100 Things I Love About Music

Now, this list probably isn't going to be as eclectic or interesting as my previous ones, just because while I love listening to music, I'm not as big a student of it as I am TV, film, and comics.  That being said, once my uncle pointed out I could also include aspects of musicals into the list, well, the compulsion was upon me.

1. "Bandages" by Hot Hot Heat
2. Using music for mnemonic devices
3. "Anna Begins" by Counting Crows
4. "Weird" Al Yankovic
5. Stephen Sondheim
6. The chorus to Letters to Cleo's "Here and Now"
   
7. Concept albums
8. "Agony" (and its Reprise) from Into the Woods
9. "Piece of My Heart" sung by Janis.  And only by Janis.  Nobody else.  Period.
10. Genre-bending cover songs . . . unless they violate the conditions of #9 
11. Cake's Fashion Nugget
12. Kronos Quartet's score for Requiem for a Dream   
13. The bridge of Blues Traveller's "The Hook"
14. "The Song That Goes Like This" in Spamalot 
15. Kristin Chenoweth's performance of "Glitter and Be Gay" from Candide 
16. "Jenny Says" by Cowboy Mouth
17. "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" by Lenny Kravitz
18. Barenaked Ladies
19. "Stay" by Lisa Loeb
20. "Money, Money" from Cabaret
21. Kingston Trio
22. Linda Ronstadt's Greatest Hits Volume 1 
23. "Kamikaze" by Five Iron Frenzy
24. Foo Fighters
25. "Getting Married Today" from Company 
26. B-52's Cosmic Thing 
27. "Black Sheep" by Metric
28. Mamas and the Papas
29. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler
30. The Cardigans
31. "Freak on a Leash" by Korn
32. "Big-Ass Rock" from The Full Monty
33. White Stripes channeling a song from Citizen Kane in "Union Forever"
34. Our Lady Peace's Clumsy 
35. "Lucas with the Lid Off" by Lucas
36. "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain and Tenile
37. Bjork
38. Portishead's Dummy 
39. "Inside Out" by Eve 6
40. How the hymn "Church in the Wildwoods" always makes me think of my Papaw
41. "Adelaide's Lament" from Guys and Dolls 
42. "Trigger Happy Jack" by Poe
43. "You Gotta Be" by Des'ree
44. Ben Folds
45. The dark and twisty lyrics of Ludo
46. Aimee Mann's music from Magnolia
47. "Pardon Me" by Incubus
48. "I've Got Friends" by Manchester Orchestra
49. "Sick and Beautiful" by Artificial Joy Club
50. Nirvana on MTV Unplugged 
51. Rebekkah del Rio's accoustic Spanish language cover of Roy Orbison's "Crying"
52. "My First, My Last, My Everything" by Barry White
53. The Swell Season
54. Old 97s
55. "Come Monday" by Jimmy Buffett
56. "Sci-Fi Wasabi" by Cibo Matto
57. "Smackwater Jack" by Carole King
58. "Sleep to Dream" by Fiona Apple
59. Weezer's debut album
60. "I Know" by Dionne Farris
61. Jason Mraz
62. "Dry the Rain" by The Beta Band
63. "Overkill" by Colin Hay
64. "Teenage F.B.I." by Guided by Voices
65. Allison Krause and Union Station
66. "Reflections" by Diana Ross and the Supremes
67. Sutton Foster singing "Gimme Gimme" from Thoroughly Modern Millie 
68. All the songs from "Once More with Feeling," the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical
69. "What it Takes" by Aerosmith
70. "I Hate Music" by Andrew Paul Woodworth
71. "Fallin'" from They're Playing Our Song
72. "How Shall I See You Through My Tears" from A Gospel at Colonus
73. The horn section in Blood Sweat & Tears' "Spinning Wheel"
74. The Beatles
75. The Who's Tommy 
76. "I Can't Get Next to You" by The Temptations
77. "Man of Constant Sorrow" by the Soggy Bottom Boys
78. A Mighty Wind soundtrack and its pitch-perfect folk music parodies
79. The Star Wars cantina song
80. "El Paso" by Marty Robins
81. Dada
82. "Eli's Coming" by Three Dog Night
83. Green Hornet theme song
84. Flight of the Conchords
85. "El Tango de Roxanne" from Moulin Rouge
86. Toad the Wet Sprocket's Dulcinea
87. Michael Jackson's "You Can't Win" from The Wiz 
88. "Nothing Compares 2U" by Sinead O'Connor
89. "Zombie" by The Cranberries
90. "Lightning Strikes" by Lou Christie
91. A cappella groups
92. "Knights of Cydonia" by Muse
93. "Breaking the Girl" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
94. "Push" by Matchbox 20
95. "Through With You" by Maroon 5
96. Sound of Urchin
97. "Vampires Will Never Hurt you" by My Chemical Romance
98. "Understanding in a Car Crash" by Thursday
99. "Gold Lion" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
100. Queen.

100 Things I Love About Comics

Yes, the list making bug has hit hard -- first movies, then TV, and now, comic books.  Granted, this one will be a bit more niche than the last two, but for the three people who'll actually read it -- and the one of those who will actually get 98% of the references without the aide of Google -- I hope it's worth it.  Again, I tried to keep it as varied as possible, so it wasn't just me listing 100 things I love about The Legion of Super Heroes and Alan Moore. Now, for those of you who do read this, please, leave thoughts on your favorite things about comics as well.

1. Swashbuckling Nightcrawler
   
2. Finding some new layer or detail the first half-dozen times I read Watchmen
3. Old school Justice League/Justice Society team-ups
   
4. The Squadron Supreme
   
   
5. The Kessels' Hawk and Dove run
6. M.O.D.O.K.
   
7. Projectra's execution of Nemesis Kid
8. The art of George Perez
   
9. Blue Devil as weirdness magnet
10. Ms. Marvel
    
11. Ambush Bug
12. The New Mutants watching Magnum, P.I. 
13. Steve Ditko's Dr. Strange
     
14. Kurt Busiek's Astro City 
15. John Ostrander's Suicide Squad 
16. The reveal of who the Thunderbolts really were
17. The Green Lantern Oath
    
18. Spider Jerusalem's filthy assistants 
19. The Great Lakes Avengers
    
20. Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
    
21. Constantine conning the devils to cure his cancer
22. Steve Gerber's Defenders
     
23. Havok's original costume and power signature
    
24. Ronnie Raymond/Professor Stein as Firestorm
25. Alan Davis
    
26. Babe the Blue Ox's fantasy life in Jack of Fables 
27. Ralph and Sue Dibney
28. "We have become like unto tiny refreshing gods!"
29. Tim Drake as Robin
30. The original Spider-Woman series, in all its oddball glory
31. The Dark Phoenix Saga
32. Gail Simone.
33. "One punch! One punch!"
34. Bill Willingham's Elementals 
35. Vril Dox.
36. Learning more about WWII from All-Star Squadron than I did in history class
37. Songbird
38. Tony Isabella's Justice Machine 
39. Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol
40. Beast and Wonder Man's bromance
    
41. Scourge taking out a whole bar of villains in one fell swoop
42. Barry Ween, Boy Genius
43. Phil Foglio's Angel and the Ape mini
44. Peter David
45. Pamcakes
46. Stupid stupid rat creatures in Bone
    
47. "Church and State" arc in Cerebus 
48. Wolff & Byrd: Supernatural Attorneys at Law
49. Mark Gruenwald's Quasar
50. The reinvention of Machine Man in Nextwave
51. Reinventing Arthurian legend in Mage: The Hero Discovered 
52. Joe Hill's Locke & Key 
53. Amadeus Cho
54. Alan Moore's Supreme
55. Paul Grist's Jack Staff
     
56. Star Trek loving demon Glumph in Boneyard 
57. Micronauts
    
58. Alternate timelines
59. Red Kryptonite
60. Legion of Super-Heroes tryouts
61. Tony Chu's interesting talent
    
62. James Robinson's Starman
63. Deadpool traveling back in time to Amazing Spider-Man #47
64. Parodying Dune and Harry Potter at the same time
65. Improbable team-ups
66. Frank Miller's Daredevil
67. The fact that Marvel decided to team up their Blaxploitation hero and Kung-Fu hero, and it actually turned out to be even more awesome than it sounds
    
    
68. Wise-cracking heroes
69. Dan Slott's She-Hulk 
70. Christopher Priest
71. Nova, the Human Rocket
    
72. Shared universes and continuities
73. Delirium of the Endless
    
74. T. Campell's Fans!
75. The sound effects in The Incredible Hercules
    
    
76. One-Who-Knows
77. Dynamic Duo
78. Warriors Three
79. Frightful Four
80. Fatal Five
    
81. The Secret Six
    
82. Salem's Seven
    
83. Offical Handbook to Marvel Universe
84. The Vision losing his temper
    
85. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
86. Herbie Popnecker: The Fat Fury
87. The Tarot issue of Promethea 
88. Tenzil for the defense
89. Kitty Pryde
90. Barbara Gordon using her library and information sciences abilities to fight evil
91. Clan Apis
92. Thinly veiled hero/villain analogues
93. Unstable molecules
94. The Foot Soldiers
    
95. Warren Ellis' Global Frequency 
96. Marvel's "Cosmic" books
97. Aaron William's PS238 
98. Alan Moore's From Hell
99. Phil Hester's The Wretch
100. Avengers assembling.