Had an idea recently of doing some cd's for mates....
I used to love doing cd's for people, sharing music etc.
Anyway, two of the three people I will be doing them for are very knowledgeable about music. This was my idea....very simple.
I do a cd entitled No 1's and on it I put only what i consider to be great songs that are first on a particular album. Ditto No 2's etc.
I wont give them a setlist. I dont like doing that. They can be surprised. And setlists mean they start making judgements before they even hear the songs rather than just go with the flow - like a gig or a good radio station.
They'd get one a month and never know what would be on until they played them

I was thinking of starting the cd's off with these...

No 1's - Five Years by Bowie (would also include The Way by Bonnie Prince Billy, Knocked Up by Kings of Leon, Alsation Cousin by Morrissey, Showgirl by The Auteurs
No 2's - A Night In by Tindersticks then Too Sick to Pray (acoustic) by Alabama 3
No 3's - Wild Cats of Kilkenny by The Pogues
No 4's - Love of the Loveless by The Eels
No 5's - Hedonist by The House of Love
No 6's - Dread Lion by Lee Scratch Perry
No 7's - Roads by Portishead
No 8's - err ?
No 9's - Do you Realize? by The Flaming Lips followed by Ocean Rain by the Bunnymen
No 10's - Angel Sigh by Spiritualized

Any thoughts?
What do you reckon are the best opening and second songs on cd's?

No: 1's

Paperback Bible - Lambchop (Damaged)
Back In the USSR - The Beatles (White Album)
The Intro And The Outro - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (The History Of The Bonzo's) (Cheating a little, actually track 9 on the album it was first released on, 'Gorilla')
The Greatest - Cat Power (The Greatest)
Block Rockin' Beats - The Chemical Brothers (Dig Your Own Hole)
To Build A Home - The Cinematic Orchestra (Ma Fleur)
Rid Of Me - PJ Harvey (Rid Of Me)
Do The Strand - Roxy Music (For Your Pleasure)
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - Sparks (Kimono My House)


Just a few that spring to mind...

mmmm....wouldnt have considered The Chemical Brothers but that would be a good song to start an album with, especially if it was followed by Five Years.
Also like Pj Harvey and Roxy Music

No. 1: Alone Again Or (Forever Changes by Love)
No. 2. Losing My Religion (Out of Time, REM)
No. 3: This is What She's Like (Don't Stand Me Down (Directors Cut), Dexy's Midnight Runners)
No. 4: Driftwood (Travis, the Man Who...)
No. 5: English Rose (All Mod Cons, The Jam)
No. 6. Can't think. will edit and add later.
7. Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?" (Tired of Hanging Around by the Zutons)
8. God Only Knows (Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys)
9. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths
No. 10/closing, will edit and add later.

Ones and two are easy squeezy, here's my number 6's!! :

Love to Stay - Altered Images
Change - Killing Joke
Stupid Questions - New Model Army
Facility Girls - Soft Cell
Apples and Oranges - Dogs Die In Hot Cars
The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
Alligator Boy - Ed Harcourt
Marie Floating Over the backyard - Eels
This Better Be Good - Fountains of Wayne
Circus Of Stars - Gas Giants
Nothing Rhymed - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Golden Frost - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
All The Small Things - Blink 182