November 15, 2010

• Which Of These Things Are The Same? And The Same? And The Same Again?

  Because I now have an iPOD, of course I got iTunes and started not only converting a bunch of CDs to the iPod but also buying and downloading songs. Now I’ve only got 839 songs in my iTunes collection, which sounds like a lot, but it really is not, after all my all time favorite song, Don McClean’s American Pie, is not even on there. How can my favorite song not be a part of my iTunes? Well, I don’t actually have the song on disc and I just haven’t gotten around to buying it yet.

  Now I’ve got a wide range of songs and artists on the iPOD. Everything from Stevie Wonder and The Rolling Stones to Frank Sinatra and System of a Down (not a duet, but it would be funny as hell if it was) from Outkast to the Violent Femmes, from Billy Joel to Pantera, from Bobby Darin to Jay-Z. One thing I’ve noticed is how many damn songs share the same or similar titles, regardless of genre.  Honestly, the redundancy is ridiculous. Rigoddamndiculous! I never realized just how many there are. For example:

  • American Girl by Tom Petty not to be confused with American Boy by Estelle, not to be confused with American Idiot by Green Day. Fuck, its enough to make this American boy feel like an American idiot.
  • B.O.B. by Outkast which is totally different from B.Y.O.B. by System of a Down. Hmmm………..I wonder if I can make like 2005 and mash up these two songs.
  • What is the best? Well, how about Best I Can by Queensryche, Best of Me by Far Too Jones or Best of You by the Foo Fighters. No matter how you slice it, it is the best of something. 
  • How about Blinded by Third Eye Blind which is what happens to a Blind Man by Aereosmith. Suck to be him.
  • I certainly hope you like to boogie, because there is John Lee Hooker’s Boogie Chillin’, Boogie Man by Aerosmith and Boogie Nights by Heat Wave. And yet, no songs about boogers.
  • If one Boom! is enough for you than you can thank System of a Down. Maybe you want more, like Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas. Or maybe that is too much boom, if so than you want Boom Boom by John Lee Hooker.
  • Everybody likes to come, which is good because we have Come Go With Me by The Del Vikings, Come Monday by Jimmy Buffett, Come Together by Aerosmith/The Beatles and Coming Clean by Green Day.
  • You know what is really Crazy? Crazy Aerosmith, Crazy by Gnarls Barkley and Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen.
  • I can list all nine of the songs with Don’t in the title, but I don’t want to.
  • Are you down with this? Down by 311, Down on the Corner by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Down Rodeo by Rage Against the Machine, Down with the Sickness by Disturbed and Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me by Elton John.

  Fuck, I need to stop. Shit, I’m only down to the letter D, I haven’t even gotten down to the words people, revolution, rock or run. And think, this is only a sampling of 839 songs.

  Oh, and I realize I should have put all of the song titles in italics, but fuck, there are a lot of song titles and I’m lazy!

  • 10:03 pm
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