i've started planning for the mix cds i will be making my family for christmas stocking crap this year..
my sister doesn't get one. last year, i put a lot of effort into getting reccomendations from people and i actually listened to large amounts of crappy rap (not to mention housed it on my harddrive, all of which on my old computer was precious space) trying to find what she'd like. she was a bitch about it and actually said don't make me one next year. so she doesn't get one.
my mom's will be easy, and mainly involve me throwing a lot of indie-rock type stuff that i already listen, but she hasn't heard (or hasn't heard often enough to remember) to onto a mix.
my brother has given me some ideas already...
so far we've got:
black sabbath - iron man
eye of the riger (from the rocky soundtrack
)
tom petty - the last DJ
ray charles - hit the road jack
sonny & cher - i've got you babe
those were tracks he's particularly said he wants.
my other ideas:
queen - we will rock you/we are the champions
so...yeah...this one is going to be interesting...