Once you’ve been tagged… (1) Turn on your MP3 player. (2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode. (3) Write down the first 15 songs that come up–song title and artist–NO editing/cheating, please. (4) Choose some number of people (more than zero, fewer than all) to be tagged. It is generally considered to be in good taste to tag the person who tagged you. (Edit: If you’ve already done this note and had the nerve not to include me, feel free to just forward your original one my way — these things take too much work as is.)

If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about your musical tastes, or at least a random sampling thereof.

(To do this, go to “NOTES” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, enter your 15 Shuffle Songs, Click ‘Preview’ below to tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click Publish, the little blue box at the bottom of your screen).

1. Every Breath You Take – The Police
2. The Way I Am – Eminem
3. God Is A Bullet – Concrete Blonde
4. Sunday Morning – No Doubt
5. Kite – U2
6. (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
7. Hanging On Too Long – Duffy
8. No Leaf Clover – Metallica
9. Morningside – Sara Bareilles
10. Again Today/Hiding My Heart – Brandi Carlile
11. In The Meantime – Spacehog
12. Save The Last Dance For Me – The Drifters
13. Ain’t It The Life – Foo Fighters
14. Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen
15. On My Way – INXS

10 songs that sum up your weekend… or were on your weekend playlist…
Holiday tunes … Merry Christmas!

• “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
• “White Christmas” – The Drifters
• “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” – U2
• “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” – Brenda Lee
• “Little Saint Nick” – The Beach Boys
• “The Chipmunk Song” – The Chipmunks
• “Blue Christmas” – Elvis Presley
• “The Christmas Song” – Nat King Cole
• “Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy” – David Bowie and Bing Crosby
• “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” – Thurl Ravenscroft

…and one picture that relates back.

Christmas 2004 – Christine prepares Salem for Christmas morning festivities

Top 5 albums released in 2007 (in your opinion)

1. Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace – Foo Fighters
2. Little Voice – Sara Bareilles
3. Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
4. The Story – Brandi Carlisle
5. It Won’t Be Soon Before Long – Maroon 5

Open your Itunes or Windows Media or Winamp or whatever music player you use and tell me …
Your top 5 songs:

1. “DOA” – Foo Fighters
2. “Thunderstruck” – AC/DC
3. “All My Life” – Foo Fighters
4. “Best of You” – Foo Fighters
5. “End Over End” – Foo Fighters

Your most played artist: Foo Fighters
How many songs you have on your computer: 2551
The first artist listed alphabetically and the last:

• A3 with “Woke Up This Morning”
• ZZ Top with “Legs”

10 songs that sum up your weekend… or were on your weekend playlist…

• “Stranger Things Have Happened” – Foo Fighters
• “Not Falling Apart” – Maroon 5
• “Don’t Worry Baby” – The Beach Boys
• “Bubbly” – Colbie Caillat
• “How Far We’ve Come” – Matchbox Twenty
• “What Goes Around…/…Comes Around” – Justin Timberlake
• “Romeo Delight” – Van Halen
• “Bold As Love” – John Mayer
• “Back in the U.S.S.R” – The Beatles
• “Love Song” – Sara Bareilles

…and one picture that relates back

fake grapefruit

10 songs that sum up your weekend… or were on your weekend playlist…

“I’ve Got a Feeling” – The Beatles – need I say more?

Let’s go CD shopping!

Back in the day before the internet ruled the earth and people went to malls etc…
What was your favorite record store?
When I was a teenager, I always shopped at Birdland Records in Virginia Beach, VA. Great selection and great service.

Are there any non-chain stores that you still frequent for your music needs?
Not really. I only buy CD’s if they’re of a decent price (I won’t pay more than $12 if possible). Or I just put it on my Christmas wishlist for family to buy for me. Otherwise, it’s digital downloads for me (iTunes, eMusic).

What was your favorite “find” at your favorite store?
In the summer of 1989, I bought what became my favorite album by the BoDeans – Home (featuring “You Don’t Get Much”)

10 songs that sum up your weekend… or were on your weekend playlist…
An eclectic mix that randomly showed up on the pod this weekend …

“Green River” – Creedence Clearwater Revival

…and one picture that relates back.
With an excessive heat warning in the St Louis area through Friday (temps at 100 with heat indices around 110), the ice storm of 2006 seems like a distant memory.

Top 5 Nighttime songs
(songs about evening or things related to the evening)

1. “Wonderful Tonight” – Eric Clapton
   

2. “The Last Worthless Evening” – Don Henley
   

3. “Nightswimming” – R.E.M.
   

4. “Lonely Ol’ Night” – John Cougar Mellencamp
   

5. “Still the Night” – BoDeans
   

Top 5 Musical Collaborations (songs, albums) it can be a mixture of both.

1. The Traveling Wilburys
   (Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty)
   “End of the Line”
   

2. The Beatles and Billy Preston
   “Get Back”
   

3. Queen and David Bowie
   “Under Pressure”
   

4. Power Station
   (Robert Palmer, John Taylor, Andy Taylor, Tony Thompson)
   “Some Like It Hot”
   

5. John Mayer Trio
   (John Mayer, Steve Jordan, Pino Palladino)
   “Vultures”