The She-Creature Shuffle

Thought I'd post this bulletin response here for the helluvit. Here was the challenge:

1. Open up the music player on your computer.
2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the shuffle command.
4. 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.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurrences. You don't have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten songs with five artists, you can if you'd like.


So out of 15,000 songs that take up 70 gigabytes and could play for more than 40 days and 40 nights without repeating anything, this random selection is surprisingly better than any playlist that I could have put together myself (although it could do with a dash of Tom Waits)...

01 - The Smiths - Paysted Way
02 - The Impossible Shapes - Always the Way
03 - Portastatic - The Angeles of Sleep
04 - Damien Jurado - Intoxicated Hands
05 - Arnold Schoenberg - track 9 from "Pierrot Lunaire"
06 - Jo Ann Castle - Tico Tico
07 - The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
08 - Sun Kil Moon - Pancho Villa
09 - Warren Zevon - Model Citizen
10 - The Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow

Hmm, I'm feeling a little WFMU-ish right now. I should have my own Podcast, shouldn't I? Does anyone want to know what the next 10 would be? Okay...

11 - Sloan - Everything You've Done Wrong
12 - The Wolfgang Press - Cut the Tree
13 - Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
14 - Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds
15 - The Wipers - Up in Flames
16 - Maserati - Ambassador of Cinema
17 - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Loverman
18 - Gary Numan - Dream Police
19 - Steve Reich - Drumming (3)
20 - William Shatner - Spleen

And then I decided to keep going to the next ten... they were:

21 - Red House Painters - Long Distance Runaround
22 - Cursive - Art Is Hard
23 - God in 3 Persons - Service
24 - Thelonius Monk - North of the Sunset
25 - Rilo Kiley - Hail to Whatever You Found in the Sunlight that Surrounds You
26 - Sam Phillips - Standing Still
27 - Deerhoof - L'amour Stories
28 - The Misfits - Dr. Phibes Rises Again
29 - Danielson Famile - Sing to the Singer
30 - Tom Waits - Black Wings (Live at the Raven Theater)

And after that I realized it was 4:20 AM and I'd been listening to music for a couple hours. So that's a perfect place to end. Nite!