Ten on Tuesday: 10 random songs on the iPod shuffle setting

Yeesh.  I knew this would happen.  I haven't updated from iTunes (either ripped nor downloaded) in a Very Long Time.  So what you get is exercise music.  Book.  Classical music.  Be warned.

1.  K-klass, Don't Stop:  Exercise music from Shape M@agazine

2.  Adele, Set Fire to the Rain

3.  Bach, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis and Andras Schiff:  I love Kocsis for his early maturity and expression, and Andras Schiff, who bucks Steinway tradition by insisting on Bosendorfer pianos for his performances.  He usually brings his own.  

4.  Beethoven, Symphony #4 in B flat, Op #60, Lorin Maazel, Cleveland Orchestra

 

5.  Boyce, Symphony #6 in F, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concern:  Good, solid, melodious baroque repertoire.

 

6. JS Bach, Concerto in F minor, BMV 1056, English Chamber Orchestra

 

7.  Metamora, This Rush of Wings, A Winters Solstice II, Windham Hill

 

8.  Enya, Storms in Africa, Pt 2, Watermark

 

9.  Beethoven, Symphony #9 in D minor, Op 125, "Choral", Lorin Maazel, Cleveland Orchestra

 

10.  Anita Diamant, Red Tent, Chapter 05A, part 3

 

Shuffle is just shuffle.  These selections are not in proportion to the various genres that live on my iPod.  I love thinking about iPods.  No two will ever have the same music.  It is like human genetics in electronic form. Each iPod is born as a clean slate.  It develops depending on its parents.  It changes over time.  That is us.

 

Comments

[claudia]

That last part made me smile. Thanks for that! I don't have an iPod anymore (broke) and there isn't any music on my phone. I hope I'm not disqualified as a friend.

[Carole]

Your analogy about iPods and genetics is awesome and totally YOU. Also, love me some baroque.

[Angie]

A Winter's Solstice II. Such a great CD.

[Judy]

Love your analogy. Perfect and totally reasonable. Shuffle produced a strange conglomeration. Not something I would choose for myself. A reminder that I could do a bit of housekeeping.

[gayle]

Love your musing on the ipod!

[margene]

I love owning iPods. We have all the old varieties set up in rooms of the house, fully loaded and ready to play. Of course, you're right about parentage and development. To each his own. (However, I would enjoy listening to your mix.)

[Etherknitter]

You DID. On the way to Rhinebeck.

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[Chris]

Lovely shuffle. I find myself wondering what you would knit with those selections, at least the non exercise ones.

I miss my iPod. Turns out they really don't want a drink of water. iPad mini does the job and then some, but iPod was so much easier to tote around.