And I somehow have "Eyes Without a Face" stuck in my head
I sense definitional confusion.
'Destiny'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
And I somehow have "Eyes Without a Face" stuck in my head
I sense definitional confusion.
A few that haven't been mentioned yet:
Ears to the Ground - Josh Rouse
Nails in My Feet - Crowded House
Detachable Penis - King Missile
On a Neck, On a Spit - Yellow House
Looking Over My Shoulder - Elliot Smith
My Iron Lung - Radiohead
Re. Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton
Vertebrae - Christine Fellows
Wolf in the Breast - Cocteau Twins
Bad Liver & Broken Heart - Tom Waits
Priest's Knees - Destroyer
Maria's Little Elbows - Sparklehorse
Collarbone - Fujiya & Miyagi
Peacebone - Animal Collective
Red Right Ankle - The Decemberists
Rough Knuckles - Supergrass
Ribcage - Elbow
Lion's Jaws - Neko Case
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Richard Schnell
Head Over Heels - Tears for Fears
Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-Lot
More suggestions from this thread on another board: [link]
In my efforts to do more and more and more dissection of my music, I started 2 new playlists on iTunes last night based on megan's playlists.
Bodies
Cities/States/Countries
In the process, I corrected genre on several songs. (David Bowie doing Peter and the Wolf with the Philadelphia Orchestra is NOT Rock) My largest obsession remains ranking songs though, I am woefully behind in the task though, with less than a 1/4 of the songs ranked.
I can't even think of ranking. I get really good at categorizing for a while, but then put it aside and essentially have to start all over again. My work playlists at least ensure that I listen to a variety of stuff.
Msbelle, I have most of my lists (which are usually about 50-60 songs) in Word format if you want some ideas:
Summer Wages: Songs about summer
High School Musical: Songs from 1981-1985
Stickshifts and Safetybelts: Songs about cars and driving
Groundhog Day: Originals and their covers
March Madness: Songs that reference insanity
April Showers: Songs about rain or with rain in the title
May Flowers: Songs with flowers in the title
Color Me Shocked: Songs with colors in the title
Eight Days a Week: Songs with days of the weeks in the title
No Lawyers or Guns: Songs with money in the title
Rikki Don't Lose That Number: Songs with numbers in the title
A Place for My Stuff: Songs with place names in the title
A Royal Pain in the A**: Songs with royal titles in the title
Body Language: Songs with body parts in the title
Hey, Megan! Thanks for including one of our songs in the latest!
Ranking started as a way to keep track of songs I didn't like when listening to new stuff out and about on the iPod. I rank those with a 1 and then delete all the ones when I re-synch. Then I wanted a favorites playlist that auto updates, so I started one that would pull all 4&5 stars and started ranking those songs while on random play with the iPod. The it seemed logical to do something with 2 & 3. 2s are what I call cusp songs. I have that as an auto playlist also and everyso often give it a listen and decide if things move up to a 3 or get cut. 3 is the baseline for keeping a song. Some things don't get ranked like the rest: holiday music, relaxation stuff - and there are lots that do not get pulled to the favorites playlist: jazz, classical, children's, holiday.
The iTunes five-star ranking system is why God gave us five fingers....
Let's see - 0 stars are stuff I keep for completionist sake, or holiday songs, recordings of violin class, etc. 1 star means I find it "interesting." 2 stars means I like the song. 3 stars if I get an immediate, happy recognition when the song starts playing. 4 and 5 stars are my faves.
Then I get all overly-analytical about it, and think things like, "To maximize the usefulness of the ratings system, songs should be roughly evenly-distributed amongst the five possibilities (0-stars is a special case), and I only have about 700 5-star songs out of 14,000. I should take some of the best of the 4-star songs and make them 5-star."