If you read the headlines to these posts, you'll realize that my countdown of all the songs on my iPod just got a little more Wowbaggerian, as I added some new stuff to the lists. I actually added two CDs, but I then deleted some stuff off of there, too, which is now driving me nuts because the moment I delete a song, I think to myself what if I never hear that song again and WANT to hear it?
The songs I deleted were from Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits; having lived with the entire crummy selection for a long time, I pared it down to what it should have been: Tusk, What Makes You Think You're The One and That's Enough For Me. So in reality, there is very little to worry about, as I'm nearly 100% sure that I will never in my lifetime think what if I'm missing out by not hearing a Fleetwood Mac song?
None of the three remaining representatives of Fleetwood Mac are today's song, though. Today's song is picked out to show what a dork I am. Driving my nephew to Chicago yesterday morning, at 5 a.m., I asked if he minded me putting some music on. "I've got a lot of stuff on here," I assured him "So it's not like it's all 40-year-old dorky guy stuff." Then, the first 1/2 hour of music was heavy on Coldplay, Fiona Apple, and this song:
That's a song that betrays my weakness for awesome songs about historical people -- songs like James K. Polk by They Might Be Giants and like this song:
Which is "William Howard Taft" by The Two Man Gentleman Band. Which is also a cool song but both of which belied (along with all the Coldplay and Fiona Apple) my claim that my iPod was not filled with a bunch of 40-year-old dorky guy stuff.
But I'm comfortable with who I am.
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