I missed out on the heyday of the “let’s see what’s on your iPod” meme by about six years — what can I say, I’m a late adopter, part of that whole “analog kind of guy” thing — but I’ve actually got an iPod now, so when I ran across a variant of this old blogging chestnut on Tumblr last night, I couldn’t resist playing along.
If this is too passe for your tastes, feel free to surf on, but I feel like I’m finally filling a hole in my soul by participating in one of these.
Okay, maybe this experience wasn’t that profound, but it was kind of fun to see what a random sampling of my musical tastes might turn up. Fun for me, at least. Maybe not so much for you. But who’s writing this blog, anyhow?
Right, so, moving on, here’s the intro/instructions:
You can learn a lot about someone by the music they listen to. Hit “shuffle” on your iPod or MP3 player and write down the first 20 songs. No cheating or skipping songs that are shameful. That is the fun!
My list:
- Calling All Girls — Rick Springfield
- Windy — The Association
- The Harder They Come — Jimmy Cliff
- Shake Your Groove Thing — Peaches & Herb
- Fall from Grace — Stevie Nicks
- Heaven Knows — Robert Plant
- Ask the Lonely — Journey
- Sweet Talkin’ Guy — The Chiffons
- Listen to Your Heart — Roxette
- Mule Skinner Blues — The Fendermen
- The Road Home — Heart
- Nothin’ at All — Heart
- Some Gothic Ranch Action (instrumental from the soundtrack of Rancho Deluxe) — Jimmy Buffett
- Hot Girls in Love — Loverboy
- I Can’t Stand It No More — Peter Frampton
- Real Man — Bruce Springsteen
- Dance Hall Days — Wang Chung
- Don’t Look Now — Creedence Clearwater Revival
- La Bamba — Los Lobos
- Son of a Preacher Man — Dusty Springfield
Okay. Interesting that the first selection was my main man. I swear I did not set that up. I do wonder, though, exactly how that Shuffle algorithm works. You see, I can go for weeks without hearing anything from a particular genre — oldies, say — and then all of a sudden the machine is kicking out “Sweet Talkin’ Guy” and “Windy” and “Mule Skinner Blues.” Not to mention two songs by the same artist coming back to back… that doesn’t seem terribly random to me. In any event, I suppose this is a reasonably good cross section of my likes: mostly ’70s and ’80s pop-rock, some older stuff, nothing newer than ’89 or ’90, and some Jimmy Buffett thrown in for good measure. Probably nothing my Loyal Readers didn’t expect, right?
