Eye Music Mix:
1. Jackson Browne - "Doctor My Eyes"
2. Billy Idol - "Eyes Without A Face"
3. Survivor - "Eye Of The Tiger"
4. Van Morrison - "Brown Eyed Girl"
5. Peter Gabriel - "In Your Eyes"
6. Kim Carnes - "Bette Davis Eyes"
7. Hall & Oates - "Private Eyes" (mp3)
8. The Who - "Behind Blue Eyes"
9. Eric Carmen - "Hungry Eyes"
10. Rednex - "Cotton Eye Joe"
11. Tom Waits - "Eyeball Kid" (mp3)
12. Kelly Clarkson - "Behind These Hazel Eyes"
13. Sloan - "It's In Your Eyes" (mp3)
14. The Velvet Underground - "Pale Blue Eyes"
15. The Eagles - "Lyin' Eyes"
Although over the years I've probably made every kind of imaginable mixtape or mix CD, I've never been big into the whole "theme mix" thing, with songs all about the same topic or containing the same word in the title. But this was an idea that just fit for a very specific occasion: for the past year and change, my day job has been at an ocular tissue bank, where I mostly do data entry, in a room full of people distributing corneas for eye surgery. And everyone I work with has a surprisingly weird sense of humor about what we do; for Halloween we have gummy eyeballs and all sorts of eye-shaped candy in the office. So for the office Christmas party a few weeks ago, I decided that the gift I'd make to give to my co-workers was this eye-themed mix. I had most of it figured out in my head for a while beforehand, but I ended up throwing it all together at the last minute, and I think I probably could've done better. I should've either gone for all familiar hit songs, or peppered it with more obscure choices like the VU or Sloan (and "It's In Your Eyes" was really just one of the many songs I'd been obsessing over during my big Sloan phase last year). Instead, I feel like I kinda halfassed it with a little of the latter awkwardly mixed in with mostly the former. And I wish I'd found more truly strange songs like "Eyeball Kid" to capitalize on the aforementioned absurd sense of humor of the workplace. Nonetheless, the mix seemed to go over well, I think people appreciated a more unique gift.
1. Jackson Browne - "Doctor My Eyes"
2. Billy Idol - "Eyes Without A Face"
3. Survivor - "Eye Of The Tiger"
4. Van Morrison - "Brown Eyed Girl"
5. Peter Gabriel - "In Your Eyes"
6. Kim Carnes - "Bette Davis Eyes"
7. Hall & Oates - "Private Eyes" (mp3)
8. The Who - "Behind Blue Eyes"
9. Eric Carmen - "Hungry Eyes"
10. Rednex - "Cotton Eye Joe"
11. Tom Waits - "Eyeball Kid" (mp3)
12. Kelly Clarkson - "Behind These Hazel Eyes"
13. Sloan - "It's In Your Eyes" (mp3)
14. The Velvet Underground - "Pale Blue Eyes"
15. The Eagles - "Lyin' Eyes"
Although over the years I've probably made every kind of imaginable mixtape or mix CD, I've never been big into the whole "theme mix" thing, with songs all about the same topic or containing the same word in the title. But this was an idea that just fit for a very specific occasion: for the past year and change, my day job has been at an ocular tissue bank, where I mostly do data entry, in a room full of people distributing corneas for eye surgery. And everyone I work with has a surprisingly weird sense of humor about what we do; for Halloween we have gummy eyeballs and all sorts of eye-shaped candy in the office. So for the office Christmas party a few weeks ago, I decided that the gift I'd make to give to my co-workers was this eye-themed mix. I had most of it figured out in my head for a while beforehand, but I ended up throwing it all together at the last minute, and I think I probably could've done better. I should've either gone for all familiar hit songs, or peppered it with more obscure choices like the VU or Sloan (and "It's In Your Eyes" was really just one of the many songs I'd been obsessing over during my big Sloan phase last year). Instead, I feel like I kinda halfassed it with a little of the latter awkwardly mixed in with mostly the former. And I wish I'd found more truly strange songs like "Eyeball Kid" to capitalize on the aforementioned absurd sense of humor of the workplace. Nonetheless, the mix seemed to go over well, I think people appreciated a more unique gift.
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