BY REQUEST


twm digital radio.

I swore when I started this whole blogging thing that I would not regularly succumb to the easy opportunities and abundant temptations of memes and lists and polls and quizzes and surveys and all their infectious ilk. And with one or two exceptions, I've resisted and persisted pretty well. But sometimes -- like, say, when they're about the music you're currently listening to -- they're just so darned tempting.

And if I've learned one thing along the way, it is that I find it almost impossible to resist (and so must faithfully return) the intellectual overtures of the lovely and talented writersbloc gal.

So here we go, my dear. A little ditty about what's playing on TWM Radio:

TOTAL SIZE OF MUSIC FILES ON MY COMPUTER: 40.36 GB

THE LAST CD I BOUGHT: Devils & Dust, Bruce Springsteen

SONG PLAYING RIGHT NOW IN iTUNES: Matamoras Banks, from a recording of the amazing Springsteen solo acoustic show I saw last Sunday in Cleveland.

EIGHT SONGS I LISTEN TO A LOT RIGHT NOW:

1. Best of You, Foo Fighters
2. Black Cowboys, Bruce Springsteen
3. Gone for Good, The Shins
4. The Hand That Feeds, Nine Inch Nails
5. In State, Kathleen Edwards
6. Maria's Bed, Bruce Springsteen
7. Run Baby Run, Garbage
8. Slow Drain, The Exies

EIGHT SONGS THAT EVOKE A LOT FOR ME:

1. County Fair, Bruce Springsteen
2. Don't Dream It's Over, Crowded House
3. Drift Away, Dobie Gray
4. Hidden Love, Peter Case
5. I Thought I Was a Child, Jackson Browne
6. Misguided Angel, Cowboy Junkies
7. Nightswimming, R.E.M.
8. Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen

(And to add a category of my own...)

EIGHT SONGS I JUST FEEL LIKE MENTIONING:

1. Bad Timing, Blue Rodeo
2. The Climber, Neil Finn
3. Fortunate Son, Creedence Clearwater Revival
4. Hummingbird, Wilco
5. Jesus of Suburbia, Green Day
6. Nullarbor Song, Kasey Chambers
7. Up the Junction, Squeeze
8. Windfall, Son Volt

Some of the people to whom I would want to pass this request have already received it, so I'll just stick to two: Ron, whose musical tastes are an interesting complement to mine and who still owes me another response; and Jim, who's looking for daily blogging inspiration, who just gave me a fantastic CD of new music, and whose musical tastes are as wild and rich and eclectic and brilliant as he is. My earbuds are waiting, gentlemen.

Rock on.

Posted: Wed - May 25, 2005 at 10:04 AM          

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