chapter XVII

Radio at Work

I listen to music at work.  I use a couple of services, but my favorite is Yahoo's Launchcast.  Right now Stevie Wonder's You Are The Sunshine Of My Life is playing.  What a nice treat.  This was our first dance song at our wedding.  AHHH, nostalgia.

I recently set up a new station on Launchcast.  It's genres are Alternative Rap, East Coast Rap, Mainstream Rap (do we sense a theme here?), Old School Rap (can you say Kid 'N Play), Underground Rap, West Coast Rap, Hip Hop, Soul, Neo Soul (Jill Scott, India Arie), and Funk.  This is my new favorite station.  I get Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, Wyclef, Tribe Called Quest, Earth Wind and Fire, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, many many others. 

Perhaps I should go into the music business.  Start my own label.  Add this to the list of dream jobs.

New List! My New Profession...

For any who have ridden with me in a car, it's obvious I cannot sing and therefore, will never win a Grammy. However!  I have new hope for my music profession.  I have determined I should be a DJ. 

I am thrilled with this revelation.  What fun - late nights, partying until dawn, getting paid to play great music.  I am all over it.  The People (capital P) shall call me Lady Slim Shady.

Not that all of the music will be GOOD.  But it will be memorable and dancable.  Here is are a few songs to get started...get your playlist ready (if I were a truly advanced blogger, I would send this playlist our via Podcast.  But I am over 30 and therefore not a totally advanced user of the Internet.)

Hung Up (Madonna)

S.O.S. (Rihanna)

If I Can't Have You (Saturday Night Fever)

Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry)

Get Down On It (Kool & The Gang)

September (Earth, Wind & Fire)

Respect (Aretha Franklin)

Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees)

Let's Groove (Earth, Wind & Fire)

Shake Your Booty (KC and the Sunshine Band)

Boogie Shoes  (KC and the Sunshine Band)

That's The Way I Like It (KC and the Sunshine Band)

Get Down Tonight (KC and the Sunshine Band)

Lay Down Sally (Eric Clapton)

ABC (Jackson Five)

One Way or Another (Blondie)

Best of My Love (The Emotions)

Mickey (Tony Basil)

Rock this Town (Stray Cats)

Hippy Chick (Soho)

Whip It (Devo)

Freedom (George Michael)

Take Me Home Country Road (John Denver)

Devil Goes Down to Georgia (Charlie Daniels Band)

Friends in Low Places (Garth Brooks)

Callin' Baton Rouge (Garth Brooks)

Redneck Woman (Gretchen Wilson)

You Shook Me All Night Long  (ACDC)

I Got You ( I Feel Good) (James Brown)

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Michael Jackson)

Beat It (Michael Jackson)

Love Like This (Faith Evans)

Hey Ladies (Beastie Boys)

Jump Around (House of Pain)

The Way You Move (Outkast)

Let Me Clear My Throat (DJ Kool)

Anything Can Happen (Wyclef)

Stayin' Alive (Wyclef)

Hypotize (Notorious BIG)

Rapper's Delight (Sugarhill Gang)

The Choice is Yours (Black Sheep)

Nothin' (Noreaga)

It's Tricky (Run DMC)

It's Like That (MC Mario / Run DMC)

Since You've Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson)

Senorita (Justin Timberlake)

U Know What's Up (Donnel Jones)

Get It On Tonite (Montell Jordan)

No More (Ruff Endz)

Vertigo (U2)

Sweet Child of Mine (Guns and Roses)

Livin' On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

Pour Some Sugar on Me (Def Lepard)