Mix CD help

OK, so I have a few ideas for mix CD's I've been planning to make for a while, but they all need a few more songs to be really worth doing, and this seems like a good group of people to appeal to for suggestions.  :)  The themes I'm working with are:
-Insanity (either songs that mention "crazy" or something in the title, or are about being insane, or whatever)
-Driving (cars, road trips, etc.)
-Cities (in general, or a specific city, preferably mentioned in the title).  (This was stolen from an idea Beth had for her show.)

All genres are acceptable.  :)

Driving
Whoever You Are (The driving song) - Geggy Tah, Sacred Cow

Insanity
Bad Habit - The Offspring - Smash

Special Delivery - The Offspring - Original Prankster

I'll Make You Love Me - The Vandals - The Quickening

 

Those are the only ones I can think of atm.

Cities

Las Vegas with the lights out - Geggy Tah, Sacred Cow

I haven't put much thought into it, but the first thing that popped into my head when I read the word "Driving" was Cheryl Wheeler's "Driving Home". Don't know if you have that already, or if you don't like her, etc., but there you have it. :)

If you don't know the song, I think you can hear a clip here, though I don't know how long/good it is.

long long long time in a car- modest mouse

 

Woody Guthrie's Lets go ride in the car car
Darlington Darling
Olds 55 by Tom Waits.
Teenage Lobotomy: The Ramones
Did I get any of these titles right?

cities: londinium, by catatonia.

's all i can think of for the mo. :)

I'm just going to post the ones I know, even if they're repeated elsewhere in the thread.

barenaked ladies - crazy
talking heads - psycho killer
they might be giants - absolutely bill's mood
the nields - james

moxy früvous - get in the car
they might be giants - nyquil driver
dar williams - road buddy
eddie from ohio - number 6 driver
kris delmhorst - open road
beth amsel - lonely rider
guster - great escape

kris delmhorst - moscow song
cub - new york city
guster - amsterdam (when the album comes out)
great big sea - boston and st. johns
the nields - waco lake
weird al yankovic - albuquerque
candy butchers - hills of L.A.
r.e.m. - (don't go back to) rockville
we're about 9 - albany
lincoln - carversville

OK, if you're accepting all genres, lemme check my 70's and 80's MP3's and CD's... of course, I'm gonna find the driving ones, with some city ones besides... but here goes...

"Vehicle" -- Ides Of March "Drivin' My Life Away" -- Eddie Rabbitt "Ventura Highway" -- America "Rockin' Down The Highway" -- Doobie Brothers :The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" -- Jan & Dean "Fuel" -- Metallica "I Can't Drive 55" -- Sammy Hagar "Kickstart My Heart" -- Motley Crue "RPM" -- Sugar Ray "Get Out Of My Dreams (Get Into My Car)" -- Billy Ocean "The Distance" -- Cake "Slow Ride" -- Foghat "Life Is A Highway" -- Tom Cochrane

And for some city songs... "Heart Of Rock and Roll" -- Huey Lewis & The News (no cities in the title, but city names all over the lyrics) "We Built This City" -- Starship

Ooh, for crazyness: "Crazy Train" -- Ozzy Osbourne

and for America: "We're An American Band" -- Grand Funk Railroad

That's all I've found so far, I'll keep a-hunting when I think of it.

-- Pauley

insanity:

okgo - bye bye baby
psycho killer - talking heads (gotta go with the original.. :))


driving tunes: (figure these don't all have to be about driving.. one would hope)

ride with me - poe
ride wit me - nelly
locked in the trunk of a car - tragically hip (just because it rocks the house)
erase and rewind - the cardigans (groovy bass line)
play dead - bjork (again, groovy tune)
bump - fun lovin' criminals (groooov-ey)
drive - rem
drive - the cars
born slippy - underworld
jesus on the grille - willy porter
roll with it - oasis
alison road - gin blossoms
pick any prodigy song (although, i'm partial to "smack my b*tch up)
free world - martin sexton
free - vast
say baby - david garza


cities:



pick your fave sinatra song here (chicago, new york, new york)
hello city - bnl
boston band - jim's big ego

hmm. that should be enough for now ;)

hmm. some others.. damn playlists :)

driving tunes:

the trickster - radiohead
bigger stronger - coldplay
days go by - dirty vegas
falling down - the paperboys
woke up this morning - a3
this love - maroon 5
the baker - the aquabats (very cool tune :))

cities:

first we take manhattan - REM (or lenard cohen)
i'll take manhattan - they might be giants

Driving: I'm Over You- the Silos.  On the Road to Find Out- Cat Stevens.

Insanity: Crazy- Jackopierce.  Crazy- Patsy Cline.  Brainwashed- George Harrison. Beast in Me- Marty Sexton ;) Delirious- Luka Bloom.  I'm Not Afraid or I'm So Small- Fleming and John.  Sick of Myself- Matthew Sweet. 

City- Many selections off of Down to the Bone's From Manhattan to Staten groove-jazz record.  New York Minute- Don Henley (hahah)

I'm sure I'd have a ton mroe but that's off the top of my skull...

 

I love New York Minute.  Now it reminds me of 9/11.  Very sad now.

You guys rock.  :)

And, please, I don't mean to hog this forum....if anyone else is an obsessive-complusive mix-burning dork and wants some suggestions, I'm willing to share the wealth.  Or something.  :)

Ok I went thru half my cd collection and here�s what I came up with:

Insanity/crazy:

-she drives me crazy by fine young cannibals

-she drives LIKE crazy by weird al (both insanity AND driving in there J )

-crazy mary by peral jam

-everybody�s crazy by Jess Klein

-you call it madness (I call it love) by diana krall

-crazy baby by joan osbourne

-voices in my head by denis leary

-crazy for you by madonna

-losing my mind by holly cole

Queen: im going slightly mad, crazy little thing called love

 

Driving:

Stereophonics: traffic, I stopped to fill my car up

Dan Bern: alaska highway

-An awesome song called 142 thru by Thomas Trio and the Red Albino

-�till we run out of road by jewel

-cruisin� together by holly cole (or gwyneth paltrow + huey lewis)

-against the wind by bog seger

-holiday road by kenny loggins

-king of the road by roger miller

 

Cities:

Tragically Hip: Toronto #4, Montreal, Vegas Strip, new orleans is sinking

Stereophonics: Vegas Two Times, plastic california

Dan bern: city (off the new album, its awesome!), rome, toledo, city of models, hannibal

Jewel: barcelona, cleveland

Harry connick jr: way down yonder in new orleans, chattanooga choochoo

-Paradise city by guns and roses

-boston and st john�s by great big sea

-and if venice is sinking by spirit of the west

-werewolves of london by warren zevon

-little amsterdam by tori amos

-timbuktu by holly cole

-all dressed up for san francisco by philosopher kings

-point me in the direction of albuquerque by the partridge family

-last train to clarkesville by the monkees

-kansas city by dion

-postcards from paris by the johnny favourite swing orchestra

-gothem city serenade by big rude jake

-detroit city by tom jones

-san francisco (flowers in your hair) by scott mckensie

-waterloo by abba

-pensacola by joan osbourne

 

from jen meyers

the only one i can think of is for driving: Idiot Road by The Arrogant Worms

 

After the response to those last 3 (as I said, you guys rock), I'm almost afraid to mention this, but I'm in the preliminary brainstorming phases of a (not patriotic) America mix...so far, I have "Stupid American" (well, obviously....even though Julie sings it), "America" (the Simon and Garfunkel and West Side Story versions) and "What You Own."  Anyone want to contribute?  :)  (Heehee....this is great, I don't even need to think any more.)

i'm afraid of americans - david bowie (and nin)
american jesus - bad religion
flag day - the housemartins (not america specific but a song about stupid patriotism)

thats all i can think of right now....

"American Woman"  Both the Guess Who and the Lenny Kravitz versions.

In both "Funky Kaylee" (Black 47) and "Honey Pie" Brit boys pine for their girls who have run off to America.

Is there an Indigo Girls version of S&G's "America"?  Possibly.

and Driving - has no one mentioned Dave-O's solo tune "Drive too Much?"  And "Number Six Driver?"