I was given an interesting mental challenge ... ok, not specifically given, but someone else was talking about it and I thought, "wow, that is tough."

Choose your 10 favorite songs (at this time) and burn me a mix CD. I assume this is to gauge your listening "style," and to get to know you better. So, assuming I was going to be stuck somewhere a long time (desert island (with a CD player and power?), space station, cargo container going across the Atlantic, whatever), what 1 CD of 10 songs would I choose?

After thinking on this a while, here are mine:

• Final Fantasy 7 / Nobuo Uematsu - One-Winged Angel
• Squeeze - Tempted
• Weird Al Yankovic - Everything You Know is Wrong
• Aerosmith - Walk This Way (classic version, not the Run DMC version)
• Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
• Elvis Costello - Peace, Love, and Understanding
  
• Jennifer Knapp -
  
• Avril Lavigne - Skater Boi
  
• Rush - Tom Sawyer
  

Wow, there are so many great artists, similar to those above, that didn't even make the list:

• Chris Tomlin
• Billy Joel
• Yasunori Mitsuda (and other Video Game composers)
• Crowded House / Split Enz
• Elvis Presley
• Randy Travis (and other country or "new country" artists)
  
• Amy Jo Johnson (ok, kidding)
  

And, even when an artist is represented, it is really just representing a whole bunch of other songs (FF 7 - Aeris' Theme or Fighting; Weird Al - any of his parodies; Jennifer Knapp - other Christian artists like Chris Tomlin and Michael W Smith). And, look at what is NOT represented:

• rap (although there are some songs that I like, the bulk do not appeal to me)
• hip-hop (ditto)
• ska (never really got into it)
• jazz (love it some, like Branford Marsallis, but couldn't justify dropping another song)
• classical (ditto)
• etc., etc., etc.
  

So, what are yours? How well do these jive with what you would pick? And how do they define you?