# A Musical Taste Snapshot: Your First 10 Random Playlist Songs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108 "2006-09-17T22:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ACC\_Expat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@ACC\_Expat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ACC_Expat)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/61 "2006-09-20T05:58:01Z")
OK, here I go…from the Shuffle setting on my iPod (currently ~400 songs). I picked the first song by scrolling with my eyes closed. 1. **Zoot Suit Riot** –Cherry Poppin’ Daddies 2. **Mr. Grieves** –TV on the Radio 3. **Hey You Handsome Vulture** –Sunset Rubdown 4. **Evil** –Interpol 5. **The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill** –The Beatles 6. **Fighter** –Christina Aguilera 7. **I Saw Three Ships** (yes, the Christmas carol) 8. **Rocky Racoon** –The Beatles 9. **Slow Hands** –Interpol 10. **The Cheap Seats** –Alabama OK, I have a metric ton of Beatles music on my iPod, so I’m not shocked that two of their songs came up (but both from the White Album). I only have five Interpol songs in my mix, so I’m surprised that two came up (again, both from _Antics_). None of my classical pieces came up, and I have a lot of country music, so I’m surprised that only one song came up in that genre (and that it wasn’t by George Strait). ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/62 "2006-09-20T16:33:08Z")
Here you go. 1. Road to Nowhere - Ozzy Osbourne 2. Learning to Fly - Foo Fighters 3. When I’m Gone - Three Doors Down 4. Mr. Brownstone - Guns N Roses 5. No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature - Guess Who 6. Freewill - Rush 7. I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack 8. Nobody Left to Run With - Allman Brothers 9. Comin’ Down - Meat Puppets 10. Panhandlin’ Prince - Ugly Kid Joe I don’t know what this “says about me” - my husband says what it says is that “my taste in music SUCKS” - but he likes the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix so what does HE know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/63 "2006-09-20T17:20:46Z")
A Simile Will Go A Long, Long Way - Ted Weems & Orch. Limehouse Blues - Jack Hylton & Orch. Whistle While You Work - Larry Clinton & Bea Wain The Greener The Grass - Reginald Foresythe New Music I Heard - Scat Davis & Waring’s Pennsylvanians Hot Biscuits/Farewell Blues - Alex Bartha & Orch. Heigh Ho, Everybody - The 7 Blue Babies Hot Cha Selections - Ben Selvin & Orch. Early Morning Blues - Ambrose & His Orch. You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’ - Isham Jones & Orch. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/64 "2006-09-20T17:38:47Z")
No offense, but this is the most boring thread ever ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/65 "2006-09-20T17:41:19Z")
Jimi Hendrix- Rainy Day, Dream Away System of a Down - Metro Nightwish - Slaying the Dreamer Benny Goodman - Body and Soul Grateful Dead - Saint of Circumstance Rush-The Twilight Zone Led Zeppelin - In My Time Of Dying King Crimson - A Power to Believe I: a Capella Dire Straits - One World Ivanhoe - Deeper Ground I have to say I’m pleased how that worked, though I’m suprised I hit a jazz song (I have maybe 10) and completely missed Yes ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/66 "2006-09-20T17:42:34Z")
[QUOTE=mr. jp] No offense, but this is the most boring thread ever [/QUOTE] Stop reading. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/67 "2006-09-20T20:21:26Z")
[QUOTE=mr. jp] No offense, but this is the most boring thread ever [/QUOTE] I’m not familiar with their work - can you hum a few bars? ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/68 "2006-09-20T20:32:41Z")
My music and also my husband’s- probably most of the stuff in the folder is his. _The Summoner_- Martin O’Donnell _Part of Me_-Linkin Park _The Night that Pat Murphy Died_-Great Big Sea _We’re the Great_- Yokko Kanno _Karma Police_- Radiohead _A Certain Slant of Light_- Tea Party _3 AM_-Matchbox 20 _Foundations of Stone_- Howard Shore (LotR) _Tears in the Rain_-Vangelis _Macross Plus_ This is totally not representitive of what I listen to at all. Weird. I guess my music forms a fairly small part of the collection. No Arabic and no EBM/goth on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/69 "2006-09-20T21:10:55Z")
[QUOTE=mr. jp] No offense, but this is the most boring thread ever [/QUOTE] Who was it that said when people say no offense, they almost always follow it up with something offensive? I feel really bad for you, **mr. jp** , that someone has tied you in a chair and glued your eyelids open so that you are forced to read this thread. My sympathies. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/70 "2006-09-20T21:54:33Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] I feel really bad for you, **mr. jp** , that someone has tied you in a chair and glued your eyelids open so that you are forced to read this thread. My sympathies. [/QUOTE] Maybe we could make up a “Bored” playlist for him… Is That All There Is?, Peggy Lee Bored Teenagers, The Adverts I’m Bored, Iggy Pop and of course Six Pack, by Black Flag: I got a six pack, and nothin’ to do I got a six pack and I DON’T NEED YOU! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/71 "2006-09-21T02:47:10Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] _3 AM_-Matchbox 20 [/QUOTE] I may have to withdraw that marriage proposal. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/72 "2006-09-21T04:24:54Z")
Joy Division – The Only Mistake Radiohead – No Surprises Barenaked Ladies – Born Human Cut Copy – Bright Neon Payphone The Magnetic Fields – Very Funny Barenaked Ladies – Celebrity Jian Ghomeshi – Baby Don’t Lie XTC – I’d Like That The Beatles – Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey The Smiths – Oscillate Wildly Hee hee 🙂 I’m very excited that Born Human came up…it’s one of my favorite songs of theirs 🙂 (I’m surprised no TMBG came up, since I have literally hundreds of songs by them on here…) ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/73 "2006-09-21T05:28:36Z")
Harry Chapin - Cats In The Cradle Soul Decision - Faded Queensryche - Empire - 07 - Resistance Alan Jackson - Greatest Hits Volume II (D#1) - 09 - Pop A Top Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love Real Men of Genius - Mr. Giant Taco Salad Inventor Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight Four Aces, The - Love Is a Many Splendored Thing Chopin - Prelude, Op.28 No.18 in F minor Pretty eclectic collection. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/74 "2006-09-21T13:46:43Z")
The Hurt Inside - Gary Moore I Can’t Do Without Your Kiss - Golden Earring Wind-Up Toy - Alice Cooper It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way - Jim Croce The Mighty ‘A’ - Blitzkrieg Robot Man - Scorpions Shame on You - Rage Story of the Blues - Gary Moore Yellow Pearl - Philip Lynott Crank Call - Billy Idol That’s an odd list, and two Gary Moore songs, and both blues. ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/75 "2006-09-22T07:53:56Z")
1. “Only when you’re gone” by Madrugada 2. “No le Metas Mano” by Los Amigos Invisibles 3. “So week people” by Mu 4. “Details of the war” by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 5. “The clapping song” by Shirley Ellis 6. “218 Beverley” by Manitoba 7. “Music is the Victim” by Scissor Sister 8. “3rd planet” by Modest Mouse 9. “Theme from Blinking Lights” by Eels 10. “For the damaged” by Blonde Redhead ---
**Author:** ![Leechboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Leechboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leechboy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/76 "2006-09-22T10:23:58Z")
Golem - Voivod Evey’s Story - Dario Marianelli Torn Apart - Rain Fell Within For Tonight - Flowing Tears Outtathaway! - The Vines Concerning The Ufo Sighting Near Highland, Il - Sufjan Stevens Limbs - Agalloch Dedicace - Ennio Morricone Fight the Fight - Living Colour Reflections - From Autumn to Ashes Heaven Stood Still - Human Drama Hmmm, that came out a little to goth. Morning Theft - Jeff Buckley White Lexus - Mike Doughty Romeo Had Juliette - Lou Reed Absolute Past - Fear Before the March of Flames Greenfields - Faultline Citysong - Luscious Jackson Weakness - Inspiral Carpets Relate To Me - Jack Johnson More Drugs - Denis Leary The Queen - The Legion of Hetheria ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/77 "2006-09-22T11:26:28Z")
Led Zep seem to be leading the field at the moment… ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/78 "2006-09-22T12:47:59Z")
OK, here goes - _The Night Owls_, **Little River Band** _Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad_, **Meat Loaf** _He Went to Paris_, **Jimmy Buffett** _Carved in Stone_, **Robert Shaun Beebe** (a friend of mine who just put out his own album) _One Less Set of Footsteps_, **Jim Croce** _Rock and Roll Never Forgets_, **Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band** _The Boxer_, **Simon & Garfunkel** _Brothers in Arms_, **Dire Straits** _Empty Chairs_, **Don McLean** _One Bad Stud_, **The Blasters** (from the movie _Streets of Fire_) OK, that wasn’t TOO embarassing! ---
**Author:** ![Webner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/0ea827/32.png) [@Webner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Webner)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/79 "2006-09-22T12:53:32Z")
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet Vangelis - So Long Ago, So Clear Damn Yankees - High Enough Jan Hammer - Crockett’s Theme Outfield - Your Love Duran Duran - New Moon on Monday The Shins - Weird Divide Jackson Five - Candy Girl George Harrison - What is Life The Beatles - Back in the USSR ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108/80 "2006-10-24T00:23:25Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Ma! He’s Makin’ Eyes at Me – Gus Visser and His Singing Duck Just wanted to say that, on revisiting this thread, I misread this as **Gus Visser and His Singing Dick**. Okthanxbye. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-musical-taste-snapshot-your-first-10-random-playlist-songs/373108.md?page=5)