You press the random button on your playlist, what are the first 5 songs that come up?

1 - in a cold sweat (james brown)
2 - pinnochio (wayne shorter)
3 - rocky mountain way (joe walsh)
4 - purple rain (prince)
5 - all the things you are (as bebop)

 

Didn’t actually do it - but based on recent commutes:

1) some Seven Mary Three - no, not Cumbersome. Probably Water’s Edge. Great Song.
2) Rage Against the Machine - pick one, it’s all good. Commerford is my Spirit Animal.
3) something Country (immediately skipped, and yes, I play in a country band) I’ve played it enough - you want me to actually listen to it????
4) Grunge of some sort. Probably Alice or Soundgarden.
5) Silversun Pickups - which I will belt out like your typical carpool karaoke bozo. If you have not heard this band - go do it. NOW.
6) something from Les Miserable. Don’t like it? Well then you are wrong.

Yes, that is 6. I’m a registered professional engineer - of COURSE I can’t count....

 

First try:
1. Clang Of The Yankee Reaper - Van Dyke Parks
2. The Heel - Eartha Kitt
3. Right Hand Man - Joan Osborne
4. Katie Cruel - Kathy Dalton
5. Loup Garou "Bal Goula" - Willy DeVille

Second try:
1. Show Biz Kids - Rickie Lee Jones
2. Holiday Time - Hildegard Knef
3. Buried Them In Water - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. Tallacatcha - Alvin Youngblood Hart
5. Egyptian Shumba - The Tammys

Third & last try:
1. Come Wander With Me - Bonnie Beecher
2. Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles
3. Rich Woman - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
4. Love Me Like That - The Wreckers
5. Temptation - Shelby Lynne

 

1. Get Down - SIX Original cast recording
2. Standing in the Rain - Billy Tallent
3. For Everyone Under The Sun. - Jimmy Smith
4. When the Levee Breaks - Zeppelin
5. Signed, Sealed, Delivered. - Stevie Wonder

 

Something from:

1. Tool
2. Rage Against The Machine
3. Alice In Chains
4. RHCP
5. Tool again

 

1. Bonfire - Childish Gambino
2. Anchor - Cave In
3. Into The Maze - Millencolin
4. Shine - Over It
5. Shadows Of Tomorrow - Madvillian, Quasimoto

 

Maggie May -RS
We Built This City -Starship
Rocket Man -EJ
No More Mr. Nice Guy -Megadeth's cover
Woke Up With Wood -ZZ Top

 

iTunes all song shuffle:

Chase is better than the catch-Motörhead
Come Monday-buffet
Raw power-Iggy & stooges
What’s going on-Marvin Gaye
Doggone Cowboy—Wylie & the wild west

 

1. Way Out Of Here (Porcupine Tree)
2. Power of Equality (RHCP)
3. My Soliloquy (Yellowjackets)
4. It's Just One Of Those Things (Incognito)
5. Subdivisions (Rush)

Weird combination.

 

1. Holy Thursday - David Axelrod
2. Ballicki Bone - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
3. Aoi Ame - Green Rain - DJ Krush
4. Dystopia - Bill Laswell
5. N.o.w. - Uptown Funk Empire

 

Since it is random, I have no idea.

 

I Wish - Stevie Wonder
Time Won't Let Me - The Outsiders
Ah Leah! - Donnie Iris
Rambling Gambling Man - Bob Seger
Highway Star - Deep Purple

 

1) The Sword -- Tres Brujas
2) Clutch -- Spacegrass
3) Black Sabbath -- Sweet Leaf
4) Journey -- Wheel in the Sky
5) Warren Zevon -- Lawyers, Guns and Money

 

I don't have a playlist...

 

This is kinda fun. Never used the "shuffle" setting before:

"Now Look At You" -- Pat McLaughlin
"Greensleeves" -- John Coltrane
"You Got The Silver" -- Rolling Stones
"It's All Up To You" -- Steve Earle & The Dukes
"Solar" -- Bill Evans Trio

Second try:
"The Man That Got Away" -- Bill Charlap
"Oasis" -- Dave Liebman
"Go On Down" -- Gillian Welch
"Encounter" -- Mike LeDonne
"Seasons" -- Bobby Hughes

Third try:
"California"-- Lucero
"Hot Burrito #1" -- Flying Burrito Brothers
"Yard Broom" -- The Skatalites
"Pretzel Logic" -- Steely Dan
"The Price of Love" -- Buddy Miller

 

I have daughters (7 and 9 years old).

So, here we go....
1) "The Way I Feel Inside" from the Sing soundtrack (Fingers girls love that movie)

2) Kidzbop version of "Tell Me You Love Me"

3) Kidzbop version of "FRIENDS"

4) "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" Police Live From River Plate Stadium

5) "Waiting For Your Love" - Toto

See? There's a couple in there for dad!

 

1) "Feelin Alright" - Stuff
2) "Billy the Kid: Celebration" - Aaron Copeland
3) "Rainbow Connection" - Kermit The Frog
4) "Nutshell" - Alice in Chains
5) "Getting Ready to Get Down" - honeyhoney

I ran it twice
1) "I Remember Jeep" - George Harrison
2) "Wish That You Were Here" - Florence and the Machine
3) "Full Grown Boy" - Tom Petty
4) "Rattle That Lock" - David Gilmour
5) "So What" - Miles Davis

If I run random, I do not run playlists. I run my entire collection. I also refuse to change radio stations in a car and play both sides of every LP. Lot of good B-Sides out there. These were actually slightly less random than I expected. Quite a bit more diversity to be found in my iTunes than what you see here.

 

Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck
Inca Roads - Zappa
New Day Yesterday - Joe Bonamassa version
Tangled In The Web - Lynch Mob
Facing Hell - Ozzy

 

1. Harlequin - Weather Report
2. Blue Skies - Irving Berlin (I played the show once)
3. A Prayer - Kings Kaleidoscope
4. Mama, I Don’t Believe- The Avett Brothers
5. Box Full of Letters - Wilco

Trial 2: artists only.
1. Scott Mulvahill (check this guy out!!)
2. Tom Waits
3. As Cities Burn
4. The Wood Brothers
5. Emery