i'm kind of obsessed with things like this:
http://www.avclub.com/features/random-rules/ and those silly notes on facebook where you shuffle your ipod and write about the songs or whatever. so let's do that here.
rules: put your ipod on shuffle - NO SKIPPING ANYTHING - write about the first 10 songs that come on.
here's mine, Tuesday April 28, 5:05 pm. 11,952 songs:
1) sleeping on the roof - the flaming lips (
the soft bulletin): lots of people are really obsessed with them; I just kind of like them. this song’s nice though – a little instrumental piece that’s reminding me of the instrumental stuff that’s on david bowie “low”.
2) decades – joy division (
heart & soul box set, disc 2): i recently watched a joy division documentary and listened to them a lot afterward. But I can never remember what any of the songs are called. I like this one; it’s gloomy as hell.
3) final straw – r.e.m (
around the sun). r.e.m’s my favorite band, but this album really blows. I’ve only listened to it a few times.
4) are you a boy or are you a girl – the barbarians (
nuggets box set). This is the 2nd time this song has come on my ipod today (I restarted the shuffle for this list). Reminds me of the time I was in Target with my dad and I heard a kid say, “mom, is that man a girl?” (referring to my dad).
5) one way or another – blondie (
platinum collection, disc 1). This song rules, of course, especially the ending part. I’ve liked blondie since I was a little kid & used to sing “the tide is high” while standing atop my toy box.
6) hospital – the modern lovers (s/t). I’m not super familiar with them, but I really like “roadrunner”. He sings about girls a lot, huh?
7) what’s there to decide? – sloan (
smeared). About 10 years ago I ended up buying all of their albums, but I haven’t really listened to them much since then. I don’t remember this song.
8. tomorrow – clinic (
do it) I just put this album on the ipod a few weeks ago and haven’t even listened to it yet. I kind of gave up on them after realizing they’re never going to top
internal wrangler.
9) crest – stereolab (
transient random noisebursts). “If there's been a way to build it, there’ll be a way to destroy it…”
10) dayton, ohio 1903 – randy newman (
sail away). I’ve listened to the harry nilsson version more, but this one’s good too.
