# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/81 "2008-04-06T08:39:09Z")
Can I play again? from Winamp playlist of 5076 songs: 1\>Police - Synchronicity 1 2\>Black Sabbath - Sign of the Southern Cross (live from “Live Evil”) 3\>Widespread Panic - Send Your Mind 4\>Santana - I’ll Be Waiting (live from “Moonflower”) 5\>Yes - Siberian Khatru 6\>Morphine - Murder For The Money 7\>Eric Johnson - Forty Mile Town 8\>John Mellencamp - Paper In Fire 9\>George Benson - On Broadway 10\>Steve Vai - For The Love Of God 11\>Guess Who - These Eyes 12\>Manfred Mann’s Earth Band - Davy’s On The Road Again 13\>Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed (live from “Live And Dangerous”) 14\>Steely Dan - Home At Last 15\>ZZ Top - Francine 16\>The Mighty Groundhogs - Death Of The Sun 17\>Elton John - Crocodile Rock 18\>Derek And The Dominos - Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? (live from “Live At The Fillmore”) 19\>Allman Brothers Band - Bad Rain 20\>Rush - Tom Sawyer (live from “Exit…Stage Left”) Finally!!! 26\>Transatlantic - Dance With The Devil (bonus cut from “Bridge Across Forever” copyright 2001. Music from this century!! I _knew_ I had some!) ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/82 "2008-04-06T14:03:34Z")
To Speak is a Sin - Pet Shop Boys “Very” Deadbeat Club - The B-52’s “Cosmic Thing” Knock on Wood - Amii Stewart “Pure Disco” Right Here Right Now - Jesus Jones “Maximum Edge - 90s Modern Rock” Look For the Silver Lining - Judy Garland “Judy Garland in Hollywood” The Windmills of Your Mind - Dusty Springfield “Rhino Hi-Five: Dusty Springfield” Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls “Indigo Girls” David Poe - June Panic “A Child’s Treasury of June Panic” I WIll Go With You (Con Te Partiro) - Donna Summer “12 Inches of Pleasure” Devils Wait - June Panic “A Child’s Treasury of June Panic” ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/83 "2008-04-06T14:22:37Z")
These Foolish Things - Dinah Shore Believe - Bernard Fanning Angel Standing By - Jewel Message To My Girl - Enzso Tears In Heaven - Paul Anka Piece of Wood - Youth Group Farmer’s Daughter - The Waifs Halloween - Aqua The Difference - matchbox twenty Wild Horses - Rolling Stones ---
**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:** [April 6, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/84 "2008-04-06T15:35:34Z")
Okay, let’s see what iTunes is dishing up this morning: 1. Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac 2. Gloria - Laura Branigan 3. Fading Away - Hall and Oates 4. Yakety Yak - The Coasters 5. Incense and Candles - Prince (from 3121 - a FANTASTIC album) 6. What a Diff’rence a Day Makes - Ester Phillips 7. 5 Will Get You 6 - Blue Rodeo 8. Preacherman’s Song - Widemouth Mason 9. Here I Am - Bryan Adams 10. Most Girls - Pink Well, I’ve got my CanCon covered. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/85 "2008-04-06T15:55:30Z")
[QUOTE=Rachael Rage] This is shockingly representative of my musical taste, save for the egregious absence of Hanson. _I’m not kidding about Hanson either…_ [/QUOTE] You like Hanson too?! I thought my best friend and I were the only ones! You’re not her, are you? You spell Rachael like she does, which is unusual. My list: Dropkick Murphys - Last Letter Home Pearl Jam - Breath Pearl Jam - Deep Alice In Chains - A Little Bitter Panic! At the Disco - Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off Pearl Jam - Lukin Pearl Jam - Rival The Beatles - I’ve Just Seen a Face Moloko - Pure Pleasure Seeker Hanson - I Am ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/86 "2008-04-06T17:09:55Z")
Playing again via the desktop’s MyMusic library - 10,612 tunes _Gate’s Blues Waltz_ - Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown _Black Maria_ - Corey Harris _The Long Riders_ - Ry Cooder _Ooh Poo Pa Doo_ - Rockin’ Dopsie _Hobo Blues_ - The Lonesome River Band _The Organ Grinder’s Swing_ - Jimmy Smith _Those Who Wait_ - Tommy Emmanuel _Hot Biscuits_ - Jay McShann _Seventh Son_ - Willie Mabon _La Vida Es Un Carnaval_ - Salsa All-Stars _Dipper Mouth Blues_ - Arturo Sandoval _He’s Got Me Goin’_ - Pinetop Perkins _Song For Babe_ - Dirty Dozen Brass Band _You Can Run But You Can’t Hide_ - Paul Butterfield _When It’s Sleepy Time Down South_ - Gene Harris ---
**Author:** ![sunnyphilly43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@sunnyphilly43](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunnyphilly43)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/87 "2008-04-06T19:13:31Z")
_On and On and On_ - Wilco _My Mother Won’t Let Me Marry_ - Minnie White _Good Nurse_ - The Constantines _Fairfield Mirage_ - Donal Lunny _The Woodcock/The Kerfunten_ - Hammy Hamilton _A Sailor’s Life is a Weary Life_ - Pamela Morgan _Killer Cab_ - Ron Hynes _Farewell to Jim/That’s More of It_ - Kevin Crawford _Old Friends_ - Simon and Garfunkel _Simple Thought_ - Rose Cousins ---
**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 6, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/88 "2008-04-06T19:31:53Z")
Again! This time with comments. 1)Boogie in Your Butt-- Eddie Murphy. That’s nasty! 2)Every Time I Turn Around (Back in Love Again)-- Jeffry Osborne You guys have no where near enough R&B in your lists. 2)Scotty Doesn’t Know-- Lustra You guys also don’t have enough funny songs on your lists. 3)Spirit in the Sky-- Edison Lighthouse Because you gotta have at least one song about Jesus sung by a Jew. 4)Summertime-- Billy Holiday Because it’s good music. 5)Funky Cold Medina-- Tone Loc Put an aphrodisiac in your butt! Wait, I’m mixing up songs here. 6)Last Dance-- Donna Summer A classic song from a classic movie-- I mean it! 7)Then Came You (Live 1974)-- The Spinners Are they all still alive? 8)I’ve Just Begun to Love You-- Dynasty More funky disco love. 9)Down With the Sickness–Disturbed So I like a little blackness-- and I don’t mean R&B 10)Genius-- Pitchsifter This was on a soundtrack for a game, I don’t remember the game but I loved the song and got it. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/89 "2008-04-06T19:32:21Z")
1440 songs (not my entire digital music collection, but a damn good portion of it): 1. So Much Trouble in the World - Bob Marley 2. I Wanna Be a Cowboy - Boys Don’t Cry 3. Lazy Mary - Lou Monte 4. Hashish - Hair Soundtrack 5. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls 6. Third Movement, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony 7. Endless Quest - Enigma 8. Pressure Drop - The Specials 9. Right Here - Staind 10. Love Street - The Doors Granted, some of these songs don’t get a lot of airplay, but I still like having them. And yeah, I have an 80s collection. Sue me. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/90 "2008-04-06T19:36:53Z")
1- “Fire” by the Ohio Players 2- “Love Is Blue” by Paul Mauriat 3- “Annachie Gordon” by Mary Black 4- “Hero Takes a Fall” by the Bangles 5- “Bail You Out” by Dave Edmunds 6- “You and Your Friend” by Dire Straits 7- “11 O’Clock Tick Tock” by U2 8- “Too Late” by the Shoes 9- “Enormous Penis” by Da Vinci’s Notebook 10- “Wondrous Stories” by Yes ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/91 "2008-04-06T19:38:17Z")
ITunes - 4940 tunes 1 Can We Find A Reason - Lenny Kravitz 2 This Is The Last Time - Keane 3 Innervoice - Hooverphonic 4 The Sign Of The Southern Cross - Black Sabbath 5 Laichzeit - Rammstein 6 Amy - Wesley Wills 7 Bar du Petit Bac - Miles Davis 8 Here is no Why - Smashing Pumpkins 9 Search and Destroy - Iggy Pop 10 The Logical Song - Supertramp ---
**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:** [April 6, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/92 "2008-04-06T19:44:45Z")
“For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)” **Sunset Rubdown** , _Random Spirit Lover_ “No Regrets” **Aesop Rock** , _Labor Days_ “Like Eating Glass” **Bloc Party** , _Silent Alarm_ “Stay” **The Attorneys** , _Sparrow Gardens/Pencil Factory_ “Canada vs. America” **Broken Social Scene** , from _Warm and Scratchy_ (a free compilation from [adult swim]) “I’m Like a Bird,” **Nelly Furtado** , _Whoa, Nelly!_ “Walk Away” **Franz Ferdinand** , _You Could Have it So Much Better_ “Trashy Women” **Confederate Railroad** , s/t “That’s My Story” **Colin Raye** , _16 Biggest Hits_ “The Uruk-Hai” **Howard Shore** , _LOTR: The Two Towers Soundtrack_ This makes me look more “indie” than I am (though that early/mid 90’s pop-country that was the soundtrack to my teenaged years makes a showing)–I have lots of religious music, lots of Beatles, lots of stuff from Russian composers, etc. ---
**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 6, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/93 "2008-04-06T19:46:35Z")
Wesley Willis AND the Ohio Players? This board is full of WIN!!! ---
**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:** [April 6, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/94 "2008-04-06T20:06:58Z")
1 - Knowing me, knowing you (ABBA) 2 - Jed’s Other Poem (Grandaddy) 3 - Love for Christmas (The Gems) 4 - The Running Man (Aerogramme) 5 - I want I want - Digitalism 6 - Karma Man (David Bowie) 7 - The Spark that Bled (The Flaming Lips) 8 - Lord I’ve been changed (Tom Waits) 9 - A Waste of Time (Marianne Faithfull) 10 - Hercules Theme (Hercules and Love Affair) ---
**Author:** ![pprgrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@pprgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pprgrl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/95 "2008-04-06T21:41:48Z")
“Jigsaw Feeling” Siouxsie and the Banshees “Yakuza Oren” The Rza (Kill Bill I soundtrack) “Waiting For My Ruca” Sublime “Satisfaction” Bjork and PJ Harvey (possibly the best cover song that has ever been or will ever be recorded) “Possession” Sarah McLachlan (the slower, bonus track version) “Hey Jupiter (live)” Tori Amos “Pagan Poetry” Bjork “Thurston Hears the Who” Bikini Kill “Dreamboat Annie” Heart “Last Goodbye” Jeff Buckley ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/96 "2008-04-07T02:13:25Z")
1. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (World Violation Tour Backing Tape) 2. Intuition - Heaven (Live) 3. The Cure - The Perfect Girl 4. Erasure - Star (Live) 5. Cause & Effect - Real 6. Hate Dept. - Technical Difficulties 7. Nine Inch Nails - 03 Ghosts 1 8. Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert - A Little Fall of Rain 9. Filter - Spent 10. Bloodhound Gang - Asleep at the Wheel ---
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[ol] [li]Spiritualized: “The Ballad Of Richie Lee”[/li][li]Super Furry Animals: “Pan Ddaw’r Wawr”[/li][li]Desert Sessions: “The Gosso King of Crater Lake”[/li][li]Smithsonian Fold Recordings: “Home Sweet Home/Breaux Freres”[/li][li]Wendy Maharry: “Seven People”[/li][li]The Geraldine Fibbers: “Pet Angel”[/li][li]Les Baxter: “Batumba”[/li][li]Tricky: “Demise”[/li][li]The Magnetic Fields: “Josephine”[/li][li]The Cardigans: “Heartbreaker”[/li][li]Skunk Anansie: “Painkiller”[/li][li]Röyksopp: “A Higher Place”[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/98 "2008-04-07T02:41:22Z")
Delmore Brothers: Brown’s Ferry Blues Bee Gees: New York Mining Disaster 1941 Led Zeppelin: What Is and What Should Never Be Beach Boys: Vegetables DL Menard & The Louisiana Aces: The Back Door Tom Waits: Come on Up to the House Les McCann and Eddie Harris: Compared to What Old 97s: What We Talk About Flamin’ Groovies: Teenage Head Whiskeytown: Choked Up ---
**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:** [April 7, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/99 "2008-04-07T05:57:27Z")
**Biggirl** , I’ll have you know I have 527 R & B songs in my iTunes (and 57 Funk songs, including “Fire” by Ohio Players). So there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920/100 "2008-04-07T06:39:04Z")
The first ten songs that came up on my Winamp program this evening: 1. The Clash – “Train In Vain” 2. The Who – “I’m One” 3. The Kinks – “(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman” 4. The Clash – “Death or Glory” 5. Foo Fighters – “Big Me” 6. Jimi Hendrix – “Stepping Stone” 7. Otis Redding – “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” 8. John Ottman – “Usual Suspects - Main Theme” 9. The Stooges – “1969” 10.Chuck Berry – “House of Blue Lights” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-10-random-songs-on-your-ipod/443920.md?page=6)