# Nice iPod Shuffle coincidences **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486 "2013-09-23T01:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [September 23, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/1 "2013-09-23T01:55:03Z")
Brad Paisley’s “This is Country Music” includes the line “Take me home, country road” from John Denver’s song of the same name. After Paisley’s song, and what should come up next on Shuffle but Denver’s very song! Anything similar happen to you? ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/2 "2013-09-23T08:20:58Z")
Yesterday while mowing the lawn I heard De La Soul’s ‘Eye Know’ followed by Super Furry Animals ‘The Man Don’t Give a Fuck’ - both sampling Steely Dan (Peg and Show Biz Kids), followed by Steely Dan’s 'Dirty Work. Gave me a smile. MiM ---
**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:** [August 14, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/3 "2014-08-14T01:21:40Z")
Bumping. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/4 "2014-08-14T11:28:56Z")
I’ve gotten the original Surfin’ Bird followed immediately by the Ramones cover. ---
**Author:** ![BlueOhio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BlueOhio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueOhio)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/5 "2014-08-14T12:13:03Z")
I’ve had Steely Dan’s “Doctor Wu” immediately followed by The Minutemen’s cover of the same song. (or the other way around; can’t remember) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/6 "2014-08-14T13:15:21Z")
I get a lot of my playlist ideas from things like this. It’s great when a shuffle will put together two songs that I never would have thought to play in sequence. My favorite combination ever was a live Hendrix version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” followed by a live version of “Oleo” by Miles Davis. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/7 "2014-08-14T14:00:36Z")
I posted this several years ago: > [@](#): > > This afternoon while walking around our office park, I was (as usual) listening to my MP3 player. I have it set to shuffle everything on it, so a track from the soundtrack of “The Last of the Mohicans” may be followed by Dwight Yoakam’s “Back of My Hand,” which could be followed by The Cult’s “She Sells Sanctuary.” > > Anyway, this afternoon a song from The Shadows was followed by “Calling Elvis” by Dire Straits. I didn’t recognize the particular Shadows song (I’d downloaded their “Shadows Are Go!” album a couple weeks ago, but hadn’t listened to the whole thing), but I thought it was kind of neat to hear “Calling Elvis” right after The Shadows song. > > Can anyone guess why? > > The Shadows recorded songs for, and appeared (as marionettes) in the movie Thunderbirds Are GO, which featured the Thunderbirds created by Gerry Anderson, who directed the music video for Calling Elvis, in which the members of Dire Straits appeared (as marionettes). > > Turns out, after checking, that The Shadows song I didn’t recognize was indeed the theme from Thunderbirds. Pretty cool! ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/8 "2014-08-14T16:34:03Z")
Might be a bit off topic from the OP, but the best _transition_ between two songs I’ve heard was from The Birds’ “8 Miles High” into CCR’s “Who’ll Stop the Rain”. It just felt “right” to me. ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/9 "2014-08-15T05:50:56Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I get a lot of my playlist ideas from things like this. It’s great when a shuffle will put together two songs that I never would have thought to play in sequence. My favorite combination ever was a live Hendrix version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” followed by a live version of “Oleo” by Miles Davis. I love it when this happens. My favourite was probably “Surf City Eastern Bloc” by Arcade Fire leading into Glenn Miller’s “Over There”. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/10 "2014-08-15T06:43:14Z")
Kraftwerk - Neon Lights while driving home from a trip and going through a particularly well-lit place at night. Not strictly neon, but still. I get a few more, but I’ve forgotten what. I have (let’s see) 13,730 tracks on my iPod. So when it does come up it’s especially serendipitous. I think I’ve gotten a cover and its original back-to-back. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/11 "2014-08-15T13:09:52Z")
I stopped listening to shuffle when The Wiggles introduced a Korn song. That was too weird, even for me. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/12 "2014-08-15T13:40:37Z")
Sort of off topic, but about 10 years ago I was in Portland, Maine on business. Before I left I was looking for some tunes to play in the rental car for the 6 hour drive back to Ottawa. I bought two CDs, one of them was Jackson Browne’s “Running on Empty.” Now, I’d heard this album lots growing up, but hadn’t heard it in years, so I popped it in as I was leaving. As I was just getting onto the main highway and exiting Portland the song “Nothing but Time” came on with the opening line: “Rolling down 295 out of Portland, Maine.” That made me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/13 "2014-08-15T19:43:24Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I stopped listening to shuffle when The Wiggles introduced a Korn song. > > That was too weird, even for me. The Wiggles covered “Walk on the Wild Side” if it makes you feel better. The lyrics are now devoid of transsexual blowjobs, of course. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/14 "2014-08-15T19:47:55Z")
Several months ago I went for a run and the first song up was “Running Down a Dream” The best follow up would probably be Pink Floyd’s “Run” but I didn’t have that on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-ipod-shuffle-coincidences/669486/15 "2014-08-16T04:52:20Z")
Today I got Liz Phair’s whitechocolatespaceegg followed by Radiohead’s The Bends, both 1990’s title tracks. Spooky!11! 😉