bloodyrosemccoy | Music Sample - Cut To Save Your Friends' Page!

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?