Carrie did this yesterday to avoid work, and I'm doing it today to avoid the 50 essays that I should be grading on 19th century American feminist literature. I guess the idea is to put your mp3 player on shuffle mode to see what kind of embarrassing tracks rear their ugly heads. For reasons I'd rather not get into here I prefer the number 12 to 10, so although 10 is the number we're "supposed" to stop at, I will be going 2 further. (Don't bother asking; it makes no sense.) So here it goes:
1. "Streets of Fire" - The New Pornographers
2. "Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine" - Spoon
3. "Red Right Ankle" - The Decemberists
4. "White Moon" - The White Stripes
5. "Pedestal" - Portishead
6. "Ask" - The Smiths
7. "Till my Head Falls Off" - They Might be Giants
8. "Talk to Me, Dance with Me" - Hot Hot Heat
9. "Fighting in a Sack" - The Shins
10. "Rock of Ages" - Def Leppard
11. "A Time to be so Small" - Interpol
12. "Shake our Tree" - The Rosebuds
Hmmm...not all that embarrassing really. I suppose some people might be embarrassed to have Def Leppard and The Smiths on their i-pod, but those people don't exist in my world. And the Portishead song reminds me that after 8 years of sitting on their ass, Portishead will finally be releasing a new album this year. I'm so freakin' excited I could spit!
Well, that didn't waste nearly enough time, so let's try Nathan's i-pod:
1. "Things You can Do" - Deltron
2. "Once Around the Block" - Badly Drawn
(I must take a moment to say that I love this song soooo much.)
3. "Idioteque" -Radiohead
4. "Summer in the Sand" - Domestic Problems
5. "Up Against the Wall" - 'N Sync
(Ahh...Here it is, now we're finally hitting the embarrassment motherload.)
6. "Black Tambourine" - Beck
7. "Say My Name" - Destiny's Child (Yes!! Thanks, Nathan.)
8. "Turn the Page" - The Streets
9. "Last Stop: This Town" - The Eels
10. "Coffee and TV" - Blur
11. "Street Spirit Fade Out" - Radiohead
12. "Rock This Town" - The Stray Cats
I knew I could depend on my husband, whose musical taste refuses to take itself too seriously, for a silly song or three. I wonder what "the girl who stands front and center in my aerobics class so she can check herself out all hour" would have on her shuffle mode? Ahh..another post for another day.
1. "Streets of Fire" - The New Pornographers
2. "Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine" - Spoon
3. "Red Right Ankle" - The Decemberists
4. "White Moon" - The White Stripes
5. "Pedestal" - Portishead
6. "Ask" - The Smiths
7. "Till my Head Falls Off" - They Might be Giants
8. "Talk to Me, Dance with Me" - Hot Hot Heat
9. "Fighting in a Sack" - The Shins
10. "Rock of Ages" - Def Leppard
11. "A Time to be so Small" - Interpol
12. "Shake our Tree" - The Rosebuds
Hmmm...not all that embarrassing really. I suppose some people might be embarrassed to have Def Leppard and The Smiths on their i-pod, but those people don't exist in my world. And the Portishead song reminds me that after 8 years of sitting on their ass, Portishead will finally be releasing a new album this year. I'm so freakin' excited I could spit!
Well, that didn't waste nearly enough time, so let's try Nathan's i-pod:
1. "Things You can Do" - Deltron
2. "Once Around the Block" - Badly Drawn
(I must take a moment to say that I love this song soooo much.)
3. "Idioteque" -Radiohead
4. "Summer in the Sand" - Domestic Problems
5. "Up Against the Wall" - 'N Sync
(Ahh...Here it is, now we're finally hitting the embarrassment motherload.)
6. "Black Tambourine" - Beck
7. "Say My Name" - Destiny's Child (Yes!! Thanks, Nathan.)
8. "Turn the Page" - The Streets
9. "Last Stop: This Town" - The Eels
10. "Coffee and TV" - Blur
11. "Street Spirit Fade Out" - Radiohead
12. "Rock This Town" - The Stray Cats
I knew I could depend on my husband, whose musical taste refuses to take itself too seriously, for a silly song or three. I wonder what "the girl who stands front and center in my aerobics class so she can check herself out all hour" would have on her shuffle mode? Ahh..another post for another day.
2 Comments:
Red Right Ankle is such a great song.
It seems unfair that your husband got the brunt of the embarrassing choices. I guess you can blame it on the shuffle function, but it seems fishy.
Yeah, I felt a bit bad about that too, but we subscribe to two different i-pod philosophies. He stacks his with albums that he's enjoyed from years past and I tend to not have much on mine that predates 2003. The i-pod mini just doesn't have enough memory for all of my impulse buys to keep a lot of my older stuff around.
About the greatness of Red Right Ankle - I concur.
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