Mom's Music

A few years ago my mom received an mp3 player as a gift, so she wrote out a list of songs and asked if I could put them on the player. So here's a list of 200 of her favorites. This is just the collection that made it onto the player. Looking at the worksheet which I created, there are some songs that didn't make it for some reason. Either they weren't online at all for me to download, or the quality was poor, or she wasn't sure of the song title or artist and I couldn't figure out exactly which song she wanted.

Also, I should point out that she adored Rod Stewart, but she had many CDs with his music so she didn't bother to have any of it put onto the mp3 player.

The list begins after the jump...

My iTunes Shuffle Baker's Dozen 3-4-12*

*Actually, these 13 songs were the first on my iPod one morning at work about 3 weeks ago. I wrote them down while I worked, but never posted them until now. If this bothers you, feel free to contact my attorneys.

I Might Have Been Queen - Tina Turner
Looking Through My Window - The Mamas & the Papas
Coloured Bedspread - Annie Lennox (I think this turned out to be my favorite from "Songs of Mass Destruction")
Don't Make Me Dream About You - Chris Isaak (I bought the album for this song, really, and because he was hot in the video, which came out before "Wicked Game")
Hey Boy - Mark Ronson & The Business Intl (feat. Rose Elinor Dougall/Theophilus London)
I Miss You - Incubus
The Other Side of the World - Chaka Khan
Sunday Morning (Questlove Remix) - Maroon 5
Sold on Love - Frankie Knuckles (feat. Lisa Michaelis)
Right in the Middle (Of Falling In Love) - Bettye Lavette
Candy Everybody Wants (live) - Michael Stipe and 10,000 Maniacs
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Annie Lennox
Transmit Your Love - Live

My iTunes Shuffle Baker's Dozen 1-9-12

I was shuffling papers in work and my iPod was shuffling songs...

Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar

Angel (7” Mix) - Gavin Friday

Thin Line Between Love and Hate - The Pretenders

Hidden Live Track - Mark Weigle

Your Love Keeps Working On Me (MK Brooklyn Mix) - Jody Watley

Private Dancer - Tina Turner

Morning Sunrise - Weldon Irvine*

Too Hot - Kool & The Gang

Did You See Me Coming? - Pet Shop Boys

Beautiful Child - Rufus Wainwright

I Should Care - Nat King Cole

Still Can’t - The Cranberries

Whatever We Imagine - James Ingram

*Technically this was a 1:18 clip of the song, as part of a mixtape compilation of summer-type songs by DJ Jazzy Jeff and Mick Boogie. It was available to download for free in 2010. I think I posted the link here at the time.

My Summer Listening Pleasure (And Maybe Yours) Part 1

I love disclaimers. In the case of the big 58-song summer playlist I've created, there are a few of them. These songs fall into at least one of these categories, sometimes more, sometimes all: they were released during the summer, they were popular during the summer, the song title and/or lyrics refer to summer, sun, heat, etc. If they don't fit these categories -- and this is a pretty big disclaimer -- to me they either sound like a summer-type song or I identify them with summer in my mind for some reason, which will be explained.

Also, the list only includes songs that are in my iTunes library. There may be other songs that are truly summer songs, but if I don't own them I didn't include them. (It's also possible that some songs not on the list but should be are in my iTunes but I somehow neglected to find it.) I am open to any and all suggestions to add to the list, but if it's not obvious from the song title why it should be included I hope you'll enlighten me as to why it's a summer song.

I'm listing them in order of the year of release (according to Wikipedia or whatever other sources I could find). Using the versions I have (a couple of extended mixes included) it's over 4 hours, 15 minutes of music, and Part One begins after the jump: