February 2005

Random K-Tel Compilation Generator

February 2, 2005

A fun exercise: put your computer’s music player on shuffle and list the first 10 songs you get. Here’s the first one mine generated:

  1. Two Of A Kind, Workin’ On A Full House – Garth Brooks
  2. I Wish I Didn’t Love You So – k.d. lang
  3. You Say You Will – Trisha Yearwood
  4. Love Letters – Diana Krall
  5. English Lesson (Remix) – DJ Format
  6. Baby We Got a Date (Rock It Baby) – The Wailers
  7. I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
  8. Who Will The Next Fool Be – Charlie Rich
  9. Chemistry – Semisonic
  10. El Paso – Grateful Dead

Not quite as varied as I would have expected. For some reason, it came up very country-oriented—even the Dead song is a cover of Marty Robbbins, fer cryin’ out loud. I have to respectfully disagree with Bump.net about the Carpenters destroying hip credibility, though (and not just because I love to belt out “Rainy Days and Mondays”). I think the Carpenters may be on the verge onf another round of postmodern ironic reappropriation, at least judging from the reactions at my local karaoke bar.

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