Must Have Music - Please Advise

Disclaimer: We stole this idea from a contemporary philosopher/southern intellectual.

We have re-signed with BMG music - we're a sucker for their sales, and we've found that $5 cd's make great Christmas gifts. (The trick is to keep signing yourself up under different pseudonyms - you get 5 free CD's for referrals, plus the 12 for 1 sign up deal = 17 for the price of 1)

So We need your help - what sort of meaningful music have we missed, what essential "must haves" should we include in our pending 17 CD order?

We think Gilli will include some Phish
We think Jamey may refer us to Sufjan
Macey will lead us in the ways of techno. Or Rush.
Noel has probably found some new hip hop band with sweet grooves that you would never imagine a computer programmer would jive to...
Strawbridge will lavish praises on some shuttle bus driver/musician that he met at the airport
Murray = Phoenix
Bintz says Mother Love Bone, but we seriously doubt BMG has that
Johnny T's music collection is already identical to ours

Anybody else?

Now taking suggestions...

Another one bites the dust

Strawbridge is now married. The Halfway House, our name for our matchmaking Home which for years now has had a way of getting its inhabitants married off (c.f. Sheldon, Bulthuis, Nedelisky, Bintz, Borger, Rayburn, etc.) has now worked its matrimonial magic on its very own co-founder. The fellowship has been broken, even while a new one has been formed. We will do our best to continue the tradition of the Halfway House without the aid of our long time associate, Mr. Strawbridge, although fate has given us quite the challenge as our current project (i.e. Manville roommate) is Murray. Tough draw. We think the US had better chances of success in Group E this World Cup.

We are still enroute from Denver back to sunny yankee land, so we will post some pictures from the wedding upon our return. In the meantime, here is this Wedding Weekend in Numbers:

315 - the width in milimeters of the tires on the SUV we rented while in Denver.

109 - songs handpicked by Macey and us (at the request of Stephen and Elena) which were supposed to be the playlist used by the DJ at the wedding reception.

6 - songs that the DJ actually played from our list. This confirmed our distrust and dislike for most wedding DJ's.

8 - members of the mariachi band that played during the wedding ceremony. The music was very festive, and it made for a very unique wedding.

20 - dollars for the ticket that one of the Strawbridge uncles got for parking on the side of the road near the park where we played soccer. There were about 18 of us playing soccer, plus another 15 or so sitting under a tree watching. The suburban was right next to the tree. The officer offered no warning or a chance to relocate the car - he just walked up and wrote the ticket.

3 - times that we made the 45 minute drive to the airport in a span of 8 hours on Saturday night/Sunday morning.

4 - people that it took to eat one order of the apple pancakes at the Original Pancake House.

12 - Slurpies from the 7-11 after two days of playing soccer.

1 - woman who is as energetic, passionate, and quirky as Stephen. He found her. And we celebrated.