What comes up for you on shuffle play?

Inspired by this thread, and somewhat by theOnion AVClub’s Random Rules section, I decided to put my entire library on shuffle and see what comes up for the first 25 tracks without skipping artist or album repeats.

Here’s what came up for me, warts and all. Although it looks like iTunes was pretty merciful - none of my kids’ High School Musical crap came up.

(presented in song - artist - album format)

  1. Return of Jackie & Judy - Tom Waits - We’re a Happy Family Ramones Tribute
  2. B-Boys Makin’ With the Freak Freak - Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
  3. Moment’s Notice - John Coltrane - Blue Train
  4. Scattered - Green Day - Nimrod (their best album)
  5. It’s So Easy - GitoGito Hustler - Love & Roll (check 'em out on iTunes or eMusic - sweet Japanese girl-punk)
  6. You Won’t See Me - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
  7. High Plains Drifter - Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
  8. Fondle Rock - The Poets of Rhythm - Discern/Define
  9. Drug Me - Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  10. Shining - Mad 3 - Teen-Age Delinquent!
  11. Drinkin’ Wine - Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out
  12. On the Sentimental Side - Louis Armstrong - Priceless Jazz
  13. Rawhide - Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc.
  14. Brain Stew - Green Day - Insomniac
  15. Right Around the Corner - Detroit Cobras - Life, Love and Leaving (dayum this is a kickass song!)
  16. Spin the Black Circle - Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
  17. Ulu Niu Ke’eke’e (The Crooked Coconut Tree) - George Kahumoku/Kekuhi Kanahele - Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters Collection, Vol. 2
  18. Standing - Anthony Stewart Head - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Once More With Feeling Soundtrack”
  19. Tarzan - Cadillac Jones - The Big Takedown
  20. Rockin the Free World - Pearl Jam - 7/20/06 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, PDX
  21. When You Touch Me - Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar
  22. One Last Pitch - Harry Connick Jr. - Lofty’s Roach Souffle
  23. Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley, Your Tie’s Caught In Your Zipper - Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
  24. Mothers Talk - Tears for Fears - Tears Roll Down, Greatest Hits (this one’s my wife’s)
  25. Carolina Drama - The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

I’d highly recommend checking out most of these artists/albums if you’re not familiar with some of them.

Feel free to post yours - 10, 15, 20, doesn’t matter. Only rule is, you have to post everything that shows up, without omitting anything out of embarrassment. :smiley:

And if you feel the compelling need to name-check any artists that didn’t come up, but you feel are worthy of mention, feel free. I’d love to uncover some cool music.

Some stuff that didn’t come up for me, but I feel like giving free press to - Heartless Bastards, King Brothers (from Japan), Budos Band, Menahan Street Band, Jay Reatard, Bantam Rooster.

Here’s twenty:
(title–Author)

  1. Bullet-- The Misfits
  2. Everything That Rises Must Converge-- Shriekback
  3. Like Wow Wipeout-- Hoodoo Gurus
  4. Kill The President-- Coffin Break
  5. Common People-- William Shatner
  6. I wanna Destroy You-- Soft Boys
  7. Dancing Barefoot-- Patti Smith
  8. The Devil Is My Friend-- The Jazz Butcher
  9. When the shit Hits the Fan-- Circle Jerks
  10. 99 Red Balloons-- 7 Seconds
  11. Kerosene-- Big Black
  12. Chicks Dig Jerks-- Bill Hicks
  13. RE: Your Brains-- Jonathan Coulton
  14. Valentine-- Mary Prankster
  15. Axegrinder-- Hoodoo Gurus
  16. Insanely Jealous-- Soft Boys
  17. Protest Song-- Neil Innes
  18. Apathy-- 1000 Homo DJs
  19. Adventures in Failure-- MC 900 Foot Jesus
  20. I Want It All-- Kosheen

I love these threads…

For me… (Artist listed first, song next. Album never listed, unless that’s what’s in the Artist slot. Non-music skipped.)

  1. Tommy heavenly6 - Lovely^Yume Lovely Boy^ (Instrumental version)
  2. Mai Hime - Fuuka Academy Broadcast Club single - Fuuka Academy School Song - Crystal Protection
  3. Tom Lehrer - Pollution
  4. John Lennon - It’s So Hard
  5. Mini Moni - Suki Suki Kirai Kirai Kirai
  6. Blur - No Distance Left To Run
  7. Cruxshadows - Monument
  8. Beatles - Back in the USSR
  9. Morning Musume - shabodama
  10. Shonen Knife - Cannibal Papaya
  11. Oingo Boingo - Dead or Alive
  12. Apocalyptica - Quutamo
  13. Polysics - I My Me Mine
  14. Death Note OST - Misunderstand
  15. L7 - Freak Magnet
  16. Cruxshadows - Dragonfly
    (Note…first repeat…surprising…usually, I’d have 2 or 3 by now.)
  17. Ramones - Cretin Hop
  18. Shonen Knife - Insect Collector
  19. Melody - Once Again
  20. Dana Fuchs - Helter Skelter
  21. MALICE MIZER - APRES MIDI ~Aru Paris No Gogo De~ (E-style)
  22. Voltaire - Brains
  23. Oingo Boingo - Faster
    (There’s the Boingo repeat! I was wondering why they’d only come up once, yet.)
  24. HALCALI - History
  25. UNDER17 - Tenbatsu! Angel Rabbie

Artist - track - album

  1. Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear The Reaper - Extraterrestial Live
  2. Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Wooden Ships - United Center Live
  3. I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again - Electric Time Trousers
  4. Slowdive - Ports Theme #2 - I Saw The Sun
  5. Bob Dylan - Ballad Of A Thin Man - A Phoenix In April
  6. Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running - Neon Bible
  7. Love - Alone Again Or - Forever Changes: Alternate Mixes and Outtakes
  8. Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
  9. The Church - Ritz - Live At The Plant
  10. Pavlov’s Dog - She Came Shining - Live At The Ford Auditorium 1976
  11. Appletree Theatre - Altogether Overture - Playback
  12. Hawkwind - The Psychedelic Warlords - Hall Of The Mountain Grill
  13. My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep - Loveless
  14. Klaus Schulze - In The Forest - Next Of Kin Montclare
  15. Caravan - Cecil Rons - Caravan
  16. Beatles - I Should Have Known Better - A Hard Day’s Night
  17. Yes - Parallels - Going For The One
  18. The Byrds - Eight Miles High - John Peel’s Final Perfumed Garden, 14th. August 1967
  19. Incredible String Band - The Iron Stone - The Big Huge
  20. The Tokens - How Nice - My Mind Goes High (compilation)
  21. Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren - Morning Glory
  22. Barclay James Harvest - Poor Man’s Moody Blues - Legacy: Live at the Shephers Bush Empire
  23. Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light - The Complete Paradiso Tapes
  24. Lesley Duncan - Watch The Tears - Everything Changes
  25. 5th Dimension - Carpet Man - The Magic Garden

Mmmm…I have *such *good taste. :cool: What a wonderful selection. And there’s another 12,431 to go. Yum.

  1. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay - Peggy Lee (yes, really)
  2. I’m Not in Love - 10cc
  3. Five Room Love Story - Cowboy Junkies
  4. Something Better Change - The Stranglers
  5. The Great Escape - Patrick Watson
  6. Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & the Hot Rods
  7. Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  8. Moth - Miguel Mera
  9. It’s a Sin - Pet Shop Boys
  10. Wrong Bananas - Joel Veitch
  11. Linus and Lucy - Vince Guaraldi
  12. Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
  13. Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Tom Waites
  14. She and Mr Jones - Lords of Acid
  15. Awakening - Kronos Quartet (from “Floodplain”)
  16. Looking Out My Window - Tom Jones
  17. The Frog Princess - The Divine Comedy
  18. Funkytown - Lipps Inc.
  19. Hey Eugene - Pink Martini
  20. I’m Not Afraid to Die - Gillian Welch
  21. Tangled Up in Plaid - Queens of the Stone Age
  22. Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone (bonus points for recognizing this one)
  23. Swing Down Chariot - Golden Gate Quartet
  24. Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
  25. Turning Japanese - The Vapors

My shuffle seems to be in an Old School mood today. And virtually no classical, despite far too many Handel arias in there.

  1. Curve - Hell Above Water
  2. Nine Inch Nails - Love is Not Enough (Live Rehearsal)
  3. Depeche Mode - Breathing in Fumes
  4. Nitzer Ebb - Kick It
  5. Slumdog Millionaire OST - Jai Ho
  6. Iris - Imposter
  7. Nirvana - Lounge Act
  8. Joy Machine - This Empty Room
  9. Nitzer Ebb - Murderous (Instrumental)
  10. Sneaker Pimps - Kiro TV
  11. Radiohead - Fitter Happier
  12. Mesh - Confined
  13. Ben Gibbard - Sound of Settling (live acoustic)
  14. Tool - 4 degrees
  15. Nine Inch Nails - Get Down Make Love (Live 1990)
  16. Lush - Stray
  17. Dead Can Dance - Song of the Dispossessed
  18. IAMX - Destroying Angel (acoustic)
  19. Depeche Mode - Suffer Well (Live 2006)
  20. Sister Machine Gun - Temptation
  21. Covenant - Brave New World
  22. Rotersand - Lifelight
  23. Erasure - Chains of Love (Live acoustic)
  24. Love is Colder than Death - In Silence and Tears
  25. Beborn Beton - Life is a Distance

Strange that it would come up with two Nitzer Ebb songs since I don’t have many.

I love that song, along with most of the Rathergood tunes. I always smile when they come up on my iPod.

As for my 25 (song-artist-album):

  1. The Vanishing Spies - Frank Black - Selections from Teenager of the Year
  2. I Do - Pedro the Lion - Achilles’ Heel
  3. Melatonin - Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
  4. Do You Think It’s Alright? - The Who - Tommy
  5. Sea Shanty - The Pogues - Red Roses for Me
  6. Winter’s Come and Gone - Gillian Welch - Hell Among the Yearlings
  7. Motel Blues - Big Star - Live
  8. Circa 1762 (Peel Session 1) - Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe
  9. Live Free - Son Volt - Trace
  10. Lowlands - Alasdair Roberts - The Crook of My Arm
  11. Drifting - Volebeats - Sky and the Ocean
  12. Queen of the Savages - The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
  13. Second Best - Pedro the Lion - Control
  14. Raid - Madvillain - Madvillainy
  15. Chramer, Gip Die Varwe Mir - Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra - Carmina Burana
  16. July, July! - The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
  17. Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
  18. You Tell Me - Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
  19. Go It Alone - Beck - Guero
  20. Thirteen Grand - The Wrens - The Meadowlands
  21. Here We Go Again - Happy Cactus - Cricket
  22. Per Second Second - The Wrens - The Meadowlands
  23. Barbarism Begins At Home - The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
  24. If You All Get To Heaven - Terence Trent D’Arby - Introducing the Hardline
  25. Blood and Roses - The Smithereens - Especially For You

Here’s mine, without further elaboration – except to admit I have some odd stuff on my iPod…

  1. Clip from Field of Dreams: “Is this Heaven?”…“No, It’s Iowa.”
  2. Van Morrison - Domino
  3. Brooks & Dunn - Boot Scootin’ Boogie
  4. Hank Williams - Move It On Over
  5. Beach Boys - California Girls
  6. Waylon Jennings - Good Ol’ Boys (theme from Dukes of Hazzard)
  7. Hank Williams - Your Cheatin’ Heart
  8. Modest Mouse - Float On
  9. Andrews Sisters - Pennsylvania Polka
  10. Theme from MASH*
  11. 3 Stooges clip: “Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk,” then sound of Curly being hit on the head
  12. Bruce Springsteen - Workin’ on the Highway
  13. Theme from Seinfeld
  14. Beat Farmers - Lost Weekend
  15. Yo Ho Yo Ho, A Pirate’s Life For Me (From Disney’s Pirates of the Carribean ride)
  16. Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
  17. Frank Sinatra and Doris Day - Take me out to the Ball Game
  18. The Doors - Alabama Song
  19. Bob Seger - Rock & Roll Never Forgets
  20. Theme from Underdog
  21. Tom Petty - Runnin’ Down a Dream
  22. Del Amitri - Always the Last To Know
  23. Jason & the Scorchers - Help, There’s a Fire
  24. Alabama - Cheap Seats
  25. Buddy Holly - Oh Boy
  1. Offend in Every Way - The White Stripes
  2. Bridges, Squares - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
  3. The Best - … and You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead
  4. I Palindrome I - They Might Be Giants
  5. The Going Price for Home - The Prize Fighter Inferno
  6. One Slip - Pink Floyd
  7. You’ll Never Walk Alone - Gerry and the Pacemakers
  8. Wasted Youth - As Fast As
  9. Fearless - Pink Floyd
  10. Shine on you Crazy Diamond, pts 6-9 - Pink Floyd
  11. Paintbox - Pink Floyd
  12. Young Alumni - Maritime
  13. Nine in the Afternoon - Panic at the Disco
  14. Time Consumer - Coheed and Cambria
  15. Thief in the Night - Anam Cara
  16. Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off - Panic! at the Disco
  17. Sky’s the Limit - Authority Zero
  18. Pidgin English - Elvis Costello
  19. Bleeder - Hot Water Music
  20. So What - The Cure
  21. Hide and Seek - Park
  22. 13th - The Cure
  23. Aluminum - White Stripes
  24. Your Eyes Open - Keane
  25. Never Enough - The Cure

I can’t believe there are 5 bands that are repeated (Prize Fighter Inferno is a sideproject of Claudio Sanchez, singer for Coheed and Cambria, so I count that as a repeat. Which I recommend by the way, if you like his writing and singing and also like low-fi 80s folky synth rock.)

I mean, the Floyd is my favorite band but it doesnt represent 1/5 of my collection!

On the other hand, I also tend to import entire albums into my WMP, and usually by now a song I don’t particularly like will come up that I just automatically imported, and there wasn’t any of that that I could see.

  1. “White Flag” by Dido
  2. “Switch 625” by Def Leppard
  3. “Oh My My” by Ringo Starr
  4. “Eres Tu” by Mocedades
  5. “No More, No More” by Aerosmith
  6. “Valleri” by Steve Winwood
  7. “The Talking Drum” by King Crimson
  8. “Be My Yoko Ono” by Barenaked Ladies
  9. “Films” by Gary Numan
  10. “My Parties” by Dire Straits
  11. “Song For Europe” by Roxy Music
  12. “Celebration Day” by Led Zeppelin
  13. “Polythene Pam” by the Beatles
  14. “Until the Night” by Billy Joel
  15. “Hello” by Oasis
  16. “Dirty World” by the Travelling Wilburys
  17. “I Second That Emotion” by the Miracles
  18. “Blitzkrieg Bop” by the Ramones
  19. “Walking Away” by Clint Black
  20. “The FInal Cut” by Pink Floyd
  21. “Put Your Head Out” by House of Pain
  22. “Scotland’s Story” by the Proclaimers
  23. “Neptune, the Mystic” form Holst’s “The Planets”
  24. “Bloodsucker” by Deep Purple
  25. “Veteran of Psychic Wars” by Blue Oyster Cult

Birmingham Blues - Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Woad to Ruin - Hans Zimmer - King Arthur soundtrack
On the Road Again - Willie Nelson - Willie Nelson Live
The Rebel Fleet - End Title - The London Symphony Orchestra - Empire Strikes Back soundtrack
Star Wars (LP Version) - Meco - The Best of Meco
King of the Slaves - Sinfonia of London- Stargate soundtrack
Hold On Tight - Electric Light Orchestra - Time
King of Pain - Police - Synchronicity
Mary Jane’s Last Dance - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits
A Still Life Franchise - Less Than Jake - In with the Out
Way Down - Elvis Presley - Elvis: 30 #1 Hits
Running Scared - Roy Orbison - Crying
No Myth - Michael Penn - March
Twice As Hard - The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
The Moisture Farm - The London Symphony Orchestra - Star Wars: A New Hope soundtrack
Everyday is a Winding Road - Sheryl Crow - Erin Brockovich soundtrack
10538 Overture - Def Leppard - Yeah!
Peter Gunn Theme - The Blues Brothers - Blues Brothers soundtrack
Pressure - Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
Feeling That Way + Anytime - Journey - Infinity
Angels Would Fall - Melissa Etheridge - Greatest Hits
Leave It (Single Remix) - Yes - 90125

I love these threads.

  1. Pornophonique - Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame
  2. Wolfmother - Mind’s Eye
  3. Dixie Chicks - Cowboy Take Me Away
  4. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
  5. April March - Summer’s Day

First five are quite a mix. The only one I’m a huge fan of so far is April March, who I absolutely adore. You should check her out if you like indie female singer-songwriters and/or ye-ye music. She’s amazing.

  1. PJ Harvey - 66 Promises
  2. The Beatles - In My Life
  3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
  4. The Animals - Talkin’ 'bout You
  5. Shonen Knife - Burning Farm

This is a bit more indicative of my taste. I’m a genuine fan of all these but Shonen Knife, who I like, but not a huge deal.

  1. Clinic - Welcome
  2. Pretty Balanced - Clinic
  3. Holly McNarland - When You Come Down
  4. Sarah Slean - Sweet Ones
  5. Butterfly Boucher - Life is Short

Even more representative. Mostly indie female singer-songwriters. All great artists.

  1. E.S. Posthumus - Caarano
  2. José González - Remain
  3. Neko Case - I’m an Animal
  4. Tegan and Sara - More for Me
  5. Ani DiFranco & Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

Another great example of my tastes. All the women here are amazing, and E.S. Posthumus is great cinematic instrumental music.

  1. Jet - Cold Hard Bitch
  2. The Smashing Pumpkins - Rhinoceros
  3. Nine Inch Nails - I’m Afraid of Americans
  4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Cast - Something to Sing About
  5. Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young

Look! I listen to rock, too! Also TV musicals and Billy Joel

Here are the last 25 tracks that I heard today. Funny how many artists appear twice–the two Hendrixes, the two Alice Coltranes, and the last two Zappas are even from the same albums.

  1. Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
  2. If I Needed Someone - The Beatles
  3. Strawberry Mind - Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
  4. Nobody Home - Pink Floyd
  5. Click Clack - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
  6. One Rainy Wish - Jimi Hendrix Experience
  7. My Little Girl - Roxy Music
  8. Half Day Closing - Portishead
  9. Up from the Skies - Jimi Hendrix Experience
  10. The Clearout - Jack Bruce
  11. She’s Too Much for My Mirror - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  12. Garden of Eden - New Riders of the Purple Sage
  13. My Back Pages - Bob Dylan
  14. Uncle Sam Blues - Hot Tuna
  15. Say Please - Frank Zappa
  16. Janis - Focus
  17. 2120 South Michigan Avenue - Rolling Stones
  18. This Train - Alice Coltrane
  19. Kink Kong - The Kinks
  20. Queen Elvis - Robyn Hitchcock
  21. Uncle Remus - Frank Zappa
  22. Jagadishwar - Alice Coltrane
  23. Far Alaska - Jethro Tull
  24. Spider of Destiny - Frank Zappa
  25. Naval Aviation in Art - Frank Zappa

ETA: The typo in #19 is quite Freudian. I’ll let it stand.