The First 12 Songs on your Random-Play Music Player?

Cafe Society
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I was mowing the lawn (or rather, the leaves) this morning, a Saturday morning ritual that’s always accompanied by a random-play soundtrack from my iPod. Afterwards I realized that I’d listened to twelve songs that were an interesting cross-section of some of my musical taste, and wondered what a sampling of other people’s random-play would look like. No specific favorites, no skipping tracks – just list the first twelve tracks that come out of your next random-play and see what surprises await. Here are mine from this morning:

[ol]
[li]Who Would’ve Known - The Origin[/li][li]Only Once - Maria McKee[/li][li]No One Can - Marillion[/li][li]Stumbling Home - Professor and Maryann[/li][li]Somebody Changed the Lock - Dr John[/li][li]Memory of You - Richard Shindell[/li][li]Wall of Death - Richard and Linda Thompson[/li][li]Carnival - Natalie Merchant[/li][li]Don’t Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders[/li][li]Lullaby - Joe Jackson[/li][li]Girls! Girls! Girls! - Liz Phair[/li][li]How Deep Is The Ocean - Diana Krall[/li][/ol]

2
  1. Emenius Sleepus - Green Day
  2. A Hot Time in the Town of Berlin - Dean Martin
  3. Don’t Dream It’s Over - Crowded House
  4. Volare - Gipsy Kings
  5. Manchester England - Hair soundtrack
  6. We Are All Made of Stars - Moby
  7. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Theme (Remix) - Cartoon Network
  8. Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation
  9. At Last - Etta James
  10. Around the World - ATC
  11. Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik
  12. Common People - William Shatner
3
  1. David Julyan - Motel Room, Arriving at the Derelict (memento score)
  2. Howard Shore - Moth (silence of the lambs score)
  3. Howard Shore - Crash (not sure of the origin)
  4. Download - Cunning
  5. Amon Tobin - Precursor (feat. quadraceptor)
  6. Robert Rich - Book of Ecstasy
  7. Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture
  8. Seven Trees - Overload
  9. Gridlock - XIII
  10. My Dying Bride - My Hope The Destroyer
  11. Fallout 2 score (video game) - Hubologists
  12. Autechre - Silverside
    I cheated somewhat. I go on sprees of sampling totally random music sometimes, and often not bother to delete really bad stuff, so stuff will pop up that I don’t like whatsoever and isn’t indicative of what I listen to so I skipped it, as I’d normally instantly skip it. I should really stop being so lazy and delete the garbage.
4

[ol]
[li]The Blood Brothers - My First Kiss At The Public Execution[/li][li]The Mars Volta - Concertina[/li][li]Guided By Voices - Little Lines[/li][li]The Decemberists - Billy Liar[/li][li]Q And Not U - The More I Get, The More I Want[/li][li]Spoon - Plastic Mylar[/li][li]Pavement - The List Of Dorms[/li][li]Yo La Tengo - Serpentine[/li][li]Bad Brains - Big Takeover[/li][li]M83 - Noise[/li][li]Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine[/li][li]Interpol - PDA[/li][/ol]

5

Helium – Tin Hat Trio
Underwater Vibes – DJ Cam
Thieves – Ministry
The Lotus Eaters – Dead Can Dance
Forty Fingers – Pullman
You didn’t Know That Though – Blackalicious
Fragile or Possibly Extinct – The Mercury Program
Dear Jillary – Burning Airlines
Blocking out the Friction – Death Cab for Cutie
Midtown – Tom Waits
Sound Check – Gorillaz
101 North – Tomahawk

6
  1. Grammercy Ball - Pinataland
  2. Losing Your Place - George Carlin
  3. some unlabeled track - Robert Hawkins, Smackin’ Kittens
  4. Make Oneself - Guilty Gear XX Soundtrack
  5. some unlabeled track - Ron White, Drunk in Public
  6. Mein Herz Brennt - Rammstein
  7. Another track from Ron White, Drunk in Public
  8. Monopoly, George Carlin
  9. Ota Benga’s Name - Pinataland
    10.New News - George Carlin
    11.Overture: Beautiful New World Jail - Pinataland
  10. No Rest for the Wicked - Bloodhound Gang

Taken from my Neuros 20GB player. I just got the thing yesterday, and haven’t put all my music on it yet. Also, I almost never use shuffle – I much prefer listening to entire albums.

And yes, it’s very heavy on stand-up comedy. There’s nothing better for long road trips.