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). Read the rest of this entry »
Twelve Days
Dec 4, 2008 Music, Teh Funny, Videos
Hat tip to Jami, who proclaims, “This is priceless.” I couldn’t agree more. Enjoy!
34 Free Tunes
Nov 27, 2007 Cool Links, Music
US iTunes customers (and if you’re in the US and not one… why the hell aren’t you?) can dowload a free 34-song album of music by artists who are customers of TuneCore, a service that helps artists get listed on the iTunes Store. Details can be found at TUAW.
The 2007 Mix
Nov 17, 2007 Music
Every year I make myself a mix CD of some of the best songs (in a combination of the chart toppers and my own opinion) of the year. Coming up on the end of 2007, I’ve got some room left on this year’s mix, and I’m not sure what to put in yet. Here’s what I have so far (links go to the iTunes Store):
- “Ladies and Gentlemen” – Saliva
- “Punkrocker” – Teddybears featuring Iggy Pop
- “Home” – Daughtry
- “Here It Goes Again” – Ok Go
- “Galvanize” – The Chemical Brothers
- “Self Control” – Soraya Arnelas
- “In The Air Tonight” – Nonpoint
- “Hey There Delilah” – Plain White T’s
- “Show Me What You Got” – Jay-Z
- “Code Monkey” – Jonathan Coulton
- “1234” – Feist
- “Suddenly I See” – KT Tunstall
- “First Time” – Lifehouse
- “Whine Up (English Version)” – Kat DeLuna
- “The Memory Will Never Die” – Default
Suggestions for additions, and requests of “why did you put that on the list?” are welcome in the comments. Disparaging remarks on my taste in music will be duly noted and largely ignored. 
