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.
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.
Posted by: claudia | Tuesday, December 09, 2014 at 02:54 PM
Your analogy about iPods and genetics is awesome and totally YOU. Also, love me some baroque.
Posted by: Carole | Tuesday, December 09, 2014 at 04:19 PM
A Winter's Solstice II. Such a great CD.
Posted by: Angie | Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 09:08 AM
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.
Posted by: Judy | Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 09:40 AM
Love your musing on the ipod!
Posted by: gayle | Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 10:28 AM
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.)
Posted by: margene | Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 10:28 AM
You DID. On the way to Rhinebeck.
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Posted by: Etherknitter | Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM
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.
Posted by: Chris | Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 09:17 PM