Don't judge me!

I've been adding music to my mp3 player and I'm sudden gobstricken by the weirdness of my tastes in music. I'm not kidding. "Eclectic" just isn't a strong enough word to describe it.

I should pause to mention that I'm not cool when it comes to today's music. In fact, I'm supremely irritated by new bands that have oddball, pretentious names ("Death Cab For Cutie" is one example that instantly springs to mind). I don't know who is considered hot or what underground bands the kewl kids are listening to, and frankly, I don't care to know. My musical tastes have been ridiculed my whole life, so I'm thick-skinned when it comes to criticizing how not with-it I am. Oh, I'm such a music nerd. Boo friggin hoo.


Here's what's on my Zune at this moment:

Soundtracks:
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (yeah, I admit it)

Selected songs from "House of 1000 Corpses" ("Pussy Liquor" is my favorite) and "The Devil's Rejects" ("Freebird" gives me the creeps, for some weird reason)

• "Across the Universe"


• "Phantom of the Opera" (the Gerard Butler version--yowza)


• "Swing Kids" ("Sing Sing Sing" is the best big band song, ever)


• "What's Love Got to Do With It" (the Tina Turner bio--love "Rock Me Baby")


• "South Park: the Movie"


• A few songs from "The Punisher"


• "Bye Bye Birdie"


• Robert Rodriguez's "Planet Terror"


• A Danny Elfman block of "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "The Corpse Bride," and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"


• Joss Whedon's "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"


• "Hairspray"


• "Xanadu" (the original movie, not the godawful play)

Various Artists

• Prince--"Let's Get Crazy," "Batdance," "Kiss"


• "Boingo" (entire album)--Boingo (I highly recommend this, by the way)


• "Number 1s"--Beatles (because I love them so)


• Various Madonna songs from the recent past ("Hung Up," "Frozen," "Deeper & Deeper," etc.)


• Katy Perry--"Hot & Cold," "I Kissed a Girl"


• Bloodhound Gang--"The Bad Touch"


• Limp Bizkit--"Behind Blue Eyes"


• Robbie Williams--"Angels"


• Smashing Pumpkins--"The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" (the cool song from the Watchmen trailer)


• Tracy Bonham--"Mother Mother"


• Evanescence--"Call Me When You're Sober," "Going Under," "My Immortal"


• Marilyn Manson--"Tainted Love," "Personal Jesus," "Beautiful People," others


• Johnny Cash--"The Man Comes Around" (used in the great title sequence of the "Dawn of the Dead" remake), "God's Gonna Cut You Down"


• Britney Spears--"Womanizer," "Gimme More," "Piece of Me," others


• Ramones--"Blitzkrieg Bop," "I Wanna Be Sedated," others


• Peggy Lee--"I'm A Woman," "My Man"


• Various other songs: "Down With the Sickness," "White Rabbit," "Gold Digger," Nickleback songs (yeah, Nickleback, I admit it), etc. and so on.
  

So that's just a sampling...I also have a lot of disco on my laptop, as well as more soundtracks ("Land of the Dead," "Deep Blue Sea," "War of the Worlds," "300," and many many more). I love '80s music and I like a lot of classical music (especially if it's all dark and ominous). My tastes go all all over the spectrum. I like what I like.

I guess in a way, I'm a music snob in that I can't stand it when people claim to never listen to Top 40 pop or think that as soon as a band gets famous, it sells out. Please. As I said...I like what I like, and I don't apologize for loving the "Sgt. Pepper" soundtrack, or for knowing all the words to most of Britney Spears' songs. If that makes me a music nerd, then so be it. I wear my badge of dorkiness with pride.