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Most people listen to music everyday at work. I know its the case for you retail types, and unless you’re a sales rep, you probably listen to music at your desk most of the day. I know I do. I also know that sometimes I get a little bit bored with the music I’ve got on my iPod.

Back in college, I’d just hope on Napster or Limewire, or some other music-stealing software program and download till my hearts content. As I got a little older I grew out of that and because I could afford it, actually starting buying music. Shocker! The stuff I had downloaded back in the day, I actually have gone and paid for. Take that and shove it record companies!

Anyway, back to being bored. On the internet today there are a ton of internet music and radio sites. Some act like normal radio, with ads ect. Some of them are way cooler. My two favorites are Pandora and Slacker. They are pretty similar in the basic idea. On Pandora you put in the name of a song or artist and it generates a “station” of similar music. You can then skip over songs you don’t want to here and rate them with a thumbs up or thumbs down. Its nice.

Slacker is a similar idea, except it is more “station” based, where it gives you a “tree” style directory of stations and you can find genre or era based stations. You can still search and create a station based around an artist too. Just like Pandora, you can skip songs (to an extent, though Slacker has a pay version that allows you unlimited skips).

I’ve been using Slacker the most lately and have been hooked on 90s hits. This a bad idea. On the one hand I can’t believe I actually am sitting through songs like “Where My Girls At?” by 702 or “Believe” by Cher. So I thought you guys might find it interesting to see a list of the recent stuff I’ve listened to. Some, terrible. Some, awesome. Some, just nostalgic. Enjoy.

Ordinary World by Duran Duran
Gettin Jiggy Wit It by Will Smith
I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred
Mother Mother by Tracy Bonham
My All by Mariah Carey
It Ain’t Over ‘Til Its Over by Lenny Kravitz
Hypnotize by Notorious B.I.B.
Drive by incubus
100% Pure Love by Crystal Waters
More Than Words Can Say by Alias
Creep by TLC
Where’s the Love by Hanson
Name by The Goo Goo Dolls
Addams Groove by MC Hammer
Show Me Love by Robin S.
Walking on the Sun by Smash Mouth
The Way You Do the Things You Do by UB40
Do You Sleep by Lisa Loeb
Rooster by Alice in Chains
Too Close by NEXT
Electric Boogie by Marcia Griffiths
Counting Blue Cars by Dishwalla
Believe by Cher
Good Enough by Bobby Brown
Wild Wild West by Will Smith
Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters
Stay by Eternal
Jeremy by Pearl Jam
No Scrubs by TLC
Thats What Love Is For by Amy Grant
Longview by Green Day
4 Seasons of Loneliness by Boyz II Men
Hold On by En Vogue
Where My Girls At? by 702
The Freshman by The Verve Pipe
If I Had No Loot by Tony! Toni! Toné!

And yes, they came on in that order. This makes for a lot of fun with the Lyric game over IM with my friends. Let me know if you want to play, and I’ll IM you some lyrics during the day for you to guess! (And no, I didn’t not actually let all the songs play all the way through.)