A little music last night

I spent some time last night listening to my own music. Over the years, I have downloaded lots of songs because I like having stuff. While I enjoy the spontenaity and unpredictability of the radio, I hate having to deal with clunkers, songs that I survive through but don't enjoy. So last night, while grading papers, I let the youtube app on my TV shuffle the songs from my own library. Now you might think that this ensures a predictable evening but it doesn't. Some of the files are corrupted so I have to fast forward through them and some of the songs are songs that somehow I have but I don't know at all (or at least that well).

So last night I actually listened to "Light and Day" from the Poluphonic Spree. Sure, I knew the song from the 15 second clip on some car commercial, years ago, but last night I really listened to the whole thing. What a wonderful and joyous song!

Then up came "Save Me" by Remy Zero. I have no idea why this song is in my library as i have never heard it before but I finally decided to listen to it. Wow. That's a heckuva song! I highly recommend it.

I also realized that I could make a list of songs from within my own collection that make for a lovely subset. I put together a "sister" list (not a comment on my sister, just a bunch of songs that I already like that all happen to be joined by the theme):

Look At Little Sister -- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Sister Blue -- Mind funk

I hate my Sister -- Julianna Hatfield

Sister Golden Hair -- America

Little Sister -- Queens of the Stone Age

sure, there might be other "sister" songs but they didn't make the cut all those years ago when I scarfed up as much free music as I could Napster.