Omg I'm Really Good At Coming Up With Titles For Blog Posts

This post is basically a wordier version of those stupid Facebook note fads that went around a year or so ago where you put your iPod on shuffle and then tell everyone on Facebook about it even though no one really cares. Now that I have my own blog with three whole followers, I have no reservations about doing it here.

1. "Gay Boyfriend" by The Hazzards. This song is ridiculous. It was an inside joke with some of my friends a couple years ago that you wouldn't know about and that I'm not interested in elaborating on. The song itself isn't too bad unless it catches you unawares. My favorite part is how obviously autotuned the whole thing is.

2. "A Modern Suite for Orchestra" by jm kohfeld. Yes, I wrote this - a long time ago. I think I was a sophomore in high school. I don't think I have to tell you that it's a 15-minute suckfest. NEXT

3. "Halo" by Beyoncé. That woman can SING, holy crap, awesome. I totally belted it out along while driving down the highway with the windows down when it came on. I loved that whole album "I Am...Sasha Fierce." I mean, regardless of who won Best Female Video at the MTV Music Awards in 2009, that album had one of the best videos of all time on it.

4. "Sehnsucht" (Longing) by Rammstein. I listened to angry German industrial music while I was an angsty high school kid. The cover to this song about sums my 15-year-old self up:

Sweet dreams.

5. "Send My Love To The Dancefloor, I'll See You In Hell" by Cobra Starship. This song is from my roommate in college, Paige. She's an asshat, I'm an asshat, so we get along extremely well. I used to call Cobra Starship "Rattlesnake Spaceship" because I'm cool and I know about synonyms. (Bonus fact: This song now has a play count of 1).

6. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" by The Beatles. EFFING LOVE THIS SONG ALSJKLAJDSLK. George Harrison plays sitar in it and it sounds so awesome. I can sing it really well, too. I swear to you, my voice and John Lennon's voice are soulmates. The song has a simple little storyline: John goes home with some rando, fails to get laid, and falls asleep in her tub. When he wakes up, he finds himself alone so he burns her house down. Moral: Arson is a justified revenge for getting blueballed.

7. "Demon Days" by the Gorillaz. Damon Albarn (the guy behind Gorillaz) is my personal hero. He makes some quality music and really knows how to collaborate - a musician's musician.

8. "Gayane: Sabre Dance" by the London Symphony Orchestra, composed by Aram Khatchaturian. Everyone knows this piece...look it up, you'll go "ohhhh, that's what that song is called...aaand...I don't care."

9. "Friend of Mine" by Lily Allen. Kind of an obscure song by her. I have every song she has released because I love her music. She has a really laid-back, chill sound while at the same time providing scathing social commentary. My kind of girl.

10. "Shushtari" by someone named Hassan Kassai. What.

11. "New Star in the Sky (Chanson Pour Solal)" by Air. The French group Air has a very characteristic ambient sound that manages to be both relaxing and creepy as hell at the same time.

12. "Blood On The Dance Floor" by Michael Jackson. I like some of MJ's stuff, but I'm not too familiar with this song. This was added to my iPod the day after he died...yeah I definitely downloaded all his music when he died because I am a tool.

13. "Not Big" by Lily Allen. Another Lily Allen piece :) This song is about her telling the world that her ex-boyfriend's dick is small because he screwed her over. Told you she was scathing.

14. "Vocalise" by Debra Richtmeyer, composed by Sergei Rachmaninov. D.R. was my saxophone teacher for three years at the University of Illinois. Her sound in this piece makes me melt like a...like...like a brain struggling to come up with a simile while writing a blog post at 3:00am. Yes, it's that good.

15. "Powwaqatsi - Train to São Paulo" by Philip Glass. Philip Glass is my favorite composer. This piece is part of an obscure indie film trilogy (Koyaanisqatsi, Powwaqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi) that you've probably never heard of.

16. "Cuz I Can" by P!nk. This song is basically P!nk shit-talking to the haters. If you like P!nk, it's hilarious and awesome. If you don't like P!nk, it will annoy the hell out of you.

17. "Stereotypes" by Blur. Blur is another Damon Albarn (Gorillaz) project from the early 90's. I came across Blur during my quest to listen to all things Albarn. 

18. "Trois Meditations blah blah long title in French" by Jean-Marie Londeix, composed by some French guy.  Londeix is my favorite classical saxophonist. This piece, however, is obnoxious; I would have skipped it if it hadn't been a minute long. I have some way better stuff by Londeix that (naturally) didn't come up.

19. "Run Fay Run" by Isaac Hayes. I have no idea why this is here. I'm pretty sure this is part of a soundtrack because it sounds like a Tarantino movie and I remember having some unlabeled Kill Bill music floating around in my iPod.

20. "The Resolution" by Jack's Mannequin. Leftover from a brief obsession with Andrew McMahon's music after I saw a documentary about him punching cancer in the face.

21. "Cajun Folk Songs II" by Frank Ticheli. I was wondering when some classical band music would creep onto this list. Unfortunately, this piece sucks and would be my last choice to represent the band music on my iPod. The original Cajun Folk Songs was waaaaay better. The Disney Rule (sequels always suck) holds true with band music.

22. "Mutter" (Mother) by Rammstein. As before, rather than saying anything meaningful about this song, I'll just leave you with a creepy image. 

23. "Prélude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2" by Sergei Rachmaninov. Classic 20th-century piano literature. Definitely tried to play this in my piano class in college, definitely ended up getting tendinitis for trying, and definitely got out of jury duty a year later because the case I got called in for had something to do with a hand injury and the attorneys dismissed any potential jurors with health problems related to the hands. Thanks, Rachmaninov, you saved me from a week of total BS.

24. "The Longships" by Enya. Gag.

25. "Sonate in Do Majeur blah blah blah i hate long titles in different languages" More mediocre classical saxophone music.

26. "Eleanor Rigby" by the Silverwood Quartet (Beatles cover). Awesome piece of music, really good instrumental cover. The strings play without vibrato to give the piece a stark sound just like in the original Beatles version - that's a smart cover, kids. I remember listening to this version endlessly a few years ago.

27. "Vampire Killer" by Michiru Yamane. Video game music from the Gameboy game Castlevania. Oh man, cool kid alert right here.

I'M DONE