Universal Truths According to My MP3 Playlist

  • Everyone Falls in Love
  • Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
  • Every Little Bit Hurts
  • Everybody Hurts
  • Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime
  • Everything Counts
  • Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
  • Everybody's Gotta Live
  • Everybody Plays the Fool
  • Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
  • Every Woman Needs Love
  • Everybody Wants to Rule the World
  • Every Rose Has Its Thorn
  • Everybody Loves the Sunshine
  • Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

Comments

Anonymous said…
Just looked up my ipod and found
Every Picture Tells A Story (Rod Stewart)
Every Child Has A Beautiful Name (Godeigo)
16 January 2006 at 10:51
The Screwy Skeptic said…
and from my ipod i can add:

Everything's Gonna Be Alright (The Killers)
Every Day is Exactly the Same (NIN)

umm...guess it's a matter of perspective?

i may or may not also have "everything you want" by egh, vertical horizon, but i swear it's only on there for nostalgia's sake!
16 January 2006 at 23:06
Daryl said…
preetam: I have Every Picture Tells a Story on vinyl - one day I really should sit down and convert my vinyl to MP3.

screwy: Fortunately for you, "Everything You
Want" isn't actually a 'truth' kind of statement :)
17 January 2006 at 01:25
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