I will be incommunicado today, winging my way back from Berlin for acht und halben stunden (8 1/2 hours). I wrote this back in 2005, but never published it widely.
Enjoy:
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What sort of crap do you have lurking hidden on your iPod?
That’s the question I stumbled across from my old essays & effluvia blog. It was based on an article from The Arizona Republic, which asked:
“Those saccharine pop tunes and schmaltzy ballads cloaked from friends? There’s no excuse anymore. No blaming it on a CD that had just one song you liked. No claiming it belonged to your wife, husband or friend.You selected each and every tune. Like it or not, these are your greatest hits.
Now, let the melodic mocking commence.”
Those of you who have read me for a while know my musical tastes are wide-ranging, sharp, and ahead of the curve. (New visitors to TBP should check out our annual “best ofs” from the past few years).
But saccharine pop tunes and schmaltzy ballads hidden on the iPod?
Guilty as charged.
Not only do I have a slew of really embarrassing guilty pleasures on my pod, but they have actually found their way on to various mixes I’ve made. That means, no excuses.
How about you? What embarrassing ditties would your close friends be aghast about — if they knew? Since our big interactive musical discussion — Greatest American R&R Band — was so much fun, let’s take another swipe at it:
What are the most horrendous, embarrassing, guilty pleasures on your iPod?
I’ll start the HD spinning with my hidden collection of pathetic guilty pleasures (‘tho music snob that I am, I foolishly believe my guilty pleasures are superior to most people’s — indefensible as that position might be).
These lists go from least (10) to most (1) embarrassing.
Generally embarrassing pop orotherwise awful commercial song:
10. Semi-Charmed Kinda of Life, Third Eye Blind
9. Undone – The Sweater Song, Weezer
8. Horndog, Overseer
7. Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me for Me), Blessid Union Of Souls
6. I Touch Myself, Divinyls
5. Closing Time, Semisonic
4. Complicated, Avril Lavigne
3. (I Hate) Everything About You, Ugly Kid Joe
2. She Hates Me, Puddle of Mudd
1. Mmmm Bop, Hanson
These are the utterly embarrassing songs on my “Gym Mix” :
10. I’m Just a Girl, No Doubt
9. Groove Is In The Heart, Deee-Lite
8. Take It Off, The Donnas
7. Fantastic Voyage, Coolio
6. Murder On The Dance floor, Sophie Ellis Bextor
5. Good Vibrations, Marky Mark
4. Steal My Sunshine, Len
3. That Don’t Impress Me Much, Shania Twain
2. I Just Want to Make Love to You, Foghat
1. Rico Suave, Gerardo
And lastly, a mix I named “Bad radio from my Youth” — and it is utterly ghastly:
10. Bad Time (for Being in Love), Grand Funk Railroad
9. Keep On Loving You, REO Speedwagon
8. Day After Day, Badfinger
7. Without you, BadfingerA two way tie of simply awful for 3rd place:
6. (Shake, Shake, Shake) Your Booty, K.C. & The Sunshine Band
5. Keep It Comin’ Love, K.C. & The Sunshine Band
(I’ve actually grown to like some other KC stuff, but these 2 — shudder — sheesh!)
A three way tie totally lacking any redeeming qualities for 2nd place:
4. Cover of the Rolling Stone, Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
3. When You’re in Love (with a Beautiful Woman), Dr. Hook
2. Sylvia’s Mother, Dr. HookLast, and actually least, a song beyond bad:
1. Coconut, Harry Nilsson
There, I’ve outed myself and my misspent youth . . .
There are some interesting comments on this issue over at kottke, which is where I originally saw the pointer for this. Since then, there have been over 100 entries of guilty iPod pleasures, including what must be the playlist from Hell.
Check it out . . .
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Sources:
iPod guilty pleasures
Don Fernandez
Cox News, Sept. 11, 2004 12:00 AM
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/articles/0911ipod11.html
Category: Friday Night Jazz, Humor, Music
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
See you again by Miley Cyrus (my daughter is aghast!)
How did the Donna’s make that list. Great band!
Outed yourself is right! That gym mix is sort of gay ;-) But I LIKE it! Seriously, I might copy that line up – good start to a workout. Oh, and the best KC tune is “That’s The Way I Like It”.
My embarrassments, in no particular order:
Get Carter, Human League
Love Action, Human League
Get Together, Madonna
Down by the Beach, Men at Work
Cuttin Capers, Doris Day
and…
Sugar Sugar, The Archies
Wow, those are some funny tunes!! Most of which, not lying here, I really don’t know!
I’d like to confess to being an absolute whore for Hall & Oates. Anything by them. Name a song, I like it. I have on my Blackberry such lovable hits as “Out of Touch” and “Maneater” (whatever that means, in retrospect). Also found on my music device:
Perfect Way – Scritti Politti
Steel Bars – Michael Bolton
Baby, It’s tonight – Jude Cole
All I Want – toad the wet sprocket
Digging Your Scene – The Blow Monkeys (omg, what a loaded artist name)
Human – The Human League
Finally……a handful of tunes from The Cutting Crew (I just died in your arms tonight…)
Borderline (Madonna)
Fight For Your Right (Beastie Boys)
Crimson And Clover (Tommy James & The Shondells)
Father Figure (George Michael)
Keep on Walking (Gino Vannelli
Guitar Man (Bread)
Let It Be Me (The 5th Dimension)
Mr. Good Bar (LL Cool J)
Silly Love Songs (Paul McCartney & Wings)
If You Leave Me Now (Chicago)
Fly Away(John Denver
Confession, they say is good for the soul. Consider yourself absolved and go in peace. But dont go to the desert on a horse with no name or I will retch on my cossack.
Dr. Hook is not “totally lacking any redeeming qualities!”
Just wait till YOU are on The Cover Of The Rolling Stone!
rt
Damn – How about a worst list! Oh the panorama, the self indulgence, the schlock, the over arranged and under written, the downright contrived. Sometimes bad is bad?
What streams do you listen to?
Right now I’m enjoying Dinner Jazz at:
http://64.92.199.69:8240
rt
Where is MEH to explicate Chicago’s timeless 25 and 6 to 4? Help me see the light.
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BR: The name of the song is 25 or 6 to 4.
I would argue its a legit rock tune, and not a guilty pleasure . . .
all though i like ‘em all, i do think some of my friends, well bidness colleagues, at least, would be aghast…
Dr Dre
Sublime
AfroMan
Mike Jones
R Kelly
Tupac
a few years back, my wife borrowed my car to take some of my youngest son’s friends home and the ipod came on at start-up, right in the middle of Dre’s – “All those n’s and all those wh’s, somebody here gonna f” – she was definitely mortified, but the kids were diggin’ it and wanted to crank it up.
GREAT post! I was just thinking abut this very topic, after realizing that the song “Don’t Stop Believing,” by Journey, which I put on my iPod for my tween daughter at her request, and one of my favorite songs in high school, now makes my *physically* cringe. What happened?
My God Barry, REO Speedwagon?
If this would have been the first TBP post I had ever read, I would have never become a reader! ;)
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BR: Good point — I added a link to the annual best ofs just for some street cred.
….also I must confess that I have three Mannheim Steamroller albums and two Trans-Siberian Orchestra albums on my iPod.
Busted!
You are a brave man Ritholz. Those are truly awful selections. Makes me glad I must have been stoned or on some other planet for the entire 70s and much of the 80s. Worst I can come up with is Peace Train (Cat Stevens) or American Pie. I will confess a weakness for the current crop of female pop chanteueses, from Lavigne to Sheryl Crow.
In no particular order:
Making Love Out Of Nothing At All-Air Supply
Friends And Lovers-Carl Anderson/Gloria Loring
Father Figure-George Michael
Eye In The Sky-Alan Parsons Project
Color My World-Chicago
I Can’t Get Next To You-Temptations
The War-Lee Michaels
The Corn Won’t Grow So Rock And Roll-Goose Creek Symphony
Faded Love-Bob Wills
Topsy, Parts I & II-Cozy Cole
Hocus Pocus-Focus
Way too many others with which to bore you on a fine Friday evening.
Mostly old shit, kinda like me.
Best regards,
RF
Well my kids say I’m getting a little wierd. I now like the groups, “Depeche Mode”, New Order, and Oasis. When theese groups were in there heyday I probably couldn’t stand them. Also, “Marky Mark” is awesome, Good Vibrations. Buy Silver, its a lock.
@DasKapitalist Says:
November 20th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Borderline (Madonna)
Fight For Your Right (Beastie Boys)
Crimson And Clover (Tommy James & The Shondells)
Father Figure (George Michael)
Keep on Walking (Gino Vannelli
Guitar Man (Bread)
Let It Be Me (The 5th Dimension)
Mr. Good Bar (LL Cool J)
Silly Love Songs (Paul McCartney & Wings)
If You Leave Me Now (Chicago)
Fly Away(John Denver
THOSE PICKS…and Let me ad some of my own….(just a wee sampling…but for our times and a love song thrown in….AND…I even give you “YOU TUBES” for your listening pleasure….;-)’s
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CHICAGO: “IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW…You TAKE AWAY THE BIGGEST PART OF ME”
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=If+You+Leave+Me+Now,+You+Tube&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=LDUHS6qiKonFlAe84IzFCw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CBYQqwQwAQ#q=If+You+Leave+Me+Now%2C+You+Tube&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=LDUHS6qiKonFlAe84IzFCw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CBYQqwQwAQ&qvid=If+You+Leave+Me+Now%2C+You+Tube&vid=-903118229383098070
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CULTURE CLUB – “Church Of The Poison Mind” (Budgie Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzAH0FtNwg
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AND FOR THE TRADERS …On the RIVERBOAT! PRETTY COOL!
Culture Club – Karma Chameleon (Ledge Music Electro 80..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw
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AND… SIMPLY THE BEST…for OUR TIMES!
GREED ….GREED….GREED… It NEVER goes Away! A MUST LISTEN…
“Simply Red – Money’s too tight to mention – Live in London ‘”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VUZKej3LoU
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AND …For the ROMANTICS of CROSS LOVE…but an incredible sound…finish.. (Considering it’s George Micheale…of course it’s not REAL LOVE with BUENA…but still…Love is LOVE…Who are we to judge. THE GRAND FINALE!
George Michael And Mutya Buena – This Is Not Real Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk2BY1MBHMI&feature=related
Oops…for that “Chicago” Best Sound use this You Tube…not the other…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83d6wVtw0So&feature=player_embedded
@ashpelham2 Says:
November 20th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Wow, those are some funny tunes!! Most of which, not lying here, I really don’t know!
I’d like to confess to being an absolute whore for Hall & Oates. Anything by them. Name a song, I like it. I have on my Blackberry such lovable hits as “Out of Touch” and “Maneater” (whatever that means, in retrospect). Also found on my music device:@
Ahh…Hall & Oats. Not many of us would admit to that guilty pleasure…..they were good and even better in their newer days if you can catch them on tour or in latest albums.. I’m a Hall & Oats, whore, too. (We are an “underground) …
BR….you couldn’t really be dissing “Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show”…could ‘ya? They were way cool…
Might even be coming back. Seriously. :eyes: It’s amazing what was old comes back and what was silly seems more serious than what’s out there now.
Ahh….YOUTH…what pleasures.
There are some perfectly respectable bands and songs in those playlists, Barry. Badfinger, The Donnas, Foghat – all good stuff. I can say that mixed in with my Killdozer, Black Flag, and Husker Du, etc on my iPod are entire albums of No Doubt, Journey, Loverboy, and Night Ranger. My college radio pals would be would never speak to me again if they knew.
@BR: Can’t really argue with any of your choices. Most I don’t even recognize.
“Murder on the Dance Floor” Hmmm. Maybe. What I remember from a time when I was feeding off a late night dance channel in the Chicago area for survival, was they would do a “Top Ten Countdown”, which I have captured somewhere if I can find it.
That song kept getting sandwiched in with “Let’s Get This Party Started” and “Addicted To Bass” which IMHO are two of the all time BEST dance tunes.
But then again I don’t get out much. I understand dance has evolved to industrial which has splintered.
What, no “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morrisette?!?
The first two lists are most definitely unfathomable.
I’m either a) at a complete loss of understanding as to how your fingers could even elicit the keystrokes to complete the downloading of such content, or b) in sheer disappointment that you are doing some type of mind-altering-hallucinogenic drug(s) which (and, mind you, more importantly) you’re not sharing with the rest of us.
As for list three – what’s the problem? I fail to see any shame! What am I missing?!
{head in hands}
That’s the idea — I am baring my soul and admitting horrific, blood curdling, serial killer type confessions
The 1st list — well, Im a sucker for a good pop hook
List 2: really embarrassing crap — disco shiite
List 3 is garbage made palpable thru the rosy glow of nostalgia . . .
No Ipod, cannot tolerate the compression (lack of dynamic range) for my
choice of material (Blues and Classical)
and being its (still on the left coast) Friday, it heavy duty blues from a local
college fm station (from 4pm to 5am): Earl Hooker, Magic Sam, Koko Taylor, Muddy & Johnny
Winter, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, James Cotton, Hound Dog Taylor,
and Luther Allison (“Soul Fixin Man”) in the first hour.
An aging dinosaur with tinnitus……your mileage will vary!
There are only 4 songs on my iPod on your list. Unfortunately they’re the four rated worst from your youth (though I rarely listen to When You’re in Love (with a Beautiful Woman).
The song on the list I’d rate as beyond bad, though, is “I Touch Myself.” One day I heard it on the local “alternative” radios station on my way to work, at lunch, and on the way home. That was when I gave up on local radio and quit listening – which shows in a “lost decade” on my iPod.
The most embarrassing “guilty pleasures” from my most played (not ranked or categorized):
The Golden Age of Rock and Roll, Mott the Hoople
The Beat Goes On, Sonny and Cher
No More Mister Nice Guy, Alice Cooper
Downtown, Petula Clark
Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, Ian Dury & the Blcokheads
The Bad Touch (aka Discovery Channel), Bloodhound Gang
Move Around, B.G.
Clint Eastwood, Gorillaz
Bat out of Hell, Meatloaf
The Time Warp & Over at the Frankenstein Place, Rocky Horror
Punk Rock Girl, Dead Milkmen
Gasolina, Daddy Yankee
Play that Funky Music, Wild Cherry
Cookie Day, Shonen Knife
The Girls, Calvin Harris
Mrs. Brown You’ve got a Lovely Daughter, Herman’s Hermits
Cover of the Rolling Stone, Dr. Hook
(I can’t see any of my Temptations songs on a list as something to be embarrassed about, but if I had to, I’d choose “They Way You Do the Things You Do” or “My Christmas Tree” long before mcrcr4′s “I can’t get Next to You.”)
My current obsession is Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again, Naturally” from the Virgin Suicides Soundtrack.
I am a Rhapsody subscriber, so there is no per track charge, no download time, no hard drive space issues. No transaction cost whatsoever, thus, I have come face to face with my inner cheesedog and it isn’t pretty.
I’ve spent far less time checking out the avant jazz that I’ve been missing than expected and far more time communing with AM radio circa 1975 when I was 8.
“Stone Soul Picnic” by Laura Nyro or the Fifth Dimension.
“Summer Breeze” Seals and Croft
“Sara Smile” Hall and Oats
“Danny’s Song” Loggins and Messina
“Please Come to Boston” Loggins
“I’m Not in Love” 10cc
“Sunshine” Jonathan Edwards
“Shanty” Jonathan Edwards
“The Night Chicago Died” Paper Lace
“Ooh Child” The Five Stairsteps
I freely admit to having a stash of Gilbert & Sullivan light opera on my playlist. Why, not just an hour ago, I was heartily belting out the pirate chorus from Penzance:
Pour, O pour the pirate sherry;
Fill, O fill the pirate glass;
And, to make us more than merry
Let the pirate bumper pass.
But surely I have worse secrets in my playlist. Let me check. Hmm.. I have an embarassingly large Adam & the Ants collection I’ve never listened to, I wonder where I got that from. Oh.. here’s a gem in my collection, a karaoke version of “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction,” it sounds like the Stones but it’s incredibly annoying because there aren’t main vocals, just the background chorus singing “I can’t get NO! Hey hey hey!” over and over. It cracks me up when I listen to it.
I love The Cowsills.
Ok… MY totally embarassing songs
1)Love Hurts-Foriegner
2)Oh Sherry- Steve Perry
3)Rollout- Ludacris
4)Would’nt be nice?-Beach Boys
5)Why Not-Hilary Duff
ok here we go
1. Sopranos Theme Song
2. Short People – Randy Newman
3. Rock Lobster – B52′s
4. People are People – Depeche Mode
5. Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran
The rest of my iPod is Led Zep, Doors, Who et al. These are embarassing.
Two ways to revel in bad taste:
1. Use iTunes Artwork as your screen saver.
2. Do the same on an Apple TV.
With the latter, you can have your guilty pleasures up on your 40″ plasma in the living room, the moving wall of shame.
I could care less what anyone thought of my favorites, whoever they are, i likes what i likes, has nothing to do with you. Embarassed, over music, lol………………..bad trades hell yeah, music, nevah
i liked Boston for quite a while, and (revealing my age here) have listened to The BeeGees, and even Herman’s Hermits (oh for God’s Sake!), Donna Summer (WHAT?, as Borat would say) – there’s lots of old stuff that is almost embarassing (i’m with Torrie, above) – but newer stuff that is hard to admit to: Lady GaGa (oh man, don’t even go there, but i love it!)
6. I Touch Myself, Divinyls
1. Mmmm Bop, Hanson
9. Groove Is In The Heart, Deee-Lite
1. Rico Suave, Gerardo
6. (Shake, Shake, Shake) Your Booty, K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Ok, ok, I get the guilty. What part of these ever had a pleasure?
My guilty pleasures would be:
The Wall (Kansas)
Raspberry Beret (Warren Zevon) (Hey!- Even I wouldn’t be caught dead owning Prince)
and various Harry Chapin songs.
Last, and actually least, a song beyond bad:
1. Coconut, Harry Nilsson
Sorry, I realize that this is an old article, but I couldn’t help but correct the typo where you have “bad” in place of “genius”.
I know, I know, I do it myself all the time too! : )
Its a fun novelty song — a guilty pleasure!
but a work of genius?
The legacy of Mozart or John Lennon or John Coltrane are safe from Harry Nilsson
Great blog.
My Top 10 iPod guilty pleasures, in no particular order:
Styx – “Renegade”
The Buggles – “Video Killed the Radio Star” (a big hit at parties!)
Sister Sledge – “We Are Family”
Puff Daddy’s cover of “Big Ole Butt”
Kid Rock – “Cowboy”
Johnny Nash – “I Can See Clearly”
Dio – “Rainbow in the Dark” (hair metal sometimes has a time and a place…)
Roger Miller — “King of the Road”
Carl Douglas – “Kung Fu Fighting”
“Les Miz” soundtrack (a sentimental choice – my first real “adult” date was when I took a college girlfriend to the musical)
or the Kung Fu Panda version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3aTU-IJ8c4&feature=related
i’m aghast that one of my favorites didn’t make the list. who could ever deny Carl Douglas’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BNWmnHPFvE
Kung Fu Fighting!
And yet several of those aren’t bad songs!
What’s on mine?
Almost everything ever done by Quiet Riot, Matchbox 20 and Eddie Money
a lot of Def Leppard, Alice Cooper & Gin Blossoms
and
everything ever done by Billy Squier (including at least two dozen never released songs many of which should be on an album!)
While your honesty is admirable, “Rico Suave” and “Mmmm Bop” are simply unforgivable.
My list is as follows:
Dokken – Breaking the Chains
Poison – Nothin’ but a Good Time
Go West – King of Wishful Thinking (Pretty Woman Soundtrack)
Jennifer Paige – Crush
Duncan Sheik – Barely Breathing
The Corrs – Breathless
Roxette – It Must Have Been Love (Pretty Woman Soundtrack)
Charlie Pride – Burgers and Fries (I can’t believe I am admitting to this)
Backstreet Boys – The One
Abba (the entire Greatest Hits CD)
Sir, you may make fun of my transgressions all day.
However, nothing will ever change the fact that both Roxette (It Must Have Been Love) and the Backstreet Boys are on your iPod.
I declare summary execution for both of us . . .
Understood. Preferred method?
Death by New Kids on the Block . . .
All five of them? This is going to hurt.
With your fine taste of humor, I thought that you might appreciate this.
http://mustardnut.blogspot.com/2004/09/modern-tech-support.html
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having had the pleasure of growing up in the ’60′s/’70′s it’s hard to nail down particular songs, so i tend to stick with the bands:
Black Sabbath, Beach Boys, Grand Funk, Simon & Garfunkel (I Am a Rock, is the fav), 5th Demension, The Temptations, Steppenwolf (The Pusher), Queen (Fat Bottom Girl), AC/DC, The Byrds, Cream (Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida), Animals (When I Was Young), ?, Deep Purple, you get the jist.
Bringing it current: Korn (Coming Undone), Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, AudioSlave, etc.,
@jeff-
Cream did not do “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”, don’t you know that I luuuuv youoo – I think it was Iron Maiden or Iron Butterfy or some other ferrous band, but, definitely not Cream
enjoy the flashbacks, i am
@ Wes
ah, you are correct. Iron Butterfly. i’m going back to watching Cheech and Chong’s “Up in Smoke…”
I’d like to suggest Lou Bega’s Mambo #5 on repeat for a great workout. You will soon be running on the treadmill like a nigerian marathon champion trying to get away from that gawdawful aural contagion.
I don’t listen to music written since roughly WWII, and so have nothing to be ashamed of on that score. I do have guilty pleasures though; one is bad haiku and the other a recurring fantasy of vengence: Flames in winter leap, As does my heart, heaped handhelds melting.
The Donnas are nothing to be ashamed about. In fact, ff they were men, they’d be on the top of the metal charts. As it stands, they’re still one of the most rocking banks out there. I work out regularly to both Gold Medal and Spend the Night. They both rock hard.
If you get a chance to see them you will be very impressed.
engineerd1 .. hummm .. the veil of the www .. your in the Greatest Gen .. history of living thru that and the economic designs were good to you
on topic .. have a stash of music on all mechanisms of playback .. and slowly as my double of every machine drops to 1 .. I no longer can dj my favs in the order I like .. gotta digitize ‘em for more than 1 reason (get up and go being primary) .. we have Napster and Thursday late nite was pounding the beer and tunes from it mostly .. I tracked down on cassette by Ray Stevens the full 4 or 5 min of “The Pirate Song” and that got me going on Napster & YouTube .. Napster if your searching sites for anti-porn on yourself – 2 things 1.can’t copy paste words to external search for more info (and why you won’t see Thur playlist) 2.can’t blend & mix tunes (1 open at a time – and why YouTube can get the every other play)
I do remember loading the turntable with “Aja” and a cd by Tears for Fears that a few ended up in “Donnie Darko” thats a movie .. I do remember playing some tunes by Abba from “The Album” the album with stringed up puppet (jog the new Time cover) got me longing for my own picture memories (featured on the cover a couple years back)
Damn, I haven’t thought about Ugly Kid Joe for years! Takes me back to my college days in Isla Vista. And particularly to a spring break trip to Mazatlan (by train from the Mexican border to save money). Whit (the lead singer) was on that train also. I believe he and a friend spent quite a bit of time riding on top of one of the cars after getting totally loaded. Good times! Makes me realize what a “stick in the mud” I have become :)
Just remembered: Whit and his friend had a very large boom box. They REPEATEDLY played “Low Rider” by War (volume on “11″) as they led a line of drunken college kids dancing up and down the train. “Low Rider” still sounds great after all these years!
As long as it isn’t AC/DC (it’s personal), I have little problem with anything on your list…but, if you go to the gym enough to have a “gym-mix” and you still look like that, it’s time to fire the trainer.