A Minor Variation

I'm one of those awful people who can listen to the same album on repeat for days.

In my defense, I do this only because I don't have a roommate to annoy with it and the cats haven't complained yet.

This confession has been brought to you by NICO Touches the Walls' Passenger album, which I discovered in the process of trying to track down the OP of [C] The Money of Soul and Possibility, which also has a pretty cool title sequence, btw. (This is the action show about economics, for those I've mentioned it to.)

Edit: Also, Molotov Jukebox's "Laid to Rest," which has brought my total number of Luck Gandor theme songs up to two. Please let me stay, please let me stay, but he's trying to get me out the door in his diplomatic way.

"Not in Nottingham" is pretty hardcore for a song from an old-school Disney musical.

Random music meme courtesy of ahumblepen:

How many songs: 1409 items.

Sort by song:
First Song: Hans Zimmer, "...to Die For"
Last Song: Cherry Poppin' Daddies, "Zoot Suit Riot"

Sort by time:
shortest song: Hank Azaria, "Homer Sings 'The Joker'" (0:21)
Longest Song: Reuben Kee, "The Man With A Reversed Edge Sword" (11:50)

Sort by artist:
First Artist: 3 Doors Down, "When I'm Gone"
Last Artist: Zappacosta, "Overload"

Sort by album:
First Album: Apoptygma Berzerk, "Burning Heretics (Gothic Version)" - The 2nd Manifesto
Last Album: Cherry Poppin' Daddies, "Zoot Suit Riot" - Zoot Suit Riot

Top Five Most Played Songs (not including repeat artists):
1) Takehito Koyasu, "Shiroi Tsuki"
2) Weiss, "Stone Roses"
3) Do As Infinity, "Rakuen"
4) Akino Arai, "Kanaete"
5) Toshihiko Sahashi, "Owarinai Yume"

First song that comes up on Shuffle:
Garth Brooks, "When You Come Back To Me Again"

Search ....
"sex", how many songs come up? 0
"death", how many songs come up? 3
"love", how many songs come up? 64
"you", how many songs come up? 123
"final", how many songs come up? 89

ahumblepen did it, and we all know what that means. Anyone who doesn't know this meme clearly hasn't been paying any attention to my LJ for very long: playlist on shuffle, 25 tracks, sans instrumentals and foreign-language songs, you guess 'em.


( La la la oooo. )

And the unguessed answers to the music meme, since if anyone were going to get them they would have by now.

( This is the song that DOESN'T END... )

I have been tagged by funwithrage's mutant retromeme. If tagged, list five songs you are currently digging on, then tag five other people.

Incidentally, funwithrage, "Rasputin" is by Boney M.

1) Kenny Chesney, "Anything But Mine"

In the midst of the music
I tell her I love her
And we both laugh
'Cause we know it isn't true
Ah, but Mary, there's a summer drawing to an end tonight
And there's so much that I long to do to you

2) Matt Nathanson, "I Saw" (preferably the live, acoustic version)

And it's amazing
The look in your eyes
Like you could save me
but you won't even try
And you tell me again
How everything will be all right

3) John Cameron Mitchell, "Wicked Little Town"

If you have no other choice
you know you can follow my voice
Through the dark turns and noise of this wicked little town

4) Apocalyptica, "Nothing Else Matters"

Cello quartet cover of the Metallica song. Unf.

5) Weiss, "Tonight"

Only if angels are here
Then demons may be as well
The inside of everyone's heart is like that, black and white and blue
Only if love is here
Then pain may be as well
Tonight this world changes
Tonight


And because Izzy did it, five books/series thereof:

1) J.D. Robb's Eve Dallas series. Every last bit of it. Slightly improbable near-future murder mysteries featuring queen bitch cop Eve and Roarke the walking orgasm. Also the setting is just fun.

2) Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series, everything that was cool about the Anita Blake series back when it was cool instead of dumb.

3) Robin McKinley's Sunshine.

4) Nora Roberts' Night Tales, because why the hell not.

5) It doesn't strictly count as a book, but I am enjoying the recent run of the X-Men comic too.


I'm feeling generous, so I tag anyone on my friendslist who wants a meme. Here you go.

And there's probably another round coming, since you guys went through so much of this one so quickly. :)

( Answers! )

I'm vaguely impressed that people got the songs from which I quoted only two lines and the song that was in Japanese. Although frankly if rlebeau hadn't gotten "Stone Roses" I'd have been disappointed.

( Cut for spam, as per normal. )

Largely inspired by annwyd's post of a very cool mp3...

I'm on the hunt for some new music, and fishing for recommendations. Particularly I'm on the lookout for lullaby-style songs. Anyone have any favorites they'd like to point me at? C'mon, you know you do. Share.

My personal contribution, to get things started, is Takehito Koyasu's "Tiny Little Song." Because.

In lieu of any actual content.

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favorite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.

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