Your jukebox, uncensored
Published December 22, 2004 by Ed Bott
I’ve seen this several places, and it’s a cool idea:
- Open up the music player on your computer.
- Set it to play your entire music collection.
- Turn on the “shuffle” option.
- 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.
Here’s my list (album names in parentheses). It could have been much stranger.
- Dusk, Lara and Reyes (Two Guitars One Passion/Spain)
- Green Onions, Booker T & The MGs (Elemental R&B/Shimmies and Shakes)
- The Boy Feels Strange, Melissa Etheridge (Never Enough)
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, Bob Dylan (MTV Unplugged)
- Ramblin’ On My Mind, Jesse Colin Young (Greatest Hits)
- Seek Up, Dave Matthews Band (Remember Two Things)
- Trip to Skye/Darach Debrun’s, Eileen Ivers and John Whelan (Celtic Odyssey)
- Sun Risin’ Blues, Big Joe Turner (Big Bad & Blue: The Big Joe Turner Anthology Vol. 1)
- Tangled Up in Blue, Bob Dylan (A Million Faces at My Feet, bootleg)
- Allowa Kirk/Traditional Strathspey/Princess Royal/Douglas’ Favourite, Ashley MacIsaac (Fine Thank You Very Much)
Thanks to A View from the Classroom, The Hypothetical Wren, and 42 for the idea.
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Hey DJ, Spin That Disc!
As suggested by Ed Bott I have set my iTunes (Windows version unfortunately!) to shuffle through the song collection on my PC. I’m going to list the next ten tracks that are played, no censoring at all! Sure it could be risky, even embarrassing,…
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>Lotus Leaves by Bob James
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Murd…
Interesting idea. I linked it with the following post on my blog.
Ed Bott has a fun write up on sharing a random sampling of what is in your musical jukebox. Ed suggests that you pick from “all music” the next 10 songs played on your jukebox and then share them with the world no matter how embarassing. I like it, but I’m also going to respond with one additional twist. In addition to my 10 random songs from all music, I’m going to list my 10 random songs from my 5 Star List. So here goes:
From All Music:
1. Women, Def Leppard, Hysteria
2. Rules of Travel, Rosanne Cash, Rules of Travel
3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Lloyd Price, 1945-1956, Roots of Rock, The Rock ‘N’ Roll Era - Time Life
4. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, American Boychoir & The Atlantic Brass Quintet, Trumpets Sound & Voices Ring - A Joyous Christmas I-II
5. Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash, The Nashville Sound, Volume 4
6. The Lebanon, The Human League, The Very Best of the Human League
7. Ebony Eyes, The Everly Brothers, Time Life Super Hits, 1960-63
8. Big Man, The Four Preps, 1950’s, Your Hit Parade
9. Neapolitan Song, La Musica from Italy
10. Jesse, Joan Baez, The Best of Joan Baez, The Millennium Collection.
Now for my 5 Star random 10
1. Big Me, Foo Fighters, Foo Fighters
2. There’s Too Much to Love, Belle and Sebastian, Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
3. Freedom Now, Tracy Chapman, Live as performed on Saturday Night Live (bootleg)
4. Happy Birthday, Loretta Lynn, Honky Tonk Girl Collection, Disc 1
5. She’s In Love with a Rodeo Man, Don Williams, Evening with Don Williams, Best Live
6. Emotionally Yours, Bob Dylan, Empire Burlesque
7. May You Never, Eric Clapton, Slowhand
8. Blue Monday, New Order, The Best of New Order
9. Georgia on a Fast Train, Billy Joe Shaver, Unshaven, Live at Smith’s Olde Bar
10. Pinch Me, Barenaked Ladies, Maroon
So what are your 10 random songs on your all music library and on your 5 star list? Link back and share them with Ed Bott on his original post linked above.
I don’t think I could have a list more different than you two. Out of 6,375 songs, Winamp chose those 10:
Weird War - AK-47
1) Bearded Assholes - Blood, Coke, and Acid!
2) Dinosaur - Does It Float
3) Bongzilla - American
4) Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me
5) The Frogs - I’ve Got Drugs (Out of the Mist)
6) New York Dolls - Lonely Planet Boy
7) The Stooges, Salt & Pepa - No Fun, Push It (2 Many DJs mash-up)
9) Syd Barrett - Word Song
10) Melvins - Let God Be Your Gardener
My first 10 random songs
It did take me a while to do in my musicmatch player, since it seemed I had to first select my entire library, then add it all to a playlist, then ‘shuffle play’ it. The tracks it came up with were..,
1). Stevie Wonder - He’s Misstra Know It All
2). Whitney Houston - Greatest Love of All
3). Smashing Pumpkins - Suffer
4). 5 Star - Whenever you’re Ready
5). Hall & Oates - Baby Come Back
6). Freak me - Another Level
7). Peter Gabriel - Good Man In A Storm Peter Gabriel
8). Mis-Teeq - Why
9). Control - Janet Jackson
10) .Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Only a couple of ‘bum’ ones there after all!
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