Friday, March 09, 2001

Who's in Sean's MP3 list these days (in no specific order):

  • Charlie Daniels
  • Doc Watson, Randy and Earl Scruggs (for the best banjo pickin' you'll hear, ever)
  • BeeGees
  • Cherry Poppin' Daddies
  • Sammy Davis Jr.
  • Madonna
  • Michael Jackson (seriously messed up, but a freakin' musical genius)
  • Prince (don't get me started about that name thing. Same note as Michael J.)
  • Soft Cell
  • Bill Cosby
  • George Carlin
  • Barenaked Ladies
  • Enya
  • Tom Jones, of course
  • Men of the Deep (Nova Scotia miners - if you've been to see the mines, you'll probably find this stuff quite moving)
  • various artists playing Bach
  • various artists playing Chopin
  • various artists playing Beethoven (killer 7th symphony, dude)
  • Glen Gould's renditions of Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier
  • various artists playing Debussy
  • various artists playing Mozart
  • Stevie Wonder
  • various artists playing Rachmaninoff
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio
  • Supertramp
  • Weird Al Yankovic
  • Stompin' Tom Connors, but not Tommy Hunter
  • Arrogant Worms
  • B52's
  • Herb Alpert and the Tijuanna Brass
  • James Brown, the hardest working man in music
  • John Denver and the Muppets
  • Moxy Fruvous
  • Quincy Jones
  • The Odds (and I know someone who is a friend of a relative of a guy who used to be the drummer!)
  • Beatles
  • Buddy Holly
  • Johnny Horton (if you gotta ask, you really should get out more)
  • Dean Martin
  • Doris Day
  • Elvis
  • Fine Young Cannibals
  • Ian Tyson
  • John Lee Hooker (lots of old stuff *and* that delicious duet he did with Bonnie Raitt)
  • Semisonic
  • Taj Mahal
  • The Supremes
  • The Turtles
  • Everlast
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Foofighters
  • Dandy Wharhols
  • Travelling Wilburys (but just those two good songs they did)
  • Talking Heads
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Queen
  • Sex Pistols
  • Ian Dury and the Blockheads (including my personal favorite, F*cking Ada)
  • Boomtown Rats
  • Payolas (some of their earlier stuff, when they were still a high-energy Ska band)
  • Tragically Hip (of course)
  • Matthew Good Band
  • Burton Cummings
  • Kinks
  • Clash
  • REM
  • Lenny Kravitz
  • Jesus Jones
  • Counting Crows (their songs helped me through some very dark times - thanks guys)
  • Spirit of the West
  • Black Crowes
  • Adam Ant (hailing back to a time when he was radical and cool - that's how *old* I am)
  • Aerosmith
  • Foreigner
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Annie Lennox (pre- and post-Eurythmics - what a sultry voice)
  • Grateful Dead
  • Jim Croce
  • Sarah McLachlan
  • Jan Arden
  • Billy Joel
  • Blue Rodeo
  • Alan Parson's Project
  • Eagles
  • Green Day
  • Chemical Brothers
  • Propellerheads
  • Devo, Devo, and more Devo
  • Thomas Newman (no relation to Alfred E.)
  • Moby


... and that's just MP3s - never mind the stuff I have on CD, cassette and vinyl.

So, was it what you expected? Any surprises?

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