Monday, October 26, 2009

Monday Morning Run

The randomly shuffled playlist from my morning run, which was unfortunately indoors due to the rain:

  • You're So Vain, Carly Simon (turns out she was singing about Warren Beatty)
  • Hot Thing, Prince (awesome atonal sax squalls over drum machines)
  • The Royal Scam, Steely Dan (as cynical as ever)
  • Hurricane Eye, Paul Simon (brilliant manipulation of time signatures)
  • Born at the Right Time, Paul Simon (referencing the story of Moses)
  • Twist and Crawl, The English Beat (old-school ska at its best)
  • Life and How to Live It, R.E.M. (takes me back to my first year of teaching)
  • Rock and Roll, Led Zeppelin (excellent drum fills)
  • Sajna Ve Sajna, Sunidhi Chauhan (the wildcard in this playlist--Bollywood music from India)
  • Rock On, David Essex (early 70s pop bliss)
  • Miss You, The Rolling Stones (mix a blues harp in and disco suddenly becomes hip)

Interesting how Mick Jagger sang background vocals on the first song and then lead on the last. A nice rounded form.

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