Music for the madness
Ah, my dear, darling, wonderful, wacky husband. On Saturday (or was it Friday?) night, in a fit of (buzzed) boredom, he decided to make a mix CD. I sat on the bed, loading music CD's into my iTunes library on my laptop, singing along and (sometimes) laughing at his song choices. Mind you, I think it's a cool mix, if rather nostalgic. Long time readers will recall that I have nothing whatsoever against nostalgia. So, for your entertainment, I bring you:
Calvin's Mix of Nostalgic Buzzy Goodness
I'm thinking Firefall and Hall and Oates take him back to Jr. High School dances.
As for iTunes, I highly recommend it as a music organization tool. It works directly with the iPod, so that's why I downloaded it and started loading up the CD's, in anticipation of receiving my new toy (some day). It tells me that, as of right this second, I have 1.5 days of listening pleasure stored on my laptop, which translates to 527 songs and 2.05 GB.
Wicked.
I especially enjoy the "Party Shuffle" feature, which chooses random songs from all of my playlists and plays them in no particular order. Once I've listened to one song, it's taken off the list, to be replaced with another random song. So, even just listening on my laptop with my headphones, sans iPod, it's still a pretty handy program.
Some albums I've loaded so far (not exhaustive):
Aerosmith - Big Ones
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
Bee Gees - Greatest Hits
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Boston - Greatest Hits
Bryan Adams - So Far So Good
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Collective Soul - Collective Soul -and- Disciplined Breakdown
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Psychadelic Furs - World Outside
Varsity Blues Soundtrack
50 Cent - The Massacre
Journey - Essential Journey
LL Cool J - The Definition
Van Halen - Best Of
K.C. and the Sunshine Band - Best Of
Simon and Garfunkel - Live in Central Park
Phil Collins - Serious Hits Live -and- Dance into the Light
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Robert Plant - Now and Zen -and- Manic Nirvana
Pink - Mizzunderstood
Metallica - Load
INXS - Live Baby Live
George Michael - Ladies and Gentlemen...
U2 - Joshua Tree
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Lenny Kravitz - 5
I haven't even scratched the surface. As Simon wrote on his bedroom door in "Love, Actually", "Music is my life!" Well, a pretty big part of it, anyway.
Calvin's Mix of Nostalgic Buzzy Goodness
- Track 1: Sunrise (trance version) Orig. Simply Red, remix Arctic Trance
- Track 2: Little Miss Dangerous - Ted Nugent
- Track 3: Heartbeat - Don Johnson (I kid you not, he's still getting way razzed for this one.)
- Track 4: She's Like the Wind (trance version) Orig. Patrick Swayze, remix Phonkillaz
- Track 5: You Spin Me Right Round (trance version) Dead or Alive
- Track 6: Baby I Love Your Way - Big Mountain
- Track 7: She's Like the Wind - original Patrick Swayze from "Dirty Dancing" soundtrack
- Track 8: Out of Touch - Hall and Oates
- Track 9: I Can't Go For That - Simply Red
- Track 10: You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers (we saw Top Gun again (for the zillionth time) recently)
- Track 11: Method of Modern Love - Hall and Oates
- Track 12: Adult Education - Hall and Oates
- Track 13: Just Remember I Love You - Firefall
- Track 14: Dance With Me - Orleans
- Track 15: Strange Way - Firefall
- Track 16: Dance With Me again, see above, "buzzed" (razz).
- Track 17: Last I've Seen of my Heart - Firefall
- Track 18: Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
I'm thinking Firefall and Hall and Oates take him back to Jr. High School dances.
As for iTunes, I highly recommend it as a music organization tool. It works directly with the iPod, so that's why I downloaded it and started loading up the CD's, in anticipation of receiving my new toy (some day). It tells me that, as of right this second, I have 1.5 days of listening pleasure stored on my laptop, which translates to 527 songs and 2.05 GB.
Wicked.
I especially enjoy the "Party Shuffle" feature, which chooses random songs from all of my playlists and plays them in no particular order. Once I've listened to one song, it's taken off the list, to be replaced with another random song. So, even just listening on my laptop with my headphones, sans iPod, it's still a pretty handy program.
Some albums I've loaded so far (not exhaustive):
Aerosmith - Big Ones
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
Bee Gees - Greatest Hits
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Boston - Greatest Hits
Bryan Adams - So Far So Good
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Collective Soul - Collective Soul -and- Disciplined Breakdown
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Psychadelic Furs - World Outside
Varsity Blues Soundtrack
50 Cent - The Massacre
Journey - Essential Journey
LL Cool J - The Definition
Van Halen - Best Of
K.C. and the Sunshine Band - Best Of
Simon and Garfunkel - Live in Central Park
Phil Collins - Serious Hits Live -and- Dance into the Light
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Robert Plant - Now and Zen -and- Manic Nirvana
Pink - Mizzunderstood
Metallica - Load
INXS - Live Baby Live
George Michael - Ladies and Gentlemen...
U2 - Joshua Tree
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Lenny Kravitz - 5
I haven't even scratched the surface. As Simon wrote on his bedroom door in "Love, Actually", "Music is my life!" Well, a pretty big part of it, anyway.
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