First 10 songs to play

[MRGisevil]

Probably one of themore eclectic mixes you'll come accross in this list:

Never Be The Same - Red
Easier To Run - Linkin' Park
Wait - Helena Bonham Carter & Johnny Depp
Megatronic - Powerman 5000
Beware - Deftones
Smells Like Funk - Black Eyed Peas
I'd Love to Lay You Down - Conway Twitty (LOL????)
Omen - The Prodigy
Besame Mucho - Andrea Bocelli
Cruisin' in the ATL - Outkast

 

[severine]

Probably one of themore eclectic mixes you'll come accross in this list:

Never Be The Same - Red
Easier To Run - Linkin' Park
Wait - Helena Bonham Carter & Johnny Depp
Megatronic - Powerman 5000
Beware - Deftones
Smells Like Funk - Black Eyed Peas
I'd Love to Lay You Down - Conway Twitty (LOL????)
Omen - The Prodigy
Besame Mucho - Andrea Bocelli
Cruisin' in the ATL - Outkast

I have a pretty eclectic mix in my iTunes... it just didn't show up in the shuffle chosen. There's a lot less on my MP3 player because I was trying to keep everything on it pretty upbeat for exercising.

 

[mondeo]

I think Rush is winning.

I do this a lot of the time I listen to music but I still have everything backed up on a home computer. I like putting a CD into a single disc player a lot more than listening to music on a computer because it makes you listen to whole albums instead of skipping around. And IMO any worthwhile music should be listened to as a whole album not a single song. This is why listening to music on shuffle, pandora, or the radio sucks.

There are times where if I feel like listening to a certain type of music I'll turn the shuffle off and just let it play through an album or two of the same band. I agree that worth while music should be purchased as albums; the singles are easy enough to listen to that if you enjoy a band enough to buy their music you owe it to yourself to listen to more of their music than what's on the radio. A lot of the time the stuff I enjoy most is stuff that doesn't get any or much radio airplay. Case in point, my favorite Tool song is 10,000 Days.

But I like shuffle, largely because my computers and Zune have my entire music collection, which is 95% full non-greatest hits albums, so the shuffle catches all those songs that aren't overplayed. For the most part albums aren't produced as the most cohesive effort, so you don't miss much just picking songs here and there, and you get more variety and avoid listening to an album too much and wearing it out.

 

[severine]

I like the shuffle feature on iTunes because I end up listening to songs that I forgot I liked... I have whole albums loaded on there (all of my CDs, actually) so the music is all there, but I tend to not have much time to sit down and listen to a whole album these days. So it's cool... I have iTunes on now and a song came up that I couldn't remember where it came from, but it's good. Turns out it's on a CD I likely wouldn't pick on a regular basis to listen to. So ... I don't know where I'm going with this... LOL.

 

[severine]

Here's a good eclectic mix now....

White Zombie, "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls"
Journey, "Don't Stop Believin'"
The Darkness, "Love Is Only a Feeling"
Faith Hill/Tim McGraw, "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me"
Crash Test Dummies, "Afternoons and Coffeespoons"
Crash Test Dummies, "Two Knights and Maidens"
Buckcherry, "Crazy Bitch"
Isaac Hayes, "Two Cool Guys"
Green Day, "Burnout"
Shinedown, "Devour"

 

[awf170]

For the most part albums aren't produced as the most cohesive effort, so you don't miss much just picking songs here and there, and you get more variety and avoid listening to an album too much and wearing it out.

Agreed. So it basically comes down to what you listen to. I guess my comment was geared towards what I listen verse what most people listen to. I'm a huge prog rock dork so almost everything I listen to is made to be one cohesive product. Looking through what I consider my top 20 albums there are only 3 that I would consider not to be super cohesive. The other 17 I would say that you are missing a huge chunk of the music by not listening to the album as a whole.

 

[Geoff]

Agreed. So it basically comes down to what you listen to. I guess my comment was geared towards what I listen verse what most people listen to. I'm a huge prog rock dork so almost everything I listen to is made to be one cohesive product. Looking through what I consider my top 20 albums there are only 3 that I would consider not to be super cohesive. The other 17 I would say that you are missing a huge chunk of the music by not listening to the album as a whole.

Are you talking the major album rock bands of the 70's kind of progressive rock? Pink Floyd, Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Kansas, Boston, Electric Light Orchestra, ....

 

[ctenidae]

no ipod, mp3, pandora, etc. I even still use a single disc CD. I had a 400 disc changer at one point and spent a fair amount of time loading it and programming different genres, but I found I always ended up just using the single disc play function.

Me and this thread = Fail

This

 

[mondeo]

Agreed. So it basically comes down to what you listen to. I guess my comment was geared towards what I listen verse what most people listen to. I'm a huge prog rock dork so almost everything I listen to is made to be one cohesive product. Looking through what I consider my top 20 albums there are only 3 that I would consider not to be super cohesive. The other 17 I would say that you are missing a huge chunk of the music by not listening to the album as a whole.

I am more likely to turn shuffle off when listening to Tool than most other bands. And I'll sometimes string Cygnus X-1 and Cygnus X-1 Book II together.

And I listen to the enitre album, just randomly. When I first get a new album I'll listen through the entire thing a few times, and only after that I might stop listening to a few of the songs that I don't like, but won't exclude them from shuffle.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

#1. Pitbull featuring Lil Jon..Toma
#2. Nas,,,Underlying love
#3. 2-pac..I ain't mad at Ya
#4. 2-pac..Trading War Storys
#5 DMX..The Heat is On
#6. 2-pac..Life Goes On
#7. TI..What You Know About That
#8. E-40..Too Short..Jodeci..Players Ball
#9. Ciara/Petey Pablo.Goodies
#10. Snoop/Pac Gangstah Party..

My first time listening to my I-pizzle in almost a year

 

[Dr Skimeister]

I'd estimate that 90+% of my music collection is in the form of albums, as opposed to individually downloaded songs. I prefer to listen to entire albums and think of those collections as a vignette of what's going on with the artists' lives at the time the album was made. Most often there is no "concept" to the collection of songs, but artists choose to write or perform given pieces for reasons that only they themselves really know.

I keep my music in hard-copy form (CD, vinyl, tape) and then select songs that I rotate through on my iPod to listen to at the gym or riding the tractor doing yard work.

 

[awf170]

I'd estimate that 90+% of my music collection is in the form of albums, as opposed to individually downloaded songs. I prefer to listen to entire albums and think of those collections as a vignette of what's going on with the artists' lives at the time the album was made. Most often there is no "concept" to the collection of songs, but artists choose to write or perform given pieces for reasons that only they themselves really know.

Perfect explanation. I like you.

Are you talking the major album rock bands of the 70's kind of progressive rock? Pink Floyd, Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Kansas, Boston, Electric Light Orchestra, ....

Pink Floyd is the only 70's prog I listen to a lot. Everything else is from the mid 90's and up. IMO, the prog/experimental rock from the last 10 years blows almost everything from the 70's and 80's out of the water. (Yeah, that's right all you dedicated Rush fans. :uzi

 

[Greg]

I have an iPod which I have yet to load much onto. The satellite radio in the car has kept me entertained.

 

[jaywbigred]

I'm going to do 2 lists.

First list is 10 songs of random shuffle (on my 80 gig ZUNE!!!):

1.) Hustlaz Ambition - Young Jeezy
2.) Hard to Say - The Used
3.) Swing the Tambourine - Kristoffer Ragnstam
4.) War Hero - Antibalas
5.) So Begins Our Alabee - Of Montreal
6.) I Wish This Song Was Louder - Electric Six
7.) Jump N Shout - Basement Jaxx
8.) Read my Mind - The Killers
9.) Your Woman - White Town
10.) A Head with Wings - Morphine

Next list is the first ten songs I actually listened to without skipping forward (took 25 total songs to get 10 that i wanted to listen to):

1.) So Begins Our Alabee - Of Montreal
2.) I Wish This Song Was Louder - Electric Six
3.) Read my Mind - The Killers
4.) Your Woman - White Town
5.) Summerland - Everclear
6.) React - Erik Sermon
7.) Surprise Stefani - Dan Deacon
8.) To the End - My Chemical Romance
9.) Glide - Sim Redmond Band
10.) Hearts on Fire - Cut Copy

 

[Dr Skimeister]

Starting tonight with this:
She Lied-War Tapes; Rag Mama Rag [Live]-Little Feat; St. Jimmy-Green Day; Runaway-Del Shannon; Silver Wind-The Upsidedown; Looking At The Sun-Gramercy Arms; If Not For You -Bob Dylan; These Stones Will Shout-The Raconteurs; May Queen-Liz Phair; Fork In The Road-Neil Young

 

[severine]

This morning:

Green Day, "Emenius Sleepus"
Deep Blue Something, "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Stone Temple Pilots, "Pop's Love Suicide"
Sheryl Crow, "Oh Marie"
Brian Setzer Orchestra, "Jump Jive an' Wail"
Evanescence, "Hello"
Merril Bainbridge, "Spinning"
Green Day, "Having a Blast"
Evan Dando, "The Ballad of El Goodo"
Green Day, "Extraordinary Girl"
Green Day, "Homecoming: The Death of St Jimmy"

(I included #11 because I thought it was funny that it was like a continuance of Dr Skimeister's list above )

 

[Dr Skimeister]

Just a little bit of listen before I go fetch my daughter from work.....

Crosstown Traffic-Kings In Disguise
I'll Take You There-The Staple Singers
Insistor-Tapes 'n Tapes
Street Life-Roxy Music
Me & Mr. Jones- Amy Winehouse
Folsom Prison Blues-Johnny Cash
Bouree- Jethro Tull
Back In Denim-Denim
Dry Grass & Shadows-Alela Diane
Looking At The Sun-Gramercy Arms

 

[dmc]

Me & Mr. Jones- Amy Winehouse

I love this song... I hope she can stay F'd up long enough to release another good album..

 

[Dr Skimeister]

I love this song... I hope she can stay F'd up long enough to release another good album..

She used an excellent funk band as her back-up band on this album-The Dap Kings. Check out some of their own work or them backing up Sharon Jones for some primo funk.

 

[dmc]

Thanks for the heads up....Will check into them...