Music Shuffle Meme

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Open up the music player on your computer.
Set it to play your entire music collection.
Hit the “shuffle” command.
Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty.
Write it up in your blog or journal and link back to at least a couple of the other sites where you saw this.
If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten song with five artists, you can if you’d like.

Read on for my results. And then let’s have some of yours…. [via TooMuchSexy, Work Life Sleep My Life, Dave's Chalkboard, Cranial Spew] 1. As It Is, Plenty (composed and accompanied by Benjamin Britten; performed by Peter Pears) 2. Untitled (Dujeous?) 3. The Jump (Bobby McFerrin) 4. Tonyies! In The Wrong Key (Tony Toni Tone) 5. Cloudbust (Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross) 6. Stone Planet (Masterminds) 7. The Oak and the Ash (The Duke’s Men of Yale; arr. by Chanticleer?) 8. Chorus: Et Incarnatus est (Bach, Mass in B Minor) 9. Pie Jesu (Faure’s Requiem) 10. Aria (Goldberg Variations)

I tried it a couple times, and this was probably my least favorite set, but hey, those are the rules. Very classical-heavy though. Hmm.

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9 Responses to “Music Shuffle Meme”

Lin-Manuel Says:

December 12th, 2004 at 9:35 pm
Random Shuffle 12/12/04 . . . 1. Talkin Bout Hey Love–De La Soul 2. E-Bow The Letter–R.E.M 3. Sin Fe–Los Hispanos 4. Frio Frio–Juan Luis Guerra 5. Such A Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference–Morrissey 6. I Could Die For You–Red Hot Chili Peppers 7. Mayor–Pharaoh Monch 8. Across The Universe–The Beatles 9. A Wild, Wild Party–Andrew Lippa 10. Just In Time–Tony Bennett

For the record, that shuffle sampler is WAY hipper than my collection reflects–we didn’t stumble upon any of my extensive Wierd Al Yankovic or PM Dawn tracks . . .
Chloë Says:

December 14th, 2004 at 8:25 am
Oi, Lin-Man — last I checked, Tony Bennett is not “WAY hipper.”
1. Hurdy Gurdy (Donovan)
2. Hazy Shade of Winter (The Bangles)
3. Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da (The Beatles)
4. Ca Va Ca Va (Karl Zero)
5. Bangla Dhun (George Harrison)
6. In My Life (The Beatles)
7. Knock on Wood (Eddie Floyd)
8. Penny Lane (Out of the Blue)
9. Fuse Box (Monsoon Wedding Soundtrack)
10. Eddie’s Drumpire (Eddie From Ohio)
First and only shot. Notice any patterns? Nah.
Luke Says:

December 14th, 2004 at 11:57 am
An interesting game. I might nominate renaming the meme “the strangest mix-tape ever.”

1 Amazing Grace (Ani DiFranco) 2 I Need a Man (Eurythmics) 3 Sweedeedee (Cat Powers) 4 Western Hero (Neil Young & Crazy Horse) 5 A Whisper (Coldplay) 6 One Day I’ll Fly Away (Moulin Rouge original soundtrack) 7 All By Myself (Dave Brubeck Quartet and Jimmy Rushing) 8 Informer (Snow) 9 Big Brother (Stevie Wonder) 10 Lost Mind (Diana Krall)
Miriam Says:

December 14th, 2004 at 11:06 pm
No hip credibility here to lose. Phew!
1. Unhappy — Big Boi
2. Goldberg Variation 21 — Glenn Gould
3. Sedenkarska — Bulgarian Vocal Ensemble
4. Above Ground — Norah Jones
5. A Case of You — Joni Mitchell
6. Cello Suite V, Third Movement — Bach
7. If I Only Had a Heart — Susannah McCorckle
8. Brahms Double Concerto Second Movement
9. Satisfaction — Eve
10. Brown-Eyed Girl — Van Morrison
Dan Says:

December 18th, 2004 at 5:10 pm
1. Hysteria – Def Leppard
2. Rocket – Def Leppard (hmmmm…)
3. Nuages – Django Reinhardt
4. Mr. P.C. – John Coltrane
5. Waving My Dick in the Wind – Ween
6. The National Anthem (Live version) – Radiohead
7. Intro – Dr. Octagon (Not a real song)
8. Untitled – Dujeous (Also not a real song. In fact its just silence. Subsequently deleted from iTunes.)
9. Wax P – Dujeous
10. Ruby, My Dear – Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Dan Says:

December 18th, 2004 at 5:12 pm
Luke got Informer! Thats the funniest one up here.
Mark Says:

December 20th, 2004 at 10:21 pm
Ornithology – Charlie Parker My Love is Like Whoa – Mya ft. Missy Elliot Confessions Part II – Usher You’ll Be In My Heart – Phil Collins Down Under – Men at Work Carolina in My Mind – James Taylor What’d I Say – Ray Charles Invisible Man – 98 Degrees Mountain Town (Reprise) – South Park Movie Soundtrack Planet Corneria (Starfox) – New Japan Philharmonic

Random, indeed.
Dan Says:

December 22nd, 2004 at 2:47 pm
Mark listens to 98 Degrees!
Arthur Says:

December 25th, 2004 at 2:57 am
Forget 98 Degrees. Usher, Mark? Usher?!

Good lookin on the Goldbergs, Miriam. I blame you for my having so much classical stuff in the first place. But who is Susanna McCorkle?

And Chloë, what’s up with this Donovan I keep hearing so much about?

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