The virtues of an iPod in random mode

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watelessness

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apparently i have 8,548 songs on my iPod. this week i've been listening to it in random mode and have been treated to sweet pieces that i'd forgotten about. Today it was David Grissom's "Belly of the Beast". smdh. just an easy backbeat, an evil groove, and five and half minutes of solid tone.
 
It's all good until "Afternoon Delight" pops up....


Skyyyyy rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Aaa aaa afternoon delight!

just try to get that earworm outta your head...
 
rugerpc said:
Well, you might play it in your office. I only allow classic rock in mine.
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Is that to distract your patient's from the pain? Like how if you have a stomach ache and somebody punches you in the face your stomach doesn't hurt as much?
 
Another downside, though: any albums that are meant to be played contiguously, like DSotM or Misplaced Childhood, get chopped up into eety beety pieces. I used to rip them special, so that this wasn't a problem, but then you have to listen to a side at a time, and when you're in random mode, that's not always desirable. Although sometimes it is, but then when I pause something, I have a tendency to hit back arrow so that I start the song over, then I facepalm myself in those cases, as I probably would've just rewound a minute or so.

And something weird I noticed: I forget the name of the band, but there's one band that kept coming up -- and I have to be in a specific mood to listen to them, so always had to skip them. They were just too "down". Not Sun Kil Moon, but something like that. Most of the stuff I listen to is more or much more energetic than that.
 
rugerpc said:
It's all good until "Afternoon Delight" pops up....


Skyyyyy rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Aaa aaa afternoon delight!

just try to get that earworm outta your head...
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I'm with toothace - I love that song. Have since it came out. And I have the album, so there.

For the younguns who might not understand 1970s cheese...


With apologies to Sergio - I didn't mean to spark desire to have a guitar covered in that shirt material!

ETA: Holy cow - at about 2:00, that guy really looks like PRSh on a terrible hair day!
 
Dusty Chalk said:
No, I'm sorry, Paper Lace's The Night Chicago Died >> Christopher Cross' Sailing.
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Love ya Dusty but you're in the wrong there, anything by Paper Lace is..........well......

......Like I said, I can out-badmusic anybody.
 
Huggy B said:

Love ya Dusty but you're in the wrong there, anything by Paper Lace is..........well......

......Like I said, I can out-badmusic anybody.
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I grew up on those K-tel records and Top 40 Countdown with Casey Kasum. Now admittedly, my memory of "Billy Don't Be a Hero" is better than this rendition, I think to be fair, you have to compare studio rendition with studio rendition, because anyone can screw something up live, even Jim Morrison.

Outbad this:
Exacerbated by having bought the album based on the strength of "Still the One", and having the disappointment that the first song wasn't anywhere near as good, then the second one wasn't, and by the time you get to this track, you've developed that sinking realization that the whole album is pretty miserable, and you've bought a stinker.
 
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Dusty Chalk said:
I grew up on those K-tel records and Top 40 Countdown with Casey Kasum. Now admittedly, my memory of "Billy Don't Be a Hero" is better than this rendition, I think to be fair, you have to compare studio rendition with studio rendition, because anyone can screw something up live, even Jim Morrison.

Outbad this:
Exacerbated by having bought the album based on the strength of "Still the One", and having the disappointment that the first song wasn't anywhere near as good, then the second one wasn't, and by the time you get to this track, you've developed that sinking realization that the whole album is pretty miserable, and you've bought a stinker.
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Ah yes Grasshopper......I mean Dusty, :D....you might have up'd the ante with that cringeworthy track (although the short semi cool instrumental break kept me from blowing chunks:confused:)....

............But you must remember I'm the Shoalin master of cheese.

 
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