um, they're for my mom...

i've always been considered a music geek, but my recent purchase of an ipod has taken my musical geektitude to new heights (lows?). one of the things i'm doing now is going through my itunes library, finding the songs i'm a little embarrassed to own, changing their genre to either "ass" or "embarrassing", and creating a smart playlist highlighting them. here's the stats of my "hang your head in shame" playlist:

number of songs: 168
length: 8.9 hours
size: 634.8 MB
number of entry level ipod shuffle's needed to contain this collection: 2
number of songs from the time/life singer songwriter collection: 122 (out of the 144 included in the collection)

now, for some individual highlights (click them to go to their itunes music store sample):
• "the glory of love" by peter cetrera
this song is best known as the love them from "karate kid part II", but it was also heavily featured in 1986's oscar winning film, children of a lesser god. by the way, i guess "the karate kid" thinks it's too good for itunes, so i had to link to a crappy ass cover of a crappy ass song.

• "run like the wind" by christopher cross
this multi-grammy-winning dom delouise lookalike is considered a victim of the music video age, but i think his general suckness was just as important a factor in his unemployment as his specific unattractiveness.

• "steamroller" by james taylor
not quite as embarrassing to me as it is for him. singing the blues with a voice like that is like whipping your mule with pillows, only stupider.