About once every year or so, I realize that I've finally made my way through one of the $25 iTunes gift cards I've gotten for various holidays. Of course, means it's time again for that ultimate act of self-humiliation: Showing you just how lame my musical tastes are. Anyway, here's the 26 songs (I got one freebie along the way) I bought since last time I publically iTuned:
* Tori Amos, "Cornflake Girl" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (I think I prefer her cover to Nirvana's original) * Arsis Handbell Ensemble & RAM, "Aspiration for the Pure Land" (compilation single I didn't have for Arsis) * The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations" (bought for research for my handbell cover) * The Cinematic Orchestra, "To Build a Home" (my favorite song of last year) * from "Company," "Another Hundred People" and "The Little Things You Do Together" (Stephen Sondheim is so awesome) * Daniel Amos, "Shotgun Angel" (the best song from their country years) * David Bowie, "Modern Love" (the only Bowie song I really like) * Imogen Heap, "Have You Got It In You?" (heard this on XM) * Gordon Lightfoot, "Sundown" (will probably also get "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" at some point) * Kylie Minogue, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (shut up; just shut up) * Solomon Burke, "None of Us Are Free" (first heard in Chipotle, I think) * from Ocean's 12, "7-29-04 the Day of" (really just for the moving bass line and the horns first minute, but the rest of the song is cool, too) * from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, "Breakfast Machine" (who does not smile when they hear this song. who) * Philip Glass Ensemble, "Glassworks: Opening" and "Glassworks: Floe" (two of my five or so favorite Philip Glass pieces) * Raymond Scott, "Powerhouse" (trust me, even if the name is unfamiliar, you know this piece of music) * Regina Spektor, "Music Box" (bonus track that's better than about 80% of the album proper) * Still Sunrise, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (one of my favorite covers ever simply because it's a 180 of the uberdepressing original version, which I hate) * Sufjan Stevens, "Free Man in Paris" and "Ring Them Bells" (one awesome cover and one good non-album song, in that order) * Travis, "Sing" (we all know and love this song, yes?) * Gillian Welch, Black Star EP (three covers done in the lovely Gillian Welch Appalachian style)
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
