Mix Tape for the World

If I could make a mix-tape for the world, here's what I would put on it: (specific song choices still to come) (Oh, yeah, and this is fantasizing that a tape could actually hold this much material) (One more thing, it would probably be a CD, but I still think the term mix-tape is so cool)

1. Laurie Anderson
2. Basia
3. Kate Bush
4. Carpenters
5. Heart
6. 2nd Chapter of Acts
7. Sara Hickman
8. Christine Lavin
9. Patti LuPone
10. Joni Mitchell
11. Kate and Anna McGarrigle
12. Manhattan Transfer
13. The Roches
14. Linda Ronstadt
15. Buffy Sainte-Marie
16. Jane Siberry
17. Barbra Streisand
18. Suzanne Vega
19. Brian Wilson
20. Everything But The Girl
21. Rickie Lee Jones
22. Kirsty MacColl
23. Sam Phillips
24. Patrice Rushen
25. Brenda Russell
26. Donna Summer
27. Angela Winbush
28. Shawn Colvin
29. Amy Grant
30. Nanci Griffith
31. Emmylou Harris
32. Indigo Girls
33. k. d. lang
34. Bette Midler
35. Happy Rhodes
36. Kate St. John
37. Jonatha Brooke
38. They Might Be Giants
39. Sarah Brightman
40. Moya Brennan
41. Nicky Holland
42. Aimee Mann
43. Mike Oldfield
44. Toyah
45. Shania Twain
46. Julia Fordham
47. Michelle Shocked
48. Edie Brickell
49. Carly Simon
50. Karen Mantler
51. Saint Etienne
52. Swing Out Sister
53. Bee Gees
54. Julee Cruise
55. Bjork
56. Ben Folds
57. Abba
58. B-52's
59. Cranberries
60. Pet Shop Boys
61. Bernadette Peters
62. The Minus 5
63. Todd Rundgren
64. Chris Isaak
65. Lisa Loeb
66. Dot Allison
67. Tori Amos
68. Rasputina
69. Jules Shear
70. Vonda Shepard
71. Syd Straw
72. 10,000 Maniacs (w/ Mary Ramsey)
73. Jennifer Holliday
74. John Barrowman
75. Jonathan Richman
76. Dusty Springfield
77. Diana Krall
78. Tears for Fears
79. Blink-182
80. Nellie McKay
81. Patti Scialfa
82. Susannah McCorkle
83. Steely Dan
84. Barry Manilow
85. Michael McDonald
86. Leonard Cohen
87. Carol Welsman
88. Debbie Friedman
89. Electric Light Orchestra
90. Roy Orbison
91. Scissor Sisters
92. New York Voices