20 shuffle songs

01. "Suddenly June" by Bloomsday from Velvet Blue Music 12 Song Sampler (Compilation)

02. "Sky High" by the Prayer Chain from Mercury

03. "Killed by an Angel" by Sunny Day Real Estate from The Rising Tide

04. "Mesmerize" by the Dayslepers from the Hide Your Eyes EP

05. "My Trip to Venus" by the 90 Day Men from The 90 Day Men

06. "Santa Cruz" by Mortal from Lusis

07. "Hot Pants" by Havalina from We Remember Anarchy, 1993-2005 (Best of)

08. "Abraham" by Sufjan Stevens from Seven Swans

09. "Wordsmith Legacy" by Project 86 from ...and the Rest Will Follow

10. "My Life Story" by MxPx from Ten Years and Running (Best of)

11. "Giving You Glory" by Least of These from Only Begun

12. "Time to Die" by Amos from A Matter of Time

13. "Heysátan" (the haystack) by Sigur Rós from Takk...

14. "Silver" by the Violet Burning from The Violet Burning

15. "Leigh and Me" by StarFlyer 2000 (Jason Martin & Leigh Nash (then-Bingham) from Art Core vol. 1 (Compilation)

16. "You May Emerge from This More Dead Than Alive" by Hammock from Kenotic

17. "Cortinas" by the Lambrettas from Da-a-a-ance: The Anthology

18. "Bad Indigestion" by Lost Dogs from Little Red Riding Hood

19. "Ghostfire" by Tiger Army from III: Ghost Tigers Rise

20. "Loud, Proud & Punk" by the Business from Punk City Rockers (Compilation)

20 shuffle songs

It's been a while since I did a "20 shuffle songs" post, and since I'm in the music mood, here it goes... the first 20 songs that come up, whether I like them or not, no editing or cheating.

01. "Your Company" by Starflyer 59 from Leave Here a Stranger

02. "Pipa Yin" by Cheng Yu from Cheng Yu and Her Five Stringed Pipa

03. "Pictures of Shorelines" by Further Seems Forever from The Moon Is Down

04. "Tabitha (Take it Off Her)" by Brown Feather Sparrow from Let's Be Fine

05. "Show Me" by Over the Rhine live on 8/27/2005

06. "Why Won't You Talk About It?" by The Radio Dept. from Lesser Matters

07. "Hovering Around Your Room" by LN from Cool September Skies EP

08. "The Battle of Vernon" by The Lassie Foundation from El Dorado

09. "Bats" by C-Clamp from Longer Waves

10. "Everything Means Nothing to Me" by Elliott Smith from Figure 8

11. "Billy Boy" by Miles Davis & John Coltrane from The Complete Columbia Recordings

12. "Yuma, AZ" by Damien Jurado from Waters Ave. S.

13. "All" by Clash of Symbols from Begging At the Temple Gate Called Beautiful

14. "Highschool Reunion" by Pigeon John from Pigeon John Is Dating Your Sister

15. "Still Nothing" by Coastal from This Ageless Night split-CD w/ Midsummer

16. "Spirit Waltz" by Something Like Silas from Divine Invitation

17. "The Bradley" by Further Seems Forever from The Moon Is Down

18. "Somewhere When Your Heart Glowed the Hope" by Starflyer 59 from Gold

19. "Sooner Or Later" by The Slackers from Live At Ernesto's

20. "The Words That You Say" by Something Like Silas from Divine Invitation

learn about sunken anchor: 20 shuffle songs

Another round of the idea I got from Rebecca. The first 20 songs that come up on my iPod's "Shuffle Songs" option.

01. "Sweet Lullaby" - Something Like Silas

02. "Never Leave A Job Half Done" - Pedro the Lion

03. "Pillars" - Sunny Day Real Estate

04. "Sick Inside" - Aaron Sprinkle

05. "Phuture 2000" (Deepsky Remix) - Carl Cox

06. "William and Davy" - Kate Rusby

07. "Divine Invitation" - Something Like Silas

08. "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." - Sufjan Stevens

09. "Fool in the Photograph" - Sunny Day Real Estate

10. "To Eternity" - Exeter Flud

11. "Glora" - Björk

12. "Year of the Dog" - Sufjan Stevens

13. "This Day Is Mine" - Mike Stand & Clash of Symbols

14. "The Dungeon" - Starflyer 59

15. "100 Million" - Sunny Day Real Estate

16. "In Conclusion" - Hangnail

17. "Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few" - Sufjan Stevens

18. "Parade of Chaos" - Zao

19. "One Armed Man (Play On)" - Project 86

20. "Gaspard de la Nuit (le gibet)" composed by Maurice Ravel


Hmm... supposedly that's true random, but it sure doesn't seem like it. I know you can skew the randomness of the shuffle in iTunes, and I may well adjust that to make two back to back tracks by the same artist less unlikely. Since that was a little less than satisfying (for me), here are the first 20 that come up in "All Songs" on shuffle mode.

01. "Til Human Voices Wake Us" - Midsummer

02. "A Guy in a Suit and the Pope" - The Crucified

03. "Conquer Me" - The Lassie Foundation

04. "Unfolding and Fading" - The Autumns

05. "Only at Christmas Time" - Sufjan Stevens

06. "Plenty of Paper" - Eisley

07. "Skyscraper" - The Arrogants

08. "Kata Rokkar" - Björk & Tríó Guðmundur Ingólfssonar

09. "Pink Orange Red" (Alternate version) - Cocteau Twins

10. "She Was My Sweetheart" - Starflyer 59

11. "Silent Scream" - The Crucified

12. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (live) - Sufjan Stevens

13. "Uno lo Mio y lo Tuyo" - Aterciopelados

14. "It Came From Down South" - Blaster the Rocket Man

15. "Back to the Cross" - The Crucified

16. "Till Jesu Comes" - Mike Roe

17. "Best I Had" - The 77's

18. "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" - Sufjan Stevens

19. "Signing My Own Name" - Aaron Sprinkle

20. "We Deserve Hell" - Chasm