1. The Avalanches: “Since I Left You—Cornelius Remix” (5:35)
2. DJ Clencher: “Kylietron” (4:31)
3. Ivy: “Streets of Your Town” (3:37)
4. Pet Shop Boys: “Home and Dry” (4:21)
5. Latin Playboys: “Crayon Sun” (3:04)

FIVE (19:12)
1. Mighty Sparrow: “Sell the Pussy” (3:59)
2. Nelly feat. Dani Stevenson: “Hot in Herre” (3:49)
3. Sugababes: “Freak Like Me” (3:11)
4. Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers: “The Honeydripper” (3:05)
5. Wynonie Harris: “Good Morning Judge” (2:38)
6. Roy Brown: “Butcher Pete Pt. 1” (2:30)

SIX (19:11)
1. Missy Elliott: “Get Ur Freak On” (3:57)
2. Missy Elliott featuring Nelly Furtado: “Get Ur Freak On” (3:10)
3. Kid606: “Take the Piss On” (3:07)
4. Dsico: “Love Will Freak Us” (2:45)
5. Joy Division: “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (3:25)
6. Kurtis Rush: “Get Ur Faith On” (2:50)

SEVEN (18:13)
1. Basement Jaxx: “Romeo” (3:35)
2. The Clash: “The Magnificent Seven” (5:33)
3. Soulwax: “The Magnificent Romeo” (4:26)
4. Son of Frenchbloke: “Romeo’s Raving” (4:39)

EIGHT (16:52)
1. Blackstreet: “No Diggity” (5:06)
2. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5: “The Message” (7:21)
3. Soulwax: “No Diggity” (4:25)

NINE (21:11)
1. Frenchbloke: “Intro (Whoop de France)” (:46)
2. Safety Scissors vs. Kit Clayton: “10-8” (:12)
3. Escape Mechanism: “Question” (1:06)
4. Oedipus: “Underpath” (:34)
5. Boards of Canada: “Opening the Mouth” (1:11)
6. Lifter Puller: “Plymouth Rock” (:49)
7. NOFX: “Antennas” (1:19)
8. Clinic: “CQ” (1:08)
9. Animaniacs: “I Am the Very Model of a Cartoon Individual” (1:12)
10. Teen Idles: “I Drink Milk” (1:08)
11. Government Issue: “Rock & Roll Bullshit” (1:13)
12. Oh-OK: “Lilting” (1:03)
13. All Girl Summer Fun Band: “Cell Phone” (1:02)
14. Young Marble Giants: “Sporting Life” (1:04)
15. Camper Van Beethoven: “Turtlehead” (1:17)
16. De La Soul: “Transmitting Live from Mars” (1:07)
17. STP: “Hey Bastard” (1:09)
18. Dsico: “All Night is Mine” (1:19)
19. Handsome Boy Modeling School: “Modeling Sucks” (1:02)
20. Tito Puente & His Latin Jazz Ensemble: “The Simpsons End Credits Theme (‘Afro-Cuban’ Version)” (:49)

TEN (20:05)
1. Pamelo Mounk’a et les Bantous de la Capitale: “Amen Maria” (6:30)
2. William De Vaughn: “Be Thankful for What You Got” (3:29)
3. King Tubby: “Dark Destroyer Dub” (2:41)
4. Casino Versus Japan: “Single Variation of Two” (3:44)
5. Braces Tower: “Special Child” (3:41)

songs where the harmony vocals were all obviously overdubbed by the same person singing the lead, resulting in unignorable tension.

baby washington, 60's girl group carnage, skeeter davis, les paul and mary ford.

all songs with the same bpm (not necessarily electronic, just same pace), see how much you can vary the dynamic.

all songs in the same key, no pause between tracks, see how much you can make 6-10 or so songs sound like one big prog epic.

all music from one family tree of bands, in chronological order, (e.g. the whole louisville rock thing like slint, quirrel bait, bastro, rodan, jo44, shipping news, etc etc. but not that one because its the most obvious and also would be too long for a 3" CD) show the evolution of a scene. bonus points if there's a continuous single member as a thread throughout it all.

cover song game, like that website. for example, aerosmith covering whomever they cover, REM covering aerosmith, Pavement covering REM... etc etc.

focus on the greats of a certain instrument, like "great pianists," "great drummers" bla bla bla...

I'll come up with more later...

1. Shopping - "Filthy White Pants" (1:38)
2. Pas/Cal - "Grown Men Go Go" (1:05)
3. Eric's Trip - "Anytime You Want" (1:19)
4. The Yummy Fur - "Prole Birthday" (1:37)
5. Oneida - "Steel Rod" (2:05)
6. hollAnd - "Neoprene So Tight" (1:51)
7. Deerhoof - "Holy Night Fever" (1:18)
8. Boyracer - "Temper" (1:36)
9. Huggy Bear - "Concrete Life" (1:48)
10. Halo Benders - "Sit On It" (1:15)
11. Tom Zé - "Valsar" (1:14)
12. Lilys - "The Lost Victory" (1:42)
13. Wolf Colonel - "Agave's Lament" (1:50)

just a buncha songs I like a lot that I thought would work well crammed into 20 minutes.