But How Will She Ever Hear The Gambler?

It was when Jason asked this that I realized how ill-equipped we were for the task. He had proposed that we compile a sort of "greatest hits" of our lifetime for Nora's benefit. I'm still unsure if he intends this to be an album of songs that we think are great or if they merely reflect the soundtrack of the time of our childhood/teens/young adult years. I guess more of the latter, since she will have access to our music collection and is already listening to it all the time. Anyway dear readers, it is clear that we are not up to the task, since after 2 hours of discussion and a great deal of lost sleep and insidious ear-worms, we still don't have a list. Nor are we even sure that this can be a single compilation, but perhaps a series of compilations - perhaps done by decades or in the footsteps of the great call now! infomercials, there could be an arena rock disc, a disco disc, a country disc, a metal disc, a Europop disc etc. Clearly we need your help. We welcome suggestions for how this project should be organized as well. Possible candidates already tossed into the ring include: the afore mentioned Kenny Rogers standard, Big Country's Big Country, David Bowie's, Space Odyssey, Led Zepplin's When the Levee Breaks, The Cure's Love Cats, Cindy Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fun, REM's Driver 8, The Police's Message in a Bottle, Paul Simon's Graceland or Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, Nina's 99Luftbaloons, KC and the Sunshine Band's Shake your Booty, and a gazillion others have been tossed about. We've agreed that no Rush or Styx will be included but we are in debate over whether Boston's More Than a Feelin' has a place. Jason is adamant that Trio's Da Da Da be included. Obviously there are some gaping holes. We can't decide on which Bob Marley and Indigo Girls need to be included and the Pogue's are lyrically problematic so we'll wait on them till she's older. Fortunately, Jason has not insisted on Hall and Oats. We know several of you have opinions on this already, so start posting.