20 random songs...

Hmm, let’s see… out of 1136:

1)“Revolutionary Etude” by Chopin
2)“Ghost Train” by Counting Crows
3)“Not For All The Love In The World” by the Thrills
4)“Polly(live)” by Nirvana
5)“Lost Souls” by Doves
6)“Prove Yourself” by Radiohead
7)“It’s Not A Fashion Statement, It’s A Way Of Life” by My Chemical Romance
8)“Lines In Sand” by Sparta
9)“Weak And Powerless” by A Perfect Circle
10)“Nowhere Fast” by Incubus
11)“Armor For Sleep” by Armor For Sleep
12)Moonlight Sonata, Second Movement by Beethoven
13)“I Smell A Lawsuit” by Dolour
14)“We Can Work It Out” by The Beatles
15)“He’s So Fine” by the Chiffons
16)“I’ve Got Two Legs” by Monty Python
17)“Bullet Proof… I Wish I was” by Radiohead
18)“Air” by Sparta
19)“You Could Make A Killing” by Aimee Mann
20)“Information Travels Faster” by Death Cab for Cutie

Not bad… I actually listen to most of these songs.

She Moves in Mysterious Ways --U2
Reach for The Sun–Polyphonic Spree
Pushing an Elephant–REM
Take On Me–Ah Ha
In My Place–Coldplay
Yellow Ledbetter–Pearl Jam
America–Simon and Garfunkle
Here comes the Sun–Simon
If Heaven Ain’t a lot Like Dixie–Hank Williams Jr.
Demo #12–Civilian (this was AudioSlave before they decided on Audioslave)
Bar Room Hero–Drop Kick Murphy’s
Numbers Rhumba–The Wiggles ( I got kids o.k.)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes–Thelonious Monk
Misterioso–Thelonious Monk
Stand In the Place Where You Live–REM
Walkin’ Blues–Eric Clapton
Plastic Jesus–Flaming Lips
Buckeye Battle Cry–OSU Marching Band (Go Bucks!)
Hurricane–Crooked Fingers
First it Giveth–Queens of the StoneAge

Just for fun, here’s the first 20 songs I’d actually listen to:

  1. “A Fool’s Paradise” by Symphony X
  2. “Melez” by Therion
  3. “Australasia” by Pelican
  4. “Ceremony of Opposites” by Samael
  5. “Strawberry Marigold” by Joydrop
  6. “Whore of Babylon” by Inkubus Sukkubus
  7. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Metallica
  8. “Astral and Arcane” by Vintersorg
  9. “Buy My Sperm” by Solefald
  10. “Buddy Holly” by Weezer
  11. “The Book I Read” by Talking Heads
  12. “Whole” by Forest Stream
  13. “Behold, The Armies” by Bal-Sagoth
  14. “Megalomania” by Therion
  15. “Leper Messiah” by Dream Theater
  16. “Celestial Voyage” by Cynic
  17. “All That She Wants” by Ace of Base
  18. “Psycho Killer” by Talking Heads
  19. “Pain Divine” by Morbid Angel
  20. “Thorns on My Grave” by Emperor

Out of 6943 on my iPod:

  1. “Callin’ Baton Rouge” by New Grass Revival
  2. “You Make Loving Fun” by Fleetwood Mac
  3. “Wilson” by Phish
  4. “Wish I May” by Ani DiFranco
  5. “Keep on Trucking” by Hot Tuna
  6. “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Joan Baez
  7. “A Heart Full of Love” from Les Miserables
  8. “The Show Must Go On” by Pink Floyd
  9. “Deja Vu” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
  10. “Brothers In Arms” by Dire Straits
  11. “Turandot” by Maria Callas
  12. “Crush with Eyeliner” by R.E.M.
  13. “Khob Khun Krub (Thai for “Thank You”)” by Medeski, Martin & Wood
  14. “Teenage Identity Song” by Bicycle Face
  15. “Slow Like Honey” by Fiona Apple
  16. “And a She Wolf After the War” by Throwing Muses
  17. “My Man” by Billie Holiday
  18. “Zooropa” by U2
  19. “Remember the Alamo” by Johnny Cash
  20. “Welcome to the Fold” by Filter

20 out of 2029

  1. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
  2. The Beatles - Cry Baby Cry
  3. The Brilliant Green - I’m So Sorry, Baby (Backing Track)
  4. Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
  5. Mini Moni - Mini Moni Telephone RingRingRing! (Hey, they’re adorable. I’m a real sucker for ‘adorable’.)
  6. Sonata Arctica - The End of the Chapter
  7. The Black Mages - Battle Theme
  8. The Brilliant Green - I’m in Heaven
  9. HIM - The First Cut is the Deepest (Live)
  10. Bif Naked - Spaceman
  11. The Beatles - Fool on the Hill
  12. Shonen Knife - Wind Your Spring
  13. The Brilliant Green - Angel Song (Gee…WinAmp seems to like BuriGuri tonight…)
  14. Metallica - St. Anger
  15. Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
  16. Duran Duran - Girls on Film
  17. Amuro Namie - I Will
  18. The Black Mages - Blue Blast - Winning the Rainbow
  19. Malice Mizer - Prelude to Decay
  20. Monty Python - Sit on my Face

Multiple hit tally:
BuriGuri = 3
Black Mages = 2
Beatles = 2

Random sidenote…I still need to rip a bunch of my CDs, but I need to clear some more room on that drive before I can really afford to. :confused:

out of 713 songs

  1. Alone I Break Korn
  2. Duality Slipknot
  3. Going Under Evanescence
  4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day
  5. Stranger Inside Shinedown
  6. The Place You’re In Kenny Wayne Shepherd
  7. Like a Stone Audioslave
  8. Headstrong Trapt
  9. Sad but True Metallica
  10. Voodoo Godsmack
    11.Circle Slipknot
  11. Big Truck Coal Chamber
  12. Smack 3 Doors Down
  13. Live Your Life Tantric
  14. Numb Drowning Pool
  15. Back Back Train Aerosmith
  16. Slither Velvet Revolver
  17. 2 Minutes to Midnight Iron Maiden
  18. London Calling The Clash
  19. Rat Salad Black Sabbath

I already know this is going to show what a flaming anime/game geek I am. :o Oh well… Out of, lessee, 5224, on Winamp with a complete list of MP3s on my computer,

Hm… I’m gonna stick to the series/game these are from, since I have no idea in most cases who performed it.

  1. Angel Sanctuary - The Ones in the Sky
  2. Galaxy Angel - Yumemitai Angel-Tai
  3. Megaman X4 - Fatal Love
  4. Dragon Ball Z - Frieza vs Spirit Bomb
  5. Utena - Nemuro Kinenan
  6. Yu Yu Hakusho - Hikari no Naka
  7. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Goblin’s Lair
  8. Card Captor Sakura - Chiisana Yousei
  9. Dragon Ball GT - opening (Spanish version)
  10. Mahoromatic - Shining of the Dark
  11. Saiyuki - Sanzou no Theme
  12. Tenchi - Yuzuha’s Collapse
  13. Maburaho - Mysterious Feel
  14. Gundam Seed - Can You Feel My Love
  15. Sailor Moon - The Chase Begins the Adventure
  16. Final Fantasy 6 - Techno de Chocobo
  17. Gundam Wing - Unknown Pressure
  18. Cowboy Bebop - Sasurai no Cowboy
  19. Rurouni Kenshin - Sobakasu
  20. Strange Dawn - Sora E

Seems to be mostly instrumentals… makes sense, I like that kind best.

Out of 2,499 songs on iTunes:

Whirlwind - Roxy Music - Siren
Air - Incredible String Band - Wee Tam
Komid (Bonus Track) - Björk - Medulla
Citadel - The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
Daydream Believer - Shonen Knife - (no album title because I pulled it from some giveaway sampler CD)
Pas-de-Deux - Stravinsky - Agon
Train in Vain (Stand by Me) - The Clash - London Calling
The Seventh Day - Jan Hammer - The First Seven Days
Last Year’s Man - Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
It’s Saddam Shame! - The Firesign Theatre - All Things Firesign
Rondo (69) - The Nice - Nice
My Science Fiction Twin - Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
Carrickfergus - Bryan Ferry - Bride Stripped Bare
Ornithology - Charlie Parker - Ornithology
Every Little Thing - The Beatles - Beatles For Sale
Lip Service - Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year’s Model
Lonesome Cowboy Burt - Frank Zappa - 200 Motels
Sweep,Chimney Sweep - Steeleye Span - Storm Force Ten
The Window - Leonard Cohen - Recent Songs
Peace & Love - Groovy Judy - Groovy Judy
The Night Watch - King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black

Okay, I like this one better:

Ted End - John Entwistle - Smash Your Head Against the Wall
No Head No Backstage Pass - Funkadelic - Let’s Take It to the Stage
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat - Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
The Great Deceiver - King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
Wood Floors - Lisa Germano - Slide
In Every Dream Home a Heartache - Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Politician - Jack Bruce - More Jack Than God
Small Heads - Lisa Germano - Excerpts from a Love Circus
Casino Boogie - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
I Could Write a Book - Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
“Attack! Attack! Attack!” - Frank Zappa - Civilization Phaze III
Walk With Me - Alice Coltrane - Translinear LightAM
Sysyphus Part 3 - Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Les Longues Nuits d’Isaac - Ange - Au-Delà du Délire
II. Kraftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell - Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1
How Many More Years - Howlin’ Wolf - Moanin’ In The Moonlight
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
The “In” Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio - The In Crowd
Cowboy - Lisa Germano - Happiness/Inconsiderate Bitch

You have excellent taste! (although I personally prefer FF VII’s Electric de Chocobo).

Anyway, out of 406 music files (some of them are things like a recording of a 400 hertz tone, so I wouldn’t call them music exactly):

  1. Wierd Al Yankovic- Jerry Springer
  2. Wierd Al Yankovic- Amish Paradise
  3. Nobuo Uematsu- Honeybee Manor theme, FF VII
  4. Nobuo Uematsu- Cait Sith’s theme, FF VII
  5. Chrono Trigger- Special Battle Music
  6. Super Metroid- Fighting Mother Brain
  7. Nobuo Uematsu- Jenova Absolute, FF VII
  8. FF VI soundtrack- Cayenne
  9. Super Metroid- Brinstar Overgrown with Vegetation
  10. They Might Be Giants- The Sun is a Mass of Incandescant Gas
  11. FF VI- Shadow
  12. F-Zero- Fire Field theme
  13. FF VI- Strong wind
  14. FF IV- Fabul theme
  15. Chrono Trigger- Theme of the Mystics
  16. Nobuo Uematsu- Judgement Day, FF VII
  17. Super Metroid- Samus Aran’s Final Cry
  18. Gordon Lightfoot- The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald
  19. FF VI- Devil’s Lab
  20. Chrono Trigger- The Final Battle

Wow. I knew I had a lot of video game music, but I didn’t know I had this much! Luckily .spc s take up very little disc space!

Out of 2044:

  1. Talking Heads - “The Girls Want to Be With the Girls” [More Songs About Buildings and Food]
  2. Sonic Youth - “Hey Joni” [Daydream Nation]
  3. The Delgados - “The Actress” [Peloton]
  4. The Buzzcocks - “Something’s Gone Wrong Again” [Singles Going Steady]
  5. Wire - “Go Ahead” [Chairs Missing]
  6. Stereolab - “Tomorrow is Already Here” [Emperor Tomato Ketchup]
  7. Pavement - “Silence Kit” [Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain]
  8. The Magnetic Fields - “If There’s Such a Thing as Love” [i]
  9. Luna - “Bewitched” [Bewitched]
  10. The Soft Boys - “Positive Vibrations” [Underwater Moonlight]
  11. Robyn Hitchcock - “Uncorrected Personality Traits” [I Often Dream of Trains]
  12. Talking Heads - “Artists Only” [More Songs About Buildings and Food]
  13. Joy Division - “Atrocity Exhibition” [Closer]
  14. Spoon - “Paper Tiger” [Kill the Moonlight]
  15. Pavement - “Our Singer” [Slanted and Enchanted]
  16. Meat Puppets - “New Gods” [II]
  17. Throwing Muses - “Pearl” [Red Heaven]
  18. The White Stripes - “Ball and Biscuit” [Elephant]
  19. The Fall - “Green Eyed Loco-Man” [50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong]
  20. The Beatles - “Love You To” [Revolver]

Yeah, iTunes sucks at being random - two songs from More Songs About Buildings and Food? And even though I only have the one Meat Puppets album, I find that I always get something from it every time I shuffle. I would have expected Belle and Sebastian and Pulp to make the top 20 - interestingly, they make #21 (“Common People”) and #22 (“There’s Too Much Love”).

On iPod - out of 315 songs:

  1. Mr. Me - TMBG
  2. Trust in Me - Belly
  3. Stuck in the Middle with You - Stealers Wheel
  4. Pencil Rain - TMBG
  5. She Bangs - Ricky Martin
  6. Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
  7. Modern Love - David Bowie
  8. I Miss You - Bjork
  9. Not a Pretty Girl - Ani DiFranco
  10. Dusted - Belly
  11. Jean Genie - David Bowie
  12. Get the Party Started - Pink
  13. Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede
  14. Can’t Not - Alanis Morissette
  15. Jersey Girl - Holly Cole
  16. Body Language - Queen
  17. Hot Pants - The Donnas
  18. Two Ladies - Cabaret (Original Broadway Soundtrack)
  19. Slow Dog - Belly
  20. Every Ghetto Every City - Lauryn Hill

Susan

Is that a live cover, or did you mean to type Metallica? Because if it’s the former, I’ve simply GOT to hear that.

Another batch

  1. Hayashibara Megumi & Suzuki Musami - Otomi no Inori (Remix)
  2. Tommy February6 - je t’aime je t’aime
  3. ZONE - Boku no Tegami
  4. The Brilliant Green - Hello Another Way
  5. Sloan - People of the Sky
  6. Molotov - Desño Rolas
  7. HIM - Wicked Game (Live)
  8. AFI - The Boy Who Destroyed the World
  9. Shonen Knife - Elmar Elevator
  10. Beatles - Blackbird
  11. Shonen Knife - Get the Wow
  12. HIM - Beyond Redemption
  13. Moody Blues - I’m Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band
  14. M - Pop Music
  15. Tak Matsumoto - Nothin’ But the Blues
  16. Apocolyptica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
  17. Black Tape For a Blue Girl - Knock Three Times
  18. Bowling For Soup - Jimmy Neutron Theme
  19. The Who - Squeezebox
  20. Metallica - Until it Sleeps

Yeah, I did mean Metallica, but I guess my fingers slipped…

It’s taken from an official bootleg of Dream Theater playing Master of Puppets–the whole album–live in 2002. You can order it here.

It’s not the original, but nothing is, and it’s pretty damn good.

Back at work today. Here’s my list of songs played from 1:07 to 2:15 PM. Apparently it was Jamacian Music Day on my iTunes.

  1. “Cold Sweat” by The Upsetters from Return of Django
  2. “Housewife’s Choice” by Derrick and Patsey from Roots of Reggae Vol 1: Ska
  3. “Peach” by Prince from Greatest Hits (Disc 2)
  4. “When Will I See You Again?” by The Three Degrees from Ultimate Soul Collection (Disc 2)
  5. “Give My Love to Rose” by Johnny and June Carter Cash from Live from Folsum Prison
  6. “Love You Too” by Bongwater from Box of Bongwater (Disc 2), originally from Double Bummer
  7. “I’ll Follow the Sun” by The Quarryman aka The Beatles from Rarities 2
  8. “Uptight Tonight” by Reigning Sound from Too Much Guitar
  9. “The New Pollution” by Beck, live in Cologne, Germany, 2001 from Detsche Disco aka Fuck Me Harder, Beck!
  10. “Kissability” by Sonic Youth from Daydream Nation
  11. “Silent River Runs Deep” by the Gaylettes from Roots of Reggae Vol 2: Rock Steady
  12. “One Reporter’s Opinion” by Minutemen from Double Nickels on the Dime
  13. “King Tubby’s Explosion Dub” by King Tubby from Trojan Dub Box Set (disc 2)
  14. “Choice of Color” by Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions from The Curtis Mayfield Anthology 1961-1977 (disc 2)
  15. “Whistling in the Dark” by They Might Be Giants from Flood
  16. “Rats” by The Grifters from Crappin’ You Negative
  17. “Suzy Lee” by The White Stripes from The White Stripes
  18. “It’s Expected I’m Gone” by Minutemen from Double Nickels on the Dime
  19. “The Real Thing” by Bongwater from Box of Bongwater (disc 4) originally from The Power of Pussy.
  20. “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)” by The Arcade Fire from Funeral

In the “totally inexplicable sign of editing intellegence by iTunes” department, we have 4 ska/rocksteady/reggae/dub songs today, where yesterday we had none.

In the “favorite album as a sign of poor randomization” department, we have two songs each from three albums, although Double Nickels on the Dime has 40 songs and the other two are multi-disc box sets.

In the "further sign of poor randomization department, song 21 was “Please Please Me”, which was on my list yesterday.

I’ll play! Here is a random 20 from my recently played.

1 The Replacements - Beer For Breakfast
2 Lords Of The New Church - Live for Today
3 Dictators - Teengenerate
4 Distillers - Lordy Lordy
5 Cake - Going The Distance
6 Fear - New Yorks Alright
7 Johnny Cash - Flesh And Blood
8 Agent Orange - The Last Goodbye
9 Dead Boys - Ain’t It Fun
10 The Birthday Party - Mutiny In Heaven
11 Angry Samoans - STP Not LSD
12 Big Audio Dynamite - Rush
13 The Cure - Love Song
14 B.B. Gabor & Girls Of The Future - Nyet Nyet Soviet
15 Rough Trade - All Touch
16 Johnny Cash - Hurt
17 Leonard Cohen - Closing Time
18 Link Wray & Robert Gordon - Red Cadillac & A Black Moustache
19 Joni Mitchell - Paved Paradise
20 Slow - Have Not Been The Same

Out of 19,466:

1-The Zutons-“You Will You Won’t
2-Dayglo Abortions-“Nikki Dial”
3-The Byrds-“I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better”
4-The Sweet-“Burn On The Flame” (live)
5-Samhain-“Unholy Passion”
6-Butthole Surfers-“Something”
7-Against All Authority-“Centerfold”
8-Pagans-“Eyes Of Satan”
9-Blasters-“Common Man”
10-The Dictators-“Steppin Out”
11-Bob Marley-“She’s Gone”
12-Ministry-“Hizbollah”
13-The Now Time Delegation-“Handle Me With Care”
14-Crass-“You’re Already Dead”
15-Butterfly Joe-“Life Is Better In The Movies”
16-Subversives-“Know Your Enemy”
17-Motorhead-“Step Down”
18-They Might Be Giants-“Dig My Grave”
19-Kal Ray-“I Want Some Of That”
20-Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros-Long Shadow”

First 20 from an iPod mini shuffle:

Drift - Brian Eno
By-Tor and the Snow Dog - Rush
Dark Star - Grateful Dead
The Music Never Stopped - Grateful Dead
On a Holiday - Brian Wilson
Big Railroad Blues - Grateful Dead
Drums Grateful Dead
Soukora - Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder
Tear in Your Hand - Tori Amos
Manina - Johnny A
My Goodness - James Newton Howard
Thankful - Me’Shell Ndegeocello
Every Grain of Sand - Emmylou Harris
Love and Anger - Kate Bush
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
No Love - Erykah Badu
I need a Miracle - Grateful Dead
Me and a Gun - Tori Amos
Sometimes - Erykah Badu
Mississippi Half Step - Grateful Dead

Went on live Grateful Dead downloading binge last week. I should dedicate a whole iPod to it.

Out of a mere 775 songs (I’m working on it!):

  1. Dire Straits - Calling Elvis
  2. R.E.M - Sweetness Follows
  3. Wallflowers - Invisible City
  4. Elliott Smith - I Better Be Quiet Now
  5. Barenaked Ladies - Never Is Enough
  6. Grandaddy - Saddest Vacant Lot In All the World
  7. Cake - Sad Songs and Waltzes
  8. Cake - When You Sleep
    9 The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
  9. R.E.M - The Great Beyond
  10. Fountains of Wayne - It Must Be Summer
  11. The Shins - New Slang
  12. The Allman Brothers - Jessica
  13. Barenaked Ladies - One Week
  14. Benny Goodman - Goodnight My Love
  15. Barenaked Ladies - Call and Answer
  16. Dido - Thank You
  17. Beth Waters - Sweaters
  18. Howie Day - Help
  19. Cake - Comanche

Wow. I only have ONE Barenaked Ladies album, and this completely skips any of the harder stuff I’ve got. Still, not terrible.