{"id":2209,"date":"2008-01-22T09:19:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T09:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/22\/whoosh-goes-the-randomizer\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T09:19:30","slug":"whoosh-goes-the-randomizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/22\/whoosh-goes-the-randomizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoosh Goes the Randomizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not organized enough to make this a regular feature, or to use it to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/catdynamics\/2008\/01\/ipod_iching_icy_frontiers.php\">divine the future<\/a>, but every now and then, I get a really good run of songs on the iTunes shuffle, and make a note. Here&#8217;s a batch from this weekend (with a smattering of comments):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;White Russian Galaxy,&#8221; The Crimea<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Be Sweet,&#8221; The Afghan Whigs<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ain&#8217;t Wastin&#8217; Time No More,&#8221; The Allman Brothers Band<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Papa Was A Rodeo,&#8221; The Magnetic Fields <i>(You gotta love an ambiguously gay cowboy song&#8230;)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Check,&#8221; Rustic Overtones<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Right Next Door (Because of Me) (live at KBCO),&#8221; Robert Cray<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Total Eclipse of the Heart,&#8221; Bonnie Tyler <i>(Jim Steinman is a genius. Or maybe I&#8217;m just a child of the 80&#8217;s.)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Ghost of a Smile,&#8221; Pogues<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Good Morning Little School Girl,&#8221; Huey Lewis &#038; The News<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Gimme A Sign,&#8221; Ryan Adams<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Communique,&#8221; Dire Straits <i>(An underrated album)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Angel Leads Me On (live at KBCO),&#8221; Big Head Todd And The Monsters<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Cumberland Blues,&#8221; Grateful Dead <i>(A great band, when they play songs&#8230;)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;My Best Friends Girl,&#8221; The Cars<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Girl Take It Easy,&#8221; The Pietasters <i>(The live version is better)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;These Dreams of You,&#8221; Van Morrison<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Fool In The Rain,&#8221; Led Zeppelin <i>(Always reminds me of freshman year&#8230;)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Everytime I Look For You,&#8221; Blink-182<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Three Easy Pieces,&#8221; Buffalo Tom<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Peace Frog,&#8221; The Doors <i>(&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a wah-wah pedal, and I&#8217;m not afraid to use it!&#8221;)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not organized enough to make this a regular feature, or to use it to divine the future, but every now and then, I get a really good run of songs on the iTunes shuffle, and make a note. Here&#8217;s a batch from this weekend (with a smattering of comments):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}