Submit your picks for the Election Edition of the Weekly Mix

Submit your picks by Friday for the News Cycle Soundtrack (Election Edition). I'll post the mix on Friday in time for GOTV weekend.

The Berg Standard News Cycle Mix #2 (Week of 9/29) is now available!

This week's Berg Standard News Cycle Mix is even better than last weeks. Love the suggestion of "Comfort Eagle" by Cake and Sallie's pick of "Ring of Fire" (though I think the Social Distortion version works well for this past week versus Cash's version) takes the top prize. The mix in total is posted below and we'll do it again next week and post on Friday. Tomorrow is Jeans Day...yes! Go Phillies

The Berg Standard News Cycle Mix #2 (Week of 9/29)
1. "The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning" - Smashing Pumpkins
2. "Mercy" - Duffy
3. "Ring of Fire" - Social Distortion
4. "Shankill Butchers" - The Decemberists
5. "Where is my mind?" - The Pixies
6. "The Great Depression" - The Jam
7. "Po' Folks" - Nappy Roots
8. "Comfort Eagle" - Cake
9. "It's the end of the world as we know it" - REM
10. "Fix You" - Coldplay
11. "Down in a Hole" - Ryan Adams & the Cardinals

Check out the mix at 8tracks.com here

Hilarious Fox News Video/Weekly Soundtrack Submissions

Check out this Fox News video on PA being a swing state. Watch the old lady in the background when he does a show of hands for Obama. Hilarious!

Make sure you submit your weekly soundtrack submissions and I'll post the mix tomorrow in time for the weekend. Once again, we're looking for songs that best exemplify the past news week. You can check out last week's mix here.

Submit your picks for The Berg Standard News Cycle Mix this week

As I sit here enjoying my breakfast smoothie and listening to Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me" (great choice, Chris!), I can't help but feel like submissions for this week's mix will be awesome...what with our entire economy scheduled to implode around Wednesday or so...

For those of you new to this - Each week The Berg Standard asks you to submit your song picks that you feel best exemplify the week's current events and news. Submissions are taken until Thursday at 4 PM and then our good friends at 8tracks.com help us compile a soundtrack for the week Friday morning so you can enjoy it during the weekend. All you have to do is be creative and submit your song picks!

Check out last week's The Berg Standard Mix #1 (Week of 9/22)

And to my Jewish brothers and sisters I say L'shana Tova!

What song best exemplifies the past news week?

I thought about this on the metro today, but I'm going to do a weekly "Soundtrack For The Week" posting where I will compile your song suggestions that you think best capture the spirit of the week in news. I thought of this when "Don't Worry About The Government" by Talking Heads came on my Ipod today. Let's say submissions are due by Thursdays at 4 PM and I'll post the soundtrack (hopefully with links to the song tracks in Amazon.com or mixwit.com) on the site Friday morning.

Ready? And.........GO!