Harry Belafonte’s Greatest Hits.
A 3-CD set acquired by accident. See, I had added it to my Amazon wishlist to remind myself to order it for my mother-in-law, who loves his stuff.
And I forgot to add a note (or this may have predated the ability to do that)… and my brother bought it for me for Christmas. :smack:.
So when we got iPods, and started ripping all our CDs, it got ripped right along with 'em. And now that we’ve got large-capacity iTouches, our entire music library fits…
I had completely forgotten about that song. It was one of my favorites when I was about 14 or 15, since I was a huge fan of Menudo in my early teens.
I realize that with this post, I hereby abandon any pretense of coolness I might have had. So be it. 
Heh. I got an Elvis version of this tune on my iPod (well, iPhone, actually.) checks playlist Holy crap. I have the Bruce Springsteen version, too. And the Bob Dylan version. ETA: And a Paul McCartney version.
Probably the most guilty pleasure I have on that is this cheesy, sugar, dance-pop German cover of a song called Ich Will. Originally by UKW, cover by Das Modul.
Several songs from The Hobbit and Return of the King. The Rankin-Bass versions.
I think that actually beats the mp3 of Both of You, Dance Like You Want to Win.
I have a ton of Taylor Swift on there. Plus a lot from Glee (Don’t Rain On My Parade is my ‘getting pumped up’ song) and even a Jonas Brothers song (Love Bug is such a cute song).
Oh, I also have a bunch of 2gether.
My reasoning is I’m a veteran and I fixed a machine gun one handed because I broke my other hand while flying over Baghdad in the middle of the night. I’ve earned the right to listen to lame music.
Probably Olivia Newton-John’s “Have You Never Been Mellow.” The “why” would be on those rare occasions it comes up on shuffle it always cracks me up for some reason. I like lots of 70s wimp-pop but this is past my comfort zone. And yet it remains. “Wildfire” could perform much the same function.
I mean, when I’m not just being embarrassed over the whole idea of an iPod. (Seriously, johnpost, are you this guy?)
I’ve SEEN that guy. He lives in my neighborhood. Goes out running alongside the highway every. single. day. rain, shine, or temp of 100 degrees. Sometimes goes inline skating around the neighborhood wearing all the safety equipment you’d put on an 6 year old! Quite a sight, he is! No iPod, probably so he can concentrate on his own deep thoughts.
Yeah, I have “Wildfire.”
I have the Brady Bunch album on mine…
“I think I’ll go for a walk outside now…”
I’m not embarrassed about any of the music I listen to. I know a couple people who think I should be embarrassed that I have 4 Enya albums on there but I think her music is beautiful and soothing and I don’t care who knows it.
I have Elvis’s version.
Probably “Bells of Notre Dame” from the Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame soundtrack. I just feel a bit childish having a Disney song on my iPod, but I love the epic Latin chanting too much.
I can’t help but wonder, what songs SHOULD be on one’s iPod? Is there some central authority that could be consulted as to whether a song is considered embarrassing or not? I would hate to walk around uncool.
I have Leonard Nimoy’s Hobbit Song, just because there is nothing like it in the world Spock hair and all.
My whole play list is embarassing.
Why?
Because no matter what song someone likes, they’ll think the next one is ridiculous. My tastes are just that varied, and I put everything on random.
So it doesn’t matter what I’m listening to, someone will think I have weird tastes if they listen long enough.
I teach at an “English village” in Korea, and often use song lyrics as poems in my Reading class. One song I used in the class was “Cat’s in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin. At a teachers’ barbecue, someone asked to borrow my iPod for tunes and he zeroed in on this particular song, purely out of devilment. Um, that teacher is no longer with us.
I am a twentysomething male and I have an entire Aqua album and an Avril Lavigne album that I don’t ever tell anybody about.
(except, of course, on the intraweb).
I’m a guy in his mid-40’s.
Loituma - “Ievan Polkka”
I just find this terribly cheery and upbeat.
and this one:
“Tumbling Tumbleweeds” by Slim Whitman
I have no excuse for this one. I also have “Indian Love Call” but that makes me laugh when I think of the aliens whose heads exploded in Mars Attacks.