Hey HEY You YOU (World's Shittiest Mix)
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A few months ago a friend sent me a link to this video of comedian Aziz Ansari walking around New York City with a boombox playing the world's shittiest mixtape. The mixtape included such gems as Miami Sound Machine's "Conga" and Paula Cole's "I Don't Want To Wait", and it inspired me to think about what I would put on my world's shittiest mixtape. Billy Ocean's "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" immediately came to mind. I mean, I dig "Caribbean Queen" as much as the next guy, but in my mind the only place that "Get Outta..." belongs is on the world's shittiest mix.Jump to a couple of weeks ago... I was doing some grocery shopping at Stanley's Produce in Chicago, and a particularly heinous block of 80s pop was playing on their satellite radio station. Fortunately, most of the songs escape me now, but when that once-ubiquitous reggae-pop cover of Peter Frampton's "Ooh Baby I Love Your Way" came on, I was horrified to discover that I could anticipate pretty much every note of it. I never wanted to hear that song in the first place and I probably hadn't heard it in over 15 years, but somehow its contents were archived impeccably in my memory. The moment was almost redeemed by the woman joyously singing along as she inspected peaches, but not quite.Hearing that song brought the Billy Ocean song back to the front of my mind--it started slithering around in there like a vicious parasite, albeit one with a crowd of voices to shout along with its chorus. A few minutes later, I zipped over to Whole Foods for some bulk grains, and whatever was playing on their sound system was innocuous and catchy enough to submerge Mr. Ocean, UNTIL (and I swear this really happened) it ended and on came "Hey HEY you YOU!": the song that had been eating me alive just minutes before.So now, in honor of MOG's new "sound samples" feature, I thought I might share some of the pain. We'll see if the sound samples computer spares you all or not.I'm still working on my world's shittiest mix, am not ready to finalize its tracklist just yet. But that Frampton cover clearly needs to be included, as does another song that I thought I'd forgotten until it came surging back like a tidal wave (or perhaps like a Billy Ocean?) when a friend goofily invoked it in an email several weeks ago: C&C Music Factory's "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm".Feel free to shout out your candidates for World's Shittiest Mix.Hmmmmmm, indeed. 
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