I've got all of my cast albumns on my iPod... which means everthing from Two by Two to March of the Falsettos to Light in the Piazza.
I really enjoy listening to Uta Lemper as I'm working out. That woman raises Weill and Kander and Ebb songs to the heavens. Listening to Shockheaded Peter during a run can be... interesting too.
"Wickedness is a term invented by society to account for the curious attractivness of others." -Oscar Wilde
I have 3477 Broadway songs on my I-pod, so I love the shuffle songs feature. It's great to go from Rent to Show Boat to Avenue Q to Zorba. The I-pod has changed my life!
And when I get sick of Broadway, I can watch the Daily Show on it!
Behind the fake tinsel of Broadway is real tinsel.
I offically used up the space on my 60 gig video iPod with Brodaway cast recordings yesterday. I download stuff I haven't even seen, just for the heck of it. My favorite upbeat ones are the Rent stuff, 30/90 and No More from Tick tick Boom, The King of Broadway, Hot Honey Rag from Chicago, and I Hope I get It from A Chorus Line. I have more, but I don't feel like digging them up.
I didn't see your name, but the person who has Two By Two on their iPod... I feel dreadfully bad for you.
Anyone who looks at mine says "get a life" and walks away. This is probably because seven of my playlists have something to do with Rent.
I have all the songs from Abenue Q's "Mix tape!" Brilliant idea! I'm doing that now!
Ah, my ipod is my pride and joy because I have one of the most comprehensive showtunes collections in my school. (Plus, in our computer lab, we have "shared" music, so I uploaded all of my songs into a shared playlist called "Uber Showtunes". That made a lot of people excited.)
On my ipod: Aida Beauty and the Beast Broadway: The American Musical (100 years of showtunes!) Bye Bye Birdie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Fiddler on the Roof Hairspray I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Into the Woods Jekyll and Hyde Les Miserables Little Shop Little Women Movin' Out Newsies Spamalot Ragtime RENT Putnam Last 5 Years Light in the Piazza Producers West Side Story Wicked You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Right now I am definitely listening to a lot of Parade.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
Pretty much all that is on my ipod is showtunes. Everything from Aida, tick, tick... BOOM!, See What I Wanna See, L5Y, and many others. The only other things I have on there are a couple of Disney songs and the soundtrack from A Walk to Remember.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Rent (Original Cast) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With This Feeling Spamalot Wicked The Chronicles of Narnia Evanesence Linkin Park The Black Eyed Peas Forbidden Broadway SVU
It is so funny when they open up the artists part and they are like "who the hell are these people?"
That happens to me ALL THE TIME. And people get really annoyed with my artists, since I label every song with exactly whose singing in it- not just "original broadway cast", but "Daphne Rubin-Vega, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Idina Menzel, Fredi Walker, Jesse L. Martin and Wilson Jermaine Heredia" or "Benjamin Magnuson, Michael Cerveris, Diana DiMarzio and Lauren Molina". This is why I have 317 artists.
Aida Anything Goes Avenue Q Beauty and the Beast Cabaret Chicago Children of Eden Evita Forbidden Broadway Into the Woods Kiss Me Kate La Cage aux folles Moulin Rouge Music Man My Fair Lady Oliver Phantom of the Opera OLC, the movie, Toronto, and German Rent Rocky Horror Sound of Music Spamalot Spelling Bee Sweeney Todd- philharmonic concert, OBC, and revival Light in the Piazza The Producers OBC and movie Titanic Urinetown Wicked
It depends on what mood i'm in when I'm working out but usually Cabaret, some of Urinetown, Anything Goes, Light in the Piazza and Sweeney
~H*
"I slept through the nominations, as I always do. Anything I need to know, I'll find out when I get up at a reasonable hour!"
-Michael Cerveris
I am going to have to agree with mateo and say that big ensemble numbers are the best to work out to. Like "You Can't Stop The Beat" is really good to run to, as are most of the faster songs in Thoroughly Modern Millie. And Dreamgirls is really good to run to as well. People think I'm weird, but showtunes really are the best workout music.
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20 Love Songs From Broadway Musicals A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum A Little Night Music Annie Annie Get Your Gun Assassins Avenue Q Broadway 1935-2005 Chicago (movie and show) Dames at Sea Fiddler on The Roof Forbidden Broadway George M! Gypsy (original and Bernadette revival) Hair Into The Woods Kiss Me Kate Lil' Abner Mack & Mabel Pacific Overtures Sherry (Disc 1 and 2) Sondheim Etc. Sondheim Etc. Etc. Sondheim Sings 1 and 2 Song and Dance Sunday In The Park With George Sweeney Todd The Fantasticks The Goodbye Girl The Sound of Muisc West Side Story Wicked
But I pretty much only listen to the Sondheim ones.
Glad to know I'm not the only one with the iPod belting Broadway tunes while running on the treadmill! I have "Rent", "Hairspray", "Avenue Q", "Billy Elliot", "Les Miserables", "Zanna, Don't", "Brooklyn" and "Wicked" on there, but it's totally "Rent" and "Wicked" that keep my legs running...
I have RENT (NYTW, OBCR, soundtrack), Wicked, Avenue Q, Feeling Electric, Cabaret, TL5Y, Les Miserables, AIDA, Taboo, YAGMCB, See What I Wanna See, Spamalot, Chess, Nine, Tarzan, Wedding Singer, La Boheme, Movin' Out, West Side Story, Chicago, Forbidden Broadway, Moulin Rouge, and some songs not broadway from Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, and Idina Menzel.
The only full cast albums I have are Wicked and Ragtime. Then, I just have a couple songs from other shows here and there. I also have many many non-Broadway songs. Sample of a shuffle of 5 songs (On my Samsung MP3 player..not an iPod):
1 "Somebody to Love" by Queen 2 "Whenever You Call" by Mariah Carey/Brian McKnight 3 "Send in the Clowns" sung by Frank Sinatra 4 "More to This" by Third Day 5 "Sunday Morning" by Maroon 5
I need some more memory! I have so much more I want to put on my player!
Buddy Kiss- I just had to put together for my school a Martin Charnin tribute, and dear god... those songs scare the crap out of me. 'You' is quite sweet though.
Now time to make an acutal post with all my cast albums! Mind you, I have most of these just so I can have them. I don't really listen to most of them.... don't exactly have the time. I should though.
42nd Street (Original Broadway Cast) 42nd Street (Broadway Revival) A Chorus Line Assasins (Original Broadway Cast) Assasins (Broadway Revival) Avenue Q Annie (Original Broadway Cast) Annie (Broadway Revival) AIDA Anything Goes Annie Get Your Gun (Original Broadway Cast) Annie Get Your Gun (Broadway Revival) Beauty and the Beast (Don't ask) Billy Eliot Broadway the American Musical *love* Bye Bye Birdie Caberet Caberet (w/ Adam Pascal) Cats (WHY IS THIS ON MY IPOD? WHY! Personally, I don't even remember when I got this...) Carousel Chicago (Broadway... I'm not so sure which album this is) Chicago (Movie) Company Children of Eden Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Evita Fiddler on the Roof (Original Broadway) Fiddler on the Roof (Revival) Feeling Electric (w/ Anthony Rapp... it sort of counts...) Fosse Forbidden Broadway SVU Forbidden Broaway Volume 7 Guys and Dolls Gypsy Hair Hairspray Into the Woods
(I'm gonna get messy now, and it's gonna be off the top of my head... bear with me, this is hard) La Cage Aux Folles Sweeney Todd (Original Broadway Cast) Sweeney Todd (Revival) Rent (Original Broadway Cast) Rent (Movie) The King and I The Sound of Music The Phantom of the Opera (Original Broadway Cast) The Phantom of the Opera (Original London Cast) The Phantom of the Opera (Movie) The Producers (Original Broadway Cast) The Producers (Movie) West Side Story Wicked You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (Original Cast) You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (Revival) See What I Wanna See Sunday in the Park with George Jersey Boys Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Sondheim- Putting it Together Tick, Tick... BOOM! Spelling Bee Little Women Les Miz Miss Sagon Little Shop of Horrors Spamalot Light in the Piazza Pippin Sweet Charity Kiss me Kate Funny Girl Merrily We Roll Along The Last 5 Years Spelling Bee The Music Man I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Show Boat South Pacific My Fair Lady
I know I have more, but I'm going to stop because I know we ALL have a headache
Haha. For working out, I have a playlist with Hairspray, Sweet Charity, the finale from Pippin, 30/90, the Ballad of Czolgosz aanndd... My Humps.
I find my playlists to be quite amusing, besides the aforementioned 'workout madness' there's 'Totally Sondheim', 'Nonstop Denis O'Hare', and 'Michael Cerveris is bald.' I've got a Philip Quast one in the works, just as soon as I get around to loading The Fix onto iTunes.
A hard drive maybe an led light or two...something that makes the Ipod freeze, I think that one is standard on all I-pods.
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space
*pouts* Why do we discriminate against other players? I have a gorgeous, brand-new blue Zen Vision M. So far, it is love. It was my college graduation present!
I've been spending this past weekend uploading all of my stuff onto it. I have...hmm, close to 100 cast albums, I would say. Way too many to list! I've also loaded it with my radio music, my Japanese music, what little Korean music I have, and my soundtracks [Garden State, Mulan, etc.]...my baby is loaded!
I haven't yet listened to it for workout, but this past week when I was packing up the dorm room, I had music blaring on my CD Player. [That is almost a workout in and of itself!] It was mostly upbeat stuff so that I didn't get sleepy! My most-played CD was actually Green Day's "American Idiot," but I also listened to cast albums such as BARE, Hairspray, Urinetown, Bright Lights/Big City, Rent and more! For 'radio' music, I had some Michelle Branch, Darren Hayes, FallOut Boy, No Doubt, Aqua and more! Then, for my 'Asian Music,' I played some Utada Hikaru, Field of View, BoA, Ayumi Hamasaki, DEEN, Gackt and more!
I have such an eclectic mix of music that I always have a lot to listen to. I go through phases, too. I can go for days, weeks, even months on end listening to one thing or one genre. Broadway is the biggest culprit, but lately as my trip to Japan approaches, my Japanese music is giving it a run for its money! [Actually, it started when Kingdom Hearts 2 came out and I was fawning all over the Hikki love and morphed to new things that I tried out..hmm..] Right now, I've been listening to 'American Idiot' on repeat a lot. Over the summer, it will flip around again. Who knows!
Out of my own curiosity, I just checked my iPod. I didn't think I had that much, and by comparison to some I'm sure I don't, but I was shocked to see what I had. As of current:
Sweeney Todd (revival) The Secret Garden (OBC) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee RENT (NYTW) RENT (OBC) RENT (OST) WICKED Avenue Q Spamalot Mary Poppins Mamma Mia! Jekyll & Hyde Hedwig & The Angry Inch Bare AIDA Carrie Beauty and the Beast Taboo The Color Purple The Light In The Piazza The Lion King The Phantom of the Opera The Producers Titanic
Wow...random. And to think I listen to these albums almost every day. -John
Its a 60gig ipod .... with 30gigs filled up .... so it'd be easier to say whats NOT in it :)
Whats in it ... anything from musicals, 80s, hard rock, rap, arabic music
As far as musicals ....
fiddler on the roof, sweeney, rent (movie and broadway), wicked, light in the piazza, avenue q, drs, producers, aida, lion king,
and i want to get see what i wanna see but havent decided if i download from itunes or buy it on amazon .. i ahve a trip in 2 days so i wanted it for that and i cant buy it locally.
I've got mostly cast recordings on my ipod. But for working out, I refuse to listen to music. It makes me hate the music. HOWEVER...if I happen to be free dancing I do like music from shows...so really anything from most shows works for that!