{"id":835,"date":"2005-01-14T23:26:17","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T03:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/14\/the-itunes-shuffle\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T19:58:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T23:58:30","slug":"the-itunes-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/14\/the-itunes-shuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"The iTunes shuffle."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>This is fun:  open up iTunes, hit shuffle, and list the top ten songs that appear:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Terrible Lie &#8211; Nine Inch Nails<\/li>\n<li>Sunday Sun &#8211; Beck<\/li>\n<li>Saturday Night&#8217;s All Right for Fighting &#8211; Elton John<\/li>\n<li>Where the Streets Have no Name &#8211; U2<\/li>\n<li>Around the World &#8211; Red Hot Chili Peppers<\/li>\n<li>It Ain&#8217;t Me Babe &#8211; Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash<\/li>\n<li>Gunshy &#8211; Liz Phair<\/li>\n<li>Atonement &#8211; Lucinda Williams<\/li>\n<li>Hey Baby &#8211; No Doubt<\/li>\n<li>A Heart in New York &#8211; Simon and Garfunkel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that was interesting, but not incredibly descriptive of my musical taste for some reason, so I hit refresh, and this is the new list that appears:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wooden Heart &#8211; Elvis Presley<\/li>\n<li>The Holiday Song &#8211; the Pixies<\/li>\n<li>Birdhouse in Your Soul &#8211; They Might Be Giants<\/li>\n<li>Angie &#8211; The Rolling Stones<\/li>\n<li>Pinhead &#8211; The Ramones<\/li>\n<li>Perpetual Blues Machine &#8211; Keb Mo&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Solitude &#8211; Billie Holiday<\/li>\n<li>New Times &#8211; Violent Femmes<\/li>\n<li>To Here Knows When &#8211; My Bloody Valentine<\/li>\n<li>3 the Hard Way &#8211; The Beastie Boys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Great.  Well now it just looks like a mid-nineties power playlist from WDRE (the now-defuct, awsomest alternative rock station that ever existed in the NYC region, back when alternative rock was still, well, alternative).<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I own every Eminem album, every White Stripes, almost every REM, every Barenaked Ladies, the entire Clash on Broadway box set, and a whole lot of Madonna, yet none of them had even one song on either of the lists.  It&#8217;s just weird.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love all of this music, that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s all on my iPod.  But my iPod clearly has a preference for the folk and blues-based rock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is fun: open up iTunes, hit shuffle, and list the top ten songs that appear: Terrible Lie &#8211; Nine Inch Nails Sunday Sun &#8211; Beck Saturday Night&#8217;s All Right for Fighting &#8211; Elton John Where the Streets Have no Name &#8211; U2 Around the World &#8211; Red Hot Chili Peppers It Ain&#8217;t Me Babe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[8,19],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-dt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}