mix tape.

My 30 Post Song Challenge is complete. Much like my previous 30 I have a list of unpublished topics that tipped the scales beyond thirty. I will revisit these later, but for now I'll call it complete. Each of my posts contained one or more songs and each was titled after one, so it seems reasonable to a person like me to put it all together:

Santify Yourself - Simple Minds (1985)

Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung (1984)

Dance This Mess Around - The B-52s (1979)

Hands Clean - Alanis Morissette (2002)

You've Made Me So Very Happy - Blood, Sweat, & Tears (1969)
Right Down the Line - Gerry Rafferty (1977)
Punk Rock Girl - Dead Milkmen (1988)
Closer - Nine Inch Nails (1994)
We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel (1989)
Grease Medley - John Travola, Olivia Newton-John, & Cast (1978)

Entre Nous - Rush (1980)

Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2009)
Me & U - Cassie feat. (2006)
Cosmic Love - Florence & the Machine (2009)

Hallelujah Chorus - Mormon Tabernacle Choir (trad.)

Pump it Up - Elvis Costello (1978)

Lover's Spit - Broken Social Scene (2004)

Drink You Pretty - Placebo (2003)
Down by the Water - PJ Harvey (1995)

The Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen (1984)

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (1994)

Warm Sound - Zero 7 (2004)

September - Earth, Wind, & Fire (1978)

La Golondrina - Plácido Domingo

Purple Rain - Prince & the Revolution (1984)
Goodbye Horses - Q. Lazzarus (1988)
Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin (1973)

Laugh, Laugh - The Beau Brummels (1965)

Country Death Song - Violent Femmes (1984)
Know Your Chicken - Cibo Matto (1996)

Creepin' Midnight - Sea Train (1970)

'97 Bonnie & Clyde - Tori Amos (2001)
Clean - Sneaker Pimps (1996)
Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - Robert Plant/Alison Krauss (2007)

Last Child - Aerosmith (1976)

Everything She Wants - Wham! (1984)

Speedfreak Lullaby - Kelly Hogan (2001)

No Excuses - Alice in Chains (1993)

Original Sin - INXS (1984)

Bloodletting (Vampire Song) - Concrete Blonde (1990)

Don't Panic - Coldplay (2000)

Bury My Lovely - October Project (1993)

The Changeling - The Doors (1971)

Hotel California - The Eagles (1976)

Half Moon - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie (1970)

Happy Together - The Turtles (1967)

Don't Change - INXS (1982)

Angry Johnny - Poe (1995)

Third Prelude - Oscar Levant (1945)

Play Me - Neil Diamond (1972)
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty (1977)
Angels We Have Heard on High - Sixpence None the Richer (2008)
Indiana Jones Theme (Raiders) - John Williams (1981)
Chopsticks - Traditional
Sweetest Perfection - Depeche Mode (1990)
King of Pain - The Police (1983)

Kid Fears - Indigo Girls feat. Michael Stipe (1989)

In Too Deep - Genesis (1986)

Double Vision - Foreigner (1978)

Shoe Box - Barenaked Ladies (1996)
The Highwayman (live) - Loreena McKennitt (1999)
Kool Thing - Sonic Youth (1990)
Dance Anthem of the 80s - Regina Specktor (2009)

The Name Game - Shirley Ellis (1965)

Jòga - Björk (1997)
Carnival - Natalie Merchant (1995)
Bravado - Rush (1991)
Sinequanon - Hybrid feat. Soon E MC (1999)

New Favorite - Alison Krauss + Union Station (2001)

Sad Clown - Sarah McLachlan (1989)

Break Your Heart - Natalie Merchant feat. N'Dea Davenport (1998)
And So it Goes - Billy Joel (1989)
Eyes without a Face - Billy Idol (1983)
My Immortal - Evanescence (2003)
Holding Back the Years - Simply Red (1985)
When it Don't Come Easy - Patty Griffin (2004)
Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday (1941)
It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday - Boyz II Men (1991)
A White Shade of Pale - Procol Harum (1967)
Lost Cause - Beck (2002)
If I Were Smart - Shelby Lynne (2003)
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac (1975)
All the Wild Horses - Ray LaMontagne (2004)
Why? - Annie Lennox (1992)

In Between Days - The Cure (1985)

Thunderstruck - AC/DC (1990)

#1 Crush - Garbage (1996)

American Girl - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1976)

Counting Backwards - Throwing Muses (1991)

Awkward Age - Joe Jackson (2003)

More Than This - Roxy Music (1982)
Oh, Well (Live) - Fleetwood Mac (1980)
Sanctified - Nine Inch Nails (1989)