Friday iPod Challenge, Live Edition

I saw two concerts this week, the Pet Shop Boys and the Indigo Girls.

The shared boys and girls theme is obvious.

Both members of both bands are gay.

In both cases, the audience for each was about 80 percent gay, although of a vastly different gender makeup.

All four of them dress very badly (I'm really sorry to all those who think Neal Tennant looked hot. He did not.)

I'll have reviews of both concerts at club.kingsnake on Friday sometime, so this mini-review will have to do:

Indigo Girls live = awesome
Pet Shop boys live = not really as good as their recordings but not at all bad

In the meantime, my Friday iPod challenge. Set iTunes or whatever program you use to manage your music to randomly shuffle songs, and list the first ten it gives you without editing, cheating, or gaming the system.

Here is mine:

1. Dust in the Wind - Gabriel & Dresden. I seriously adore this.
2. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths. Of course you are, Stephen. We know.
3. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets. 80s bliss.
4. Pumping (My Heart) - Patti Smith. From one of the greatest albums ever, Radio Ethiopia.
5. Fans (after "Nessun Dorma" from "Turandot") - Malcolm McLaren. My least favorite cut - in fact, I hate it - from an otherwise really weird but good album.
6. Never Stop - Echo And The Bunnymen. More 80s.
7. The Great Curve - Talking Heads. The world moves on a woman's hips. From the greatest album ever, Remain in Light.
8. I Feel Love / Johnny Remember Me - Bronski Beat And Marc Almond. So gay.
9. I'll Come Running - Brian Eno. Greatest lyrics in an obscure rock song: "I'll come running to tie your shoe."
10. Suzanne - Peter Gabriel. Brilliant and haunting cover of the Leonard Cohen classic.

Your turn!

Comments

[KT]

1. Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
2. One - Mary J. Blige & U2
3. Crying - Roy Orbison & kd lang
4. One Wing In The Fire - Trent Tomlinson
5. I Run for Life - Melissa Ethridge
6. Some People - LeAnn Rimes
7. I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan
8. Cut - Plumb
9. In Terms of Love - SHeDAISY
10. My Immortal - Evanescence

I am giving myself whiplash with all these styles ;) I don't think I could even force Indigo Girls to appear on my list ... but at least the only Melissa Etheridge song I have on my iPod appeared.

"Nessun Dorma" from "Turandot")

Probably my fave aria in the world!

[nancy]

We just had a few sopping days of rain, AND because you comment section wouldn't let me post last week, here is last weeks.

I didn't bother to scroll through all my songs looking for weather ones. I already knew I had these:
1-Like the Weather 10,000 maniacs
2-It's Raining Men the Weather Girls
3-I Can Hear the Rain Grace Jones
4-Heatwave The Jam
5-Three Little Birds Bob Marley (woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun---that's weather right?)
6- Rock Lobster-ok, not weather, but the lobster is wet right?
7- Like a Hurricane Roxy music (counts for live anyway!)

That's it for weather but if Ipods were invented a few decades ago I would have had The Who Rain on Me, but it ain't on there now...

8-Cadillac The Clash
9-The man who fell to earth Nirvana
10-Where did our love go The Supremes

[Kim Hanson]

1. La Boheme: Act 1, Puccini -- I can only listen to this when my teenagers are not home, because I am compelled to sing along.
2. Symphonie No. 15 in G Major, Mozart - I don't think I've ever listened to this.
3. Chances Are - Sheryl Crow - not my favorite from this album.
4. I. Allegro - Amersterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman and Yo-Yo Ma -- I think this was a Pottery Barn CD.
5. Please Don't Tell Her - Jason Mraz - I don't really like this.
6. Waitin for the Train to Come In - Peggy Lee --great dinner party music.
7. Que Sera, Sera, Sly and the Family Stone - Fabulous!!
8. I Believe - Michael McDonald - I could listen to his voice forever and the DVD of his live performance is even better.
9. That's the Way of the World - Earth Wind and Fire - I wish I could be in their band.
10. Slow Bombing the World - Marc Jordan - something great to listen to on Sunday Morning.

[arlo muttrie]

1.Beethoven, String quartet Op. 59, no 2. Cleveland String Quartet.
2. Duparc, L'Invitation au Voyage, Kiri te Kanawa (if you don't know the songs of Duparc--they don't get much airplay--you should really check them out. They are small masterpieces.)
3. Tico Tico No Fuba-This is from an album of Daniel Barenboim playing South American music, theoretically exploring his so-called roots.
4. Chopin, Nocturne #2 in E-flat, op. 9, no2. I particularly like the Nocturnes because they have an unusually rich harmonic language, but at the same time, I can actually play many of the damn things. The Ballades are too fucking hard.
5. Beethoven, String Quartet, op 131. Alban Berg Quartet. (getting a sense of how I feel about the Beethoven String Quartets?)
6. Aaron Copland, Piano Variations, played by Easley Blackwood. If you're expecting Rodeo or Appalachian Spring, this ain't it. The piece is much more "modern", and commensurately less listenable. I have this CD because Easley is an old friend--I have pretty much everything he's recorded. There are other pieces on the CD I like much more, like the Prokofiev Sarcasms.
7. Volver. this is an Argentine Tango, played by some anonymous band--strings, accordion, and piano. Gotta love it.
8.Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, Tuileries, Bydlo.Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano. this is not the Ravel-orchestrated thing that you're used to hearing. (nor is the ELP version you heard in the '70s.) I like it like this.
9. Easley Blackwood, Etude in G# minor from Five Concert Etudes, op. 30. My friend Easley again, playing one of the works that he wrote after his rejection of atonal music. See, there are still harmonic progressions waiting to be discovered.
10. Mellow Mood, Wes Montgomery. Not my favorite Wes, not my least favorite.