# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**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, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/61 "2009-06-20T06:00:38Z")
hmmm !@#\* seems to be an actual song by rusted root, and the obama thing is a song with artist “NPR” that I’m guessing was some kind of presidential tribute. The other weird numbers are all songs I downloaded from the Pisces myspace page which saves them as odd filenames rather than the song name. ---
**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 21, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/62 "2009-06-21T18:12:16Z")
NPR??? Dude, that’s my FAVORITE band! Totally. Have you heard their new album??? It’s called … yeah, I think I will stop now. ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/63 "2009-06-22T03:41:48Z")
First five alphabetically: 1. a-Tisket a-Tasket - **Ella Fitzgerald** 2. Aaww, Mama, Can this Really Be the End… Down and Out in Vegas with Amphetamine Psychosis Again - Part of a performed reading of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 3. Abba-Gadda-Davida **Storm Large and the Balls** ( **Abba’s** Take a Chance on Me sung to Inna-Gadda-Davida) 4. Aboard the Good Ship Venus - **the Poxy Boggards** 5. Absolute Power: a Tennis Star (Overseas Partner) - an episode of a British radio play. For what it’s worth, numbers 6-26 are also episodes of the same series. At the other end: 11,274) 8 Piece Box - **Southern Culture on the Skids** 11,275) 8. Communio: Lux Æterna - **Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra** from Mozart’s Requiem 11,276) 9 Lives - **Koffin Kats** 11,277) 9 to 5 - **Millencolin** 11,278) 99.9F° - **Suzanne Vega** Damn iTunes and its lousy alphabetisation. Does anyone know how to put numerics at the front where they should be? ---
**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 22, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/64 "2009-06-22T07:00:54Z")
> [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](#): > > NPR??? Dude, that’s my FAVORITE band! Totally. Hence the scare quotes… ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713/65 "2009-06-22T13:58:30Z")
first five alphabatized… About A Girl - Nivana Abra Cadaver - The Hives Accident - Condo Fucks Accidents Will Happen - elvis costello Act Like A Married Man - Robbie Fulks Shuffled… Camel Walk - Southern Culture on the Skids Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats - Los Campesinos Something for the Weekend - The Insomniacs Greed - The Fall Outs Nothing But a Heartache - Now Time Delegation [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-five-songs-on-your-ipod/499713.md?page=3)