What a wonderful World

I was reading some of the celebrity playlists posted on iTunes when I came across BB King's. When I read this, I just thought it was very inspiring, especially to read it from an 80-something year old musician who has seen so much of the world.


"What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)": "It seems to me that everything we've talked about, at the moment, has been a personal thing to me. Now at almost 80 years old I look around and I see, like in that song 'I hear babies cry and then I think to myself what a wonderful world' because these children that are being born today, growing up today, will learn much more than I'll never know, and that's a fact. And then the way Louis sings, he didn't have a beautiful voice to some. But to me it was...that gravel voice, no one had one like it."

Inspiring.

iTunes secret messages

As I scour my billion-song iTunes for some perfect songs for my Halloween mix, I have encountered a few odd things...

When I search "Evil,"
Hannah Montana's "life's what you make it" and "Nobody's perfect" show up

When I search "Bone"
Madonna's entire "erotica" CD shows up

When I search "Die"
Aaron Carter's version of "Run rudolph run" shows up.


Hmmm...

Gwen Stefani and Pink Floyd aren't the same.

It's time to come up with some more genre-describing words. "Rock" "Alternative" and "Pop" are WAY too generic to describe music. According to my iTunes...

the following albums are "Rock":

• Gwen Stefani "The Sweet Escape"
• Aerosmith "Nine Lives"
• Alanis Morissette "Jagged Little Pill"
• The Beatles "Anthology"
• Beck "Sea Change"
• Dave Matthews Band "Crash"
• Fall Out Boy "Infinity on High"
• Jet "Shine On"

These are "pop":

• Alanis Morrisette "So-Called Chaos"
• Ashlee Simpson "Autobiography"
• The Beatles "Anthology" (a diff. disc)
• Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
• Jack Johnson "In Between Dreams"
• KC and the Sunshine Band "Best of..."
• Madeleine Peyroux "Careless Love"
• Paul Simon "There goes Rhymin' Simon"
• Van Morrison "Best of..."

These are "Alternative":

• Beck "Guero"
• Hellogoodbye "Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!"
• The Killers "Sams Town"
• OK GO "Oh No"
• Snow Patrol "Eyes Open"
• White Stripes "Get Behind Me Satan"
• All-American Rejects "Move Along"
• Jem "Finally Woken"

Even Jazz seems confusing...look at these songs that are considered "jazz":

• "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse
• "Autumn in New York" by Billie Holiday (which I agree...this is what I think of as jazz)
• "Julia Ann Johnson" by H. Ledbetter
• "freefall" by Spyro Gyra

Since when is Van Morrison in the same category as Ashlee Simpson?
It's time people came to creatin' more words, because I think you'd agree that the artists on these lists don't sound anything like eachother.

I feel like in the last five years, the only new words we've come up with to describe a new genre of music is "emo"...well what about MIA? That should be like...hipster hip-hop...like urban outfitters hip hop. Let's come up with some new words, people!