It’s a lazy Saturday, so let’s try something different. Start up your iPod (or iTunes), set that bad boy to shuffle, and tell us the first ten songs that pop up on random play.
I’m really curious to see what a cross-section of the SSP community’s musical tastes will look like.
I’ll kick things off in the comments. And remember: no cheating!
1) The Beach Boys – “Vegetables”
2) Jets To Brazil – “Disgrace”
3) Queens of the Stone Age – “Lightning Song”
4) Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Hungry”
5) Nine Inch Nails – “Somewhat Damaged”
6) The Lyrics – “So What!!”
7) Guided By Voices – “The Best of Jill Hives”
8) They Might Be Giants – “Sleeping in the Flowers”
9) The Jam – “I’ve Changed My Address”
10) Desmond Dekker – “Honor Your Mother and Your Father”
The Grunt (Part 1 & 2)– The JBs
Come to My Rescue– Dunia & Django
Right Now– The Isley Brothers
Gravity– Victor Rice
Mon Vieux Lucien– Edith Piaf
Lucky Seven– The Skatalites
I’ll Be Satisfied– Jackie Wilson
That’s My Man– Little Eva
The Christmas Song– The Raveonettes
My Ding-A-Ling– Chuck Berry
Public Enemy – Lost at Birth
The Pixies – Rock Music
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 5 Op. 73 “Emperor”
Darondo – Legs
Jimi Hendrix – Burning of the Midnight Lamp
The Rolling Stones – Prodigal Son
Johnny Cash – Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
Neil Young – Harvest
Howlin’ Wolf – Down in the Bottom
The Misfits – All Hell Breaks Loose
Disco Club- Black Eyed Peas
Going for the Gold- Bright Eyes
Come Together- The Beatles
Break it Off- Rihanna & Sean Paul
Commercial for Levi- Placebo
Best Days- Juice
The Boy’s Gone- Jason Mraz
All the Small Things- Blink 182
Nobody Knows Me- Madonna
A Step too Far- Aida
This is the first time I’ve ever done that, and I’m a little suspicious of the iTunes logic since so many of the songs are hits:
1. Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
2. Led Zeppelin – The Ocean
3. Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule the World
4. Garbage – I Think I’m Paranoid
5. Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
6. Split Enz – One Step Ahead
7. Aerosmith – Last Child
8. Neil Young – Star Of Bethlehem
9. Hair: Original Cast Recording – Aquarius
10. The Velvet Underground – I’m Waiting For the Man
Bitter:Sweet – Salty Air
Johnny Cash – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
Audio Bullys – Keep on Moving
Missy Elliott – Partytime
Franz Schubert – Heidenroslein
Paul McCartney – C’mon People
The Mamas & the Papas – Glad To Be Unhappy
Beck – Broken Drum
Highwaymen – Big River
Rufus Wainwright – When You’re Smiling
U2 – One/Unchained Melody (Live)
Moby – One of These Mornings
The Clash – Jimmy Jazz
The Capitol Steps – Papa’s Got A Brand New Baghdad
The Tallywood Strings – Trip Through Your Wires (Originally by U2)
John Mayer – Bigger Than My Body
Morrissey – The World Is Full of Crashing Bores
David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto – World Citizen (I Won’t Be Disappointed)
Howard Shore and James Galway – The Grey Havens (From the Return of the King soundtrack)
U2 – If You Wear That Velvet Dress
1. The Beatles – Something
2. James – Sit Down
3. The Beatles – She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
4. Sublime – Doin’ Time
5. Richard Cheese – American Idiot
6. Ben Folds – All You Can Eat
7. Phish – Talk
8. Ben Folds Five – Narcolepsy
9. Mae – The Everglow
10. Boston – Foreplay/Long Time
Allman Brothers Band – "Statesboro Blues"
Nine Inch Nails – "Beside You In Time"
The Beatles – "I Feel Fine"
Jerry Reed – "The Crude Oil Blues"
Pearl Jam – "Evenflow"
Stone Temple Pilots – "Art School Girl"
Live – "Pillar of Davidson"
The Kingsmen – "Louie, Louie"
Soundgarden – "Spoonman"
Alabama – "If You're Gonna Play in Texas"
1. Loreena McKennitt~ The Highwayman
2. Lewis Black~ America Loses its Mind
3. Fleetwood Mac~ Sugar Daddy lol
4. Tonic~ If you Could See
5. Loreena McKennitt~ Huron ‘Beltane’ Fire Dance
sigh My ipod sucks… on shuffle it always plays the same artist…
6. Loreena McKennitt~La Serenissima
7. Mary Chapin Carpenter~ Passionate Kisses (GREAT song!) lol
8. Janis Joplin~ One Night Stand
9. Casey Black~ Vacations
10. Billy Idol~ Rebel Yell
one more since I had 3 of one artist!
11. Garth Brooks~ If tomorrow never comes
1) Foo fighters- My hero
2) Weezer- Uptown girl
3) Built to spill- I would hurt a fly
4) Brand new- Guernica
5) American Hifi- flavor of the week
6) Punchline- Mirror
7) Hippos- wasting my life
8) Presidents of the united states of America- Candy Cigarette
9) Lifehouse- blind
10) The fray- together
Shania Twain: If You’re Not in it for Love I’m Outta Here
From the movie Camp: Here’s Where I Stand
Diana Ross & the Supremes: I’m Gonna Make You Love Me
George Strait: You Look So Good in Love
Faith Hill: You Give Me Love
Diana Ross & the Supremes: Love Child
Dolly Parton: Romeo
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Broadway cast with Ann Margret): The Sidestep
The Carpenters: Top of the World
Wicked (OBC): The Wizard and I
Nunsense (OBC): Tackle the Temptation with a Time Step
Went to 11 since Diana Ross had 2.
Out of 915 songs my Ipod in its wisdom chose
The Beatles “Carry that Weight”
Steely Dan “Black History”
Barenaked Ladies “Hello City”
Flight of the Conchords “Robots”
Radiohead “The Bends
Rolling Stones “Honky Tonk Women”
Bob Dylan “Maggie’s Farm”
The Beatles “Day Tripper”
They Might Be Giants “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”
War “Low Rider”
. . . I don’t have an iPod. Well, I did, but it got burgled last October, along with my old computer. I scraped enough together to get another computer, but have not replaced the iPod. If I still had it, I’m sure the list would be chock full of my usual standbys– Todd Rundgren, Laura Nyro, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Wayne Shorter, and a good amount of Debussy and Ravel. And, yes, I know, I’m probably the youngest person alive to be into some of those artists.
I just have everything on my computer, nevertheless I wanted to participate so I randomly clicked ten songs (btw, I’m a bit of an anime geek, so naturally I have some soundtracks from a few of my favorite shows :D:
1. Key of the Twilight (Yuki Kajura, [.hack//SIGN])
2. Enter Sandman (Metallica)
3. Rain (New York Musicians [Cowboy Bebop])
4. Trust (Megadeth)
5. Carry on Wayward Son (Kansas)
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2)
7. Paradise City (Guns n Roses)
8. Duel of the Fates (John Williams [Star Wars I, II, III]
9. Holy Wars (Megadeth)
10. Kokomo (Beach Boys)
Motley Crue- Smokin in the boys room
The Kinks- You really got me
John Lennon- Imagine
Mat Kearny- Nothing left to lose
Uncle Kracker- Drift Away
Def Leppard- Pour some Sugar on me
Bon Jovi- Livin on a prayer
AC//DC- Back in Black
Bob Seger- Old time Rock and Roll
Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the Devil
Best one would be Sympathy for the Devil IMHO
I’m pretty sure he is the only person who can make ‘Ice Ice Baby’ tolerable…
This reminds me, since my list goes:
1. OutKast – Hey Ya!
2. Hellogoodbye – Bonnie Taylor Shakedown 2K1
3. Moby – Extreme Ways
4. Mya – Free
5. J.S. Bach – Concerto in D Minor
6. Shania Twain – That Don’t Impress Me Much
7. Snow Patrol – Chocolate
8. Pussycat Dolls – Beep
9. Third Eye Blind – Semi Charmed Life
10. Three 6 Mafia – Lolli Lolli
My iTunes is pretty scary (just ask my roommate), though Shania is about as country as I go.
1)Hey Mama-Black Eyed Peas
2) Oh Mother-Christina Aguilera
3) Heaven 911 Remix-DJ Sammy
4) In Repair-John Mayer
5) Not Myself-John Mayer
6) Currents-Dashboard Confessional
7) Cha-Cha Slide (Main mix)-MC Jig
8) When a Child is Born-Il Divo
9) Dreaming with a Broken Heart-John Mayer
10) Is This What You Call Love?-Frankie J
Damien Rice- “Sleep Don’t Weep”
Tom Cochrane- “Life is a Highway”
All American Rejects- “Move Along”
Coldplay- “Sparks”
Nirvana- “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Nelly Furtado -“Try”
KC Jockey- “Talk of the Town”
Jane’s Addiction- “Mountain Song”
Breaking Benjamin- “Diary of Jane”
Guster- “Parachute”
1. Default – “Wasting my Time”
2. Wicked – “As Long as You’re Mine”
3. Eric Whitacre – “i will wade out”
4. James Robert Brown – “I’d Give it all for you”
5. The Killers – “When you Were Young”
6. Green Day – “Time of Your Life”
7. Finger Eleven – “One Thing”
8. O-Zone – “Numa Numa”
9. Staind – “It’s Been Awhile”
10. Howie Day – “Collide”
Is the Weezer “Uptown Girl” a cover of the early 80s Billy Joel song??
Voxtrot – Missing Pieces
The Shins – Your ALgebra
Muse – Ruled by Secrecy
The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together
Oasis – Wonder Wall (Acoustic)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
A Perfect Circle – 3 Libra’s
Tiger Army – Rose of the Devil’s Garden
Tiger Army – Ghost Tigers Rise
Muse – Interlude
very strange how i got 2 Muses and 2 Tiger armies (both from 1 album each)
1) Beck- Girl
2) Beck- Stolen Car
3) Snoop Dogg- Me and My Doggz
4) Marisa Monte- Petalas Esquidas
5) Bruce Springsteen- My Beautiful Reward
6) Bob Seger- We’ve Got Tonight
7) Rent Soundtrack- You Okay Honey
8) Ray Charles- (Night Time is) The Right Time
9) AC/DC- Born to be Wild
10)Billy Joel- Still Rock and Roll to me
so here is the first ten “thumbs up” songs from a QuickMix station on Pandora using all the “stations” I usually listen to. Any music I buy nowadays is something I first heard on Pandora, so it’s a good substitute for what’d I’d get from my computer/ipod.
1. Don Caballero – “Shoe Shine”
2. The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Destro’s Secret”
3. Hot Cross – “Frozen By Tragedy”
4. Breaking the Cage – “Wooden Dancer”
5. Russian Circles – “You Already Did”
6. Lungfish – “Interdimensional Seams”
7. Botch – “Rock Lobster”
8. Steven R. Smith – “Caprock and Shelf”
9. Botch – “Third Party in a Tragedy (live)”
10. Moros Eros – “Now the Sun Shines Bright”
. . . is “The Want of a Nail.” And you know who wrote and originally performed that one, right?
Annie Waits – Ben Folds
Space Rock – Weeer
United States – Smashing Pumpkins
Politik – Coldplay
Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me – TISM (as in the dancing flash video with the bunny)
What Kind of Love are you On? – Aerosmith
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Metallica
Leaving on a Jet Plane – Chantel Kreviazuk
Unwell – Matchbox Twenty
Cumulus – Imogen Heap
All I needed was some Dave Matthews Band and Gorillaz to pop up, and you’d have a pretty good cross section of myself.
since I am apparently one of the last people on the planet without an iPod.
1) Fugazi – Give Me the Cure
2) Husker Du – One Step at a Time
3) Jeff Buckley – You & I
4) Blue Oyster Cult – Godzilla
5) Black Sabbath – Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots
6) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Our House
7) Tom Waits – Two Sisters
8) The Temptations – Cloud Nine
9) Madvillain – Bistro
10) Sage Francis – Agony in Her Body
Delightfully random…
I don’t have an iPod either. I never got into them, to be dead honest.
1. Amy Grant – Galileo
2. John Phillip Sousa – National Anthem (United States) Battle Hymn of the Republican
3. Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star
4. Bananarama – Cruel Summer
5. Robert Knight – Everlasting Love
6. Ruff Endz – No More
7. Gary Puckett & The Union Gap – Judy in Disguise
8. Loggins & Messina – Lahaina
9. Spinners – Workin’ My Way Back to You/Forgive Me Girl
10. Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love
1. Black And White Town – Doves
2. Redemption Song – Lauryn Hill & Ziggy Marley
3. Thugz Mansion – 2pac
4. Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
5. Don’t Look Down – David Ryan Harris
6. Magic – Robin Thicke
7. Desire – Ryan Adams
8. Move Shake Drop – DJ Laz
9. Smooth – Santana & Rob Thomas
10. Out of Reach – The Guillemots
Could be embarrassing, or I could end up looking like a complete snob here, or you could all be scratching your heads at me. Anyway, out of 1622 songs, the big ten are:
1. Neil Young, “Words (Between the Lines of Age”
2. Genesis, “One Eyed Hound” (outtake from their first album, now available on the CD)
3. Bob Dylan, “Lay Lady Lay”
4. Lui Collins, “The Dark SIlkie”
5. Jay and the Americans, “Let’s Lock the Door (And Throw Away the Key)”
6. The Clash, “Spanish Bombs”
7. Dropkick Murphys, “Fairmount Hill”
8. Joni Mitchell, “Urge for Going”
9. “Every Day”, from Les Miserables
10. Glenn Miller, “Boog It”
Okay, that wasn’t too bad.
1. Tim McGraw “When the Stars Go Blue”
2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “Feel It Now”
3. Jason Falkner “Photograph” (Indie cover of Def Leppard song)
4. Soup Dragons “I’m Free”
5. Blondie “Call Me”
6. The Black Crowes “She Gave Good Sunflower”
7. The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”
8. Staind “It’s Been Awhile”
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “Spread Your Love”
10. U2 “I Will Follow (Live Version)”
1. Joey by Concrete Blond
2. Dreams Fleetwood Mac
3. Dalai Lama by Rammstein
4. Miss American Pie by Don MacClean
5. The Lion Sleeps Tonight, The Beach Boys
6. Wild Honey Pie, the Beatles
7. Hell’s Bells, ACDC
8. Behind Blue Eyes, The Who
9. I’m Sailing, Styx
10. Thiller, Michael Jackson
“Whoever shall be found without the soul for getting down will have to face the terror of the thriller”
Guster – Happy Frappy
Brian Eno – Energy Fools the Magician
Blue Oyster Cult – Sinful Love
Laurie Anderson – Sharkey’s Day
Rush – The Necromancer
Bush – Alien
Incredible Moses Leroy – Don’t Say To Me It’s Over
Super Furry Animals – Juxtapozed With U
U2 – Numb
Starlight Mints – Brass Digger
Random Windows Media playlist, but with repeats from same artist omitted:
“Snowball In Hell” – They Might Be Giants
“God Give Me Stength” – Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach
“Little Honda” – Yo La Tengo
“Jones Crusher” – Frank Zappa
“You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” – Bob Dylan
“Call Him By His Name” – The Word
“Glass” – Gang of Four
“Gun Street Girl” – Tom Waits
“Ding Dong” – Nellie McKay
“Monday Morning” – Pulp
I do have an .mp3 player on my computer, and when I put all my songs on random shuffle, here’s what came up:
1. Williams Street Mix (a cappella group) – The Walk of Shame
2. ABBA – Al Andar
3. Vanity Fare – Early in the Morning
4 Bad Religion – Los Angeles Is Burning
5. Randy Newman – The Time of Your Life (from A Bug’s Life soundtrack)
6. Rue Plumet, In My Life (from Les Misérables soundtrack)
7. Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s the Way of the World
8. Linda Ronstadt – Different Drum
9. Bobby Darin – Dream Lover
10. Weird Al Yankovic – Hooked on Polkas
Let’s just say I have a diverse taste in music. 🙂
Bound By One Goal – Nautilus Pompilius
Titanic – Nautilus Pompilius
Blood Type – Kino
In Bloom – Nirvana
Stand – R.E.M.
People are Strange – The Doors
Come As You Are – Nirvana
Star by the Name of Sun – Kino
Runnin’ Down a Dream – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Last Hero – Kino
out of just shy of 8,000 songs:
1) DISMEMBERMENT PLAN – The City
2) NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – Testament to Youth in Verse
3) GUIDED BY VOICES – Lord of Overstock
4) LILY ALLEN – Friend of Mine
5) GRAM PARSONS – Streets of Baltimore
6) BLAKE BABIES – Train
7) PIXIES – Wave of Mutilation
8) HOT HOT HEAT – Harmonicas and Tambourines
9) PAUL SIMON – The Boy in the Bubble
10) THE SEA AND CAKE – Transparent
Reverie (Cranes)
Fyrsta (Sigur Ros)
Dinner Bells (Wolf Parade)
Visionary Road Maps (Stereolab)
Idiots Rule (Jane’s Addiction)
Drachen (Einsturzende Neubauten)
Fields Shorelines and Hunters (M83)
Strobe Light (B-52s)
Atlantic (Keane)
I Want Candy (Bow Wow Wow)
(This is using everything on my computer via Windows Media Player, not my iPod, which is a first-generation Nano with a paltry 2 gigs of memory.)
I’m afraid mine is just going to be blatantly homosexual with dance music and musicals but we’ll see….
1. Prologue: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats: Cats Original Broadway Recording (I worry about making myself look like a huge homo and the first one is Cats ::sigh:: It was literally the gayest show I had ever seen, gayer than RENT)
2. Respect Me- Scene 23
3. Take me or Leave Me- RENT Original Broadway Cast
4. Morningside- Sarah Bareilles
5. Hard Work- Fame Original Broadway Cast
6. What is This Feeling?- Wicked Original Broadway Cast
7. Spice Up Your Life- Spice Girls (this is getting ridiculous)
8. I Dont Need a Man- Pussycat Dolls
9. Amie- Damien Rice
10. Superwoman- Alicia Keys
yup, pretty gay… Damn, I totally love System of a Down and Flyleaf and other straight guy music too…