Music to hear: December 2005 Archives

I rarely use the shuffle feature of my iPod.

I hit the shuffle recently out of curiousity since I kept noticing people posting these little top five lists on their blog. Here is what I got.

• Steady As She Goes - Li'l Cap'n Travis
• Cibavit Eos Ex Adipe Furmenti - Benedictine Monks
• No Time This Time - The Police
• Speaking of Fueled - Michelle Malone
• One Week - Barenaked Ladies

It wasn't unlistenable, I guess ...

... but it wasn't nearly as good as my favorite playlist, "Not Recent, but Good". That playlist gives me  songs rated as 4 or 5 which haven't been played in the last 30 days. That playlist rocks everytime. 

On my last trip to Wisconsin I spent some time listening to country music since the other radio stations weren't coming in as clearly. I don't listen to a lot of country music so I was surprised at how much fun it was to listen to. Consider the following example from the song "Honky Tonk Badkadonk" by Adkins Trace.

... Band shuts down at two
But we're hangin' out till three
We hate to see her go
But love to watch her leave ...

That is a fabulous piece of poetry. I can't say I understand the entire song properly, for instance the donkey kong reference flumoxes me, but that couplet I quote above is a work of art.

Even the song titles are priceless. I had never before heard the song, "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off", by Nichol Joe. How can a song with that title not be great? I tell you these cowboy hat wearing poets are geniuses. Poetry is alive and well in America.