Just a fun game but pretty stimulating nonetheless. Pick 4 song a from your iPod that show the breadth and depth of your regular, everyday musical taste. Now obviously I could just go on YouTube and pick up some avant garde stuff just to show off but let’s be realistic here. What 4 songs might we just hear coming from your car speakers on a regular day?
Oh lord. Sorry for the typos.
I just chose the last 4 songs I listened to. You lucked out. The song right before Iris was by Nina Hagen.
Happy Rhodes - "Words Weren’t Made For Cowards’
Françoise Hardy - “Le temps de l’amour”
Hector Zazou (with Anneli Drecker & Gerard Depardieu) - “I’ll Strangle You”
Iris Dement - “Let The Mystery Be”
I don’t have an iPod, but if I did I would listen to:
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*Dominus Dixit *by G. F. Handel
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*Sympathy for the Devil *by the Rolling Stones
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*The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys *by Traffic
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*Rum and Coca-Cola *by the Andrews Sisters
I don’t have an iPod either but this would be a good summary of my tastes:
Henri Dutilleux: Tout un Monde Lointain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIS5tpVM6Sc&list=PLBD2B96BB633C2DAF&index=1
Sonny Rollins: Poor Butterfly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CTynVEiYGY
Led Zeppelin: Since I’ve Been Loving You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QuGiMAEqE8
Visage: Fade to Grey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC8QJF6sI
In other words:
1 - Classical Music from the Middle Ages to the present
2 - 1950s Jazz
3 - 1960s-70s Rock
4 - 1980s Pop
On the car shuffle, into work today, I listened to :
A Screw (Holy Money) : Swans
Cemetery Gates: The Smiths
In The Days Of A Caveman: Crash Test Dummies
Waterloo Sunset: The Kinks
Also Lone Star by Norah Jones, Hunter by Dido, Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel and most of Foundations by Kate Nash, but I think those first 4 cover my tastes well enough, although the latter has a better sense of how solo-woman-heavy most of my regular playlist is.* So into Imogen Heap right now*.
- Hells Bells, AC/DC
- Sinnerman, Nina Simone
- Only If For a Night, Florence + the Machine
- Spem In Alium, Tallis Scholars
•Krzysztof Penderecki’s Dies Irae “Auschwitz Oratorium,” Movement II, “Apocalypsis.”
•The White Cockade—The US Marine Band.
Not actually the best selection—that’s only from stuff I’ve added in the last month. And it’s been slow, musically.
Well, I don’t have an iPod, so I’m going to use my record collection. If you were in my living room for an afternoon, you very well might hear:
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Glenn Branca - Symphony no 1. (Tonal Plexus)
(Avant Garde (for 1980) classical) -
Dara Puspita - A Go Go.
(Indonesian all-girl surf rock) -
Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down.
(contemporary country) -
Stravinsky - Firebird
(early 20th classical)
Less than 100 years between them. I’ve got older music in my collection, but to say that I regularly listened to the stuff older than that would be a fib, at best. I’m sure someone will beat that by a wide margin quickly.
Begin the Beguine by James Horner
I Will Not Bow by Breaking Benjamin
Reanimation by Blackalicious
My Maria by Brooks and Dunn
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3: Finale.
Beatles: “Lady Madonna.”
Kálmán: Die Csárdásfürstin (operetta)
Sondheim: “A Little Priest,” from Sweeney Todd.
Mr. Dibble, are you on Facebook? If so, you might like this page. If not, take a look here. Check out the playlists. You might find some female artists you’ll like. The “mixtapes” are fairly eclectic.
Yeah, I gotta go to my CD collection.
“Quartet #8” by Shostakovich, performed by Kronos Quartet (my snooty classical choice, also my favorite bit of classical)
“Eli the Barrow-Boy,” by the Decemberists (My hipster choice, a nice little maudlin tale)
“Chattanooga Choo-Choo,” by the Glenn Miller Orchestra (maybe also hipster or else its opposite, the song by which I first kissed my wife)
“Bound for Carolina,” by Mock Turtle Soup (my “My friends are musicians!”, a bit of traditional mountain music)
Namza el Din, “Childhood”
AC/DC, “Whole Lotta Rosie”
Fanny Mendelssohn, “Piano Trio in D Major”
Shinehead, “The Truth”
From what is in the CD changer in the car right now
Foals - Spanish Sahara
Kongar-ool Ondar Aa-Shuu Dekei-Oo
The Orb Aftermath
The Shaggs Philosphy of the World
The iPod is a little more … diverse :eek:
A day in the life of a Snerk sounds a little like…
U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer.
Territorial Pissings by Nirvana.
Fitter Happier by Radiohead.
Who Will Love Me Now by PJ Harvey.
(Note - all links are to YouTube.)
I…can’t! I’m afraid you all will be ***eclectic-er ***than me!!
(On my little 6-disc CD player - yes, old school - in the kitchen, I will usually have stuff like Bach’s Cello Suites, a Thelonius Monk CD, a Beatles CD and Rage Against the Machine, although that just got swapped for some Stevie Wonder. What do I win?)
“TiK ToK,” Kesha
“Last Goodbye,” Kesha
“Learning to Fly,” Tom Petty
“My Name Is,” Eminem
Shuffling my MP3 player, the last four have been:
- “Timber”, Scott Bradlee & the Postmodern Jukebox
- “Rhapsody In Blue”, Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
- “Suzanne”, Leonard Cohen
- “Skyfall”, Adele
Matthew - John Denver
Can’t Get It Out Of My Head - ELO
Promenade (Tourists On The Menu) [from “Jaws”] - John Williams
Ragtime Dance - Scott Joplin