“It was one of those oh, I forgot about that song” moments. I hit shuffle on my iPod and up comes a song I haven’t heard in quite some time. In fact, it was a song I forgot was even on my iPod to begin with. I was going to go with the 5 first songs your iPod spits out list, but decided to expand it from 5 to 20 because it always amuses me what pops up on random.
I get that a lot…that surprise when someone gets to hear what’s on my iPod and are shocked when I go from some Showtune to Heavy Metal to oh, I don’t know, Miley Cyrus. “Didn’t I just hear the Carpenters? And now this is what?” The conversation goes and I’m forced to answer something like “System of a Down” or “Diana Krall” or “Tupac”. And I always get the strangest looks. It’s not really a surprise to me to have my shuffle work that way and why should it? This is the music I listen to. But other people…other people run the gambit from pleasantly surprised to downright horrified I’d jump from Opera to Hardcore Rap to Jazz to 1970’s Disco in just a few songs.
So in honor of that (and because it just happened a few minutes ago, that “shock”) I offer up the first twenty tracks from my iPod after hitting “Shuffle Songs”:
More Pretty Girls Than One — Alison Krauss and Lyle Lovett
Celebrate Your Youth — Keller Williams (live)
When In Rome – Nickel Creek
Touch the Sky — Kanye West
One — Aimee Mann
Brush Up Your Shakespeare — Kiss Me Kate
Helena — Nickel Creek
Guitars, Cadillacs — Dwight Yoakam
You Can Depend On Me — Diana Krall
Rock, Paper, Scissors — Ani diFranco
Back In the Day — Erykah Badu
Fire Door – Ani diFranco
Gravity — BT
Chemical Calestenics — Blackalicious
The Con — Tegan and Sara
Diamonds On My Neck — Smitty
2HB — Roxy Music
