Artist	Song
Talking Heads	I Zimbra (3:08)
Neutral Milk Hotel	The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 (2:00)
Bruce Springsteen	Born In The U.S.A. (4:40)
Bob Marley	One Love / People Get Ready (2:51)
The Beatles	Fixing A Hole (2:36)
David Bowie	Starman (4:13)
Night Ranger	Sister Christian (5:02)
The Beatles	Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (3:28)
The Rolling Stones	Ruby Tuesday (3:15)
Simon & Garfunkel	I Am A Rock (2:52)
Prince	Raspberry Beret (3:32)
Billy Joel	The Stranger (5:09)
The Beatles	Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (2:37)
David Bowie	"Heroes" (6:10)
The Rolling Stones	Paint It, Black (3:45)
Talking Heads	Life During Wartime (3:41)
The Rolling Stones	She's A Rainbow (4:13)
John Lennon	Watching The Wheels (3:35)
Elton John	Tiny Dancer (6:16)
The Velvet Underground	Stephanie Says (2:50)
Bob Marley	Redemption Song (3:49)

Comment:

So my friend John showed me his iTunes playlist and basically said, burn whatever you want from here... this is what came out. John's mostly into classic rock, so this ended up being pretty much a compilation of classic rock songs that i really should have had already, but didn't. (The Neutral Milk Hotel track is apparently actually his sister's... go figure....) All in all, this mix makes me feel better about rock as a genre than maybe any other CD. The title's an homage to the Rough Guide series of world music compilations; if someone from an alien culture who'd never heard rock music before (god, there need to be more of those) wanted to start exploring this exotic new art form, this might be a great place to start.

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