Every Monday I shuffle my entire MP3 collection in iTunes and list the first ten songs that play. Here are the ten tunes I heard today with a personal story about one of them.
- Life Goes On - House Of Pain
- Takeover - Jay-Z
- Boys In The Trees - Carly Simon
- Mother Earth - Memphis Slim
- Sell My Soul - Our Lady Peace
- A Face In The Crowd - Tom Petty
- Panther Power - Paris
- Trampled Underfoot - Led Zeppelin
- Save Me - Aimee Mann
- Man's Best Friend - Ice Cube
While working at the CNE in 1989, I met a dude working at another booth who had similar musical interests. We were each enamored with different rap discs and would debate which was the definitive such album for hours and hours. I was all about "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back" from Public Enemy and he was all about "The Devil Made Me Do It" from Paris. We exchanged these discs for a night and I spun Paris over and over again. It was awesome. It wasn't ITANOMTHUB awesome, but it was something special.
The next day we traded back our discs and were each converted by the other. I went downtown after my shift and found the Paris disc for $10.99 on Yonge Street. Even better.
