February 20, 2004
Spreading the Meme
Instructions:
Step 1: Open your MP3 [CD] player.
Step 2: Put all of your music on random.
Step 3: Write down the first 20 songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.
See lists here, here, here, here, and here.
I already put together one list (posted in the comments at hiphopmusic.com) but for fun, here's what I get second time around:
1. The Nonce - On The Road Again
2. Jazzanova - The One-Tet
3. Dr. Dre - Stranded on Death Row
4. The Beatles - Run For Your Life
5. The White Stripes - There's No Home For You Here
6. Curtis Mayfield - We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
7. Santana - Savor
8. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
9. The Nonce - On The Air
10. Jazzyfatnastees - Show Your Face
11. Nightmares On Wax - Dreddoverboard (DJ Food mix)
12. Outkast - Nathaniel
13. Tom Waits - Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)
14. Outkast - Intro (from Stankonia)
15. Nightmares On Wax - Survival
16. Bjork - I've Seen It All
17. Moby - Rushing
18. People Under The Stairs - We'll Be There
19. People Under The Stairs - E Business
20. Louis Armstrong - Hesitating Blues
Wow. Almost no jazz on this one. My first list had quite a bit more on it. Ah well. I'm realizing that the randomize function on my Rio Karma regularly places songs from the same artist near each other. That's ok though, since that's what random is all about, it just makes for slightly less interesting lists than when every song is by a different artist.
Kramer: Yeah, sure, he's a celebrity. Oh, yeah, they wear a lot of furs. They're desperate, insecure people.
Silvio: Yes, you are right. It's all about, me, me, me. Please, look at me! I am so pretty! Love me! Want me!
I only have 173 MP3s on my laptop, but I'll gladly play along -
Elephant Man – Dutty Boot Riddim
Double Dee and Steinski – Lesson 2
Cee-Lo – Closet Freak
Zack De La Rocha and DJ Shadow – March of Death
Wiley – Eskimo
Wiley – Freeze (Vocal Mix)
White Stripes – Fell in Love with A Girl
The Books – PS
TV on the Radio – Satellite
Snoop Dogg – From tha Chuuch to Da Palace
Aesop Rock – Hold the Cup
Ward 21 – Game
Young Guns – Can't Stop, Won't Stop
TV on the Radio – Mr. Greives
R. Kelly – Ignition (Remix)
Orphanage (Slug, Eyedea, Aesop Rock, Illogic, Blueprint, Sage Francis) – Freestyle (which I did not realize until just now is 51 minutes long and, thus, taking up precious space better devoted to No Limit singles)
Nu Shooz – I can't wait (12" Version)
Ying Yang Twins – Salt Shaker
Wiley – Avalanche
LCD Soundsystem – Beat Connection
Verdict? I have way too much Wiley (actually, Eskimo came up twice, I deleted one).
i think it has been the overwhelming consensus that everybody's list has been much more interesting than mine. i might need to try again.
It's ok if you're boring. :)
i'm so uncool, i don't even own an mp3 player.
Heheh.. surely you've got mp3s and winamp (or, better yet, Quintessential) though, right?