Slog - Comments on Justify Your Pod, Bitch http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod There are a number of ways to really get to know someone, from watching them eat to travelling with them to another country to hiding tiny video cameras in their bathrooms. But if you really want to see behind someone's mask, without breaking the law, there's only one thing to do: investigate their iPod. Such investigation is the driving force behind Justify Your Pod, the new Stranger podcast in which a chosen subject--a Stranger staffer, a local politician, a visiting rock star--is forced to defend the five most incriminating songs on his or her iPod or other MP3-playing device. Installment... Copyright 2008 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:12:31 -0800 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:24:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by sweets If you're going to copy The Onion, you should at least go all the way...put it on random and make 'em defend whatever comes up.

]]> sweets http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594292 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594292 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:33:43 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Actually, we copied it from our sister paper The Portland Mercury.

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594296 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594296 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:39:02 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Justify your spelling. "Shmader"?

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594344 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594344 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:31:40 -0800 Comment by Monique I think that Schmader fears The Reaper...


]]> Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594394 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:06:23 -0800 Comment by David Schmader I do NOT!

I am nothing if not obedient to BOC.

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594405 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594405 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:11:20 -0800 Comment by Gomez I'll consider this an unspoken invitation to play along:

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Wham! - Freedom
Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
and there's a huge logjam for 5th, though I think the name Eminem tells you more than enough

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594439 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594439 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:39:10 -0800 Comment by Brandon Dismuke I don't know why it is but Schmader, you seem to get more shit on the slog then any one else. Anyways... I'll stand by "justify my pod" I thought it was great. Make sure to get Dan to justify!

]]> Brandon Dismuke http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594461 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594461 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:58:20 -0800 Comment by elswinger So I guess I am supposed to be embarrassed that I have every Blue Oyster Cult album on my I---Pod, including seven versions of (Don't Fear) The Reaper? I'm not.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594526 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594526 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:41:29 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Elswinger: This isn't about embarassment. It's about justification. I'm sure you could explain your love of BOC quite eloquently. In fact, I hereby invite—dare?—you to do so.

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594533 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594533 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:50:45 -0800 Comment by Megan Seling You have SEVEN versions of "(Don't Fear) the Reaper"?? I'm totally jealous. I must hear them.

]]> Megan Seling http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594548 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594548 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:08:43 -0800 Comment by genevieve I don't have it on my ipod, but it is my (not so) secret shame that I think Simpson 2.0's "Boyfriend" is a fun song.

I actually just got an ipod at xmas, so I don't have that many songs on it yet. The only one that I think might require some justification is "Blue (DaBaDee)" by Eiffel 65.

]]> genevieve http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594750 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594750 Music Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:31:54 -0800 Comment by elswinger Since I turn 43 next Monday it’s easier to understand why I like (Don’t Fear) The Reaper. Blue Oyster Cult’s Agents of Fortune came out about the same time I got my first stereo and pair of headphones. I first heard the song when I used to listen to KISW (when it was it really “less talk, more rock”) and The Reaper was played pretty much every night. I never actually bought a BOC album until 1986 when I went to TESC and one of my roommates were totally into them. He showed me how their albums prior to Agents of Fortune are the best, but each album since has had at least a half dozen great songs. I’m not a musician so I don’t know an arpeggio from an asshole, but I found their music more interesting than any of the other hard rock or metal of the time. For an uber-cool factor, Patti Smith used to hang with them when she and they all got their start in New York and co-wrote some of their songs and even spoke and sang on one (Revenge of Vera Gemini) which is on Agents, (and keyboardist Allen Lanier played guitar and keyboards (and co-produced Smith’s debut album Horses).

I could keep going on but I sense people stopped reading a while ago, but I wanted to make a correction to my previous post. I don’t have seven versions of (Don’t Fear) The Reaper. I have seventeen.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594896 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594896 Music Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:58:55 -0800 Comment by atsao I love the addition of Justify Your Pod, and agree that Dan must be subjected to this as soon as possible.

]]> atsao http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594904 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c594904 Music Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:11:37 -0800 Comment by Baxter Goddamnit. I thought I was free from getting Christmas songs stuck in my head for at least a few more months. Thanks a lot, My Chemical Romance.

]]> Baxter http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c595095 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/justify_your_pod#c595095 Music Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:24:55 -0800