I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree
iPod check in time.
As I laboured over an extremely tedious document at work this afternoon, the first 10 songs to pop up with my iPod set to "shuffle" this afternoon were.........
- > Snow Patrol - 'chased by.... I don't know what'
- > Moby - 'machete'
- > Gene - 'walking in the shallows'
- > Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules - 'mad world'
- > Joy Division - 'failures'
- > Maximo Park - 'acrobat'
- > Portishead - 'sour times'
- > New Order - 'bizarre love triangle'
- > The Ramones - 'rockaway beach'
- > Inspiral Carpets - 'sackville'
and best of all, number 11 was "All Shook Up" by the King himself.
Your turn. No cheating.
As I laboured over an extremely tedious document at work this afternoon, the first 10 songs to pop up with my iPod set to "shuffle" this afternoon were.........
- > Snow Patrol - 'chased by.... I don't know what'
- > Moby - 'machete'
- > Gene - 'walking in the shallows'
- > Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules - 'mad world'
- > Joy Division - 'failures'
- > Maximo Park - 'acrobat'
- > Portishead - 'sour times'
- > New Order - 'bizarre love triangle'
- > The Ramones - 'rockaway beach'
- > Inspiral Carpets - 'sackville'
and best of all, number 11 was "All Shook Up" by the King himself.
Your turn. No cheating.
19 Comments:
At 5:45 pm, red one said…
Buy me an iPod please, someone. I still can't play.
:-(
red
At 7:19 pm, swisslet said…
red - list 10 songs off the top of your head then. First 10 that come to mind. That'll do.
ST
At 7:53 pm, HistoryGeek said…
I'm afraid mine would be the playlist of the GreenDay concert...I'm still hoarse. And I have whiplash.
At 8:29 pm, Anonymous said…
Ahem.
Speaking of the Ramones. That shirt has surfaced once again on Stand By Your Statue.
At 4:11 am, Michael said…
and iTunes told me, since I am too broke for an iPod...
->Hendershot by Les Claypool and the Holy Mackeral
->Old Mountain Dew by Grandpa Jones
->What? by A Tribe Called Quest
->Mr. Roboto by Styxx
->Don't Worry About It by N.E.R.D.
->Pigs on the Wing covered by Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
->Carvel by John Frusciante
->Atlanta by Stone Temple Pilots
->Benny and the Jets by Elton John
->Blue by A Perfect Circle
At 8:08 am, Me said…
How's this Swiss?
1) Alone in Kyoto – Air
2) Fixing A Hole – The Beatles
3) Lovestruck – Madness
4) To Forgive – Smashing Pumpkins
5) The Child – Alex Gopher
6) This Is The Place – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
7) Wind On Water – Fresh And Low
8) Angel Interceptor – Ash
9) Rikki – Mylo
10) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic – The Police
and the lucky 11):
Grazed Knees – Snow Patrol.
Sure beats most of my forthcoming earworms in terms of credibility...
Mike
At 8:39 am, LB said…
here we go, then.
1. Songbird - Oasis
2. The Way You Love Me - Faith Hill
3. Why Don't You Love Me? - Amanda Marshall
4. The Locomoation - Kylie
5. Don't Let the Cold In - Clearlake
6. Maybe - Emma Bunton
7. Neon Wilderness - The Verve
8. Stoppin The Love - KT Tunstall
9. Babylon - David Gray
10. Helicopter - Bloc Party
Well, that's the least embarrassing selection my little toy has ever produced. phew.
[mops brow]
At 10:09 am, bytheseashore said…
A list? Can't resist...
1. Winterlong - Pixies
2. Prince Charming - Adam And The Ants
3. Gordon's Revenge - The Macc Lads
4. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths
5. I'm Only Sleeping - The Beatles
6. Songs Of Love - The Divine Comedy
7. Let's Dance - The Ramones
8. Kung Fu - Ash
9. Something I Learned Today - Husker Du
10. Really Saying Something - Fun Boy Three and Bananarama
Hmm. Should have resisted...
At 12:41 pm, John McClure said…
Sublime to ridiculous (via downright how-the-hell-did-that-get-on-there?):
1. The Hives - B is for Brutus
2. Led Zeppelin - No Quarter
3. Elton John - Candle in the Wind (Live)
4. Radiohead - Sulk
5. The Bees - Sunshine
6. Corona - Rhythm of the Night
7. Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything
8. Foo Fighters - New Way Home
9. Muse - Apocalypse Please
10. Sonic Youth - 100%
After the Elton John incident, I nearly didn't dare do a lucky eleventh, but in the end I did - The Beatles - Long, Long, Long.
Shuffle produced a new trick yesterday that I've not noticed happening before. Divine Comedy's Everybody Knows (Except You) was followed by Divine Comedy's Everybody Knows (Excpet You). I checked, but I only have one copy of that on there, so it shuffled to the same song twice in a row. What are the odds!!!
Well, 3102 to one I suppose.
At 1:43 pm, Statue John said…
Aaaaaah alright then, but first of all respect to the Les Claypool fan above - the man's a genius!
1. Porcelain - Moby
2. Paris Four Hundred - Mylo
3. Stone Tape - Boomclick
4. Molly's Chambers - Kings of Leeeeeon
5. Long Distance - Turin Brakes
6. There There (The Boney King of Nowhere) - Radiohead
7. Get Busy - Sean Paul
8. Edgehill - Groove Armada
9. Taper Jean Girl - Kings of Leeeeeon
10. Hurt - Johnny Cash
In summary, not enough Kings of Leeeeeon.
At 3:06 pm, Anonymous said…
Sweat love sedation - Little Angels
You Spin me Round - Dead or Alive
Heresy - Pantera
Year 1993 - Nigo
Sister - Lenny Kravitz
Flowers in the window - Travis
Ya Mama - Pharcyde
Stereo 99 - Blue States
Had a Dad - Jane's Addiction
Eye of the Beholder - Metallica
Assuming you have 3,102 songs on your ipod. The chances of getting the same song twice in a row was, i wouldve assumed 1 in 9,622,404 unless you only have 55.69 songs..or is that why i got an E for A level maths? I'll get me protractor set
Des
At 4:25 pm, John McClure said…
Des - depends whether or not there is cumulative probability at work, and in this case I don't think there is. My reckoning involved the odds being reset to 3102-1 before every click of the advance button.
I'm willing to climb right down off that position though, given that I was thrown out of university for failing a stats module three times in a row - a fact I may have concealed from my current employer who hired me as a statistician.
At 4:27 pm, LB said…
hmmm. I thought the whole idea of an iPod shuffle was that it randomly shuffled every song on there, once.
If the Divine Comedy was only on there once, it should only have shuffled it once, then consigned it to the "done" bin and not played it again.
Ergo, it's on the blink.
At 5:01 pm, John McClure said…
LB - do you really think so, or are you just scared by the stats debate? (I know I am)
At 12:42 am, swisslet said…
Apple keep the algorithim for this secret, but my understanding of shuffle is that it plays each track once, and if you've heard that song once, it won't play again. If that wasn't the way it worked, then you would be as likely to hear the same song again as you would be to hear any other indivdual track, wouldn't you?
A bit like if you had got heads 100 times when you toss a coin, the chances of it coming up heads for the 101st time is still 50:50.
Or something.
ST
At 10:40 am, Statue John said…
Is being up at a quarter to one in the morning to discuss statistical algorithms really the beahviour of a normal person? ;-)
At 10:56 am, swisslet said…
and on a schoolnight!
*gasp*
At 4:20 pm, LB said…
Either Soulcrusher only has 27 songs on his iPod, of which 19 are Metallica, or his algorithms have gone the same way as John's...
At 10:09 pm, Charlie said…
Winard Harper Sextet- Mr Baggy Pants
Joss Stone- Super Duper Love
Ben Harper- Diamonds on the Inside
Ben Folds- Them That Got (Ray Charles)
Ted Leo- 2nd Ave, 11 Am
Tenacious D- Double Team
Dirty Dozen Brass Band- Remember When
Norah Jones- What am I to You?
Dave Matthews Band- Dreams of our Fathers
Frank Sinatra- The Lady is a Tramp
and #11..Agents of Good Roots- Alaska
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