Pauley’s ‘Get Psyched’ Mixes
Mar 23, 2010 Music, That's Hot
In a late-December-2005 episode of “How I Met Your Mother,” Barney Stinson was excited about the new “get psyched” mix CD he’d created. Thanks to the website TV Squad, high-definition TV and a DVR, we know the track listing on the prop CD, as Barney wrote it:
- “I Wanna Rock” — Twisted Sister
- “You Give Love A Bad Name” — BJ (Bon Jovi)
- “Lick It Up” — KISS
- “Paradise City” — GNR (Guns N’ Roses)
- “Dancing With Myself” — Billy Idol
- “Rock You Like A Hurricane” — Scorpy (Scorpions)
- “Panama” — Van Halen
- “Talk Dirty To Me” — Poison
- “Thunderstruck” — AC/DC
- “Dr. Feelgood” — Crue (Motley Crüe)
- “Round and Round” — Ratt
Between finding the track listing online and having some songs in my own iTunes library that would psych me up, I was inspired to create a mix or two of my own. I gave myself a few conditions: 1) I could reuse the same artists from Barney’s mix, but none of the same songs, 2) an artist cannot appear more than once on a mix and 3) I also can’t have used a song on a “road mix” CD I’d previously created (I have a few CDs burned from iTunes playlists for driving in the car).
First up, a blend of rock music:
- “Burn It to the Ground” — Nickelback
- “Fuel for Fire [pre-Reload version with different lyrics]” — Metallica (from NBC’s discontinued NASCAR: Full Throttle
)
- “Machinehead” — Bush
- “Gimme Some Lovin’” — Spencer Davis Group
- “Real Gone” — Sheryl Crow
- “Sabotage” — Beastie Boys
- “Life Is a Highway” — Tom Cochrane
- “Eye of the Tiger” — Survivor
- “Shoot to Thrill” — AC/DC
- “Mighty Wings” — Cheap Trick
- “Metal Health (Bang Your Head)” — Quiet Riot
- “Remedy “– Seether
- “Welcome to the Jungle” — Guns N’ Roses
- “Misirlou” — Dick Dale
- “Invincible” — Adelitas Way
- “Let It Roll” — Velvet Revolver
- “It’s My Life” — Bon Jovi
- “Takin’ Care of Business” — Bachman-Turner Overdrive
- “Let It Rock” — Kevin Rudolf & Lil Wayne
- “Light It Up” — Rev Theory
iTunes marks that as 1:15:36 in length, so it fits on an 80-minute CD.
Second, I’ve got a playlist started with songs that aren’t necessarily in the rock genre. This list isn’t yet a complete CD; I thus welcome suggestions for stuff that might fit on it:
- “All I Want” — The Offspring
- “Techno Syndrome” — The Immortals
(theme from Mortal Kombat)
- “$160 Million Chinese Man” — David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven soundtrack)
- “Breathe” — The Prodigy
- “Show Me What You Got” — Jay-Z
- “Stop The Rock” — Apollo 440
- “In The Air Tonight” — Nonpoint
- “Blackout City” — Anamanaguchi
- “Unbelievable” — EMF
- “Kids” — MGMT
- “I’m On a Boat” — The Lonely Island feat. T-Pain
So far, that one weighs in at only 41:19, and so could stand to have about 35 minutes added to it still.
Comments, questions, suggestions… have at it.
