I’m challenging myself to get through a whole shuffle of my music collection on my iPod without skipping. Then I write about what I heard each week.
Friday was day one of the playlist pledge. Well, Thursday was actually the first attempt, but I aborted it when I realized how easy it would be to fuck up the shuffle with an errant finger touch (pretty likely actually since I’ll probably need to go back through the songs to remember what I’ve heard to write my weekly summaries). So Thursday night, I created a playlist of all my songs, shuffled it, and synced it to my iPod. I don’t like the way I can see what’s coming next (I try to avoid looking at the playlist), but this is the only way I can think of to ensure the integrity of the shuffle (already on day one, I accidentally hit the shuffle icon and had to go back to the playlist to resume the correct order). Here are the songs from day one. Don’t worry, I don’t plan on listing every song after today, I just wanted to document the very special songs called into duty on the first day.
- Bel Canto-Spiderdust
- Simon & Garfunkel-He Was My Brother
- Lords of Acid-Pussy (Round)
- Genesis-I Can’t Dance [12″ Version]
- The Police-Message In A Bottle (Live-7/15/2007-Cleveland)
- Genesis-Mad Man Moon
- Sting-History Will Teach Us Nothing
- Best Coast-Goodbye
- Sting-Saint Augustine In Hell
- Shaggy-It Wasn’t Me
- The Police-De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (Live-5/27/2007-Vancouver Fan Club Show)
- Animal Logic-If I Could Do It Over Again
- The Police-Shambelle
- Ween-I’ll Be Your Jonny on the Spot
- Ween-Nan
- Kevin Gilbert-Song for a Dead Friend
- Living Colour-Leave It Alone
- The Judybats-My Dead Friend
- The Innocence Mission-Our Harry
- Genesis-Get ‘Em Out by Friday
Bel Canto was a very promising opening. For the most part, day one wasn’t bad. I probably would’ve skipped at least half these songs on a normal day, but only the 12″ version of I Can’t Dance made me groan. Well, and the two live Police songs made me realize that I have way too many Police bootlegs on my iPod. I downloaded all three of the reunion tour shows I saw live and having to go through all of those during this shuffle will be a little painful, especially the more “Stingified” songs, like the totally anemic version of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” they performed on that tour. Oh well, something to look forward to…
