The Power of Three

Blender (US) - March 23, 2004

She's come a long way since her wild days of sneaking into gay nightclubs and dating Marilyn Manson. But 28 year old Charmed star Rose McGowan still thinks a good night out calls from some AC/DC

The CD That Reminds Me of Being a Nerd
PULP - THIS IS HARDCORE

"If you've ever felt like a complete nerd, there's something eminently believable about Jarvis Cocker, with his big, thick glasses and sickly pallor. Growing up, I went to nine schools in 11 years. Before that I was in Italy, living in a commune with a bunch of freaky hippies. I bounced between places a lot: marriage-divorce, marriage-divorce, marriage-divorce. In some towns, I'd be the hot, popular thing, and then in the next I'd be a total freak."

The CD I Didn't Understand In The 5th Grade
PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION - PURPLE RAIN

"I came from Italy when I was 9. I hadn't been doing a lot of pop music listening there, just classical. Why? I don't know. Why did we have to read the Bible every day? I don't know. So Purple Rain was the fifth grade. I didn't really understand what 'Darling Nikki' meant, but my brother and I would listen to it and snicker together. I knew there was something bad, but I wasn't sure what it was. I've figured it out since then."

The CD That Helped Me Sleep At Night
PATSY CLINE - THE PATSY CLINE STORY

"When I was 11 or 12, I wandered into a movie theater in Eugene, Oregon, and it had Sweet Dreams playing. I walked in thinking it was going to be some teen movie - but it was Patsy and her life story. I promptly went out and bought a tape, and I used to listen to it so much that all the print wore off both sides. I was obsessed. I could go to sleep only with that playing at night - until I was 19."

The CD My Sisters Made me Feel Creepy About
ROD STEWART - GREATEST HITS

"I love me some Rod Steward, mm-hmm. 'D'ya think I'm sexy' is my favourite. When we lived in Colorado, my little sisters used to put on performances of it. There was a big fireplace, and it had a ledge like a miniature stage coming out of it, and they would do their dances to that song in their pyjamas and slippers. Even when I was 11, looking at them being 7 and 8, I thought there was something disturbing about the situation."

The CD that Makes Me Feel Lonely
FRANK SINATRA - WHERE ARE YOU

"I started listening to Frank when I was 14. I had a horrible crush on him. Before he had to start wearing a toupee, he was dead on, wildly handsome. This is his great heartbreak period. If one is in that mood - and I've had so many of those periods - you can definitely go there with him. I have the ability to feel intense loneliness when I'm among 500 people or all by myself. I think I'm just born that way - the melancholy Irish."

The CD For Obligatory Head Banging
AC/DC - BACK IN BLACK

"I had to have hear this when I was 14 - if I was in a town with a lot of hicks, they would always be blasting it out of their corvettes. It's my favourite record to rock out to: you can drink too much, and be somewhere they play something off Back In Black and you must head bang. I've got long hair; you can do some mean head spinning. Then the next day you feel like you've been in a car crash."

The CD That Reminds Me To Going to Gay Nightclubs
SINEAD O'CONNOR - THE LION AND THE COBRA

"Here we go with the melancholy again. I bought The Lion and the Cobra in Seattle when I was 12. I hadn't heard it - I just liked her face on the poster. It reminds me of sneaking into gay nightclubs in Seattle, staying up until 7 in the morning, sleeping in parks - I had told my father I was staying the night at a girlfriend's house. I was doing a lot of strange, strange things. But I got being crazy out of my system very early.

The CD For Scrubbing the Floor
VARIOUS ARTISTS - LA CONFIDENTIAL SOUNDTRACK

"The movie was great. God, Russell Crowe was hot...but I digress. It was really the songs. 'Acc-cent-tchu-ate the Positive' and Kay Star singing 'Wheel of Fortune,' can't be beat. I love that period, the 40's and early 50's - my mom always listened to that kind of music so I grew up with it. I was listening to this yesterday, very loud, because I was outside on my hands and knees scrubbing algae off my tile."

The CD That Makes Me Glad I Don't worry About My Man
DOLLY PARTON - JOLENE

"So much country music is about keeping your man or their man done them wrong. I listen to it with slight terror of what could have been if my life had taken a different path - and you're the kind of woman who's living for a man, and you're life is predicated on whether he's coming home or running around with somebody else. I grew up with people around me who had that attitude towards men but I don't think it will happen to me."

The CD For Acting Out My Murder Fantasies
NICK CAVE - MURDER BALLADS

"The murder ballads are all stories. Maybe it's the acting, but in 'Where the Wild Roses Grow' with Kylie Minogue, I imagine myself as that character, having my head beaten in with a stone. I don't really care for the ones where it's loud and raucous yelling and the men are getting killed. I don't really relate. I prefer the songs where women are getting killed."

AND MORE

Areosmith – Greatest Hits.
Christina Agulieria – Stripped,
Josephine Baker - The Fabulous Josephine Baker,
Mandy Barnett – I’ve Got The Right To Cry.
Shirley Bassey - The Best Of,
Pat Benatar – Best Shots,
Blur – The Best Of,
BT – Emotional Technology,
Maria Callas– LA Divina.
Vic Chesnutt – About To Choke,
Cocteau Twins – Heaven Or Las Vegas,
Concrete Blonde – Bloodletting,
Sheryl Crow – The Globe Sessions,
The Cult – Love,
The Darkness – Permission To Land,
Eminem – The Eminem Show,
Connie Francis – The Very Best Of,
Judy Garland – In Hollywood,
Ghost Blazer – Act Right,
God Lives Underwater – Empty,
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction,
Guns N’ Roses Gn’r Lies,
Geri Halliwell – Schizophonic,
PJ Harvey – Is This Desire,
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love,
Heatmiser – Mic City Sons,
Bill Idol – Rebel Yell,
Iggy & The Stooges – Raw Power,
Etta James – The Essentials,
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Honey’s Dead,
Jet – Get Born,
Kelis – Tasty,
Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual,
Peggy Lee – The Marvellous Miss Lee,
Peggy Lee – The Early years,
Julie London – The Very Best Of,
Loretta Lynne - All-Time Greatest Hits,
Madonna – American Life,
Madonna – I’m Breathless,
Madonna – Music,
Memphis Minnie – Hot Stuff,
George Michael – Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1,
Kylie Minogue – Body Language,
Kylie Minogue – Fever,
Moby – Play,
Monster Magnet – Dopes To Infinity,
Morcheeba – Who Can You Trust?,
Night Ranger – Rock In Japan,
Nivarna – Bleach,
Nivarna –Nevermind,
No Doubt – Rock Steady,
Oasis – What’s The Story Of Morning Glory?
Outkast – Speaker boxxx/The Love Below
Pink Floyd – A Collection of Great Dance Songs,
Portishead – Dummy,
Elvis Presley – The Sun Sessions,
Pulp – Different Class,
Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf,
Radiohead – Kid A,
Otis Redding - Love Songs,
The Righteous Brothers - The Best Of,
Marty Robbins - All-Time Greatest Hits,
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed,
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me,
Frank Sinatra - Portrait Of Sinatra,
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra's Swingin' Session,
The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always,
Elliott Smith - Figure 8,
Britney Spears - In The Zone,
Dusty Springfield - The Very Best Of,
Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits,
Shirley Temple - Americas Sweetheart,
Justin Timberlake - Justified,
TLC - Fan Mail,
Various Artists - Natural Born Killers Original Soundtrack,
Various Artists - Bogie Nights Original Soundtrack,
The Verve - A Storm In Heaven,
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons,
Dinah Washington - The Essentials,
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Polka Party!
Dwight Yoakam - This Time