We’ve had plenty of ‘What’s in your CD Player’ and ‘Music Poll’ threads here in the past. I figured it was about time we had a little comparison thread where posters list 9 songs in order they played in shuffle mode from their computer jukebox or portable mp3 player.
Requirements to play:[list=a][li]Ability to post to the SDMB [/li][li]An Portable mp3 Player or Computer Jukebox program that plays audio files on shuttle mode[/li][li]A few minutes free time[/list][/li]Rules of the game:[ol][li]With your player in shuffle mode, start at the top of your main (all songs) library – not a specific playlist.[/li][li]For iPod users: Confirm you’re in Shuffle Mode in Settings and hit ‘Play’ on the 1st track to come up on your song list.[/li][li]Type in the Track Title & Artist for each song that plays to the reply box in this thread.[/li][li]After you’ve listed the 9th track, post them to this thread.[/ol][/li]Extra Credit: (Just for comparison purposes) Write down the # of tracks on your player or in your library.
You may ask: ‘Why list 9 tracks instead of 5, or 10, or 25?’ I don’t know, maybe cuz it was John Lennon’s favorite number. Or maybe cuz Miles Drentell’s line “Why this need to ‘decimalize’ everything?” has been stuck in my head for the last 14 years. I guess I picked 9 tracks because it’s quick, easy and just about the right quantity to get a very general view of what kind of tracks are in your player.
I figure it will be an interesting to see what randomly comes up on other people’s players. These digital segues that come out of thin air are one of those little quirks I like about the digital age.
Even if I could recall the laws of probability from college days, I don’t believe it would be possible to calculate the odds that 2 posters will have a matching track from their list – The odds of such an event would be astronomical.
By the way: For those of you who wanna play along, don’t fudge the results. If a track that you don’t want anyone to know you have on your player comes up, don’t be embarrassed to include it. I’ve had segues like Run Joey Run => Sweet Loaf => All Sides Now => Fuck You => Singing The Blues => Deutschland Has Gotta Die come up and they’re almost always enjoyable to list to.
So, if you’ve got a moment, post em up – and let’s see what happens. Here I go:
4,130 songs (Device: iPod)[ul]
[li]1/4130: Hash Pipe – Weezer[/li][li]2/4130: Keep On Running – Spencer Davis Group[/li][li]3/4130: Born To Run(ny Eggs) – Bottom Line All Stars[/li][li]4/4130: Pretend We’re Dead – L7[/li][li]5/4130: I’m Just A Singer (In a Rock & Roll Band) – Moody Blues[/li][li]6/4130: Church Bells May Ring – The Willows[/li][li]7/4130: Warped – Red Hot Chili Peppers[/li][li]8/4130: You Need Love – Muddy Waters[/li][li]9/4130: Judy Is A Dick Slap – Belle & Sebastian[/ul][/li]That just scratched the surface…but it was the 1st nine tracks.
Not terribly representative of my musical taste, although at least Amiee Mann got in there. And what’s with the two Smash Mouth songs? I seriously question the randomness of iTunes.
That second tune is from one of a bunch of old compilation CDs that I’ve never listened to all the way through…this was my first time hearing the song, and I might well have gone the rest of my life without hearing it were it not for this thread. That’s kinda cool. I’m gonna let it keep playing, because now I’m curious about what will come up next…
California One Youth and Beauty Brigade – The Decemberists
Long Knives – Rainer Maria
Here Comes the Flood – Peter Gabriel
My Iron Lung – Radiohead
Rock Lobster – The B-52s
Punjab de Rang – Dhol Foundation
That was a pretty good listening spell actually (although misrepresentative because at least 1/4 of my songs on the iPod are rap/hip-hop and another bunch are Stereolab, Pavement, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones)
This is not - Static-X
Meltdown - Clint Mansell
Marquee Moon - Television
The Soldering Life - The Decemberists
New Killer Star - David Bowie
Haunt of the Roulette Dares - The Mars Volta
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Bottle Of Smoke - Pogues
Quadrophenia (Entire Album) - The Who
221: Camr’on - Oh Boy
316: Barenaked Ladies - Another Postcard
225: Tony Orlando and Dawn - Up on the Roof
15: Arrogant Worms - Canada is Really Big
133: Paula Abdul - Straight Up
152: Same Cooke - Working in a Coal Mine
207: Wise Guys - Start the Commotion
98: Hideki Naganuma - Jet Set Medly (from Jet Set Radio, on Dreamcast)
142: Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe
Fairly ecclectic, and there are still entire genres completely unrepresented in that list. Although, for the record, I never actually listen to “Oh Boy.” I just keep forgetting to delete it…
iTunes, a total of 714 musical pieces. (I don’t have all that many “songs.”)
“Far From Heaven” theme by Elmer Bernstein
“Is There Something I Should Know” by Duran Duran
“Blue Monkey” from “Looney Tunes: Back in Action” soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith
“Flaming Link” from “Link” soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith
“Gone in 60 Seconds” theme by Trevor Jones
“Rio Conchos” theme soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith
Etude in C minor by Bela Fleck (I think it’s a piece by Chopin but I am too lazy to confirm)
Track 16 (too lazy to find name) from “Magic” soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith
“End Title” from the soundtrack “The Man From Snowy River” by Bruce Rowland
I do have tons of Jerry Goldsmith in my iTunes playlist (and will be adding more, since I am now grieving his recent passing), but it’s just a coincidence that this particular random selection has so many.
I’m gonna let it keep playing, because now I’m curious about what will come up next…