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The Onion AV Club has this fun feature where celebrities set their iPods or store brand digital music playback devices on random and talk about the first few songs that come up. I have way dumber music than the average celebrity, and you, my friends and readers, are more famous to me than any star, so I say we hijack the feature.

I’ll start!

Quincy Jones- Soul Bossa Nova
I got this on the first Austin Powers soundtrack. In the late 90′s, I bought a lot of movie soundtracks. It was an important step toward transitioning away from the broadway musicals and classical music of my yoot.

London Symphony Orchestra– Rachmaninov, Prelude in B-Minor
A secondhand London Symphony Rachmaninov double disk was the kind of thing that got me really excited when I was 16. I’m not going to talk to much about Rachmaninov here because this is supposed to be short and those feelings are PRIVATE.

Billy Idol– White Wedding
See? It’s another soundtrack track, this time from The Wedding Singer. Before iTunes, this was practically the only way to buy singles. We did a video project to this one in our last year of theatre school. It was funny.

Madonna– Open Your Heart
True Blue was the first casette I ever bought. I was nine years old, and I got it at the grocery store. My mom made me listen to it with her all the way through the first time I played it, and she made Marge Simpson-like growling noises the whole time, but ultimately let me keep it. In my books, anything dumb Madonna does now is totally excused because of this album. This is not my favourite track, though.

Out Hud– Old Nude
My friend Lisa’s ex-boyfriend Ken gave me a burned copy of this because he knew I’d think it was wicked, and then I went and bought it because I did think it was wicked. We saw Out Hud perform at Harbourfront Centre a couple of summers ago, on the big outdoor stage, and we were the only people dancing, in the aisle, while everyone else sat. The lead guy danced the entire show, and even freaked out the venue staff by running up a backstage ladder, and dancing on the roof, over the audience. Awesome.

OK, now it’s your turn. Set your whole collection on random and post about the first few things that come up, and then let me know about it. (You can use the comments in this post for that.) No fair editing or skipping or limiting the list in any way. I’m not interested in how good your taste is. (Oh, and if you don’t have a blog, you can post the whole thing in the comments here if you want.)

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