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Submitted by Norm on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 5:54pm.

Running playlist

Boston-Augustana, Call Me When You're Sober-Evanescence, Days Go By-Keith Urban, Duel of Fates-John Williams, Eye of the Tiger-Survivor, Far Away-Nickelback, Footloose-Kenny Loggins, Girlfriend-Avril Lavigne, Here (In Your Arms)-Hellogoodbye, I'm Feeling You-Santana, If Everyone Cared-Nickelback, It's Not Over-Daughtry, Superman Theme-John Williams, Makes Me Wonder-Maroon 5, Nobody's Fool-Kenny Loggins, Ordinary-Train, Raiders of the Lost Ark-John Williams, This ain't a Scene it's an Arms Race-Fallout Boy, White and Nerdy-Weird Al

Yes, I am odd. I also love John Williams.

 

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"Weird Al" Yankovic: White and Nerdy

"Weird Al " Yankovic: White and Nerdy

 

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I don't have an iPod, but on

I don't have an iPod, but on my Zune is:

Mogwai, White Stripes, 30 Seconds to Mars, Explosions in the Sky, 99 Men (local), Modest Mouse, QoTSA, Silversun Pickups, NWA, Easy-E, Ice Cube, Geto Boys, Sunny Day Real Estate, Built to Spill, Three Days Grace, Wolfmother, Love As Laughter, Spacehog, Ehver Green (of course), Lambrusco (a side project of mine), Lost Prophets, and Brand New among others.

On our Ehver Green page, linked above, is a very new rough cut of 'Maybe It's My Methods' which is an Olyblog inspired tune...

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on shuffle

Shine It All Around Robert Plant And The Strange S Mighty Rearranger
See Me Feel Me The Who The Ultimate Collection [Disc 1]
Legalise Me The Pretenders Viva El Amor!
Lebanese Blonde Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy
Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads Remain in Light
All the Love in the World Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere The Who The Ultimate Collection [Disc 1]
Rock el Casbah Rachid Taha Tekitoi?
I Can't Explain The Who The Ultimate Collection [Disc 1]
List of Demands(Reparations) Saul Williams SXSW 2005 Showcasing Artist
I Can See For Miles The Who The Ultimate Collection [Disc 1]
People Keep Comin' Around Tindersticks Can Our Love...
Mighty Rearranger Robert Plant And The Strange S Mighty Rearranger
Creep Radiohead Pablo Honey
Uninhabited Man Richard Thompson Live From Austin TX
The Kids Are Alright The Who The Ultimate Collection [Disc 1]
Mysterious Ways U2 Achtung Baby
Who Are You The Who The Ultimate Collection [Disc 2]
Heavy Cloud (No Rain) Sting Ten Summoner's Tales
Meanwhile Susheela Raman Music For Crocodiles
Join Together The Who The Ultimate Collection [Disc 2]
Love Reign O'er Me The Who The Ultimate Collection [Disc 2]
Another Night In Tindersticks Curtains
Traveller Talvin Singh OK
Dub4me (Lebanon) Soap Kills Putumayo Presents: Sahara Lounge
Beautiful Day U2 The Best of 1990-2000
My Generation The Who The Ultimate Collection [Disc 1]
A Message To You Rudy The Specials Specials
Shaking the Tree Peter Gabriel Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
We Are the Champions Queen Greatest Hits
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Hmm...on my MP3 player I

Hmm...on my MP3 player I have almost 900 songs, do you really wanna know them all?

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I was thinking short list of

I was thinking short list of your favorite songs as of late, or maybe a certain playlist. Mine was just my running playlist.
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Fortunately a lot of what I

Fortunately a lot of what I added were entire albums, I don't have to list all the tracks:

M. Ward - Transistor Radio
Low - The Great Destroyer
Keren Ann - Not Going Anywhere
Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Records Recordings
Destroyer - Notorious Lightning and Other Works
Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
AK-Momo - Return to N.Y.
Mike Ladd - Negrophilia
The Books - Lost and Safe
Robbers on High Street - Tree City
Ida - Heart Like a River
The Now Sound Redesigned
Enon - Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence
Damien Jurado - Ghost of David
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic
2 discs of Maurice Ravel
2 discs of Johann Strauss
Morphine - Cure for Pain
Awesome God: a Tribute to Rich Mullins

...and tons more.

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what's an iPod?

Just kidding, couldn't live without mine. What I like about it, and the other lists here, is that it really opened up the music world for me. I am really willig to take a chance on just about any music. I might not get to it right a way, but there are times when a new song comes up on my iPod and I'm just amazed.

 

"I would make it impossible for the covetous and avaricious to utterly impoverish the poor. The rich can take care of themselves."
^@^

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what's an iPod?

No kidding. Teenagers have explained it to me, but my eyes just glaze over. Now I'll slip into Old Cranky Guy mode (especially since OlyCop has been lowering the volume the last few days. I guess it is up to me to carry the water here. It would probably be more acceptable or hip to call myself sort of a Luddite. But I'm not really. The reality is I'm just another Old Cranky Guy. OlyBlog's crazy uncle locked in the attic. I propose OlyCop be allowed to get cranky about social innovations while I get the technological ones, although they do overlap to a great degree). It amazes me how people are walking or driving while plugged into some ear machine or jabbering away on a cell phone or poking away at some keyboard in places, like coffee shops, where personal contact and human-type visiting used to take place. Remember person to person conversations? What are we becoming? The Borg? These things have an isolating influence-- a technological force field preventing us from experiencing the world we live in. Hey, gotta go. Someone just slid my tray of food under the attic door.
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We love uncle Steve

He's cranky, but we love him anyway.


When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. -C.P. Snow
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 Tom ~ Audra McDonald,

 

  • Tom ~ Audra McDonald,
  • Michele ~ The Beatles
  • Orinthology ~ Charlie Parker, Miles Davis
  • New Killer Star ~ David Bowie
  • Glitter and Be Gay ~ Renee Fleming
  • The Ladies Who Lunch ~ Elaine Stritch
  • How High the Moon ~ Ella Fitzgerald
  • Sleep ~ Eric Whitacre/the Brigham Young University Singers
  • Keep it Gay ~ The Producers
  • The Light in the Piazza ~ Kelli O'hara
  • Smile ~ Lily Allen
  • Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now ~ Hairspray
  • Defying Gravity ~ Wicked
  • What's New Pussycat ~ Tom Jones
  • Nobody Knows Me at All ~ The Weepies
  • Warrior ~ Yeah Yeah Yeah's
  • Rebel Girl ~ Bikini Kill

Just a little sampling of what is on my Ipod.  =)

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No ipod...

...but my iTunes has recently:

Je Ne Veux Pas Travailler (Edith Piaf)

L'homme a la moto (Edith Piaf)

Ich bin die fesche Lola (Marlene Dietrich)

Happiness Runs (Donovan)

Sunny Side of the Street (Ella Fitzgerald)

The Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog)

Waterloo Sunset (the Kinks)

In Spite of Ourselves (John Prine/Iris Dement)

The Last Shanty (Celtic Connection)

Sound the Pibroch (Makem and Clancy)

Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Frank Rennicke)

E Street Shuffle (Bruce Springsteen)

Steve Willoughby (Vic Chesnutt)

Stand (REM)

Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)

Gimme Back My Bullets (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Let Me Die in My Footsteps (Bob Dylan)

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Currently on my shuffle:The

Currently on my shuffle:

The Magnetic Fields, The Smiths, Travis, Kelly Clarkson, Keith Urban, The Verve, Don Mclean, The Killers, Mark Knopfler and Emmy Lou Harris, Oasis, Garbage, and lots and lots of singles by various artists.

 

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Feeling incredibly old....

 I don't recognize most of the artists that people have listed. 

 Ipod.....obviously it doesn't take 8 track tapes...hmmm

 OK....I'll try to be kinda hip.  Check out Tuck and Patti, some of the old Tower of Power, any blues or jazz artist over the age of 50, and lots and lots of Motown

Anonymously Larry No Longer Muted

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The obvious...

 

 I didn't even spell iPod correctly

Anonymously Larry No Longer Muted

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Along with Olycop's corner we need an Uncle Steve's Corner

I think we have been missing the attic dwelling recluse voice here on Olyblog.

 

"I would make it impossible for the covetous and avaricious to utterly impoverish the poor. The rich can take care of themselves."
^@^

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Toys in the attic, over the

Toys in the attic, over the rainbow, bars in the window, truly gone fishing.

They must have taken my marbles away.

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