What's on your iPod?

I just bought the Wayne's World CD for $1 at the Library. It's one of my favorite guilty pleasures - I movie I stop and watch even if it's halfway through when I find it. I know it isn't fine art or high cinema - but dang it, it's funny. Twice a year the Library has a massive used book sale - it's awesome. I got 15 books by authors like Augusten Burroughs, Anita Shreve, Frank McCourt, Wally Lamb, Jed Rubenfeld ... AND my CD for $18! I felt like a fat kid at a buffet. Seriously - it was fan-freaken-tastic. I just wished I had remembered it in advance so I could have shopped more and spent more. >: ) Anyhoo, I've been listening to that CD on my iPod for the past week - I love it. Songs like:

Bohemian Rhapsody - arguably the best song by one of the greatest bands of all time - QUEEN.

Foxy - Jimi Hendrix - my daughter Sarah's favorite from the movie and the CD - she can do the shimmying, twitching dance Dana Carvey does in the movie - cracks me up

Ballroom Blitz - Tia Carrere's version, not the original by Sweet. Still, a great song. I remember it was a challenge to learn and spit out all the words - really, you're not singing along are you?

Dream Weaver - Gary Wright - I honestly didn't remember the song until it got to the chorus. I always associate it with the soft lighting and wind machine of those scenes from Dana's imagination.

Feed my Frankenstein - Alice Cooper. Hmmm, I wonder what Alice was thinking about when he wrote this little gem? Nasty. I know only a few Cooper songs, I like them more than I should admit. An acquired taste I know.

There's a lot of great songs - some better than others. Anyway, what are you listening to? I'm up for anything.

Hell's Jukebox

Maybe this would be Hell's ipod? Is there even such a thing as a jukebox anymore? I don't know...anyway, I've had "ear worms" plague me this week. Are you familiar with the term "ear worm"? It's the songs, commercial jingles, random music that gets stuck in your head and it WON'T GO AWAY no matter what you do. You listen to stuff you like, but as soon as it ends, the ear worm creeps back. It's the song that runs in your head when you wake up at night to go pee. The muzak that follows you out of the elevator. The soundtrack to your dentist appointment - that level of annoyance or pain. Some of these you've may not have heard of, but they are songs that someone - "Hello Mrs. Chisholm! Fourth grade music teacher!" - exposed me to & have never really gotten over it. It's like musical baggage. I feel like I've ranted about this before, but whatever, it's my blog, I'll re-rant if I want to!

Here's a partial list of what plagues me:

1. Lovin' You - Minnie Ripperton. I've said it before and I'll say it again, there are sounds the human voice was never intended to make.

2. Muskrat Love - Captain & Tennille. Rodents. Sex. Squealing. Enough said.

3. Watching Scotty Grow - Bobby Goldsboro. Was everyone in the 70's this lame-tastic? Really anything by Goldsboro makes my teeth itch.

4. Jolene - Dolly Parton. For some reason I associate this song with going to catechism on Sunday mornings in my Dad's giant tan Bel Air. Nuns & Dolly Parton. Yeah. That makes sense.

5.Stewball - Peter, Paul & Mary. Thanks Mrs. Chisholm. I swear to God if I get brain cancer there will be a direct link to this song. Who makes a bunch of 4th graders sing "Old Stewball was a racehorse and I wish he were mine, he never drank water, he only drank wine..."

6. Gypsies Tramps and Thieves - Cher. Or maybe Sonny & Cher, I don't remember - all I hear is her in my head. What a God awful piece of 'art' this is.

7. I'm proud to be an American - Lee Greenwood. I swear that song makes me want to throw puppies in a wood chipper.

8. Friends are Friends Forever - Michael W. Smith. For those of us 'churchies', you know this one. Shut. Up.

9. Billie Don't Be a Hero - Paper Lace. I'm beginning to see a pattern - I hate 7's music.

10. Candy Man - Sammy Davis Jr. Ewwwwwwww.

There are tons more, but my OCD demands my list be in increments of 5's. If I add one more then I'd have to do 15. Then 20. You understand.

How about you? What makes you mental?