I Guess He's A Barbie Girl...

So, Mr. Z came home from school a coupla weeks ago singing the song "Barbie Girl," by Aqua. Not a bad tune, really, but it was such a random song for him to be singing -- the song came out in '97, a year before he was born. I guess some kid at school turned him on to it, and now, lemme tell ya, the boy is hooked. It's like his black tar heroin. He sings it non-stop, knows all the words, and now has Miss O singing it, too. They keep wanting to watch the video on YouTube. It's all very surreal.

Anywhich, I realized that I haven't made them a mix CD in forever, so this morning I whipped one together. I promised him I would make "Barbie Girl" the first song as long as he let me pick out the rest of the songs. He obliged like the little junkie that he is. I decided that I would load the disk mostly with songs that I obsessed about as a young lad. Looking at the tunes I chose, I can see that the boy comes by his obsessions honestly. The 19 songs on this mix, minus a few outliers, are a perfect smattering of my musical influences. It's a heady, poppy stew that will either enlighten the spawn or, more likely, fuck them up as musically as I am. Here 'tis:

1. "Barbie Girl" -- Aqua
2. "Xanadu" -- Olivia Newton-John
3. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" -- The Tokens (Mr. Z's choice)
4. "King Tut" -- Steve Martin
5. "Little Saint Nick" -- The Beach Boys
6. "Yoda" -- "Weird Al" Yankovic (Mr. Z's choice, again)
7. "Yellow Submarine" -- The Beatles (Miss O's choice)
8. "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" -- Meco
9. "Peek-A-Boo!" -- Devo
10. "Sugar Sugar" -- The Archies
11. "Snoopy for President" -- The Royal Guardsmen
12. "ABC" -- The Jackson 5
13. "Particle Man" -- They Might Be Giants
14. "Love Everybody" -- The Presidents of the USA
15. "Honey, Honey" -- ABBA
16. "The Beat Goes On" -- Sonny & Cher
17. "Saturday Night" -- Bay City Rollers
18. "Hold On Tight" -- ELO
19. "Love Will Keep Us Together" -- Captain & Tennille

Yeah, that's gonna fuck them up.