Here's a weird idea for a "list" that I got "tagged" on from my brother-in-law on Facebook:

(1)Turn on your iPod/iTunes/mp3 player.
(2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.
(3) Write down the first 15 songs that come up--song title and artist--NO editing/cheating, please.

Let's see what kind of odd songs show up. I'll do mine first:

15 Songs:
1. Deep Well Of Horror - The Tree
2. Astral Luminous - Astral Luminous
3. The Axis Of Perdition - Grief of the Unclean I
4. Keith Merrow - Cetus
5. Nortt - Af Døde
6. Dissection - Beyond The Horizon
7. Xerath - Interlude
8. Mournful Congredgation - Suicide Choir
9. Urgehal - Image Of The Horned King
10. Moss - Gate III, Devils from the Outer Dark
11. The Axis of Perdition - Pendulum Prey
12. Deep Well of Horror - The Maggots
13. Urgehal - The Night Armageddon Comes
14. Jaime Heras - The Trifid Nebula
15. Queens of the Stone Age - Hangin' Tree

Interesting...

Here's what I got through iTunes DJ:

NIN - Head Like A Hole
At The Gates - The Scar
Sodom - Unwanted Youth
Code - The Cotton Optic
Dissection - Retribution - Storm of the Light's Bane
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (live)
Autopsy - Deathtwitch (live)
Massgrav - Fan Så Lurad
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Geminni - Tarantism
Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness (live)
Marduk - Deathride
Enslaved - Suttungs Mjød / Perkulator
Death - Misanthrope
Behemoth - Chwala Mordercom Wojciecha
Sodom - The Enemy Inside

That's not a bad playlist.

Curious. Let's see...

Bogus Blimp - 'No Cords.No Wires'
Radiohead - 'House of Cards'
Ulver - 'EOS'
Khold - 'Forrykt'
Darkthrone - 'Straigthening sharks in heaven'
Gojira - 'Wolf down the Earth'
Solefald - 'Mont Blanc Providence Crow'
Age of Silence - 'The green office and the dark desk drawer'
Bergraven - 'Fasa'
Woburn House - 'Omega'
Darkthrone - 'Man tenker sitt'
Code - 'Jesus Fever' (wonderful, sometimes I love shuffle)
Gojira - 'A sight to behold'
Khold - 'Rekviem'
Virus - 'Road' (wonderful ending)

A lot of things got out of it, like DÄJSÄD, Two Trains, Nooumena, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Zu, Xploding Plastix, Espen Jorgensen... actually almost all of the less metal stuff got out. Maybe will try later without changing the albums on it.

Contributing...

01 Burst - We Are Dust
02 Pink Floyd - What Do You Want From Me?
03 Keep Of Kalessin - A New Empire's Birth
04 Satyricon - That Darkness Shall Be Eternal
05 Secrets Of The Moon - Ordinance
06 Disillusion - The Hole We Are In
07 Code - Brass Dogs
08 Abigor - Lair Of Infinite Despair
09 Darkthrone - Neptune Towers
10 Gojira - Adoration For None
11 Blind Guardian - Out On The Water
12 Opeth - Windowpane
13 Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
14 Virus - Intermission: Ocean Highway
15 Behemoth - Lucifer

By the way, does everyone have an iPod? I hate those things, too bad sound for the price they have. I bought a Sansa Clip and I'm very happy with it, soundwise, volumewise and pricewise. And it supports flac.

Has anyone seen Steven Wilson 'interacting' with iPods?

I don´t have ipod and never heard a music from, but I am not sure about the quality.

1. Rain Tree Crow - Blackwater
2. Olafur Arnalds - 1440
3. Boards Of Canada - I Saw Drones
4. Death In June - Lifebooks
5. Archive - Last Five
6. David Sylvian - The Good Son
7. Crustation - Hey
8. Reigns - Tup's Fold
9. Musk Ox - Entre La Terre Et Le Ciel
10. Boards Of Canada - Music Is Math
11. Satyricon - Wolfpack
12. Morte Macabre - Threats Of Stark Reality
13. Nadja - Radiance Of Shadows
14. Boards Of Canada - Gyroscope
15. Klabautamann - October

I still don't have an iPod or an official portable mp3 player - I still listen to music on my CDs, or my computer. But I use iTunes on both the "family" computer and my laptop.

I've heard a few things on my friends' iPods, and the sound quality is fine. Nothing special, but perfectly good for playing mp3s.

01) Orplid - Bruder Luzifer
02) Dead can Dance - Enigma of the Absolute
03) Depeche Mode - Freestate
04) Anathema - Regret
05) Ulf Soderberg - Den Viskande Solen
06) Stille Volk - Invocation à Pan
07) Canaan - In un Cielo di Pece
08 ) Primus inter Pares - Gerda
09) Aphrodisiac - Paintbrush
10) Joy Division - Day of the Lords
11) Tenhi - Tuuli Varista
12) Earth - Miami morning coming Down II (Shine)
13) Werkraum - Beyond the Evening Star
14) Manes - Diving with your Hands bound (nearly flying)
15) Empyrium - Heimwärts

I end many evenings with a (long) stroll in/around town and an mp3-player filled with mood-music is always much appreciated

The above is a fraction of this evening's playlist...

Ok, so here it is:

1. FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - Paradise Regained
2. MORBID ANGEL - Doomsday Celebration
3. KING CRIMSON - Three of a Perfect Pair
4. MORBID ANGEL - Unholy Blasphemies
5. KING CRIMSON - Coda: Marine475
6. KING CRIMSON - Neal and Jack and Me
(worst shuffle mode ever?)
7. SUMMONING - Master of the Old Lure
8. MORBID ANGEL - Desolate Ways
9. MORBID ANGEL - In Remembrance
(come on!!!)
10. KING CRIMSON - VROOOM VROOOM
11. MAGMA - De Futura
12. MAGMA - Udu Wudu
13. SEWER ELECTION - Mot döden 2
14. VIRUS - Carheart
15. KATHARSIS - Reckoning

So out of 209 tracks, 13 are MORBID ANGEL. Worst shuffle mode ever! (said in a comic book store guy-voice.)

I got most of my music on CD and didnt bother to put most of it on the computer so most of the tracks itunes will name are either of music not good enough to be bought or of stuff i put on there while I still cared... (and of course some great free to download albums)
anyway:
The Doors - The Spy
Pink Floyd - Pigs on the wing pt.1
The polyphonic Spree - Section 13 (Diamonds/Mild Devotion To Majesty)
Paradise Lost - Once Solemn
Carrier Flux - Serpent
Shpongle - Monster Hit
Head Control System - It Hurts
Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
Frittenbude - Hildegard
Placebo - Special K
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy Diamond pt 1
Kyuss - Gloria Lewis
Mayhem - Funeral Fog
Paradise Lost - Daylight Torn
Porcupine Tree - Baby Dream in Cellophane

I decided to comment mine because who wants to read a list of random songs.

Novembers Doom - Suffer the Red Dream (I don't think I've ever even listened to this before--sounds ok)
Art Zoyd - 2eme expérince de vol (nice piano ramblings)
Blut Aus Nord - The Plain Of Ida (pretty good)
Evanescence - Cloud Nine (make fun of me all you want--she has a great voice)
Deeds of Flesh - Feeding Time (great typical Deeds song)
Common Yet Forbidden - The Struggle (another I haven't listened to before--decent melodic death metal)
Harmonious Wail - Bossa Dorado (great gypsy jazz--I think this is a Django song)
Ekklesiast - Stars of Your Sky (cool Russian death-doom)
Unholy Matrimony - Fragment Quatrieme (haven't listened to this yet either, but it's vladimir cochet stuff)
von Zamla - After Smrt (haven't listened to this either--a sammla manaamas maaaaannas (or whatever) incarnation)

[flood]
1. In Flames - Reflect The Storm
2. Pakito - Living on Video
3. Rammstein - Te Quiero Puta
4. Alice in Chains - Check My Brain
5. Oomph! - Brennende Liebe
6. Theatres des Vampires - My Lullaby
7. Burzum - Der Weinende Liadnur
8. Summoning - Ungolianth
9. Slipknot - Confessions (it's from the MFKR album)
10. Theatres des Vampires - Bring Me Back
11. Nightcreepers - Les Plaines de Hel (a band from my town ! awesome fok metal)
12. Venus Portal - Pictures on Pictures (my band's drummer old psychedelic rock band)
13. Negura Bunget - Uprising Follow
14. Clint Mansell - Last Man (from "The Fountain" soundtrack)
15. La Rue Ketanou - Exil
[/flood]

EDIT : out of 3017 tracks ^^

From winamp, since I don't know where shuffle is on my mp3 player

01) Machinae Supremacy - Winterstorm
02) Thinking Plague - Maelstrom
03) Zu - Villa Belmonte
04) Le Grand Guignol - The Healing Process
05) Machinae Supremacy - Edge and Pearl
06) Eluveitie - Sacrapos - The Disparaging Last Gaze
07) OSI - Free
08) Eyvind Kang - Ros Respertinus
09) Ayreon - The Castle Hall
10) Shining - Langtar Bort Fran Mitt Hjarta
11) The Mothers of Invention - I'm Not Satisfied
12) Ruins - Pallaschtom
13) The Mothers of Invention - Later That Night
14) Octopus - Part 3: VI - I - VII
15) Messer Chups - Satan Jeans

Song n. 666 is = Devin Townsend - Bad Devil

since I should be working on my degree essay, I'll waste my time doing this (again!).

1. peter hammil - (no more) the sub-mariner
2. master'sh hammer - typograf (first track of their new album, great & weird stuff!)
3. autopsy - critical madness (rotten death metal supremacy!)
4. peter hammill - the comet, the course... (again the Van Der Graaf Generator vocalist playing around with his spinett on this solo album from... 1973?)
5. seviss - peste (harsh thrashing blackmetal from the black legions... french evil!)
6. furze - demonic order in the eternal fascist's hall (norwegian satanic madness)
7. peter hammill - tapeworm
8. vlad tepes - massace song from the devastated lands (black legions again, epic black metal fantasies!)
9. master's hammer - tympan (again frmo the new album)
10. master's hammer - kazdy Z nas (from their debut Ritual)
11. autopsy - pagan saviour (again! slaughter!)
12. krzysztof penderecki - utrenja II: the resurrection of christ (x-mas gift from my girlfriend... polish post-modern christian angst)
13. voivod - macrosolutions to megaproblems (prog-thrash, first AGM album? almost!)
14. autopsy - disembowel (still from their debut Severed Survival)
15. master's hammer - zapalili jsme onen svet (from Ritual again, furious old Czech black satanism)

as you can see, my mp3player wants me to listen to Master's Hammer, Peter Hammill, Autopsy and the Black Legions. and I can't blame it!