I turned the ripe old age of 31 last week, and in a moment a reflection I thought it would be fun to create a playlist. A playlist of songs and artists that have made me who I am over these past 31 years. I applied a couple rules when creating this list.
- One song per year.
- One song per artist.
The songs are listed in rough chronological order. The order being the time in my life that either the song or artist played a significant role. Song placement in the list does not correspond to the year of my life. I couldn’t tell you what I was rocking out to at the age of two (Although I do recall rocking out to Disney’s “Mousercise” on my little Fisher-Price turntable around the age of 5 or 6. That and countless kids audiobook-type 45’s). It wasn’t easy narrowing down the plethora of song options down to 31, so song choice came down to three basic criteria, in the following order:
- The song marks a significant milestone or period in my life.
- The Artist has been of significant listening enjoyment throughout my life. Selection of a song to represent this artist could either be the song that got me interested in said artist or picked entirely at random.
- I dig the song so much that the previous two rules need not apply.
As to which songs fit which criteria, we’ll leave that part a mystery.
My original intention was to create an iTunes iMix out of this playlist, but it turns out the whole iMix feature kinda sucks. I can understand a song not being included if it’s not available for sale in the iTunes store, but songs I actually purchased on the iTunes store weren’t being included either. So I linked up whatever songs I could to Amazon’s rocking new MP3 downloads store.
If you’re interested in what I’m listening to nowadays, I suggest you check out my Last.fm profile. So without further ado…
- Pour Some Sugar On Me : Def Leppard
- Thunderstruck : AC/DC
- The Four Horsemen : Metallica
- Animal : Pearl Jam
- Digging In The Dirt : Peter Gabriel
- The Fly : U2
- Two Of Us : The Beatles
- Closer : Nine Inch Nails
- Sympathy For The Devil : The Rolling Stones
- Interstate Love Song : Stone Temple Pilots
- So What’Cha Want : The Beastie Boys
- Wish You Were Here : Pink Floyd
- Elephant Talk : King Crimson
- Dancing With The Moonlight Knight : Genesis
- Starship Trooper : Yes
- Limelight : Rush
- Bitterblue : Cat Stevens
- Misty Mountain Hop : Led Zeppelin
- Hanging Upside Down : David Byrne
- When We Were Free : Pat Metheny Group
- Song-Song : Brad Mehldau
- Still Learning How To Crawl : Daniel Lanois
- No Blues : Wes Montgomery
- Yolele : Papa Wemba
- Lie in Our Graves : Dave Matthews Band
- So What : Miles Davis
- Paranoid Android : Radiohead
- Cowgirl : Underworld
- One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces : Ben Folds Five
- I Belong To You : Lenny Kravitz
- What Light : Wilco
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