# First five songs on your iPod **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713 "2009-06-14T04:32:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/21 "2009-06-14T17:40:48Z")
Alphabetically: AB - Slowdive Ab joi et ab joven m’apais - Jordi Savall Abraham - Sufjan Stevens Abram - Jose Gonzales Absalon, fili mi - Josquin Desprez Shuffle: Meet Ze Monsta - PJ Harvey Nothing is Worth Losing That - Telefon Tel Aviv Just a Closer Walk with Thee - Mahalia Jackson Bag O’Miracles - Eagles of Death Metal Another Space Song - Failure ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/22 "2009-06-14T18:28:29Z")
What an unusual idea…also, my mp3 player lists song with a space before it first, then ones that begin with non-alphanumerics, then numbers, and THEN begins alphabetically. But to start with A: A Bath by the Sea – Vladimir Cosma A Beautiful Life (La Bella Vita) – Lindsay Lohan A Bomb in the Hotel – Eric Serra (The Fifth Element soundtrack) A Boy from Nowhere – Tom Jones A Brisa Do Coracao, Part 1 – Ennio Morricone And because others are doing it: Shuffled: Green, Green Grass of Home – Tom Jones Tropical Ice-Land – Fiery Furnaces Paranoid Android – Radiohead Lonely days, Lonely Nights – Johnnie Allan Wish (Komm Zu Mir) – Run Lola Run soundtrack Oddly, I think the alphabetical list is more representative of my music collection (although both, even taken together, don’t really represent it very well at all). ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/23 "2009-06-14T20:00:50Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > Huh. I wanted to see how many people had one of my songs in the first five. None, I guess. Well, to be nitpicky, the Elliot Smith song is _Sweet_ Adeline. Which I have. Abracadabra- Judee Sill Absolutely Sweet Marie- Bob Dylan Academy Fight Song- Mission of Burma Ace of Spades- Motorhead (oh jeez :smack:) Act Nice and Gentle- The Kinks and shuffled… I’m In Love- The dB’s Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others- The Smiths The Queen of Eyes- The Soft Boys Harmony in My Head- The Buzzcocks Give Back the Key to My Heart- Uncle Tupelo Wow! That went a lot better than it usually does. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/24 "2009-06-14T20:31:29Z")
**Alphabetically —** Above Ground, Norah Jones Accelerate, REM Affairs of the Heart, Fleetwood Mac Africa Bamba, Santana After the Fire is Gone, Loretta Lynn I don’t know how to do a shuffle list. When I hit shuffle it just starts playing. (I have an iPod touch.) ? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/25 "2009-06-14T20:39:51Z")
Alphabetically: A Soalin’ (Live) - Peter Paul & Mary Abacab - Genesis ABC - Jackson 5 Acid Queen - The Who The Actor - Moody Blues Randomized: Urgent - Foreigner Fields of Gold - Sting Forty Mile Town - Eric Johnson Put Your Head Out - House of Pain '39 - Queen ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/26 "2009-06-14T23:34:26Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I don’t know how to do a shuffle list. When I hit shuffle it just starts playing. (I have an iPod touch.) Just write down the first five songs - skip to each in turn to get the next song. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/27 "2009-06-14T23:46:28Z")
Across The Universe- Beatles After The Goldrush- Neil Young After the Thrill Is Gone- Eagles Ain’t Too Proud To Beg- The Rolling Stones Ain’t Wasting Time No More- Allman Brothers ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/28 "2009-06-14T23:49:25Z")
Accidents Will Happen A Day In The Life Aint No Woman Like The One I Got American Woman Ziggy Stardust Man, I should buy some more songs. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/29 "2009-06-14T23:49:58Z")
Alphabetical: Annihilate this Week-- Black Flag Lobachevsky-- Tom Lehrer Spirit of the Falklands-- New Model Army Shock treatment-- Richard O’ Brien Enough is Enough-- Chumbawamba Of course the actual tracks start with numbers, which accounts for the lack of alphabetization Random: Warsaw-- Joy Division 666-6666-- Corky and the Juicepigs Irish Drinking Song-- Dropkick Murphys Buenos Tardes Amigo-- Ween Mambo Sun-- T Rex ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/30 "2009-06-15T00:59:35Z")
Adam Lambert - Mad World Ain’t to Proud to Beg - The Temptations All Join In - Traffic Along Comes Mary - The Association Athens County - Jonathan Edwards ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/31 "2009-06-15T02:08:57Z")
**A. Wylie** (Flop/Whenever You’re Ready) **Aaj Ki Raat** (Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack) **About a Girl** (Nirvana) - 3 versions: Bleach, Unplugged in NY, and Nirvana **Absolution** (Gary Numan/Exile) **ACLU** (Johnny Webelo/Johnny Webelo) ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/32 "2009-06-15T02:16:50Z")
A Fond Farewell- Elliott Smith AC/DC- Dirty Deeds (done dirt cheap) All You Need is Lo9ve- Beatles Am I Demon- Danzig Amanda- Don Williams ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/33 "2009-06-15T02:41:22Z")
I alphabetized all my songs in order to post to this thread by unchecking everything in “View Options”, but now I can’t get them back like they were. They used to be grouped by album, with the songs in album order. iTunes did this automatically when I uploaded my CDs, and singles purchased from iTunes were intermingled alphabetically. Does anyone know how I can get them back into that sequence? (I’ve tried checking all sorts of stuff in View Options, but to no avail. Also, I’m on a PC, not a Mac.) ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/34 "2009-06-15T03:04:53Z")
I am on a Mac, but I am pretty sure this is standard. After you go into “view options” and check the boxes of whatever you want to show up, click on the “album” heading. That should fix it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/35 "2009-06-15T03:10:07Z")
Die Walkure is on it now. Vorspiel Wes Herd dies auch sei _Siegmund_ Kuhlende Labung gab mir der Quell! _Siegmund_ Mud am Herd fand ich den Mann _Sieglinde_ Friedmund darf ich nicht heissen _Siegmund_ ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/36 "2009-06-15T03:32:46Z")
> [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](#): > > I am on a Mac, but I am pretty sure this is standard. After you go into “view options” and check the boxes of whatever you want to show up, click on the “album” heading. That should fix it. Eureka! That did it. Who knew it’d be so simple? Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/37 "2009-06-15T03:57:58Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > A Fond Farewell- Elliott Smith > AC/DC- Dirty Deeds (done dirt cheap) > All You Need is Lo9ve- Beatles > Am I Demon- Danzig > Amanda- Don Williams Odd - I know I have A Fond Farewell on CD, but it’s not on my iPod. Yay, I started a usefull thread! _upload_ ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/38 "2009-06-15T04:34:04Z")
Abie Baby-Broadway Musical Hair About a Girl-Nirvana Ace of Spades-Motorhead The Adventure-Angels and Airwaves Aenema-Tool ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/39 "2009-06-15T07:38:57Z")
I alphabetize by artist, year, album, track, then finally song title, so the first 5 on my playlist are: A-Teens - Mamma Mia A-Teens - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme A-Teens - Super Trouper A-Teens - One of Us A-Teens - Voulez-Vous Shuffled: Blackmore’s Night - Waiting for You They Might Be Giants - Clap Your Hands The Who - We’re Not Gonna Take It Harry Chapin - 30,000 Pounds of Bananas Enya - The Memory of Trees \*\*\* Ponder ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/40 "2009-06-15T08:15:21Z")
By date added: Ashokan Farewell—The Civil War Lili Marlene—Marlene Dietrich Le Boudin—French Foreign Legion The Last Unicorn—America The Making of a Cyborg—Ghost in the Shell OST Alphabetically: “Aces High”—The Battle of Britain “Death to the Blasphemer!”—Alexander Nevsky “The Last Valley”—John Barry (Ghost) Riders in the Sky—The Outlaws (Let’s Have) A Patrick Swayze Christmas—Mystery Science Theater 3000 Not counting track numbers, parentheses and quotation marks, the first five would be: 1492: Conquest of Paradise—Vangelis 1812 Overkill—Extreme Music A Hero Comes Home—Idina Menzel A Holly Jolly Christmas—Burl Ives A Little Less Conversation—Elvis vs JXL So, as you can see, I’m quite mad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713.md?page=3)