The Good Stuff is a 10-volume set of mixes without any particular unifying theme, apart from that I like all of the songs on all of them. And I hope you do too. Nay, I demand that you do too.

1. "Mr. Blue Sky" - Electric Light Orchestra
2. "A Fond Farewell" - Elliott Smith
3. "The Sound Of Settling" - Death Cab For Cutie
4. "Save Me" - Aimee Mann
5. "Wake Up" - The Arcade Fire
6. "Black And White Town" - Doves
7. "Two Of Us" - The Beatles
8. "Carry The Zero" - Built To Spill
9. "Banditos" - The Refreshments
10. "Blue" - The Jayhawks
11. "Naked As We Came" - Iron & Wine
12. "Slow Hands" - Interpol
13. "We're The Same" - Matthew Sweet
14. "Lola Stars And Stripes" - The Stills
15. "Here's Where The Story Ends" - The Sundays
16. "Everyday I Write The Book" - Elvis Costello
17. "Either Way" - Guster
    

We here at Mixologists often prefer to keep you out of the loop in our personal lives, choosing instead to mock and/or throw feces at you while telling you how much you don't know about music. Well, it's time for a new Challenge!... and this time, it's personal.

Because, you see, I will be getting married in June to the loveliest young lass in all the world. But more importantly, I'll be at the epicenter of a dance party with over 100 people who are older and less hip than myself and my mate. And frankly, I need your help. I need you to make sure my wedding music does not suck.

Sure, we all know the classics: "Louie Louie", "The Twist", "Electric Slide", "The Chicken Dance", "Lady in Red". Let's face it: those songs all suck. And the only reason they still get played at weddings is because they were played at your aunt's wedding, or your cousin's wedding, or little Johnny No-Taste from down the street's wedding. This is the year 2006, and I would like to boldly state that Hall & Oates is no longer acceptable wedding fare.

So, my Challenge! to you is to put together a mix of wedding music. Avoid the standard stuff, but keep it respectable. By now you know the rules:

• Mixes cannot exceed the standard length of a CD - 80 minutes.
• Mixes must be submitted via email: submitmix@googlegroups.com
• There is no limit on the number of mixes that can be submitted by one person.

The deadline for submission is April 28, 2006. We will begin posting mixes on the 28th, but will not accept submissions after that (hence the word "deadline").

(Okay, maybe the Chicken Dance can stay...)

I have long maintained that 1994 was the year that I first "got" music. On the border between 7th and 8th grade, between ages 12 and 13, between recess and Vocabulary Workshop, between school dances and ridiculous parts in my hair, between... oh, enough. So enjoy going cross-eyed over the awesomeness of this mix.

1. "Machinehead" - Bush
2. "Buddy Holly" - Weezer
3. "Cut Your Hair" - Pavement
4. "Ease My Mind" - Arrested Development
5. "Laid" - James
6. "Longview" - Green Day
7. "Zombie" - The Cranberries
8. "Loser" - Beck
9. "Feel The Pain" - Dinosaur Jr.
10. "Voodoo Lady" - Ween
11. "The Man Who Sold The World" - Nirvana
12. "Selling The Drama" - Live
13. "Closer" - Nine Inch Nails
14. "Cold Beverage" - G. Love & Special Sauce
15. "Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago" - Soul Coughing
16. "Stupid" - Toad The Wet Sprocket
17. "Backwater" - Meat Puppets
18. "Sabotage" - Beastie Boys
19. "Last Goodbye" - Jeff Buckley
    

The Good Stuff is a 10-volume set of mixes without any particular unifying theme, apart from that I like all of the songs on all of them. And I hope you do too. Nay, I demand that you do too.

1. "Where Is My Mind?" - Pixies
2. "Momentum" - Aimee Mann
3. "California" - Rufus Wainwright
4. "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" - Coldplay
5. "Catapult" - Counting Crows
6. "Cannonball" - The Breeders
7. "Hate To Say I Told You So" - The Hives
8. "Martha My Dear" - The Beatles
9. "Gravity Rides Everything" - Modest Mouse
10. "So I Fall Again" - Phantom Planet
11. "Designs On You" - Old 97's
12. "Barely Legal" - The Strokes
13. "The Rat" - The Walkmen
14. "Exit Music (For A Film)" - Radiohead