What's on your MP3 disc?

I know that this topic has likely been done to death along similar veins (What’s in your CD changer, tape deck, etc.) but Welbywife has provided me with a fine gift, namely an in-car MP3 player.

I’m not what most people call a music buff, but I like to know what other people listen to. It’s the one bit of nosiness I can’t do without. When at a friends house I inevitably slide over to where they keep their CDs and look at what they listen to. My tastes tend to be pretty broad, and I’ll always listen to something new, so viewing other people’s collections tends to be a good way to see what people I know like. It’ll also help me make a few discs, since the MP3 player can manage up to 300 songs per disc, according to the specs.

My tastes are so random as to be slightly psychotic. I’m one of the many people who say they listen to just about anything and mean it.

Currently on my disc:

Bob Dylan, House of Pain, Elvis Costello, Depeche Mode, Elvis Presley, The Housemartins, Beautiful South, Billy Idol, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, John Cougar Mellencamp, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Cypress Hill, New Order, Beastie Boys, Enya, Lou Reed, B-52s, Book of Love, Leonard Cohen, Pink Floyd, Elton John, The Pixies, Willie Nelson, The Beatles, Wyclef Jean, Green Day, U2, Peter Gabriel, Jane’s Addiction, Cowboy Junkies, Ah-Ha, Flock of Seagulls, Merle Haggard, Eric Clapton, Naughty by Nature (Not OPP, I hate that song), Don McLean, Roger Waters, REM, Queen, Single Gun Theory, The Fugees, Pet Shop Boys, Men Without Hats, Shawn Mullins, George Michael, John Denver, Cocteau Twins, Fatboy Slim, Dido, Railway Children, David Gray, Grateful Dead, Louis Armstrong, Kenny Rogers, Ian Hunter, Primus, couple of tracks from The Commitments soundtrack, The Commodores, Niel Diamond, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Brahams, some bagpipe music, two tracks from the “hooked on classics” tape, and Frank Sinatra.

I’m currently listening to nothing else but…

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Over and over again.

(I’m performing in a production of the musical in 5 weeks time)

On my wee little portable player at the moment are:

Counting Crows - Miami
Counting Crows - American Girls
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Tress
Creed - One Last Breath
Phil Collins - Against All Odds
Radiohead - Creep
John Mayer - Man on the Side
Staind - Epiphany
Course of Nature - Difference of Opinion
Phil Collins - Wish it Would Rain Down
Chris Isaak - Graduation Day
Christian Kane - America High
Pink - Don’t Let Me Get Me
Bon Jovi - Dead or Alive

Right this second: I have “Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk” and “Dido - No Angel” in Winamp

What’s on my Mp3 drive, you ask?

Well, the drive itself is 120g. At last count, I had 92g of Mp3s on it. You’d be hard pressed to name a non-obscure band or artist I “don’t” have. And, I’m willing to bet that I would have a more obscure band or artist you could name 50% of the time.

I have much more music than I will ever listen to.

Oooh, you da smarty-art nigga, you da smarty-art nigga, huh? Well, lemme aks ya this, lemme aks ya this… can ya kick * mah * ass?

I’ve been stealing from the net some Dave Matthews (I Did It), some Rolling Stones (You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Start Me Up) and some Stealer’s Wheel (guess the song, huh). That’s it, right about now.

My Mp3 player has roughly 50 CD’s on it from my CD collection. It includes but is not limited to the following genres: Oldies (the folk oldies), Bluegrass, Classical (including Opera), Some Death Metal, Filk, Tv Theme songs (from Rainbow Brite to Mary Tyler Moore becasue they both make a nothing day suddenly seem worthwhile), some dance music, some new age, some drum solo music (Kodo and Jorge Reyes), Some Europop, Some J-Pop, and some others that I can’t think of at the moment.

I tend to rip entire albums at a time and combine artists that “go together” on a disc, but lemme share what I’ve got handy:

Disc 1: Brain in a Box: The Science Fiction Collection (5 disc set); Carl Stalling, Jean Jacques Perrey, Ken Nordine & Raymond Scott.

Disc 2: Aldo Nova, Angel, Dire Straits, ELP, Eric Johnson, Eurythmics, Donald Fagen, Jennifer Warnes, Satriani/Johnson/Vai, Split Enz, Supertramp & Traveling Wilburys.

Disc 3: Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane and a couple of jazz compilations.

Disc 4: DaVinci’s Notebook, Fountains of Wayne, Guster, Matchbox 20, and Morphine

Disc 5: Smithereens, Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman, Eurythmics, Donald Fagen, Robert Palmer

Disc 6: Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor