Kevin's Watch

Turn on your mp3 player or open your music app, shuffle your music, and list the first 15 songs that come up.

You can skip one song that would require too much explanation.

Back on the Chain Gang-the Pretenders
The Prophecy- Howard Shore (LoTR Soundtrack)
Send a Message- Susan Ashton
The Fields of the Pelennor- LoTR Soundtrack
Fan the Flames- Open Sky
Bibanke- Asa
6th Avenue Heartache- The Wallflowers
Fire on the Mountain- Asa
All Kinds of People- Susan Ashton
One Drop- Bob Marley
Jamming- Bob Marley
Black and White People- Matchbox 20
Sanctus- from Mozart's Requiem
Deer in the Headlights- Owl City
Somewhere More Familiar- Sister Hazel

Final Fantasy 7 OCRemix - Every Story Begins With A Name
The Who - A Legal Matter
The Billy Nayer Show - Sandman
Pink Floyd - Us And Them
Phish - Weekapaug Groove
Led Zeppelin - Four Sticks
King Crimson - The Devil's Triangle
The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
Daft Punk - Around The World
Pink Floyd - Sheep
Assassin's Creed 2 Soundtrack - The Plague
Iron & Wine - The Sea And The Rhythm
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - From The Beginning
Spinal Tap - Stonehenge
Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP - We No Speak Americano

Polyphonic Spree :It's the Sun
Slaid Cleves: Wishbones
Phish: Bouncing Around the Room
50 Foot Wave : Dog Days
PM Dawn : My Own Personal Gravity

Elvis : Suspicious Minds
Pixies: Monkey Gone To Heaven
Plankeye : Bicycle
Elton John: Tiny Dancer
Kristen Hersh : Spain

Camper Van Beethoven : Might Makes Right
Thanks To Gravity: Lunar Landing
Sugar : Helpless
David Bowie : Moonage Daydream
Gillian Welch : Wayside/Back In Time

deer of the dawn wrote:The Prophecy- Howard Shore (LoTR Soundtrack)
Send a Message- Susan Ashton
The Fields of the Pelennor- LoTR Soundtrack

(Not sure if this implies that you do as well, but I have found that I greatly enjoy mixing the LOTR soundtrack in with my other music on random-play. Sometimes the juxtopositions can be quite entertaining.)

A 25 min. medley of songs from Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking played live - Roger Waters
Shame Shame Shame - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Bother recorded live on WAAF - Stone Sour
Freedom Overspill - Steve Winwood
Too Much Rope - Roger Waters
Holiday Inn - Elton John
Resistance - Queensryche
Here Comes the Feeling - Asia
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin (yes, the long one)
Dirty World - The Travelling Wilburys
Still Rainin - Johnny Lang
Face Up - Rush
Down By the River - Neil Young
Blue Light - David Gilmore
Undercover of the Night - Rolling Stones

(Alas, no Howard this time.)

Guess I'll use my almost-everything-I-have Winamp playlist.

Shadowplay - The Killers
Better - Regina Spektor
Rock & Roll Pizzeria (live) - Less Than Jake
Sometimes - The Noisettes
Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead
Surrender - Less Than Jake
Standing In the Way of Control - Gossip
Geek Stink Breath - Green Day
Innocent Greed - Guano Apes
Get Your Guns - Nine Black Alps
I Love You 'Cause I Have To - Dogs Die in Hot Cars
Stumbeline - The Smashing Pumpkins
City of Angels - The Distillers
Somebody Told Me - The Killers
I'm Not Afraid - Howling Bells

Gaia- Mago de Oz
Love Grows- Edison Lifehouse
Question- The Moody Blues
Our Destiny- Epica
Atlantia- Mago de Oz

Time Won't Let Me-The Outsiders
The Gates of Urizen- Bruce Dickinson
The Walls of Babylon- Symphony X
The Clairvoyant- Iron Maiden
Brave New World- Iron Maiden

Rock & Roll- Led Zeppelin
20 de Enero - La Oreja de VanGogh
Crusader- Keldian
Keep Talking- Pink Floyd
La Danza de Fuego- Mago de Oz

Make it Wit Chu - Queens of the Stone Age
Thong Song - Kyuss
You Wish - Unida
Ghostrider - Henry Rollins (Crow Soundtrack)
Twenty eight - Karma to Burn

Waiting for My Ruca - Sublime
Bend to the Road - Calexico
Grease Paint and Monkey Brains - White Zombie
No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
50,000 Unstoppable Watts - Clutch

Precognition - Farflung
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica
Needles and Pins - The Ramones
Dirty Blue Balloons - Failure
Sanctified - Nine Inch Nails

we close our eyes (go west)
all the love in the world (nine inch nails)
ethiopia (joni mitchell)
baby let me follow you down (bob dylan, live from the last waltz)
you turn me on (joni mitchell)

i can't make you love me (bonnie raitt)
baloney again (mark knophler)
while you see a chance (steve winwood)
i've seen all good people (yes)
the freshmen (verve pipe)

leaving las vegas (sheryl crow)
my iron lung (radiohead)
living in the past (jethro tull)
have you heard (john mayall & the bluesbreakers w/ eric clapton)
mighty mighty (earth, wind, & fire)

Now for the odd list with umlauts and gibberish within. Shows that there's mostly non-English music on my computer.

Sóknardalr - Windir
Thunder's Mighty Roar - Rhapsody of Fire
Herr Mannelig - Haggard
Iss - Helrunar
Lords of Bedlam - Hollenthon

Oh kui ondsad on need puhad taevas - Triskele
Cromwell - Hellsing Ultimate OST
The Entmoot Decides - LOTR/Two Towers Complete Recordings
Der Himmel fällt - Fjoergyn
Ali jäisten vetten - Korpiklaani

Prelude to Act II - Edward Grieg, Peer Gynt
Den Frusna Munnen - Finntroll
Byttingen - Lumsk
Siunattu hiljaisuudessa - Viikate
Rimfaxe - Fejd

Now off to sleep.

Full shuffle with all 3672 items in my library - nothing skipped:


The Stars Look Down - Rush
Mad World - Tears for Fears
Psi Power - Hawkwind
The Queen of All Things Taken - Ego Likeness
From Here to Eternity - Iron Maiden

Goodnight Moon - Shivaree
The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia) - The Flaming Lips
Sophia - The Crüxshadows
Red Rain - Peter Gabriel

Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones
Chemical Reaction - Dance Yourself to Death
Heaven and Hell - Dio
Come And I Will Sing You (The Twelve Apostles) - Great Big Sea
Free Man In Paris - Joni Mitchell

Fisticuffs - Primus
Love Like We Do - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Love In Your Eyes - Soraya
Queen Of Spades - Styx
Drugs - Talking Heads

King Of Pain - Police
Sanctuary - Natalie Imbruglia
This is The Day - Cranberries
Everybody's Fool - Evanescence
Everybody Loves A Happy Ending - Tears For Fears

Run For Your Life - 999
The Pick Of Destiny - Tenacious D
Band On The Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
Going To The Run - Golden Earring
Testify - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Pretty eclectic but from the full 2970 items...

Tempo I. (Allegro, etwas hastig) - Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.8 "Symphony of a Thousand"
Gone Long Gone - Chicago
Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
Freedom - George Michael
99 - Toto
The Pretender - Jackson Browne
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine in - The Fifth Dimension
Symphony 31 Mozart - Daniel Barenboim and the English Chamber Orchestra
Standing in the Shadows of Love - The Four Tops
Handel Water Music Suite: Gigue - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Headlong - Queen
Pretty Paper - Willie Nelson
Why Can't I Have You - The Cars
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Marseillaise - The United States Marine Corps Band

1. Road to Errogie -- Flook
2. Freddy's Set -- Beolach
3. Blue Collar Man -- Styx
4. Saturday Morning -- Tom Chapin (from Harry Chapin's "Greatest Stories Live")
5. Hunting Girl -- Jethro Tull
6. Grand Illusion -- Styx
7. Get Back -- the Beatles
8. Pibroch (Cap in Hand) -- Jethro Tull
9. Asturian Way -- Flook
10. Fight Fire With Fire -- Kansas
11. Bouree -- Jethro Tull
12. More Than a Feeling -- Boston
13. Let Me Take You Home Tonight -- Boston
14. Good for You -- Toto
15. Caledonia -- Dougie MacLean

Wow. I need to put more of my CDs on iTunes...

Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
Miami 2017 - Billy Joel
Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett
Coffee in a Cardboard Cup - Mandy Patinkin
The Best Is Yet To Come - Frank Sinatra
All Fired Up - Pat Benatar
Working For A Living - Huey Lewis & The News
I Know You're Out There Somewhere - Moody Blues
Got To Get You Into My Life - Beatles
Big Boy Now - Richard Marx
A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole
How Can I Refuse - Heart
Roads to Moscow - Al Stewart
California Dreamin' - Mamas and Papas
Rocket Man - Elton John

David Gilmour : Fat Old Sun
Kristen Hersh : Listerine
Tanya Donelly : Acrobat
Chicago : 25 Or 624
Hole : Doll Parts

Camper Van Beethoven :
Mary's Danish : Hey There Man
the Replacements : I Will Dare
REM : Begin the Begin
Phish : Bouncing Around the Room

Doughboys : Shine
Poster Children : Zero Stars
Mercury Rev : Night and Fog
Throwing Muses : Colder
Bob Mould w/ John Doe : Turning of the Tide

The first 15 of 35077 songs are

Neikka rpm- this chapter closed
The cruxshadows- return (coming home)
This mortal coil - velvet belly
Haujobb - sub unit one
Death in june - ku ku ku
Wideband network - show me love
Suicidal romance - lose your fears
Clan of xymox - wailing wall
Wumpscut - autophagy day
Red flag - love lacks gravity
Nature and organisation - bonus track
Claire voyant - serenade
Sisters of mercy - flood ii
Wolfshiem - once in a lifetime
Apoptygma berzerk - trash

Thanks to Gravity : Isometric Plaything
Mazzy Star :Look Down From the Bridge
Alison Krauss & Union Station : But You Know That I Love You
Natalie Merchant : Carnival
John Williamson : Galleries of Pink Gallahs

Bob Mould : New #1
Tanya Donelly : So Much Song
Firehose : Liberty For Our Friend
Phish : Fast Enough for You
White Stripes : Jolene

Polyphonic Spree : Section 12 (Hold Me Now)
Minutemen : Corona
Brady Bunch : It's A Sunshine Day
Bill Shatner : Mr. Tamborine Man
Kasey Chambers : Dam

So by Sarge's example, do I get to reshuffle until I've listed every track I own?

Good point, Murrin. Let's limit ourselves to twice, okay?

aliantha wrote:Good point, Murrin. Let's limit ourselves to twice, okay?