i-pod Identity Crisis

The first new playlist is finished and has done wonders for my dread mill routine. I can't wait to make another (but my i-tunes expenditure for the month is already more than it ought to be, so list #2 will have to wait for now) Thanks for all the suggestions everybody . . . anyone for a 5K?

Workout Playlist #1

Just Dance - Lady Gaga

Since You Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson

Beat It - Michael Jackson

My Life Would Suck - Kelly Clarkson

Human - The Killers

Pride - U2 (Keepin' it real, people)

Love to Hate You - Erasure

Take a Chance on Me - Abba

Single Ladies - Beyonce

A Little Respect - Erasure

A.M. Radio - Everclear

Breathless - The Corrs

Little Red Rodeo - Colin Raye

Stick Shifts and Safety Belts - Cake

I dug out my old Michael Jackson HIStory discs and the kids went wild for them. Michael is a little floored that I even own them. MJ he's okay with, but my old Erasure stuff he can't handle. On the fence about Abba.

I've started thinking that our trusty i-pod is probably having some sort of an identity crisis. I doubt you could find a more eclectic collection of music on any other hard drive currently in existence. Michael's tunes are all old-school. Peter, Paul and Mary, CCR, Beatles along with his classical stuff; Rachmaninoff, Dvorjak, Janos Starker, Shostakovich, etc. I don't think those artists would be very happy to share space with the music from my techno-pop phase. Probably not Van Halen either. Well, maybe Shostakovich and Van Halen would get along. Dean Martin is probably hiding in the recesses of the hard drive hoping neither of them find out he's there. Then again, maybe he and Sinatra are hitting on Beyonce. You never know.

Bono is likely looking for a charity case. Maybe he can help the Bare Naked Ladies work out some sort of a truce so they can all play nicely together again (I know, all good bands break up eventually . . . I'm having a hard time letting BNL go.) I'm sure Bono knows enough to keep Michael Jackson away from the Vienna Boy's Choir.

I hope they can all work out their differences and band together long enough to beat up Rod Stewart should anyone ever have the audacity to try to sneak him in. Maybe we should nominate a bouncer to keep Rod Stewart, Michael Bolton, and Toni Braxton out.

Guns N Roses?

Whoever it is, I'd have to let them know that MoTab is cool, Barry Mannilow is allowed so long as the only song he sings is "Mandy" and Raffi's getting the boot as soon as all the kids graduate elementary school.