Good idea!

Rival Schools~'Used For Glue'
Yo-Yo Ma- 'Ecstasy Of Gold'
Stina Nordenstam-'Dynamite'
Mogwai~'Half-Time'
Arab Strap~'New Birds'

Havent heard that song in yonks, great tune!

I don't own an iPod (and never will) but I put my cassette player (actually my computer) on random and got....

1. Band of Horses - Is there a ghost?
2. Echogram - Ophelia
3. Prefab Sprout - Looking for Atlantis
4. The New Pronographers - Failsafe
5. Autamata - Music's all we Need

Haven't got an iPod here, so I'll just stick windows media player on Random..

Modeselektor - The wedding toccata theme
New Order - Shellshock
New York Dolls - Endless Party
Mouse on Mars - catching butterflies with hands
Nightmares on Wax - Finer

cool! Do Creative players count?!?

1. Neil Diamond "Crunchy Granola Suite"
2. Pavement "Heaven's a Truck"
3. Brakes "Ring a Ding Ding"
4. Marvin Gaye "Hitch Hike"
5. Marvin Gaye (again) "A Funky Space Reincarnation"

good steam

1. Frank Black - Parry the Wind High, Low
2. Cold War Kids - Red Wine, Success!
3. The Beatles - Savoy Truffle
4. Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes
5. Big Star - Oh My Soul

PQ

1. The Casanovas - Livin In The City
2. Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
3. Buffalo Tom - Your Stripes
4. The Beatles - From Me To You
5. Paw - No Such Luck

Wouldn't exactly say that represents me exactly, the shuffle function tends to turn up some very rarely played tunes...

Right, that last list was from my work laptop which only has 2GB of stuff on an SD card. This one is from Home PC so should be more interesting

1. Moby - look back in

Not a great start

2. Georgie James - Need your Needs

I've never listened to this before, downloaded it as part of the SXSW 2007 Torrent, it's pretty unspectacular *delete*

3. Blessed Ethel - Fat Star

Never listened to this one either, singer sounds a bit like Justine Frischmann from Elastica, I have no idea where this came from.

4. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues

Yay! something recognizable

5. The Field Mice - when you sleep

Another one I've not listened to yet, but at least I actually deliberately purchased this. Too many MP3s, not enough time!

Mighty stuff.......here goes the auld creative Zen top 5 countdown
And I didn't cheat or anything!!!!!

1. Radiohead - Sulk
2. Willy Mason - Oxygen
3. Massive Attack - Special Cases
4. Smashing Pumpkins - Today
5. The Roots - Ain't Sayin' Nothin' New

This could go either way....haven't updated my iPod in a while despite having lots of new stuff.

1. Fall Out Boy - Bang the Doldrums. (Oh good lord. Never let a fifteen year old anywhere near your PC)
2. Manic Street Preachers - My Guernica. This sounds horrible, crap album mostly.
3. Pixies - Hang Wire. That's better.
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Turn Into. Great Track
5. Midlake - In This Camp. Twee, but I like them..

Seeing Eye Dog - Mark Eitzel
Waiting For The Universe - Pernice Brothers
Dog's Got A Bone - The Beta Band
Tomrrow's World - Looper
(Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads

1. Do do wap is strong in here, Curtis Mayfield

A strong start.

2. The Mother, Xavier Rudd

One of the very few Aussie blues and roots acts allowed on my Creative Zen. The only one in fact.

3. Lilac Wine, Jeff Buckley

So far so good

4.Modern Romance, Yeah yeah yeahs

Hidden tracks on the end of an album are the enemy of MP3 players!!!

5. Lawernce, Ks, Josh Ritter

A bit of a throw back but still a good tune.

Great idea for a thread by the by.

I love this song, the lyrics crack me up, every time.

Very cool idea...

Only have a subset of my tunes on the iPod, so here goes..

1. The Wedding Present - Heather (Seamonsters)

2. Retribution Gospel Choir - Take Your Time

3. Cocteau Twins - Because of Whirl-Jack (Lullabies to Violaine)

4. British Sea Power - A Trip Out (Do You Like Rock Music)

5. Casino Versus Japan - Medery (Go Hawaii)

1. Super Extra Bonus Party - 'Softly'
2. Your Infamous Harp - 'Peach Bush Chop'
3. Wolfmother - 'Pleased To Meet You'
4. Babyshambles - 'The Lost Art Of Murder'
5. Kanye West - 'Flashing Lights'

No cheesy stuff yet, or is everyone "forgetting" to mention that track from Abba Gold they skipped.

i shuffled through the next dozen or so, some right clinkers there inc bat out of hell, once a country man, always a country man

PQ

1: PJ Harvey - This is Love
2: Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces
3: Paul Weller - Wild Wood
4: Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
5: Diana Ross - Chain Reaction

Surprising all songs I love and am not ashamed of....!

Lemon Jelly - Elements
Interpol - Last Exit
Grant Lee Philips - You're a Pony
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Therapy? - He's not that kind of girl.

As if - ABBA rule!

I have a strict 'no cheese' policy when downloading or ripping tracks to iPod. Each track has to be genuinely good and stand up to repeated plays, so only the 'cream' of each album is ripped (two dairy analogies there - woo-hoo!), no crappy songs, no cheese, no songs that make you reach for the skip button. I suppose it's good to have some 'cheese' on your Ipod as some people don't like to put all their 'eggs in one basket' but that's not me. I don't want to be 'milking' the dairy theme here but listening to my all time favourite tracks on my iPod I feel like the 'cat that's got the cream'. Ok, I'll stop now.

But doesn't that feel a little homogenised? baddum-tsh!

Ah I know what you're getting at, I don't have an iPod, because I'd rarely ever use it. I listend to music in three places, home, where I have proper speakers, work, where I have my own private office and don't need headphones, and the car, which has a stereo which plays MP3s of memory cards or USB sticks.

The only place I'm selective about playlists is choosing stuff for the car, because it's a convertible and everyone else can hear what rubbish taste I have in music. I mean the hairdresser jokes are bad enough without having girls aloud blasting out...

you have a convertible? Drinks are on Binokular!

Haha, Er, I would, but thats where all the money went...

It's eight years old too, saying you have a convertible sounds impressive, but in reality cost less than many peoples little hatcbacks. Ssssh! don't tell anyone...

I'm holding out for a DeLorean, myself.

The closest I'll get to a DeLorean is the new Neon Neon album......

You're probably better off to be honest...

Don't wanna wee all over Unas 80s fantasy, but they're supposed to be sorta pants. Google John Delorean though, possibly one of the most rock'n'roll stories in car making. Underdog kid done good, drugs, conspiracy, it's got everything.

Er.. ok...we were supposed to be talking about iPods or something?

Sack that !

Rivers coumo - longtime sunshine

belle&sebastian - expectations

the postal service - we will become silhouettes

Jens lekman - shirin

Andrew bird - cataracts

1. Love Stoned - Justin Timberlake
2. I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
3. Live High - Jason Mraz
4. Chariot - Gavin DeGraw
5. Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson

1. Triple Trouble - Beastie Boys
2. Movin' On - Blur
3. If U Must - 8Ball
4. Sun In My Mouth - Björk
5. Future Proof - Massive Attack

Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Prince - Dolphin
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Republic of Loose - I.R.I.I.S.H
Prince - When Doves Cry

Not sure why it's only picking from R and P mind!

It's been a while, so lets try this again

Beat Happening - The Fall
Eve Massacre - Musicsweethearts (thats the filename, unsure what the proper title is, beach boys/fatboy slim/other mashup thingy)
Bob Marley and the Wailers - 400 years
B. Fleischmann - Isdj
Kiki - Sirius

Im afraid of what ill reveal
The way it is - The Strokes
Cretin Hop - The Ramones
Transcendental meditation - The Beach boys
Everlong - The Foo Fighters
See what you wanna see - The Futureheads

woo not so bad

The Beach Boys - Getcha Back
Cast - Four Walls
Space - Spiders
Thin Lizzy - Still In Love With You
Guns N' Roses - It's So Easy

Think I mostly got off the hook there, cos there's definitely some rubbish on my Ipod. With 80 gigs to fill you find yourself nosing through the parents and siblings s**te music collections. Some Christmas tunes in there as well.. Morto...

over 'fore it started - ceasers palace
the rat - the walkmen
star spangled banner - jimi hendrix
crush - smashing pumpkins
girl of my dreams (acoustic) - beck

and the wife's......

if you can dream - disney princesses
here comes your man - pixies
be yourself - morcheeba
when a man loves a woman - percy sledge
slavonic dances, op. 46 no.1 in c - katia & marielle labeque (emmmm)

Sure why not, I already have the yoke on shuffle from the ipod fortune teller thread

1. Phony Rappers: A Tribe Called Quest

2. It Ain't Me Babe: Bob Dylan

3. It Could Be You: Blur

4. Dance Hall: Modest Mouse

5. Held: Smog