A while back Robot Johnny did a post called "Do the Shuffle", where you turn on Itunes and list the first 15 songs it plays regardless of how embarrassing it is. I must say that the shuffle feature has really made my experience of listening to music a beautiful thing. For several reasons, 1) i love to guess who the artist is in the first few seconds (it is challenging at times), 2) I hear songs that i haven't heard for years and fall in love with them again, 3) every day is something new 4) sometimes the universe knows better what you should listen to.
So I haven't had the courage to do this before (due to a slight addiction to old showtunes), but here we go...
1. Cry Cry Cry, Martin Sexton
2. I'm only happy when it rains, Garbage
3. Rain and Snow, Be Good Tanya's
4. Do you Realize?, the Flaming Lips
5. Ripcord, Radiohead
6. By my Side, Ben Harper
7. Always have to steal my kisses, Ben Harper
8. Reconstruction Site, the Weakerthans
9. Planet Telex, Radiohead
10. Good Fortune, PJ Harvey
11. Here Comes Your Man, the Pixies
12. Sega, Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Toure
13. Set the Ray to Jerry, Smashing Pumkins
14. Mockingbirds, Grant Lee Buffalo
15. Kamera, Wilco
(number 16 was "a change is gonna come" by Sam Cooke, drastically different than the rest)
Does anyone else notice that your itunes seems to have a preference for certain bands, (for me Radiohead and PJ Harvey)?
That was more fun and much less embarrasing than expected. We surprisingly avoided the sound of music soundtrack, michael jackson and perry como.
Posted by kerismith at June 16, 2004 11:00 AMIf anyone is looking to explore some new music, I highly recommend Vienna Teng (I can't stop listening to "Homecoming").
Posted by: Hatai on June 18, 2004 04:22 PMohh fun fun
Broken Social Scene-anthem for a seventeen year old girl
cibbo matto-working for vacation
Patty Griffin-sweet Lorraine
Weezer-island in the sun
The Jayhawks-blue
Liz Phair-go west
The Fugees-killing me softly
Nas-i can
Modest Mouse-heart cooks brain
Johnny Cash-i see the darkness
music = good
next weekend = country sun...can't wait.
cheerio
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Badly Drawn Boy - What is it Now
Pierre Bensusan - Falafel
Coldplay - Amsterdam
The Vines - Highly Evolved
Folk Implosion - Kingdom of Lies
Radiohead - Myxamatosis
Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
The Constantines - No Ecstasy
Saves The Day - In My Waking Life
XTC - Love At First Sight
Apocalyptica - Enter Sandman
Ron Sexsmith - Keep It in Mind
Incognito - Always There
Coldplay - Shiver
Amon Tobin - Mighty Micro People
Hmmm, interesting...
Posted by: Junicus on June 18, 2004 12:26 PMI love reading the comments. Fell in love with 'The be good Tanya's' while traveling (The Littlest Birds is my all time fav). Lost everything on my iPod and an angel downloaded his itunes on to my mistakenly empty iPod. It was great to have all this great 'new to me' music to explore. Now being back it's adventure of rediscovery. Doing the iTunes shuffle tweaks that even more...
What I am - Eddie Brickell
Your Time Is Gonna Come - Led Zepplein
Mehndi/Madhorama Pencha - from Monsoon Wedding soundtrack
Mere Kabu - Cheb I Sabbah
Scherzo. Molto vivace - Robert Schumann
Beautiful Day (techno) - U2
Fuse Box remix 1 - from Monsoon Wedding soundtrack
Love's Divine - Seal
Are You Awake? - Kevin Shields
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) - Robert Palmer
Nightingale - Norah Jones
Guess I'm Doing Fine - Beck
What Is This Thing Called Love - Birelli Lagrene
Antoine Busnoys - Pomerium
Ozone Baby - Led Zepplein
The Patty Patty Sound - The Beta Band
You Can Depend On Me - Tony Bennett
Angola - Cesaria Evora
Beware of Darkness - George Harrison
Oh good - you have itunes. Check out the new FInn Brothers TOur EP (in top 10 albums at the moment). Worth every cent..
Posted by: jen on June 18, 2004 06:47 AMAh well, now that i think about it, my 15 iTunes songs are kinda unhinged:
1) Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads
2) Blackhole Sun - Soundgarden
3) Jealousy - Natalie Merchant
4) Knowing Me, Knowing You (yes an ABBA song!) -The Lemonheads
5) The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
6) Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
7) Somewhere in My Heart - Aztec Camera
8) Trouble - Cold Play
9) One Fine Day - Natalie Merchant
10) Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
11) Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
12) Losing My Religion - REM
13) Driving - Everything But The Girl
14) Don't Know Why - Norah Jones
15) No Rain - Blind Melon
Ooh! Mine! And, before that, might I mention my LOVE LOVE LOVE for my iPod and the "random" feature?? Holy crap. I love it so. Anyway...
1. Iron & Wine "Lion's Mane"
2. The Stills "Gender Bombs"
3. Kenna "Hell Bent"
4. Jim White "Static on the radio"
5. ...and You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead "Intellegence"
6. Howlin' Wolf "Smokestack Lightnin'"
7. Dizzee Rascal "Fix Up, Look Sharp"
8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Spread Your Love"
9. Erlend Oye "The Black Keys Work"
10. Matt Pond PA "Closest (Look Out)"
11. Stellastarr* "My Coco"
12. Modest Mouse "Float On"
13. AIR "Surfing on a Rocket"
14. The Rapture "Sister Savior"
15. REM "I Believe"**
**my favorite all-time REM song, by the way.
Wee! Happy happy day. My favorite online radio station (woxy.com) will begin broadcasting again after going off the air. It's a music-lovin' day!! :D
Posted by: megan on June 17, 2004 02:53 PMI don't have ITunes, but I do have Musicmatch Jukebox, and they have this feature called autoDJ. You pick the duration and whatever criteria. I like to put it on for like one or two hours, select "all" (songs, albums, artists) and see what it spews out. When I was heartbroken, I used to use this autoDJ feature to tell my fortune. I'd listen to what the songs were about, lyrics-wise or title wise, and try and divine if they were a sign I'd get back with my ex.
Here's the list.
"Turn off the Lights"- Nelly Furtado
"Canto Ala Vita" The Corrs and Josh Groban
"Shiver" Coldplay
"Love Song for No One" John Mayer
"From the Inside" Linkin Park
"Pass that Dutch" Missy Elliot
"Rachel's Flat" Badly Drawn Boy
"Hands Down" Dashboard Confessionals
"Yeah" Usher
"Pretend To Be Nice" Josie and the Pussycats
"When You Love" Sinead O'Conner
"Wanna Ride" from I Still Know What You Did Last Summer OST
"If You Don't Don't" Jimmy Eat World
"You're a Star" Josie and the Pussycats
"Dressed to Kill" New Found Glory
I'll have to really listen to these songs to see if they're trying to tell me something. Josie and the Pussycats seem to be in favor at the moment. The New Found Glory always finds its way on the playlist whenever I do it.
My last fifteen had a real country theme and double shots of The Hip and Tom Russell's "The Man From God Knows Where":
1. Loose String - Son Volt
2. The Dark Canuck - The Tragically Hip
3. Sound of Sounds - Gomez
4. Wicked Saviour - Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys
5. Long Time Gone - Dickey Betts
6. I'm Not Coming Home Anymore - Hank Williams
7. Expectations - Belle & Sebastian
8. Just Between The Two of Us - Merle Haggard
9. Don't Leave - Faithless
10. Hide It So Deep - Manassas (Stephen Stills)
11. Wayfarin' Stranger - Tom Russell (feat. Iris Dement)
12. Fall On Me - R.E.M.
13. Intermittently - Barenaked Ladies
14. We'll Go Too - The Tragically Hip
15. Acres of Corn - Tom Russell (feat. Iris Dement)
I too have a possessed iTunes. It LOVES Christmas tunes and the worst of Paul McCartney (also, strangely, Savoy Truffle by the Beatles). I have to go in and edit my playlist every time otherwise it is schmaltz city...
Posted by: alex on June 16, 2004 10:42 PMOK, my shuffle:
1. Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel
2. Lose Yourself, Eminem
3. Love song for a vampire, Annie Lennox
4. God Only Knows, Beach Boys
5. The ballad of John and Yoko, Beatles
6. Won't Get Fooled Again, The Who
7. Lady D'Arbanville, Cat Stevens
8. The Girl's song, The 5th Dimension
9. Gypsies, tramps and thieves, Cher
10. Something, Beatles
11. Join Together, The Who
12. Bus Stop, The Hollies
13. She's got it bad, Simply Red
14. I Believe, Stevie Wonder
15. Acid Queen, Tina Turner (from the "Tommy" soundtrack).
Christ!...
Posted by: Anna C. on June 16, 2004 07:40 PMMy turn! My turn!
- The Ghost in You - Psychadelic Furs
- Lonely Girls - Suede
- Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
- The Book of Love - Magnetic Fields
- I'll Take Care of You - Bobby Bland
- The Longer I Lay Here - Pedro the Lion
- Love - G.Love & Special Sauce
- Waste of Paint - Bright Eyes
- Caroline No - Beach Boys
- Sleep - Azure Ray
- Cry, Cry, Cry - Elvis Costello
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Right Myself a Letter - Scatman Crothers
- City of Dreams - Talking Heads
- Mexican Shuffle - Herb Alpert
- I Don't Blame You - Cat Power
Well, scoot over and let me in on this ride down memory lane. At my local Starbuck's, their music has been sprinkled lately with Cat Stevens...yes, the one and only from the 70's! And I am totally enjoying listening to his melodic voice after all of these years! I am even (looks around a bit nervously) tempted to buy one of his cd's for a bit o' reminiscing on my own. Who'd a thunk....
Posted by: Velvet Brick on June 16, 2004 04:54 PMBen Harper rocks my world. Really.
Posted by: stc on June 16, 2004 04:13 PMooohhh.... you've made me remember my love of grant lee buffalo. i have to go find my CDs!
Posted by: soren on June 16, 2004 03:31 PMHere are my 15.
1 Brother Brother-Carol King
2 Do Ya-The Move
3 So Fine-ELO
4 Street Fighting Man-Rod Stewart
5 Anthem-Rush
6 Sweet is the Night-ELO
7 I Want You (She's So Heavy)-The Beatles
8 Hurting Each Other-Carpenters
9 Isn't it a Pity-Galaxie 500
10 Never Can Say Goodbye-Jackson 5
11 Dear Mr. Fantasy-Traffic
12 Alone Again (Naturally)-Gilbert O'Sullivan
13 Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) -Reunion
14 Wild West Hero-ELO
15 Come Together-The Beatles
It seems to really like ELO
Posted by: Kathryn on June 16, 2004 03:01 PMNeil rocks!! I actually bought a double-CD set of his greatest hits and I totally love it!! Forever in blue jeans, babe! :)
O.k. I'm coming out of the closet now.
I love Neil Diamond.
there, i've said it.
Posted by: Keri Smith on June 16, 2004 02:31 PMo man. Isn't it lovely when you get over the embarassment of admitting the music you listen to? I think it's deliciously freeing. And the teasing about being a Diamond fan can almost be viewed as enjoyable ;)
Posted by: Heather on June 16, 2004 02:08 PMMy iTunes likes Weezer. Here's my 15
1. Gigantic-Pixies
2. My Favorite Things-Outkast
3. The World has Turned and Left Me Here-Weezer
4. Midlife Crisis-Faith No More
5. Iris- The Breeders
6. The Crossroads-Bone Thugs 'N Harmony
7. Freedom Time-Lauryn Hill
8. I Wanna Be Sedated-Ramones
9. So Run Down-Psychedelic Furs
10. The Guns of Brixton-The Clash
11. Nothing Compares 2 U- Sinead O'Connor
12. If You Leave-Orchestral Maneoeuvres in the Dark
13. Redondo Beach-Patti Smith
14. Across the Sea-Weezer
15. Drag the Ashes-The C. Gibbs Group
1. Stones in the road - Mary Chapin Carpenter
2. The world is a vampire - Smashing Pumpkins
3. Do you have a little time - Dido
4. All the right reasons - Jayhawks
5. Shimmer - Shawn Mullins
6. Crazy faith - Alison Krauss
7. Downtown train - Mary Chapin Carpenter
8. So I see - Lene Marlin
9. Hold onto me - Cowboy Junkies
10. In my time of dying - The Be Good Tanyas
11. Outbound plane - Nanci Griffith
12. Commotion - Creedence Clearwater Revival
13. Muhammed my friend - Tori Amos
14. Feeling the same way - Norah Jones
15. Obvious - Blink 182
Hmm... 2 and 15 don't quite fit. :)
Posted by: Hatai on June 16, 2004 01:36 PMI love Perry Como & Michael Jackson...especially Jackson 5 era Michael.
And the Sound Of Music Soundtrack rocks!
I am such a nerd...
Posted by: Donavan Freberg on June 16, 2004 01:19 PMi haven't heard 'mockingbirds' in such a long long time.....i'm downloading it tonight!
Posted by: amanda on June 16, 2004 01:12 PMRain -- Patty Griffin
Don't You Fall -- Be Good Tanyas
Please Come to Boston -- Jackopierce
Insensitive -- Jann Arden
Drunk as Cooter Brown -- Cassandra Wilson
Crazy Dreams -- Lucy Kaplanksy
Dream Cafe -- Greg Brown
Arrow -- Cheryl Wheeler
I Want To Sing That Rock And Roll -- Gillian Welch
Amelia -- Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter
I Love This Bar -- Toby Keith
I'm Not in Love -- Tori Amos
Boy From Tupelo -- Emmylou Harris
Big Yellow Taxi -- Counting Crows
East Texas -- Michelle Shocked
I'd Run Away -- Jayhawks
1. Landslide - Tori Amos Cover
2. Wanna be just like you - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
3. Be tender with my heart - Bee Gees Greatest Hits (Yikes!)
4. Hey Mr DJ - Madonna
5. Dont Tell Me - Madonna
6. Summer Breeze - Seals and Croff (Double Yikes!)
7. I had the time of my life - Dirty Dancing Soundtrack (OMG!)
8. Zuit suit riot - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
9. The first taste - Fiona Apple
10. Cant you see - Marshal Tucker Band (No comment!)
Wow, my list is pretty scary...
Posted by: PInky on June 16, 2004 11:55 AMMy Mix:
One More Time - Gus Arnheim
Your Feets Too Big - Fats Walker & His Rhythm
In My Place - Coldplay
Dirty Work - Steeley Dan
Cut Off My Legs & Call Me Shorty - Louis Armstrong
Common Sense - The Light
Jingle Bells - Booker T and the MGs
So Fresh En So Clean - Outkast
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Hoodoo Voodoo - Bill Brags & Wilco
The Globe - Big Audio Dynamite
Beware - Ann Peebles
I Thank You - Sam & Dave
Feel It - Some Girls
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
I don't even know half those songs. Sheesh. What am I doing with my music?
Posted by: penelope on June 16, 2004 11:43 AMI love your taste in music. I'm going to show my husband your list, maybe he'll think me less crazy. Unfortunately I don't have an mp3 thing, I am a radio woman. I listen online to Dutch talkshows all day, I love listening to talking people when I work.
Posted by: eliane on June 16, 2004 11:31 AMOh, I LOVE Talking Timbuktu, with Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure.
My iTunes really likes Pearl Jam for some reason. Oh, and Mark Knopfler.
My shuffle -
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Roof is on Fire - Bloodhound Gang
Chelsea Hotel 2 - Leonard Cohen
Let's Get it On - Marvin Gaye
Music of the Night - Andrew Lloyd Weber
I'm Only Sleeping - Beatles
Breakup song - Greg Kihn
Lonesome Roads - Dwight Yoakam
Walking on Broken Glass - Annie Lennox
Run - Sweet Honey in the Rock
Ca valait la peine - Coralie Clement
Love Shack - B-52s
Free Diving - Pete Yorn
Sunday - Moby
Wouldn't it be nice - The Beach Boys
What an odd mix. I've only listened to about five of those songs recently, too.
Posted by: Brianna on June 16, 2004 11:22 AM