Side A
Artist	Song
Billy Joel	The Stranger
Aldo Nova	Fantasy
Greg Kihn	Jeopardy
Eric Clapton	I Shot the Sheriff
Oysterhead	Oz is Ever Floating
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Woodstock
Supertramp	The Logical Song
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet	Harlem by the Sea
The Strokes	Someday
Camper Van Beethoven	Take the Skinheads Bowling
Black Kali Ma	Wonderful
The Refreshments	Banditos
TV Themes	The Incredible Hulk Finale Theme
The Beat Farmers	Tie My Pecker to My Leg
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Carpenters	Yesterday Once More
Ben E. King & the Drifters	Stand By Me
Bonnie Tyler	It's a Heartache
Warren Zevon	Carmelita
The Coasters	Charlie Brown
Harry Nilsson	Everybody's Talkin'
The Five Stairsteps	Ooh Child
The Pogues	Sunny Side of the Street
Too Much Joy	Song for a Girl That has One
Supertamp	Breakfast in America
The Ohio Express	Yummy Yummy Yummy
The Cadets	Stranded in the Jungle
Lou Christie	Lightning Striking Again
The Cascades	Rhythm of the Falling Rain
Def Leppard	Foolin'

Comment:

Okay... where to start. I normally don't make cheery tapes unless it's facetious. Not that I'm gloomy, but I like harder edged songs, and I like juxtaposing them with sappy tunes. This whole tape started as a joke, because my boss played Billy Joel's "The Stranger" and I said the opening bit sounded like the sad music from the old 70's Incredible Hulk show. I was online, making the tape, when my friend Kim starts making jokes about "Fromunda" cheese (don't ask) ... which leads to the inclusion of "Stranded in the Jungle" as an awful joke. :) The tape was going nowhere until I put "Oz is Ever Floating" on... and the hippie groove bit me. So after that the songs are generally upbeat or silly, with a few exceptions. I think it's a fun mix. All my mix tapes are for use while driving, so I rarely use very slow tracks (although I made an exception for Led Zep's "No Quarter" a few mixes back) ... you have to keep awake on the road! My favorite driving song is on here- "Song for a Girl That Has One" by Too Much Joy, which mentions driving with the windows down, blasting "Chemical Wire" ... which I recommend. Chemical Wire is by Firehose. Go get it and put it on a mix tape, you won't regret it. And now I start work on the gangster influenced tape I WANTED to make before Kim made me think of the land fromunda, where women blow and men chunder...

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