songs meme

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List 5 songs you like that start with that letter
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions

(4. Optional: Promise not to give anyone X.)

sharikkamur gave me an M.

In no particular order....

"Malaria" by Shriekback: the guitar is loud; the drums are played by a real person; the vocals are tight, earnest, and intense; and the lyrics make absolutely no sense. What's not to love?

"Magic Man" by Heart: girls that rock, that's all you need to know.

"Mustang Sally", the Commitments version: a song that's very fun to play, and one of only a few songs that I can play and sing at the same time.

"Mrs Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel. I am also partial to the Lemonheads cover.

"Memories Can't Wait" by Talking Heads: Haunting and moody. Some '90s band covered it and tried to ruin it. The original is still the One True version.

Sufficiently advanced technology...

So this is somewhat magical, at least until I find out how they do it:

There's a free app for the iPhone called Shazam. You play a song at it for about 10 seconds, it communes briefly with the mother-ship, and then it tells you what the song is and who performed it.

I don't know if it's available for other kinds of phone or not. They seem to be on the web at http://www.shazam.com/.

Today's lunchtime conversation was a touch more surreal than usual:

"What are you guys doing?"

"He's getting his phone so we can have my phone talk to it and try to confuse it...."

Sadly it doesn't seem to know anything classical, and I managed to stump it with Don Dixon. Come on people, that's out on CD! It does seem to know an awful lot of other stuff though.

So, bets are now open: How soon before someone gets busted for doing this while driving? (-: