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March 16, 2007
Random Rules
The Onion AV Club has a feature each week they call "Random Rules." They ask some celebrity (usually a musician) to name the first ten or so songs on their iPod that show up in random play.
It's Friday night, it's snowing like mad outside and there's nothing else to do, so here goes...this could be embarrassing. If possible, I'll link to a video so you can share in my bad eclectic taste.
Damien Rice, "Delicate" - I discovered this song watching "Lost." It was the last song that ever played on Hurley's CD player, if I remember right.
Ray Charles & Norah Jones, "Here We Go Again" - Huh. I honestly forgot I had this song. The link goes to someone's slide show using this song as background. The voices complement one another.
Steven Curtis Chapman, "No Greater Love" - Cool song about Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian, the five missionaries killed by the Huaorani in Ecuador. At the end of this song, you hear tribal chanting. The chanting is in the Huaorani language and is performed by a man named Mincay, one of the Huaorani who killed the missionaries and has since become a Christian. Amazing.
Indigo Girls, "Shame on You" - This is a roll down the windows and sing at the top of your lungs song. Sure, these two are major lefties, but this is a great tune.
Chris Tomlin & Steven Curtis Chapman, "Unfailing Love" - I've performed this one with a friend of mine.
Sam Cooke, "What a Wonderful World" - I've linked one of the more famous uses of this song, from the movie "Witness" with Harrison Ford. Dance, Amish lady, dance!
Oh, no...
Richard Marx, "Don't Mean Nothing" - An 80s flashback. When I was a kid, I heard this song and liked it enough to ride my bike to the local PX and purchase the cassette. As for the video...look at the hair.
Ben Folds, "Song for the Dumped" - Angriest song about being dumped, ever. I couldn't find a video of this that wasn't some moron lip-syncing, but trust me - when he wrote this, he was ticked. When I first heard it, so was I.
Blues Traveler, "Run Around" - A victim of Pachelbel's disease, but a good song anyway. Again, no good video.
Bryan Adams, Summer of '69" - Yes, it's a Bryan Adams tune...and I apologize for that. But still...how fun is this song?
Well, that's ten, and that's good - the next song in the list was really embarrassing. If you do the same thing on your blog, let me know.
UPDATE - Hal takes the idea and runs with it.
Posted by slublog at March 16, 2007 07:56 PM
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"Here We Go Again" is frickin' gorgeous. Love that.
I don't have an iPod, so I'm spared. ;)
Well, actually, yes, there is an iPod in the house, but it's loaded with songs for The Bean. Which, actually, a lot of them are my songs since he doesn't like children's music. But there's not much on there to make a 10-random interesting at all.
Posted by: Anwyn at March 16, 2007 11:30 PM
So, I'd paste a link to my list, but your website still seems to have blogspot links. I'll just say that people should come on over to Halbert's Cubicle to see my list.
Incidentally, MxPx does a cover of "Summer of '69" which isn't half bad. And what's Pachelbel's disease?
Posted by: Hal at March 16, 2007 11:38 PM
Indigo Girls? Do you have pictures of care bares on your ipod as well?
Posted by: anon at March 17, 2007 09:09 AM
Indigo Girls? Do you have pictures of care bares on your ipod as well?
Nah...I prefer strawberry shortcake.
Posted by: Slublog at March 17, 2007 12:52 PM
I just discovered that if you leave the h-t-t-p off the address, it will post it.
Posted by: Slublog at March 17, 2007 12:56 PM
I just tested a comment without the http:// but it didn't go through. Do you have to keep the :// while leaving off the letters? Because that would be even more messed up than Movable Type actually is. :)
Care Bares? I bet tons of guys have THOSE on their iPods.
Posted by: Anwyn at March 17, 2007 09:32 PM
Well, it seems you can put an address in the comment box - www.slublog.com - without the http, but not in the other box.
Hmmm...
Posted by: Slublog at March 18, 2007 11:41 AM