Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Looking for some good tunes

It's so hard making a good playlist, especially when some of the music you like best is big "I" obscure indie rock that doesn't make it to an online catalog. My theme song, "Code Monkey" by Jonathan Coulton, didn't make it to the Finetune database, sigh. Nevertheless, I'm pressing on. I think I've got a good start on my playlist, though it's a perpetual work in progress. 192 tracks so far, none of which completely suck. Like I said, it doesn't contain the "best" music, but it does have more than a few good modern rock selections and even some haunting favorites of mine from older days, those that I didn't get burnt out on (even I liked Alanis Morissette once). One of the challenges is that Finetune only allows you to pick three songs from a particular artist. That sucks. Of course half my playlist would be Modest Mouse otherwise, so in some ways I guess it's a good challenge. There's some embarrassing guilty pleasures on the list, like this one from Frente!, but it's all in good fun. Still working on my choices for older, older songs, like Bob Dylan and Nina Simone, but I have to include those. Built on giants, and all of that. Right now, while writing this (it took me a few minutes to write), I'm digging "Johnny Appleseed" by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, and "Satisfaction" by Cat Power (awesome remake of the Rolling Stones classic). If you've got some good stuff you want me to check out, send me a link.

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