This is just silly. I should not be stumped on the second day of BEDA. Especially NOT over music. But I think the problem (aside from my exhausted lack of coherency) is that while music is such a large, integral part of my life, it is something of a subconscious one. I don't think about it, it just comes as naturally as breathing.

As do singing and dancing along to anything and everything while in my car. I also sing and dance while doing dishes and cooking, my favorite is to dance around the kitchen to Frank Sinatra. The one place I never sing though, is the shower. And even I don't understand why I don't do it. It is baffling to me really. It's an ideal spot, a traditional spot even. But it's something I have never done.

Anyway, I could easily use this post to gush on and on about Broadway and showtunes, because while I do listen to other stuff, there's no point in denying that Broadway takes up the bulk of my focus. But I have done that before. And my buddies already excellently covered what music means in their lives and some of their favorite songs. So I decided to do something a little different.

I have 5635 songs in my iTunes. And I just checked, and 2631 of those are Broadway-related, which is about 47%. That doesn't include solo albums I've bought by Broadway artists. But I decided to just browse through the titles of those 5635 songs and see what themes I could find. It's an experiment, so let's see how it goes.

# of songs with Love in title: 280
# of songs with Hate in title: 7

Collections:

• Seventy-Six Trombones (from The Music Man)
  
• 10,432 Sheep (Audra McDonald)
  
• 1000 Paper Cranes (Motion City Soundtrack)
  
• 100s and 1000s of Stars (The Class of 98)
• 20 Years of Snow (Regina Spektor)

Events:

• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)
  
• At the Ballet (from A Chorus Line)
• Ballet at the Village Vortex (from Wonderful Town)
• Bicycle Race (Queen)
• Christy's Wedding (The Class of 98)
• Dance at the Gym (from West Side Story)
• Easter Parade (from Easter Parade)
• Glee Club Rehearsal (from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
• Oh! What a Circus (from Evita)
• The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square (from Ragtime)
• A Real Nice Clambake (from Carousel)
• Wedding Celebration & The Bottle Dance (from Fiddler on the Roof)
• A Weekend in the Country (from A Little Night Music)

Food & Drink:

• Alcohol (Barenaked Ladies)
• Banana Pancakes (Jack Johnson)
• Calamari (from A New Brain)
• Candy Cane (from The Nutcracker)
• Champagne (from In the Heights)
• Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk (Rufus Wainwright)
• The Egg (from 1776)
• Green Eggs and Ham (from Seussical: The Musical)
• Have an Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone (from Gypsy)
• Huckleberry Pie (from The Color Purple)
• Incense and Peppermints (Strawberry Alarm Clock)
• Lady Marmalade (from Moulin Rouge)
• Marzipan (from The Nutcracker)
  
• Pumpkin Soup (Kate Nash)
  
• A Spoonful of Sugar (from Mary Poppins)
• Strawberry Fields Forever (from Across the Universe)
• Vegetable Car (Joshua Radin)
  

The Body:

• Angel Eyes (Ace of Base)
• Arms of a Woman (Amos Lee)
• Blue Lips (Regina Spektor)
• Cold Feets (from The Drowsy Chaperone)
• Crooked Teeth (Death Cab for Cutie)
• Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek (Blue October)
• Head Over Feet (Alanis Morissette)
• Head Over Heels (Hit the Lights)
  
• Hold You in My Arms (Ray LaMontagne)
• I've Got You Under My Skin (Frank Sinatra)
• Let Me See His Western Nose (from Miss Saigon)
• Loose Lips (Kimya Dawson)
• Love Is My Legs (from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• Man of a Thousand Faces (Regina Spektor)
  
• One Hand, One Heart (from West Side Story)
• Slipping Through My Fingers (from Mamma Mia!)
• Two Tongues (The Swell Season)
• Words, Hands, Hearts (Yellowcard)
• Your Eyes (from Rent)

Places:

• Antarctica (The Weepies)
• Atlantic City (from Ragtime)
• Baghdad (from Kismet)
• Barcelona (from Company)
• Buenos Aires (from Evita)
• Chicago (Judy Garland)
• Coney Island (Death Cab for Cutie)
• The Devil Went Down to Georgia (The Charlie Daniels Band)
• El Salvador (Athlete)
• Gary, Indiana (from The Music Man)
• Good Morning Baltimore (from Hairspray)
• I Loved the Way She Said L.A. (Spitalfield)
• Ireland (from Legally Blonde)
• Kansas City (from Oklahoma!)
• Lady in Spain (Ingrid Michaelson)
• London Skies (Jamie Cullum)
  
• Manchester England (from Hair)
• Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis (Judy Garland)
  
• New York, New York (Frank Sinatra)
• Ohio (from Wonderful Town)
• Oklahoma? (from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• One Night in Bangkok (from Chess)
• Pennsylvania Sun (Pete and J)
• A Rumor in St. Petersburg (from Anastasia)
• San Francisco (Ingrid Michaelson)
• Virginia (from The Civil War)

Animals:

• Big Dog (from The Color Purple)
• Birds (Kate Nash)
• The Birds and the Bees (Jewel Akens)
• Blackbird (from Across the Universe)
• Butterflies (Dave Barnes)
• Diamond Dogs (Beck)
• Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes (Fall Out Boy)
• Don't Be the Bunny (from Urinetown)
• Elephant Love Medley (from Moulin Rouge)
• Falcon in the Dive (from The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Green Finch and Linnet Bird (from Sweeney Todd)
• I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Gayla Peevey)
• Little Lamb (from Gypsy)
• Message From a Nightingale (from The Drowsy Chaperone)
• Monkeys and Playbills (from [title of show])
• Mosquito (Ingrid Michaelson)
• Old Coyote (The Weepies)
• The Scorpion (from Marie Christine)
• The Siamese Cat Song (from Lady and the Tramp)

Time:

• About a Quarter to Nine (from 42nd Street)
• After Midnight Dies (from LaChiusa's The Wild Party)
• Any Minute (from 13)
• 'Bout Time (Louis Armstrong)
• Boho Days (from tick, tick...BOOM!)
• Brand New Day (Joshua Radin)
• Business Time (Flight of the Conchords)
• The Day Before You (Rascal Flatts)
• The End (Blue October)
• Every Day a Little Death (from A Little Night Music)
• Favorite Year (Dixie Chicks)
• February Song (Josh Groban)
• Forty Days (from Passion)
• Gloomy Sunday (Billie Holiday)
• June Is Bustin' Out All Over (from Carousel)
• Lazy Afternoon (Emily Skinner)
• A Long December (Counting Crows)
• Once Upon a December (from Anastasia)
• Night and Day (Cole Porter)
• Seconds and Years (from Next to Normal)

What interesting lists can you derive from your music?