I can hear
Super Furry Animals - "Torra Fy Nygwalt N Hyr" (pardon my spelling)

after just about any song.
Any genre.
It just will fit no matter what, I think.

Ditto:
Rolling Stones - "Monkey Man"


Slide 'em in... it's seamless!

And get your minds out of the gutter!

The Jam - Butterfly Collector

Wouldn't fit on a space rock comp.

Papa M - "Sorrow Reigns"

Its short (a little over a minute, I think) and simple (just him and a guitar) and pretty funny. Lyrics:

2 Live Crew, "Table Dance"

Arlo Guthrie: Alice's Restaurant

animal collective - college

strange, melodic, and short.

Motorhead - "1916"

It's a ballad, but it's Motorhead. It's folk, but by a classic metal band. It's mellow. but it's Motorhead. Motorhead are not disliked by punks or rednecks. Plus it's one of their only "arty" songs, so the NPR crowd would like it. And Lemmy has never lost cred with indie lovers, hipsters, hippies, headbangers, etc, etc.

pure - lightning seeds

stelllaaaaaaa

Smashing Pumpkins "1979" goes with anything and everything

so does Folk Implosion's "Natural One"

Boards of Canada's songettes also work real well with anything you put them with especially "Over the Horizon Radar" just tack it onto anything you want

I think Eliott Smith works in every situtation you put him in
(country, folk, indie, emo, 70's singer/songwriter, world, metal fans don't think he's gay cause he killed himself, your parents could listen to him and he's got this great classic sound that's very unsuspecting but extremely deep)

Good call on the Animal Collective above.

I'd say 'Simon (The Bird with the Candy Bar Head)' by Elf Power, it's definitely been on a ton of my mixes.

Reverend Horton Heat - The Entertainer
Tenacious D - Fuck Her Gently
Helmet - Sam Hell

public image - public image ltd.

The Konstantimix doctrine is "Any Song Can Fit Into Any Mix."

All you have to do is get the running order right.

Yep, I would have to agree with this. Everything in its right place and it all works.

That's a good one, though it's better earlier in the mix, methinks.

Someone should make a mix with these.

I was going to post that one too. I did make a mix once that I really like that has Everything In It's Right Place leading off. looked something like this...

Radiohead - Everything in it's Right Place
Slint - Washer
P.J. Harvey - Down by the River
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
Wire - Kidney Bingos
Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels
The tranglers - Golden Brown
Richard Davies - Eye Camera
Los Lobos - Kiko
The Creatures - Pity
Notwist - Consequence
Portishead - Roads
Sarah McLaughlin - Drawn to the hythm
Spacemen 3 - I Love You
Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near
Brian Eno - Golden Hours
Ultravox - Vienna
Frank Zappa - G Spot Tornado (from The Yellow Shark)

I know/own about half those songs, and that looks like a really cool mix. I especially like you putting G-Spot Tornado at the end -- that's a very "Dusty" thing to do.

The good Reverend's "Slow" would work, too, though it might rattle a twee-pop comper.

you can end any mix with "ooh la la"
i've ended hip hop DJ nights with it and it worked.

'Not too soon' - Throwing Muses

I am a firm believer in the Konstantimix doctrine