{"id":391,"date":"2006-07-14T13:15:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/14\/random-twenty\/"},"modified":"2006-07-14T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T13:15:21","slug":"random-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/14\/random-twenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My plan was to spend yesterday and this morning doing deep and substantive blogging while sidelined by a medical test. That sort of fell through, which means I get to spend an extra day in the lab, but also means you get lazy blogging. And what could be lazier than the classic &#8220;Random Tracks from iTunes&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>My recent listening has been dominated by live tracks from the KBCO discs posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jefitoblog.com\/blog\/\">jefitoblog<\/a>&#8212; there&#8217;s some great stuff there, check it out. For the sake of this, though, I&#8217;ll give you ten tracks from the four-and-five-star playlist, <strong>plus<\/strong> ten tracks from the entire music library, as a demonstration of why I usually use the four-and-five-star playlist for this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Random music below the fold:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Singing In My Sleep,&#8221; Semisonic. A song that is linked in my mind with being in Japan.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Far Away Eyes,&#8221; The Rolling Stones. &#8220;I was so pleased to be informed of this, I ran twenty red lights in His honor.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Find You At Last,&#8221; John Hiatt. Not my favorite Hiatt, but decent.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;One More Song The Radio Won&#8217;t Like,&#8221; Kathleen Edwards. Country-ish singer-songwriter stuff. The radio didn&#8217;t like it, but I do.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Idiot&#8217;s Revenge,&#8221; The Bottle Rockets. &#8220;She&#8217;s so political, so sophisticated,\/ She would swear in court that everything&#8217;s just overrated.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;1979,&#8221; Smashing Pumpkins. The album is a self-indulgent mess, but it has its moments.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;ll Come Running Back To You,&#8221; Sam Cooke. Classic, pioneering soul.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Starting To Hurt,&#8221; Ryan Adams. Off <cite>Demolition<\/cite>, somewhere between <cite>Gold<\/cite> and <cite>Rock and Roll<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?&#8221; Frank Zappa. Tasteful, as always.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rip This Joint,&#8221; The Rolling Stones. Off <cite>Exile on Main Street<\/cite> an album with almost no bad tracks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Switching the source to the entire library, we get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;All the Love That&#8217;s Wasted,&#8221; World Party\n<li>\n<li>&#8220;Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness,&#8221; Alabama 3<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Days Like This Keep Me Warm,&#8221; The Polyphonic Spree<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Story Of My Life,&#8221; Loretta Lynn<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;She Hates Me,&#8221; Puddle of Mudd<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What Would You Say,&#8221; Dave Matthews Band<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sing, Sing, Sing,&#8221; Benny Goodman &#038; His Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Starry Configurations,&#8221; Jets To Brazil<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Gates Of Eden,&#8221; Bob Dylan<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pencil Thin Mustache,&#8221; Jimmy Buffett<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You get no commentary with these, because I don&#8217;t even know some of these songs. One of these ten wasn&#8217;t even my purchase&#8211; Kate got it off iTunes (bonus points if you guess which one). And I cheated a bit&#8211; I hit &#8220;refresh&#8221; a few times before I came up with this list.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why the random track lists I do are rarely truly random&#8211; I&#8217;m not that familiar with my own music collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My plan was to spend yesterday and this morning doing deep and substantive blogging while sidelined by a medical test. That sort of fell through, which means I get to spend an extra day in the lab, but also means you get lazy blogging. And what could be lazier than the classic &#8220;Random Tracks from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/14\/random-twenty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Twenty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}