"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.)

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[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Korn "Got the Life" kick-starts me when I'm lounging round the house useless.

"Big Yellow Taxi" - Joni Mitchell, or the cover by Counting Crows (or one of a myriad of other covers) and "Round Here" by Counting Crows both give me a "world's in a bad way, get off your arse and do something about it" feeling.

Pink Floyd's "Time" and "Breathe" kinda say the same thing from the opposite end of the spectrum - "Time" tells you off for wasting your life and achieving nothing, "Breathe" tells you off for running around like a headless chicken all your life and achieving nothing.

Smashmouth's "Walking on the Sun", and Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train" spring to mind too.

Damn, if I have so many of these songs, why do I never achieve anything? :)