...In which our heroine hits it once.

Someone else I know was talking about shifting musical tastes and it got me thinking about the way I listen to music. Ben and Lane ridicule me endlessly about not listening to whole albums and often having only one song by an artist on iTunes.

I think a lot of how people listen to music has to do with the form it came it when they first began listening to it. My dad talks about side one of Black Sabbath's Paranoid being a life changing musical moment, whereas its Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John for mom. Well I don't have a single album that shaped my musical tastes because my earliest musical obsessions came from my WOXY tapes from the Modern Rock 500. The tapes included only single songs by artists and I think that's a major reason that I don't have an issue with being a singular kind of gal.

Perusing my iTunes library today, there are a ton of single or double or triple songs from an artist and that's it. I have few whole albums that I listen to on a consistent basis. I guess this is an odd phenomenon, but it works for me.

So here's a few of Katydid's favorite one hits from the library, enjoy:

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, "Dodge Veg-O-Matic"


Neneh Cherry, "Buffalo Stance"


Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, "Still...You Turn Me On"


The Chameleons UK, "Swamp Thing"


Jon Astley, "Jane's Getting Serious"


The Moody Blues, "Nights in White Satin"


Clannad, "In a Lifetime"


Lo Fidelity All-Stars, "Battle Flag"


Buffalo Tom, "Taillights Fade"


Godley and Creme, "Cry"


Kirsty MacColl, "Can't Stop Killing You"


Morcheeba, "Trigger Hippie"


Primitive Radio Gods, "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand"