Thursday 8 January 2009

Journey: another pointless list

Late last year I drove to a relative's funeral. The journey should have taken no more than 1h 45m both ways but there was a horrendous traffic jam on the way back which kept me stationary on the M25/A12 slip road. Apart from listening to Radio 4 while in the hold up, I had my iPod plugged into the stereo and set to shuffle for the whole journey. Below is a list of artists it decided to play. The first number relates to how many times it played that particular artist on one shuffle; the second number relates to how many tracks by that artist I have on my iPod. This selection was picked from 2836 songs by 367 artists.

Vampire Weekend - 1 - 11
The Fall - 4 - 51
Massive Attack -1 - 16
The Jam - 3 - 41
The Supremes - 2 - 25
Public Enemy - 1 - 18
XTC - 1 - 15
Lord Creator - 1 - 1
Gorillaz - 2 - 31
Roots Manuva - 3 - 46
The Birthday Party - 1 - 24
Gang Of Four - 1 - 17
The Young Knives - 1 - 12
Adam & The Ants - 2 - 25
Lou Reed - 4 - 91
Culture - 1 - 1
Elbow - 2 - 12
Meat Beat Manifesto - 2 - 27
The Beatles - 1 - 62
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 5 - 60
Blur - 2 - 18
The Ex - 1 - 14
Crass - 1 - 27
The Felice Brothers - 1 - 15
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - 1 - 14
Dino Perkins - 1 - 1
The Kinks - 2 - 54
Digitalism - 2 - 19
Bob Dylan - 1 - 34
Dr Alimantado - 2 - 14
Mark Stewart & The Maffia - 1 - 9
Steinski - 3 - 43
Hexstatic - 1 - 1
The Beat - 2 - 11
Chumbawamba - 1 - 25
Ken Boothe - 1 - 2
Toots & The Maytals - 1 - 1
David Byrne - 2 - 23
Thom Yorke - 1 - 19
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - 1 - 20
Beirut - 1 - 15
The Congos - 1 - 6
Squarepusher - 1 - 10
The Clash - 1 - 16
Leonard Cohen - 1 - 12
The Broken Family Band - 1 - 23
Tom Waits - 1 - 28
Sufjan Stevens - 1 - 43
The Damned - 1 - 15
Talking Heads - 1 - 41
Tricky - 1 - 25
Max Romeo - 1 - 4
The Specials - 2 - 31
The Upsetters - 1 - 14
Autechre - 1 - 20
Homelife - 1 - 1
Arab Strap - 1 - 20

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