The "B's" and 700+ and counting

I'll be the first to admit my surprise that we're still going strong and nearing the completion of our third week in the 2006MIX Experiment. I thought by now we'd be bored of this, wanting to watch tv or a movie, CL would have heard one too many Pavement songs, or we'd have found some other project to take up.

The truth is, we're loving the experiment and all we're learning from it. In fact, just the other day Caralina handed a Pavement song four stars! This is truly going better than expected.

After our train ride and walk to work this morning we're just a few songs short of 750. The other night we made it through the completion of the "A" songs - over 500 in total. Although we were thrilled to hit the "B's" our first song, "B-boy Bouillabaisse" by the Beastie Boys, had us immediately longing for the "A's" or even the "punctuations". The songs 12:33 length was too much for either of us and we both gave it a 1 and moved on. It does have a sort of Abbey Road medly quality to it but too much of the song misses the mark.

We've been kicking around some ideas for new ways to compare the songs we're rating. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the ideas we've got and any new ideas you may have.
(keep in mind that these all use Song Titles as their foundation)
The Vs. Series: Which group of songs are better, those that contain the word "A" or the word "B"? i.e. "Good" vs. "Bad", "Love" vs. "Hate", "Walk" vs. "Run"
Time of the Season: Which season of the year is represented the best in song? i.e. Are the songs with "Autumn" or "Fall" in the title better than those with "Winter"?
City Soundtrack: Which cities have the best songs dedicated to them (or at least the city is in the song title)?

Look for these and other lists to be incorporated into the 2006MIX Experiment as we move along.

A quick note that's not 2006MIX related - We have a story in our latest issue (1/30/06) about Marc Weinstein and Amoeba Records - go ahead and check it out. Marc is a very nice guy, had the pleasure of meeting him at one of Amoeba's annual employee parties on Treasure Island.