Missing song, and what ever happened to ...

Oops. In the previous post, I was listing songs, and knew a song by Jennifer Knapp, but could not remember the name. Then, before I went and looked it up, I published my blog.

The song is: Undo Me (by Jennifer Knapp)

On another topic, do you ever have an artist that you really like, then they just fall off the face of the earth? Here are some of mine that I can think of off the top of my head:

• Miss Angie - I heard that she got married, but I had hoped she would continue writing / singing. No such luck, I guess.
• The Tuesdays - They put out a second album and it didn't do so well, and they split up. Too bad. Even though they were a girl band (not that there is anything wrong with that!), they had a great sound. I saw that Laila Samuels was still recording on her own, but the sound was quite a bit different from The Tuesdays' sound.
  
• Amy Jo Johnson (ok, I've GOT to stop dissing on her -- she's a big actress now!)

Hmm, these are all girls / girl bands. I wonder if there is a pattern here??

I was given an interesting mental challenge ... ok, not specifically given, but someone else was talking about it and I thought, "wow, that is tough."

Choose your 10 favorite songs (at this time) and burn me a mix CD. I assume this is to gauge your listening "style," and to get to know you better. So, assuming I was going to be stuck somewhere a long time (desert island (with a CD player and power?), space station, cargo container going across the Atlantic, whatever), what 1 CD of 10 songs would I choose?

After thinking on this a while, here are mine:

• Final Fantasy 7 / Nobuo Uematsu - One-Winged Angel
• Squeeze - Tempted
• Weird Al Yankovic - Everything You Know is Wrong
• Aerosmith - Walk This Way (classic version, not the Run DMC version)
• Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
• Elvis Costello - Peace, Love, and Understanding
  
• Jennifer Knapp -
  
• Avril Lavigne - Skater Boi
  
• Rush - Tom Sawyer
  

Wow, there are so many great artists, similar to those above, that didn't even make the list:

• Chris Tomlin
• Billy Joel
• Yasunori Mitsuda (and other Video Game composers)
• Crowded House / Split Enz
• Elvis Presley
• Randy Travis (and other country or "new country" artists)
  
• Amy Jo Johnson (ok, kidding)
  

And, even when an artist is represented, it is really just representing a whole bunch of other songs (FF 7 - Aeris' Theme or Fighting; Weird Al - any of his parodies; Jennifer Knapp - other Christian artists like Chris Tomlin and Michael W Smith). And, look at what is NOT represented:

• rap (although there are some songs that I like, the bulk do not appeal to me)
• hip-hop (ditto)
• ska (never really got into it)
• jazz (love it some, like Branford Marsallis, but couldn't justify dropping another song)
• classical (ditto)
• etc., etc., etc.
  

So, what are yours? How well do these jive with what you would pick? And how do they define you?