Friday iPod Random Ten

1. Fame and Wealth - Loudon Wainwright III
2. Malayisha - Havana Swingsters
3. Heaven (live) - Loudon Wainwright III 
4. When the Angels Fall - Sting
5. Arrow (live) - Cheryl Wheeler
6. If You Don't Want My Love - John Prine
7. Westchester County - Loudon Wainwright III
8. Spanish Bombs -  The Clash
9. Tundra - Casey Dienel
10. Something Real - Phoebe Snow

OK, I know I'm starting to sound like a broken CD, but Loudon Wainwright III comes up three times (or should that be III times?) out of ten, when in my iTunes library he has only 111 songs out of 3142? C'mon, I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday.

Comments

[Loren]

Do not argue with the ubiquity of Loudon!! Number 8 on your list makes me smile big... for whatever reason, as a guitarist, that simple chord progression puts me at ease.

[Nina]

I'm sure you've heard this explanation before, Karen, but random does not mean equally distributed. In fact, equally distributed (which is what we kind of expect when we think of the term "random") is exactly what random is not. Doesn't change the fact that we often, even if we LOVE Loudon Wainwright, don't want to hear 3 songs by the same artist so close together.

[Joel]

Ah...."Spanish Bombs". I'm going to dig out my vinyl copy of "London Calling" RIGHT NOW! Some songs lose something as an MP3 file. I need the snap, crack, pop of of the needle in the grooves.

[di]

I don't have a single one of those on my iPod...I do have some John Prine because Tracy Thompson (http://maternallychallenged.typepad.com/maternally_challenged/) told me that he rules, but not the one on your list.