This was a bit intentional. I knew that too much modern crap would be pimped, so I stuck a headphone in my right ear and thought to myself, "What do I, myself really want to hear first for this year?" So, I abused my tablet and my network to pull together what I knew I personally wanted to hear first.
I figure only the first 10 tracks count, so that's what I'll limit myself to historically.
(Track names are in bold, to be easier to read)
1.) Slash - Obsession (from the 1996 weirdo movie "Curdled") (Just the instrumental)
2.) The Birthday Massacre - Pins and Needles
3.) The Hush Sound - Wine Red (the tablet had a lack of content, duh, so I needed time to go searching for other good things. In spite of this, the track was on the tablet for good reason.)
3.) Rank 1 - Airwave (Sunset Remix) (Airwave is such an awesome track, regardless of form.)
4.) Slash - Obsession (may only be Slash doing some impressive things on a Spanish guitar, but it beats the pants off of Jason Drulo (sp?) and the #RockinEve playlist)
[please don't make me drag out the average replayers to counter the televised crap] [I have an mp3 player with better content]
Fine, I'll drag out the mp3 player. Dammit.
5.) Saliva - Ladies and Gentlemen
6.) Geto Boys - Damn It Feels Good To Be a Gangster (came up randomly, but it still beat the media-chosen crap)
7.) "Weird Al" Yankovic - Albuquerque (11 minutes, 23 seconds, worth every second) (intentional, not randomly hit)
8.) Overclocked Remix - Final Fantasy 6 (3 US) - Dirt Devil (look it up. It is spiffy)
9.) Shark Island - Father Time (from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Hasn't lost much value since then.)
10.) [gotta make this good...] Def Leppard (Hysteria) - Pour Some Sugar On Me (THE first track I ever heard via CD playback)
It may be a bit random (intentionally). But, when compared against the mass-media produced end-of-the-year, "this is the first thing you're going to hear this year" crap, I'd say my list slamdances on the grave of their playlist. Mass media needs to quit trying to tailor itself. When it does, it just looks that much more foolish.
Fergie, Fallout Boy, That chick that used to be Hanna Montana, Jenna [something] (that may have been a porn star at some point), of these I care not at all out of some specific (and probably small) context. Don't force me to hear that crap just after the new year changeover. You pull that crap and I'll both tune you out and hate you for it.
Random Rotation Honorable Mentions: (timestamps = when noticed and/or typed) ((Some skipping may be occurring))
01:37 Republica - Ready To Go
01:39 Amy Grant - It Takes a Little Time
01:45 Vengaboys vs ATB - Shalala Lala Ibiza Trance (Alice DeeJay Remix) [Good luck finding that track, not sure where/when I found it]
01:48 Crash Test Dummies - How Does a Duck Know? [Awesome track] [also oddly seems to be the one time-unmodified one in the bunch, since I've got a +/- 5% speed and +/- 10% speed version both in the directory]
01:53 AC/DC - Thunderstruck
01:57 t.A.T.u vs. Rammstein - Ondo I To Zhe (Long Repeat Remix) [Very good happenstance to get this track and its siblings]
02:08 Chumbawamba - Mary, Mary
02:11 Sophie B. Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down
02:13 Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around (The man (Cash) wasn't wrong...)
02:17 Pidgeonhed - Battle Flag (Lofidelity Allstars Remix)
Sleep:
I'm on record for what I permitted/required myself to listen to. If you're not on the list, you don't necessarily suck. You're just in a really fierce competition. If you were tapped by the mass-media to play something or sing something for the waving in of 2014, there's some high probability that some people missed your "contribution" entirely.
[edit] Came back and undid the coloring, which really didn't work for this blog's background, and instituted some far more simple formatting.
