My liberal leaning daughter thinks I'm dorky or What's on your MP3 Player

Amazom ^ | 12/07/2008 | Me

[UB355]

I mostly listen to my MP3 player while driving during the work week . My selections are supposed to be mostly calming

My current stuff

2 Christmas albums

Enya

And Winter Came

Manheim Steamroller

Christmas 1984

Enya

Watermark

1 Celtic Women Album

A New Journey

4 Thomas Newman soundtracks

Cinderella Man, Road to Perdition, Horse Whisperer, Shawshank Redemption

1 John Grisham Audio Book The Innocent Man

1 David McCullough Audio Book 1776

Denis Miller Radio Show Podcasts About an hour and three quarter each.

December 4th, December 5th

[rabscuttle385]

Nothing wrong with your selection! I’ve got Enya’s “And Winter Came” here on iTunes and on a CD in my car’s radio.

[fhayek]

Dorky? Now why would she think that?

[stuartcr]

If you enjoy them and they are calming, then they must be the right selections.

[mojito]

Believe me, when you have a listen to what’s “cool” these days, being cool is a pathetic waste of time.

I try to listen to the least hip music I can: Currently, that’s Schumann and Brahms lieder.

[LiberConservative]

Leo Laporte, Dan Carlin, and Scientific American podcasts, jazz and loading some Christmas music today.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Well, at least you don’t have any Kenny G or Barry Manilow on there.

In that case, I would have agreed with your daughter.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Also, since you seem to like soundtracks, may I recommend “The Natural” movie soundtrack by Randy Newman? That is fantasic, probably my favorite.

[Lazamataz]

Lots of Nine Inch Nails, Three Days Grace, Crossfade, Stabbing Westward, Linkin Park, Staind, a little Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sublime....

[Lazamataz]

... and thou?

[Allegra]

For Christmas music on my iPod, I have the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Lost Christmas Eve" album, some Mannheim Steamroller and some Robert Shaw Chorale traditional songs. I have a few other classics as well.

Nothing wrong with your selection at all. Liberals don't know how to enjoy anything; they're too busy trying to be cool. ;-)

[Allegra]

Wow. I was answering this thread as you were asking me. I think we must have ESPN or something.

[Enchante]

I have no idea what any name on your list represents.... I guess I’m dorky.

[Enchante]

Since I haven’t yet made it into the iPod/MP3 generation I guess I’m really dorky! I do have a CD Walkman circa 1995 though!

[Petronski]

1. Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg
2. A large playlist called "Soundtrack," including a mix of swing and classical, which I use in my writing
3. History of Hitler's Empire, Thomas Childers, Teaching Company
4. Six Armies in Normandy, John Keegan
5. Stalingrad, Anthony Beevor
6. Feelin' Kinda Patton, Patton Oswalt
7. Son of No Respect, Rodney Dangerfield
8. 100 Greatest Orchestral Works, various

[mysterio]

John Lee Hooker, Rogue Wave, Mazzy Star / Hope Sandoval, RHCP, the Decemberists, lots of Bob Dylan, Stone Temple Pilots, Blind Melon, Coldplay, Magnetic Fields, Digable Planets, The Pharcyde, The Smiths, and Toad the Wet Sprocket. I think that’s about everything on there.

[CE2949BB]

List: Current

• Eels - Beautiful Freak
• Reaper - The Devil is Female
• Dante Alighieri - The Divine Commedia
• Neil deGrasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole
• KMFDM - Tohuvabohu

Haven't added any Christmas music, yet.

[fanfan]

We have Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and when those are done, we are listening to the audio book of Atlas Shrugged.

She’d really hate me. ;-)

[AJ504]

I've been a music collector for years. I have just about every song that hit the Top 20 from the mid-50's through the 70's loaded into iTunes.

I've waded through the 80's and 90's Top Billboard 100 over the last year to get some of the good songs. You can really see the downfall of popular music in listening to that drivel, particularly the early 90's garbage. It's loaded with mechanized drumming, Mariah-like scaling before even singing a word, foul language, etc. It's no wonder respect has gone down the tubes.

I long for the good ol' Motown days when songs had lyrics that were positive and upbeat.

Ah, the old age is showing! LOL!

[united1000]

My kids call it elevator music

[Grizzled Bear]

Megadeth - United Abominations

Check it out. It’s extremely anti-UN.

[Lazamataz]

LOLz

Now let’s see if there’s a reasonably close music match. :)

[DYngbld]

I don't really care what my kids think of my music. If they do’t like what I listen to in the car they can stay home. My kids like talk radio and i will often hear it on the radios upstairs. It brings nice discussion.

[ModelBreaker]

This is a good thing. Daughter’s are supposed to think their Dads are dorky.

[Lazamataz]

Okay, not a music match. I still hold out hope.

Tell me you like Garbage. I love them. How about Chemical Brothers?

[Grizzled Bear]

What’s on your IPOD?

[LibFreeOrDie]

I just started getting into MP3s, since a lot of the CDs I want are no longer available, even from Amazon. I can only get certain stuff now as MP3. : (

Here’s what I have so far, and these were free downloads:

The Hi-Lo’s

Jean Shepherd

Stan Freberg

[Trailerpark Badass]

Radiohead concert NPR podcast

Deerhunter - "Microcastle"

Wire - "Object 47"

A Sunny Day in Glagow - "Scribble Mural Comic Journal"

Just a couple of things I've downloaded recently.

[UB355]

I saw the audio of Atlas Shrugged on overdrive.com. How many hours of a listen is it ??

[pineybill]

What’s an MP3 player?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I”m more concerned about your liberal leaning daughter than about your choice of music.... how sad.

[fanfan]

Each segment is 7 hours, and there are 6 segments.

I read the book, but my husband couldn’t get into it, so now he’s listening to it with me, and enjoying it.

Yea!

[Little Ray]

The Old Man in the Corner and El Dorado by Baroness Orkzy.

Soon, I’m going to have “Freakanomics” and “Pimsleur’s Spanish for Beginners.”

[Lazamataz]

What’s an MP3 player?

It plays MP3's.

Hope that helps.

[Allegra]

I like the Ramones (I have the Mania album on my iPod), Smashmouth, B-52s, early REM, the Clash, a couple of Arcade Fire's songs....I like a whole lot of stuff, including classical and Broadway.

But I'm mostly sort of stuck in the 80s. ;-)

[Ammo Republic 15]

I just got through making a compilation for a Christmas get-together at my house tonight. Here’s the playlist (or rather the artist list)... mostly “dorky” Christmas music, of the Santa theme variety.

1. Frank Sinatra
2. Dean Martin
3. Andy Williams
4. Johnny Mathis
5. Ella Fitzgerald
6. Billy May
7. Tony Bennett
8. Bing Crosby
9. Kay Starr
10. Wayne Newton
11. Peggy Lee
12. Jack Jones
13. Ray Anthony
14. Ray Conniff
15. Nat King Cole
16. Edie Dorme & Steve Lawrence
17. Eddie Fisher
18. Percy Faith
19. Les Baxter

Of course, after my guest leave I’ll have to go pull out my Stones, Beatles, Led Zep, Who, Pink Floyd....hehehe.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Right now, a bunch of vintage ‘60s Brazilian jazz (Elis Regina, Tom Jobim, Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd), some marvelous Don Grusin, some Led Zeppelin, Some B-52s, a couple of great CDs from Lani Hall and Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes’ most recent two albums, some Philippe Saisse Trio...

And about three days’ worth of podcast listening! Rush 24/7, Laura Ingraham, The Onion, Science Channel, Spirit of Brazil, Podcasting Brasil, about a dozen Townhall.com podcasts, Wired Gadget Labs, Science Channel, Car Talk, Legal Lad, several Wall St. Journal podcasts, Epicurious...

Love my iPhone. 16GB, about 5/8 full.

[UB355]

I was the same as your husband, could not get into the book

[realdifferent1]

Your daughter’s right...IMHO

[autumnraine]

Celtic Women!! Hell ya!

[fanfan]

That wasn’t very nice.

Many young people start out as liberals, and then gey get mugged by reality, like the rest of us.

We weren’t all born conservatives, you know.

[rochester]

Recent broadcasts from some of the best Christian radio programming available:

Issues, Etc. (www.issuesetc.org)
Albert Mohler Show (www.albertmohler.com)
White Horse Inn (www.whitehorseinn.org)
Renewing Your Mind (www.ligonier.org)

[Smokin' Joe]

What’s an MP3 player?

[autumnraine]

Oh yeah, and when I was 20, I listened to Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies, Megadeth, Guns N Roses, etc...

Now, I couldn’t even imagine other than the occassional nostalgic tune. With age comes stress. With stress comes the weakening of ability to listen to “cool” crap.

[reagan_fanatic]

My kids call it elevator music

Kids today have no idea what real elevator music is.

When I was a kid, my Dad would put on albums with 40's and 50's show tunes, songs by Doris Day, Benny Goodman, Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby and more. On top of that, we had an FM station that played nothing but classical music 24 hours a day. We would get to hear that, too - a lot.

As a rock n roll kid, I absolutely HATED that stuff. That was TRUE elevator music.

[Morgana]

WTF is an MP3?

DUDE! I am still using a walkman!

[fanfan]

He said it is overly embellished with descriptive narration that could have been left out.
Kind of like the sentence I just wrote. ;-)

Somehow he isn’t finding that to be as offencive in the audio version, although he still comments on it.

I’d recommend trying to listen, especially if you have any kind of long commute. It’s such an important book.

:-)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Gee, I thought the goal was to raise our kids to be conservative - I did it in a very liberal area but if music is more important to you, then go put some ear plugs in and escape from reality for awhile.

[autumnraine]

In my IPOD is Enya (nice choice), every Journey and Queen song ever made, Page & Plant, Sam Cooke...

[dragonblustar]

Fire- Arthur Brown
Pump it- Blacked Eyed Peas
Electric Barberella- Duran Duran
Atom Bomb - Fluke
Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
Stayin Alive- N Trance
Just Antoher Day - Oingo Boingo
Voodoo People - Chemical Brothers
True Nature - Jane’s Addiction
You Know My Name - Chris Cornell
The One - Tracy Bonham

and just for fun....

It’s a sunshine day - The Brady Bunch Kids
A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi