# Lookin' for some show tunes for my iPod... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookin-for-some-show-tunes-for-my-ipod/441020 "2008-03-11T21:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookin-for-some-show-tunes-for-my-ipod/441020/21 "2008-03-12T11:45:50Z")
> [@Miss Purl McKnittington](#): > > I can’t believe no one has mentioned Jesus Christ, Superstar yet. I have the London revival cast recording, but both the original cast recording and the 1970s movie recording are good. > > I definitely second Avenue Q. And Bat Boy: The Musical and Little Shop of Horrors. I like the movie soundtrack over the cast recording for that last one. > > This isn’t quite rock opera or musical, but I think you might like Wicked. As far as I know, the only recording is the original cast recording with Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel. I find myself singing “Popular” fairly frequently, and I enjoy all the musicals in your OP. > > If you like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, you might want to grab Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell album. I believe it was originally supposed to be a musical, but instead got turned into an album. Ah yes… I somehow forgot to mention that I have two versions of **Jesus Christ, Superstar**. Excellent soundtrack! I sometimes listen to that one while on long runs; it lasts a little over 10 miles. I have **Bat out of Hell** , so if you say that **Rocky Horror** is similar, I think I’ll like it. > [@Kythereia](#): > > I’ve got the soundtrack for Wicked, which is pretty good… I see others have seconded this, and **coffinjumper** says that the **Pippin** dude wrote this one; I’ll have to check it out! > [@Eyebrows Of Doom](#): > > Another rock-ish show I like is Taboo, the Boy George musical. Get the Broadway version, not London, as that one has Raul Esparza and an additional song. > > If you like Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Godspell, Wicked), another one by him I like is Children of Eden. > > You have Rent on your list, so you will probably enjoy tick…tick… BOOM!, which is also by Jonathan Larson. > > I love ALW’s Phantom. I think the music is beautiful and it’s the same kind of sung-through show as what you have. > > Try a Sondheim or two. They’re different than the shows you’ve listed, but they are brilliant and I find Sondheim to be very catchy. Sweeney Todd, the original recording w/ Angela Lansbury & Len Cariou, is a masterpiece. I’m going to have to check out **Sweeney Todd**. My friend who recommended **Godspell** and **Pippin** also mentioned **Sweeney Todd**. Is **tick…tick… BOOM!** as energetic as **Rent**? I see that **Assassins!** has also been mentioned by a couple. Cool. Thanks for all the good advice folks. I definitely am interested in knowing what is the _definitive_ version of a recommendation, and life is even better if it’s on Amazon MP3. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookin-for-some-show-tunes-for-my-ipod/441020/22 "2008-03-12T14:47:25Z")
[QUOTE=minor7flat5] Is **tick…tick… BOOM!** as energetic as **Rent**? [/QUOTE] Hmm, I don’t know if I’d say that. **tick…tick… BOOM!** was an Off-Broadway show with a cast of only three people, based on Larson’s own struggles of living in NYC in the '80s & '90s while trying to write music & find himself as an artist. Some of the music is very similar in feel to **RENT** , but on a smaller scale. You can check out audio clips of all the songs [here](http://www.amazon.com/Tick-Tick-Boom-Original-Off-Broadway/dp/B00005NQK5/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1205332969&sr=1-1) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookin-for-some-show-tunes-for-my-ipod/441020.md?page=1)