Music is the Victim

Today is my company's annual golf tournament. Needless to say, I don't golf. Half the office is at said tournament and if it were less busy here I'd be in a coma, so y'all get treated to 2 posts today.

At the end of Season 5 of Queer as Folk, the cast and crew were given an iPod Mini. Owen also received one as thanks for his work that season and due to the fact that I take public transit a hell of a lot more than he does I use the iPod the majority of the time. I listen on the way to work, at work and on the way home from work. Aside from our own music we've uploaded (Ben Harper, U2, Jack Johnson etc.) I've also purchased many songs on iTunes and if you thought my television choices were sad - well, read on, this is just a sample of the songs I've paid for:

• Easy/Sail On - The Commodores: Easy: he knows it sounds funny but girl, he's leaving you tomorrow. He's done all he can to make it. Begged, stole and borrowed. Sail On: He's giving you back your name. He'll be on his way, he won't be back to stay. He's looking for a good time. Aren't we all Lionel? Aren't we all?
• Too Close - Next: This song reminds me of Saturday nights at Sammy's. If nothing was going to make The Duhart comment on this damn blog, the mention of this song just might do it. Choice Lyric - "All the songs you requested, you're dancing like you're naked".
• Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot: I love this song for the way it begins, the acoustic guitar. Someone covered this song and it wasn't even half as awesome. Plus, I think Gordie circa 1977's a hottie. Choice Lyric: "I can see her lyin' back in her satin dress, in a room where you do what you don't confess".
• Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung: I hat a rat tail in the 80's. This song requires no other explanation. Choice Lyric: "Take your baby by the hand, and make her do a high head stand". What the hell does that even mean?
• Talk Dirty to Me - Poisin: This song reminds me of teenage dances in Buchans when I was in 13. Being asked to fast dance and then doing so in two parallel lines. I bet they still play this song in Buchans during teenage dances. Choice lyric - "You know I never, I never ever stay out late. You know that I can hardly wait, just to see you. And I know you cannot wait, wait to see me too".
• Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg: I have a little crush on Snoop. He's such a criminal. Choice Lyric: "I got my rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon and I roll the best weed cuz' I got it going on".
• Don't Be Cruel/My Prerogative/Every Little Step - Bobby Brown: Oh man, I had this on tape in the 8th grade. Bobby Brown before Whitney and before crack was whack.
• Whiskey Girl - Toby Keith: I think this song reminds Joanne P. of Andrea. So, it reminds me of Joanne being reminded of Andrea. Choice lyric - "so damn good looking boy it ain't even right"
• Summertime - Kenny Chesney: For all the time spent at the Stampede, I still don't consider myself a fan of country music. But I like this song and I enjoy watching people at the Stampede dressed in bikini tops under denim vests "dance" to it. Choice lyric - "it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine, it's summertime!"
• Building Bridges - Brooks & Dunn: See above. For someone who isn't a country fan I sure pick the countriest of countriest songs to download. Choice lyric - "I'm building bridges, straight to your heart. All of this distance won't keep us apart".
• This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan: Thursday nights at Loose Change Louie's. If Suz wasn't going to comment she will now. Choice Lyric: "So I reach for my 40 and I turn it up, designated driver take the keys to my truck. Hit the shore cuz I'm faded, honeys in the street say monty yo we made it".
• Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Brown: Remember Chym in the 80's in Kitchener? Before it was FM? So does this song. Choice Lyric - "People go just where they will. I never notice them until I get the feeling that it's later than it seems"
• Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart: My parents had the Rod Stewart box set. I used to think that they were perverts because of the song "Tonight's the Night" because Rod says the word virgin. I could never figure out if being a virgin was a good thing or a bad thing. That god I got that all figured out. Choice Lyric: "she sits alone waiting for suggestions, he's so nervous, avoiding all her questions. His lips are dry, her heart is gently pounding, don't you just know exactly what their thinking? Oh Rod, you sly fox.
• It's Like That - Run-DMC: Maybe I've been watching too much Run's House becuase I predict this will not be the last Run-DMC song I download. Choice Lyric - "it's like that y'all and that's the way it is"

So, what's your musical guilty pleasure?