Secret Crush Society's Tasha Brown (uploaded to a buffistarawk account near you)

(Couldn't help the vanity posting! just got the cd tonight!!!! It's been a lOOOOOOOOOng time coming)

Some Friday Fun:

I have a different kind of challenge for you this month.

Because I will be on vacation for 10 days in the middle of October, and want to do a Halloween mix for the end of the month, I will be posting a “year in review” playlist for the first part of the month.

So, without looking back in this thread, can you identify the 12 themes in this playlist (see next post), and put each song in its proper category? Bonus points for giving the actual name of the mix I used at work.

Some clues:
1) Every theme contributed either 5 or 6 songs to the list.
2) Some songs could fit multiple themes, but do not count twice for the purposes of clue number 1.
3) Up to 3 of the songs could switch or rotate places and this puzzle would still work, but only those three.
3) Knowing my exact age would help you to guess one of the categories.
4) The mix name of one of the hardest themes to guess is one of the songs on this list.
5) The most subtle mix name comes from a song by an artist on this list, but that song is not included here.

“Africa” by Toto
“Ain't No Sunshine” by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes
“Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” by KT Tunstall
“Coin-Operated Boy” by The Dresden Dolls
“Crazy” by Andy Bell
“Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley
“Crazy” by Violent Femmes
“Cruel Summer” by Bananarama
“Crush with Eyeliner” by R.E.M.
“Dandelion Wine” by Ron Sexsmith
“Dashboard” by Modest Mouse
“Destroyer” by The Kinks
“Down to Nowhere” by Thea Gilmore
“Downtown Train” by Everything but the Girl
“867-5309 (Jenny)” by Tommy Tutone
“Everybody Knows (Except You)” by The Divine Comedy
“Excitable Boy” by Warren Zevon
“505” by Arctic Monkeys
"The Flowers She Sent and the Flowers She Said She Sent" by Magnetic Fields
“Forget the Flowers” by Wilco
“4 Minutes” by Madonna
“Friday Night” by Lily Allen
“Friday on My Mind” by The Easybeats
“Girls on Film” by Duran Duran
“Guilty” by UB40
“I Eat Cannibals” by Toto Coelo
“I Want Candy” by Bow Wow Wow
“It's Raining Men” by The Weather Girls
"Lazy Sunday" by Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg
“Let’s Kill Saturday Night” by Robbie Fulks
“Little Red Corvette” by Kustard Kings
“Monday Monday Monday” by Tegan and Sara
“Money, Money, Money” by ABBA
“The Moneymaker” by Rilo Kiley
“The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get” by Morrissey
“No Rain” by Blind Melon
“Only Happy When It Rains” by Garbage
“Petals” by Hole
“Pink Cadillac” by Bruce Springsteen
“Pretty in Pink” by The Dresden Dolls
“Psycho Killer” by Talking Heads
“Rain Street” by The Pogues
“Rich Girl” by Gwen Stefani & Eve
“The Richest Kids” by This Is Ivy League
“Ring of Fire” by Social Distortion
“Rock el Casbah” by Rachid Taha
“Ruth, Roses, and Revolvers” by The Real Tuesday Weld
“The Saturday Boy” by Bill Bragg
“She Blinded Me with Science” by Thomas Dolby
“Shock the Monkey” by Peter Gabriel
“Sky Blue Sky” by Wilco
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Paul Anka
“So. Central Rain” by R.E.M.
“Summer Son” by Texas
“Summer Wages” by Nanci Griffith
“Summer Wine” by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
“Summertime” by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes
“Survival Car” by Fountains of Wayne
“Tall Green Grass” by Cory Branan
“Thirteen” by Big Star
“The Truck Got Stuck” by Corb Lund
“25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago
“Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance
“Whip It” by Devo
“Wicked and Weird” by Buck 65
“White Wedding” by Billy Idol

My MCR mood-lifting picks are "I'm Not Okay" and, oddly, "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison."

Prison isn't that odd... Gerard seems to enjoy it as well. Kinky boy.

I was just thinking in the car earlier, while it was playing, that "I'm Not Okay" is totally one of my moodlifters!

“Africa” by Toto - Places
“Ain't No Sunshine” by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - Rainy
“Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” by KT Tunstall - Colors
“Coin-Operated Boy” by The Dresden Dolls - Five Cents a dance.
“Crazy” by Andy Bell - Mental Health (lack therof)
“Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley - Mental Health (lack therof)
“Crazy” by Violent Femmes - Mental Health (lack therof)
“Cruel Summer” by Bananarama - Bands that took their names from a combination of Roxy Music and the Banana Splits
“Crush with Eyeliner” by R.E.M. - Makeup
“Dandelion Wine” by Ron Sexsmith - Summer?
“Dashboard” by Modest Mouse- Cars
“Destroyer” by The Kinks - Songtitles stolen from Kiss
“Down to Nowhere” by Thea Gilmore - Directional songs.
“Downtown Train” by Everything but the Girl - Songs with the properties of subatomic particles.
“867-5309 (Jenny)” by Tommy Tutone - Numbers
“Everybody Knows (Except You)” by The Divine Comedy - Bands named after Dante.
“Excitable Boy” by Warren Zevon - More crazy
“505” by Arctic Monkeys - numbers
"The Flowers She Sent and the Flowers She Said She Sent" by Magnetic Fields - Flowers
“Forget the Flowers” by Wilco - Flowers
“4 Minutes” by Madonna - Numbers
“Friday Night” by Lily Allen - Days of the week
“Friday on My Mind” by The Easybeats - Days of the week
“Girls on Film” by Duran Duran - Photography
“Guilty” by UB40 - Law & Order
“I Eat Cannibals” by Toto Coelo - Eating?
“I Want Candy” by Bow Wow Wow - Eating!
“It's Raining Men” by The Weather Girls - Weather/Rain
"Lazy Sunday" by Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg - Days
“Let’s Kill Saturday Night” by Robbie Fulks - Days
“Little Red Corvette” by Kustard Kings - Colors
“Monday Monday Monday” by Tegan and Sara - Days
“Money, Money, Money” by ABBA - Uh...Money?
“The Moneymaker” by Rilo Kiley - Money!
“The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get” by Morrissey - Stalking
“No Rain” by Blind Melon - Rain
“Only Happy When It Rains” by Garbage - Precipitation
“Petals” by Hole - Floresence
“Pink Cadillac” by Bruce Springsteen - Colors, Phallic Symbols
“Pretty in Pink” by The Dresden Dolls - Colors, Yoni symbols
“Psycho Killer” by Talking Heads - Insane in the membrane
“Rain Street” by The Pogues - Raindrops
“Rich Girl” by Gwen Stefani & Eve - moneys
“The Richest Kids” by This Is Ivy League - lean green
“Ring of Fire” by Social Distortion - hemmrhoids
“Rock el Casbah” by Rachid Taha - Clash covers in foreign tongues
“Ruth, Roses, and Revolvers” by The Real Tuesday Weld - Flowers, guns and lawyers
“The Saturday Boy” by Bill Bragg - Calendary
“She Blinded Me with Science” by Thomas Dolby - Science!
“Shock the Monkey” by Peter Gabriel - (she blinded me)
“Sky Blue Sky” by Wilco - All the colors of the rainbow
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Paul Anka - Covers of clash songs in foreign tongues
“So. Central Rain” by R.E.M. - Centrality
“Summer Son” by Texas - Sonny Days
“Summer Wages” by Nanci Griffith - Cash, Summer, Songs by People Who Replace the "Y" with an "I" at the end of their first name
“Summer Wine” by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Songs by Nancy with a Y. In the summer.
“Summertime” by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - Ampersand bands
“Survival Car” by Fountains of Wayne - The mutant mating of Frick, Frack and Jeff Probst
“Tall Green Grass” by Cory Branan - lawnmowing.
“Thirteen” by Big Star - Songs that mention pools.
“The Truck Got Stuck” by Corb Lund - Songs by people with improbable names. Cars.
“25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago - innumeracy
“Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance - Bleakery, colors
“Whip It” by Devo - Porn
“Wicked and Weird” by Buck 65 - Porn
“White Wedding” by Billy Idol - Nuptials, Blanco

oddly, "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison."

Is not so odd. I saw his performance at the Warfield, too, you know.

(I really like the "Life On The Murder Scene" version)

I was just thinking in the car earlier, while it was playing, that "I'm Not Okay" is totally one of my moodlifters!

It's very cathartic to scream "I'm not okay" a couple of dozen times.

OMG, Hec, that is the funniest thing I've read in a long time.

And you even managed to get 9 of the 12 actual themes in there: Cars, Colors, Rain, Summer, Numbers, Flowers, Days of the Week, Money, and Mental Health (or, as you say, lack thereof). Not that you've assigned songs correctly, but still.