When I was in high school, I often hung out at my friend Marty's house for hours at a time. His home was always bustling with activity, siblings running all over the place, parents making a ruckus and a number of cats scattering about. I had always been a dog person, so seeing how cats operated was novel to me. Marty's cats were fed Meow Mix which had three different kids of flavors mixed together: chicken, liver and tuna. That really runs the gamut of cat cuisine, right? The point is that it covers all the essential bases of what cats like.
Over the ensuing years, I have often named mixes that cover a wide variety of genres without a having a centralized theme "Meow Mix". What you'll find below is a mix that covers the essentials: 80's 90's 2000's and 2010's. It covers pop, rap and alternative. I particularly like the way all the rap songs naturally transition into each other, particularly how "Check The Rhyme" transitions into "OPP".
Of course, there's a little tribute to my pal Marty, who helped inspire this naming scheme. "Hold Me" and "No Myth" were two songs I often heard appearing on mix tapes that he made in high school.
Number Of Tracks: 21
Approximate Runtime: 1 hour, 21 minutes
Side 1 (Chicken):
- Roll With It - Steve Windwood
- Freeway Of Love - Aretha Franklin
- Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
- Stars - Switchfoot
- Hate Everyone - Say Anything
- Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Ray
- Bug Powder Dust - Bomb The Bass
- It Takes Two - Rob Bass and EZ Rock
- Check The Rhyme - A Tribe Called Quest
- OPP - Naught By Nature
Side 2 (Liver):
- Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac
- No Myth - Michael Penn
- A Wall I Must Climb - Michael McDermott
- Substitution - Silversun Pickups
- The Fixer - Pearl Jam
- Lighting The Way - Superdrag
- Pretty Fly - The Offspring
- The Anthem - Good Charlotte
- One Hit Wonder - Everclear
- Grace Kelly - Mika
- Spyder - Imperial Drag
