Playlists Are Hard To Make

I've never been overly worried about the playlist on my iPod. Mostly I'll just load a couple of albums, hit shuffle/repeat, and be done with it. But, since The Marathon is special and all that, Colin and I decided that we'd actually pick out songs. I know that I need a good 5 hour playlist otherwise I'll probably have a mental breakdown if it starts over again and I haven't hit my time goal. Not only is it time consuming, but it's also really difficult. We spent a good couple of hours last night going through our iTunes and trying to whittle down what we wanted.

We definitely have eclectic choices in music - if you had compared our collections before we got married you'd wonder where the similarities were...

My playlist is comprised mostly of rock of all varieties: Pearl Jam, U2, Offspring, Hard-Fi, Linkin Park, etc. I've lowered my standards to have some music that I will only ever run to: ahem, Britney Spears.

Colin's is much more diverse than mine: Brad Paisley, Eminem, Glee Soundtrack, Skillet. He's also more judicial about his choices. He's got one or two songs by each artist whereas I have almost full albums by some - it's not really my fault that Pearl Jam's last album is great running music.

We did have a good laugh over the titles/lyrics of a couple of songs:

"Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2

"Get Through This" - Art of Dying

"Never Surrender" - Skillet

I don't wanna feel like this tomorrow

I don't wanna live like this today

Make me feel better

I wanna feel better

Stay with me here

And never surrender

I did tell Colin that he was not allowed to put The Barenaked Ladies' "Too Little, Too Late" on my playlist after he joked that it should be the song that was playing just after my goal time passed...

Yesterday wasn't half as tough as this time
This time isn't Hell,
Last time, I couldn't tell
This mind wasn't well
Next time, hope I'm...
Going to be good, and I would -
If I knew I was understood
And it'll be great, just wait -
Or is it too little too late?

T-minus 4 days...