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Uncool is so HOT!

October 18th, 2006 — 5:35pm

I had the shuffle set to random, I fired up the iPod and I listened for four and half hours straight. Below is the result of my second experiment with the randomness of the iPod shuffle setting.

Before you look, I still swear I have somewhat better taste in music than what appears on the list below. Believe it or not there actually is music on my iPod that was written and produced in this century.

I believe the next logical entry will be to analyze how I became so old so fast.

Swingtown– Steve Miller Band (freshman year college)
Our Lips Are Sealed– The Go-Go’s
You Were Only Joking– The Indigo Girls
Cherry Cherry– Neil Diamond
AllStar– Smash Mouth
A Fine Romance– Ella Fitzgerald
Real Love– Mary J. Blige (Luh-uv this song! I want to sing like Mary J.)
Cream– Prince
My City Was Gone– The Pretenders
When Love Comes To Town– BB King & U2
Shadows of the Night– Pat Benatar
The Joker– The Steve Miller Band
Diggin’ Your Scene — Smash Mouth
That’s Life– Frank Sinatra
Cowboy Take Me Away– Dixie Chicks
My Guy– Mary Wells
Open Your Heart*– Madonna
Can’t Help Falling In Love– Elvis Presley
Crash Into Me– Dave Matthews Band
Tripping Billies– Dave Matthews (is this thing really on shuffle?)
Breakdown– Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Travelin’ Soldier– Dixie Chicks
A Pirate Looks At Forty– Jimmy Buffett
Midnight Train to Georgia– Gladys Knight & The Pips (I don’t think I’d want to be a pip)
Mamma Mia– ABBA
Wouldn’t It Be Good– Danny Hutton Hitters (teenage angst)
Lazy River– Pete Fountain
Don’t Cry– Seal (a certain boy)
Stomp– The Brothers Johnson (Jazzercise—7th grade)
Just When I Needed You Most*– Randy VanWarmer
Destination Anywhere– The Commitments (the ultimate need my freedom song)
Hang– Matchbox Twenty
My Way*– Frank Sinatra (song ruined for me by idiot old boss)
Callin’ Baton Rouge– Garth Brooks (I didn’t know I liked some country until I heard this song)
Evenflow– Pearl Jam
Southern Girl– Better Than Ezra
Slow Ride– Foghat
Sweet Dreams (Of You)– Patsy Cline
One Of These Nights*– The Eagles
Sexual Healing– Marvin Gaye (also Jazzercise—my dancing girls—good cover by someone)
Dreaming– Blondie
Walking in Memphis– Marc Cohn
Your Love Is King– Sade
When I Look To The Sky– Train (live version)
Wishing Well– Terence Trent D’Arby
Good Day Sunshine– The Beatles
Cecilia– Simon & Garfunkel
Cowboy– Kid Rock
Mr. Big Stuff– Jean Knight (Gladys’ sister?)
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning– Carly Simon
Son Of A Son Of A Sailor– Jimmy Buffett
Stardust– Nat King Cole (the voice of velvet)
With This Ring– The Platters
The Power of Love*– Huey Lewis & The News (I really have to delete this song)
I Feel The Earth Move Carole King
So Little Kindness*– Huey Lewis & The News
She’s Crafty– The Beastie Boys (how can you NOT love them?)
Over The Rainbow– Ray Charles & Johnny Mathis
Never Tear Us Apart– INXS
They Can’t Take That Away From Me– Billie Holiday
The Winner Takes It All– ABBA
Crazy For You– Madonna (oh how I wanted to slow dance w/Matthew Modine)
Jack And Diane– John Mellencamp
Fire And Ice– Pat Benatar
Purple Rain* Prince (needed more upbeat tunes at 5:20 p.m.)
Ultraviolet (Light My Way)– U2
Like A Song…*– U2 (don’t want to hear two songs by the same band in a row while on shuffle)
I Need Love– Sam Phillips
Unforgettable*– Nat King Cole
Hammer And A Nail– Indigo Girls (such a happy song)
I Got You Under My Skin*– Frank Sinatra (too much Frank today—is that possible?)
All You Zombies*– Hooters (heard in earlier experiment this morning)
Twice As Hard– The Black Crowes
Take The Money And Run– The Steve Miller Band (I don’t have that much SMB on my iPod)*
Let My Love Open The Door– Pete Townshend
Diamond Girl*– Seals And Croft (too mellow for today)
Hey Ya!– Outkast (OMG! A song from this century!)

*Song I forwarded though. I’m typically a playlist kind of gal.

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Blogging To The Oldies

October 18th, 2006 — 12:32pm

Mamma’s sending out a little love to a new “computer friend.” Because how could a mamma not love a boy who says he’s “down with your demographic?” You can read the interaction that took place over at Psalm A Day–a great concept with with introductions to a deeper vault of music then the one I obviously have the key to. Though I wish they’d post a little more often…

Always hoping to share my random thoughts with a larger audience (come on in, it’s only a little scary), I thought I’d check out my new friend’s other blog ShuffleLog. This too is an interesting experiment to look at the randomness of the shuffle setting on an iPod. The problem for me is that I only recognized one song in twenty on this fine gentleman’s list. Now we know he’s down with our demographic, so I continued reading but man it got me feeling old.

Lovely Clarence invited me to join in his experiment with a thirty minute trial run on my own iPod. The results–which can be seen here–were thoroughly embarrassing…so much so that I’m currently running another test. Unfortunately, I think I just really am that uncool. Who needs to wait until I have teenagers to figure that out.

PS–I’m not buying this whole “shuffle” thing. In less than one hour I’ve heard duplicate selections by the same band three times. And I maxed out the drive on my little music friend.

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