100 Desert Island Songs

So my brother came up with a list of his top 100 songs and, naturally, I had to follow suit. So. Given some totally bizarre desert-island anti-modern-technology rules, if I could only keep 100 songs from my iTunes library, what would they be? (This ends up being somewhat more expansive then an album list, which is forthcoming.)

First, a few stats:
Genre break down:
Alternative/Alternative-Rock/Garage Rock/Other Punk/Post-Punk/Punk-Pop/Rock: 24
Grunge/Hard Rock: 10
American Traditional Rock/Classic Rock/Mainstream Rock: 9
Alternative Pop/ Indie Pop/Synth Pop: 8
Classical/Choral: 6
Psychedelic: 6
Original Film&TV Music/Soundtrack: 5
Blues, Boogie & Southern/ Honky Tonk & Outlaw/Nashville Sound/Rockabilly: 4
British Indie Rock/Pop/British Invasion: 4
Stage Musicals: 4
Folk/Contemporary Folk: 3
Classic Pop Vocals: 2 (that would be Patti LuPone & Liza Minelli, which is how you know this list is complete and desert island approved.)
Oldies: 2
Singer-Songwriter: 2
Adult Contemporary: 1
Celtic: 1
Classic Soul/R&B: 1
Dance: 1
Hop Hop/Rap: 1
Jazz Vocals: 1
Latin Pop: 1
New Wave: 1
Surf Rock: 1
Thrash & Speed Metal: 1
World Fusion: 1

Year break down (although some of these are recording years, not composition years. For instance, the 80s includes a recording of a piece from the 12th century.)
2010-2014: 6
2000-2009: 26
1990-1999: 25
1980-1989: 7
1970-1979: 18
1960-1969: 15
1950-1959: 1
1833: 1
1720: 1

And now, the list (also here on youtube). In alpha order (and with the songs that overlap with my brother's list bolded):
#1 Crush - Garbage
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
American Girl - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Another Day - RENT OBC/ Jonathan Larson
Anything Goes - Patti LuPone/Cole Porter
Ave Maria (arr. David McIntyre) - San Francisco Girls Chorus
Baba O'Reilly - The Who
Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Call Me - Blondie
Carmen: Act 3: Halte! Quelqu'Un Est Là Qui Cherche À Se Cacher! - Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Etc.; Herbert Von Karajan: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Paris National Opera Chorus/Georges Bizet
Cold War - Janelle Monae
Criminal - Fiona Apple
Delilah - The Dresden Dolls
(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Down On Me - Big Brother & the Holding Company
Dream On - Aerosmith
Duet - Philip Glass (performed by Sugar Vendil, Trevor Gureckis)
El Tango de Roxanne - Ewan McGregor, Jose Feliciano and Jacek Koman
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
End Transmission - AFI
Even Flow - Pearl Jam
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues ft. Kristy MacColl
The Foggy Dew - The Chieftains & Sinead O'Connor
Foolish Games - Jewel
Freedom '90 - George Michael
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
Glycerine - Bush
Go with the Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley/Leonard Cohen
Happy Home - Garbage
Hey Pretty - Poe
The Highwayman - Loreena McKennitt
House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Hysteria - Muse
I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
I'd Like - Freshlyground
I'm Shipping Up to Boston - Dropkick Murphys
In Like the Rose - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Intro/Sweet Jane - Lou Reed
Jai Ho - A.R. Rahman ft. Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah & Mahalaxmi Iyer
Jenny Was a Friend of Mine - The Killers
Jessica - The Allman Brothers Band
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Killer Queen - Queen
The Kiss - Trevor Jones
Knights in white satin - Moody Blues
Lights - Journey
Lonely for a Lifetime - Dana Fuchs
Mack the Knife (live) - Ella Fitzgerald/Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht
The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
Marat/Sade: Homage To Marat; Marat We're Poor; People's Reaction; Poor Old Marat - Judy Collins/Richard Peaslee
Marry Me a Little - Raul Esparza/Stephen Sondheim
Mein Herr - Liza Minelli/ Kander & Ebb
Midnight Radio - John Cameron Mitchell
Momma Look Sharp -  Scott Jarvis (I think?) / Sherman Edwards
New Fang - Them Crooked Vultures
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
O Euchari - Emma Kirkby, Gothic Voices / Hildegard von Bingen
Oh What a Circus - Antonio Banderas & Madonna/ Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice
Ojos Asi - Shakira
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Pipeline - The Chantays
Proud Mary - Ike and Tina Turner
Ready to Go - Republica
Reasons to be Beautiful - Hole
Resistance - Muse
Ride - Lana Del Rey
Runaway - Del Shannon
Satellite Mind - Metric
Save Me - Joan Armatrading
Shake it Out - Florence + the Machine
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
The Snow Leopard - Shearwater
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Spark - Tori Amos
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Suffragette City - David Bowie
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Time of the Season - The Zombies
Toccata and Fugue in d minor - J.S. Bach
Tonight, Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
Touch Me - The Doors
Two Years Before the Mast - Astronautalis
Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
Veni, Veni Emanuel - San Francisco Girls Chorus (French trad. melody)
Waking Up - Elastica
Walk - Foo Fighters
Walkin' After Midnight - Patsy Cline
Whatsername - Green Day
White Room - Cream
Winter (Allegro Non Molto) - A. Vivialdi
The Wolf - Phildel
Wonderwall - Oasis
Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The funny thing is that he and I picked a lot of the same artists, but different songs (Walkin' After Midnight as opposed to Crazy; Sound of Silence vs. Only Living Boy in New York; Down on Me over Me and Bobby McGee; Touch Me vs. Light My Fire; The Man Comes Around over Walk the Line; Smells Like Teen Spirit > Come As You Are, and I picked two AFI songs to his one (Morningstar)) I do like that he managed to get a Cab Calloway in there, along with Moby, Gnarls Barkley, Magnetic Fields, and the Beach Boys (although he excluded classical songs). And already today, I wonder at what point the last Cranberries/Distillers/No Doubt/Adele/Beck song bit the dust, or when I lost the second Green Day/Tori Amos song, or Destroy Everything You Touch by Ladytron or Repatriated by the Handsome Furs...

Mostly the entire exercise makes me really, really glad to live in an era of mp3 players.

Golden Globe Wishes

I'm so far behind on my last batch of 2014 films that I'm not going to be able to make any good predictions on what is going to win today. But I can quickly go through what I'm hoping will win:

Best Motion Picture, Drama 
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything

I still need to see both Boyhood and Foxcatcher, but I'm going Boyhood on this one. Imitation Game wasn't good enough, and I've been hearing rumbles that Foxcatcher makes some weird decisions with the narrative.

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Jennifer Aniston, Cake
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

It will probably be Julianne, but I haven't seen it, and I have yet to see Wild. But Rosamund Pike was wonderful in Gone Girl. 

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
David Oyelowo, Selma
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler

Hands down.

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

Again, yet to see Boyhood and A Most Violent Year, but of the remaining three, definitely Emma Stone.

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Edward Norton is awesome in Birdman, but J.K. Simmons for sure.

Best Director
Ava DuVernay, Selma
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Birdman
David Fincher, Gone Girl
Richard Linklater, Boyhood

I'd really be okay with any of these. But I so enjoyed Inarritu's vision and audacity. 

Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Gillian Flynn, "Gone Girl"
Alejandro González Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., "Birdman"
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"
Graham Moore, "The Imitation Game"

Caveat on Boyhood (4/5!), but I'm going Birdman. I'd be happy with Grand Budapest, too. 

Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical        
Birdman
       
The Grand Budapest Hotel
       
Into the Woods
       
Pride 
       
St. Vincent

Hey! I've seen 4 of these, too! Birdman. Obviously. Grand Budapest was wonderful, too. Pride was cute, but not great, and Into the Woods just didn't quite hit the mark.

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Bill Murray, St. Vincent
Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice
Christoph Waltz, Big Eyes

Yet to see Inherent Vice (stupid late roll-out), and I'm glad to see Ralph Fiennes, on here, but Michael Keaton for sure. I can't imagine how I'm going to choose who to root for for the Oscars between him and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Amy Adams, Big Eyes
Emily Blunt, Into the Woods
Helen Mirren, The Hundred Foot Journey
Quvenzhané Wallis, Annie
 
Ummm.... a) has Maps to the Stars even been released? And I get that Quvenzhane is cute, but no. That leaves us with Emily Blunt.

Best TV Series, Drama 
The Affair
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
House of Cards

GOOD WIFE. GOOOOOOOD WIIIIIIIIIFE!

Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama 
Claire Danes, "Homeland" 
Viola Davis, "How to Get Away With Murder" 
Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife" 
Ruth Wilson, "The Affair" 
Robin Wright, "House of Cards"

Best Actor in a TV series, Drama
Clive Owen, The Knick
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan 
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
James Spader, The Blacklist
Dominic West, The Affair

James Spader? Seriously? This is a weird, weird group.

Best Comedy
Girls
Jane the Virgin
Orange Is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Transparent

I've heard great things about Transparent and Jane the Virgin. And I've only seen one episode of Silicon Valley, so I really have no dog in this fight. 

Best Actress in TV Series, Comedy
Lena Dunham, "Girls"
Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"
Gina Rodriguez, "Jane the Virgin"
Taylor Schilling, "Orange is the New Black"

?

Best Actor in a TV Series, Comedy
Louis C.K., "Louie"
Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"
Ricky Gervais, "Derek"
William H. Macy, "Shameless"
Jeffrey Tambor, "Transparent"

Seriously? Ricky Gervais? I don't know here. Again, I hear great things about Jeffrey Tambor. I'm happy to see Shameless finally recognized for something, but the show finally went so dark this season, I couldn't finish it. Although I hear Jimmy comes back, and I do want to know what happens to Lip, so... maybe I'll catch up at some point.

Best TV Movie or Mini-Series
Olive Kitteridge
Fargo
The Missing
True Detective
The Normal Heart

I haven't seen The Normal Heart (well, this adaptation), partly because Patrick Breen and Matt McGrath were SO good in the 2012 version at ACT. I want to put some more distance between that version and seeing Mark Ruffalo take it on. Also I really, really enjoyed True Detective, but I thought it could have ended stronger, whereas Fargo was pretty taught the whole way through. I'd be totally okay with True Detective though, just because they don't do TV direction at the globes, and I love Cary Fukunaga and I love, love, loved the cinematography.

Best Supporting Actor in TV Miniseries or TV Movie
Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
Colin Hanks, Fargo
Bill Murray, Olive Kitteridge
Jon Voight, Ray Donovan

I'd be totally fine with Colin Hanks, too. 

Best Supporting Actress in TV Miniseries or Movie
Uzo Aduba, "Orange is the New Black"
Kathy Bates, "American Horror Story"
Joanne Froggatt, "Downton Abbey"
Allison Janney, "Mom"
Michelle Monaghan, "True Detective"

Is this for Coven? Because I will always, always love Kathy Bates for this:

I'd also be fine with any of the others that aren't Joanne Froggatt, because I hate her. And seriously, Downton is supposed to be terrible now. Stop nominating it.

Best Actor in a TV Miniseries or Movie
Martin Freeman, Fargo
Woody Harrelson, True Detective
Matthew Mcconaughey, True Detective
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart
Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo

See, this is a group of nominations that makes sense. They all did great work. 

Best Actress in a TV Miniseries or Movie
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge
Frances O'Connor, The Missing
Allison Tolman, Fargo 

Animated Animated Movie 
Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie

I haven't actually seen it, but Laika forever. 

Best Foreign film
Force Majeure (Sweden)
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (France)
Ida (Poland)
Leviathan (Russia)
Tangerines (Estonia)

Le sigh. I haven't been able to see ANY of these. But I really want to see Force Majeure, Ida, and Leviathan. So, one of those three, please. 

Best Original Song 
"Big Eyes," Big Eyes, Lana Del Rey
"Glory," Selma, John Legend and Common
"Mercy Is," Noah, Patty Smith and Lenny K [Ed: Patti. Honestly, journalists.]
"Opportunity," Annie [Ed: Sia, I think.]
"Yellow Flicker Beat," The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I, Lorde

I love Lana, but Big Eyes is not one of my favorites of hers. Same for Patti. But I really, really enjoy Yellow Flicker Beat.  I'd also be happy with Glory.

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game
Johann Johannson, The Theory of Everything
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Gone Girl
Antonio Sanchez, Birdman
Hans Zimmer, Interstellar

Hmmm - I really liked Gone Girl, after I thought Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross made a bit of a misstep on Dragon Tattoo. I personally loved the sound mix in Interstellar, and quite enjoyed the score there. I'm a little surprised Alexandre Desplat wasn't up for Grand Budapest, but I thought the score in the Imitation Game was very good. The drumming in Birdman was so singular that it really stood out, although I thought occasionally too much. I'd be okay with any of them (haven't heard Theory of Everything. I think Hans Zimmer edges it out just because I thought the sound was one of the best parts of Interstellar.

2014 mixes - Mashups

Since I (finally!) went to Bootie this year, I thought it would be a good time to make a mix of some of my favorite mashups:

1. Run This Town and Fugue - Johann Sebastian Bach vs. Jay-Z ft. Rihanna and Kanye [DJs from Mars]
2. Bad Things Roll with the Devil - Marilyn Manson vs. Christina Aguilera vs. Jace Everett vs. Rihanna vs. Lady Gaga vs. Katy Perry vs. Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. Drowning Pool vs. 666 vs. Mike Oldfield [Titus Jones]
3. Cruelly Good Summer Feeling - Flo Rida vs. Avicii vs. Ace of Base vs. Sak Noel vs. Jason Derulo vs. Stanton Warriors vs. Aura Dione vs. Tatu vs. Adele vs. Travie McCoy vs. Groove Armada vs. Britney Spears [DJ Schmolli]
4. Hello Girl, Let's Party Til the End - Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette vs. Britney Spears vs. LMFAO vs. No Doubt vs. Sum 41 vs. Vanilla Ice [Titus Jones]
5. Any Way You Gotta Feeling - Journey vs. Black Eyed Peas vs. Robin Thicke [Voicedude]
6. Stupid Girls, Holla if You Hear Me - Garbage vs. 2pac [?] {Video has been taken down. Sadness.}
7. We Are Never Ever Getting the Sweater - Taylor Swift vs. Weezer [A Plus D]
8. Jump on the Fifth - House of Pain vs. Walter Murphy vs. Soulwax [The Bootleague]
9. Eine Kleine Big Booty Bonkers - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart vs. Dizzee Rascal vs. Bombs Away [DJs from Mars]
10. Call Me A Hole - Nine Inch Nails vs. Carly Rae Jepsen [pomDeter]
11. Call Me Uprising - Blondie vs. Muse [CjR]
12. Crazy Diamonds in the Midnight Sky - M83 vs. Rihanna vs. TLC vs. Seal vs. Carly Rae Jepsen vs. Shirley Bassey vs. Incubus vs. The Eagles [DJ Schmolli vs. Lobsterdust]
13. Dance Alarm - Nicki Minaj vs. Avicii vs. Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen vs. Britney Spears vs. Eminem vs. Lady Gaga vs. Taio Cruz vs. Cascada vs. Etta James vs. Dev [Titus Jones]
14. Otherside - Red Hot Chili Peppers Bootleg Club Mix [DJs from Mars]
15. Levels that I Used to Know - Gotye ft. Kimbra vs. Avicii [?]
16. Timber Party - Pitbull ft. Ke$ha vs. Rihanna vs. Rednex vs. Garbage [Shahar Varshal]
17. Stardust Kids - David Bowie vs. MGMT [A plus D]
18. I Want It All/We Will Rock You Mashup - Queen [Sucker Punch Sndtk]
19. 99 Problems (Linkin Park Remix) - Jay-Z vs. Linkin Park
20. Overtime - Smashing Pumpkins vs. Three 6 Mafia vs. Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock vs. Laid Back vs. Wonderland Avenue vs. Fleetwood Mac vs. 69 Boyz vs. Folk Implosion vs. Technotronic [Girl Talk] {I actually love All Day best, but.... that's its own list.}
21. Don't Stop Believin' In This Love on Earth - Lady Gaga vs. Belinda Carlisle vs. Journey vs. Madonna vs. Ke$ha vs. Bruno Mars vs. Leona Lewis vs. New York Outlaw [Titus Jones]
22. Dance Dreams - Lady Gaga vs. Eurythmics [Divide & Kreate]
23. Bella's Finals: Price Tag/Don't You (Forget About Me)/Give Me Everything/Just the Way You Are/Party in the USA/Turn the Beat Around [The Barden Bellas, Pitch Perfect Sndtk]
24. Bittersweet Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay-Z vs. the Verve [?]
25. Titanium 500 - David Guetta ft. Sia vs. The Proclaimers vs. Midnight Oil [DJ Schmolli]
26. Last Bulletproof Dance Night - Katy Perry vs. Robyn vs. LaRoux [Marc Johnce]
27. Crazy Logic - Gnarls Barkley vs. Supertramp vs. Rockwell [Arty Fufkin]
28. Royals Hotel California - Lorde vs. The Eagles vs. Massive Attack [Shahar Varshall]

2014 Mixes - Mix 2

The even more random assortment:

1. Panic at the Disco - Casual Affair

2. Bastille - Things We Lost in the Fire


3. Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Club Clique Remix)

4. Chvrches - Science/Visions

5. Club 8 - Into Air

6. Holy Ghost! - Dumb Disco Ideas


7. Tiësto - The Feeling ft. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool. Technically Outside Lands, but I was at another stage.

8. Watsky - Pumped Up Kicks remix. Outside Lands.

9. Mika - Elle Me Dit. (His Boum Boum Boum is a more fun video.)

2014 mixes - Mix 1

I didn't listen to a lot of new music this year, so I'm mixing in my Outside Lands songs with the things I did listen to this year. Videos embedded where they exist. Links to the songs without videos. 2010 lives here, 2011 here, here and here, 2012, and 2013. Only just realizing that 2008 and 2009 never got their own posts. Whoops!

[Ed: Fixed now! 2008 and 2009.]

1. Lana Del Rey - Cruel World

2. Ruby Friedman Orchestra - You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive. Justified closes out each season with a rendition of this song. This is my favorite so far. (What do we think Boyd's chances are of making it out of the final season alive?)

3. Brody Dalle - Meet the Foetus/Oh the Joy ft. Shirley Manson. These fucking women. I like the first half of the song, but I am obsessed with Oh the Joy when Shirley joins in.


4. Tom Petty - Runnin' Down a Dream. Outside Lands. Tom Petty was awesome. He played all the hits and it was wonderful. (Did not realize there was a Little Nemo video for this song.)


5. White Denim - At Night in Dreams


6. Queens of the Stone Age - I Sat by the Ocean. Speaking of Mr. Brody Dalle... I saw them play the Bill Graham in April and it was easily one of the best concerts I've been to. They were absolutely amazing.

7. TV on the Radio - Satellite

8. Alt-J - Left Hand Free


9. Spoon - I Turn My Camera On. Outside Lands. So I ended up closing out Sunday at OL by managing to be in the front row for Spoon, The Flaming Lips, and The Killers. It was AMAZING. Spoon was fab. (There is a video for this song, but I can't find a high quality version.)

75 Musical Numbers

Hullo, blog. It's been awhile.

My brother has set himself a challenge over on Facebook: 50 (western) musical numbers, one song per show, no jukebox musicals allowed (but I'm bending that on occasion). I'm going with 75, so I can reuse composers. Gilbert & Sullivan were banned for being operettas, although RENT, Les Mis, Porgy & Bess, and Phantom were allowed in.... All That Jazz is also all standards, even with some lyrical changes. (Well, maybe not Take Off With Us, but... it's really no Everything Old is New Again and There Will Be Some Changes Made.)

So. Here are my 75. (Shockingly, Peter Pan will NOT be making this list.)

Yet to hear and thus ineligible: La Cage Aux Folles, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Rose, Urinetown, Next to Normal, The Last Five Years, In the Heights, Tick Tick Boom, New York New York, The Wild Party, Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, If/Then, Carousel, Chess, See What I Wanna See, Victor/Victoria, Dames, Once Upon a Mattress, Candide, Gigi, Paint Your Wagon, The Band Wagon, Top Hat, Merrily We Roll Along, Mame, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Easter Parade, How to Succeed In Business, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pal Joey, Purlie, State Fair, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, Summer Stock, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, No No Nannette, Passing Strange, Curtains, The Light in the Piazza, Bat Boy the Musical, Oh Kay!, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Ragtime, Miss Saigon, Funny Face, the Mystery of Edwin Drood, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the Boy from Oz, Woman of the Year, A Little Night Music, Follies, Applause, Fiorello!

Composers represented multiple times:
Sondheim (5)
Lerner & Loewe (4)
Kander & Ebb (3)
Oscar Hammerstein (3) (Richard Rodgers didn't work on Show Boat)
Andrew Lloyd Webber (3)
Cole Porter (3)
Ira Gershwin (3) (George didn't work on A Star is Born)
Alan Menken (3)
Stephen Schwartz (3)
Tim Rice (3) (2 with Elton John and 1 with Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Honorary Mentions - those shows I haven't seen all the way through, but I enjoy select songs from them:
South Pacific - Some Enchanted Evening (Rodgers & Hammerstein). I've never actually seen South Pacific, so I only know a couple of the songs. But I'm currently listening to Bloody Mary and it is... something else.
Wonderful Town - Ohio (Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolph Green).
Sunset Boulevard - As If We Never Said Goodbye (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Don Black/Christopher Hampton).
Songs for a New World - Stars and the Moon (technically a revue, but I love this song, Jason Robert Brown).
Sunday in the Park with George - Finishing the Hat (Stephen Sondheim).
Gypsy - Everything's Coming Up Roses (Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim).
The Fantastics - Try to Remember (Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones). Jerry Orbach was just the best.
Stormy Weather - Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
Jesus Christ Superstar - I Don't Know How to Love Him (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice)
42nd Street - 42nd Street  (I may have seen this. I can't quite quite recall if I've seen the whole thing or just clips. Some of those backstage musicals blur a bit. Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
Holiday Inn - White Christmas (Irving Berlin)
Annie Get Your Gun - There's No Business Like Show Business (Irving Berlin)
Damn Yankees - Lola (Richard Adler/Jerry Ross)
Man of La Mancha - The Impossible Dream (Mitch Leigh/Joe Darion)
Guys & Dolls - Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat (Frank Loesser)
Gold Diggers of 1935 - Lullaby of Broadway (Harry Warren and Al Dubin)
Jeckyll & Hyde - Bring On the Men (Yes, I have heard that this is supposed to be one of the worst musicals ever written. But I love the way Linda Eder sings this number. Frank Wildhorn)

The Top 75 (these first couple are not good musicals, but have at least a good number in them):
75. Tie: Burlesque - Bound To You (Christina Aguilera/Samuel Dixon/Sia (?!)) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - the Barn Dance, which is a dance and not a song, but whatever (Saul Chaplin and Gene De Paul).

74. Annie - It's the Hard Knock Life. (Charles Strouse/Martin Charnin). I'll be honest, I think of Jay-Z when I hear this opening now...

73. Tommy - The Acid Queen (The Who).

72. Les Girls - You're Just Too Too (Cole Porter). I love Kay Kendall in this.

71. Fame - Fame (Michael Gore).

70. Mary Poppins - Chim Chim Cheree (Richard & Robert Sherman).

69. Beautiful - 1650 Broadway Medley (multiple). Totally a jukebox musical, but I thought this medley was actually quite clever.

68. An American in Paris - I Got Rhythm (*cough*Gershwin jukebox*cough* But this list was light on Gene Kelly). (Also seen in Girl Crazy)

67. Bedknobs and Broomsticks - Portobello Road (Richard and Robert Sherman, partial clip). It's strange to me that Mary Poppins is so much more beloved.

66. Bye Bye Birdie - Telephone Hour (Carles Strouse/Lee Adams).

65. Meet Me In St. Louis - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane, half jukebox, half original).

64. The King & I - Shall We Dance (Rodgers & Hammerstein).

63. Beauty & the Beast - Tale as Old as Time (Alan Menken).

62. Hairspray - You Can't Stop the Beat (Marc Shaiman/ Scott Wittman).

61. Oliver - Consider Yourself (Lionel Bart).

58. On the Town - New York, New York (Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolph Green).

57. Hello, Dolly - Put On Your Sunday Clothes (Jerry Herman).

56. On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - On A Clear Day... (Lerner/Loewe).

55. Spring Awakening - Mama Who Bore Me (Duncan Sheik/ Steven Sater).

54. Cats - Grizabella, the Glamour Cat/ Memory (Andrew Lloyd Webber).

53. Lion King - He Lives in You (Elton John/ Tim Rice).

52. Pippin - Simple Joys (Stephen Schwartz). (Patina Miller Aaaahhh.)

51. Nine - Unusual Way (Maury Yeston).

50. Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog - Brand New Day (Jed & Joss Whedon/Maurissa Tancharoen).

49. Spamalot - Where Are You (Eric Idle/John Du Prez/Neil Innes). I'm going Christian Borle on this one, because he CRACKS ME UP in Spamalot. His smile when Lancelot comes in still delights me. (Tragically the video of just this song doesn't seem to be on Youtube any more, so enjoy Sara Ramirez, as well.)

The Emmy Noms

I knew I was likely to be unhappy with the Emmy nominations. I didn't expect them to be so atrocious.

And lazy. Just unbelievably, disappointingly lazy.

The Good
Best drama:  Breaking Bad, True Detective. And I'm okay with House of Cards, but not over the Good Wife or the Americans. Ditto for True Detective being in the WRONG CATEGORY.
Best comedy: I have yet to see Silicon Valley, Louie or Veep, but those all seem like fine choices. Orange is the New Black is good.
Best mini: Fargo. I'll say AHS, too, for the Kathy Bates bits, but lets all hope next season is a return to form.
Best actor - drama: Bryan Cranston, Kevin Spacey, Matthew McConaughey. I'm surprised Woody Harrelson got in for lead, but I think he was as good as McConaughey, without the flashy speeches.
Best actress - drama: Juliana Margulies - THANK GOD, Robin Wright and Lizzy Caplan.
Best supporting actor - drama: Aaron Paul, Josh Charles - THANK GOD. I'm okay with Peter Dinklage, even though I don't think it was his best season.
Best supporting actress - drama: CHRISTINE BARANSKI! YAAAY! Lena Headey, too.
Best actor - comedy: Nice to see William H. Macy up for Shameless, and I suppose he is sometimes funny, even though the show is not a comedy. I don't really have a dog in the fight otherwise.
Best supporting actress - comedy: Kate Mulgrew!! Yay!!
Best actor - mini/movie: Cumberbatches. Sure, fine. Billy Bob Thorton was wonderful in Fargo - I hope he wins.
Best actress - mini/movie: The AHS ladies. As always.
Best supporting actor - mini/movie: Colin Hanks! Yay! I'm so glad he made it in. He did such a great job in that role. I have yet to see the Normal Heart, so no opinions there.
Best supporting actress - mini/movie: this may be the only category that makes me happy. All the AHS ladies, plus Alison Tolman, who was completely wonderful in Fargo and absolutely deserves to win.
Best animated: Archer! FINALLY.
Best guest actor - drama: Dylan Baker! Yay!
Best guest actress - drama: Allison Janney. I SO hope she wins. She was heart-breaking in Masters of Sex. Margo Martindale, too.
Best guest actress - comedy: Uzo Aduba, Laverne Cox and Natasha Lyonne all made it in.

As for Title Design, I quite like Black Sails, although True Detective is fine, too. I actually think Masters of Sex could've been something better. 

The Bad and the Ugly
God, just so much in this category. Mostly just that the majority of nominations are re-hashes, without any seeming thought. Sure, we've nominated Jon Hamm before. Let's do it again.
Best drama: No Good Wife, no Americans, no Masters of Sex, no Hannibal. More on Hannibal here.
Best comedy: Eh, I would have loved to see Parks and Rec. It wasn't its best season, but Ben convincing Leslie to take the National Parks job at the Marin Headlands made me cry (starts at about 16:45).
Best mini: The White Queen. Which was canceled. Bonnie and Clyde, which did not get great reviews. And the fact that True Detecitve is being submitted under Drama because of some arcane bylaw that "created by Nic Pizzolatto" rather than "created for television by Nic Pizzolatto" in the credits invalidates it as a mini series, despite being an anthology show IS INSANE.
Best actor - drama: No Matthew Rhys. That's just awful. He SO deserved to be up. No Michael Sheen. Jeff Daniels is up, which is just vomit-inducing. I didn't think it was a good idea to put Mads Mikkelsen in for lead, but who knows if he would've made it in supporting - that's the category with the most competition. I mean - he could've been up for Best Actor at the Oscars last year - it's awful of the Emmys not to recognize how brilliant he is as Hannibal.
Best actress - drama: No Eva Green, no Keri Russell, no Tatiana Maslany.
Best supporting actor - drama: No Dean Norris, no Michael Kelly, still no Walton Goggins, no Peter Sarsgaard, no Jeffrey Wright. Dean Norris is the one that really hurts - he deserved to be up for Hank's final run. I'm used to Boyd being overlooked. Kinda.
Best supporting actress - drama: Joanne Froggatt was so astoundingly godawful on Robin Hood that I think she should be banned from acting awards, on general principal. No Annet Mahendru, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Jennifer Carpenter, Carolina Dhavernas or Maisie Williams.
Best actress - comedy: Taylor Schilling? Really? Poor Emmy Rossum. She is so good on that show, and if William H. Macy is going to get nomination, then she really deserves one more. 
Best supporting actor - comedy: No Jeremy Allen White, Christopher Evan Welch, Nick Offerman or Charlie Day.
Best supporting actress - comedy: No Merritt Wever? She gave the best speech last year!
Best actor - mini/movie: Martin Freeman - he was in many ways the weakest link in the Fargo cast.
Best guest actor - drama: No one from Hannibal. Boo.
Best guest actress - drama: No Charlotte Rampling, no Carrie Preston, no Gillian Anderson, no Julianne Nicholson, and, now that I think about it, no Laura Benanti.
Best guest actor - comedy: No Walton Goggins or Jonathan Banks.

The Factoids
Up for Best Song are Key and Peele's awesome Les Mis song and the 2013 Tony opener.
Key & Peele and Inside Schumer are up for writing for a Variety Series. I kind of want Amy to win for the Sorkin parody.
The Soup: True Detective is up for Short-format. What is this?
Rian Johnson is NOT up for directing Ozymandias.
EVEN SLEEPY HOLLOW GOT NOMINATED. HOW DO YOU SHUT OUT HANNIBAL

Matt Zoller Seitz on the Emmy snubs here. The best part:
"I also need just to go on record here and say (1) the worst ten minutes of Hannibal display more tonal control and visual imagination than the best hour of almost any other drama you can name, even the great ones; and (2) it should have been nominated here; and (3) it doesn't matter that it wasn't nominated because 20 or 30 years down the road, young students of cinema and television will ask their elders if they watched Hannibal during its first run, and they'll all lie and claim they watched every second, like people do today when young viewers ask about Twin Peaks."

The full nominations (with the good bolded):
Outstanding Drama Series
"Breaking Bad"
"Downton Abbey"
"Game of Thrones"
"House of Cards"
"Mad Men"
"True Detective" - shouldn't be in this category, though