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I've converted all my compact discs to flac files (a lossless compression technique), so all of my music is retrievable on my computer. I realize that compact discs date me, but I could never embrace the MP3 standard. You definitely lose fidelity with MP3.

Anyway, I use a program called MusicBee. It can create a random playlist of all of my music. So what you are seeing are all the dark musty corners of my musical library brought into the light.



By the way number 20.? -sales? That's Alec Baldwin's iconic sales speech from Glengarry Glen Ross.

Anyway, it is truly random to see a truly random selection of music. I wonder what Cambridge Analytica would make of it? If anyone would like to show a bit of their own random playlist, it would be interesting!

I don't use MusicBee but it looks interesting. But I thought I'd let my computer run a random shuffle on the 20k+ music files I have on an external hard drive I've picked up just for kicks to get the first 31 that it chooses. Keeping in mind it includes songs from when my daughter was just getting into music through her early teen years this could be...interesting. Here we go.

1. Hang You From the Heavens.......................................The Dead Weathers
2. Stranger Ways..........................................................Anberlin
3. Help the Poor............................................................B.B. King
4. Neptune, the Mystic...................................................Holst, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus
5. Porcelain..................................................................Moby
6. Victim is Another Name for Love..................................Sunshine
7. The Grid...................................................................Daft Punk (from the Tron Legacy soundtrack)
8. Old Flame.................................................................The Church
9. Kashmir....................................................................Led Zeppelin
10. Everything I Own......................................................Bread (forgot about this band or that I owned any of their music. Reminds me of my dad.)
11. The Underground......................................................Dawn Parade
12. (I am Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear............Blondie
13. Interstate................................................................Refreshments
14. Goodbye My Lover....................................................James Blunt
15. America...................................................................Simon & Garfunkel
16. No Time for Tears......................................................Jo Dee Messina
17. Life Begins Again.......................................................Jimmy Chamberlain Complex
18. Fascination Street......................................................The Cure
19. Not Meant for Me.......................................................Wayne Static
20. Break on Through......................................................Pearl Jam live cover of The Doors
21. Lucky Lipstick...........................................................Surferosa
22. Shake Your Rump......................................................Beastie Boys
23. Faithful....................................................................Pearl Jam
24. Jingle Bells...............................................................Bob Denver
25. Places......................................................................Bela Fleck
26. Bossa Nova Baby......................................................Elvis Presley
27. Pass Me By..............................................................Pete Yorn
28. Sing.......................................................................My Chemical Romance
29. My Best Friend........................................................Weezer
30. Lullaby (acoustic)....................................................The Cure
31. Mr. Tambourine Man................................................Bob Dylan


Not too bad. But I'm surprised nothing electronic, kids music, or rap came up.

Ok, the next song that played after I let Dylan finish seemed like the sort of thing I was expecting more of so I'm adding another for kicks and to see if there is more of a spectrum of music than the last 31.

32. Guerilla Radio..........................................................Richard Cheese (lounge-style cover of Rage Against the Machine song)
33. Change (In the House of Flies)..................................Deftones
34. Back to the Old House..............................................The Smiths
35. It Serves You Right To Suffer ..................................Iron Butterfly
36. Generique..............................................................Miles Davis
37. Priceless.................................................................Incubus
38. Try Not to Breath....................................................REM
39. Leaving Early..........................................................Sylvia Plath (from an album of spoken poetry read by the authors)
40. Repo Man...............................................................Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs
41. Here Comes My Girl.................................................Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
42. Exhale....................................................................Skye
43. Headstrong.............................................................Seven Mary Three
44. Yahaya (Twisters Analog Mix)....................................Paul Ercossa & Twister (surprised it took this long)
45. Shooting Up in Vain..................................................Eagle Eye Cherry (made me wish Buffalo Stance by his sister had come up)
46. White Commander....................................................Terence Blanchard, Miracle At St. Anna soundtrack
47. Face to the Floor......................................................Chevelle
48. Reason to Beautiful...................................................Hole
49. Forever for Her.........................................................The White Stripes
50. Photograph..............................................................Def Leppard
51. For You to Notice......................................................Dashboard Confessional
52. Ashes to Ashes........................................................David Bowie
53. A Man/Me/Then Jim.................................................Rilo Kiley
54. Please...................................................................U2
55. I Am.....................................................................Train
56. Psycho..................................................................System of a Down
57. Spring Haze............................................................Tori Amos
58. Feel My Way Along..................................................Virgil Cane
59. Don't Bother Me......................................................The Sextants

I don't know how random my player is because it still feels like entire genres of music didn't come through. But it could have played pop hits of the early 2000's sang by Alvin and the Chipmunks so I probably shouldn't complain.

Edited: Accidently skipped a few line so three songs were left over from the previous list. Fixed it, but only with 28 more songs rather than 31.

For me it feels like looking through a record bin inside your head. You go through a lot of music going 'yeah, hmm...yeah, ok, ugh...and then something finally clicks for you. Anyway, an amazingly eclectic collection. It is hard to imagine a disc jockey that could create a playlist going from The Smiths to Iron Butterfly, Miles Davis, Incubus, REM, and topping it off with a Sylvia Plath Poetry reading.

35. It Serves You Right To Suffer ..................................Iron Butterfly
36. Generique..............................................................Miles Davis
37. Priceless.................................................................Incubus
38. Try Not to Breath....................................................REM
39. Leaving Early..........................................................Sylvia Plath

The movie character Margot Tenenbaum....for some reason I think she'd like this playlist.

Thanks for posting.

MeDotOrg wrote:The movie character Margot Tenenbaum....for some reason I think she'd like this playlist.

I can't tell if it's because her portrayal of Sylvia Plath was rather good, in my opinion, but I can see that.

...an amazingly eclectic collection. It is hard to imagine a disc jockey that could create a playlist going from The Smiths to Iron Butterfly, Miles Davis, Incubus, REM, and topping it off with a Sylvia Plath Poetry reading.

I still have a 120 GB iPod Classic that may get a real Irish wake when it croaks I've had it so long and enjoyed it so much. I keep it loaded with the same catalog of music that I started collecting back in the Napster days, trading music with friends in the military and then college, buying shameful amounts of music online, along with occasional weekend binges of converting CD's to portable. I'll listen to it at work on shuffle all and am often surprised by a song I haven't heard in ages coming on...and then getting put back into a playlist so I can burn myself out on it later. I've worked in an office setting for a long while where we can only listen to music over speakers after work hours and if no one is trying to write. It's been a while since I've had a new coworker start, but it was normal when I'd ask if anyone cared if we played music that the new person would ask, "What do you listen to?" My standard response, "Tell me what you listen to and we'll play that." If they said they liked almost anything, they got anything. Over time I would take mental notes of what they actually didn't like and modify a work-safe playlist that suited their tastes. One of my playlists is still, "S____ Safe" for the senior level Mormon who didn't work late often but when he did it meant keeping the music to fairly mellow mid-to-late '90's era alt-pop. And to be fair, I was cool with whatever so it was still good times. ;)