# First 10 random songs on your ipod? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920 "2008-04-04T13:52:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheMerchandise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@TheMerchandise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMerchandise)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/1 "2008-04-04T13:52:17Z")
I’m sure this has been done before, but it’s fun! What are the first ten songs that come up on a random shuffle of your ipod (or music player of choice)? Here’s mine: 1. Kashmir – Led Zepplin 2. Philosophy – Ben Folds 3. Via Con Me – Paolo Conte 4. No One Knows – Queens of the Stone Age 5. Shrinking Violet – Bishop Allen 6. I Used to Complain and Now I Don’t – White Rabbits 7. London Calling – The Clash 8. Kirikirimai – Orange Range 9. Dashboard – Modest Mouse 10. If You Want Me – Glen Hansard & Marketa Inglova ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/2 "2008-04-04T14:14:43Z")
It didn’t turn out as eclectic as I thought it would. 1 - Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes 2 - Swing Low Sweet Chariot - Eric Clapton 3 - Rooster (Live) - Alice in Chains 4 - Spin the Wheel - Alabama 5 - Kiss the Dirt - INXS 6 - Rock’n Me - Steve Miller Band 7 - Special Delivery - The Offspring 8 - They Dance Alone - Sting 9 - Do U Believe - Dru Hill 10 - The Big Issue - Chumbawamba ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/3 "2008-04-04T14:31:04Z")
1. April 29, 1992 (Miami) - Sublime 2. I’m Free - The Who 3. Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys 4. Look after You - the Fray 5. Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter - Squirrel Nut Zipper 6. Blue Angel - Squirrel Nut Zipper 7. Internal Primates Forever - Mudvayne 8. Excuse Me Mr. - No Doubt 9. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson 10. Little Red Light - Fountains of Wayne ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/4 "2008-04-04T14:34:26Z")
1. War on War - Wilco 2. Yard of Blonde Girls - Jeff Buckley 3. Prince Paul’s Bubble Party - The Waikikis (from the SpongeBob Squarepants soundtrack, yeah!) 4. Blank - Tool 5. Mr. Ambulance Driver - The Flaming Lips 6. Think Again - Billy Bragg 7. Commando - The Ramones 8. Baba O’Riley - The Who 9. I’m the Only Woman - Mary J. Blige 10.Floating - Julee Cruise ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/5 "2008-04-04T14:37:10Z")
1. Hover Near Fame - The New Amsterdams 2. Dead Dog Song - Okkervil River 3. Isolation - The Smashing Pumpkins 4. Lovesong - The Cure 5. Tourist Trap - Bright Eyes 6. (What’s So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding - Elvis Costello & the Attractions 7. Heroin - Lou Reed 8. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out - Bruce Springsteen 9. Where There’s a Will There’s a Whalebone - Islands 10. The Soloist in the Living Room - Cold War Kids I have mixed feelings about letting this represent me, but it is what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/6 "2008-04-04T14:38:17Z")
Another One Bites the Dust- Queen Dear Mr. Grable- Judy Garland Kitty- The Presidents of the United States of America One Nation Under a Groove- P Funk Start the Commotion- The Wiseguys Break Up to Make Up- Stylistics Apache- Sugar Hill Gang Our Lips Are Sealed- The Go-Gos American Idiot- Green Day After The Love is Gone- Earth, Wind & Fire Only one song from this century! That’s gotta be a record. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/7 "2008-04-04T14:39:06Z")
1. My God – Jethro Tull 2. I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You – Lyle Lovett 3. A Quick One While He’s Away – The Who 4. Factory Girl – The Rolling Stones 5. Iko Iko – Grateful Dead 6. Soul Sacrifice – Santana 7. I Hate Men – Patricia Morrison (from Kiss Me Kate) 8. Send Me No Wine – Moody Blues 9. Think for Yourself – Beatles 10. Welcome to the Machine – Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/8 "2008-04-04T14:46:53Z")
I’m glad I got to live in the personal music age. Would anyone’s list ever get played on one radio station? Who’d want to listen to that station except you anyway. Also-- I love these threads. It helps me crazy up my random some more. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/9 "2008-04-04T14:55:25Z")
I don’t have an Ipod, but hitting random on my music player brings up…… Dr. Funkenstein –Parliament Funkadelic Seabeast- Mastodon How The Gods Kill – Danzig Wasting Away – Nailbomb The Mouth Licking What You Bled – Meshuggah You’re The Best – Joe Esposito (Yes, the song from Karate Kid) I Don’t Wanna Hear It – Minor Threat I’ll Drink To That- Mighty Mighty Bosstones Breadfan – Metallica Vermillion - Slipknot ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/10 "2008-04-04T14:56:42Z")
Full Random Mode - 4,144 tunes _Spanish Steps (Rome in May)_ - Ottmar Liebert _Somebody Else Is Taking My Place_ - Mose Allison _Stars Fell On Alabama_ - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong _Gloria_ - Canadian Brass _Bonnie_ - Robben Ford _My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone_ - Albert Collins _Chanson Pour Ezra (Song For Ezra)_ - Beausoleil _Dawg Daze_ - David Grisman _Pack It Up_ - Freddie King _Door To Success_ - Brownie McGhee ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/11 "2008-04-04T14:58:15Z")
1. Cadence and Cascade - King Crimson 2. Taurus in the Arena of Life (A.K.A. Number One Grandson) - Charles Mingus 3. Make It Rain - Tom Waits 4. All Africa - Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach 5. Round Midnight - Illinois Jacquet 6. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love - Lester Young & Oscar Peterson 7. Non piu andrai (from Marriage of Figaro) - Mozart 8. Picture Book - The Kinks 9. Garden of Earthly Delights - XTC 10. Bombay Calling - It’s a Beautiful Day ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/12 "2008-04-04T15:01:13Z")
Song - Band - Album 5 More Minutes - Bonnie Pink - Even so Sound Check (Gravity) - Gorillaz - Gorillaz With This Love - Peter Gabriel - Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ Valsapena - Cirque du Soleil - Alegria Cookies and Stars - Youko Kanno - Aljuna Soundtrack Drums of Doom - Manowar - Fighting the World Ironsides - Latin Playboys - Dose I’m Designer - Queens of the Stoneage - Era Vulgaris Woke Up This Morning (Acoustic) - Howlin Wolf - Ain’t Gonna Be Your Dog (Disc 2) Kokoro no Mannaka - Crybaby - Sekai no Chizu ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/13 "2008-04-04T15:09:28Z")
1. Pasties & A G-String - Tom Waits 2. It Had to be You - Billy Holiday 3. Meet the Parents - Jay-Z 4. I Got My - Lil Wayne 5. Classic - Adrian Gurvitz 6. Man with a Mission - Don Henley 7. Free in You - Indigo Girls 8. F— You All N-ggas - Snoop Dogg 9. Reminiscence - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones 10. What I Do - Donald Fagen ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/14 "2008-04-04T15:23:43Z")
Let’s see what we get this time. from a Winamp playlist with 4794 songs: 1. Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love (live from Alchemy) 2. Santana - Jingo 3. Aerosmith - Seasons of Wither 4. Peter Frampton - I’ll Give You Money (studio) 5. Blues Traveller - All In The Groove 6. John Mellencamp - Paper In Fire 7. Little Feat - Spanish Moon (live from Waiting For Columbus) 8. Eric Clapton - White Room (live in '90) 9. Limbo Cafe - Love Destroys It All (defunct local band from Norman, Ok) 10. The Temptations - Ain’t Too Proud To Beg from iTunes party shuffle with 6074 songs available (30.67GB): 11. Gamma - Modern Girl 12. Pat Travers - Stevie 13. Spock’s Beard - At The End Of The Day 14. James Gang - Do It 15. Zero - Sun, Sun, Sun 16. David Gilmour - Love On The Air 17. Traffic - Rock 'n’Roll Stew 18. New Riders of the Purple Sage - Lonesome L.A. Cowboy 19. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (from Live And Dangerous) 20. The Hollies - Long Cool Woman (in a black dress) bonus Yes - And You And I (live in '88 from box set YesYears) ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/15 "2008-04-04T15:31:26Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] 5. Round Midnight - Illinois Jacquet [/QUOTE] No kidding? Illinois Jacquet? That’s awesome, that’s not a name you hear too often. ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/16 "2008-04-04T15:39:43Z")
1: O’Dusty - Kings of Leon 2: Baby got back - Sir Mix Alot 3: Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometimes 4: I Have Seen The Light - Fuzz Townshend 5: 28 Grams - Leofah and Skream 6: Street Life - Randy Crawford 7: Fans - Kings of Leon 8: Around The World/Harder Better Faster Stonger - Daft Punk (Alive 2007, in the mix) 9: Jericho - The Prodigy 10: Mardy Bum - The Arctic Monkeys ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/17 "2008-04-04T15:47:18Z")
BTW, number 3: Everbody’s Got To Learn Sometimes is by the Korgis not the Beck version from ‘Eternal Sunshine’. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/18 "2008-04-04T15:49:44Z")
Winamp with 7718 songs: [ol] [li]Therion, “The Wine of Aluqah”[/li][li]Alarum, “Throughout the Moment”[/li][li]Corrosion of Conformity, “Shake Like You”[/li][li]Anathema, “Flying”[/li][li]Nirvana, “Very Ape”[/li][li]Rancid, “Disorder and Disarray”[/li][li]The Eagles, “The Sad Cafe”[/li][li]Shakira, “Eyes Like Yours (Ojos Asi)”[/li][li]Ulver, “Proverbs of Hell (Plates 7-10)”[/li][li]Clutch, “Heirloom 13”[/li][/ol] All in all, it’s not a bad representation of my collection. ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/19 "2008-04-04T15:52:04Z")
iPod 160G Classic, 16285 songs, full shuffle:[ol] [li]Eight Miles High - Roger McGuin[/li][li]Great Rain - John Prine[/li][li]Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder Version) - Sufjan Stevens[/li][li]I’m In Love - Nathan and The Zydeco Cha Chas[/li][li]All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem[/li][li]Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel[/li][li]The One Who Really Loves You - Mary Wells[/li][li]Bleeders - Wallflowers[/li][li]Rodeo: Hoedown - Aaron Copland[/li]Ommie Wise Part 1 & 2 (What Lewis Did Last Night) - Kate & Anna McGarrigle)[/ol] ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/20 "2008-04-04T15:56:06Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] 1. Cadence and Cascade - King Crimson 2. Taurus in the Arena of Life (A.K.A. Number One Grandson) - Charles Mingus 3. Make It Rain - Tom Waits 4. All Africa - Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach 5. Round Midnight - Illinois Jacquet 6. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love - Lester Young & Oscar Peterson 7. Non piu andrai (from Marriage of Figaro) - Mozart 8. Picture Book - The Kinks 9. Garden of Earthly Delights - XTC 10. Bombay Calling - It’s a Beautiful Day [/QUOTE] I’ve made some additions to my library from your list. The Illinois Jacquest version of \*'Round Midnight \* is lovely Picked up a Canadian Brass _Non piu andrai_ Aslo adding some selections from Abbey Lincoln 🆒 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920.md?page=2)