iTuning.

About once every year or so, I realize that I've finally made my way through one of the $25 iTunes gift cards I've gotten for various holidays. Of course, means it's time again for that ultimate act of self-humiliation: Showing you just how lame my musical tastes are. Anyway, here's the 26 songs (I got one freebie along the way) I bought since last time I publically iTuned:

* Tori Amos, "Cornflake Girl" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (I think I prefer her cover to Nirvana's original)
* Arsis Handbell Ensemble & RAM, "Aspiration for the Pure Land" (compilation single I didn't have for Arsis)
* The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations" (bought for research for my handbell cover)
* The Cinematic Orchestra, "To Build a Home" (my favorite song of last year)
* from "Company," "Another Hundred People" and "The Little Things You Do Together" (Stephen Sondheim is so awesome)
* Daniel Amos, "Shotgun Angel" (the best song from their country years)
* David Bowie, "Modern Love" (the only Bowie song I really like)
* Imogen Heap, "Have You Got It In You?" (heard this on XM)
* Gordon Lightfoot, "Sundown" (will probably also get "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" at some point)
* Kylie Minogue, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (shut up; just shut up)
* Solomon Burke, "None of Us Are Free" (first heard in Chipotle, I think)
* from Ocean's 12, "7-29-04 the Day of" (really just for the moving bass line and the horns first minute, but the rest of the song is cool, too)
* from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, "Breakfast Machine" (who does not smile when they hear this song. who)
* Philip Glass Ensemble, "Glassworks: Opening" and "Glassworks: Floe" (two of my five or so favorite Philip Glass pieces)
* Raymond Scott, "Powerhouse" (trust me, even if the name is unfamiliar, you know this piece of music)
* Regina Spektor, "Music Box" (bonus track that's better than about 80% of the album proper)
* Still Sunrise, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (one of my favorite covers ever simply because it's a 180 of the uberdepressing original version, which I hate)
* Sufjan Stevens, "Free Man in Paris" and "Ring Them Bells" (one awesome cover and one good non-album song, in that order)
* Travis, "Sing" (we all know and love this song, yes?)
* Gillian Welch, Black Star EP (three covers done in the lovely Gillian Welch Appalachian style)