Playlist for Life

I was thinking about playlists (formerly known as mixtapes) the other day and decided to make one that involves songs which evoke a particular location or event. Since this set of criteria is so loose as to allow a playlist of thousands of songs, I set myself some rather arbitrary limits. It had to fit on a standard audio CD (74 minutes) and each song had to be specific to a particular location/time and only one song per location/time. So, although high school is four years long, it gets one song. I went to Korea three times for a total of four years, so that’s three songs (one per trip). I also decided that any trip of less than two months didn’t count. So, no song for BNCOC or CEWIOC or business trips. Here’s the 57 minutes I ended up with; commentary follows:

Doug E Fresh	La Di Da Di
Living Colour	Cult of Personality
Violent Femmes	Blister in the Sun
Faith No More	Epic
Ministry	Everyday Is Halloween
Divinyls	I Touch Myself
Ace of Base	The Sign
Soundgarden	Black Hole Sun
Los Del Rio	Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)
Smash Mouth	Walkin’ On The Sun
Kid Rock	Bawitdaba
Transplants	Diamonds and Guns
Evanescence	Bring Me To Life
The Waterboys	When Will We Be Married?

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