I’ve been listening to my iPod quite often at work. Since I usually don’t have to be on the phones, and my job is mostly data entry, this is an indulgence that actually increases productivity.
Shuffle is a great idea. In theory.
If your playlist looks anything like mine, it’s not such a great idea. I downloaded every cd I had because… well… .I had it. And more than once I bought a song I heard on the radio. If I had waited three minutes I would have discovered that they played it every other slot on every single station and I could have gotten my fix without ever paying the 99 cents. Or ever subjecting myself to that song again.
Here is a sampling of what happens when my iPod is on shuffle. (Song, Artist, Album)
Changing World, Kutless, Hearts of the Innocent
No Other Way, Jack Johnson, In Between Dreams
Let’s Fall In Love, Diana Krall, Live in Paris
The River, Good Charlotte, Good Morning Revival
Let’s Stay Inside, Ivy, Long Distance
Spade a Spade, Andy Davis, Let the Woman
Stop This Train, John Mayer, Continuum
Shivna, Bill Whelan, Riverdance
Violin Concerto in B Minor RV 387, Shlomo Mintz, Vivaldi
Love You Inside Out, Bee Gees, Number Ones
Can you whistle any of those tunes just by reading the names of the songs? Yeah. Me either. Half the time I’m looking at my iPod wondering where on earth this song is from.
It does keep me awake though. Which I suppose at work, is the point.
What happens when you shuffle?
18 responses so far ↓
annie // November 12, 2008 at 1:47 am |
haha. Well … I don’t. I do own an iPod … but I don’t really use it. I want to though. Mostly I listen to the radio.
jacketch // November 12, 2008 at 4:10 am |
Ain’t got a shuffle neither by when I do Pandora I can find some great Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle and George Jones or Chingon or some other Ranchera musica – but then sometimes they put on some horseshit like Rascal Flatts or Houston Hip-Hop and my soul gets that sickly feeling because I know some folks consider them all in the same realm.
I’ve come up with some gold,though.
I tear up when I hear this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFb1lGMvS3I
I get cold during this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGKzWDakK8
And this one brings me home:
Gordon // November 12, 2008 at 6:15 am |
Have you ever used last.fm?
http://www.last.fm/user/chorlton
That’s not actually representative as I forgot my iPod charger yesterday so spent the day listening to my “Neighbours’ Radio Stations”.
I didn’t miss a post about you finding a job did I? I noticed you said you were “running for work” for your high-heel sprint a few weeks ago but had no idea what it was. Are you Tess McGill?
@ngie // November 12, 2008 at 7:31 am |
Someday I aspire to shuffle – when I own an iPod.
danielle // November 12, 2008 at 10:37 am |
yes, wierd songs, preaching, audio Bible throw in a couple of good songs and that’s about right.
Joy Renée // November 12, 2008 at 12:44 pm |
that’s so comical. i do the SAME thing! and it’s so frustrating when i want to listen to my ipod hands-free. mostly when i shuffle, i’m left skipping at least half of the songs due to the simple fact that the song has been out-played either by me or the radio stations or the fact that i probably heard the song once, thought “oh me likey”, and clicked “buy”, never hearing the song again until that moment when i’m not in the mood to learn a new song. make sense?
Sarah // November 12, 2008 at 11:02 pm |
Doing the experiment now…
1. I’m in Love with a Girl, Gavin DeGraw
2. ?, Jason Mraz
3. ?, Gavin Degraw (again?)
4. The Great Escape, Boys Like Girls?
5. ?,?
6. Mr. Brightside?, The Killers?
7. One Step at a Time, Jordan Sparks
8. I Want You to Want Me, ?
9. ?, Jason Mraz
10. Clumsy, Fergie
11. Take a Bow, Rhianna
12. Say, Lisa Loeb
Ok, I think I am done. Mine is so old. It doesn’t have the screen if you remember and thus the question marks. Jason Mraz is newer so I don’t know the songs yet. Number 5 might have been a “Discovery Download.” The only one I wanted to skip was “Clumsy.” I think that was a roadtrip song, yeah, you know what I’m talking about.
13. I’m Sorry, ?cherry
14. Beautiful Oblivion, Eve 6
15. ?,?
16. Irreplaceable, Beyonce
17. ?, P.S. I Love You Soundtrack
18. Add It Up, Ethan Hawke (Reality Bites Soundtrack)
19. ?, Jason Mraz
20. Disturbia, Rhianna
Ok, done now. Thanks for the welcome distraction from the Mythology Paper.
whatireallywanttosayis // November 12, 2008 at 11:03 pm |
Gordon: Is last.fm anything like pandora? And no you didn’t miss a post about a job. I may post about it soon. Then again, I might not.
Joy Renee: I know exactly what you mean.
Jill G. // November 13, 2008 at 1:01 am |
Okay, first ten songs on mine are:
You Are the Sunshine of My Life by Stevie Wonder
Zoom by The Commodores
KOS (Knowledge of Self) by Talib Kweli
Superwoman (Stevie Wonder cover) by Donny Hathaway
Golden by Jill Scott
The Corner by Common
No One Else by Amel Larrieux
Black Girl Pain by Talib Kweli and Jean Grae
Girl Put your Records on by Corrine Bailey Rae
Until You Come Back to Me by Aretha Franklin
I love my little shuffle (got it free from my job LOL) sometimes I have no idea what a song is or where I even got it from. LOL
dan // November 13, 2008 at 11:30 am |
I have one flat foot. I broke it in a fight. It does make it difficult to shuffle. so, thanks for rubbing it in my face, bitch.
dan
p.s. sorry for calling you a bitch. I meant it in an enduring way… like if you say… huh… well, I guess there is no way to make “bitch” an enduring term unless you happen to be one dog breeder talking to another and say something like, “my, what a beautiful bitch you have there. Would you be willing to let your bitch breed with my stud?”
Gordon // November 13, 2008 at 1:01 pm |
I don’t think we get Pandora over here because of international licensing, but I’ve heard of it. The radio stations are a recent addition to last.fm but it tracks what you listen to (through itunes/wmp plugins), records your personal charts, and then can link you to neighbours who listen to similar stuff. Then you can browse to find stuff that’s new to you.
No matter how much I try to be random though, and even things out, I still seem to listen to the same favourite band(s) about four times as much as anything else.
I’m obviously too old and still think in “albums” :)
Natalie Jane // November 13, 2008 at 2:32 pm |
Dan: You and Melissa. I see what I am to you.
Sarah: You know I love distracting you from homework. It’s a point of pride.
Gordon: I might have to check that site out. New music is always good.
Back to work now. My mysterious, unglamorous work….
Laura // November 13, 2008 at 10:55 pm |
I don’t have an ipod…thanks for opening that wound.
alece // November 14, 2008 at 4:05 am |
what happens when i shuffle?
niel rolls his eyes.
Priscilla // November 14, 2008 at 11:48 am |
The very same thing happened to me yesterday… except I shuffles in the showtunes Genre…. still bad idea… I think it went something like Aida, Rent, Les Mis, Hairspray,Wicked, back to Les Mis cuz I ot way too much a that on my pod…. yea I will never do that again!
dan // November 14, 2008 at 3:15 pm |
Thats just how me and the honeybee roll… always play’n by prison rules and make’n sure others be know’n their place.
jacketch // November 14, 2008 at 4:57 pm |
You can’t never have too much Les Mis.
Stephanie // November 15, 2008 at 7:45 pm |
I knew the Ivy song! in fact, i might play it now thanks to you. But yeah, mine jumps from Chopin to Justin Timberlake, to Alanis Morissette, to Botecelli.
I can relate.