"boredom is a sin, ambition should be everything"

[devi]

Help! Compilation help, to be precise. I'm putting together several compilation CDs (of which you shall hear more later) with different themes. I want to fill one of them with songs that inspire you to get up and make something, do something creative with your life, overcome the nerves and the stagefright - and it's occurred to me that I should really have it done by November.

The trouble is that I've only thought of four songs so far (Lose Yourself by Eminem, Goethe's Letter to Vic Chesnutt and Lee Remick by Hefner, and the 'this is your life and it's ending one minute at a time' theme from Fight Club). Which is frankly pathetic.

So. Anyone have any suggestions? What's the song that makes you want to make art? The song that kicks you in the arse and tells you to get on with it?

Edit: Oh yeah, "There She Goes My Beautiful World" by Nick Cave as well.)

Comments

[ravenblack.livejournal.com]

Five suggestions each of a quite different sort of inspiration:

For a more martial aggressive sort of inspiration, Laibach's "Life is Life" or Bathory's "Man of Iron" might be good.

Tenacious D's "Rock Your Socks".

Orff's "O Fortuna".

Yuki Kajiura/See Saw's "The World" from the .hack//sign soundtrack.

Something Russian or Russian-esque, such as Ivan Rebroff's "Katjuscha" or "Cossack Patrol" or Wedding Present's "Davni Chasy".

from some website or other:

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

"Visitors interested in Bathory Lyrics may also be interested in:

# Usher Lyrics
# Jojo Lyrics
# Maroon 5 Lyrics
# Nelly Lyrics
# Ashlee Simpson Lyrics
# Taking Back Sunday Lyrics
# Alicia Keys Lyrics
# Yellowcard Lyrics
# Avril Lavigne Lyrics
# Blink-182 Lyrics
# Linkin Park Lyrics
# Good Charlotte Lyrics"

Gosh.

Re: from some website or other:

[ravenblack.livejournal.com]

I think they must have made the connection based on being interested in "Lyrics". I'm pretty sure none of those bear any similarity to Bathory. Though, hm, maybe the lyrics are alike, and it's just that I don't want to go to the effort of extracting the lyrics from the music in the list's case.

Re: from some website or other:

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know Bathory is nothing like, for example, Usher. I was just amused by how blunt and clumsy their you-might-also-like tool is.

"Man of Iron" is quite cool. Goth as fuck, mind you.

Re: from some website or other:

[ravenblack.livejournal.com]

I think it's one of the less goth things from the album, but yes, still quite goth. Or viking.

All my suggestions lean gothwards a bit, other than Tenacious D. It's the "music that goths will like even though it's quite perky" collection.