What Songs Should Be in a Mediation Playlist?

Diane Levin helped me kill an hour or two today with her post “What songs would be on your mediator’s playlist?”

Some of these might be a stretch. You might hear these words from a mediator or in a mediation from one of the parties, but here goes. (These all come from my iTunes Collection and keep in mind my tongue is planted FIRMLY in my cheek)

My Favorites:

You Can’t Always Get What You Want – Rolling Stones
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
I Won’t Back Down – TP and Heartbreakers (but Johnny Cash’s version is chilling)
Even the Losers (Get Lucky Some Time) – TP and the Heartbreakers
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide (Except me and my Monkey) – The Beatles
Games People Play – Alan Parsons Project
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Cake/Doris Day/Nat King Cole

Some more after the jump

In no particular order (well, its in mostly alphabetical order):

Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing – Chris Isaac

Accidents Will Happen – Elvis Costello

Battle of Who Could Care Less – Ben Folds Five

Burning of the Midnight Lamp – Jimi

Can I Get a Witness – Marvin Gaye

Come Together – the Beatles

Crystal Ball – Styx (as in, I don’t have one)

Crazy – Patsy Cline

Dazed and Confused – Led Zeppelin

De do do do, De da da da – The Police (as in, all I hear from the other side is gibberish)

Dirty Work – Steely Dan

Do You Realize?? – Flaming Lips

Don’t Change Your Plans – Ben Fold Five (probably used in conjunction with Burning of the Midnight Lamp)

Don’t Look Back – Bruce Springsteen

Don’t Panic – Coldplay

Don’t Stop – Fleetwood Mac

Don’t Stop Beleivin’- Journey

Don’t Give Up – Peter Gabriel

Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough – Michael Jackson

Driven to Tears – The Police

Easy Money – Billy Joel

Endgame – REM

Enjoy the Silence – Depeche Mode

Everybody Hurts – REM

Everything’s Not Lost – Coldplay

Express Yourself – Madonna (I’m not sure why this is in my iTunes)

Flexible Strategies – The Police (this is a rare instrumental)

Freewill – Rush

Friends (?) – The Police/Led Zeppelin (different songs)

Ghost of a Chance – Rush

Gimme One Reason (to stay here) – Tracy Chapman

Go Away – Living Colour

Go With the Flow – Queens of the Stone Age

God Only Knows – Beach Boys

Hate to Say I Told You So – The Hives

Head Games – Foreigner

Heat of the Moment – Asia

Hey Hey What Can I Do? – Led Zeppelin

Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder

How Little It Matters How Little We Know – The Chairman of the Board

I’m So Tired – The Beatles

I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying – Sting

I (Who Have Nothing) – various, but I like Ben E. King.

I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash

I Feel for You – Chaka Khan

I Know There’s an Answer – Beach Boys

I Need To Know – TP and Heartbreakers

I Might be Wrong – Radiohead

In the Midnight Hour – Wilson Picket

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning – Ol Blue Eyes

Is There Something I Should Know – Duran Duran

It’s a Mistake – Men at Work

It’s Too Late – Carole King

Just What I Needed – The Cars

Let It Be – The Beatles

Money For Nothing – Dire Straits

My Way – Frank

No One Said It Would Be Easy – Sheryl Crow

No Surprises – Radiohead

Nobody’s Fault But Mine – Led Zeppelin

Obstacle 1 and 2 – Interpol

One Foot Out the Door – Van Halen

One Way or Another – Blondie

Policy Of Truth – Depeche Mode

Poor Poor Pitiful Me – Warren Zevon

Regret – New Order

Say It Isn’t So – Hall and Oates

Seeing Things (for the first time) – Black Crowes

Shot in the Dark – Ozzy Ozbourne

So What’cha Want? – The Beastie Boys

Take It or Leave It – The Strokes

They Can’t Take That Away from Me – various

This is the Time – Billy Joel

Time – Pink Floyd

Truth Hits Everybody – The Police

Under Pressure – Queen/Bowie

Us and Them – Pink Floyd

Waiting in Vain – Bob Marley

Who’s Crying Now? – Journey

Will It Go Round in Circles? – Billy Preston

With A Little Help from my [Mediator?] – The Beatles

With or Without You – U2

You May Be Right – Billy Joel

You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire – Queens of the Stone Age

Your Time Is Gonna Come – Led Zeppelin

Your Own Worst Enemy – Bruce

The End – The Beatles