Friday iPod Challenge, Don't Nag Me Edition

OK, so I'm kind of fried right now, but you guys are just the worst nags about this thing.

I love that.

How it works: Use your iPod or whatever program you have or use that can randomly generate a list of songs from your music library. The keyword here is "RANDOM." You don't get to edit, choose, manipulate, or otherwise unrandomize the results. No matter how much humiliation you feel at pasting that one hideously embarrassing Wham! song in there.

I speak as a woman with "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" on her iPod.

I stole this from Roxanne, JeffB stole it from me. It's good to spread love around. Also, post to Jeff's version and you might win an iPod.

I like to put little comments about the songs when I list them, and I wish you would too... I have found some good music that way. But if you prefer just to post your playlist, you can do that.

Here's mine for today:

1. Miss Me Blind (The Fuck Me I'm Famous Remix) - Culture Club
OK, this is hard to explain. I have no idea what "Fuck Me I'm Famous" means, if it's a DJ or what, but I see it on songs all the time.  This is a dance remix of the very beautiful 80s hit by Culture Club.

2. Tango: Maureen - The Original Cast Recording, Rent
Not quite the same as the Xena Tango, still it's pretty hot. And the movie version, even hotter.

3. Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper and Sarah McLachlan
I'm so glad this came up. This is an INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL live duet of Cyndi's 80s classic. Really stunning. You should get it.

4. You Wouldn't Know How (Dr. Octavo Infectious Radio Edit)   - Sarah Atereth
This is one of those artists the people reading my blog probably don't know, and I think you should. She does amazingly smart, beautiful, cool dance music. It's hard to explain. Go to her website and look around.

5. You're Gonna Need Your Friends - Pansy Division
This one is either really smart and snarky, or sort of pathetic, depending on my mood.

6. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
Wait, I said Pansy Division was pathetic? What was I thinking? Sample lyrics:

So for once in my life
Let me get what I want
Lord knows, it would be the first time

I have to admit, though, that I used to be a sucker for this kind of thing. But I'm way too adult for that now. That's why this is on my iPod.

7. High School Confidential - Carole Pope
The original of this song was a raunchy little tune about a high school hottie by a band called Rough Trade. The lead singer, Carole Pope, an out lesbian (I note this as it's Pride month), was asked to write a new version of this song for the Queer as Folk soundtrack, a gay boy version, and she did, and then another high school hottie does a pole dance to it. Wearing a little cowboy hat.  Yeah, ok, but the SONG is really good. And like, smutty.

8. I'm Not Dead - P!nk
I'm going to see P!nk on Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9. I'm Waiting for the Man - The Velvet Underground
Drugs are bad. Really. But this song about them is good. Classic.

10. What's Your Name? - Depeche Mode
Oh, the 80s! Depeche Mode's first very very very gay album.... it's Pride month, remember? The lyrics to this one include, "Hey, you're such a pretty boy, you're so pretty." Silly little bit of synth pop.

Your turn!

Comments

[Mara57]

Hmmmm. If a girl only has enough time to a) blow dry and style her hair or b)contribute to iPod Friday before she leaves for work, which should she do?

[Gina]

well, duh:

1) "Chain Gang," Sam Cooke
2) "The Very Thought of You," Beth Duncan
3) "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat," "Guys and Dolls" cast recording
4) "Is it still over," Randy Travis
5) "Bobby Jean," Bruce Springsteen
6) "Yours Forever Blue," Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band
7) "Blue Evening," Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
8) "Virginia Woolf," Indigo Girls
9) "Time Changes Everything," Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
10) "Dangerous Type," The Cars

[Travis]

On time this week,

1. Power of Two Indigo Girls. Proof of my lesbianic DNA ... very romantic song, IMHO.

2. Virginia Woolf Indigo Girls. More DNA proof. Live version. This song really talks about how the artists of the past connect with us in the present.

3. Lelilungelo Ngelakho Soweto Gospel Choir. I have NO idea what the lyrics of this song mean as they are in Afrikaans, but it's a great blend of African rhythms and choral harmonies.

4. Voice Mail #2 from Rent. I almost hesitate to include this in the top ten, just because it's only a segue cut on the Rent album.

5. How Can It Be Wrong When It Feels So Right. Barbara Mandrell. Classic cheating song.

6. Danny's Song. Anne Murray. Very romantic.

7. Song of the King from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Pharoah is an Elvis impersonator. Funny.

8. If My Heart Had Wings. Faith Hill.

9. Voice Mail #4 from Rent. See note above about Voice Mail #2.

10. Mr. Goldstone from Gypsy with Bette Midler. Are you surprised I've got musical theater on my iTunes? Me neither.

Travis

[KT]

1-10 ... Tango To Evora. Loreena KcKennitt. This is an awesome tune to use as background music for an unusually NOISY office on this Friday am.

What has my world come to? Xena here, there and everywhere.

;)

[Gina]

TRAVIS! Look at your No. 2 and my No. 8! Same song!

[Travis]

Gina!

I know!!!! Serendipity!!!

Travis

[Melanie]

Grab my cowboy boots because I'm ready for a sexy hoedown!!

1. You're Beautiful by James Blunt...is it possible to over play and ruin this song.
2. Denver by Willie Nelson
3. The Earth Pressed Flat by 10,000 Maniacs
4. I Don't Want Wait by Paula Cole
5. She Just Happened by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
6. Tears by Guy Clark
7. All My Rowdy Friends by Hank Williams Jr.
8. Precious Things by Tori Amos
9. Honky Tonk Heroes by Waylon Jennings
10. Forca by Nelly Furtado

[Mara57]

I heard Christie's voice in my head this AM unequivocally saying I had to do my hair.... so here's my shuffle, at the end of the day:

1. Ochoa 4. (This is just a label for some salsa dance music I have in a compilation, I have no idea who or what it is.)
2. River Shule, by Twelve Girls Band
3. Dumai, Zlato by Kitka
4. Now That You Know, Christine Kane
5. Troubled Soul, by Jessie Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter
6. Lord Protect My Child, by Susan Tedeschi
7. You Don't Know Me, Ray Charles with Diana Krall
8. I Love the Nightlife, by Alicia Bridges
9. It Must Be Your Love, Etta James
10. Tango to Evora, Lorena McKennitt (no shit!)

[KT]

Love your #10, Sandra ;)