Let's play iPod Roulette! (Remember that fun game I discovered in this entry at Hal's?) Here are the rules: using the "shuffle" feature on your iPod, make note of the first 15 songs that come up and share them in a blog entry. No skipping songs that you might be embarrassed for others to know you have in your music library! The only time I hit skip is if it's another song by an artist/group I've already listed. I've often questioned just how "random" the shuffle feature really is. Despite many jazz selections in my iTunes, not a single one came up this time.
1. Car Wash (Rose Royce) - I have no explanation for this.
2. After the Love Has Gone (Earth, Wind and Fire) - I graduated from High School in 1976. This was pretty staple listening for that era.
3. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20-5. La Czardas (Zubin Mehta) - I took piano lessons as a child which helped to foster my love of classical music.
4. Bali Ha'i (Loretta Ables Sayre) - This is my favorite song from the musical South Pacific. Our community theater put on this production two summers ago and did a great job with it.
5. Misery Business (Paramore) - Paramore provided some of the music for the Twilight soundtrack, although not this particular song. I can thank my younger daughter for this one.
6. Yesterday Once More (The Carpenters) - I can't listen to The Carpenters without thinking of Bob. I love Karen Carpenter's voice!
7. Waterfront (Simple Minds) - I am not a fan of Greenpeace, but evidently liked enough of the music on a CD they sponsored to purchase it. Obviously before I had access to iTunes.
8. The Battle/The Forest (Rick Wakeman) - This is side two of his Journey to the Centre of the Earth album. One of my favorites!
9. Lion (Rebecca St. James) - This is from an album of songs inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia featuring various Christian artists. Not to be confused with the soundtracks to the actual movies.
10. Mozart: Piano Sonata #15 in C, KV 545-2. Andante (Mitsuko Uchida) - I could actually play this on the piano at one point in my life. Amazing.
11. Hold On (Wilson Phillips) - A great song to harmonize with! Carnie Wilson used it in commercials promoting her recent reality show on GSN.
12. L-O-V-E (Natalie Cole) - She has a beautifully smooth voice, but nothing to compared to her father's.
13. I Can't Stand the Rain (Tina Turner) - I use to think it was funny that a preacher at my church some years ago loved Tina Turner. He just didn't look the type. I also remember his very first sermon included many references to The Eagles.
14. Falling Slowly (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova) - This beautiful song is from the movie Once. Again, I can thank my younger daughter for introducing me to the movie and its wonderful soundtrack.
15. Fur Elise (Murray Perahia) - Taken from the soundtrack of Immortal Beloved. Played by many piano students, it's one I never learned.
1. Car Wash (Rose Royce) - I have no explanation for this.
2. After the Love Has Gone (Earth, Wind and Fire) - I graduated from High School in 1976. This was pretty staple listening for that era.
3. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20-5. La Czardas (Zubin Mehta) - I took piano lessons as a child which helped to foster my love of classical music.
4. Bali Ha'i (Loretta Ables Sayre) - This is my favorite song from the musical South Pacific. Our community theater put on this production two summers ago and did a great job with it.
5. Misery Business (Paramore) - Paramore provided some of the music for the Twilight soundtrack, although not this particular song. I can thank my younger daughter for this one.
6. Yesterday Once More (The Carpenters) - I can't listen to The Carpenters without thinking of Bob. I love Karen Carpenter's voice!
7. Waterfront (Simple Minds) - I am not a fan of Greenpeace, but evidently liked enough of the music on a CD they sponsored to purchase it. Obviously before I had access to iTunes.
8. The Battle/The Forest (Rick Wakeman) - This is side two of his Journey to the Centre of the Earth album. One of my favorites!
9. Lion (Rebecca St. James) - This is from an album of songs inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia featuring various Christian artists. Not to be confused with the soundtracks to the actual movies.
10. Mozart: Piano Sonata #15 in C, KV 545-2. Andante (Mitsuko Uchida) - I could actually play this on the piano at one point in my life. Amazing.
11. Hold On (Wilson Phillips) - A great song to harmonize with! Carnie Wilson used it in commercials promoting her recent reality show on GSN.
12. L-O-V-E (Natalie Cole) - She has a beautifully smooth voice, but nothing to compared to her father's.
13. I Can't Stand the Rain (Tina Turner) - I use to think it was funny that a preacher at my church some years ago loved Tina Turner. He just didn't look the type. I also remember his very first sermon included many references to The Eagles.
14. Falling Slowly (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova) - This beautiful song is from the movie Once. Again, I can thank my younger daughter for introducing me to the movie and its wonderful soundtrack.
15. Fur Elise (Murray Perahia) - Taken from the soundtrack of Immortal Beloved. Played by many piano students, it's one I never learned.
5 comments:
Well, I do not own an IPod, but I have a little MP3 player. I can't shuffle because it doesn't shuffle. LOL! I'd come up with T. S. Eliot reading from "The Wasteland" and Anais Nin reading from her Diaries. Other than that, I have a Diana Krall CD and Steve Earle's Transcendental Blues and The Doors Greatest Hits. So it would be one of those. Maybe for Mother's Day this year one of my offspring will get me an IPod. I've been hinting for 2 years now...Blessings!
That was an eclectic mix. "Car Wash?" : )
And I think I would come off like a psycho if I did this ... my musical tastes are pretty diverse, which results in some odd pairings when using the shuffle feature (like Phoebe Snow being followed by 50 Center followed by George Winston followed by REM.)
Good tunes! I'm stuck on "Mad World" by Adam Lampert these days. Love that song!! His version.
Also into country and Wagner. There are also Greenday and Metallica days. Also some Blackeyed Peas.
What a great idea for a fun post - I shall certainly be joining you though my choices may be a little less random as I tend to have only whole albums on there.
Kelly, had no idea you would remember my love for the CARPENTERS! Karen Carpenter truly had one of purest, most angelic voices ever. She died much too soon.
Great tunes.
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