Seriously, intranets are boring. The Internet, is mildly more interesting There really is a lot more to life…

It occurred to me that while this blog / site is dedicated to business technology, I’ve noticed interest in non-business related blogs (from time-to-time). So, once in a blue moon I’m going to give you a little more insight into me and “what makes me tick” so that you might be able to place a personality to the individual that all-too-often is droning on about “2.0”, employee productivity, engagement… blah, blah, blah.

So I’m going to offer up a multi-part series on “What makes me tick” beginning with my favorite songs. For my birthday this year, even though we’ve separated now, my wife and daughters bought me an iPod. It was a fantastic gift, really, because I’d forgotten how important music is in my life, in people’s lives in general, and what an up-lifting and influential affect they can have on mood, attitude, energy level, etc. So while it was difficult to narrow this list down to something more manageable, and in no particular order, here are my all time favorite songs:

1. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N’ Roses
2. Paradise City - Guns N’ Roses
3. Always on the Run – Lenny Kravitz
4. Learning to Fly – Pink Floyd
5. Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
6. So Lonely – Police
7. Message in a Bottle – Police
8. It Hasn’t Hit Me Yet – Blue Rodeo
9. Little Bones – Tragically Hip
10. Bolero – Ravel
11. Blue Danube – Strauss
12. Alive – Pearl Jam
13. Red Mosquito – Pearl Jam
14. Evenflow – Pearl Jam
15. It’s the End of the World – REM
16. Only the Good Die Young – Billy Joel
17. Chan Chan – Buena Vista Social Club
18. Definition – Kruder & Dorfmeiseter
19. Walk on the Ocean – Toad the Wet Sprocket
20. Little Heaven – Toad the Wet Sprocket
21. Kind of Blue  – Miles Davis
22. Pride – U2
23. Mass Romantic – New Pornographers
24. When I Come Around – Green Day
25. As Baile – Enya
26. LA Woman – The Doors
27. Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith
28. All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
29. Bad Moon Rising – CCR
30. Back Door – CCR
31. You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You – Dean Martin
32. Bring the Noise – Public Enemy
33. Can I Kick It – Tribe Called Quest
34. Enjoy the Silence – Depeche Mode
35. Blind Faith – New Order

Honorable mentions (just missed out, but I couldn’t pick just one song):

1. Collective Soul (too many to list)
2. Gin Blossoms (anything off the 1^st album)
3. Public Enemy (most anything from first 4 albums)
4. Sarah McLachlan (my neighbour)
5. Odds (played my high school)
6. 54-40 (went to my high school)
7. Stone Roses
8. Oasis
9. Velvet Revolver
10. Beatles
11. Mark Isham
12. Celine Dion (ha ha, just kidding )

Feel free to post your own favorites below… or to disagree with me by posting below. Part II next week on my favorite books.