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Playlist: Beethoven and Gaga

Sonata Lee Jul 6, 2010

Submitted by Mike Burns

Omaha, Ne.

Truth is, when traveling on business I prefer listening to Marketplace Money podcasts, and I also listen to Planet Money from NPR on the airplane.

At the hotel I use my iPod Shuffle, which is loaded with Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Simon and Garfunkle, Chicago Symphony – Beethoven’s 9th, Meat Loaf, and a few others. I don’t like to watch TV in the hotel – makes it seem lonelier — so I set up Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and turn the lights down. For the next two hours it’s just me and the symphony.

  • The Essential Bruce Springsteen – Bruce SpringsteenBuy
  • Live From New York City, 1967 – Simon and GarfunkelBuy
  • The Fame Monster – Lady GagaBuy
  • Beethoven 9th Symphony – Georg Solti Conducting the Chicago Symphony OrchestraBuy
  • Bat Out of Hell – Meat LoafBuy

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