Challenges in Life

I thought that I would test out playing music in the background that I think is appropriate to words I post, so I posted to AudioBlogger and played 2 minutes worth of the theme to Rocky, but it doesn’t seem to want to allow text and the audio in the same post. I suspect that the way to get around that would be to post the audio and then write whatever I wanted in the comments.

Not a huge deal, but I thought that it might be kind of fun to share my thoughts and the music that accompanies them. Here is my iTunes library. It is incomplete, I own about 400 CDs, countless tapes and a ton of albums:

Name Artist

Fanfare For The Common Man

Aaron Copland

Dancing Queen

ABBA

Waterloo

ABBA

The Lonesome Kicker

Adam Sandler

Dream On

Aerosmith

Remember When

Alan Jackson

City Of New Orleans

Arlo Guthrie

Never My Love

The Association

Turn Up the Radio

Autograph

Rock Lobster

The B-52’s

Stayin’ Alive

Bee Gees

I Go To Extremes

Billy Joel

Human Behaviour

Björk

The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, the Eskimo)

Bob Dylan

Do You Wanna Hold Me?

Bow Wow Wow

Growin’ Up

Bruce Springsteen

My Love Will Not Let You Down

Bruce Springsteen

My City Of Ruin [Live]

Bruce Springsteen

Hungry Heart

Bruce Springsteen

Ain’t Got You

Bruce Springsteen

Tougher Then The Rest

Bruce Springsteen

All That Heaven Will Allow

Bruce Springsteen

Tunnel Of Love

Bruce Springsteen

O Fortuna [Carmina Burana]

Carl Orff

Let the River Run

Carly Simon

Danny Boy

The Celtic Tenors

Surrender

Cheap Trick

I Will Find You (From “The Last of the Mohicans”)

Clannad

Clocks

Coldplay

Keep Hope Alive

The Crystal Method

(Rock) Superstar

Cypress Hill

The Dragon’s Breath

David Arkenstone

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Deep Blue Something

Black Celebration

Depeche Mode

Summertime

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Viva Las Vegas

Elvis Presley

Without Me

Eminem

May This Be Love

Emmylou Harris

At Last (Single)

Etta James

Cry

Faith Hill

O-o-h Child

The Five Stairsteps

Do you Realize

The Flaming Lips

It Was A Very Good Year

Frank Sinatra

My Way

Frank Sinatra

Two Tribes (Carnage Mix Version)

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Serana

Gipsy Kings

Rhinestone Cowboy

Glen Campbell

If You Could Read My Mind

Gordon Lightfoot

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot

Sundown

Gordon Lightfoot

Welcome to the Jungle

Guns N’ Roses

The Planets, Op. 32: Mars, The Bringer Of War

Gustav Holst

Infernal Dance [The Firebird]

Igor Stravinsky

The Number of the Beast

Iron Maiden

Run to the Hills

Iron Maiden

Head On

The Jesus & Mary Chain

Hearts On Fire

John Cafferty

Take Me Home, Country Roads

John Denver

Boom Boom

John Lee Hooker

St. Elmos Fire (Man In Motion)

John Parr

Flower of Magherally

John Whelan and Friends

Ring Of Fire

Johnny Cash

Hurt

Johnny Cash

Conviction Of The Heart

Kenny Loggins

I’m Alright

Kenny Loggins

Can We Fix It?

Kevin Browne & Paul Joyce

Picture

Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow

Our House

Madness

It Must Be Love

Madness

What’s Going On

Marvin Gaye

Maniac (DJ Promo Only Version)

Michael Sembello

Bhangra Fever

MIDIval PunditZ

King Arthur and the “Old Woman”: A Lesson in Anarcho-Syndicated Commune Living

Monty Python

Girls, Girls, Girls

Mötley Crüe

Dr. Feelgood

Mötley Crüe

Home Sweet Home

Mötley Crüe

Just Can’t Last

Natalie Merchant

America

Neil Diamond

Hot In Herre

Nelly

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

Love Train

The O’Jays

Galbi

Ofra Haza

You Can Leave Your Hat On

Original Soundtrack

Try a Little Tenderness

Otis Redding

Youth of The Nation

P.O.D.

Come Talk to Me

Peter Gabriel

Secret World

Peter Gabriel

Don’t Give Up

Peter Gabriel

Mercy Street

Peter Gabriel

1812 Overture, Op. 49 (Conclusion)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand

Primitive Radio Gods

History Repeating

Propellerheads & Miss Shirley Bassey

A Song For You

Ray Charles

It Should Have Been Me

Ray Charles

Italian and Jewish

Ray Romano

No Easy Way Out

Robert Tepper

Gonna Fly Now

The Rocky Orchestra

Mary Mary

Run-DMC

Stupid

Sarah McLachlan

Sweet Surrender

Sarah McLachlan

Angel

Sarah McLachlan

Fallen

Sarah Mclachlan

Closing Time

Semisonic

Don’t You (Forget About Me)

Simple Minds

Fire on Babylon

Sinéad O’Connor

Cities in Dust (Single)

Siouxsie and The Banshees

Arabian Knights

Siouxsie and The Banshees

Face To Face (Soundtrack Version)

Siouxsie and The Banshees

I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow

The Soggy Bottom Boys

It’s Been Awhile

Staind

I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying

Sting

Sour Girl

Stone Temple Pilots

Mr. Roboto

Styx

Eye Of The Tiger

Survivor

Tom’s Diner

Suzanne Vega & D.N.A.

All the Things She Said

t.A.T.u.

Europa and the Pirate Twins

Thomas Dolby

I Love This Bar

Toby Keith

Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)

Toby Keith

Calling All Angels

Train

Walk On [Live]

U2

Where The Streets Have No Name

U2

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

U2

Running To Stand Still

U2

Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)

U2

Titles

Vangelis

Bittersweet Symphony

The Verve

Training Montage

Vince DiCola

6th Avenue Heartache

The Wallflowers

Love Reign O’er Me

The Who

Living In The Promise Land

Willie Nelson

Kingdom Come

World Party

Los Angeles

X

Obviously this is not a complete list, there are lots of other songs/artists/albums that are very meaningful to me. The list above contains a collection of tunes that I enjoy for various reasons. I am in the process of dropping in songs from my collection so that I can enjoy MP3 versions of all of my music, but it is quite a task and the kids seem to need my attention. 😉

Anyway, the point of this post changed and I lost my muse. I’ll have to come back to it later. Drats. Besides it is time for the midnight feeding. Tomorrow morning will be tough. Oh well.