One for the Weirdos: Another 50-or-so Songs & Artists

[akirlu]

Largely because there seemed to be so many oddball categories and touchstones of my life that are not even hitting the board. Probably showing my age in so many ways, but there you go.

0. Favorite Warren Zevon: "Reconsider Me"
1. Favorite irresistable earworm: "Baroque Hoedown" (Main Street Electrical Parade)
2. Favorite song from a musical: "Bellman's Speech," Mike Batt's Hunting of the Snark;"Heaven Help My Heart," Chess, "Easy to Be Hard," Hair
3. Favorite song from language classes: "Die Gedanken Sind Frei," & "Sankta Lucia"
4. Favorite Cheap Trick song: "I Want You to Want Me"
5. Favorite song you couldn't escape in Jr. High: "Play That Funky Music," Wild Cherry
6. Favorite Jackson Browne song: "In the Shape of a Heart," "Soldier of Plenty," "Lawyers in Love"
7. Favorite Steeleye Span: "The Blacksmith," "Saucy Sailor," "Gaudete," "Cam Ye Oe'r Fra France"
8. Favorite Dave Edmunds: "Now & Always," "Crawling from the Wreckage," "Creature from the Black Lagoon"
9. Favorite Nick Lowe: "American Squirm," "Dose of You"
10. Favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers: "Give it Away"
11. Favorite song by Antônio Carlos Jobim: "The Girl from Ipanema"
12. Favorite Bond theme: "Live and Let Die" Paul McCartney
13. Favorite Eagles song: "Hotel California" (Live, Hell Freezes Over), "Greeks Don't Want No Freaks"
14. Favorite Tom Lehrer song: "The Elements"
15. Favorite They Might Be Giants: "Birdhouse in Your Soul," "We Want a Rock"
16. Favorite Bruce Cockburn: "Lovers in a Dangerous Time," "Anything Can Happen," "The Gift"
17. Favorite Blondie: "Call Me," "Tide is High"
18. Favorite song to hate: "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," or most other Steely Dan
19. Favorite Cat Stevens: "Oh Very Young"
20. Favorite Boiled in Lead: "Drowning," "Go! Move! Shift! (Moving On Song)"
21. Favorite Oingo Boingo: "Grey Matter," "Elevator Man"
22. Favorite Vangelis: "Albedo 0.39"
23. Favorite Mannheim Steamroller: "Classical Gas," w/Mason Williams
24. Favorite Walter Wendy Carlos: "Air on a G-String"
25. Favorite Indigo Girls - "Kid Fears"
26. Favorite Amimee Mann-"Stupid Thing," "That's Just What You Are," "Coming Up Close"
27. Favorite song from a CD-Baby find: "Soul on Fire," Jenny Bruce
28. Favorite song that was nearly impossible to acquire: "Back in the USSR," Baba Yaga
29. Favorite song from a Disney film: "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers"
30. Favorite Moody Blues: "Forever Autumn"
31. Favorite Loreena McKennit: "The Mummers' Dance" "The Bonny Swans"
32. Favorite guitar instrumental: "Actions Speak Louder," "Misirlou," "Sailor's Grave on the Prairie," "Malagueña"
33. Favorite REM: "Fall On Me"
34. Favorite Boomtown Rats: "I Don't Like Mondays"
35. Favorite Toad the Wet Sprocket: "Hold Her Down," "Crowing," "Fly From Heaven,"
36. Earliest favorite song you remember: "Zorba's Dance" (I think I was a year old at the time.)
37. Favorite Buddy Holly: "Rave On," "Every Day"
38. Favorite Linda Rondstadt: "Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me"
39. Favorite '50s novelty tune: "Martian Hop"
40. Favorite song off a children's album: "Rain, Rain, and Sun" from a musical King Arthur
41. Favorite song off an album *no one* has heard of: "Ani l'Odi" Ran & Nama
42. Favorite Bangles song: "Going Down to Liverpool"
43. Favorite David Lindley song: "You Never Knew Her"
44. Favorite Martin Stephenson & the Daintees song: "Wholly Humble Heart"
45. Favorite House of Freaks song: "Broken Bones"
46. Favorite Finn Brothers song: "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" (Split Enz), "Whispers & Moans" (Crowded House)
47. Favorite Grateful Dead song: "Don't Fear the Reaper"
48. Favorite Alan Parsons Project song: "Nothing Left to Lose"
49. Favorite Abba song: "Slipping Through My Fingers"
50. Favorite Mike Oldfield: "Five Miles Out"

And boy, is 50 a uselessly arbitrary number.

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Wow, those in-laws are pretty out there. Baby Boomers who're not familiar with "Hotel California" have gotta be pretty rare.

I do like that anti-earworm technique, tho. Seems very likely to work.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If it's a Bob Dylan song or if Bob Dylan doesn't work, you do it in the style of William Shatner.

Even when this doesn't work, it's amusing.