1. Mozart --Piano Concerto in D minor ...If you're a big Condi Rice fan and are thinking of putting that in your iPod and listening in that order... well, I think you're going to find it a little annoying.
2. Cream -- 'Sunshine of Your Love' ...
3. Aretha Franklin -- 'Respect'
4. Kool and the Gang -- 'Celebration' ...
5. Brahms -- Piano Concerto No 2
6 Brahms -- Piano Quintet in F minor
7. U2 -- Anything ...
8. Elton John -- 'Rocket Man' ...
9. Beethoven -- Symphony No 7 ...
10. Mussorgsky -- Boris Godunov
I'm annoyed by the failure to identify an individual U2 song. If you can pick "Sunshine of Your Love" out of all the acid rock you "loved ... in college," you can pick one U2 song.
I note that "Rocket Man" is about being separated from your loved one for a "long, long time," while stranded in outer space, and "Sunshine of Your Love" is also about being separated from your loved one and "waiting so long" -- also set in an astronomical context ("I'll be with you when the stars start falling").
Finally, "Celebration" is an excellent Secretary of State song: "It's time to come together, it's up to you/What's your pleasure/Everyone around the world come on!" So's "Respect" for that matter: "I'm about to give you all of my money/And all I'm askin' in return, honey..."
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