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non-meme theme mix
04/08/2006 = 09:49 AM

First I thought I'd gank up the Magic iPod Meme, where you put your music player on shuffle and let it answer questions, Magic 8-Ball style, only the answers I was getting made even less sense than asking a magic 8-Ball. ("What should I do with my life?", for instance, returned the Scorpions' Bad Boys Running Wild. Something tells me that, as a fortune teller, the iPod is a great music player.)

So instead, I had a couple of $10 iTunes certificates that I won on Blingo, and I tried something new: a Stephen King-inspired mix.

1. Fred Astaire, "Cheek to Cheek" (from The Green Mile)
2. Blue Öyster Cult, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (from The Stand)
3. David Bowie, "Golden Years" (from Golden Years)
4. Crowded House, "Don't Dream, It's Over" (from The Stand)
5. ELO, "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (from Needful Things)
6. Percy Faith and his Orchestra, "Theme from A Summer Place" (from Rose Red)
7. Fountains of Wayne, "Red Dragon Tattoo" (from Kingdom Hospital)
8. Virgil Fox, "Prelude and Liebestod from 'Tristan und Isolde'" (from Apt Pupil)
9. The Ink Spots, "If I Didn't Care" (from The Shawshank Redemption)
10. Ivy, "Worry About You" (from Kingdom Hospital)
11. Ben E. King, "Stand By Me" (from Stand By Me)
12. Liberace, "I'll Be Seeing You" (from Misery)
13. Roy Orbison, "Blue Bayou" (from Dreamcatcher)
14. The Platters, "Only You (and You Alone)" (from Hearts in Atlantis)
15. Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, "Bartók's Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta (movement III)" (from The Shining)
16. The Ramones, "Pet Sematary" (from Pet Sematary)
17. The Sylvers, "Boogie Fever" (from The Stand)
18. Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime" (from Secret Window)
19. George Thorogood and the Destroyers, "Bad to the Bone" (from Christine)
20. Hank Williams, Sr., "Lovesick Blues" (from The Shawshank Redemption)

(If you're wondering how I missed AC/DC's "Who Made Who" (from Maximum Overdrive), I didn't. I have it, but from MSN, because AC/DC does not do iTunes.

Click here if you use iTunes (I'm not sure what'd happen if you don't; probably nothing at all) and want to get the songs or rate my mix.

I'm not tagging, but I highly recommend this, or something similar adjusted to your personal tastes, in terms of a fun project.

And if you've won $10 of free songs just by using a search engine to look up stuff you were going to look up anyway, it's even more fun.

Tags: meme, music, stephen king, iTunes, blingo, iPod

drinking: coffee
listening to: see above
craving: hops cheese from the ommegang brewery. oo it's so good