I often wonder what do different families do on roadtrips. Ours always listens to music and on a recent 7 hour drive that's all we did. We usually let our daughter be the DJ, and although she tends to monopolize she sometimes also takes requests. We are not the Pandora/Spotify family but are a good old classic iPod family with a 80GB library so there is usually enough choices available. I have always wanted to document what we listened to on our numerous trips mainly to see how our individual/collective tastes change but never got around to it.
This time our daughter decided to go alphabetically and this made documenting a lot easy. While most of the artists below were her choices she did ask us to pick an artist or two for a few letters of the alphabet. Some letters had more choices than others and we chose to spend more time on some letters than others. We had more choices in B, and just one in I. We also initially agreed that there would be only 1 song per artist, but we made a few exceptions along the way. After all when we came to I, she said "we obviously can't have just 1 song for Illayaraja"!
So here is our list. For the sake of brevity i have not captured the titles for each artist.
C - The Clash, Chuck Berry, Crowded House
D - Def Leppard
E - Eagles, Edith Piaf, Eric Clapton
F - Fela Kuti
G - Guns 'n' roses
H - The Hurricanes, Hollywood Gold Orchestra, Hariprasad Chaurasia (Nothing But Wind)
I - Illayaraja
J- John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Jayashri (Bombay)
K - Khaira Arby, Kishore Kumar, Kishori Amonkar
L - Lata Mangeshkar, London Philharmonic
M - Massive Attack, Madonna, Madurai Somu
N- Nina Simone, Nirvana
O - O.S.Arun
P - Police, Portishead
Big surprises this roadtrip - no T.M.Krishna or Sanjay Subramaniam for some reason, also missed REM. She spent an hour immersed in a book in the backseat, so we enjoyed almost an hour of Madurai Somu after a long time and a jugalbandi by Balamurali Krishna and Kishori Amonkar. This was also the trip she discovered A-Ha and it hurt us big time :) Overall we were happy with the company and thankful we are not yet hosting the Biebers, Swifts and Perrys of the world.
This time our daughter decided to go alphabetically and this made documenting a lot easy. While most of the artists below were her choices she did ask us to pick an artist or two for a few letters of the alphabet. Some letters had more choices than others and we chose to spend more time on some letters than others. We had more choices in B, and just one in I. We also initially agreed that there would be only 1 song per artist, but we made a few exceptions along the way. After all when we came to I, she said "we obviously can't have just 1 song for Illayaraja"!
So here is our list. For the sake of brevity i have not captured the titles for each artist.
A - Abba, A-ha, Alan Parsons Project
B - Beatles, Bangles, Beautiful South, BB King, M.Balamurali Krishna
Q - Queen
R - Radiohead, (Maharajapuram) Ramachandran
S- The Smiths, Stealers Wheels
T- Thievery corporation
U- UB40 and U2
V- Vampire Weekend
W- Who
Y- Yesudas
Z - Zakir HussainBig surprises this roadtrip - no T.M.Krishna or Sanjay Subramaniam for some reason, also missed REM. She spent an hour immersed in a book in the backseat, so we enjoyed almost an hour of Madurai Somu after a long time and a jugalbandi by Balamurali Krishna and Kishori Amonkar. This was also the trip she discovered A-Ha and it hurt us big time :) Overall we were happy with the company and thankful we are not yet hosting the Biebers, Swifts and Perrys of the world.
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