Let’s Change the Subject…

How about a break from the daily drama of As the Infection Turns to something else?  Yes!  Let’s go to music instead for a while.  I have a bleg for those few of you who visit here.

I’ve become bored with the music on my iPod.  A quick check tells me that I have 2,668 songs and sound files on this thing and yet I am bored or don’t like the vast majority of them.  I’ve gone through and marked the ones I like the best as 4 or 5 stars and those are automatically included in a playlist called “My Top Rated”.  Currently it has 827 songs in it that I usually have on shuffle play.  I often skip past most of them.  Don’t get me wrong I do actually like these songs, but it’s just that I’ve heard them so many times.  Particularly stuff from The Doors and Pink Floyd and the like.  I actually don’t like much from The Doors anymore since my political viewpoint has changed so much many of their songs mostly just remind me of how and when things started to go so very wrong in this country.  Same thing for the Beatles.  I have no Beatles on my iPod whatsoever.  Don’t want any.  Eehhhh I’m going off on a tangent here.  Nevermind all that.

Back to the real point of this post – I want suggestions for new stuff.  “New” being a relative term in that it would be new to this device, and thus something that I don’t already have on CD or downloaded.  Now obviously y’all don’t know what I have and probably aren’t inclined to scroll through a 2,600 + list of titles to see them.  You don’t really need to know that to help me though.  What I want to do is start collecting favorite songs from the “One- or Few-Hit Wonders” or those songs that “Shoulda-been-hits”.  One of the things I love about iTunes is that you can often buy these for just 99 cents a pop.  Yeah yeah a lot of people hate iTunes and I don’t care about DRM or any of that other crap.  Nor do I care that I could get this stuff for “free” at IStealMusic.com or whatever.  I WANT to pay for the music that I listen to and truly enjoy and the artists should get compensation for their work.

Here are some examples of stuff I’ve already got:  Zombies – Time of the Season, Gary Neuman – Cars, B-52s –Roam, Taco – Puttin’ On the Ritz, Men Without Hats – Safety Dance, The Vogues – Five O’Clock World, Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now, Wall of Voodoo – Mexican Radio…etc.  You get the idea right?  Please pop some suggestions in the comments won’t you?  Oh and don’t forget the “shoulda beens”!  These are perhaps obscure songs by obscure-ishy bands that nonetheless had that “something”  that should have been wider in the public eye.  Or ear I guess.  Whatever.  I’ll give you a great example:  Goodnight Moon by Shiveree.  Have a listen (and a look):

I first encountered this song on one of the Kill Bill soundtracks and it was far and away one of my favorites of both of them.  I bought the original album it came from (I Oughta Give You A Shot In the Head) n hopes more like it but it was not to be. 

Again you get the idea.  I’m pretty open to most genres except cRap and most heavy/death metal stuff.  Help a fellow out won’t you?