The next 10 tunes on your iPod.

Cafe Society
1

We haven’t done this in awhile, methinks. The idea is simple: stick your iPod or whatever on shuffle. What are the first 10 songs on the list?

My list is…eclectic.

  1. Steel Rail Blues - Gordon Lightfoot
  2. Sweet Dream - Jethro Tull
  3. Galley Slave - Southern Culture On The Skids
  4. How Girls Can Score With Me - Emo Phillips
  5. Lose Again - Linda Ronstadt
  6. Flesh 'N Blood - Oingo Boingo
  7. Society’s Child - Janis Ian
  8. Touch - Sarah McLachlan
  9. Island (Album cut) - Jane Relf
  10. It’s A Crime - Marti Jones
2
  1. Baby What’s Wrong, the Yardbirds
  2. Solitary Man, Chris Isaak
  3. Candela, Buena Vista Social Club
  4. Petit Sekou, Bemembeya Jazz National
  5. Lies, Glen Hansard (Once soundtrack)
  6. Criminal World, David Bowie
  7. Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Annie Lennox
  8. Africa, Los Afro-Salsneros de Senegal
  9. Wheel of Time, Mickey Hart/Planet Drum
  10. Sama Guent Guii, Youssou N’Dour
3

You Really Got Me, the Kinks
Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
Last Kiss, Joe Bonamassa
The First Cut is the Deepest, Rod Stewart
Love and Marriage, Frank Sinatra
Hungarian Dances no. 21, Johannes Brahms
Pay Me My Money Down, Bruce Springsteen
Sunmmertime Blues, Blue Cheer
I Don’t Want to Do Wrong, Gladys Knight & the Pips
*String Quartet no. 10 *, Antonin Dvorak

4

Greed, Amorphis
Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash
Heaven is a Place on Earth, Belinda Carlisle (Why do I even have this?)
Cheap Drunk, Icicle Bicycle
In the Ghetto, Elvis Presley
Odens Ride Over Nordland, Bathory
Blood Slicked Highway, Pig
Night, Ocean Machine
The Hunter, Danzig
What is a Juggalo?, ICP

It’s like iTunes knows I’m going to be posting this stuff on a public bulletin board. Deleted Belinda Carlisle, but ICP is staying–they’ve been a guilty pleasure for ages.

5

“I Fall Down” - U2:October
“When the Levee Breaks” - Led Zeppelin:IV
“Dead Flowers” - The Rolling Stones:Sticky Fingers
“Half Moon Bay” - Train:Save Me, San Francisco
“Cloud Nine” - Evanescence:The Open Door
“Iron Hand” - Dire Straits:On Every Street
“Who’s Crying Now?” - Journey:Greatest Hits
“Good is Good” - Sheryl Crow:Wildflower
“Maybe Baby” - The Cars:Shake it Up
“6th Avenue Heartache” - The Wallflowers:Bringing Down the Horse

6

Billie Jean - Chris Cornell
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Middle of the Road (I blame the Dope for this)
Two of Us - Aimee Mann and Michael Penn
Lost in the Love of You - Livingston Taylor
Lordly Nightshade - The Incredible String Band
Dcba-25 - Jefferson Airplane
Woman with the Strength of 10,000 Men - Peter Himmelman
Let the Mystery Be - Iris DeMent
Rainmaker - Traffic
Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell

7

Heh, it’s true – all the embarrassing stuff comes up in moments like these.

Mine are:

  1. Heroine – Blonde Redhead
  2. What Jail Is Like – The Afghan Whigs
  3. Not the Way – Cass McCombs
  4. Come Stay with Me – Marianne Faithfull
  5. This Is Your Terror – Skinny Puppy
  6. Go Be Delighted – Girls Against Boys
  7. Rifles – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  8. Nothing Really Ends – dEUS
  9. Apeman – The Kinks
  10. Ultra-Violet – The B-52s

Whew, dodged a bullet! (The next song was a doozy…Last Christmas – Wham! :o)

8

Kissing Bliss
Land Of A Thousand Words Scissor Sisters
Pacific State 808 State
Life Is Sweet The Chemical Brothers
Till The Sky Falls Down Dash Berlin
Yalla Chant (Banco De Gaia Remix) Natacha Atlas
One Step Forward Les Nubians
Can’t Cry These Tears Garbage
Ahimana Tinariwen
Room 2 Om Sphongle

9
  1. Carla Bley: Nothing
  2. Mike Keneally: Tranquillado
  3. Sergei Prokofiev: Allegro Marcato (5th Symphony, 2nd Movement)
  4. Tim Buckley: Happy Time
  5. Blondie: Love at the Pier
  6. Alice Cooper: Gutter Cat Vs. the Jets
  7. John Mayall: The City
  8. Skip James: Look Down the Road
  9. Ange: Ego et Deus
    10 Roxy Music: Sentimental Fool
10

This made my day. C4 is on my ipod too (which is out in the car at this moment), but the Dope made me to it as well.

mmm

11

Amor em Paz, Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Man from Ipanema
Loquebantur Variis Linguis - Motet, Thomas Tallis - Spem in Alium by the Tallis Scholars
Body and Soul, Nat King Cole - The Best of Nat King Cole
Skippy (Alternate Take), Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music
Island of the Honest Man, Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
They Can’t Take That Away from Me, Trudy Desmond - My One and Only
Fragment, Paul Hindemith - Lieder
An den Mond, Hans Pfitzner - Lieder
Feuilles d’automne, 12 Valses, Op. 41, Valse #12, Napoléon Coste - Guitar Works, Vol. 5
String Quartet #23 in F, K 590 “Prussian #3” - 1. Allegro Moderato, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Complete String Quartets, Amadeus Quartet.

12
  1. Deep Inside Of You - Third Eye Blind
  2. My Baby - Cold Chisel
  3. The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be - Meatloaf
  4. Pennyroyal Tea (Unplugged) - Nirvana
  5. Perfect Crime - Guns N’ Roses
  6. Better Life - 3 Doors Down
  7. Ripcord - Radiohead
  8. Angel - Sarah McLachlan
  9. Old Mother Regan - Violent Femmes
  10. Paranoid Android - The String Quartet.

Well there’s a 90s dominated list.

13
  1. 107 Steps – Bjork
  2. I’ll Be Your Mirror – The Velvet Underground & Nico
  3. Donkey Rhubarb – Aphex Twin
  4. Fa Ha – LL Cool J
  5. Flutestramental – Prince
  6. Starfish and Coffee – Prince (c’mon, a repeat artist?!)
  7. Do It Again (Put Ya Hands Up) – Jay-Z
  8. Man Out of Time – Elvis Costello
  9. Breaking Your Heart (acoustic) – Cheyenne Kimball
  10. Dance of the Morlocks – DJ Spooky
14
  1. What Would They Know - Liars
  2. One Third - The Majority
  3. Needles and Pins - The Ramones
  4. Chuck - Harry Pussy
  5. How Can I Help It - Leon Payne
  6. Hazi Eskukada I - Lisabö
  7. Word From Our Sponsor - KRS-One
  8. Soundcheck - Pussy Galore
  9. Dancing Naked Ladies - The Jesus Lizard
  10. Hot Head - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
15

Kanou - Issa Bagayogo
Goodness Gracious - Kevin Gilbert
The Stars Are Projectors - Modest Mouse
My Sharona - The Knack
Almost Crimes - Broken Social Scene
Big Beat - X2000 (from the album Trancemission from Raveland)
New Country - Broken Social Scene
My Favorite Things - The Sound of Music Soundtrack
Bing Bang - Lazytown Soundtrack
Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye

Kind of surprised I got a repeat on there, iTunes reports ~400 artists.

16

Short Skirt, Long Jacket by Cake
Ain’t No Other Man by Christina Aguilera
Where Does the Good Go by Tegan and Sara
Ballroom Blitz by Sweet
She’s Got A Way by Billy Joel
Nothing Better by The Postal Service
King of Anything by Sara Bareilles
American Girl by Tom Petty
Hey Leonardo by Blessid Union of Souls
Stupid Girl by Garbage

17

For the hell of it, I scrolled through the next ~50 or so songs, and maybe 75% of them were all by the same 10-15 artists. I too have hundreds of artists on my iPod, so I’m curious as to the algorithm it uses when it shuffles. I’ve noticed in the past that it seems to favor songs recently added, but that doesn’t explain this pattern.

18

Florence and the Machine: Dog Days Are Over
Eddie Vedder: Setting Forth
Abba: Mama Mia
Chemical Brothers: Setting Sun
Rush: Limelight
Imogen Heap: Hide and Seek
ELO: All Over The World
Lee Cabrera: Move A Little Closer
Rolling Stones: Paint It Black
The Seatbelts: Call Me, Call Me

19

Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Girls on the Dance Floor - LMFAO
Sacrifice - Lindsay Ell
Days Go By - Keith Urban
Annie Christian - Prince
Whatever You Need - Damhnait Doyle
In Between Days - The Cure
10,000 Times - Blu Cantrell
More Than You Needed - Colin James
Stuck on You - Lionel Ritchie

What I think my iTunes does when shuffling is pick two or three artists and keep hitting on them. It seems like the same artists will come up again and again, then next time it will be a different couple.

20

John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - ‘You’re The One That I Want’
Madonna - ‘Bedtime Story’
Cher - ‘All Because Of You’
Girls Aloud - ‘Theme To St. Trinian’s’
Meat Loaf - ‘I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)’
Missy Elliott - ‘Ching-A-Ling’
Madonna ft. Lil’ Wayne - ‘Revolver’
Run-D.M.C. - ‘It’s Tricky’
Johnny Cash - ‘In My Life’

Edit: that was only nine

Eurythmics - ‘Brand New Day’