A day of iPod shuffle

I’ve done this before on days when, for whatever reason, I’ve been listening to the iPod all day. Waiting in line, at the gym, on the bus, etc. Kept note of the songs that came up on Shuffle. I know. It’s FASCINATING, I’m sure – absolutely RIVETING. But with my Top 25 Most Played post – it was really interesting to see other people’s playlists! He got to me from my friend Patrick’s site – and it was so fun that he played along (and his comments made me laugh out loud – his little “wtf” note – hahaha) I think music and someone’s collection is really revealing as to who they are. I mean, isn’t that the whole point of the movie High Fidelity? That these things – books, music, movies – really matter? That they are NOT just surface things – but true aspects of someone’s character. I totally believe that. Not to say that my propensity for Ashlee Simpson should in any way reveal the true aspects of my character, but I still think it’s interesting. I’ve been jotting down notes all day. Also I have over 4000 songs in my Library but it’s weird how it seems like the same people keep showing up. Eventually, if I listened to the damn thing for 2 weeks straight, all the artists would show up … but anyway …

Here goes.

Black Horse and Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall

All My Days – Alexi Murdoch (my new favorite song at the moment)

We Shall Overcome – Peter, Paul and Mary (I am not even kidding! I prefer Mahalia Jackson’s version, and Pete Seeger’s version to this one – but hey, this is a SHUFFLE, so this is what came up.)

Standin in the Rain – ELO

’97 Bonnie and Clyde – Eminem Always good for a laugh.

I Love New York – Madonna (my favorite song off of Confessions on the Dance Floor)

That’s When I Crash – Bleu (my new favorite musician)

Night In the City – ELO

Dance 2night – Madonna

The Thing That Should Not Be – Metallica

Torch – Alanis Morrissette

Orchid – Alanis Morrissette (weird. The repetition. Shuffle is weird that way.)

Walking In Your Footsteps – The Police (seriously, this song is such a time-traveler – I hear it and just remember that summer this album came out … I am transported back in time!)

Come Sail Away – Styx (this song always makes me think now of Alex – whose version of this song is kick-ass – I actually prefer it to Styx’s)

Bad Meets Evil – Eminem (I have noticed that my iPod has a crush on two things – Eminem and the soundtrack to the Broadway show Joseph’s Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. It makes no sense.)

Outside Villanova – Eric Hutchinson (thank you, Siobhan, for turning me on to him. I love him!)

All Over Now – Eric Hutchinson (WTF? Two in a row?)

Thank You For The Music – Amanda Seyfried (from The Mamma Mia soundtrack)

Hot Patootie / Bless My Soul (Meatloaf – from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. AWESOME.)

Like It Or Not – Madonna

Walking the Blues – Jack Dupree & Mr. Bear (from one of my favorite compilation albums: Rhythm & Blues 1952 – 1959)

Misery – Green Day (this song reminds me a lot of Pat McCurdy’s song “We Made Love“, a song I know all too well.)

In Praise Of the Vulnerable Man – Alanis Morrissette (I really like the tune to this song. I’m off and on with Alanis – but I really like this song.)

Going Back to Orleans – Jesse & Buzzy (from another compilation album I love: Stompin’ at the Savoy 1955 – 1961)

Johnny Has Gone – Varetta Dillard (more Stompin’ at the Savoy!)

Kiss Me Deadly – Lita Ford (hell yes!)

Murder – Ashlee Simpson (sorry. I like her.)

Rent – from the Broadway soundtrack “Rent” (you know, I like a lot of the music but I have to admit, I hear this song – as rockin’ as it is – and I think to myself, “You boys ask, ‘How we gonna pay last year’s rent’? Uhm, you get a fucking job like the rest of us.”)

Time Warp – Rocky Horror (I seriously see my entire life flash before my eyes when I hear this song.)

Let’s Make Love Tonight – Earl Williams

Why Did You Make Me Cry? – The Cubs (can you tell I love that era of music??)

This Land Is Your Land (live) – Pete Seeger (goosebumps)

I Will Never Let You Go – Jackie Greene (love him)

Super Trouper – Meryl Streep, Julie Walters & Christine Baranski (from the Mamma Mia soundtrack)

Good Morning – Lenny Kravitz (speak of the devil …)

Do What You Want – Ok Go (along with Bleu, my new favorite group)

It Hasn’t Been Long Enough – Eric Hutchinson (okay, so my iPod has a crush on him too apparently)

Don’t Cry Baby – Little Jimmy Scott (awesome makeout song)

Sing! Sing! Sing! – Gene Krupa and his orchestra

Tuxedo Junction – Glenn Miller and his orchestra

Coming Back to You – Jennifer Warnes

Stop, Don’t Go – Annie Laurie (more “Stompin’ at the Savoy“)

Mary – Tori Amos

Don’t Let It Go – L.E.O. (a sort of joke, started by Mike Viola, Bleu and Andy Sturmer – from Jellyfish – a tribute to ELO … BRILLIANT.)

Nobody – Sammy Cotton

Shake Me Up, Baby – Little Terry

Oxford Town – Bob Dylan

Searchin’ for the Satellites – Bleu

1000 Miles Per Hour – Ok Go (how I love this song)

Mary’s Place – Bruce Springsteen

So Long, Dearie – Barbra Streisand from “Hello, Dolly”

Good Woman’s Love – New Grass Revival (this album always makes me think of my first boyfriend. We were huge Bela Fleck fans, saw him live a couple of times)

Rockabilly Christmas – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (I have no explanation …)

Hello Dolly – cast of the movie Hello Dolly (okay, iPod, that’s enough … I love it, though. Babs bellowing, “I HEAR THEM TINKLE … I SEE THEM TWINKLE …” hysterical)

Wednesday – Tori Amos (she’s been kind of … off for me … for the last 10 years or so … but I love this one.)

Jungle – ELO (I enjoy running on the treadmill to this one. Please don’t ask why. There are many mysteries in life and a woman’s heart is deep as the ocean.)

Cyanide – Metallica (from their latest – which I love – and I am so happy about it!)

Fumiyaki – Bleu (my iPod has a conspiracy going on for playing as much Bleu as possible …)

Billie Jean – Michael Jackson (talk about a time-traveling song!)

It’s All Your Fault – Pink (from her latest. I think she has the best voice out there at this moment in time. A perfect rock and roll voice)

Baby I Apologize – ELO

On Any Other Day – The Police (from Regatta de Blanc, my favorite of their albums)

Should I Ever Love Again – Wynona Carr (LOVE HER.)

Fuzzy – Bleu (the conspiracy continues …)

Rock Bottom – Eminem

One of the Boys – Katy Perry (iPod shuffle helps me keep it real …)

In the Mood – The Puppini Sisters

What Goes Around / Comes Around – Justin Timberlake

Private Line – L.E.O.

So Much Better – Mike Viola – (this song KILLS ME. It’s almost too much. Lyrics here:

You look so much better now that you have found her
So much better with your arms around her
In a world that’s all your own
Never spend another night alone

You look so much better with the past behind you
So much better when she sits beside you
Every word is understood
Never knew that you could feel this good

You look so much better
You look so much better
You look so much better

You look so much better in the clothes she gives ya
So much better when you’re dancing with her
Every move is crystal clear
From the moment she appeared

You look so much better now that you have found her
So much better with your arms around her
In a world that’s all your own
Never spend another night alone

WEEP.

Incomplete – Alanis Morrissette (it’s okay, Alanis, everything’s going to be okay …)

Trickle Trickle – The Manhattan Transfer (this album of theirs IS college to me)

Aquarius / Let the sun shine – The Fifth Dimension (I have so many memories wrapped up in this song … and now I can add the brilliant closing moments of 40 Year Old Virgin to that!)

Nobody But Jesus – Wynona Carr (did I mention that I LOVE HER??)

Here’s Love – the big production number from the musical of the same name (written by Meredith Wilson, mainly known as the composer for The Music Man)

World Without You – Beth Hart (just check her out. I beg you.)

I’m No Giant – Tracy Bonham (she’s so intense. I adore her.)

Hello Mr. Zebra – Tori Amos (this song feels like it ends before it should end. I want more, Tori. Stop being such a tease!)

Weather Man – Wynona Carr (LOVE HER. This song makes me want to go to church immediately.)

Anna Mae – Brownie McGhee (we’re back to the Savoy!)

Forgive Me Baby – the Henry Hayes Orchestra

Guilty Conscience – Eminem (brilliant)

K.C. Loving – Little Willie Littlefield

Hot Stuff – Ashlee Simpson (SO DUMB. I love it.)

Rib Joint – Sammy Price

The Way You Make Me Feel – Michael Jackson

What To Do – Ok Go

All Nightmare Long – Metallica

Let It Will Be – Madonna

Snowman in Tompkins Park – Mike Viola (nobody does heartache like him)

Bliss – Tori Amos

Birmingham Blues – ELO

The Rising – Bruce Springsteen (goosebumps, tears, every time I hear this song – with its slow and powerful build)

Half-Breed – Cher (I mean, honestly. Does it get any better?)

Soldier Boy – The Shirelles

Gimme Gimme Gimme – Amanda Seyfried (from the Mamma Mia soundtrack)

Your World Turns Upside Down – Tracy Bonham

Amy Amy Amy – Amy Winehouse (she’s so awesome)

Lord Jesus – the great Wynona Carr

I Let Her Get Away – The Candybutchers

Dark Lady – Cher (“She told me more about me than I knew myself …” Did she, Cher? Did she really?)

Connection – Elastika (this song IS grad school for me).

The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine – sweet song from the Pump Boys and Dinettes Broadway soundtrack

Future Sex / Love Sound – Justin Timberlake

Voulez Vous – cast of Mamma Mia

Jump – Madonna

So What – Pink (one of the best “nyah nyah nyah” songs I’ve ever heard)

Angry Dance – from the Billy Elliot soundtrack. My friend Caitlin, proud cousin of Trent Kowalik, one of the kids soon to be appearing as Billy on Broadway, will be happy.

You Know, I Know, You Know – Bleu (okay, okay, we get it, you like Bleu, iPod. So do I)

Not Ready To Make Nice – The Dixie Chicks

The Ol’ College Try – L.E.O. (this song tells my whole college experience it seems)

Lost – Katy Perry

La Vie Boheme – from Rent – okay, you know what, guys? If you order something in a restaurant, YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT and it’s not because “the man” is crushing you down but because IT’S NOT YOURS AND YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. Sigh. I actually LOVE this song, but the sentiment?? GROW UP. I feel like an old crotchety man who grew up in the Depression. GET A JOB, LOSERS! (although any song that sings the praises of Vaclav Havel, one of my idols, is, I suppose, okay by me.) GET A JOB, SLACKERS.

15 Rounds for Jesus – Wynona Carr (OFF TO CHURCH IMMEDIATELY)

Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home – Audra McDonald

Whenever You’re Away From Me – Gene Kelly & Olivia Newton John from Xanadu (Mere, this will always make me think of the two of us doing that crazy tap-dance duet in our movie – I was wearing a Santa hat, and you were wearing your mirrored sunglasses. Andrea and Todd: in love forever!)

Angie – The Rolling Stones. (I seem to recall having some earthquake-inducing makeout shenanigan with Michael at the elf house in Ithaca while this song was playing. It’s kind of a slow melancholy song but we went insane and the room looked like a crime had been committed there when the whole thing was done. Then we went out and had Ben & Jerry’s and got in a fight about how I hesitated while crossing the street.)

In My Other Life – Tracy Bonham

Make No Mistake – The Candy Butchers

I Don’t Know Why – Shawn Colvin (for many years this song was too painful for me to listen to. One of the great things about now being so bitter is that I am able to enjoy this song.)

My Fault – Eminem

Just Leave Everything To Me – Barbra Streisand from Hello Dolly – “Don’t be ashamed, girls, life is full of secrets AND I KEEP ‘EM!”

My Prerogative – Bobby Brown

You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch – Brian Setzer and his Orchestra

Girly Worm – Mike Viola (love him for referencing JD Salinger’s “Perfect Day for Bananafish” in this song!)

Get Over It – Ok Go

Please Mr. Jailer – Wynona Carr (HAWT)

Hung Up – Madonna. (That’s it. Madge has won. I’m joining the Kabbalah.)

Love, Love, Love – Lenny Kravitz

My Boy Flat Top – Boyd Bennett & His Rockets

You Can Leave Your Hat On – Joe Cocker (speaking of my new boyfriend …)

You Lied – Green Day

Boy From New York City – Manhattan Transfer

Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me – Susan Sarandon, Rocky Horror Picture Show

Don’t Stand So Close To Me – The Police (I have a really really good and true story about this song, from a first-hand source. But I’ll never tell.)

Rockin’ Me – The Steve Miller Band

Outta My Way – Skeletons (Kate, didn’t we have some stupid joke about them? Shouting in this weird uptight voice: “SKELETONS”?? What the hell??)

Heebie Jeebies – The Puppini Sisters

Dig Me Out – the great Sleater Kinney

Morning Has Broken – Cat Stevens

Another Woman’s Man – Joe Tex

Black Cat – Janet Jackson

Somebody Told Me – The Killers

Amber Waves – Tori Amos

That Ain’t Right – Jimmy Crawford

Womanizer – Britney Spears’ latest single. Good work, Brit-Brit – hang in there!

Honky Tonk Caboose – Sammy Price

You Talk Too Much – Joe Jones

I Want You To Want Me – Cheap Trick

Get Together – Madonna (I now have a red thread around my wrist. Put a fork in me.)

Hot Rod – Hal Singer & his Orchestra

Give It 2 Me – Madonna (OHMYGOD what do you want from me? My name is now Esther. Are you happy?)

Proud Mary – Ike & Tina Turner

Take the Money and Run – Steve Miller Band

Broken, Beat & Scared – Metallic (with a title like that you know it’s a real feel-good song)

I Only Want To Be With You – Bay City Rollers (excuse me? I have no memory of purchasing or even owning this song)

Bungle in the Jungle – Jethro Tull

Lifetime – Beth Hart

I Can Make You a Man – Tim Curry, from Rocky Horror

Chop Chop Ching-a-Ling – The Roamers

Runaway – Del Shannon (I was clearly born in the wrong era).

Honey, Allow Me Just One More Chance – Bob Dylan

Teenage Brain Surgeon – Cherry Poppin’ Daddies