The music challenge

I think it's safe to say that any music lover likes to put together mix Cd's to test their musical prowess. Nothing is better than the feeling of having put together a masterpiece that a friend or a loved one raves about and listens to over and over again. In this world of mp3's this art is often lost upon the appetite for the freshest song easy obtainable by many means via the interwebs. My friend Noah is an exception as he continues to pop up every once in a while dedicated to putting together a cacophony of sound on his blog Noonish. In the past couple weeks i've corresponded with friends about mixes and now to you I lay a challenge to produce the following mixes;

1. Your top 20 songs of all time (which stems from you favorite song of all time but who could really put that together, that's just crazy talk.)

2. Your newcomer's album (suppose you meet a new friend who is ready to experience a sonic revolution and your twenty songs will be the direction they will take from henceforth, so choose wisely because perhaps Coolio's "Gansta's Paradise" isn't the sort of thing that you want to hear every time you visit them.)

3. Greatest (pick a band and put together their 18 greatest hits).

4. Local (This one is a bit tougher once you have a kid, school, no time. What local bands and I will extend it region wide aka Northwest though you could be hardcore and focus on your citie's bands and has to be within the last three years)

I will get back to you on my choices but feel free to post in the comments.

Clifford