Random access
Karen, in a moment of Saturday silliness, shuffled the music on her iPod, just to see what would come up. Not a "Top Ten," but simply a "First Ten."
I don't have an iPod, but I do have iTunes on my laptop. It offered up the following:
"Sympathy for the Devil" - Rolling Stones
"Can't Take My Joy" - Michelle Shocked
"Come Next Monday" - K. T. Oslin
"Sad Eyes" - Bruce Springsteen
"Lookin' Out My Back Door" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Box #10" - Jim Croce
"Painted Desert" - Pat Benetar
"When I'm Gone" - 3 Doors Down
"And So It Goes" - Billy Joel
"A Hard Day's Night" - The Beatles
How about you? What appears when you shuffle?
I don't have an iPod, but I do have iTunes on my laptop. It offered up the following:
"Sympathy for the Devil" - Rolling Stones
"Can't Take My Joy" - Michelle Shocked
"Come Next Monday" - K. T. Oslin
"Sad Eyes" - Bruce Springsteen
"Lookin' Out My Back Door" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Box #10" - Jim Croce
"Painted Desert" - Pat Benetar
"When I'm Gone" - 3 Doors Down
"And So It Goes" - Billy Joel
"A Hard Day's Night" - The Beatles
How about you? What appears when you shuffle?
posted by Jane Ellen+ at
1:18 PM
6 Comments:
Having just discovered iTunes on my new laptop, I have only seven songs on it, including the sample things that came with it!
I'll have to work my way up to 10, much less to a random 10.
:-)
"Low Rider" - War
"Give It All You Got" - Chuck Mangione
"Walk This Way" - Run DMC with Aerosmith
"Changes" - David Bowie
"September Grass" - James Taylor
"Something Happened On The Way To Heaven" - Phil Collins
"Thanks You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin" - Sly and the Family Stone
"Lorelei" - Styx
"Ol' 55" - Eagles
"Make Me Smile" - Chicago
This is actually cheating just a little, otherwise I would have had two more Bowie songs (The Jean Genie, Golden Years) in the first ten.
iPod:
1. Silent Legacy - Melissa Etheridge
2. Wayfaring Stranger - Peter, Paul, & Mary
3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Beatles
4. Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
5. One More Angel in Heaven - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
6. Forgiveness - Catie Curtis
7. How Sweet It Is - James Taylor
8. I'll Cover You - Catie Curtis
9. Bitter Root - Indigo Girls
10. Midnight Train to Georgia - Indigo Girls
iTunes:
1. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of - U2
2. One Week - Barenaked Ladies
3. Fall Away - Catie Curtis
4. I Love, I Love (Traveling II) - Dar Williams
5. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
6. Serpent Head Crushed - Half-Handed Cloud
7. Dreamin' Again - Jim Croce
8. Some Other Town - Susan Werner
9. Lucy Meets Hyde - Anthony Warlow
10. Land of Canaan - Indigo Girls
Hmm... we have similar taste ... I especially love "And So It Goes" -- I've even preached on it.
What appears when I shuffle?
4 of Clubs; Q of Hearts; 3 of Diamonds; 7 of Diamonds; A of Spades; 9 of Hearts; 7 of Clubs; J of Diamonds; 5 of Hearts; 6 of Spades.
Oh yeah -- I'm such a geek.
We've got similar tastes except that I'm not a Stones person.
I've neither an iPod nor iTunes but love KaZaA. Most of my music now lives on my computer in the kitchen/office.
I played the random-shuffle blog game a while ago and got these results:
Midnight Oil, ‘Beds Are Burning’
Really good power pop from the ’80s with a liberal message: give Ayers Rock back to the aborigines.
The Breeders, ‘Cannonball’
OK, some ’90s coolness.
Santana, ‘No One to Depend On’
The Beatles, ‘Octopus's Garden’
Al Stewart, ‘Time Passages’
The Bournemouth-bred folkie's mainstream hit right after Year of the Cat
October Project, ‘Bury My Lovely’
From the rare acoustic five-song CD
Bulgarian choir, ‘Blagosloven Gospod' Bog Nash’ (Blessed be the Lord, our God)
My old site’s theme music
Mary MacGregor, ‘Good Friend’
OK, I reckon this (my equivalent of the Carpenters) forfeits some (OK, many) coolness points but it’s a sweet song with some sentimental value for me. Honesty is a part of this blog game!
Sir Henry Purcell, ‘Abdelazer – Rondeau’
I think this one wins me some cred back. Rispek!
Julia Macklin, ‘The Forest’
So there you have it: one classical, one religious and one soppy selection amidst fairly mainstream pop.
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