iPod shuffle

I ought to use iPod shuffle more often. There’s enough weird stuff on my device, placed there by me or others, that some of the effects are pretty delightful.

The sequence that just hit was this…

*Billy Joel, Movin’ Out
*Digable Planets, Black Ego
*a 57-second snatch of advanced French conversation
*some James Ruskin (inhumane, dark techno drums)
*Disco Star Wars
*Led Zeppelin, Kashmir

If I don’t do shuffle, then I just end up beating the top of the playlist to death. Burial still dominates the very top of the playlist. In fact, one of the cuts from the second Burial album has double the plays of any other song on the iPod.

Another thing that gives me a kick on the iPod is the whole “Heavy Metal” soundtrack from 1982 or whenever that was. I never saw the film (too young to be allowed at the time and never felt the need to watch it later), and generally detest heavy metal music as a genre. But it’s pure comfort music… my brother had that album when it first came out, and it makes me feel 14 again, which is sometimes refreshing.

The Police have a similar effect on me. Though I realize that Sting is an unsalvageable pseudointellectual, they bring back a certain era that I miss once in awhile.