A Good Hodge Podge

Today I was looking around the desk in our basement family room and I found a stack of CD's, burned by Dad and labeled by Mom. 


Side note: My mom hates unlabeled CD's, and my dad never labels his CD's. They're a match made in heaven, I tell you. (Except they really are, despite CD differences.) 


Anyway, they were mostly hilarious labels like Dad's Neil Diamond and Weird Instrumentals or simply Dad's Weird Stuff, but there was one that caught my eye called A Good Hodge Podge. Any CD with the word "podge" in the title is bound to be a good one, right?


Well, this one did not disappoint. Check it out: 

1. "The Day Before You" :: Rascal Flatts

2. "The Way You Look Tonight" :: Michael Bublé

3. "Someday We'll Know" :: Mandy Moore feat. Jonathan Foreman

4. "Everything" :: Lifehouse

5. "Under Heaven's Skies" :: Collective Soul

6. "Amazed" :: Lonestar

7. "(Everything I Do) I Do it for You" :: Bryan Adams

8. "Miss Me Baby" :: Chris Cagle

9. "My Confession" :: Josh Groban

10. "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" :: Def Leppard

11. "You Don't Know Me" :: Michael Bublé

12. "I Will Always Love You" :: Whitney Houston

13. "The Tension and the Terror" :: Straylight Run

14. "Blank Sheet of Paper" :: Tim McGraw

It has a few I would never choose to put on there, and one I've never even heard (who the heck is Straylight Run?), but it's quite enjoyable overall. I'm especially a fan of numbers 4, 6, and 10. Congrats to the unknowingly combined efforts of my parents for creating a new Saturday chores mix for their favorite daughter. :)


And now, a quick poll. Last time I posted a playlist, I found YouTube links for each song. It was a boatload of work, however, and I feel like probably nobody even used that (because honestly, I wouldn't have clicked a single one if it had been on someone else's blog). So, readers: music video links--useful or useless? 

Thanks! And many happy returns.