"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

This might be some sort of heresy

[shermarama]

But I think I prefer the RHCP version of Fire, it's even more drum-driven and faster. It's great to dance to but I don't know that it would make me want to be creative.

An entire song exhorting you to avoid thinking about stuff too much and just get on with it because it's rock and roll and all you've got to do is do it; Do It by the Pink Fairies. It's from 1970 and it's punk from before people thought they knew what that was. There's a copy here if you've a useful way of downloading it..