h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

'Scuse. Just using my journal as a handy reference. In this case a compilation tape for a friend; we've just spent ages debating about it, and he still thinks my track-sequencing is pants...:

SIDE 1

Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
Paul Simon - Graceland
Madness - The Prince
Delakota - C'mon Cincinnati
Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
Kings of Leon - Joe's Head
Sheryl Crow - No-on Said It Would be Easy
Kinks - Days
Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Spin Doctors - Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies

SIDE 2

Deep Purple - Hush '88
Propellerheads - Bang On!
Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger
Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
Frankie Valli - Grease
Beatles - Get Back
J Geils Band - Centrefold
Jackie Wilson - Higher and Higher
Ocean Colour Scene - Up On The Downside
Evils Presley v JXL - A Little Less Conversation
Silver Sun - Dead End

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B

Not on your life mate - there are endless possibilities for topic drift here

No surprise in my journal, of course. What do _you_ think of my track listing, in that case?

B

I spose it would help if I knew half the songs...

It starts well, but goes downhill sharply as soon as we hit track 2.

That's the GreyDesk we all know and love - first the compliment and then the smack upside the head

Flogging Molly

As long as you have that, the rest can....

Well it's got some Ocean Colour Scene on it, so big ups for that, and 'Days' runs a close second to 'Waterloo Sunset' as far as Kinks songs are concerned, but there doesn't seem to be much of a pattern or a theme holding the thing together - no cohesion. And it's got that bloody awful J Geils song on it. There's only one song I hate more than that one - My Sharona.

And when are you going to drag yourself into the 21st century and get a CD burner?

Isn't there something about tapes though? You're forced to listen to the music because you can't skip, and judiciously placed tracks that you know the other person will want to listen to ensure the whole thing gets played

Mind you, OCS and Sheryl Crow?

I always get OCS soomehow mixed up with Cast, they sort of blend together as one in my mind. And if I'm thinking Cast, then of course I'm having to make reference to The La's, and with that comes the recognition that Cast weren't one tenth as good as the original band. Therefore by the same token OCS get slated as not very good. Sorry

And as for JXL - or Junkie XL to give him his proper title - this is a song made by an advertising agency, for f*ck's sake. So why are you including this in any selection?

Advertising agency?

By my recollection it was first used in Oceans Eleven.

B

I'm pretty sure that the Oceans Eleven one is the original version.

I'm saying this because I know that it was Nike that commissioned the remix for the advertising campaign. And that came some months after the film was released, so to my mind it would be odd for Nike to commission something so far in advance and then hand it over to a film production.

Maybe they all wore Nike trainers or something?

Nah, it was the original in the movie. This news report pretty much confirms it - http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/16/uk.elvis/

You've reminded me how good that advert was, though.

B

Don't think I remember the advert. What was in it?

A lot of very famous footballers playing some very flashy football on a boat with Eric Cantona shouting at them.

B

Oh yeah! I liked that advert too

You could play the game on the website that was associated with it - strangely it was very playable too.

I've gotta pick holes in the track sequence too - the tracks swing from get up and dance to sit down and listen too much. (Or in the case of Ocean Colour Scene - leave the room and go to the toilet.)