In case anyone's interested, here's what I ended up putting on my friend's mix CDs (I made two, both with the "motivational and energetic" theme). They didn't end up with as much TMBG as I would've liked, but like I said, I was trying to cater to her tastes and personality as much as possible (though I do think it's a nice little sample). Here's a list of the songs:
CD #1
1) Morning Has Broken – Cat Stevens
2) Every Day – Buddy Holly
3) Love Today – Mika
4) Happy Face – Destiny’s Child
5) Sensurround – TMBG
6) Brighter Than Sunshine – Aqualung
7) Take My Hand – Shawn McDonald
8) Dare You To Move – Switchfoot
9) Never Say Never – An American Tale soundtrack
10) I’m Gonna Be Ready – Bob Carlisle
11) Break My Stride – Matthew Wilder
12) You Are The Answer – Point Of Grace
13) Happy Doesn’t Have To Have An Ending – TMBG
14) [BLANK] – (didn’t burn correctly)
15) More Than Fine – Switchfoot
16) Brazzle Dazzle Day – Pete’s Dragon soundtrack
17) Relax (Take It Easy) – Mika
18) Impossible – TMBG
19) We Go Together – Grease soundtrack
20) Let Go – Frou Frou (Garden State soundtrack)
21) Fingertips (Hey Now Everybody) – TMBG
22) Fingertips (I Hear The Wind Blow) – TMBG
23) Fingertips (Banjo) – TMBG
24) Needle And Haystack Life – Switchfoot
25) Over The Rainbow – The Wizard of Oz soundtrack
CD #2
1) Float On – Modest Mouse
2) Do-Re-Mi – The Sound Of Music soundtrack
3) Father, Spirit, Jesus – Casting Crowns
4) 99 Luftballoons
5) Hey Jude – Beatles
6) Birdhouse In Your Soul – TMBG
7) You’ll Be In My Heart – Phil Collins
8) Start Wearing Purple – Everything Is Illuminated soundtrack
9) Gone – Switchfoot
10) All Things Go – Sufjan Stevens
11) Can’t Keep It In – Cat Stevens
12) Make It The Same – Mundanes
13) Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego?
14) Some Day We’ll Know – A Walk To Remember
15) MmmBop – Hanson
16) Get Rhythm – Johnny Cash
17) Send Me On My Way – Rusted Root
18) We Want A Rock – TMBG
19) Joy To The World – Three Dog Night
20) Odessa Medley – Everything Is Illuminated soundtrack