A Cop-Out of an Entry
March 16, 2004, 8:54 p.m.
Stolen from the inestimable Tithonus. Load all your songs onto your MP3 player, randomise them, write down the first 20 that come up. Easy as pie. Comments are optional, but they do make things more interesting.
1. The Whitlams - You Gotta Love This City
This song is totally emblematic of Sydney for me – especially the lyrics, “You gotta love this city / for her body and not her brain.” Sums up my beloved city completely.
2. Anastacia – Love Is A Crime (So Is This Song)
Ha! You can probably tell I don’t like this song much (well she didn’t give it that sub-title). I keep meaning to take it off my playlist.
3. Tavares - Heaven Must Be Missing Angels
Ah, the Charlie’s Angels soundtrack – how I love thee. You are my repository of all music Good To Dance Stoopidly To™. This isn’t my favourite song on the album, but it’s pretty cool anyway.
4. Blink 182 - What’s My Age Again?
Yeah, this is when I started losing interest in Blink 182. I think it was probably the last song of theirs played on Triple J.
5. Tenacious D - Drive Thru
One of the sketches off the Tenacious D album. I prefer the songs.
6. The Fellowship of the Ring – The Uruk-Hai
Ah, my beloved Lord of the Rings soundtracks. Really, I couldn’t tell you how this one sounds, because I tend to listen to these albums on my discman while walking places.
7. Schubert - Ave Maria
I got this off a classical mix-CD. I’m really not a fan of opera. They play this song at work, at Christmas, and my Italian co-workers scoff and say this reminds them of weddings, more than anything.
8. Rob Dougan - Darkside
Um, yeah. B-side to Clubbed to Death. Not a bad song. Very groove-y.
9. Day One - Bedroom Dancing
God bless the Cruel Intentions soundtrack. I listened to it over and over on the plane to Canadia, cause my discman wouldn’t play the CD of classical music I’d burnt for myself to send me to sleep. I really like this song, actually. I tend to like lyrics-driven music.
10. Michael Nyman – The Piano (the heart asks pleasure first)
I put this on a mix-CD I gave to the Elf-boy before I went away. I still like it, though. It’s a fairly simple, elegant piece, and it stops very abruptly, which appeals to me, for some reason.
11. Tenacious D - Tribute
Hee hee! I love this song. It’s fantastic to sing along to. “Look into my eyes / and it’s easy to see / one and one make two / two and one make three / it was destinyyyyy.”
12. Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1
Eh, this doesn’t do much for me. All I can think of when I hear it is Moulin Rouge.
13. Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer – Children of the Revolution
Speaking of which! But really, I think I liked the original of this song better.
14. Incubus – I Miss You
A bit soppy, but not a bad song. Try singing along to this one, though – I dare ya!
15. Fellowship of the Ring - Lothlorien
I really have not much to say . . . except that I bow down in awe before Howard Shore.
16. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
I used to make my musically inclined friends play this for me all the time. Play my pretties, play!
17. The Return of the King - The Return of the King
I guess it’s appropriate that my playlist would keep spitting up this LotR music, just to accurately represent how obsessed I am : )
18. Faithless - Addictive
Eh. This is the drawback to compilation CDs – you find stuff you never knew you liked, but you also have lots of music that just doesn’t do anything for you.
19. David Bowie - Nature Boy
You know, I’m just weird, but I never really got into Bowie.
20. John Williams - Schindler’s List
This is such a mournful piece of music. I don’t really expect it to be anything else, but it still surprises me how well music can express emotion, especially without words (hey, words are my tools. To express yourself eloquently without them is something I will always admire).
