the first 10 songs played by winamp/i-tunes/ipod when on shuffle

^^^best random WinAmp transition ever, btw^^^

3. New Order - Thieves Like Us
4. The Constantines - "Nighttime/Anytime (It's Allright)"
5. Kevin Shields - "City Girl"
6. Tiga - "Burning Down"
7. Husker Du - "Celebrated Summer"
8. Blackalicious & DJ Shadow - "Swan Lake"
9. Dead Kenneddy's - "California Uber Alles"
10. Isaac Hayes - "Theme From Shaft"

Billy The Kid- 'Apron Strings'
Credence Clearwater Revival- 'Midnight Special'
Ton Loc- 'Funky Cool Medina'
The Music Explosion- 'Little Bit O'Soul'
Kevin Shields- 'City Girl'
Fuzztones- 'Bad News Travels Fast'
Dave Matthews Band- 'Where Are You Going (REAL STUDIO!!)'
DMX- 'Damien'
Jethro Tull- 'Locomotve Breath'
Dan Hartman/Loleatta Holloway- 'Vertigo/Relight My Fire'

The Clash - "The Card Cheat"
Cornel Fugaru And Sincron - "The Joddler From Gorj" (commie surf song!)
Saint Etienne - "Been So Long"
Scenic - "A Quiet Event"
Clear Horizon - "A Child's Eyes"
U2 - "Zoo Station"
Closedown - "Red Oval"
Steely Dan - "Deacon Blue"
The Warlocks - "House Of Glass"
Sonny Russell - "50 Megatons" (from Atomic Cafe soundtrack)

In the digital age with a culture of download first / listen later and the language of music becoming increasingly more pervasive and complex we accumulate a sheer mass of music with each single and album indicating something about us, however disposable, however credible.

These are mini mix tapes which seem to say so much without being awarded the careful thought and loving attention the ones we so carefully construct do. I’m romanticizing here but I’m in love with the random feature, despite its misgivings which have been pointed out above. I love the occasional hideous but ever so interesting sound clash of songs that winamp juxtaposes for us, the songs we have but hate, make us cringe; remind us of when things were different for us.

I confess I don’t know all the music on my computer as well as I should and in many ways I’m just a hoarder of compressed audio data but I love that data and I do feel it means something, especially when the music is placed in a new context.

Sorry for being pretentious. Here's my lastest ten:

01. ex models - orbital and nuclear
02. dj shadow - six days (soulwax remix)
03. kaada - burden
04. lone pigeon - rainbow
05. matmos - the stars and stripes forever
06. john cage - solo for voice 67
07. wideboys - stand and deliver (4x4 vocal mix)
08. savath and savalas - binoculars
09. alastair roberts - come, my darling polly
10. break machine - let your body move

40gb ipod - 6349 songs - 20.5 days

1. LL Cool J - Rock The Bells
2. Strokes - Take It Or Leave It
3. DJ Quik - Down Down Down
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
5. New Order - Fine Time
6. House of Gypsies - Sume Sigh Say
7. Grandaddy - Hewlett's Daughter
8. Trail of Dead - Homage
9. Heroes Del Silencio - Entre Dos Tierras
10. Cloud Nine - Jazzmin (from Quango Sport)

I've found that albums I intially greeted with a shrug have snook up on me via the random playlist. For years I regarded the uninterrupted flow of the album tracklist as not to be screwed with, but over the last 4 years or so listening to full albums is something I've done less and less. Perhaps this mirrors the consumption of music before the mid-60s, when singles were the main method of consumption. Anyways, everything sounds different when it's rubbing up against everything else.

Tonight's latest:
1. Camera Obscura - Teenager
2. Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
3. The Auteurs - Land Lovers
4. Raekwon - Ice Cream Pt. 2
5. Bounty Killer - Bullz of Chicago
6. Smog - Cold Blooded Old Times
7. Gotan Project - Epoca
8.

8. Oxes - Half Half and Half
9. American Music Club - In the Shadow of the Valley
10. Haywood - Button Up, Buttercup!

certainly one of my strangest to date. i'm not sure i even know what track two is. spelling errors from the tags of the emmpeethrees.

Apparently iTunes decided to make me look like a tool. Has anyone else noticed that, even if you have thousands of songs, it always plays the same, like, 40 when you put in on suffle?

01. cheap czad - temptation
02. patrick wolf - don't say no
03. jazzanova - the one-tet
04. the hold steady - certain songs
05. cameo - word up (12'' version)
06. felix da housecat - ready to wear
07 meat katie - lap dance
08. jon rose - the violin in winter
09. ativin - night terror
10. anaksimandros - run with wishnu

Whew! Somehow I knew the Brooce would come up ...

As always, my response is: huh!

1. Basement Jaxx - Supersonic
2. Kenny Chesney - Outta Here
3. Ryan Adams - Gimme a Sign
4. A.C. (Carl) Newman - The Cloud Prayer
5. Aphex Twin - Untitled (Melodies from Mars track 2)
6. The Watersons - Herod and the Cock
7. Outhud - Dad, There's a Little Phrase Called Too Much Information
8. Frank Black - Blast Off (Demo)
9. King Tubby - King Tubby Dub
10. TV on the Radio - Dreams

not bad...

this is all very odd

hm.

electrik red - friend lover
talking heads - born under punches
curren$y & wiz khalifa - s.d.l.
los campesinos - all your kayfabe friends
clipse - bodysnatchers
the exploding hearts - throwaway style
cut copy - hearts on fire (aeroplane remix)
wiz khalifa - the kid frankie
prodigy - 7th heaven
destiny's child - temptation

dunno how it ended up on two wiz khalifa songs

Johnnie Ray - 'Such A Night'
Kraftwerk - 'Mitternacht'
The Four Pennies - 'Juliet'
The Stooges - 'Little Doll'
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - 'Bill's Corpse'
rent - 'Attack Ships'
Rod Stewart - 'Maggie May'
Michael Jackson - 'Get On The Floor'
Creedence Clearwater Revival - 'Bad Moon Rising'
glomag - 'Disco Nostromo'

Shackleton - Hypno Angel
Radiohead - A Wolf at the Door
Madvillain - Money Folder
Aphex Twin - Polynomial-C
Horace Andy - Ain't No Sunshine
The Ocean - Catharsis of a Heretic
DJ Shadow - Changeling (Transmission 1)
Captain Beefheart - Semi-Multicolored Caucasian
Outkast - Synthesiser
Blame - Music Take You

crystal castles - doe deer
gayngs - the walker
saint etienne - 7 ways 2 love (alternate)
cansei de ser sexy - music is my hot hot sex
califone - polish girls
tangoterje - i get lifted
sleater-kinney - im not waiting
wavves - green eyes
silver jews - buckingham rabbit
e-40 - born in the struggle

lol @ this sampling

Keane: My Shadow
New Order: 5 8 6
Billy Ocean: Carribean Queen
Stereophonics: Local Boy In The Photograph
The Temptations: Just My Imagination
Coldplay: Politik
Elton John: Your Song
Alphaville: Forever Young
Orbital: Dwr Budr
ABC: Vanity Kills

swans - the final sacrifice
lcd soundsystem - freak out/starry eyes
this mortal coil - the lacemaker
devo - (i can't get no) satisfaction
the microphones - eyes for volume
yoko ono - walking on thin ice (walked across the lake mix)
lull - [untitled 14th track from Moments]
love and rockets - use me
beastie boys - time for livin'
cabaret voltaire - a minute is a life time

the cure: let's go to bed
heavenly: c is the heavenly option
brendon benson: pleasure seeker
blondie: i'm gonna <3 u too
system of a down: violent pornography
the smiths: cemetery gates
yaz: in my room
huggy bear: dissthentic penetration
futureheads: carnival kids
the clash: straight to hell

ODB - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Orbital - Halcyon
Lil B - Theater
Mike Ink - Paroles (Autechre Repoles)
Autechre - Teartear
Royce da 5'9" - Psycho (Skit)
Smegma - En Vout
Mayhem - Anti
Demdike Stare - Trapped Dervish
Kevin Drumm & Daniel Menche - Gauntlet

Iris Dement - Mom & Dad's Waltz
R.E.M - Undertow
How to Dress Well - Can't See My Own Face
Thin White Rope - If Those Tears
Girls vs. Boys - Bulletproof Cupid
Codeine - 3 Angels
The Cure - Homesick
The Go-Betweens - Spirit of a Vampire
Earth - Geometry of Murder
Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind

E-40 - I Love My Momma
Lena Katina - Belochka
Coven - Dignitaries Of Hell
Hole - Credit In The Straight World
Monika Brodka - Krzyżówka Dnia
Miranda! - Perfecta
Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
Virus - Nepogoda
Peter Fox - Stadtaffe
Mylene Farmer - Bleu Noir

the jesus and mary chain - never understand (alternate)
brian eno - burning airlines give you so much more
woods - born to lose
the dead c - glass hole pit
low - your poison
milton babbit - philomel
m.i.a. - born free
orchestral manoeuvres in the dark - architecture and morality
new order - subculture
cocteau twins - ella megalast burls forever

bone awl - lindow man
jorge ben - se segura malandro
bee gees - jive talkin'
free clinic - drunktank
kurt vile - inside lookin out
novos baianos - misterio do planeta
pussy galore - asshole
neil young - everbody's alone
david bowie - eight line poem
the body - falling

in office all weekend, with only limited, 4K song ipod for company. shuffle:

• ariel pink -- can't hear my eyes
• dexy's midnight runners -- the teams that meet in caffs
• joey gilmore -- somebody done took my baby and gone
• emeralds -- now you see me
• olivia newton-john & what's his name -- suddenly
• the verve -- this time
• tinariwen -- imidiwan afrik temdam
• the bug -- angry
• lucy rodgers -- play a little longer
• the congos -- nicodemus
• ali farka toure -- savane

spotify on local shuffle

nas - surviving the times
death grips - guillotine
jack e chocolate - pavaroty
ponytail - g shock
gaseneta - live
kain - nubian ii
paulo bagunca - mensaqeiro
yob - silence of heaven
mr scruff - kalimba
johnny moped - vd boiler