IPOD SHUFFLE PLAYLIST

Once again I succumb to the lure of an Internet meme:

(1) Turn on your MP3 player or iTunes. (2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode. (3) Write down the first 25 songs that come up--song title and artist--NO editing/cheating, please. (or shuffle CD’s or *gasp* LP's, close your eyes and pick your songs)

If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about your musical tastes, or at least a random sampling thereof. I am especially interested in any guilty pleasures revealed, or weird random song cycles that actually work!

Here's mine. You have to love a list that has Boredoms and You Spin Me Round on it.

1. Love Vigilantes--New Order
2. Bore Now Bore--Boredoms
3. Lonely Planet Boy--New York Dolls
4. Our Secret--Beat Happening
5. Sleeping Giant--Mastodon
6. He's a Whore--Cheap Trick
7. Pass The Flashlight--The Soviettes
8. Man With Golden Helmet--Radio Birdman
9. We Need More--New Bomb Turks
10. I'll Be Good To You--The Brothers Johnson
11. Panther Dash--The Go! Team
12. Noise--Beat Happening
13. Tone Burst--Stereolab
14. Symptom Finger--The Faint
15. Rainy Days Revisited--The Hellacopters
16. Mengao 2000--Furacão 2000
17. Piya Re Piya Re--Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
18. A Little Bit Of Shhh--Lady Sovereign
19. Girl From '62--Thee Headcoats
20. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)--Dead Or Alive
21. Ballad Of Extreme Hate--Halo Of Flies
22. Summertime Killer--Luis E. Bacalov
23. Into The Void--Black Sabbath
24. Chain That Door (Album)--Mudhoney
25. Some Candy Talking--The Jesus & Mary Chain

Total songs on my iPod: 5962

Bands that were amazingly not on this list:

Elvis Costello=170 tracks
Guided By Voices=195 tracks
The Melvins=78 tracks
Buzzcocks=83 tracks
The Wedding Present=94 tracks
Pavement=64 tracks
Sleater-Kinney=72 tracks

If you haven't already seen this on Facebook, consider yourself tagged.

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