# Spend my $15 iTunes card **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392 "2009-03-22T22:42:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/1 "2009-03-22T22:42:55Z")
Someone gave me a $15 itunes card. I was wondering what to buy. I was contemplating the new U2 album. Then I thought of you guys. It could be ill-advised 🆒 but I will trust your judgement. I will purchase the 1st 15 songs suggested. One per Doper. Realize you will be spending something of value of mine, so please make an attempt to be serious. Also, include why the song is important to you. Peace! Jayson ---
**Author:** ![lunar\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lunar\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunar_elf)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/2 "2009-03-22T23:14:09Z")
Wow, this could be fun! [BT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_(musician)), Force of Gravity on Emotional Technology -At 5:42, the song just kind of spins through your head. It’s really cool to experience it travel from one side of your head to the other. Have fun! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/3 "2009-03-22T23:46:02Z")
“Out of Bounds”, by Amanda Marshall, from the Album ‘Tuesday’s child’ Let’s see, just a great sad song about forbidden fruit, with good vocals and a rockin’ instrumental break. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/4 "2009-03-22T23:48:59Z")
Gypsy March by Grand Ole Party It’s my favorite song by a band I discovered at last year’s Bonnaroo, which I attended with one of my best friends. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/5 "2009-03-22T23:59:33Z")
“Ghosts” by Laura Marling. I don’t actually know much about the artist on the whole (other than that she’s British and quite young), but this song is one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking I’ve ever heard. It’s terrific and totally unfortgettable; short and bittersweet. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/6 "2009-03-23T00:03:01Z")
I’m going to go with a one-hit wonder classic rock song that’s really just too cool to forget about: Ten Years After “I’d Love to Change the World” ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/7 "2009-03-23T00:09:24Z")
“The Ship Song” - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds if you fancy poignancy. I adore the refrain “Come sail your ships around me, and burn your bridges down”. It’s a lovely song. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/8 "2009-03-23T00:41:00Z")
I have TWO iTunes $15 cards! Keep 'em coming! ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/9 "2009-03-23T00:49:16Z")
I have downloaded them all to this point in the thread. I am now listening to \*\*lunar elf’s \*\*Force of Gravity song. I have never been a techno fan, but this is interesting. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/10 "2009-03-23T02:56:38Z")
“Staring at the Sun” by TV on the Radio It is GREAT for blaring loudly in the car while driving ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/11 "2009-03-23T03:31:02Z")
Clarity (Single, not the album. But the album is wonderful) by Jimmy Eat World. Song is awesome. Hope you enjoy it, let us know. Incase you just want to listen to this entire album, and I suggest everyone here to do so, you can go [online here](http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.popupplayer&sindex=-1.0&shuffle=false&amix=false&pmix=false&albid=9645781&artid=15477036&sseed=0&ptype=3&stime=3.422&ap=1) to do it. The album is also called Clarity. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/12 "2009-03-23T03:38:09Z")
Broadcast - Come On Let’s Go ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/13 "2009-03-23T03:41:04Z")
“A Beautiful Mess” by Jason Mraz from his We Sing. We Dance. We Steal things EP. It’s my favorite song off of that album. He is a singer/songwriter with a guitar but he has one of the smoothest, nicest voices I ever heard. And he’s just that good live. In fact, his live stuff is 100 percent better than any of his full band, and the song I told you about is just him in his guitar. Actually, an acoustic version of “You and I Both” is my favorite song in the world, followed closely by “Sleeping to Dream.” Acoustic version also. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/14 "2009-03-23T03:54:35Z")
> [@Surbey](#): > > Clarity (Single, not the album. But the album is wonderful) by Jimmy Eat World. Song is awesome. Hope you enjoy it, let us know. > > Incase you just want to listen to this entire album, and I suggest everyone here to do so, you can go [online here](http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.popupplayer&sindex=-1.0&shuffle=false&amix=false&pmix=false&albid=9645781&artid=15477036&sseed=0&ptype=3&stime=3.422&ap=1) to do it. The album is also called Clarity. My sn is from the lyrics from the song Table for Glasses. I had a big Jimmy Eat World phase when I was in high school, saw em live twice. ---
**Author:** ![partlycloudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/partlycloudy/32/3114_2.png) [@partlycloudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partlycloudy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/15 "2009-03-23T04:50:42Z")
“Swedish Wedding March” by Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire. – it’s instrumental, and sounds like old gypsy music, all creepy and medieval. I love love love it, and it’s just a taste of Andrew Bird, whose style doesn’t really fit in one particular genre. Very unique. The album that this is on, Thrills, is excellent and sounds nothing like most of his other albums. I was torn between suggesting this song and “Pathetique” (off the same album), just FYI. ---
**Author:** ![partlycloudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/partlycloudy/32/3114_2.png) [@partlycloudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partlycloudy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/16 "2009-03-23T04:56:13Z")
PS - just noticed when viewing the song list for Andrew Bird’s album Thrills, that the title for song “Cock O’ the Walk” is listed as “C\*\*k O’ the Walk.” Come on, iTunes! Seriously?! (sorry for double-post) ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/17 "2009-03-23T11:16:52Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > “A Beautiful Mess” by Jason Mraz from his We Sing. We Dance. We Steal things EP. It’s my favorite song off of that album. He is a singer/songwriter with a guitar but he has one of the smoothest, nicest voices I ever heard. And he’s just that good live. In fact, his live stuff is 100 percent better than any of his full band, and the song I told you about is just him in his guitar. > > Actually, an acoustic version of “You and I Both” is my favorite song in the world, followed closely by “Sleeping to Dream.” Acoustic version also. We live in Mechanicsville, VA where Jason is from. My wife went to high school with him and now works withhis sister. Cool huh? I will download more tonight. My expert critical commentary to follow. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/18 "2009-03-23T13:02:07Z")
**Flight of the Conchords** - Business Time. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/19 "2009-03-23T15:32:45Z")
> [@newcrasher](#): > > We live in Mechanicsville, VA where Jason is from. My wife went to high school with him and now works withhis sister. Cool huh? R…really? OMG I kinda know Jason Mraz by proxy! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392/20 "2009-03-23T15:43:52Z")
Either “Dil Kya Kare” or the title song from the Bollywood movie “Salaam-E-Ishq”. The reason I pick both of these songs is twofold. One, both of them are nice, easy-listening, with a nice singer, and fairly Westernized in their sound. Two, my SO, who generally doesn’t like Hindi music and ignores most of it, likes these a lot, so you may like them as well. Dil Kya Kare is quieter, Salaam-E-Ishq is a bit more lively. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-my-15-itunes-card/490392.md?page=2)