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[bloodyrosemccoy]

gwalla keeps bugging me to give y’all a sampling of my music, and I keep trying to provide a thorough one. However, I’m starting to realize how bleedin’ impossible that is. So instead, here’s what I got from a cursory scan of the iPatch’s contents—organized, if you want to call it that, into random weird categories.

Alphabet Of Artists With A Significant Presence On The Giant Bloated Favorites List

* - Denotes the subcategory of Artists With Enough Music On The iPatch That I Could Make The Entire 8-Hour Drive To Denver Using Just Them

Swedish Bands Starting With A (ABBA; Army of Lovers; The Ark)
America*
Annie Lennox*

Basia (aka Basia Trzetrzelewska)
The Beatles*
Boz Scaggs

Cake
Cheap Trick
Cheb Mami
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Sometimes Young*

David Bowie
David Byrne/Talking Heads
Doobie Brothers*

Elton John
Elvis Presley
Eurythmics*

Fleetwood Mac

George Harrison
Gnarls Barkley
Glenn Miller Orchestra

Hinewehi Mohi
Huey Lewis & The News

Indigo Swing
Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole

James Taylor*
Artists named “John” (John Fogerty/CCR; John Lennon; Jonathan Coulton)
Jennifer Warnes

Keb’ Mo’

Los Lobos

Man or Astroman?
Mannheim Steamroller*
Marvin Gaye
Mika

Nintendo music (includes soundtracks and OC Remixes)

Ottmar Liebert

Artists named “Paul” (Paul McCartney; Paul Simon)
The Pointer Sisters

Queen

Ringo Starr
Rockapella

Scissor Sisters
Shakira

Taco
The Temptations
Tom Jones
Tom Petty*
Traveling Wilburys

No U artists, unless you count Unknown Artist

Voltaire

Walt Disney movie soundtracks

Yoko Kanno /Seatbelts

ZZ Top

My Personal One-to-Three-Hit Wonders

Billy Joel – Only the Good Die Young
Billy Idol – Don’t Need A Gun; Got To Be Your Lover; Sweet Sixteen
Des’ree – What’s Your Sign?; Fire
Dolly Parton – 9 to 5
Fluke – Absurd
The Jam – Town Called Malice; Thick as Thieves
Janice Joplin – Me and Bobby McGee
Lou Bega – Mambo #5
Mariah Carey – Dream Lover
Massive Attack – Hymn of the Big Wheel
Nitty Gritty Dirt band – Orange Blossom Special
O-ZONE – Dragostea Din Tei
Otis Redding – (Sittin’ on the) Dock of the Bay
Rednex – Cotton-Eye Joe
Smash Mouth – I’m A Believer
Southern Comfort on the Rocks – House of Bamboo
Stray Cats – Rock This Town

Songs That Make People Say, “You Have That?”
TV themes: X-Men Animated, DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Chip’n’Dale: Rescue Rangers
Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego?
Sesame Street Music
Clowns in the Sky I and II (MST3k’s host segment albums – including such hits as "Let’s Have A Patrick Swayze Christmas," "Tribute to Pants," and of course "Tubular Boobular")
Old Brown Ears is Back (Rowlf the Dog’s album)
Dexter’s main title

Soundtracks
Disney – even if I hated the movie, I generally love the soundtrack
Faux Disney – Animated movies that everyone thinks are Disney
Sin City – Lousy movie, great music
The Fifth Element
Transformers (SCORPONOK)
Lord of the Rings
Pirates of the Caribbean (THE KRAKEN)
The Road to El Dorado
Muppets
Phantom of the Opera

And now, two playlists that were specifically asked after:

The Pirate Playlist
Muppet Treasure Island soundtrack highlights
Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack highlights
Hoist the Colors (from PotC)
The Hard and the Easy (Great Big Sea’s album)
Flogging Molly – Cruel Mistress
Real McKenzies – Mainland; Cross the Ocean; Ballad of Jon Silver
Unknown OC Remix artist – Pirates of Dragon Roost Isle
The Pirate Band – Blow the Man Down
The Seadogs – Drunken Sailor
A Pirate I Was Meant To Be (from Monkey Island)
A Pirate’s Life For Me (PotC ride)

NERRRRRD
Look, you asked for it …

Jonathan Coulton – The Future Soon; Skullcrusher Mountain; Creepy Doll; Betty and Me; Mandelbrot Set; Re: Your Brains; etc.
Ellen McLain – Still Alive (Portal end credits version, so this doesn’t fall under Jonathan Coulton)
MC Frontalot – Final Boss; Forbidden Planet; etc.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 – All themes (except the KTMA one); Mighty Science Theater; Tubular Boobular; When I Held Your Brain In My Arms; etc. etc. etc.
Voltaire – The Sexy Data Tango; The USS Make Shit Up; Death Death (Devil, Devil, Evil, Evil Song); When You’re Evil
The Firm – Star Trekkin’
Star Wars Theme disco remix
Duel of the Fates techno remix
Imperial March rock remix
Both Mos Eisley Cantina songs
Theme from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Theme from The Transformers
Theme from Darkwing Duck
Theme from Ducktales
Theme from X-Men: The Animated Series
Theme from Chip’n’Dale: Rescue Rangers
OC Remix artists – remixes music from Dr. Mario, Super Mario games, Zelda games, Mega Man X, Star Fox; Donkey Kong Country, Banjo-Kazooie, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
Various actual video game songs
Tom Lehrer – The Elements; New Math; Oedipus Rex
Aknot! Wot? (remix from The Fifth Element)
Monty Python’s Galaxy Song
Various Man … Or Astro-Man songs
They Might Be Giants – Mammal; The Sun; Istanbul; etc.
Blind Guardian – Nightfall
Lake of Tears – Raistlin and the Rose
Animaniacs – Yakko’s World; Yakko’s Universe; Multiplication
Weird Al Yankovic – Ode to a Superhero; The Saga Begins; Yoda; White & Nerdy; etc.
The Seatbelts – Tank!
Steve Martin – King Tut
America – Pages
Ray Parker, Jr. – Ghostbusters
Futurama songs – Hell Bonanza; the Bureaucrat song

Well! That was fun! This isn’t all of it, of course, but if I keep going I’ll be here forever, and I’ll never get anything done.

Howbout y’all? What music do you like? See anything you’re a big old fan of?

Comments

[asqmh.livejournal.com]

... holy crap. We might be music twins. I would totally roadtrip with you and your badass playlists!

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

c-c-c-c-chip and dale, rescue rangers~


...I really like Depeche Mode and The Faint. :|

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

and on second perusal: A pirate I was meant to be, trim the sails and roam the sea!

I love that game.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

"Huh. Well. Guess the song is over, then."

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I love that song. I've got it on my iPod.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Pirate playlist needs more Alestorm. ΠR8 METALZ

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I listen to a really weird mix of pretty much everything. And by everything, I don't just mean "I listen to pop and rock!". '70s progressive rock, drum & bass, '80s new wave, turntablism, indie rock, modern classical, chipbreaks, backpacker hip-hop, microtonality, electro house, West Coast cool jazz, breakcore, and post-bop all get a lot of play.

You can get a pretty good idea of what I listen to by looking at my LastFM page, although the classical and jazz aren't as well represented as they probably should be (especially the classical).

I feel like my taste is pretty consistent. But I'd be hard pressed to sum up why.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I will check out Alestorm.

My taste feels consistent but is pretty broad--I didn't even delve into the Nuevo Latino or my love affair with the gamelan, because neither of those has a particularly stand-out artist but taken as a whole I'm all over them. And I have a real thing for Chopin and Bach, although I will argue the merits of Strauss with my sister. (Doesn't do much for me.)

But I figured I could at least point you toward some of it!

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not that big on the Romantics (although I do love Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker). I tend to prefer the Baroque and the moderns (Stravinsky, Bartok, Ives).

[gryphart.livejournal.com]

Heh, apparently your car trips sound a lot like car trips with my husband. We've seen Voltaire live twice, which was pretty awesome. And hey, a swing fan to boot!

Right now I'm pretty fond of Elizabeth and the Catapults and Kirsty MacColl, for general music, and I suspect you would be very amused by Candypants's Nerdy Boys - it always makes me giggle. I should see if I can get those Futurama songs somewhere, actually; I hadn't thought of it, but everybody loves that Robot Hell episode.

[evilcresyluna.livejournal.com]

Ookla the Mok is my penultimate nerd-tastic band. Almost nobody knows about them, but I have been known to play the Super Secret album for days on end.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

I have a few songs from them that I nabbed from some filk sample website eons ago. I love "Comforts of Home," a song about the fact that there are not bathrooms on the Enterprise.

M-m-m-multipass!

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

This is truncated and abridged:

Songs That Make People Say, “You Have That?”
T.V. Themes: Airwolf, Star Blazers, The Simpsons, Battlestar Galactica (the original series)
Alanis Moriset's Jagged Little Pill (the whole album)
Cumbawumba's Tubthumping (the whole album)

NERRRRRD
I'll see your list and raise you...

Frank Zappa's G-Spot Tornado
Carl Stalling's "Kill the Wabbit"
Raymond Scott's entire album, but definitely Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals, The Penguin, and Powerhouse
The Bukaroo Bonzai theme
Tears for Fears' Rule the World
Spike Jones' Cocktails for Two
all five Babylon 5 themes
The Monster Zero March
Doctor Steel's Make Me Fibonacci
THE STAR BLAZER'S THEME <--- Did I mention this glorious piece of music?
Brian Eno's Tie Your Shoe
Danny Elfman's Face Like a Frog
Danny Elfman's Peewee's Big Adventure theme
Ghostbusters <- the whole soundtrack, of course

And then my four favorite Movie Soundtracks:

Amelie
Triplets of Bellville
Dark City
Rob Roy

Re: M-m-m-multipass!

[willowistari.livejournal.com]

Kill the rabbit! I grew up on that one, Mom and I would sing it on the way to Kindergarten every day. :D

Re: M-m-m-multipass!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Great Scott, I didn't write the Ghostbusters theme in the NERRRRD list! *rectifies*

I do not know of this Carl Stalling, but I do remain firmly convinced that "Kill the wabbit" is the only correct chorus to "Ride of the Valkyries."

Re: M-m-m-multipass!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I forgot: I am SO GLAD I'm not the only one who's heard Aknot! Wot?

Re: M-m-m-multipass!

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

That is a really fun track.

Re: M-m-m-multipass!

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

The Bukaroo Banzai theme

[hrhleia.livejournal.com]

Love it! I see a lot of overlap with my music. I have a whole folder of TV themes, mostly from the 80s. My brother really likes pirates, so a while back I made him a mix cd. I had to shorten the list to fit, but here is the complete list in random order of

PIRATEY SONGS

Sailing for Adventure - Muppet Treasure Island
Sloop John B - Beach Boys
Yellow Submarine
Jolly Roger Party Boat - Bill Engval
Put the Lime in the Coconut
Tijuana Taxi - Herb Albert
Wipe Out
Under the Sea
Tequila
The Swordfight - Princess Bride
Boom Shakalaka - MTI
Professional Pirate - MTI
Caribbean Amphibian - Kermit and Jimmy Buffet
Dance Scene - The Mask of Zorro
By the Sea - Sweeney Todd
Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary
Star Wars Cantina
Dock of the Bay - Rockapella
Two Pina Coladas - Garth Brooks
Theme from Hook
Rufio vs Hook
Battle of Wits - Princess Bride
Dread Pirate Roberts - Princess Bride
You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two - Oliver!
Rhyming - Princess Bride
Oom-pah-pah - Oliver!
Cabin Fever - MTI
Candle on the Water - Pete's Dragon
Talk Like A Pirate Day
Orinoco Flow - Celtic Women
Theme from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Modern Major General - Pirates of Penzance
Greatest Adventure - The Hobbit
Theme from Pirates of the Caribbean

[broken-moons.livejournal.com]

My, you have a lot of music! And a lot of overlap with my own playlist, or songs that sound like I'd like them too.