# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/41 "2008-04-04T19:02:26Z")
Since I listen to my mp3 player (Creative Zen, not iPod) on random all day at work, I’m going to do the next list of 10, because this is fun: 1. I Can’t Sleep - The La’s 2. Godfrey Harold Hardy - The Embarrassment 3. Old Red Eyes Is Back - The Beautiful South 4. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Special Radio Edit Mix) - Negativland 5. Dagenham Dave - Morrissey 6. In Little Ways - Let’s Active 7. Good Times - Hoodoo Gurus 8. Hot Topic - Le Tigre 9. Just Like Heaven - The Cure 10. You’re Not Supposed To - Field Music ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/42 "2008-04-04T20:03:14Z")
One more time. 1 - Pry, To - Pearl Jam 2 - Say I - Alabama ( I hd no idea we had that CD) 3 - Trapped Under Ice - Metallica 4 - One Fine Day - The Offspring 5 - Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang - Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and others 6 - Loney Girl - Pink 7 - I Drive a Yugo - Left Wing Fascists 8 - Four Days - Counting Crows 9 - Hey Ladies - Destiny’s Child 10 - Grease - Frankie Valli ---
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“Beat That My Heart Skipped,” by Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip “Leanan Sidhe,” by Boiled in Lead “I Remember California,” by REM “End of the Line,” by The Offspring “Gemini Dream,” by The Moody Blues “Mari Mac,” by Great Big Sea “The Way I Am,” by Eminem “Whispers in Blindness,” by Ace of Base “Pictures at an Execution,” by The Kissers “All Good Soldiers,” by Bad Religion ---
**Author:** ![AlmondJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@AlmondJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlmondJoy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/44 "2008-04-04T20:05:37Z")
Too Hot to stop - The Bar-Kays Come Pick me up- Ryan Adams Ghostwriter- RJD2 Shelter- Ray LaMontagne Long Ride Home- Patty Griffin Reading- Matt Pond PA Isn’t This a Lovely Day- Stacey Kent Buring- The Whitest Boy Alive Play with Fire- The Rolling Stones Scarlett Johansson- The Teenagers ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/45 "2008-04-04T20:10:27Z")
_Velouria_ - **the Pixies** _Sleepy Maggie_ - **Ashley MacIsaac** _The Ballad of Chasey Lain_ - **the Bloodhound Gang** _Straight to Video_ -\*\* Mindless Self Indulgence\*\* _Eple_ - **Royksopp** _Break My Stride_ - **Matthew Wilder** _Holiday In Cambodia_ - **the Dead Kennedys** _Volcano_ - **Pig** _Music is the Victim_ - **Scissor Sisters** _Golden Brown_ -\*\* the Stranglers\*\* ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/46 "2008-04-04T20:37:07Z")
Chattanooga Choo-Choo - Glenn Miller Perfect Night - Various, Trigun the 1st ST Ants - House of Freaks Adieau - Cowboy Bebop ST Long Beach Nightmare - Puffy Ami Yumi Atoms for Peace - Thom Yorke The Well and The Lighthouse - Arcade Fire Farewell Blues - Glenn Miller Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Nat King Cole Merry Go Round - The Replacements Not a good shuffle, way overrepresents the anime ST and Glenn Miller. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/47 "2008-04-04T20:52:37Z")
Up, Bustle & Out - Emerald Alley Bettye Lavette - How Am I Different? The Kills - No Wow (MSTRKRFT Remix) Sinkdred - Set It Off St Germain - Pont Des Arts The Dandy Warhols - Godless DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement Vol 1 Echo and the Bunnymen - What If We Are Luscious Jackson - Down to Earth Blackalicious - Deception (catchy hook on this one… it’ll be stuck in my head for the next week) Why yes… I do have rather random music tastes. What gave it away? 🙂 (Awesome… #10 is Herbie Hancock - Rockit… I’d totally forgotten I had this track for some odd reason) ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/48 "2008-04-04T20:53:14Z")
I’ll do mine AV Club Random Rules style, with a blurb for each song, cuz I keep waiting for them to ask me to do one and they never do. 1. **Old Shoes & Picture Postcards - Tom Waits** I always thought his first album was his best. The other stuff I hear from him seems a lil too out there for my tastes. His songs on this album are tight, focused, and well written. This is one of my favorites. 2. **No Complaints - Beck** IMO, the best song on his weakest album. 3. **The Good Things - Holly Golightly** It took a bit for this song to grow on me. Now it’s my favorite on the album, barely beating out _Virtually Happy_. 4. **Freeway Time in an LA County Jail - Sublime** This is from the posthumous acoustic album, and I think this version is better than the one on _Robbin’ the Hood_. You just have to set it so it cuts off couple minutes of babbling at the end. I think _Sublime_ is criminally underrated, and personally I blame the awful song _Date Rape_. 5. **Waiting Room - Fugazi** Probably the quinissential Fugazi song. 6. **Knowledge - Operation Ivy** For ska-punk, nothing beats Op Ivy. Not much ska to this one, but still one of their best songs. Green Day did a fun slow bouncy version of this. 7. **3 Legged Animals - Califone** Man I love this album, and this is the best song on it. These guys create such a dense, interesting sound out of mainly acoustic instruments, I assumed they used a bunch of studio gimmicks to make it work. Then I saw them at live and they pulled it off on stage, and I was even more blown away. Get their album _Roots & Crowns_. just trust me. 8. **The Missing - Ministry** A classic off of _The Land of Rape and Honey_, a really good album for its time but it hasn’t aged well. 9. **Fender Bender - Kid Koala** Such a wonderful song - just a simple hook repeated that KK dresses up with some random samples. I saw him DJ a show with Dan the Automator and came to the conclusion that I am not meant to watch DJs in a concert like setting. They were fantastic but a lotta people just stood around watching instead of dancing. Felt weird to me. 10. **A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash** What can you say, who doesn’t like Johnny Cash? ---
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Creative Zen Vision M 3967 tracks Song - Band - Album Make it right - Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts Heaven’s Earth (Matt Darey Remix) - Delerium - Heaven’s Earth (single) Peakin - Bleachin - Everyone loves you everything’s free Soldier’s poem - Muse - Black holes and revelations Without fear - unknown (must have been a random download on my part) - Karmacode Cirith Ungol - Howard Shore - LOTR: Return of the King soundtrack Confide in me - Kylie Minogue - Confide in me (single) Target - Embrace - This new day Grow for me - Little shop of horrors soundtrack - various Strange world - Push - Euphoria volume 6 (a trance compilation) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/51 "2008-04-04T21:39:34Z")
[QUOTE=HoboStew] 4. **Freeway Time in an LA County Jail - Sublime** This is from the posthumous acoustic album, and I think this version is better than the one on _Robbin’ the Hood_. You just have to set it so it cuts off couple minutes of babbling at the end. I think _Sublime_ is criminally underrated, and personally I blame the awful song _Date Rape_. [/QUOTE] Why blame Date Rape? I doubt 10% of the people who know Sublime know that song. It’s not awful in my opinion, either. It’s got a good sound, it’s funny, and the bad guy gets it in the end (pun intended.) If I was going to “blame” their underratedness on a song it’d probably be ‘Wrong Way’ or ‘What I got’, since those are two of their most popular, and they’re relatively disposable pop songs compared to the rest of their body of work. A quick aside about their underratedness . . . I was a fanatical Sublime fan as a teenager. The second-half of the 90s. I wore out multiple copies of their tapes and CDs and paid $30-$50 a pop for their bootlegs in the days before file sharing. They were my Beatles; I thought they could do no wrong. I’ve got to say, though, I’ve revisted a few of their albums in the last year and I don’t think they’ve held up very well. Maybe it’s me - maybe I’ve changed or maybe I devalued them by listening too much, or maybe they just weren’t as good as my teenage mind thought they were. I’ll probably never know. I try to avoid them now though because I want to preserve that fond memory of them. I associate every one of their albums (and songs) with fun things I was doing while listening. They were the soundtrack of my life from roughly age 14 to 19. Maybe it’s a good thing I’ve grown out of the music I listened to in high school. My dad _still_ listens to Pink Floyd every goddamn day. It drives my mom up the wall. ---
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This may get embarrassing. There’s a lot of stuff in my library that I’ve been meaning to clean out… [ol] [li]Go Home Productions – “Nightbeatle”[/li]One of the best mashup artists, from his “greatest hits” album [li]Autechre – “Clipper”[/li]An MP3 that a coworker gave me [li]Stratotanker – “Yeah II”[/li]A bargain-bin find, bought for its stylish album cover [li]Lonbobby – “Brown Boxes”[/li]A SongFight artist covering a song from another Songfight artist [li]sonofsupercar – “Red Flag”[/li]Another SongFight song! I have only a dozen or two in my collection… [li]Coldplay – “A Whisper”[/li]Got the CD as a gift. The song annoys me; is it in a five-beat time signature or something? [li]Portishead – “Pedestal”[/li]Maybe this won’t be embarrassing after all… [li]Hem – “The Beautiful Sea”[/li]Another one from a coworker [li]The Kleptones – “Anything New”[/li]Another of my favorite mashup artists. Some of his creations (including this one) combine two songs so seamlessly that I can’t tell that they weren’t originally together [li]They Might Be Giants – “Hypnotist of Ladies”[/li]One of my favorite bands, although I don’t have their last couple albums [/ol] #11 was from the same TMBG album. That wasn’t bad at all. No Dora the Explorer, no Manowar… ---
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Hmm…I’ll play now my iPod works. 1. Straight A’s – The Dead Kennedys 2. The Wind Cries Mary – Jimi Hendrix 3. Teenage Lobotomy – The Ramones 4. I’ve Heard it Before – Black Flag 5. Lady Madonna - The Beatles 6. Bodies – Smashing Pumpkins 7. Time Baby III – Medicine 8. Message in a Bottle – The Police 9. Blue Moon of Kentucky – Bill Monroe 10. Surrender – Cheap Trick Gee, for a minute there I thought I was in my punk list and somehow Jimi Hendrix got in there. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/54 "2008-04-05T00:19:12Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Why blame Date Rape? [/QUOTE] Ugh. I could write 1000 words on why I hate that song. Basically it boils down to this: that was the first song of theirs that got national attention. It was the first song of theirs I ever heard, and where I was growing up, all the dumb jocks latched on to them and the song as like a “see, we aren’t just dumb jocks, we are enlightened men” sort of anthem, which led to their fanbase having a disproportionate number of dumb jocks. That was how it happened in my area at least. Anyways its not a horrible song, but the lyrics are beyond simplistic, reducing a complex issue into the most absolute black & white “look the bad guy was punished!” terms. It turned me off of them at first, which is a shame cuz 40oz has so many better songs. [QUOTE=Cisco] I’ve revisted a few of their albums in the last year and I don’t think they’ve held up very well. [/QUOTE] There may be something to this. I made a mix of theirs for my SO and she liked it OK but it didn’t jump out at her, and we have pretty similar tastes in music. Im willing to accept the possibility that their sound is a little dated, but I think their best songs still hold up. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/55 "2008-04-05T00:27:03Z")
1. The Mystic Forest - FFVI Piano Collection 2. Drifter…In LAX - Joe Hisaishi (Brother soundtrack) 3. Artichoke - Cibo Matto 4. God - Tori Amos 5. Intermezzo - Ryuichi Sakamoto 6. Zero-Sum - Nine Inch Nails 7. Wrong Number - The Cure 8. Little L (Boris Dlugosch Remix) - Jamiroquai 9. Hybrid: Symphony - Sasha and Digweed 10. What Else is There - Royksopp (don’t know how to do the 2 dots over the “o”) I actually have songs I don’t like on my zen (vision M), but didn’t catch any, fortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/56 "2008-04-05T00:44:38Z")
A Kiss Before I Go - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Roses - Red Red Meat No Hard Times - Jimmie Rodgers Naked Cousin - PJ Harvey Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key - Billy Bragg & Wilco I Live For You - George Harrison Beautiful People And A Bridge Troll - Patton Oswalt (Not really a song) Living For The City - Ike & Tina Turner Troubbble - Stephen Malkmus Capitol I - Andrew Bird ---
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1. Eat Static - Dissection 2. Pig - Kundalini 3. A Perfect Circle - Vanishing 4. Portishead - Mourning Air 5. Cass & Slide - Opera (Stealth Mix) 6. Chopin - Ballade in G- 7. Edith Piaf - Monsieur et Madame 8. Pig - Save Me 9. Grains of Sound - Botanical Curiousities 10. Tool - Eulogy My iPhone seems to be a fan of Maynard James Keenan and Raymond Watts tonight. ---
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Tilly & the Wall - Shake it Out The Fratellis - Vince the Lovable Stoner Belly - Slow Dog Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire Regina Spektor - Samson Concrete Blonde - Still in Hollywood Oran ‘Juice’ Jones - The Rain\* Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn MC Frontalot - I Hate Your Blog - I was about to jam you and flat blast both of you. But I didn’t wanna mess up this thirty-seven hundred dollar lynx coat. So instead… I chilled ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/59 "2008-04-05T01:53:42Z")
This Is How We Do Things In the Country – Slim Cessna’s Auto Club Skin After Skin – Soilwork Here, There, and Everywhere – The Beatles Stranger By the Minute – Porcupine Tree Mercy – Paradise Lost Roter Minrock – Die Aerzte Damnation (Interlude) – CunningLynguists Think Locally, Fuck Globally – Gogol Bordello Underworld – Anathema Movement One (Songs of Immigration in Voi-la Minor): God-like This is from my laptop library, which is a bit smaller than my full–might explain the double-representation of Gogol Bordello. ---
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And again, this time from iTunes’ Party Shuffle: [ol][li]“You Oughta Know”, Alanis Morissette[/li][li]“Riding on the Rocket”, Shonen Knife[/li][li]“Ciega Sordomuda”, Shakira[/li][li]“My Baby Portable Player Sound”, Pizzicato Five[/li][li]“Naked Eyes”, Luscious Jackson[/li][li]“Gettin’ in the Way”, Jill Scott[/li][li]“Karen by Night”, Jill Sobule[/li][li]“Sweet Lullaby”, Deep Forest[/li][li]“Lose My Breath”, Beyoncé[/li][li]“Summerisle”, Mediæval Bæbes[/li][/ol] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920.md?page=4)