MIXTAPE: All Responses Must Be Phrased In The Form Of A Question

Inspired by the title of my last mixtape, the theme is: Songs with titles that ask a question

Rules:

• This one is pretty straightforward (see Theme).
• The length of the mixtape must not exceed 90 minutes.
• Only one song per artist.
• I must like the song.
• Each mixtape must, if at all possible, conclude with a great quote.

All Responses Must Be Phrased In The Form Of A Question

1. Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) – Gap Band
2. Do You Wanna Hold Me? – Bow Wow Wow
3. Is That All? – U2
4. Do You Love Me? – The Contours
5. How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths
6. What Is Love? – Howard Jones
7. Is There Something I Should Know? – Duran Duran
8. What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
9. Baby Can I Hold You – Tracy Chapman
10. Have I Told You Lately – Van Morrison
11. Why Should I Cry For You? – Sting
12. Where Are You Going – Dave Matthews Band
13. Is She Really Going Out With Him – Joe Jackson
14. Who Said I Would – Phil Collins
15. Why Can’t I Be You? – The Cure
16. What’s He Got? – The Producers
17. Do You Believe In Love? – Huey Lewis & The News
18. What Do I Care? – Johnny Cash
19. “Answer me these questions three…” – from Monty Python & the Holy Grail
    

Selected Commentary:
Do You Wanna Hold Me? – Images of sumo wrestlers and house salads with Ranch dressing. Nope. The video doesn’t provide any more clues as to what this song is about. Anyone?
Is That All? – The previously-mentioned, really nice guy I dated in high school played me this song when I abruptly and unceremoniously broke up with him. I deserved it.
How Soon Is Now? Is that a rhetorical question? I’m thinking so.
What Is Love? – Not to be confused with the Haddaway song of the same title
Is There Something I Should Know? – As an avid Duranie, I was of course cemented in front of the TV for the World Premiere of this video
Baby Can I Hold You – We now bring you to the mellow portion of our program
Have I Told You Lately – Forget the Rod Stewart cover—Van’s the man
Why Can’t I Be You? The Cure get manic. And apparently go on an acid trip inside the wardrobe of a local theatre company.
What’s He Got? – The Producers = So underrated.
Monty Python & The Holy Grail – Two of my best friends, Theresa and Renee, and I took a computer programming class our senior year in high school (1986). Our entire second semester grade depended on the results of one group project: an educational program, written in BASIC on a TRS-80. The three of us decided the public needed to be educated on the legend of King Arthur. We designed the program so each user could choose an avatar; they were all just tiny stick figures on the monochromatic screen, but you could pick which Knight of the Round Table you wanted to be. The program had to include a test of some kind at the end. Our test was called The Bridge of Death, wherein users had to answer five (no three!) questions, using multiple choice. If the user got all three correct, they could walk across the bridge. But if they got one wrong, they were cast head first into the Gorge of Eternal Peril, with a trail of “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhs!” following their stick man. Our program was so long, we needed two floppies to store it on.

The picture below is the three of us on Cap and Gown Day, draped in a printout of our program. It took over an hour to print out on those old dot matrix printers…the kind that used continuous-feed paper with the tear-off sides!

There's only one more question to ask: What songs am I missing?

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