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[pat]

Just a selection of a dozen items on my i-Tunes

"Stars and Stripes Forever" the Naval Academy Band
"Callin' Baton Rouge" Garth Brooks
"Ten Years After" Led Zepplin
"Take Five" Dave Brubek
"When You're Good to Mama", Queen Latifah (from the "Chicago" soundtrack)
"Back in the U.S.S.R" The Beatles
"Canon" Pachelbel
"Tiger Rag" Preservation Hall Jazz Band
"Down to the River to Pray" Alison Krauss
"Bent" Matchbox Twenty
"Only Living Boy in New York" Simon and Garfunkel
"Water Music" Handel
"Won't Get Fooled Again" The Who

So, pick twelves pieces of music on your computer.... how diverse a selection can you make? Okay, so I know geekchick's will be stranger than anyone else's..... : >

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12 songs

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

*'ed ones are cover tunes. cover tunes rule.

I Cried for You - Billie Holiday - blues. if you don't know billie, i can't help you.

*I Want Candy - Bouncing Souls - i downloaded this looking for the original. it's better. sort of punk/ska cover with a guy singing, which makes it even better. this would be good for an APC dance.

*Head Like a Hole - Devo - the song i think is originally Nine Inch Nails. DEVO is that crazy '80's pop band that was all sciencefictioned out.

Without Me - Eminem - rap. Eminem rules.

*Tainted Love - Marilyn Manson - ah, Marilyn Manson. Industrial Goth Metal. if you don't know them, or Eminem, i will assume that you have been living under a rock. there is something deliciously *right* about MM covering this tune. *scary*. the original was by... Golden Earring? gosh, i can't remember. from the '80's. yes, i was in 8th grade at the time.

Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips - This band is amazing. see them in concert if you can. they've been together since about '82 or so. but they never hit *big*. a lot of musicians like them. you can tell that Radiohead must have been listening to them years ago. :)

In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel - emo rock. i finally found out who made this song waaaaay after they broke up (1998 - alas!). this is the song i wish to have played at my funeral.

Asleep - Mazzy Star & The Chemical Brothers - Mazzy Star does what i call sleepy rock. she always sounds really sleepy. Chemical Brothers usually do techno rave-type-stuff. great song.

*You Don't Own Me - Rasputina - ah! Rasputina! i just discovered them for myself thanks to a dear friend. they're a goth cover band. they play cello. they rule.

Love to Love - Donna Summer - the queen of Disco. her voice is stellar. even if you don't like disco, you have to at least admit *that*. besides, her moans in this tune put prince to shame.

*I Will Survive - Cake - the original was by Gloria Gaynor and is the ultimate i'm-so-happy-now-that-you're-gone-song. Cake is what i call ironic slacker rock.

Luck Be a Lady - Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - if you don't know who Frank or the Count are, i can't help you.

bonus track:
*Hungry Like the Woolf - Reel Big Fish - yes, Duran Duran, covered by a Ska Band. absolutely brilliant.

"n"
is for "music"

Re: 12 songs

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Actually, "Tainted Love" (one of the few songs from that school of early 80's synth-pop I actually like) was done by Soft Cell (I have that version on my i-Tunes : >) Golden Earring did "Radar Love".

And Donna Summer is great.. she has the sexiest voice...

Re: 12 songs

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

Of course before that it was a minor hit for Gloria Jones back in 1966. Kind of an Aretha like song.