Top 12 random Embarrassments
This month, the Crew at Design Commission was summoned by our resident developer, Parker Ault, to set our iTunes to “shuffle all” and list the first 12 songs in a designated, quite possibly embarrassing, shuffle folder. The kicker: No cheating. Some of us were caught red-handed with some rather revealing tunes. Read on for a glimpse into everyone’s top 12. We stand before you stripped of our coolness. Some of us might actually be musical dweebs.
Here are the highlights:
Peter: Managed to get away relatively unscathed, though we did get a fairly heavy dose of weird in his top 12. The Soft Pink Truth, for instance, is not something that can be accurately described in 50 words or less, so click on the Quicktime file, and prepare yourselves.
Nicole: We can’t say we were surprised. Someone was bound to get an Elliot Smith hit in their top 12. It seems Seattle is still holding a steadfast white-knuckled grip on emo music’s golden boy.
Zlata: An eclectic atmospheric collection of Norwegian techno and Seattle’s brooding Nirvana. It was bound to happen.
Parker: Actually has a song genre called ninjatune. YES! NINJAS! Right. Anyway. Lucky us, we’ve got the perfect substitute if we run out of lullabies: Ancient Church Singing of Byzantine Georgia and Rus. Whew.
Stephanie: Coming in with the worst combo yet, Big Weenie by Eminem and Damien Rice, a musical transition painful enough to go down in the record books as “Ear drums will revolt, burst, melt, ooze and likely turn mutinous! You’ll be thankful to never hear ever again.”
Jessica: We’ve got Yoko Ono! Frank Sinatra! And The White Stripes? Well, what can we say? We’ve got nothing on this. Other than the glaringly obvious, Yoko Ono?