"Boy Squished by Falling Light. Scientists Baffled."
--from one of the snarky "Let's Plays" I've been amusingly wasting my time on. OKAY. So. Tomorrow, I'm off to help out with the local MS Walk (we used to help with the March of Dimes WalkAmerica; until they deliberately "neglect"-downsized the one in this town to nothing to save money, which makes me sad because we helped them out with it for over twenty years!) along with the rest of my Star Trek club, the "U.S.S. Alioth". It starts really freaking early in the morning.
I am NOT a morning person.
So, as usual, I'm'a bring along some music to help wake myslf up. This time, I'm bringing Skuld, my mp3 player, instead of my walkman. YAY UPGRADING. :P (Named after the Norn of the future, and more specifically, her "Oh! My Goddess!" version, who is a total techno-geek.)
But, the amount I have in my Music Folder That Ate the Whole Midwest is WAY the freak too large--Skuld only holds 2 gigs. So, obviously I'l have to use some portion of my songs. What to do, what to do...
I finally decided to count off through my music folder by an arbitrary number and take every 20th song. No matter how random.
And
(Reach Up For the) Sunrise--Duran Duran
--how awesome is THAT, for the first song I'll be listening to to wake myself up early in the morning?
634-5789 (Soulsville U.S.A.)--Wilson Pickett
A Lover's Concerto--the Toys
A Woman, a Lover, a Friend--Otis Redding
After Today--A Goofy Movie soundtrack
All She Wants Is--Duran Duran
--you're going to see a lot of them here. I'm a total Duranie.
Always Something There to Remind Me--Naked Eyes
Angel of No Mercy
Anything Goes--John Barrowman (HEEHEE!)
At My Front Door--El-Dorados
Baby Love--the Supremes
Bad Cartridge (E-Pro Remix by Paza)--Beck
Barbara Ann--the Beach Boys
Beat the Clock--Sparks
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen--the Andrews Sisters
Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota--Weird Al Yankovic
--okay, so, WEIRD AL right after the freaking Andrews Sisters? If THAT doesn't say "eccentrically eclectic", nothing does.
Black Shoes--the Films (Sims 2) This means it'll be in Simlish.
Bo Weevil--Teresa Brewer
Bringin' Me Down--Andy Taylor
Bus Stop--the Hollies
Camisado--Panic! At the Disco
--EEEEE, one of my new favourite songs ever...! (Bus Stop) And since it's unsually emo/offbeat sounding for a '60s song, I have the feeling that Panic! At the Disco right afterwards won't sound all that weird.
Cara Mia--Jay and the Americans
Cath--the Bluebells
Chances Are--Johnny Mathis
Cherry Cherry--Neil Diamond
Circus--Erasure Yay, Erasure got to join us!
Colors of the Wind--Pocahontas Soundtrack
Communication--The Power Station
Crank the Heat Up! (Final Egg 2)--Sonic Adventure
Cry in Sorrow--Final Fantasy 4
(It's inevitable some game music ended up in here, knowing me.)
Da-Doo--Little Shop of Horrors
Danger--the Motels
Death--From the Discworld (this'd be from that album of mostly instrumentals, not the "Soul Music" soundtrack.)
Destination Moon--They Might Be Giants (YEE!)
Digital World--Trans-X (I LOVE this instrumental. It's so...TRONish.)
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?--Culture Club
Domino Dancing--the Pet Shop Boys
Don't Leave Me This Way--the Communards.
Wow. This has just officially become the gayest--and by that, I mean the AWESOMEST--playlist, ever. :P When you put those last three with the previous Erasure and John Barrowman...
Don't Turn Around--Ace of Base
Drama!--Erasure
Drowning Man--Duran Duran
Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White-Winged Dove)--Stevie Nicks
Escape--Journey
Everybody Loves a Clown--Gary Lewis and the Playboys
Everywhere--Fleetwood Mac
Faith--George Michael
Ferry Cross the Mersey--Gerry and the Pacemakers
Finally--Ce Ce Peniston
Foolin' Yourself (The Angry Young Man)--Styx
Free Yourself--the Untouchables
Gagliarda--Mannheim Steamroller
Get Out of London--Intaferon
Girl Next Door--Saving Jane (Sims 2)
Go Away--Lorrie Morgan
Good Enough (Goonies Theme)--Cyndi Lauper (woot. I've always liked her.)
Goody Goody--Benny Goodman and Helen Ward
Grey--the Brothers Creegan
Hallucination--Labyrinth Soundtrack
Hard-Lovin' Woman--Mark Collie
Head to Toe--Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Hella Good--No Doubt
Hernando's Hideaway--Archie Bleyer
Higher Place--Journey
Hold On Loosely--.38 Special
Honky Tonk Women--the Rolling Stones
Hotel California--the Eagles
Humour of the Situation--Barenaked Ladies (woot)
I Can Hear You--They Might Be Giants
I Don't Like Mondays--the Boomtown Rats
I Love You 'Cause I Want To--Carlene Carter
I Should Be Allowed to Think--They Might Be Giants
I Want to Hold Your Hand--the Beatles
If I Fell--the Beatles (yay, the Beatles made it!)
I'll Be There--Erasure
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)--the Proclaimers (AND you guys! Yay!)
Images of Heaven--Peter Godwin (WOW. That's...not a mood-swing and a half, there.)
In the Summer Time--Mungo Jerry
Is She Really Going Out With Him?--Joe Jackson
It Tears Me Up--Percy Sledge
It's My Party--Leslie Gore
I've Found a New Baby--Dexter Gordon
Jimmy Mack--the Shirelles
Jump, Jive and Wail--Brian Setzer Orchestra
Just One of Those Things--Frank Sinatra
--Dear god. These two GO together. Across several decades, but they DO.
King of the Road--Roger Miller
Kokomo--the Beach Boys
Land--Duran Duran
Lay All Your Love on Me--ABBA
Lemmings 2 Main Title (yippee!)
Let's Go--the Cars (WOOT, the Cars made it. And I love this song.)
Life in the Fast Lane--Eagles
Little Boxes--Pete Seeger (from before it was known as "The Weeds theme song".)
Local Girls--Graham Parker
Lost and Stolen--Kevin Hearn
Love is Strange--Mickey and Sylvia
Lovecats--the Cure (yay, the Cure made it. I wonder if I can collect the Smiths, now...)
Mad About You--Belinda Carlisle
Make Love to Me--Jo Stafford (it's an early '50s song, so it's not that spicy)
Marble Zone--Sonic 1
Mean Woman Blues--Roy Orbison (YEE, Roy Orbison!)
Metallic Madness (Present)--Sonic CD
Militant Missionary (Boss Egg Walker)--Sonic Adventure
Monday, Monday--The Mamas and the Papas (glad you could join us, too)
Mother and Child Reunion--Paul Simon
Mushroom Hunting--Cowboy Bebop soundtrack
My Heart Goes Bang--Dead or Alive
Mystic Mysidia--Final Fantasy 4
Never Gonna Give You Up--Rick Astley
Yep. You read that right. I just willingly Rick-rolled my OWN Livejournal! (cracks up).
Of course, this means I willingly Rick-Rolled my own music collection, much earlier. I like that song. I've always liked that song. I've never gotten what was so funny or weird about the video, that it became THE thing to trick people with. (Aren't you supposed to like, link them to something horrible and/or disgusting or stupid?)
New Year's Day--U2
No Stopping Us--Jason Mraz
O Blay Wubba Zoon--LUX Spencers (Sims 2)
On Broadway--the Drifters
One Toke Over the Line--Brewer and Shipley
Open Your Mind--Oh My Goddess! Season 1 Opening Theme
Out of Touch--Hall and Oates
Palmtree Panic Good Future--Sonic CD (Sonic CD involves time travel.)
Passing Breeze--Outrun
Phantasy Star IV Final Boss Theme
Pines of Rome Movement Four--Respighi
Pleasure Castle (Twinkle Park)--Sonic Adventure
Man, what's with all the game music? I do have a LOT of other stuff, really...
That said, "Pleasure Castle" is so funkin' catchy.
Preludes for Piano--Gershwin
Proud Mary--Ike and Tina Turner
Quartz Quadrant Bad Future--Sonic CD
Rapture--Blondie
Reelin' and Rockin'--Chuck Berry (yay!)
Rhythm of My Heart--Rod Stewart
Robotnik's Theme--Sonic Adventure
Rock the Boat--Hues Corporation
Round and Round--Perry Como
Runnin' Down a Dream--Tom Petty
Sandopolis Zone, Act 1--Sonic and Knuckles
Scarborough Fair (Canticle)--Simon and Garfunkel (Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme...)
See You in September--the Happenings
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band--the Beatles
Shattered Dreams--Johnny Hates Jazz
She's Just My Style--Gary Lewis and the Playboys
Sidehackin'--MST3K (ha! I got an MST3K song in here, and it happens to be a Joel-era one...)
Sing, Sing, Sing (you know That One really super fast, catchy, CRAZY-energetic '40s swing instrumental? With the wild saxes and the drum solo? That you've probably heard in at least a couple commercials and movies? That one.)
Slam Shuffle (Zozo)--Final Fantasy VI
Smoke on the Water--Deep Purple
Some Guys Have All the Luck--Rod Stewart
Somewhere That's Green--Little Shop of Horrors
Space Oddity--David Bowie (WOOT! Ground control to Major Tom...)
Spinning Wheel--Blood, Sweat and Tears
Stand On Your Own Head--They Might Be Giants
Star--Erasure
Stop Dead--Duran Duran
Stuck With You--Huey Lewis and the News
Sultans of Swing--Dire Straits
Surfer Girl--The Beach Boys
Sweet Soul Music--Aretha Franklin
Take it Easy--Andy Taylor
Tara--Roxy Music (I WONDERED if you guys were gonna make it!)
Tell Me Why--The Four Aces
That's Death--Discworld 2 soundtrack (HAAA...I get to have Eric Idle singing to me.)
The Beautiful Briny--Bedknobs and Broomsticks soundtrack
The End of the World--the Cure
The Cave of Wonders--Aladdin soundtrack
The Gambler--Kenny Rogers (I've always liked this one. Ever since I was a little kid, and had no idea what it was actually about.)
The Ketchup Song--Las Ketchup
The Luggage--From the Discworld
The One Thing--INXS
The Right Stuff--Bryan Ferry
The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever--Duran Duran
The Wayward Wind--Gogi Grant
theme_ck (this is from a time at a messageboard a LONG time ago, when the owner randomly gave everybody instrumental themes)
There Is a Light that Never Goes Out--the Smiths (aha, they did make it after all)
Think--Aretha Franklin
Ticket to Ride--the Beatles
Time of Your Life--Green Day
Too Busy Thinkin' 'Bout My Baby--Marvin Gaye
Town Theme--Final Fantasy II
True Blue--Madonna
Turn Out the Light--New Amsterdams (Sims 2)
Two of Hearts--Stacey Q
Up All Night--Boomtown Rats
Vertigo--U2
Volare--Bobby Rydell
Walk Like an Egyptian--the Bangles (woot)
War on Drugs--Barenaked Ladies
We Want a Rock--They Might Be Giants
What Do All the People Know?--the Monroes
What's Up--4 Non-Blondes
When Your Heart is Weak--Cock Robin
White Lines--Duran Duran
Why Can't I Be You?--the Cure
Winchester Cathedral--New Vaudeville Band
Without You--Johnny Tillotson
World In Your Eyes--Depeche Mode (and there's the last of the main '80s Emo/Goth People I was wondering about)
Y.M.C.A--the Village People (if there was any DOUBT this collection is about Gay Pride...)
You Don't Know Me--Ray Charles
You Really Got Me--the Kinks (woot)
Young Americans--David Bowie
You've Got Your Troubles--the Fortunes, is what I ended up with. Yep. Now you know more about what you're dealing with.
Now naturally I will not be able to listen to all of these in one morning--not even CLOSE! But it was fun counting by every 20 and seeing what I got, anyway.
...Notorious