My personal computer’s in storage for the summer and I have much less music on my mom’s than I do on my own (where I rip all my CDs). I still have more than a thousand songs on here, though. On Winamp, highest shuffle speed, with music videos and such edited out:
Franz Ferdinand - Jacqueline
The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
The Cramps - Rock on the Moon
Bob Dylan - It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
A “Work in Progress” from the Nick Drake bootleg Tanworth-in-Arden II (sounds like “Parasite”)
Belle and Sebastian - Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto (from the Peel Christmas Party a couple of years back)
Belle and Sebastian - Your Cover’s Blown
Throwing Muses - Dizzy (single edit)
The New Pornographers - All For Swinging You Around
Down by the River - Phish and Neil Young (Farm Aid) <-- At least that’s what the mp3 claims
Rushing - Moby
Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? - The Beatles
I Want To Be Like You - From the Jungle Book
Chester’s Pickup Lines - Sifl and Olly
Tryin to Reason with Huricane Season - Jimmy Buffet
Until the End of the World - Apoptgyma Berzerk
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
My wife and I have combined our collections, which seems to have resulted in a large number of Jungle Book songs. Also, I’ve never heard of #8 until today.
I know that there are various ways of saying/spelling that first word, all of which are perfectly acceptable in general, but when referring to the Messiah chorus the spelling is ‘hallelujah.’
10GB, 2nd generation iPod. 2,102 songs. (extra bonus: album names!)
1: The Logical Song - Supertramp - The Autobiography of Supertramp
2: Dreams - Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
3: Ants Marching - Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
4: Call and Answer - Barenaked Ladies - All Their Greatest Hits - disc 1 - 1991-2001
5: Weird Science - Oingo Boingo - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Oingo Boingo (really)
6: Peace and Love - Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
7: Better Be True - Huey Lewis & The News - Small World (you said we had to post the embarassing ones…)
8: latin2 - The Sims - The Sims Livin’ Large (Yes, I copied the .mp3 files into my music. It’s relaxing.)
9: Indian War Whoop - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
So there you have it. I might use the shuffle feature more often - I’ve never really used it until now.
I know you only want nine, but other artists randomly selected include Joan Baez, Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians, The Beatles and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones.
iTunes Party Shuffle, drawing from 12,977 Songs
[ol][li]Holiday - Weezer[/li][li]Rock the Cradle - Billy Idol[/li][li]Frontier Psychiatrist - Avalanches[/li][li]White Limozeen - Dolly Parton[/li][li]Taste the Summer - Duran Duran[/li][li]Twisted - Annie Lennox[/li][li]Do I Do - Stevie Wonder[/li][li]Lily - Joan Baez[/li][li]Sentimental Journey (live) - Rosemary Clooney[/ol][/li]
A fun list, some stuff to dance to, some to sing along with, all good.
Airport Security - Lewis Black, The End of the Universe (does comedy count?)
Lady Madonna - The Beatles, 1
Overture / Work Song, Les Miserables
Superstar, The Carpenters, Interpretations
Learning How To Fly, Pink Floyd, Pulse
I’ve Got A Bad Feeling, Eddie Izzard, Glorious (more comedy! I have lots.)
Charlie Sheen, King’s X, Please Come Home…
Standards, The Jam, This Is The Modern World
This is fun! This is actually the way that I listen to my iPod in the car most often - as a massive shuffle of everything I own. Drives my husband mad.
Let’s try this again:
Leave It Behind, The Offspring, Ixnay On The Hombre
Dream A Little Dream of Me, The Mamas & The Papas, 16 Greatest Hits
Through The Gate, Over The Deep Edge, Castlevania - Symphony of the Night soundtrack (the only video game soundtrack I’ve ever enjoyed on it’s own merits)
Inside Game, Royal Trux, High Fidelity soundtrack
Think About Me, The Goo Goo Dolls, Gutterflower
If Anyone Falls, Stevie Nicks, Enchanted
A Bomb In Wardour St., Settings Sons, A Tribute To The Jam
Lips Like Sugar, Echo & The Bunnymen, Ballyhoo - The Best of
Neocon, The Offspring, Splinter
One more go, 'cause I’m the obsessive sort:
How Come You Don’t Call Me, Alicia Keys, Songs In A Minor
Anthem, Moby, Songs 1993 - 1998
Nitro (Youth Energy), The Offspring, Smash
Bankrobber, The Clash, Story Of The Clash
Do You Hear The People Sing?, Les Miserables
Heartless, Heart, These Dreams: Heart’s Greatest Hits
Scene: A Train Platform In Yorkshire / The House Upon The Hill, Secret Garden
Pushing The Needle Too Far, Indigo Girls, 1200 Curfews
Okay, I’ve added a ton of new Jerry Goldsmith tracks to my playlist, so I decided to do a new list:
iTunes, Party Shuffle, 849 musical pieces (still don’t have that many “songs”).
“mad 1” from “Clockout” - artist unknown. I downloaded it from one of those Apple Garageband community sites, where everyone is sharing their stuff. It’s a pretty cool little piece.
“The Trees” from soundtrack “Medicine Man” by Jerry Goldsmith
“Football: Replacement Style” from soundtrack “The Replacements” by John Debney
“Mother’s Song” by me. One of my Garageband compositions.
“Track 1” from soundtrack “Magic” by Jerry Goldsmith
“Silent Night” by Oak Ridge Boys (what?)
“Hot Pursuit” from “Looney Tunes, Back in Action” by Jerry Goldsmith
“Hidden Temple” from soundtrack “Young Sherlock Holmes” by Bruce Broughton
“Lateral Run” from soundtrack “Star Trek: Nemesis” by Jerry Goldsmigh
This time the amount of Jerry Goldsmith tracks are more understandable. I think I added about 130 of them.
Sandstorm - Peter Gabriel
Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley
Walk This Way - Hayseed Dixie
7 Nation Army - The White Stripes
Dial: Revenge - Mogwai
Cavalleria Rusticana - William Orbit
Fell In Love With A Girl - The White Stripes
Good Girls Don’t - The Knack
As the Rush Comes - Motorcycle
Tried again at work today in a desperate attempt to do something more interesting than what I’m supposed to be doing. Ended up with a pretty decent playlist:
iPod, 2446 songs
The Man I Love - Ella Fitzgerald:The Best of the Songbooks
Full On Idle - The Amps: Pacer
Remote Control - Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty
You Have 5 Seconds to Complete This Section - Emergency Broadcast Network: Telecommunication Breakdown
Good Day, Good Sir - Outkast: The Love Below
Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Gordon’s Garden Party - The Cardigans: Life
The Conqueror - Anne Dudley & Jaz Coleman: Songs from the Victorious City
Typical Situation - Dave Matthews Band: Under the Table and Dreaming
Some of my favorite records, although not the best song on each. Good mix of the VH-1 Jetta-driving audience and “real” music. Plus the spoken-word thing from the OutKast album made it sound like a Who record.
Come Monday- Jimmy Buffett
Rebirth of Slick- Digable Planets
Grinding Halt- The Cure
Shove- L7
Teenage Whore- Hole
Thumbing My Way- Pearl Jam
Blood Roses- Tori Amos
Day in the Life- The Beatles
Love You Madly- Cake
iPod-8524 songs
[ol]
[li]“For Science”-They Might Be Giants[/li][li]“98.9”-iTrip[/li][li]“Tell Me How”-Nanci Griffith[/li][li]“The Great Wall”-Damon & Naomi[/li][li]“Not Pretty Enough”-Kasey Chambers[/li][li]“Another Girl’s Paradise”-Tori Amos[/li][li]“Reckless Blues”-Madeleine Peyroux[/li][li]“101.3”-iTrip[/li][li]“Turn You Inside Out”-R.E.M.[/li][/ol]
Here’s one without the “telling” iTrip songs…
[ol]
[li]“Fiction”-Belle and Sebastian[/li][li]“People with Bad Luck”-Greg Brown[/li][li]“Shanty Town”-Cheryl Wheeler[/li][li]“If I Had $1000000”-Barenaked Ladies[/li][li]“I Love You All”-Badly Drawn Boy[/li][li]“Ain’t Nobody’s Business” B.B. King[/li][li]“Into the Dark” Melissa Etheridge[/li][li]“Supreme”-Robbie Williams[/li][li]“To the Lions” Lloyd Cole[/li][/ol]
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
All-Star - SmashMouth
Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra
Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
She’s A Rainbow - The Rolling Stones
Afternoons & Coffeespoons - Crash Test Dummies
Zoot Suit Riot - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
My Girl Bill - Jim Stafford
MP3 Jukebox. And a very disparate song collection.
Run to You - Bryan Adams
Cry So Easy - Erasure
One Night in Bangkok - Chess Soundtrack
James - The Bangles
Go - Asia
Light Up - Styx
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Lady Keith’s Lament - Connie Dover
Give Me A Reason - The Corrs
I’m surprised more Styx, and any Journey, Rush, Kansas or REO didn’t show up.
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk (original mono mix), Pink Floyd
Knights in Shining Karma, XTC
Rastaman Chant, Bob Marley
I currently have 8,392 songs on this machine (more at home). Interestingly, 1,152 of those are by the Beatles, making it quite remarkable that no Beatles tracks appeared in my list.
