Who would have thought that drinking songs would go so well with ice skating?

[dreamshark]

mle292 posted a couple of days ago about this year's Marscon Mix CD challenge.

Here are your orders, should you choose to accept them: Make a Mix CD of music about DRINKING, in standard CD format and bring several copies to Marscon to share with other participants. In exchange, you will recieve copies of other people's chosen selection of drinking songs.

I'm not sure if I'm even going to Marscon, but this sounded like a great way to piddle away a weekend. So I sat down with my iTunes and started putting together a mix of songs on the subject of Drinking. OMG, did that ever turn out great! After the first pass I had 28 songs, which I loaded onto my iPod shuffle and listened to while I was skating, an amazingly successful combination. Drinking songs tend to be lively, whether they're rock'n'roll, bluegrass, show tunes, or opera. And yes, there's some of each on in this mix, although I must admit there's more country than any other single category (what can you do? the topic is DRINKING.)

I'm now trying to finalize the song order and then I'll see if I can figure out how to burn a CD from iTunes.

Assuming that I get that to work, I'll be happy to make copies for people, preferably in exchange for your own mix. barondave, you get one free, since you've given me so many mix CDs already.

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Care to guess what the overlap might be, knowing the kinds of albums we both own?

Hmm... a challenge. "Were All These Beer Cans Here Last Night?" is from an album Richard gave me, so I'm reasonably sure you don't have a copy any more. Many possibilities, but if I had to pick one it would be "Will His Love Be Like His Rum? "

I must admit, I WOULD like copies of both of your CDs, although I certainly owe you a CD or two. Bring extras and I'll buy them from you if you like. :-)

It's a deal. I'll run off a bunch for the con.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Think "Steeleye Span." Which still doesn't narrow it down all that much, does it?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I guess not. The three SSpan songs in my collection are from three different albums, and I'm not certain which of their large discography you have. Probably the earlier one, so "Four Knights Drunk".

I was sure you had some Harry Belafonte. Ah well.