01 Ramones - Surfin’ Bird
02 Lords of Acid - Special Moments
03 Puffy - Ai no Shirushi (insert longass remix name here)
04 Talking Heads - Drugs
05 Final Fantasy IX - Prima Vista Band
06 Amuro Namie - Taiyou no SEASON
07 Oingo Boingo - Sweat
08 Talking Heads - And She Was
09 Puffy - Neholina
10 Abe Natsume - 22 Sai no Watashi (Richard Mix) (It’s from Evil Morning, to anyone that means anything to.)
11 Madness - House of Fun
12 Warren Zevon - Rub Me Raw
13 Cyndi Lauper - The World is Stone
14 The Cruxshadows - Winterborn
15 Psychlon Nine - The Unfortunate
16 The Brilliant Green - Love Baby
17 UNDER17 - Ganbare! Tama-chan (Off-Vocal)
18 Weird Al Yankovic - Fat
19 Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
20 Morning Musume - Dokusen Yoku
Observations
I have a more varied collection than it might look like sometimes.
Winamp likes the Ramones and Puffy today. But still managed to give a good cross-section of what I have. Not a representative one, however.
Well, yeah - but it seems as if the iTunes “shuffler” prefers them, somehow. Of the 445 songs I’ve got in there, only 75 are Zeppelin and 38 are Audioslave. I just tried a few “Party Shuffles” and it always picks three to five Zep tunes. :: shrug :: I guess it learned my taste.
Hmm. This is a little lighter on folk than I would have expected, since more than half of this playlist IS folk. Aside from that, I’d have to say this is pretty representative of me - I’m all over the map genre-wise, but mostly stuff from pre-1990.
“The Losing End” - Neil Young
10.“1,000 Times” - Gomez
11.“Portia” - Miles Davis
12.“Sergeant Rock” - XTC
“Hungarian Dance #5” - J Brahms
“Motherless Children” - Lucinda Williams
“A Noite Do Meu Bem” - Milton Nascimento
“Metal and Steel” - Bob Schnieder
“Teenage Lobotomy” - The Ramones
“Suite #5 for violincello: JS Bach” - Anner Bylsma
“Poisoned at Hartsy Chinese food” - Grandaddy
“Straight to You” - Nick Cave
I find it remarkable that out of 26K songs, my very very favourite of all time should be #2. therwise, quite a mundane selection (oh and the “skip” button will be hit at the first bar of “Don’t Pass Me By”)
Theme from Rawhide - The Blues Brothers (soundtrack from the movie)
Englishman in New York - Sting
L’Aziza - Daniel Balavoine
Brandy - The Looking Glass
Reprise - soundtrack to Spirited Away, Joe Hisaishi
Aja - Steely Dan
Poision Ivy - The Coasters
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
One of These Nights - The Eagles
Whipping Post - Allman Brothers Band
Journey to the West - soundtrack to Princess Mononoke, Joe Hisaishi
Analysis:
well, obviously, I listen to a lot of older stuff, mainly classic rock and whatnot. The weird part is that I was born in 1982, after a lot of this material was recorded. When rebelling against the pop scene when I was young, I turned to older music instead of “alternative” new music, which explains my taste to a great degree.
I’m a big fan of Hayao Miyazaki, and Joe Hisaishi’s soundtracks to his films are always great, so some of his tracks ended up there.
Blues Brothers + country/western bar = WIN
classical music appreciation + Torvill & Dean admiration = Bolero. It’s very pretty, although I can’t listen to the whole thing in one stretch, or else it gets stuck in my head…
BOTH of the Roches songs that I have wound up on the same Party Mix? Now that’s random.
Out of 1152 songs in my playlist, taken from my New Music folder plus whatever albums I’ve wanted to hear since the last time I cleared my playlist:
Guided By Voices - Blimps Go 90
Devin the Dude ft Snoop Dogg and Andre 3000 - What A Job
OutKast - Da Art of Storytellin’ (Part 1)
Teenage Fanclub - Sparky’s Dream
Guided By Voices - Motor Away
Weezer - Longtime Sunshine
Sebadoh - Skull
Will.I.Am - Nahh Mean
Old 97’s - Won’t Be Home
Clipse - Roll With The Winners
Old 97’s - The New Kid
The Hold Steady - How A Resurrection Really Feels
Inspectah Deck - It’s Like That
Old 97’s - Salome
Saint Etienne - Like A Motorway
OutKast - Nathaniel
Nappy Roots - Roun’ The Globe
Lupe Fiasco - We Love You
Nappy Roots - Twang
The Shins - Split Needles
Now I’m gonna have to listen to “How A Resurrection Really Feels”, it seems like an appropriate song for Easter.
Not my player of choice, but what happens to be in iTunes on this computer (and it’s only out of 382 songs). What happens to be there is about half stuff someone else gave me, including some I don’t like, so this is an interesting mix, but says little about my own musical tastes.
It did manage to pick one of my favorite songs of all time, though.
“Maybe Baby” - Sun-60
“Joe” - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
“Six Gnossiennes VI : Avec conviction et avec une tristesse rigoureuse” - Satie [Aldo Ciccolini, piano]
“I don’t want to Go to Chelsea” - Elvis Costello
“At The Zoo” - Simon & Garfunkel
“Honey (Supatone 1 Dub)” - Tosca [Ultra. Chilled 02.2]
“Sweet Home Chicago” - Eric Clapton
“Edelweiss” - The Sound of Music
“All That We Perceive” - Thievery Corporation
“Appointment At The Fat Clinic” - Digable Planets
“In Limbo” - Radiohead
“Seven Langue” - Camper Van Beethoven [2005-01-16 - Blueberry Hill]
“Heroes” - David Bowie
“On Every Street” - Dire Straits
“Twisting” - They Might Be Giants
“Oh! You Pretty Things” - David Bowie
“Without You” - David Bowie
“Epistrophy (Live)” - Thelonious Monk Quartet & John Coltrane
“Nutty” - Thelonious Monk Quartet & John Coltrane
“Trois morceaux en forme de poire I. Manière de commencement: allez modérément” Satie [Aldo Ciccolini & Gabriel Tacchino]
On this list - 8 tracks of my own, 2 of which I liked better back in the early 90’s.
Of the rest, five I’ve never even listened to, but only about two of the others I really dislike.
So I suppose it says something about me - the general trend of the list is smooth and a bit mellower than other things I have, but not bad.
You have over 37 THOUSAND tracks? 2-3 thousand albums worth? Yeow! I’m impressed. I’ve ripped most of my CDs and I don’t have anything like that. I’ll have to do the party mix thing later.
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Pulp - Disco 2000
Do Make Say Think - The Landlord is Dead
The Fall - U.S. 80’s-90’s
Avalanches - Since I Left You
This is actually not a bad cross-section of my music library. I never listen to music on shuffle, so I was wondering at first whether it would just end up being 20 filler tracks that I couldn’t bring myself to pare out of otherwise good albums, or from the many albums I never listen to but never bother to remove from my playlist. That said, there are a few of the latter, like The Fiery Furnaces and The Streets.
Love Ain’t No Stranger-Whitesnake
Hell Is For Children-Pat Benatar
Running With The Pack-Bad Company
It’s A Living Thing-ELO
Respecable-The Rolling Stones
Free Ride-Edgar Winter Group
Electric Funeral-Black Sabbath
I’ll Stick Around-The Foo Fighters
Jamie’s Got A Gun (live)-Aerosmith
Momma, We’re All Crazy Now-Quiet Riot
Bad Boy Boogie-AC/DC
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band-The Beatles
Hush-Deep Purple
These Eyes-The Guess Who
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer-George Thorogood
Behind Blue Eyes-The Who
Rock Star-Nickleback
Night Rain-Guns & Roses
Plush-Stone Temple Pilots
Cumbersome-Seven Mary Three
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Chile (slight return) (the one from Live Alive)
Santana - Mother’s Daughter
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Carlos Santana - Bailando/Aqatic Park
Rolling Stones - Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Alan Parsons Project - What Goes Up
Three Dog Night - Easy To Be Hard
String Cheese Incident - Texas
moe. - Crab Eyes
Deep Purple - Never Before
Allman Brothers - Pegasus
the Grays - Very Best Years
Steppenwolf - Who Needs Ya
Van Halen - You Really Got Me
Fleetwood Mac - Seven Wonders
Skylark - Wildflower
Gypsy - The Vision
Okay, so I would expect a lot of “classic rock” (I am the demographic, after all), but DAAAAMN. This reads like the syndicated playlist for a ClearChannel franchise. Let’s see if iTunes does a better job.
Pat Metheny “It’s For You”
Chicago - Happy 'Cause I’m Going Home (live at carnegie hall)
Fleetwood Mac - Hi Ho Silver
Robin Trower - Man Of The World
Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Boom Boom (w/ John Lee Hooker)
REM - Pop Song '89
Sea Level - Storm Warning
Ray Charles - What’d I Say
Santana - Yours Is The Light
Widespread Panic - Pickin’ Up The Pieces
Tony Iommi - Mirahna
Return To Forever - Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant
Derek Trucks Band - Sahib Teri Bandi/ Maki Madni (live at the georgia theater)
Enchant - Oasis
String Cheese Incident - Johnny Cash
the Tangent - The Sun In My Eyes
Santana - The Sensitive Kind
Pat Metheny - Lakes (the only other metheny song I have, how weird)
moe. - Timmy Tucker
Storyville - Share That Smile
This does seem a little bit more random. From 5863 songs. (NOT all different from the winamp list. I don’t have THAT much music on this computer)
“Perfect” Burn Season
“An Honest Mistake” the Bravery
“Presedente” Kinky
“Hands On The Bible” Local H
“Pleasure of Resistance” Kissing Tigers
“Pet” Perfect Circle
“I’m Cool Like That” Digable Planets
“Running From Me” TRUSTcompany
“Oh Father” Madonna
“Three Strange Days” School of Fish
“Lag Time” Ani Difranco
“All I Want” Toad The Wet Sprocket
“In The Air Tonight” Phil Collins
“So Far Away” Crossfade
“I Want You Soo Hard (Boy’s Bad News)” Eagles of Death Metal
“Too Drunk To Fuck” Nouvelle Vague
“Break” The Cinematics
“How Soon Is Now?” The Smiths
“Faithless” Injected
“Soul To Squeeze” Red Hot Chili Peppers
Auto DJ thinks a lot like my grandma. It looked at the nearly 4,000 songs on my hard drive, and picked 19 of them that I put on my computer but haven’t listened to more than once recently (the sole other being “break”). In fact, at least 1/2 of them are from my “back in the day” playlist of 90s songs I wanted for the sake of completeness only. Auto DJ is obviously saying “You have such nice things! Why don’t you ever wear this one?”
“Requiem of the Gods” from the Castlevania - Symphony of the Night soundtrack
“Bring Em Back Alive” by Audioslave*
“Don’t Tell Them You’re Sane” by The Jam*
“Vision of Love” by Mariah Carey (Yes, I am justly ashamed of this, but I soothe myself with the thought that it’s the only one of her songs that I own)
“Road To Nowhere” by Talking Heads
“Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon**
“Sinfonia in D Major” by Wendy Carlos (Switched-On Bach 2000)
“On Top” by The Killers
“The American and Florence/Nobody’s Side” by Andersson-Ulvaeus (Chess soundtrack)
Not a bad lineup, all told. The single stars are songs that I’d probably skip if I was listening in the car, but I don’t actually dislike any of them. Double stars I’d listen to around Christmas time, skip the rest of the year.
Recent music is probably slightly underrepresented, as I always download all of the iTunes free tracks every week. So are soundtracks. And I really do have a little bit of everything, so there’s a fair bit of electronica, world, hip-hop, etc. if you go looking in my library for it. Almost all of the country is due to a secret love of Alison Krauss’ voice.
