What songs do you believe everyone should have on their iPod?
Are there songs you think everyone should add to their playlist? What are they, and why?
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Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Paranoid Android – Radiohead
Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
Happiness Is A Warm Gun – The Beatles
Fortunate Son – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Believe – The Chemical Brothers
I suppose that’s a start to my list, at least. Granted, that’s likely to change within the next few days, but those are my “classics”, I guess.
I would never proscribe music for everyone; everyone should have whatever they like on their iPod.
@dverhey Nice ones.
Rain—Breaking Benajmin.
Man Of Constant Sorrow—The Soggy Bottom Boys.
Hot Blooded—Foreigner.
Carry On Wayward Son—Kansas.
And I agree with @janbb.
Born in the USA – Bruce Springsteen
Papa Was a Rollin Stone – Temptations
Tears in Heaven – Eric Clapton
Purple Rain – Prince
Billie Jean – Michael Jackson (or Thriller album)
Whats Going On – Marvin Gaye
Anything by Tina Turner
Desolation Row – Bob Dylan
Suite Judy Blue Eyes – CSN
Good Vibrations – Beach Boys
The Kyrie from Mozart’s Introitus Requiem
(or, in other words, I agree with @janbb)
“Rest in Pieces” by Misanthrope.
Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Holy Diver – Dio
Fade to Black – Metallica
Wings of a Butterfly – HIM
Tides of Time – Epica
Planet Hell – Nightwish
Come As You Are – Nirvana
Morphine Child – Savatage
Hard Rock Hallelujah – Lordi
Forsaken – Dream Theatre
Les Paul and Mary Ford – How High the Moon
Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit
Duke Ellington – It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing
Yes – Roundabout
Mozart – Symphony 40 in G min KV 550
Motorhead – Ace of Spades
The Kinks – You Really Got Me
Animal Collective – Brother Sport
Funkadelic – One Nation Under a Groove
The Beatles – A Day in The Life
Nirvana – Heart-shaped Box
The Smiths – How Soon Is Now?
The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
These songs/pieces are, in my mind, all iconic, either for their production value, or emblematic of their time periods, or just the flowering of genius. Each one of these songs struck many people as awesome achievements when they first heard them, no matter if they were alive at the time or not.
Everyone must absolutely have on their iPod the songs that they like and like to listen to. That is what I believe. It may be a great song, you may think it’s a great song, everyone but me might think it’s a great song but it I don’t like it, it’s not going to be on my iPod.
Why an iPod? why not a Zen or a Zune?
not good enough for truth or cliches
I think it’s interesting that anyone has opinion of what others should have on their iPods.
@perspicacious I agree. It’s one thing to think that people should open themselves up and possibly expose themselves to all sorts of different kinds of music, but my iPod, that creates the very personal space in and between my ears. Like all of us, I have to listen to things every day that I really don’t want to hear and when I put my little ear pods in I want to listen to what I want to listen to, not what someone else thinks I should listen to. It’s my head.
I didn’t ask this so I could go out and force people to put music they might not like on their iPod. The point was to just to see what others like. Next time I will be more careful as to how I phrase the question, but please don’t worry that I have plans to lecture people about what should be on their playlist. No one so far has taken that kind of attitude, lecturing people or judging them for the music choices.
For those of you who listed some songs: Thanks! There’s a lot I’m unfamiliar with and can’t wait to check out once the kids are off to school.
@perspicacious Eh, I don’t really think of it that way. I’m just saying that if I had someone else’s iPod, and they wanted me to put music on it, those would be the first ones. I’m not trying to infringe my own musical taste on anyone.
@dverhey I simply responded to the question as asked.
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