2 posts tagged “queen”

What's your musical horoscope?  (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)  Inspired by Stephanie.

Tenement Funster by Queen
Sing Along (featuring Dave Matthews) by Blue Man Group
Carousel by Cirque du Soleil
Starlight Express Megamix by Starlight Express 1993 London Cast
Nobody's Side by Chess 2001 Danish Tour Cast
Pussy's Boogie by Pussy Tourette
Hoaxing Yourself by This American Life (this is a TAL radio show... I have them all as MP3s)
Seedy Films by Soft Cell
Beverly Hills Blues by Bobby McFerrin & Robin Williams
Don't Stop Me Now by Queen
Once In Happy Realms of Light by Jerry Springer, The Opera London Cast

I picked 11, because TAL isn't music but an hour-long radio show.  Total music tally: two Queen songs, five showtunes, and three bits of random weird stuff.  Yep, that sounds about par for the course.

This is a weird way for me to think about music, though-- I would never ever put a player on shuffle.  I used to live in a communal household that had eight adults, and nearly a thousand CDs in the player.  My housemates liked it on shuffle, but it drove me batshit because the weird musical transitions were just too jarring for me.

I never answer the question of the day, but I glanced at the screen and saw the question at the very same time that Pandora was playing the song for me, so I guess fate forced my hand.

Ironically, it also makes me sad for the music that Freddie died to young to give us, and extremely angry at the way the AIDS epidemic was handled (especially by the Reagan administration).