Christmas preparations, all morning. Listening to music the whole time, and it was a pretty damn fun shuffle, have to say. Strange clusters. I could do without the Mary Poppins songs coming up so often, but other than that, no complaints.
“Outshined” – Soundgarden
“Seether” – Veruca Salt
“Too Late Too Late” – Metallica
“Crawl” – Kings of Leon
“Science Can’t Be Coy” – Siobhan O’Malley
“Brilliant Petty Crime” – Siobhan O’Malley (love it – my sister’s songs back to back!!)
“Go To the Mirror” – The Who (Tommy)
“Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” – Bono
“How the Other Half Lives” – Sutton Foster and cast, Thoroughly Modern Millie – speaking of …
“Everything” – Michael Buble
“Overkill” – Metallica
“The Deal (No Deal)” – Marti Bellow, Idina Menzel & Josh Groban, from Chess: Live in Concert
“Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2” – Pink Floyd
“One Mint Julep” – Ray Charles
“Defy You” – The Offspring
“Chicago Shake” – The Bruce Fowler Big Band
“Purple Haze” – Jimi Hendrix
“Take It All” – Marion Cotillard (from Nine soundtrack)
“Give Me the Creeps” – Siobhan O’Malley (video here!)
“Maybe Your Baby’s Got the Blues” – The Judds
“Something” – Jim Sturgess (from Across the Universe soundtrack)
“Don’t Stand So Close to Me” – the Glee cast (well, all of them except cousin Mike, blast it)
“Sunglasses at Night” – Corey Hart
“Eclipse” – Pink Floyd
“You and I (reprise)” – Idina Menzel & Josh Groban, from Chess: Live in Concert
“Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” – Beyonce
“Not for the Life Of Me” – Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie
“Our New Year” – Tori Amos
“Finale” – from Nine (the movie soundtrack)
“What a Piece of Work is Man / How Dare They Try” – cast of new Broadway production of Hair (which totally rocks)
“Halleluia I Love Her So” – Ray Charles
“Love What You Do” – The Divine Comedy
“Dio” – Tenacious D
“Nasty Letter” – Otis Taylor
“I Want To Hold Your Hand” – TV Carpio (from Across the Universe)
“Do You Believe In Love (live)” – Huey Lewis & the News
“I Hope I Get It” – cast of original Broadway production of A Chorus Line
“Another State of Mind” – Green Day
“Tommy’s Holiday Camp” – The Who, from Tommy
“What I Did For Love” – Priscilla Lopez, from A Chorus Line
“Threesome” – The Divine Comedy
“Dear Lover” – Foo Fighters
“Jesus Christ Pose” – Soundgarden
“POD” – Tenacious D
“If I Fell” – Evan Rachel Wood (from Across the Universe)
“Let the Sun Shine In” – cast of Broadway revival of Hair
“You’re Quiet” – Brendan Benson
“Sittin’ Pretty” – Brendan Benson (I love him so much).
“Isn’t He a Strange One” – The Judds. He sure is.
“Unusual Way” – Nicole Kidman (from Nine) – God, this song is so heartbreaking (“It scares me so that I can hardly speak…”)
“Sister Suffragette” – Glynis Johns, from Mary Poppins
“Broken Boy Soldiers” – The Raconteurs
“Jesus Was a Democrat” – Everclear
“Karate Schnitzel” – Tenacious D
“My Darling” – Eminem
“Just For a Thrill” – Ray Charles
“I Am the Walrus” – Bono (from Across the Universe)
“Board Meeting” – Timbaland (featuring Magoo)
“Truly Scrumptious” – from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
“Flavor” – Tori Amos
“Underture” – The Who (Tommy – uhm, it’s a Tommy cluster!)
“I’m Blessed” – Brendan Benson
“Hide Nor Hair” – Ray Charles
“Jolly Holiday” – Dick van Dyke and Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins
“Black Boys” – from new Broadway production of Hair – rockin’
Have a very merry Christmas Sheila.
Chess’s music is so great and powerful. If only it had a truly compelling plot to match.
Alexandra – (just to clarify: you are NOT my friend Alex, who also comments here – I think this is your first comment here) – I agree: Very powerful music. I’ve loved it for years, since it first came out. I am very happy to now have the Josh Groban concert version – I don’t think Idina Menzel, frankly, is up to the acting demands of her part – I can FEEL her straining, and there isn’t that sense of character and pain behind it (which Judy Kuhn, in the American version just has naturally – she’s got the voice, a beautiful flexible voice – but also has the acting chops – Menzel does not) – but it’s SO awesome to hear Groban sing that role. Both guys in both recordings I have (American and British) sound adenoidal in their voices – way too nasal=y and mask-y, and while the songs are great, their voices just don’t do it for me. But Groban has a full-throated rich voice which is just so appropriate to this music – very glad to have this recording!
Dan – you too!!
i’m glad i made the cut!! YES!
No – not your friend Alex. Just a visitor! I agree with you re: Idina Menzel – not a fan of her in general and especially not in Chess. She plays the part as far too girlish, and for the lack of a better word, she’s not “fierce” enough. Josh Groban is definitely wonderful in his role. Too bad the role is so inherently unlikable – leaves his wife and children (!) and then leaves his mistress. And we’re supposed to sympathize with him!
Siobhan – ha! Yes! Three times!!!