On a road
trip at the moment, travelling from Melbourne, north to Sunshine Coast, around 4000 km round trip. It is the battle of
the i-pod playlists in the car.
My wife’s
playlist is a lot broader than mine and a lot more hard core:
The Beat,
House of Pain, Cypress Hill, Sex Pistols, Stranglers, Joy Division, Led
Zeppelin, David Bowie, The Models, Hunters And Collectors, The Clash, Ian
Dury, Roxy Music, UB 40, Simple Minds, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Smiths, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Nick Cave, Butthole Surfers, Wall of Voodoo, Nina Hagen, Malcolm McLaren, The Cure, Souxie and the Banshees , Rammstein - mainly
70’s and 80’s alternative (like being stuck in a John Hughes movie), with a smattering of 90’s and newer stuff. Some opera, “Ride of the Valkeries” and “Madam
Butterfly” is in the mix too.
My playlist
sounds very gay in comparison – some musical soundtracks (mainly Sondheim), Pet
Shop Boys, The Presets, Scritti Politti, Heaven 17, New Order, Culture Club (“Time”),
Mental As Anything (“Berserk Warriors”), EMF (“Unbelievable”) Hurts, Blur, Kate
Bush, The Police,
We have some overlaps:
U.K.
Squeeze “Kool for Kats”, Lou Reed “Walk
on the Wild Side”, New Order “Bizarre Love Triangle”, “World in Motion”, The Clash
“Rock the Casbah”, The Church “Under the Milky Way”, Amy Whitehouse “Back in
Black”, Violent Femmes “Blister in the
Sun”, Duran Duran “Planet Earth”, The Verve's "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
Anyway, it made the kilometres pass.
