Artist	Song
Bright Eyes	At the Bottom of Everything
Ben Folds Five	Philosophy
John Williams	Summon the Heroes (1996 Atlanta Olympics theme)
The Clash	Rudie Can't Fail
The Juicy Fruits	Goodbye, Eddie, Goodbye
Frank Sinatra	I Won't Dance
ABBA	Fernando
Dean Martin	That's Amore
Tom Jones	It's Not Unusual
The Grass Roots	Sooner or Later
Jamie O'Neal	Trying to Find Atlantis
Barenaked Ladies	Shoebox
The Beach Bums	Upholstery
The F-Ups	Lazy Generation
Busted	Year 3000
AC/DC	Highway to Hell
The Blood Brothers	God Bless You, Blood Thirsty Zeppelins
The Star Spangles	Stay Away from Me
The Cure	Why Can't I Be You?
Madness	House of Fun
The Clash	Pressure Drop
Cake	Guitar
Elwood	Sundown
Tegan and Sara	Walking with a Ghost
The Chemical Brothers	Galvanize
Gwen Stefani	Rich Girl
Unwritten Law	Save Me
Kelly Clarkson	Since U Been Gone
Goo Goo Dolls	What a Scene
Ben Folds	Landed

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Okay, I'm not expecting to receive any comments for this one, since it's polarizing in about 180 different ways. Whoever likes Bright Eyes is not gonna like seeing ABBA. Fans of The Clash will scoff at Busted and The F-Ups. Disciples of The Blood Brothers will not like the band sharing mix space with Barenaked Ladies and Gwen Stefani. And *no one* is gonna applaud me for using Kelly Clarkson, Unwritten Law, Tom Jones, and the most overused AC/DC song of all time...but honestly, this is what I am listening to right now, and I love it all, and, for once, I refuse to be ashamed of anything on here. Now, normally I don't like Kelly Clarkson, and that Unwritten Law song is extremely generic (but I really like the chorus), and Gwen Stefani kind of irritates me now (but I love the "Fiddler on the Roof" homage), and after decades, I just now finally started to enjoy that AC/DC chestnut, and De Palma's cult classic "Phantom of the Paradise" had fantastic pop/musical stuff, hence Beach Bums and Juicy Fruits, and Busted may be a gay N'Sync-ish British boy band but they're fun-loving and creative, and the block of Sinatra/ABBA/Martin/Tom Jones came from the best of a Valentine's Day mix I made for my girlfriend (and it occurred to be that I'd never used any of those incredible songs on a mix before), and everything else doesn't require much explanation. I wanted the mix to start with an exciting rush, so recently discovered tracks by Bright Eyes and the glorious John Williams fit that bill for me. That's about it. As always, I'm happy with the results, even if that makes me a total loser :)

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