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Movies & Music: My iPod…finally
Did you have any idea that I, the blog managing editor, am a techno-phobe? Ironic but true.
Example: We have two machines in our house for playing DVDs — a fancy PlayStation and a not-so-fancy DVD player. I don’t know how to work the PlayStation controls, and the DVD remote has too many buttons with strange hieroglyphic symbols. This means I am only able to watch movies when someone else is home.
Knowing this, it shouldn’t surprise you that it took me a year to start using my iPod. I mustered the courage last week after we bought one of those Bose thingies that plays your iPod in the house. Bose’s simple, 8-button remote emboldened me to try using the iPod itself. Loading songs from iTunes is still beyond me, but my dh loaded up a bunch of stuff for me.
My current favorite: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Anthology Through the Years.
What’s your iPod favorite these days?
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Your Get What You Give – New Radicals
Held – Natalie Grant
Your Song – Bill Paul
Jump – Aztek Camera
Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley
Nutshell – Alice in Chains
Hey Bulldog – Beatles
A Quarter to Three – Sinatra
Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – Jerry Garcia Band
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I just bought one for my husband, but he hasn’t had time to download anything into it. This is when we need children or grandchildren close enough to help us. Since we don’t have that, we will have to actually read the directions!
He will have a lot of old country and fiddle tunes on it.
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I like my ipod played on Random and my husband says that you might pull something transitioning from one gemre to another.
Hymn selections from 4 Him, Brad Paisley and Alan Jackson and Michael Card are interspersed between 70s classic rock (Magic Carpet Ride, White Rabbit, Closer to Home)
Renaissance Faire music (Minstrels of Mayhem singing somgs like Wild Mountain Thyme, and The Queen of All Argyle, Brollywacker playing the Tam Lin Reel)
Contemporary Christian, (Steven Curtis Chapman – Speechless, Mark Schultz – He’s My Son, Rich Mullins – Growing Young, Keith Green – Psalm 23, Carman – Lord of All, Radically Saved)
Mellow rock of the 1970s (Air Supply – Lost in Love, John Denver – Sunshine On My Shoulders -for all the granola-heads, Harry Chapin – A Better Place to Be and Mr. Tanner are favorites),
Tons of Jimmy Buffett – Jolly Mon, Last Mango in Paris),
Celine Dion – It’s All Coming Back,
Josh Grobin – Alle Luce Dal Sole,
Andrea Bocelli – Time to Say Goodbye
Sarah Brightman – Love Changes Everything
Of Course some 1980s – Rock Me Amadeus, ABC – All of My Heart, Chris DeBurgh – Don’t Pay the Ferryman, Night Ranger – Sister Christian
And A Capella from The Gentlemen of the College (William and Mary – My daughter’s an alum – Loch Lomond, and other College A Capella groups,
Loreena McKennitt – The Mummers’ Dance and
More recent stuff – Matchbox Twenty – Unwell,
Carlos Santana – Smooth.
You could really hurt yourself switching gears!
Very ecclectic. And there’s WAY more than that…
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Well maybe if you got more comfortable with your iPod you would alienate fewer people at your gym!
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lol, Luke!
TobyMac, Da Truth, Louis Prima, O.C. Supertones, Weird Al.
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I don’t have an iPod and have no plans to get one, and I don’t know whether you can get just any music you want on one, but if I could, I’d want music from some of my favorite albums:
Earthen Vessels by the St. Louis Jesuits
Greatest Hits of 1710
Greatest Hits of 1790
Saturday Night Fiedler
also
favorite songs from musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof and The Sound of Music
some worship songs (Blessed Be Your Name by Matt Redman, several Chris Tomlin songs, and a few written by the worship leader at our church)
Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony
Albany from Roger Whittaker Greatest Hits
Billy Joel songs Piano Man and The Longest Time
probably even a few Veggie Tales songs
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I seem to go in phases, listening to mine in fits and starts. It’s sat silent for a couple months now in the little speaker unit in my house, but other times it’s going frequently. I used to take it with me a lot, listening here and there with the ear plugs throughout the day when I’d take a walk at lunch or be doing routine things. Not so much lately, though.
As for content, think diversity: Everything from the Psalms (being sung) to my favorite hymns to show tunes (both famous and obscure) to Motown to podcasts from Sproul & others to classic rock jams to readings from the books of the Bible.
So needless to say, putting mine on ‘random’ play can be a bit jarring when it leaps from Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” to Max McClean’s deep-toned reading of the Book of Romans.
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Here’s what’s on my mp3 player:
The Bob and Tom Show
The Coast to Coast AM Show
The Jeff Rense Show
The Phil Hendrie Show (archives only-his new show sucks)
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I listen to my iPod daily when I walk the dog. What’s on my regular playlist?
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I bought my mp3 player (RCA brand, not IPod) about 4 weeks ago. So far, I’ve put about 100 songs on it. Most are CCM. For example:
Rich Mullins-Sometimes by Step
Steven Curtis Chapman-For the Sake of the Call
FFH-The Only Hand You Need; One of These Days
Susan Ashton-Waiting for Your Love
Rebecca St. James-Breathe
Tree63-Blessed Be Your Name
SONICFLOOd-Lord, I Lift Your Name on High; I Want to Know You (In the Secret)
Avalon-Testify to Love
MercyMe-I Can Only Imagine
Twila Paris-Lifted Higher; Messiah; God Is In Control; Days of Elijah
There are a few inspirational country songs, including Go Rest High On That Mountain by Vince Gill and Long Black Train by Josh Turner. Tim McGraw’s Live Like You Were Dying is on it as well.
I put some a capella songs on it. Some are from this CD by the contemporary group Acappella. Others are a more traditional style from this CD.
I want to add songs from Point of Grace, Casting Crowns, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, and Jordin Sparks, among others.
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The Rush Limbaugh podcast.
Actually, I don’t have an iPod.
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Most listened of late:
ESV Audio Bible (Marquis Laughlin NT or Max MacLean OT)
Jennifer Knapp
Nichole Nordeman
Aimee Mann
The Weepies
Paul Carrack
The The (Matt Johnson)
I have 7000 items on my iPod, I love the ability to carry the vast majority of my CD collection in that handy little package. I look forward to getting my LPs converted.
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i-what?
Whazzat?
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Blackmore’S Night
Enya
All sorts of recorded books.
Christian music
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MIM – The iPod is one of the greatest electronic toys ever put out onto the market.
Lynn – iTunes is pretty easy to use (and to learn to use).
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iTunes is really easy to use. Just let your husband show you. It isn’t hard at all.
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Goodness, I have such a variety that it’s somewhat difficult to choose.
Travis, great! While Held is the only song by Natalie Grant that I like, it’s one of my favorite modern songs…the lyrics are touching.
Sadly, I don’t have it on my mp3 player, but it’s playing on my PC from free.napster.com right now.
Klasko,
Josh Groban and Loreena McKennitt are some of my favorites also,
As for some of my favorite songs on my Sansa e280, here are a few:
Hayley Westenra: Too many to list…May It Be, Summer Rain, and many, many more.
Gráda: Diamantia Drover
Vanessa Mae: Red Hot (symphonic mix)
Josh Groban: Lots of his songs
Eileen Ivers</b: Pachelbel’s Frolics
Rich Mullins: Creed and Sometimes by Step
Michael Card: A large variety, including such as I Will Arise and Go to Jesus, O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, <Be Thou My Vision, God’s Own Fool and lots more.
OK, that’s seven, the perfect number and number of completion. Enough listed for now.
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You hit a pet peeve of mine, Lynn. No apologies for this “wet blanket” post.
Though I marvel at how small a great sounding stereo can be now-a-days, I look at the iPod as a conversation killer, more so than the cell phone. You get in the car with the family for vacation, and everyone has his/own music, all members in a world of their own, ignoring the rest. Is technology such a great thing?
And what are we doing to our hearing? It is one thing to put the buds in your ears, but often I hear the music the young folks are playing from a few feet away, and I know they will be visiting an audiologist long before they are 40. I often half-jokingly tell the students where I teach to study to be an audiologist, as there are going to be a lot of customers in a few years.
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I know that I should know this, but what does “dh” stand for?
Also, on my Ipod, I have a ton of 80’s tunes (greatest decade EVER for rock).
I also have a Christian music section with an eclectic mix of worship and Christian “rock” songs.
Finally, I have a zillion sermons from Dr James MacDonald and Walk in the Word. Love that stuff!
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Dav – dh = Dear Husband, DW = Dear Wife, DS = dear Son, DD = Dear Daughter You get the idea.
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The last five things on shuffle play:
Poi Dog Pondering: “The Ancient Egyptians”
Lost Dogs: “Breathe Deep”
Barenaked Ladies: “You Will Be Waiting”
Rich Mullins: “Growing Young”
Sarah Harmer (can’t recall title)
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Peter L, you make a good point.
It reminds me of the Washington Post article about Joshua Bell playing the violin incognito (pretending to be a street musician) in D.C. or some other large city. I don’t remember exactly where at the moment.
Anyway, almost nobody stopped to listen, and the few that did either recognized him from a concert or had some musical background and thought “This guy is really good.” The irony was the fact that some guy listening to his iPod passed by Joshua Bell, four feet away, in fact, and said he didn’t hear the violin. And according to Bell, he was playing pretty loud. As to the irony, it was the song the “iPod guy” was playing at the time he passed J. Bell. Simply put, the message of the song was “having something beautiful in front of your eyes and not being able to see it.”
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Rio, I commented at the time about the Joshua Bell and his violin experiment. It isn’t a good test. Most people passing by on the street are going somewhere and if Chet Atkins were playing the guitar or Charlie Daniels the fiddle, they wouldn’t have time to stop for long.
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#20 Klasko –thanks.
By the way, I was kidding about 80’s rock being the greatest ever, but no one bit.
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Peter L and Rio — I agree that personal audio devices are conversation killers. We don’t allow them in a family setting. I use mine only while exercising alone
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DAV
The 60’s through mid-90’s were the dark ages of music. Everything I listen to either came before or after.
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OpTeen, there was still some good country music around. I can think of Johnny Cash, Charley Pride, Marty Robbins was still around, but he went semi-pop with “A White Sport Coat”.
It soon became rock&roll on a steel guitar and I lost interest. I reverted back to the old standards. I did like Kris Kristofferson, however.
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Chas #27…there is such a thing as country music? Seriously? When did that come about?
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Lynn @ 25- I figured that is when you would use it, rather than disturbing other exercisers with a cell phone conversation.
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Props to KRM for the Aimee Mann playlist. I saw her Christmas show live last year. A wonderful refreshing throwback to the old days of variety shows. She’s an amazing musical and comedic talent. I believe her Christmas show has now become an annual performance event for her and her troupe. Catch it this year if you can.
RIO: Regarding Natalie Grant’s “Held”. Three years ago I attended the funeral of a 12-year old girl killed in a tragic accident. She was a friend of the family and during the memorial service, a woman from the church sang the song “Held”. It was absolutely riveting, and her performance and the lyrics really moved me. I spent several days trying to track down the song: title, lyric and who the original artist was. I eventually found it an downloaded it to iTunes.
The following year I was at business convention out-of-state. I was in a private meeting in a conference room and throughout the meeting I kept hearing familiar piano riffs. I thought that I recognized the song as being snippets of “Held”. Nah, that can’t be. Why would I be hearing that song at this convention? I must be hearing things, right?
The music kept going, and I eventually left the meeting, walking around the convention arena trying to find out where the music was coming from. I soon found out that Natalie Grant herself (with a small band) was rehearsing the song live and they would later perform it during the convention! I hung around for 30 minutes and then stood 4 feet in front of Natalie Grant when she performed the song in front of small crown of about 200 people. I got to speak with her briefly afterwards and I told her how I first came to hear the song. Pretty Cool.
This all took place during a 12 month period where I went to 3 different funerals – all for children of friend who had died under the age of 12. Brutal. A very powerful song that makes me think of those three kids.
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DAV, I know you’re joshing me, but you have a point. It used to be that people would gather on the porch, at the fire station, beer hall or at church outings with fiddles, bajnos, and guitars and play hymns, love songs, and rowdy songs. The western genre did the same thing in different settings.
One day, a guy (fogot his name, from New York, could find it if it were important) came to the mountains of Virginia, around Bluefield, and found a man and his wife and kin. He started recording them and called them “The Carter Family”. About the same time, (same man, I think) discovered Jimmie Rodgers. And country came to the city. It’s a great story.
Neither were great musicians, but entertaining and good enough.
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Very sad, but touching, Travis.
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#3 Klasko
like my ipod played on Random …
Does your husband know about this?
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