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.