The random iTunes challenge

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[swollenpickles]

For those of you with iTunes, or an iPod or whatever you prefer to use, this can be a bit of fun, and potentially introduce you to some new music you might not otherwise have found.

So here's what you do. Open iTunes, switch on your iPod or MP3 player and hit random. What are the first 10 songs that play? List them (and no cheating, even if you think it's daggy I wanna see it!).

Here's mine to get things started:

1. Dross - Smashing Pumpkins
2. If You See Kaye (Tell Her I L-O-V-E Her) - Turbonegro
3. Zero-Sum [Stephen Morris And Gillian Gilbert Remix] - Nine Inch Nails
4. Harmless - Helmet
5. Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
6. Ghost - Pearl Jam
7. Gigantor - Helmet
8. Who stole the soul? - Public Enemy
9. Skylines and Turnstyles - My Chemical Romance
10. American Gangster - Jay-Z

[Mike]

Wow this was pretty ecclectic:

1) Time - Pink Floyd
2) Women of Ireland - Joanie Madden
3) Sium Ni Dhuibhir - Relativity
4) Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan
5) Eclipse - Pink Floyd
6) Forgotten Yesterdays - Yanni
7) The Reel In The Flickering Light - Christy Moore
Ancient Pines - Loreena McKennitt
9) Witch Hunt - Rush
10) Mystic's Dream - Loreena McKennit

[swollenpickles]

Two from pink floyd and two from Loreena McKennitt. Looks like your random function is as random as mine! 

[Lani]

Well, I really didn't know if I could do this without cheating    but the results actually weren't hideously embarrassing so here they are...

1. Working for the Man - PJ Harvey
2. The Littlest Birds - The Be Good Tanyas
3. In The Way - Ani DiFranco
4. XV - Air (Allegro) - Handel's Water Music
5. Dancing With A Stranger - Cyndi Lauper
6. Engraved Invitation - Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
7. Off My Mind - The Darling Buds
8. Sweet Dreams - Betchadupa
9. O'Malley's Bar - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
10. Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana

[Snoskred]

1. Placebo - Every You Every Me
2. INXS - The Strangest Party
3. Robbie Williams - Supreme
4. Rockstar Supernova - It's All Love
5. Good Charlotte - Boys And Girls
6. Meatloaf - Two Out Of Three Aint Bad
7. All Saints - Pure Shores
8. Kylie Minogue - Breathe
9. Metallica - The Unforgiven II
10. Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World

Lani - how odd! Our last songs were both by Nirvana.. what are the chances of that? Should we buy lottery tickets?

[Ian]

Mine goes like this:

1. Walls - Icehouse
2. The Bleeding Heart Show - The New Pornographers
3. Life in a Northern Town - Dream Academy
4. See Jungle! - Bow Wow Wow
5. Blockhead - Devo
6. Apartment Story - The National
7. Computer Games - Misex
8. Rawhide - Dead Kennedys
9. I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock'n'Roll - Nick Lowe
10. The Moneymaker - Rilo Kiley.

[Mike]

Two from pink floyd and two from Loreena McKennitt. Looks like your random function is as random as mine! 

I didn't have many albums on that computer unfortunately, so the pickins were a bit slim.  First time round on my other machine I got two Grateful Dead tracks, some Tibetan meditation, I think some Guns 'n Roses and a couple other songs I can't remember.

I've got broad tastes in music

[macgirvin]

1. Comeg - Rose
2. Cause For Expulsion - Way Back When
3. FT24 - Inipi
4. L.E.R.G. - Finish
5. That Noise - Johnny
6. The Shed - The Parson
7. The Overtone Band - Strange Daze
8. If - Crashing, in my way
9. Maxwell Silverthorn - Psycho on the loose
10. Muddy Face - Skindust

[FormerAdmin]

1. Mescalito - Rambla
2. Enigma - Mea Culpa (Fading Shades remix)
3. Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl
4. Crowded House - Now We're Getting Somewhere
5. Queen - The Show Must Go On
6. Urge Overkill - The Break
7. R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It
8. De La Soul - Say No Go
9. Foo Fighters - Disenchanted Lullaby
10. Dire Straits - Private Investigations



Cheers, Andrew

[RodneyOlsen]

1. I Get Along Without You Very Well - Diana Krall
2. Only the Good Die Young - Billy Joel
3. What's Happened to You - The Call
4. Easy On Your Own - Australian Crawl
5. Narrow Daylight - Diana Krall
6. Drive-In Saturday - David Bowie
7. I Don't Care About the Past - The Senators
8. The Language of Life - Everything But The Girl
9. In The Echo Chamber - Hoodoo Gurus
10. Frozen River - Everything But The Girl

[Jaycee]

iPod, iTunes - huh? I'm still at the Walkman stage.

Looking at the lists below - some interesting combinations there.

[Joh Blogs]

1. James and the Cold Gun-Kate Bush
2. I Don't  Get It-Cowboy Junkies
3. One-Johnny Cash
4. Playboy Mommy-Tori Amos
5. Unsent Letter (acoustic)-Machine Gun Fellatio
6. Ooh Child   -Beth Orton
7. Down In Mexico-Grindhouse: Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof Soundtrack
8. Waiting for My Real Life to Begin-Colin Hay
9. Nothing Compares To You-Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
10. When Your Mind's Made Up-Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova

[swollenpickles]

7. Down In Mexico-Grindhouse: Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof Soundtrack

Is the Grindhouse soundtrack any good?

[Joh Blogs]

7. Down In Mexico-Grindhouse: Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof Soundtrack

Is the Grindhouse soundtrack any good?

I really like it. I enjoyed the movie too, so that could influence.

[Lani]

Nice list, Joh!

[Joh Blogs]

The random thing was good, I love music and have so many favourites it would have taken hours to make those kinds of decisions! It's really interesting to see what everyones listening to. There are a couple of my 'favourite artists' on everyones lists, cept Mike, can't say I've heard any of your music , must check it out!

[Joh Blogs]

oops, I meant macgirvan, Mike's got many of my tunes....must learn to preview before posting..

[macgirvin]

I'm a convert to the 'infinite content stream' of indie music, and opposed to the DRM cartels. You can listen to new music every moment for the rest of your life and never have to listen to the same song twice. Why listen to the same stuff over and over? Most is incredibly good, however It doesn't matter if it's good or bad because you'll never hear it again. Though I tend to often get a bit of Maxwell Silverthorn in the mix. (That's only because I'm Maxwell Silverthorn). It's the only thing that stays in the player when I reload.

[guera]

Bit of a mix here

1. Turn Up Your Stereo - Eskimo Joe
2. End of the World - The Living End
3. I´ll be Home for Christmas - Perry Como
4. What´s It Take - Knievel
5. Caracol - Las Favoritas de Gymboree
6. Amazing Race Theme
7. Cumbia de los Muertos - Ozomatli
8. Nothingman - Pearl Jam
9. Sound As Ever - You Am I
10. Deepest Blue - Chillout Sessions

We loaded our entire CD collection onto the Ipod when we moved to Mexico, so there´s heaps there that I haven´t listened to for ages (or ever). Explains why the Christmas and Gymboree music comes up, but I am amazed that no Wiggles or Hi5 or Spanish language lessons were there.

[ShadowKnight]

Any excuse to crank the iPod is s good excuse.

1. Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Woman
2. INXS - Disappear
3. Marilyn Manson - Mister Superstar
4. Marilyn Manson - Come Together (Live)
5. Blu Cantrell - Breathe
6. Linkin Park - Secret
7. Faith No More - Ricochet
8. Madonna - Express Yourself (Girlie Show Live)
9. Limp Bizkit - My Generation
10. Kool and The Gang - Kung Fu Fighting

Phew no Wiggles made the list.

[Lani]

1. Arctic Monkeys - Flourescent Adolescent
2. Crosby, Stills & Nash - In My Dreams
3. Kristin Hersh - Some Catch Flies
4. Nickelback - Are We Having Fun Yet?
5. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?
6. The Cat Empire - All That Talking
7. Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
8. Gomez - Revolutionary Kind
9. Sinéad O'Connor - Fire On Babylon
10. Josh Pyke - Private Education

No idea how Nickelback got in my library.  Blaming Big Sis.

[Lani]

I just thought I'd bump this thread again for all the newbies.  Stick your iTunes library or Mp3 player on random and post the first 10 songs that play.  No cheating! 

1. Cordrazine - Memorial Drive
2. Nick Cave - Dead the Passage of Jesus
3. The Dirty Secrets - Five Feet of Snow
4. Portishead - Biscuit
5. Puccini - Oh Mimi, tu piu non torni (from la Boheme)
6. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Stir It Up
7. Moa - Overcome
8. The Byrds - Ballad of Easy Rider
9. Ani di Franco - Independence Day
10. Matisyahu - Beatbox

[FormerAdmin]

1. Struggle - Clannad
2. True Believers - Hunters & Collectors
3. Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
4. Sleeping Beauty - Stormwitch
5. Orinoco Flow - Enya
6. Fields of Gold - Sting
7. One Too Many - Baby Animals
8. Minutes to Memories - John Couger Mellencamp
9. Devil's Dime - Black Label Society
10. An Astounding Spectacle - Senser

Cheers, Andrew

[Lani]

Hmm.  I don't know a couple of those.  I'll have to look them up.  But I was just listening to The Pogues last night. 

[Ian]

This is my lot for today.

1  Laughter round the table - The Laughing Clowns
2  Night Windows - The Weakerthans
3  Biomusicology - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
4  Atomic - Blondie
5  Secret Affliction - Immaculate Machine
6  Anthems for a 17 year old girl - Broken Social Scene
7  The Jig is up - Jill Sobule
8  I never - Rilo Kiley
9  Leopard of Honor - Destroyer
10 Finding You - The Go-Betweens