This has been done before, many many times, but it’s fun.
Place your iPod, iTunes, what-have-you on shuffle and list the first ten songs that play. Explain if you must, but don’t try to hide anything shameful!
I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year) - Donald Fagan
Do It Again - The Kinks
The Battle of Endor - London Symphony Orchestra [from “Return of the Jedi” soundtrack]
Girl Goodbye - Toto
I’m Alive - Electric Light Orchestra
Don’t Let Go - Jeff Lynne
Free Fallin’ - Tom Petty
I Want To Break Free - Queen
Question - The Moody Blues
Wrapped Around Your Finger - The Police
Leonard Cohen - Ain’t No Cure for Love
Beatles - Baby You’re a Rich Man
Marie-Claire Alain - Bach: Trio Sonata #3 in D Minor
Roxy Music - My Little Girl
King Crimson - Requiem
Eric Dolphy - Burning Spear
Kinks - Who’ll Be Next in Line
Jethro Tull - This Free Will
Günter Wand/Kölner Rundfunkorchester - Schubert: Symphony #6, 3rd movement
Doors - Little Red Rooster (from Live at the Aquarius Theater)
The Nightfly! Love that CD. “New Frontiers” is my favorite from it.
Agnes - Donnie Iris
You and Me - Alice Cooper
Chicago Smokeshop - Roy Buchanan
The Letter - Joe Cocker
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Still Alive - Jonathon Coulton
The Look of Love - Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66
A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy - The Kinks
Alone - Heart (acoustic live version)
Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell - Buddy Whittington
Guerilla Radio - Richard Cheese
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
My Hero - Foo Fighters
Wargasm -L7
She’s In Parties - Bauhaus
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
I Believe in Miracles - The Ramones
Flash Gordon Theme - Queen
Heart Throb - Be Your Own Pet
Don’t Speak (I Came to Make a Bang ) - Eagles of Death Metal
Zune 120
Flowers - Batman soundtrack (1989)
Just a Job to Do - Genesis
Prime Mover - Rush
Big Time - Peter Gabriel
(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Accidentally in Love - Counting Crows
Whenever, Wherever - Shakira
Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
Love Gun - Kiss
Primary - Van Halen
On my iRiver S10(2GB)…
1)Haunted - Grayskul
2)Brown - Ken Nordine
3)This Used To Be My Playground - Madonna
4)Fresh - Non-Prophets
5)Nutria - Ken Nordine
6)Bayani - Blue Scholars
7)Good Day - Kats and Domer(ft Why G?)
8)RE: DEFinition - Blackstar
9)Phil - Buck 65
10)Three Bars(Boondocks Outro) - Asheru
Figured I’d try it with Winamp too…
1)Rolodex Propaganda - At The Drive-In
2)Time & Space(A New Refutation Of) - Digable Planets
3)How To Make It - The Linguistics
4)Radio Shack Promo- Tim & Eric(of Awesome Show, Great Job!)
5)The Engine Driver - The Decemberists
6)Stray Bullet Freestyle - Pharoahe Monch
7)I’m So Techno(Skit) - Sleep
8)Underdog World Strike - Gogol Bordello
9)Lost Boys - Roger Waters
10) Pine Tree Lake - Huge Spacebird
Marshall Tucker Band - Blue Ridge Mountain Sky (live)
Three Doors Down - Kryptonite
Montrose - Dancin’ Feet
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Smile of the Beyond
Peter Frampton - Baby, I Love Your Way
Kansas - Down The Road
Transatlantic - Suite Charlotte Pike
Allman Brothers - No One To Run With (live)
Johnny Winter - Jumping Jack Flash
This is from a Winamp playlist made up of the 2539 songs I’ve replaced from the last computer crash. Seems pretty typical, at least one song I didn’t know I had (3 Doors Down?) Eleventh song is Joe Cocker singing Can’t Find My Way Home.
Her Majesty – The Beatles
Nobody – Ne-yo
Cry Little Sister - Gerard McMann
How to Save a Life – The Fray
Heaven’s Light/Hellfire – Tom Hulce/Tony Jay (from the Hunchback of Notre Dame soundtrack)
Two Pina Coladas – Garth Brooks
Lonely No More – Rob Thomas
High Cost of Living – Jamey Johnson
Lost in the Shadows – Lou Gramm
Benny and the Jets – Elton John
The Buzzcocks, “Why Can’t I Touch It?”
Ahab, “Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales”
Unearthly Trance, “In the Red”
Nirvana, “Polly”
Cradle of Filth, “Dawn of Eternity”
Ulver, “Dressed in Black”
Ulver, “Hymne IV: Wolf and Man”
Tool, “Eon Blue Apocalypse”
Depeche Mode, “Blasphemous Rumours”
Rasputina, “Doomsday Averted”
Music for 18 Musicians (Coldcut Remix) - Steve Reich
Second Class (She’s Too Good for Me) - The Move
Bitillo - Tata Dinding
El Capitalismo Foraneo - Gotan Project
Trans Europe Express - Señor Coconut y su Conjunto
Bonus, because it’s probably gonna be a pretty interesting segue:
11. Suck a Caribou’s Ass - Wesley Willis
12. Small Talk - Doris Day
The worst part of it is, I listen to random assortments like this all the time. Just point iTunes DJ at my whole library and let 'er rip. I can’t imagine listening to a whole album of the same artist in a row anymore.
The Patient - Tool
Steady as She Goes - The Raconteurs
Replica - Beck
Where I End You Begin - Radiohead
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Pay No Mind (Snoozer) - Beck
Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado
Medicine - Guster
Fortress - Pinback
Southern Man - Neil Young
Caveat: I have 4356 items in my iTunes library, but probably less than 1/10 of that on my Touch, and I sync only checked songs, so the shuffle on iTunes only hits the checked songs that go on my iPod, aka songs I for sure like.