.i am nobody's mixed bag

last week i was given the hardest assignment of my college career.

"bring in a song, any song, that you think everyone in the class needs to hear before they die. no pressure." my professor actually said 'no pressure'.

so, in typical caitlin form, i went through my 8,032 songs (to date) on my computer, compiled a list of 40, and listened to that list while i did everything else in my apartment. i even made my poor roommate listen to this list, and my poor friend michael glennon, and anyone else who ventured into this apartment in the last week.
the list of 40 was then narrowed down to 20, and then 10.

the top 10, in case you are curious, are as follows (in no particular order):

• The Cure-Just Like Heaven
• The Beatles- The Long and Winding Road
• Prince-Kiss
• Jackson Browne-These Days
  
• The (International) Noise Conspiracy-Smash it up
• Dead Prez-It's Bigger than Hip Hop
• Raffi-Down By the Bay
• The Flaming Lips-Do You Realize?
• Bjork-All is Full of Love
• The Rolling Stones-Beast of Burden

then the list was narrowed down to 5, and then 3...and i made the cd with these three songs on it:

• The Cure-Just Like Heaven
• Prince-Kiss
• The Flaming Lips-Do You Realize

and i went to school this morning honestly not knowing which song i would choose. it reminded me a lot of tyra banks showing up on the final day of 'america's next top model' and not knowing which hottie she was going to pick (ALWAYS GO WITH THE SHORT HAIRED BRUNETTES, TYRA!).

anyways, to prolong the excitement, i am not going to tell you which song i chose. because really, it doesnt matter. and why doesnt it matter? because these are some of the songs my fellow classmates brought in:

• fantasia barrino (from american idol)-i believe
• christina aguilara-beautiful
• john lennon-imagine
• kelly clarkson- because of you
• despina vandi-happy end
• brandy-almost is not enough (or something like that)

swhat in the fuck? best song? really? i must here it before i die? you sure? kelly clarkson, best of all time? i mean, i love kelly, Since U Been Gone is one of the best pop songs of the last 5 years. but did i need to hear her less fun, more vapid ballad some manipulative jackass wrote for her album...before i die? fuck no.

the worst part is the girl that brought in the fantasia barrino song originally brought in a 2pac song but decided it was too vulgar to play in class. listen, vulgar is the definition of the hate slander running through my head while listening to this pre-pubescent dribble, not the nasty crack-whore references of our dearly departed 2pac.

i would be offended if someone called me a music snob, because i am not. i don't know anything about music. i only ever eumeterated myself with one band (blur) and other than them i have pretty disconcerting taste (chopin, anyone?), so i accept the fact that different people like different things....but still, woah.