Meme Time

Surfing through Blog Explosion blogs, I often see memes. I don't normally pick them up. But I found this one to be a bit intriguing:

1. Open up the music player on your computer (if you have one -- the music player, I mean. Clearly you have a computer, because otherwise you couldn't read this).

2. Set it to play your entire music collection.

3. Hit the "shuffle" command.

4. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That's right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It's time for total musical honesty. You can put the list in the comment thread, or write it up in your blog or Journal and then post a link in the comments.

5. I'm adding something; if you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don't have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten song with five artists, you can if you'd like.

I never talk about music here, so this should be illuminating for you guys. So here goes:

1. "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" - Simon & Garfunkel
2. "Paranoid Android" - Radiohead
3. "Honky Cat" - Elton John
4. "Where's the Orchestra?" - Billy Joel
5. "Down to the River to Pray" - Alison Krauss
6. "Gigue" from Suite No. 1 in G Major - Yo-Yo Ma/Johann Sebastian Bach
7. "What Is and What Should Never Be" - Led Zeppelin
8. "Madman Across the Water" - Bruce Hornsby (from Two Rooms album)
9. "Jerusalem Inn" - Kate Campbell
10. "Opening Doors" - Stephen Sondheim (music/lyrics), from Merrily We Roll Along, original Broadway recording

That wasn't too embarassing. And it was kind of fun. Maybe I'll do it again sometime...