You can sing me anything

Another fun iTunes time waster. I saw this one on Facebook, but I'm posting it here since I know a lot fewer folks will be privy to it (hi, Heather!).

Also, I will enjoy this because it will get me off of Pandora. Everybody has been singing the praises of Pandora, but I just don't get it so far. I mean, I was hoping that they'd play some obscure stuff and I could learn about good, new music, but no. A lot of the songs are off of Greatest Hits collections, for one. Second, they play an inordinate amount of live music. I have discovered that I don't really like the recorded versions of live songs. (Exceptions include Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and that's about it for now.) I guess I never really thought about it, until I read an interview with Judd Apatow and his wife, Leslie Mann. She went off on a long tangent about how she hates live recordings and her feelings seem to have colored my listening experience. Oh, Leslie Mann! What else can you make me dislike?

Like, I thought when I created a Bruce Springsteen station that I would get a lot of songs by artists like the Gaslight Anthem, a newish band whose music everyone compares to the Boss. Instead, I'm getting "The Boxer" and "Running on Empty." Don't get me wrong, I like these songs. But I can get these songs on 105.9 The Rock. And if I don't like a song, I can just change the station. On Pandora, in order to mold the station to my likes, I have to click all of these buttons! Clicking buttons is hard.

Anyway, that's my Pandora rant. I'm not impressed.

On to the fun iTunes game!

Opening Credits:
Anything But Love--Squirrel Nut Zippers

Waking Up:
Modern Love--David Bowie

First Day at School:
You! Me! Dancing!--Los Campesinos

Falling in Love:
Marginalia II--Gilberto Gil

Losing Virginity:
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer--George Thorogood and the Destroyers (Ha, ha. It's so true!)

Fight Song:
Gotta Get Yourself Together--The Valentines

Breaking Up:
Kiss Me (Or I Will Cry)--Bare Jr.

Prom:
All My Love--American Music Club

Life:
?--Outkast (The name of the song is actually, ?)

Mental Breakdown:
I Should Care--Thelonious Monk

Driving:
Rock and Roll Is King--Electric Light Orchestra

Flashback:
I Hung My Head--Johnny Cash (Depressing!)

Getting Back Together:
Visit Me in Music City--Bobby Bare, Jr.

Wedding:
The Book of Love--The Magnetic Fields (Opening lines, "The book of love is long and boring./No one can lift the damn thing." Best lines, "The book of love has music in it, in fact that's where music comes from./Some of it is just transcendental, some of it is just really dumb./But I, I love it when you sing to me/and you, you can sing me anything."

Birth of Child:
Gloria--Them (feat. Van Morrison)

Final Battle:
Let's Go Away For Awhile--The Beach Boys

Death Scene:
Store Bought Bones--The Raconteurs

Funeral Song:
Ring of Fire--Johnny Cash (The iPod must be thinking that music at my funeral will be provided courtesy of the Villager jukebox!)


Man, do I love to waste time with the iPod games! I think this would make an excellent soundtrack to what I'm sure would be a most excellent movie about my life.

And now, back to the work.

Love ya, Megs!

--Molly

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