I recently took a family vacation to California and in addition to packing and making sure everyone’s assorted stuffed animals were in tow, I did the most important thing; stock the iPod with music.
This will be boring to some (most?) but to music geeks like me it’s a big deal, especially when you consider that I had to allot a sizeable chunk of my hard drive space to Cars2, and Looney Tunes videos as fall backs for when the kids simply came unhinged during the trip.
Tough decisions had to be made. Henceforth is the playlist you get:
- 21st Century Breakdown – Green Day
- A Different Kind of Truth – Van Halen
- Acme – John Spencer Blues Explosion
- Aenima – Tool
- Albatross- Big Wreck
- Angel Dust – Faith No More
- Below the Belt – Danko Jones
- Black Love – The Afghan Whigs
- Caution – Hot Water Music
- Choice of Weapon – The Cult
- Collider – Sam Roberts Band
- The Darcys – The Darcys
- El Camino – The Black Keys
- Electric – The Cult
- Fantastic Planet – Failure
- Feast or Famine – Chuck Ragan
- Garage D’Or – Cracker
- Gypsy Punks – Gogol Bordello
- Harmonicraft – Torche
- Heaven is Whenever – The Hold Steady
- Irresistable Bliss – Soul Coughing
- J5 – Jurassic 5
- Jackson Square – Arkells
- Kensington Heights – The Constantines
- Life’s Rich Pageant – REM
- Lights of Endangered Species – Matthew Good
- Like Swimming – Morphine
- Live at Leeds – The Who
- Love and Sound – Garrett Mason
- Morning View – Incubus
- Move Like This – The Cars
- Nice, Nice, Very Nice – Dan Mangan
- Only a Lad – Oingo Boingo
- Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin
- The Edges of Twilight – The Tea Party
- The Shack Up Sessions – Ross Neilsen
- Short Bus – Filter
- Sky Blue Sky – Wilco
- Snakes and Arrows – Rush
- Superunknown – Soundgarden
- Unplugged – Alice in Chains
- Up to Here – The Tragically Hip
- Wasting Light – The Foo Fighters
- White Album – The Beatles
- With Teeth – Nine Inch Nails
Of course I may have watched some Looney Toons as well.