Artist	Song
Ventures	Walk, Don't Run
Flatt and Scruggs	Like A Rolling Stone
Earth, Wind and Fire	Got To Get You Into My Life
Stevie Ray Vaughan	Superstition (live)
Ken Nordine	Maroon
Velvetone	The Way Things Are
Neil Young and Crazy Horse	Love And Only Love
Van Halen	1984/Jump
Yellow Magic Orchestra	Behind The Mask
Kim Carnes	Bette Davis Eyes
U2	Lemon
Korgis	Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
Lounge Lizards	Harlem Nocturne
Gerry Rafferty	Baker Street
Young Fresh Fellows	No One Really Knows
Drive-By Truckers	Marry Me
Kinks	Who'll Be The Next In Line?
XTC	This Is Pop
Adam and the Ants	"Antmusic"
Wayne Newton	Shangri-La

Comment:

This is the mixer formerly known as J&C's Dad here--you can find my other mixes under that name (though I am still in actuality J&C's Dad, of course).

The songs on this mixes were determined using the following John Cage-ian somewhat chancey operation: I made up a deck of 27 cards, with the one letter of the alphabet on each card (and a "Misc." card to cover compilations, soundtracks, etc). I'd pick a card to determine a letter from which to pick an album, CD or 45 depending on a roll of a pair of dice: even indicated picking an LP, odd a CD and either a pair of ones or a pair of sixes indicated a 45. I would then pick a song from said LP, CD or 45 (so that the final determination of song was actually my conscious choice--). So, although there is an element of chance, I also tried to let the mix have its own inner logic.

I did this one all in one shot the other night, but subsequent volumes in the Cagey Operation series are going to be contructed one song per day.

The subtitle comes from something my six-year-old son said after seeing the much-maligned red-haired comedian on Hollywood Squares. Why we let our kids watch Hollywood Squares is quite beyond me.

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