Shuffle meme [my first exposure was through Amy]:
Rules:
1. Open up the music player on your computer. (Many just use their iPod, which is what I did.)
2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the “shuffle” command.
4. List the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. Write it up in your blog or journal and link back to at least a couple of the other sites where you saw this.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurrences. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten songs with five artists, you can if you’d like.
My List (out of 7740 possible songs):
1. Blake Babies - Baby Gets High
2. XTC - This World Over
3. Tears for Fears - Ladybird
4. Buzzcocks - Who’ll Help Me To Forget
5. Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas
6. Shalini - Creepy Emily
7. Buzzcocks - Keep On
8. Barenaked Ladies - Enough Is Enough
9. Flock of Seagulls - Manmade
10. Idle Wilds - Freakin’
The iPod seems to really like the Buzzcocks lately.
Latre.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Tim Walters // Jan 28, 2005 at 9:22 pm
I gave JeFF my work library results, so you can have my home library results (I’m sure you’re thrilled…).
The Posies: Amazing Disgrace
Hans Reichel: Please Let Me Be Your Message
Nina Hagen: TV-Glotzer
Leo Kottke: The Sailor’s Grave On The Prairie
The Cuban All-Stars: Anga
Ted Leo: Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?
Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Time On My Hands
Riders In The Sky: Cherokee
David Bowie: Scary Monsters
Lightnin’ Hopkins: West Coast Blues
Out of 21618 songs. Nothing there I want to disown, but to be representative it needs some electronic music and prog.
Still with the ultra-skinny comment box! What’s up with that?
2 Flasshe // Jan 29, 2005 at 12:00 pm
Ultra-skinny? 70 chars is ultra-skinny? Perhaps you mean the length, Tim. I’ve increased it from 4 lines to 10. How’s that?
21618 songs? And I thought I had a big collection. Of course, if I actually digitized all my CDs and put them on the computer, I’d probably have around 40,000 songs. But it wouldn’t be nearly as eclectic a colletions as yours is!
3 Tim Walters // Jan 30, 2005 at 12:04 am
Much better, thanks!
I’ve actually managed to rip all the ones I want to (the exceptions being either not-so-good CDs or stuff that I only want to listen to when I’m actually sitting in front of the stereo, which basically means classical). The trick is to take a bunch to your computer, rip them while doing whatever you normally do, then repeat. If you think of it as a task in itself there’ll always be something more important to do.