Drive-Time Tunes

I hit shuffle on my iPhone and let the music play on my way home from work. Here's what I heard:

Melt with You (Carls Stop the World remix)
DJ's Got Me Groovin (Girlio)
A Complicated Song (Weird Al)
Magic Carpet Ride (Crystal Method Remix)
Give Me Your Eyes (Brandon Heath)
Step Up 2 the Floor (my own AcidPlanet remix)
Come Together (Michael Jackson)
Soul Thing (Taylor Hicks)
Some Nights (fun)
Yeah Yeah (Willy Moon)

40 Shuffled Songs on my iPod Touch

I haven't done a "40 Things" list in a while, and I thought it might be fun to fire up my iTouch and jot down the names of the first 40 songs that come up as I shuffle through my playlist.  That is, I listed all songs, tapped "Shuffle" then used the "next song" button.  I tell people that I "listen to anything," but a lot of folks don't quite understand what that really means in my world.  Let's see if I can help show what it means!

1. "Beautiful Girl (Demo)" - Michael Jackson
2. "Before He Cheats" - Carrie Underwood
3. "Dancing Machine (Single Version)" - Michael Jackson
4. "You are not alone" - Michael Jackson (I'm sensing a pattern here)
5. "I ran so far away" - Flock of Seagulls
6. "Away in a  manger" - Blaine Larsen (Yes, I still have some Christmas music on there)
7. "Dinosaurs and Rockets Theme" - Kevin Honeycutt, et al (WAHOO! That is cool!)
8. "Call Me Al" - Paul Simon (one of the funniest videos ever)
   
9. "Here for the party" - Gretchen Wilson
10. "Break My Stride" - Matthew Wilder (the epitome of one-hit wonder)
    
11. "Amarillo Sky" - Jason Aldean
12. "DJ's Got Me Groovin" - Grilio featuring Breezy (an AcidPlanet song)
13. "Boondocks" - Little Big Town (Tyler hates the "you get a line" part at the end of this one)
    
14. "Teardrops on my guitar" - Taylor Swift
15. "Winter Wonderland" - Brad Paisley
16. "We've had enough" - Michael Jackson
17. "Life is a highway" - Rascal Flatts (Excellent remake!)
    
18. "Forever & Always" - Taylor Swift
19. "Crazy Train (remix)" - Ozzy Osborne & Madonna (supposedly)
20. "It's On" - NLT (From "Jump In!" Soundtrack)
21. "Last Kiss" - Pearl Jam (One of my faves)
    
22. "Do you hear what I hear?" - Carrie Underwood
23. "Dirty Water" - Plowed Under
24. "There's your trouble" - Dixie Chicks
25. "First redneck on the internet" - Cledus T Judd
26. "Kryptonite" - 3 Doors Down (Would you still call me Superman?)
    
27. "Hoedown Throwdown" - Miley Cyrus
28. "A memory" - Hannah Blaylock & Eden's Edge (WAHOO! Arky girl goin big time these days!)
29. "In the back" - Michael Jackson
30. "Fun Time" - Bruce Willis (Yeah, THAT Bruce Willis - Die Hard, etc)
    
31. "Hard Workin Man" - Brooks & Dunn (the duo formerly known as)
    
32. "Dont stop til you get enough" - Michael Jackson
33. "She Came Down" - Kat Jimenez
    
34. "Rock me Amadeus" - Falco (I still have no idea what the German words are)
    
35. "I'm Already There" - Lonestar (Not the one with the Schwartz)
36. "Coca-Cola Theme (remix)" - Yes, the commercials remixed into a 4:30 song!
37. "Push it to the limit" - Corbin Bleu
38. "I dont think about it" - Emily Osment (Yes, even bubblegum music makes it on here)
    
39. "Time of your life" - Green Day
40. "Dream" - Miley Cyrus

 Not quite as varied as I thought it would be.  Then again, with more than 100 Michael Jackson songs alone, it is easy to see why he ended up in the list so many times.  At the time of this post, I have nearly 450 songs loaded.  I recently pared down my tunes, cutting out almost all the Christmas music and I am about to load in about 500 more songs that I want to add to the mix.  Who knows what will come up next time.

40 of my favorite songs

Okay, I realize that limiting a list of all the kinds of music I listen to down to a list of 40 is going to be difficult. But, let's see where things go...

The problem with a list like this is that I am a HUGE Michael Jackson, Weird Al, and Asia fan. So, I will only list one song from each of them to start with, but if my mind goes blank, I'll add more of their songs to the list:

1. "Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)" - Christopher Cross
   
2. "Dirty Diana" - Michael Jackson
   
3. "Fat" - Weird Al Yankovic
   
4. "Wonderful World" - Louis Armstrong
   
   
   
5. "Cleveland Rocks" - Presidents of the United States of America
   
6. "Steelers Polka" - Jimmy Psihoulis ("Jimmy Pol")
   
7. "Teenagers" - My Chemical Romance
   
   
   
8. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day
   
9. "Girls Just Wanna have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper
   
10. "Music of the Night" - Phantom of the Opera
    
11. "All Summer Long" - Kid Rock
    
    
    
12. "Cowboy" - Kid Rock
    
13. "Remember When" - Alan Jackson
    
14. "Bible Belt" - Randy Travis
    
15. "Back in Black" - AC/DC
    
    
    
16. "Flying High Again" - Ozzy Osbourne
    
17. "Paralyzer" - Finger Eleven
    
18. "Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor
    
19. "Heat of the Moment" - Asia
    
20. "The Reason" - Hoobastank
    
    
    
21. "Hanging By A Moment" - Lifehouse
    
22. "Piano Man" - Billy Joel
    
23. "Borderline" - Madonna
    
24. "You Spin Me Round" - Dead or Alive
    
25. "So Alive" - Love and Rockets
    
    
    
26. "Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N' Roses
    
27. "Livin on a Prayer" - Bon Jovi
    
28. "White Lines (Don't Do It)" - Grandmaster Flash
    
29. "Breakin... There's No Stoppin Us" - Ollie & Jerry
    
30. "You're Gonna Miss This" - Trace Adkins
    
    
    
31. "Nothin Better To Do" - LeAnn Rimes
    
32. "Fancy" - Reba McIntyre
    
33. "Endless Summer Nights" - Richard Marx
    
34. "Greased Lightning" - Grease
    
35. "I Love You Always Forever" - Donna Lewis
    
    
    
36. "My Life Would Suck Without You" - Kelly Clarkson
    
37. "One" - U2
    
38. "Heart of the Matter" - Don Henley
    
39. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
    
40. "Takin Care of Business" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
    
    
    

Okay, this was WAAAAAYYYY too hard to limit the list to just 40 songs. I may come up with a genre-based list (pop, country, rock, etc) because my mind was all over the place while making this list out.