Musical Facts

Fact: if you put enough cheese and crush enough crackers into tomato-based soups, they all taste relatively the same.

Fact: listening to Josh Groban’s rendition of Ave Maria always makes me choke up a little, my eyes mist over, and the dreaded nostalgia creep up on me again.

Fact: I think it’s ironic that “Be OK” comes on my playlist right after Ave, but it never fails to surprise/cheer me.

Fact: If someone had been looking in my kitchen windows half an hour age, not only would they have been creepers, but they would have seen me dancing around to “Bottle it up.” With my cat. And a ladle.

Fact: I make very spastic playlists on my iPod.

Logical conclusion: I’ve lost it.

I’ve probably mentioned my bipolar musical taste before, but maybe I should really outline it for you: there is not method to my madness, except that I have absolutely no rap. Ever. I even own two country songs. Two. That’s a big number for a dedicated hater of country. (Wait, Johnny Cash should be exempt of a country label. He’s classic.) Okay, I have one country song.

Random seems to be my favorite word to live by. Rock Lobster was one of my first purchases out of the contemporary Christian genre, to be honest. I only stopped listening to it after I had it playing one day and my aunt and mother started to dance to it. That was a frightening sight, and to stop that situation from ever reoccurring, I ignored the song. (I also realized that no song should be THAT long.)

What are my top 25 most listened to? Um…we won’t cover all of them, since I apparently left my iPod looping a couple songs once, since I really don’t even know them, and yet they top my list. As I said, we’re skipping those. The next few songs are basically all of the songs from The Scarlett Pimpernel musical. I’m pretty sure that was all I listened to for an entire summer a few years ago (I still know just about every verse of every song). I think I’ve just revealed another strange obsession of mine: memorizing entire musicals. It comes naturally when you play in the pit. (It drives me crazy when the actors forget their lines. Trust me, the pit knows EVERYONE’s lines, and we could recite them at any time, any place. They need to learn one set, and they can’t even manage that.)

Next is that classic that tops Ave Maria on the sob list: She’s Always a Woman. I’m a serious sucker for Billy Joel. (Three of his other songs also top my chart.) 100 Years squeaks in just under, but I will never be ashamed of this song. Interspersed are a bunch of Sondre Lerche songs, since they are my musical blood, John Legend, Regina Spektor, and even the second section of an audio recording of “Emma.” I’m pretty sure that the list would be different if I actually listened to my iPod anymore, but now I sit at my laptop all day, so it provides my music. Sorry, iPod, but the ear-buds are painful.

Before I reveal any more strange and slightly embarrassing musical fascinations, I’m signing off for today.

Serendipity of the day: Cheese and _______. (Go ahead and fill in the blank. Unless you say “candle wax,” it’ll pretty much be amazing with cheese.)

Former musical taste: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDWTLx1Ndns
Developed taste: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diBwjtqpNMU