On Monday we asked you to record a shuffle from your own iPods; lo and they arrived. Four so far.
From Andy Carvin in Silver Spring, MD:
So what does this shuffle tell you about me? I actually listen to the world music discs I buy. … There’s also a bit of rock and classical (though thankfully none of it exposes the metal head I used to be in high school), including a sample from my father-in-law, which I’m sure would make him happy. When he passed away I was given all of his scores and recordings…
What’s funny about the shuffle is it captures some of who I am – the world music fan, the Tom Waits fanatic – but misses so much more. Still, the whole point of a shuffle experience is to get a small slice of a person’s musical taste, not a complete portrait. For that, you’d have to hear the other 2500 or so songs on my iPod. Then again, you’d be subjected to my enormous collection of Rush songs.
Andy Carvin, in an email to Open Source, January 23, 2007
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From Sir Otto:
I think it reveals my contuining search for kicks. The tunes in the past that got me high, and the new ones I’m just learning about. Chris is costing me money at the I tunes store. Brahms’ 3rd symphony, $16.99. Verdi’s Requiem, $19.99. Schubert’s B-flat piano sonata, $16.99. I listen and fall in love. I have to have them. It’s too easy. One click.
Sir Otto, in an email to Open Source, January 23, 2007
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From bicyclemark in Amsterdam:
I spend most of my waking hours listening to podcasts from as many countries and languages as I can ingest in one day in the hopes that Im learning new things. … Listening to my few seconds, it scares me as to how serious and boring it all seems. It makes me wonder how much fun Ive become at 27 years of age, though I swear there’s a bunch of wonderfully distracting comedy podcasts I also listen to religiously.
bicyclemark, in an email to Open Source, January 22, 2007
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And from Marc McElroy in Eliot, ME:
Then ANOTHER Bob Dylan – The iPod repeats an artist quite a bit I find. I do have a lot of Dylan, but a lot more Beatles, more CD’s than they put out, and they didn’t show up.
Mathew Sweet – a lesser known track that I can’t even recall, but sounds pretty there. What can I say, I was a college DJ in the early 90′s.
Marc McElroy, in an email to Open Source, January 22, 2007
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Keep ‘em coming. Details here.
Hey Thanks – That was fun to spy a slice of other’s iPods.
Speaking of shuffles, you might get a kick out of this iPhone parody:
http://www.mac-essentials.de/bilder2007/iphone-shuffle.jpg
my favorite part of my shuffles — when the go from Judy Garland to Art of Noise to Miriam Makeba to Patty Larking to Northern Lights to Yo Yo Ma to Spearhead to … chickens clucking…. I work in theater so I have sound effects as part of my Library. Sometimes they come in at just the perfect time.