iPod shuffle

Long long drive today. I’m starting to be able to listen to music again. Thank God, because I needed my iPod on this drive today where I barely was able to go over 40 miles an hour for four straight hours. There are still many triggers for me, with music, but they seemed to be isolated to specific songs.

Glad the drive is over though. So many damn cars on the road. Beach day!

For your perusal, here’s how the iPod shuffle went:

“Xanadu”- Olivia Newton John

“These Are the Days Of Our Lives” – Queen

“Tiny Grief Song” – Sinéad O’Connor

“Wind That Shakes the Barley” – The Chieftains

“Johnny Allen’s/Sporting Nell” – Billy McComiskey

“Johnny Has Gone” – Varetta Dillard

“I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise” – Rufus Wainwright

“Mosh” – Eminem

“Everything Reminds Me of Her” – Elliott Smith

“Riverdance” – Bill Whelan

“Wednesday” – Tori Amos

“On Any Other Day” – The Police

“Shadows of the Night” – Pat Benatar

“A Way to Say Goodbye” – Mike Viola and the Candybutchers (waterworks)

“All Over the World” – ELO

“Journey On” – from Ragtime

“Blackjack” – Ray Charles

“Exit Music (For a Film)” – Radiohead (dangerous memories.)

“A New Deal for Christmas” – from Annie

“Stoppin’ for Love” – KT Tunstall

“What to do with Michael” – Mike Viola (waterworks)

“Swanee” – Judy Garland

“Please” – The Nylons

“No Man’s Land/Flowers of the Forest” – June Tabor

“Ass Like That” – Eminem

“Got My Own Thing” – Liz Phair

“The Fundy Bay Forecast” – Siobhan O’Malley (go, sis!!)

“Entering Grey Gardens” – from Grey Gardens

“Nothing Else Matters” – Metallica

“Toxic” – Britney Spears

“So Long Toots” – Cherry Poppin’ Daddies

“Step by Step” – Whitney Houston

“Is It My Love For You?” – Frank Sinatra (from Anchors Aweigh, little Dean Stockwell’s movie debut, of course)

“Phoenix” – Dan Fogleberg (like my tattoo)

“Heartbreak Again” – Pat McCurdy

“Pocaontas” – Everclear

“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” – Frank Sinatra

“Fathers of Fathers” – from Closer Than Ever (waterworks.)

“Levon” – Elton John

“Desolation Row” – My Chemical Romance (boys? Relax.)

“Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home” – Audra McDonald

“Sun Drenched” – Mike Viola and the Candybutchers

“In the Mood” – The Puppini Sisters

“Báidin Fheilimi” – The Cassidys

“4 Minutes” – Madonna and Justin Timberlake. So hot.

“Who’s Got the Action?” – Dean Martin

“Jeremy” – Pearl Jam

“Don’t You Know” – Ray Charles

“Anchors Aweigh” – from Anchors Aweigh, and you can hear Dean Stockwell’s little mouse voice singing along with gusto

“Yahweh” – U2

“Kenny” – Bleu

“OK, It’s Alright With Me” – Eric Hutchinson

“Night in the City” – ELO

“Crosseyed” – Brendan Benson

“Grease” – Frankie Valli (it never gets old.)

“Holiday” – Green Day

“Reilly’s Daughter” – The Clancy Brothers

“Alone + Easy Target” – Foo Fighters

“Back in the USSR” – The Beatles

“Crack a Bottle” – Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent (love love love it)

“Drum Boogie” – Gene Krupa

“Copperline” – James Taylor. Beautiful. Reminds me of Chicago.

“Without You” – The Dixie Chicks

“The Crucifixion” – from Jesus Christ Superstar

“Ironic” – Alanis Morrissette (“I don’t think that word means what you think it means.”)

“Nervous, Man, Nervous” – Big Jay McNeely

“Nick of Time” – Bonnie Raitt (waterworks)

“We Shall Overcome” – Bruce Springsteen

“King For a Day” – Thompson Twins

“Four Green Fields” – Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem

“You’ve Got Another Thing Comin'” – Judas Priest

“I Only Want to Be With You” – Dusty Springfield

“Runaway” – Del Shannon (I’m not sure, haven’t checked my notes lately, but this may be my favorite song ever written.)

“It’s Only Make Believe” – Conway Twitty

“Girls On Film” – Duran Duran

“If I Had a Vineyard” – Sinéad O’Connor

“I Stay Away” – Alice in Chains

“Am I Blue?” – Billie Holliday

“I Got Mine” – The Black Keys

“JD Dies” – from The Public Enemies soundtrack

“Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man” – Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn (doesn’t get any better than this)

“Cherries” – Brendan Benson

“Pavement Artist” – Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins

“Rock ‘n Roll Is Here to Stay” – Sha Na Na (yeah? So?)

“Mama, He’s Craz”y” – The Judds

“Christians Inferno” – Green Day

“Something In the Way She Moves” – Jim Sturgess

“Our Lips are Sealed” – Everclear

“Louie Louie” – Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

“Don’t Set Me Free” – Ray Charles

“Cell Block Tango” – Catherine Zeta Jones

“Zombie” – The Cranberries

“Star Spangled Banner – Live at Woodstock” – Jimi Hendrix

“Pinball Wizard” – The Who

“Everything” – Michael Bublé (sue me. I know the guy is a tool. waterworks nonetheless. This song came to symbolize something over the spring – oh well.)

“Foreclosure of a Dream” – Megadeth

“My Life Would Suck Without You” – Kelly Clarkson

“Ode to Billie Joe” – The 5th Dimension (I was HAUNTED by this song as a child. “What did they throw off the bridge??” I begged my mother, at age 8. “What did they throw off the bridge????” I was DESPERATE to know – but I knew I didn’t REALLY want to know.)

“Beautiful” – Christina Aguilera (waterworks.)

“1000 Umbrellas” – XTC

“Seether” – Veruca Salt (my inner grunge goddess never completely died.)

“Run, Freedom, Run” – from Urinetown

“Anna Mae” – Brownie McGhee

“Walking the Blues” – Jack Dupree and Mr. Bear

“And the World Has the Nerve to Keep On Turning” – Tracy Bonham. That’s just how I feel, sister.

“Chariot” – Gavin McGraw

“Cream” – Prince. It’s a how-to sex manual. It’s one of the hottest pro-woman songs ever written. Guys should listen very carefully. This is how you should BE in bed.

“Modern World” – The Pogues

“A Little Girl from Little Rock” – Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell

“See the Light” – Green Day (I still cannot get over this album.)

“Simple Together” – Alanis Morissette

“Fields of Gold” – Eva Cassidy