( continues...) to when you're all alone in the house and it's late at night and you hear something creaking. Sort of the opposite of a comfort song.

(Lynn also came up with #9, BTW. She is teh awesome.)

25. A song that you would sing to yourself if you were ever in a dire situation and needed it to keep going

Well... quite a few of them, actually -- see #23, #4, #6, #9, et and cetera. Had to cut a corner somewhere to keep this under 80 minutes!

26. A song by a band with an awful name

"Mannequins" by the Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir. Yeah, I really do adore Dillon a whole lot, his writing, singing, acting, he really is that good. And I think the Headstones is a great band name, actually. But the HDRC... not so much a good band name, even if it's a damn good outfit. Dillon has some name recognition in Canada, so it's not entirely awful, and his struggles with substance abuse are also quite well known... and this new band marks the era of the best recovery he's had yet, the one that looks like it may well take.

As for the song, it's a terrificly fierce apocalyptic vision that puts me in mind of 28 Days Later.

27. A song that even when you know it's time to LEAVE the BAR someone can put on the jukebox to make you stay

"Le Freak" by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. If I was leaving with a group and this started to play, I would not only try to talk my friends into sitting down and listening, I might forcibly nail them into their chairs and gag them, so fierce would be my desire to make them listen all the way through. I love so many things about this -- not only the instruments (all ukuleles, which one of the members calls 'bonsai guitars') but the cool and ironic performance of the singer, who manages to put quotes around every line, and the infective enthusiasm of the players. There's also the lovely accent.

Another quote from another performance by this band: "All you need is four strings and the truth." Amen.

I'm in the middle of making my third or fourth attempt to upload a You Send It zip file so that it would be easier to get it all in one big lump. ::Le Sigh::

YSI takes forever to upload. I'm looking forward to downloading your mix, though.

And it crapped out on me again -- before finally working!

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This includes a .txt file of the liner notes.

Please enjoy!

ELO, whom I hated with the force of a thousand burning nuns

I just wanted to see that again.

Theo, your mix looks awesome!

I hope it stands up to closer scrutiny!

I've added so very many songs in the past couple weeks that I'm actually way behind on listening to and appreciating. Some are immediate standouts, like the Calliopa song, and the chain gang one, "Your Adorable Beast", "Short Skirt, Long Jacket," "Hello Hello," "Sunkeneyed Girl", "Rockin' in Rhythm," "Jesus Help Me to Stand" -- which doesn't include songs I've actually heard before this and like quite a lot already, and then all the songs that I haven't even heard yet, plus the songs that don't appeal so much on the first listen as much as they grow on you sneakily over time.

Just in case anyone passing through here doesn't have access to Buffistarawk2, the current YSI link is:

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"Doctor Who: Main Title" by the Ray Winstone Orchestra.

Ray Winstone, the Will Scarlet, dial a bad guy of British cinema, Ray Winstone?

Or another Ray Winstone?

I'm not sure -- that is how the file is listed, and I'd never heard of the guy before yesterday. It could be that someone hacked the CDDB? I'll have to haul out the actual Box set and see what it says.

"Doctor Who: Main Title" by the Ray Winstone Orchestra.

That's the orchestral version I have on my two disk classic TV themes CD, so I think it's from back in the day (and probably not the same Ray Winstone). I was mentioning in Box Set (in a discussion of the new Dr. Who and the re-working of the theme through the years) that I was a bit disappointed to not have the original theme (or at least one of the strictly electronic versions) and that I thought the tempo on this version was too slow.

Hey Jon!

The Guest of Honor at the filk con I attended this weekend played theramin(among many other instruments) as part of his concert set.

He also gave a theramin workshop, and I got to try to play one.(alas, I couldn't get a recognizable tune out of it. In fact, it sounded like I was torturing a cat. Ah, well...)