I came across this blog meme a few weeks back, but now I have forgotten where. First, set your iPod (or iTunes) to Shuffle Songs; then list the first ten songs that come up (no cheating). Thank God, no Yanni popped up — (hey, I’m sure your ’Pod has a few skeletons, too).
- “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by 10,000 Maniacs; Hope Chest
- “Lovin’ you (Rob Searle Club Mix)” by Vinyl Baby; DDR 6th Mix
- “Rocky Raccoon” by The Beatles; Anthology 3 — Disc 1
- “Hope and Memory” by Howard Shore; LOTR: The Return of the King
- “Here Today” by The Beach Boys; Pet Sounds
- “Love is Blindness” by U2; Achtung Baby
- “Sonata #10 in G Major - Allegro” by Vladimir Ashkenazy; Piano Sonatas - Disc 3
- “White Summer/Black Mountain Side” by Led Zeppelin; Coda
- “The Gentleman Soldier” by The Pogues; Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
- “Cloudburst” by George Winston; Plains
You know, the closer my iPod gets to attaining sentience, the more eclectic its tastes get. (What? You thought Shuffle Songs was purely random?)
I think I’ve finally found someone with musicaly tastes more ecclectic than my own - who’d have thought it was possible? :-)
…and that’s just scratching the surface. If we did a little deeper down into the nine and a half days of music on this little guy, we find Bond, Enigma, a whole lot of Vivaldi, Metallica, Angel Romero, the Les Mis soundtrack, scads of J-Pop (and K-Pop), t.A.T.u., Sting, the Brandenberg concertos, some Erasure, some Abba, some Erasure/Abba, Evanescence, Normahl (German), Electro Team (Croatian), Indochine (French), Bally Sagoo (Indian), Billy Joel, Nightwish, the Chieftains, Depeche Mode, Dido, The Eagles, Enya, Snow Patrol. Korn, Sigur Ros, Robert Miles, Maroon 5, Moby, a lot of Bernstein…
…and that’s just the stuff I listen to regularly. Although, I have occasionally swapped tracks with one person whose tastes are odder than my own.