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These are the last 20 songs I bought from iTunes for myself (as opposed to buying for one of my children), including the top six which I bought this morning:

Turn the World Around Harry Belafonte
Wake Me Up When September Ends (Live At Foxboro, MA 9/3/05) Green Day
Come and I Will Sing You (The Twelve Apostles) Great Big Sea
Circle Game Tori Amos Auditorium
Break on Through The Doors
What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round The Monkees
Rodeo: IV. Hoe-Down Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Symphony
Bye Bye Jo Dee Messina
Heads Carolina, Tails California Jo Dee Messina
Small Town Saturday Night Hal Ketchum
Someplace Far Away Hal Ketchum
Mama Knows the Highway Hal Ketchum
Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
Act II: No One Is Alone Stephen Sondheim Into the Woods
Act II, Finale: Children Will Listen Stephen Sondheim
The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful Jimmy Buffett
Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants Jimmy Buffett
Wild, Wild West The Escape Club
Walking In Memphis Marc Cohn
Zoot Suit Riot Cherry Poppin' Daddies

I am trying to find a unifying theme, other than nostalgia for early 90s country radio in a few cases. Few of them were completely new (i.e., never heard the song at all before -- the Randy Newman, Green Day, Great Big Sea, and Cherry Poppin' Daddies being the case -- in the last one, I do not count Weird Al's "Grapefruit Diet," although that was the reason I sought out the song in the first place). There was one more where I loved the song but had never heard it done by the person singing -- "Circle Game." The others were either "had heard a few times, liked a lot ("Walking in Memphis," "Turn the World Around") through really liked but had not been searching for particularly ("Break on Through" "Chansons Pour Les Petits Enfants") to loved passionately and had looked for a number of times on iTunes before to no avail ("Wild, Wild, West" -- one of the best one-hit-wonders ever, alongside "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves, which I still can't find; and "Someplace Far Away").

So, what does all of this say about me?

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[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

I am trying to find a unifying theme

I notice a lot of the titles have to do with movement - travelling in or to places, going through circles or cycles, etc.