Meow Mix

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