The iPod Playlist Shuffle Game

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Here’s how this works:

(1) Load up your favorite music playlist, preferably one with a diverse and eclectic mix of artists.

(2) List the first three songs that come up on shuffle mode. More than three is fine, but try not to go over five. Make any commentary you like.

(3) The next person lists his 3-5 songs on shuffle mode.

Here’s the kicker: The next person must have the last song from the previous list in his/her playlist!! Basically another dominoes-style game. It doesn’t need to be the same artist, cover versions are fine.

Yes, it’s perfectly fine to download & add that song to your playlist before replying. :slight_smile:

We might adjust the rules later if this is too restrictive (another song by the same artist, same genre, etc.) but try your best to match the exact song. Hopefully we won’t get stuck on something too obscure.

[Starting in next post…]

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  1. Falco “Vienna Calling” (What on earth is this doing here??? Oh well, it’s nifty I guess.)

  2. Moonsorrow “Sankaritarina” (Epic Finnish Pagan Metal. Good thing this wasn’t #3, or this game would be hosed.)

  3. Duran Duran “Planet Earth” (From the debut album. They started out strong, pity they couldn’t make it last.)

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Awesome idea, but unworkable in practice.

I’d amend it to adding the song most similar to a song from the previous poster (genre, subject matter, etc.). In which case (if I am not being too presumptuous) I’ll put in, for #2:

  1. Nightwish (another Finnish metal band), Ocean Souls

  2. Echo & The Bunnymen, Over the Wall

  3. Fields of the Nephilim, Elizium Suite

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Ok, sounds fair enough. I’d make it so you play of the #3 song each time, though (and explain how your #1 is related, if it’s not obvious.)

#2 and #3 have to be selected randomly via shuffle mode, though – NO cheating! :slight_smile:

1. Fields of the Nephilim “Preacher Man”
The only Nephilim song I’m intimately familiar with. I really should get around to checking out the rest.

2. Ayreon “Dawn of a Million Souls”
Dutch progressive metal, heavily sci-fi themed.

3. Kansas “Fight Fire With Fire”
I forget which state this band is from.

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Paula Fernandes - Passáro de Fogo
–Fire-bird, in English.

Jesien. by Slawa Przybylska
–“Autumn” – Brings tears to the eyes of people in Poland who remember this classic old film scene.

Pepe Kalle, “Pret de Coeur”
– Kinshasa Soukous genre, “Ready for the heart”

Ashe Weyina by Aster Aweke
–Political revolutionary song from northern Ethiopia

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1. Toto "Africa
My personal misheard lyric: “I guess it rains down in Africa”

2. Andy Taylor "I Might Lie"
Great hard rock song from the ex-Duran Duran guitarist.

3. Psychotic Waltz "I of the Storm"
Extremely obscure yet very talented progressive metal band from San Diego.

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A guilty pleasure, which is the closest thing I have to Toto, that I DLed during a weak moment a couple of weeks ago after hearing it in my motel as I was walking out the door:

Styx, "Come Sail Away"

[last three shuffles:]

1. Nightwish, "Eva"

2. Tarja Turunen [Nightwish’s former lead singer], "Boy and the Ghost"

[which makes what I call a “twofer”, where the two cuts have very similar themes. In both cases we have a young child whose life is unpleasant [and full of people who don’t care] and are in search of redemption, of a release from their dire situations.]

3. Echo & the Bunnymen, "All My Colours"

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1. Ice-T "Colors"
“I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking, king of my jungle just a gangster stalking…”

2. Oingo Boingo "Little Girls"
Only Danny Elfman could get away with a song like this.

3. OLD "Z.U."
Huh…I have no idea what this is, don’t remember ever downloading it. Sounds way cool, though – a mix of psychedelic/industrial/grungy thrash metal.

4. Quicksand "Freezing Process"
Wikipedia calls this band “post-hardcore” but I’ve always thought of them as grunge. Their first album did little for me overall, but this song’s amazing.

5. Helloween "Halloween"
A 13-minute power metal classic.