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Anna's "I'm Going to See My Grandpa and His Third Wife, Whom Nobody But My Grandpa Likes and Who Is Possibly the Most Clingy Human Being on the Planet; Hence this Playlist is a Combination of Soothing and Brain Numbing and a Little Bit of Crazy" Playlist, With Sporadic Commentary

1. The Cataracs: Bass Down Low (Oh, you know this is gonna be good.)

2. Oasis: Champagne Supernova (And then I go and pick something from the very opposite end of the music spectrum. If the Cataracs were communists, Oasis would be Tea Partiers.)

3. Regina Spektor: Hotel Song (Cocaine!)

4. Smashing Pumpkins: Bullet With Butterfly Wings (This song has made it onto every playlist I have created in the past two years.)

5. Rusted Root: Send Me on My Way

6. Eddie Vedder: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

7. Old Crow Medicine Show: Wagon Wheel

8. Hey Marseilles: To Travels and Trunks

9. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes: Home

10. Lady Gaga: Judas

11. Gary Jules: Mad World (This, juxtaposed, with "Judas," is absolutely hilarious.)

12. Iron and Wine: Freedom Hangs Like Heaven

13. Halestorm: It's Not You

14. The Avett Brothers: Head Full of Doubt, Heart Full of Promise

15. Florence and the Machine: Howl

16. Rihanna: S&M (Okay, my music taste officially makes no sense.)

17. Fleetwood Mac: Go Your Own Way (Point proven.)

18. Mumford & Sons: Roll Away Your Stone

19. Flogging Molly: You Won't Make a Fool Out of Me

20. Editors: No Sound But the Wind

21. Josh Ritter: Girl in the War

22. Phoenix: 1901 (Ah, I'm starting to see inklings of logic!)

23. Far East Movement: Like a G6 (...nope.)

24. Mumford & Sons: Little Lion Man