iPod roulette
 

You and your new friend are taking a long drive to get to a concert to see a high-prestige band, like Led Zeppelin. You like this new friend, and want to impress them with your musical taste. Your new friend has strong feelings about music, and has confided that he looks down on or up to people based on their musical taste. The developing friendship may well hang in the balance. Your iPod is playing songs on random. What song are you most afraid will get played?

this question is very effeminate

What. What.

This is probably more fun if you pick a song that is actually on your iPod right now.

Sorry for the "femininity" of the question. Basically, you have a new friend who is cool but a music snob, and you want them to think you're cool.

My entire Neil Diamond collection.

with the new rules applied:

What. What.

Now why do I want them to think I'm cool?

or

What What

Tough call. I have Starship "We Built This City" in there, but I am going with Frank Stallone's "Far From Over". I think it's from Flashdance, which, technically, I never saw. Must have seen the video on MTV back in the day. :)

in the butt

i try to play music that corresponds with my friends tastes, since i like fuckin tons of shit i probably got something my friend will like on there.

afraid a random person would hear? probably chick rock which we've discussed in the guilty pleasure thread.

So the new friend is CT?

dola: Beautiful by Christina Aguilera

He'd be a good example. :)

If I'm driving with someone that is snobbish like that about their musical tastes I usually just put a brick on the gas and point towards a wall, then bail out.

Or I just piss directly on them. Or play some Bartok. Any of the above.

As for what I would be afraid would come up, oh, I guess I'd be disappointed if something the jerk liked came up. That would probably be the only thing I'd be concerned about.

Also eff musical elitists.

I wouldn't want to be friends with a person like this so the whole question loses it's meaning. The only time I'd be embarrassed by my music is if hardcore rap came on with "mixed company" present.

People aren't making my hypothetical situations fun today. :(

I dunno, I had fun with my answer.

I thuroughly enjoyed MJs response as well

This response intrigues me because I view MJ4H as a musical elitist.

Not at all. I am very much of the opinion that the music one likes is very personal. I like a lot of different kinds of music, myself and would never look down on someone or what they like. I do encourage my students who have a narrow range of tastes to expose themselves to more types of music and give it a fair chance, but I certainly don't look down on them for liking what they like (not giving music a shot at all might get a word or two from me).

FWIW - that opinion is purely formed from the American Idol threads and the pumping up of Doolittle and Archuletta and the dislike of the more "mainstream" performers.

MJ random question, since you are from Hog Country, have you ever been hoggin'?

+1

Twin power!

:D

Activate!

No, in those debates are not on different songs and/or specific artists people like, but which ones are objectively better performers. A totally unrelated subject.

Well, I took it as snobbishness towards "perfect singing" vs. "entertaining singing".

I wouldn't be afraid of anything on my MP3 player; in fact, I would use it as a test. I'd like for some metal song to come on, and the blast beats would be going and the vocalist is croaking over the music, and the guy would be like, "What the fuck is THIS?" And I'd yell, "OH, THAT'S JUST 'PAPYRUS CONTAINING THE SPELL TO PRESERVE ITS POSSESSOR AGAINST ATTACKS' BY NILE!"

From a standpoint of a musical 'snob', I'd probably say

Weird Al - Amish Paradise
Bloodhound Gang - I wish I was Queer so I could get Chicks
Adam Sandler - Ode to my Car

From a friend standpoint (and them giving you that look of, really? you have that on your Ipod?)

Probably anything in the Alanis Morissette or Sarah McLachlan folders....

I bet I win this question. I put all sorts of crap on my ipod, often when I'm drunk.

Shitty and/or loser-ish stuff I have on my ipod:

- bad hair metal by bands like LA Guns (as opposed to a huge amount of good hair metal)

- pretty much any PG-rated rap song that was popular in 1991

- one song each from Mitsou, Roch Voisine, Sophie B Hawkins, and Robbie Williams

- four songs from Les Miserables*

- about a half dozen remixes that fans have done for theme songs to old computer games. The "Gods Intro DaxxTRS Remix" is my favorite

- three or four pro wrestling theme songs (plus another three songs that I only know through pro wrestling video montages)

And that's not even counting all my daughter's kid's music and various novelty comedy songs

*Dear me: you are gay.

Piece of shit car! I got a piece of shit car! Oh that fucking pile of shit doesn't take me very far!

Most wouldn't fully appreciate the MC Hawking tracks I have on my iPod.

No, I was mostly just arguing about who was the better singer. I would never ever criticize someone's musical tastes. I might criticize their ability to critique music on a technical level, however.

Seriously, I have everything from AJ & Aly to Wham! on my ipod. You think I would even have a leg to stand on if I tried to criticize someone's taste?!

:D

Dude there ain't nothing wrong with Neil Diamond.

Fair enough - like I said, I was judging from a very limited perspective of you ;).

Wouldn't be embaressed by any of it :D

But then again I play Savage Garden in the SI offices with pride ;)

Oh yeah? Maybe this video will change your mind:

As completely random as this is, I have the soundtrack to Final Fantasy VII and the soundtrack to Eternal Sonata on my iPod (actually, on both iPods). It's always sort of difficult to explain to my friends that I do in fact have video game music on my iPod, especially something like FFVII...

/tk

I would estimate I have about 10gb of video game music on my ipod.

Honestly, there is so much stuff on my ipod that I'd be terrified of my friends hearing that I can't pick just one song or band.

I hit "shuffle" just now and got the song "Uno Zoo Di Vetro" by the 70s Italian prog rock group Semiramis, which serves as a great example of what I'm talking about...

I have the symphonic version of Ocarina of Time on my ipod, but that's it as far as video game music. My SMS alert on my mobile phone is the sound effect from Zelda 3 when you blow open a secret entrance though...

I have Barbie Girl by Aqua on my iPod......beat that.

"I Adore Mi Amore" by Color Me Badd.

Ball's in your court, Sab.

Only In My Dreams - Debbie Gibson

Your move.

Every song on my ipod I am proud to listen to. If you don't like it, get the fuck out and walk.

A+

I like that song!

I have Jessica Simpson singing Christmas Carols on mine.

You are a sad, valueless human being.

jk

ok I'm not kidding. That's terrible.

:D

Hmm...

You win this round.

What about 1-2-3 by Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine?