iPod iChing -ides of March

New month, new iPod divinations...
So, oh mighty iPod, what is in store for us this month then?

Whoosh goes the randomizer.
Woosh.

  • The Covering: Going to California - Led Zeppelin
  • The Crossing: Jóla Jólasveinn - Ragga Gísla
  • The Crown: Now and Then - Arlo Guthrie
  • The Root: Day of the Lords - Joy Division
  • The Past: The Firebird: Dance of Kashchey's Retinue
  • The Future: The Sow Took the Measles - Burl Ives
  • The Questioner: Wie? Wie? Wie? - Mozart (Magic Flute)
  • The House: Dust My Blues - Elmore James and His Broom Dusters
  • The Inside: I don't Need the Pressure Ron - Billy Bragg
  • The Outcome: Út með Köttinn - Þórður

Well, the Covering is spot on. Just hope the mountains won't actually shake...
The Crossing is "the Yule Lad" - mischief and joy, "christmas is coming"
The Crown is good, and accurate.
The Root is a bit ominous and the Past is the darkest part of the Firebird (although the ending is good).
Not sure I like the Future, at all, or the Questioner? The House is a bit of a downer also.
The Inside is Billy Bragg at his most obscure
and the Outcome is a very strange children's christmas song where the doorman throws out the christmas cat (the christmas cat is evil in Icelandic myth), but it is not done nicely.

As always, the Key as explained by Sean

I Don't Need This Pressure Ron

What was that bang? It was the next big thing
Exploding over our heads
And soon the next generation
Will emerge from behind the bike sheds
What are we going to offer them?
The exact same thing as before
But a different way to wear it
And the promise of a whole lot more

Oh, pity the pressures at the top,
The tantrums and the tears
And the sound of platinum cash tills
Ringing in their ears
Money maketh man a Tory
Don't fire that assumption at me
I like toast as much as anyone
But not for breakfast, dinner, and tea

So don't saddle me with your ideals
And spare me all your guilt
For a poet with all the answers
Has never yet been built

I see no shame in putting my name
To socialism's cause
Nor seeking some more relevance
Than spotlight and applause
Neither in the name of conscience
Nor the name of charity
Money is put where mouths are
In the name of solidarity

We sing of freedom
And we speak of liberation
But such chances come
But once a generation
So I'll ignore what I am sure
Were the best of your intentions
You are judged by your actions
And not by your pretensions

There is drudgery in social change
And glory for the few
And if you don't tell me what not to say
I won't tell you what not to do

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