# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/41 "2009-06-15T13:02:21Z")
Apparently a lot of other people have _Tommy_ too 😉 Acid Queen Addicted to Love Adelaide’s Lament (from Guys and Dolls) Ain’t Nobody But Me All the Young Dudes ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/42 "2009-06-15T13:11:39Z")
_The A-Treatment_ - Laika and the Cosmonauts _Abacab_ - Genesis _Abaddon’s Bolero_ - Emerson, Lake and Palmer _Abalone Daze_ - The Mermen _Abandon City_ - Utopia Laika and the Cosmonauts also have the distinction of having the last song on my Pod, alphabetically speaking - _Zunami_. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/43 "2009-06-15T14:27:19Z")
Alphabetically _A-Punk_ - Vampire Weekend _A-tisket, A-tasket_ - Ella Fitzgerald _A fero til Breioafjaroar_ - Steindor Anderson & Sigur Ros _The Abduction of Margaret_ - The Decemberists _Abends will Ich schlafen gehen_ - Maria & Margot Hellwig (don’t even ask) Shuffle _Tsubasa_ - M83 _12 Ghosts II_ - Nine Inch Nails _Virgam Virtutis tuae_ - Vivaldi _Nebel_ - Rammstein _Please remain calm_ - CloudCult ---
**Author:** ![TheMerchandise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@TheMerchandise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMerchandise)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/44 "2009-06-15T15:39:50Z")
Alphabetically by song: The ABC’s of Love – Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers Abe Lincoln – Bishop Allen Acid Jazz Singer – The Fratellis Acrobat – Maximo Park Across Your Knee – Robbers on High Street First five random songs: Mandy – Me First and the Gimme Gimmees This Kind of Love – Sister Hazel Surrender – Cheap Trick Skeleton Key – Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s Pop Destroyed the Scene – Rookie of the Year ---
**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:** [June 15, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/45 "2009-06-15T16:49:27Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Laika and the Cosmonauts also have the distinction of having the last song on my Pod, alphabetically speaking - _Zunami_. The actual last song on my playlist is **Π** by Kate Bush. Eliminate that and the songs with numeral titles, and the end of the alphabet is dominated, appropriately enough, by Mr. Z: Zoot Allures - Frank Zappa Zomby Woof - Frank Zappa & the Mothers Zolar Czakl - The Mothers of Invention Zing Went the Strings of My Heart - The Move Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/46 "2009-06-15T16:56:51Z")
Alpha: **A** -Barenaked Ladies **A-Punk** -Vampire Weekend **A.D. Blood** - Richard Buckner **A.D.D. (People Stop Running)**-PJ Olsson **A.M.A. Song** -Phil Ochs Random **Dreams (Fleetwood Mac Cover)**-Whiskeytown **The Landlady** -Phish **Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby (Rae and Christian Remix**)-Dinah Washington **Johanna** -Frida Snell **Wonderful** -78 Cents (from Street Dreams, a compilation of street performers) Last 5: **99 Luftballons** -Nena **99% of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd** -Half Man Half Biscuit \*\*99.9F-\*\*Suzanne Vega **9th and Hennepin** -Tom Waits **9th St Bridge** -Bill Cosby ---
**Author:** ![Baby\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Baby\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baby_Driver)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/47 "2009-06-15T17:05:53Z")
A-Punk (Vampire Weekend) Abacab (Genesis) ABC (Pipettes) Abel (The National) Absolutely Sweet Marie (Bob Dylan) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/48 "2009-06-15T17:13:22Z")
I do not have an iPod, but I do have a device that does hold music. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - Devo Add It Up - Richard Cheese Adventure - Be Your Own Pet Alfie - Lily Allen Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil ---
**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, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/49 "2009-06-15T17:14:19Z")
Last five: Yes - Mood for a Day You Know What You Could Be - The Incredible String Band You Can’t Always Get What You Want - Greg Brown You Really Got a Hold on Me - Smokey Robinson Your Auntie Grizelda- The Monkees 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/50 "2009-06-15T17:25:31Z")
Alphabetically by Title: A.M. Radio (Everclear) Abacab (Genesis) Absolute Beginners (David Bowie) Absolutely Cuckoo (Magnetic Fields) Absolutely No Decorum (The Ark) Alphabetically by Artist: Take on Me Train of Thought Hunting High & Low The Blue Sky Living a Boy’s Adventure Tale (Name that band!) On Shuffle: I Want You (The Beatles) Invisible (Alison Moyet) Autumn: Concerto in F Major, RV 293, Op. 8, No. 3 - Allegro: The Hunt - The Fleeing Beast - Guns and Hounds - The Fleeing Beast is Slain from Vivaldi’s _The Four Seasons_ (Gil Shaham & The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) You’re My Best Friend (Queen) Heart of Mine (Boz Scaggs) I like the shuffle best. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/51 "2009-06-15T18:33:01Z")
Alphabetically - First five songs A.A. Cameron’s Srathspey - Silly Wizard A.B. Corsi (The Man from Orkney) - Silly Wizard The Abandoned Hospital Ship - Flaming Lips ABC - The Tiger Lillies Abdulmajid - American Composers Orchestra Alphabetically - Last five songs Zoo Station - U2 Zissou Society Blue Star Cadence - \*The Life Aquatic \*Soundtrack Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie Zaar - Peter Gabriel Yulunga (Spirit Dance) - Dead Can Dance Alphabetically - First five albums A-Sides - Soundgarden Achtung Baby - U2 Acousticity - The Albion Band Across the Broad Atlantic - The Pogues Aenima - Tool Shuffle - First five songs Hello Remix - Lyrics Born Metropolis - The Pogues Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 10,000 Days (Wings Part 2) - Tool Left Hand Suzuki Method - Gorillaz ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/52 "2009-06-15T18:40:40Z")
The last six (thanks to the miracle of numerology): _9 Miles To Stuckey’s_ - The Torquays _9 Volt_ - Man or Astro-Man? _9:20 Special_ - Count Basie _905_ - The Who _96 Tears_ - ? & The Mysterians _99%_ - Soul Asylum ---
**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 15, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/53 "2009-06-15T19:30:43Z")
As long as we’re doing last 6 as well: Common People-- William Shatner Mama Told Me Not to come-- Wolfgang Press Words of Advice for Young People-- William S. Burroughs Working Class Hero-- John Lennon You Don’t Love Me Yet-- Bongwater You were Right-- Built To Spill ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/54 "2009-06-15T21:58:52Z")
I don’t have an iPod, either, but in my MP3 player my first 5 songs are: Go - Def Leppard Mama - Genesis Medley/Yell Help - Elton John Nobody Else In The World But You - Don Henley One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx Last 5: High On Emotion - Chris DeBurgh Adult Education - Hall and Oates Feelin’ Love - Paula Cole Method of Modern Love - Hall and Oates Baby Blue (US Mix) - Badfinger ---
**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 16, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/55 "2009-06-16T00:34:04Z")
Ah, last ones now. With numbers: 1977- The Clash 1000 Umbrellas- XTC 59 Times the Pain- Husker Du 54-46 That’s My Number- Toots and the Maytals 20th Century Man- The Kinks With letters: Zurich Is Stained- Pavement Zoo Pie- Guided By Voices Youth Decay- Sleater-Kinney Your Phone’s Off the Hook, But You’re Not- X Your Cheating Heart- Hank Williams ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/56 "2009-06-18T05:14:24Z")
I have two Ipods, but, on my newer Ipod touch [Which has my Top 10 percent (by play count) and New Age tracks from my older Ipod, and newer songs.] I know we all claim to have the most eccentric Ipod collection. I submit the following: Alpha: Adiction – A Dialog excerpt from “The King of Kong, a fistfull of Quarters”, [Soundtrack disc of the DVD Documentary on obtaining the high score in the Arcade Game Donkey Kong. -One of the Gamers interviewed comments on how his gaming addiction is better than drugs and alcohol. The entire audio clip is 6 seconds long.] Adiemus - Adiemus from the CD " Pure Moods " Airwave - from trance/electro group Rank 1 (Single) All That she Wants - Banghra Version – Ace of Base “The Sign” Anywhere is – Enya “Paint The Sky With Stars” Bottom Alpha: Your Feeling Shoulders – Ray Lynch “Deep Breakfast” (New Age) 4 o Clock in the Morning – Lazard “Trance Party, Vol. 2” 9 PM (Till I Come) – ATB “Trance Classics, Disc 2” [New Age and Trance, that’s pretty much how I roll. Surprisingly, I do feel the two genres are so far removed from each other, that they do actually begin to meet again.] 9 PM / Don’t Stop\*. ATB Essentially the same song as above, with another song “Don’t Stop” mixed in. As far as I can tell, this is a non stop party mix, and the two songs are back to back, not remixed. 100% Pure Love - Crystal Waters “Pulse” [90s Dance Club music. This disc also has Haddaway “What is love” – that should give you a good idea of the entire CD.] - As I stated I have two Ipods. My older Ipod actually had this next ““song”” that I will provide, given that I had 9 pm twice: 100% Pure White Noise. Yes. Static. 60 minutes worth. – I have ADD, and I heard that white noise can help people with ADD concentrate better. IANAD, but I think that it does have some added value to concentration and alternately, relaxation. Top 5 most played: The Device has been Modified - Victims of Science This is a remix using music from the valve game “Portal”. GLaDOS and other robots offer up their quotes, over a slightly techno beat. Surgerunner - YTCracker – Nerd Rap Entertainment System A Rap song played over “Old School” Nintendo 8 Bit Chiptunes. The Entire song is a plea to bring back the late Coca-Cola beverage “Surge”. FYI: The entire “Nerdrap Entertainment System” CD is a free download from YTCracker. Google it. Runner - A deleted song from the motion picture “Paprika” - An anime that is parts Cyberpunk, parts interactive dreams. I found the deleted songs from the soundtrack after googling for Paprika. The movie is a total “Please may I have some more” WTF fest. IMDB has a trailer for it, and the song used in the trailer (The Girl in Byakkoya) makes my number 7 on my most played list. Barbie Girl 2006 - Rob Mayth “Party Essentials 2006”. This is a VERY well done cover of the same song from Aqua. You either hate Aqua’s version of the song, or you love it. If you are with me, and fall into the second group, you owe it to your self to track down this song. Pole Position - Rah - Best of Platipus: Euro - Insturmental Trance/Electronica with a good driving beat. I also have “Lift up your Hearts” and “Martin Luther King Sings” from Michael Gregory on my Ipod, however, the Top 25 played list has no idea that the songs exist. – I would bet that both of these songs easily make it into my top 10, if not my top 5. Lift up your Hearts is an “Auto Tuned” remix of Winston Churchill’s speech from Summer 1941. Imagine a Techno Churchill ““singing”” 'Lift up your hearts, All will come right, out of the depths of sorrow and of sacrifice, will be born again, the glory of mankind" MLK Sings is the “I Have a Dream” speech, also “Auto Tuned”. Both of these songs need to be heard at least once. Very hard to describe with out “being there”. If you have seen the “Auto tune the news part 2” clip from youtube, both of these songs are from the same guys. – The juxtaposition of History against technoized speech is one of those rare times where two completely far out things collide PERFECTLY together. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/57 "2009-06-20T01:45:51Z")
First five: A Breeze from Alabama - Scott Joplin A Call to Arms - Mike + The Mechanics A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke A Day in the Life - The Beatles A Different Corner - Wham! Last six: Your Love Is King - Sade Zadok the Priest - G.F. Handel Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Zorba the Greek - Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass 5:15 - The Who 22nd Regiment - The Goldman Band An eclectic bunch o’ stuff… ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/58 "2009-06-20T02:38:17Z")
By artist: 2Pac & Dr. Dre: California Love 10,000 Maniacs: Because the Night AC/DC: Thunderstruck Back in Black You Shook Me All Night Long If we’re only doing one song per artist: 2Pac/Dre 10,000 Maniacs AC/DC Alice In Chains (Heaven Beside You, Rooster, No Excuses, Them Bones, Would?) Alicia Keys (Fallin’) Last Five: Tracy Chapman (Fast Car) U2 (One) Violent Femmes (Blister in the Sun) Von Bondies (C’mon C’mon) Weezer (almost all the singles) ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/59 "2009-06-20T02:54:27Z")
The last 5 on my mp3 have Icelandic titles from a few Bjork albums and that I can’t figure out how to print, but starting at the end of Z I have: Zum – Astor Piazzolla Zro – Kukl (ahh!! Bjork again!!) Zoom and Bored – Carl Stallings Zoom – Dr. Dre and LL Cool J Zig Zag – John Zorn Wow-- who would have thought this would prove amazingly representative of my music collection? ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/60 "2009-06-20T05:49:22Z")
> [@infinitii](#): > > The last 5 on my mp3 have Icelandic titles from a few Bjork albums and that I can’t figure out how to print I write Spanish words often enough that I’ve bothered to learn the keyboard shortcuts for basic accents, but for other strange symbols I’ve found that copy and paste works in a surprisingly large number of contexts. My last five songs are 20090114\_atc\_obama 36216502\_991af1e9 36216502\_bb40db79 36216502\_f97cf4cd !@#\* my last five that aren’t numbers are in cyrllic lol last 5 english alpha zissou society blue star cadets zombie zombie (techno remix) zoo station zooropa [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713.md?page=4)