All music, alphabetically

[tahnan]

Listening to my music alphabetically by title has been interestingly refreshing. It's a chance to hear everything, including the things I usually skip, with no repeats (except for, you know, three different versions of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire"). And I learn all kinds of fun things, like the fact that I have five songs whose titles start with "The Ballad Of...."

Sometimes it's annoying; "Camelot (Reprise)" right after "Camelot" doesn't realy work. But sometimes you get these moments of real amusement. Like today, when "Crucifixion" from Jesus Christ Superstar was immediately followed by "Crucify" by Tori Amos, which is a great juxtaposition. And the transition from the C's into the D's was particularly bumpy, in a funny way, going from Loreena McKennitt's "Cymbeline", a slow and mournful song from Shakespeare, immediately into "Dammit, Janet".

More importantly, the grading is done. Next up: understand de dicto and de re. Again.

Comments

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's annoying; "Camelot (Reprise)" right after "Camelot" doesn't realy work.

The least intrusive way around that is to stick a space between the "(" and the "R"

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

But it'll still come alphabetically right after "Camelot".

[entropyspring.livejournal.com]

Sounds almost as good as listening to Houston's "80's" station, where I once heard Stevie Wonder and Guns'n'Roses back to back. No kidding.

(not that you care, but said station has apparently decided it has run through everything from the 80's that is worth playing and has started into the early 90's)

Also, I heard the 80's station playing on a small stereo at our community swimming pool last summer and one teenaged lifeguard asked the other what was playing. Response: "I dunno, it's on that oldies station."

[42itous.livejournal.com]

five songs whose titles start with "The Ballad Of...."

Let's see...
The Ballad of John and Yoko
The Ballad of Billy the Kid
Ballad of the Absent Mare
Ballad of a Thin Man
The Ballad of Marion Fruvous

(I own the first two; I've never heard of the others. They're just guesses.)

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

The first two are right. The other ballads are of Eddie Praeger, The Sneak (http://www.paulandstorm.com/sounds.htm), and Mary Magdalene (by Cry Cry Cry).