MixTape #1 (UPDATED)

The premise is easy: I open up iTunes and hit "random". I write down the next 5 songs that play and hope that the results are

1) Interesting, and

2) Not Embarrassing

Here we go.

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1.

Artist: Portishead

Song: All Mine

Album: Portishead

Right out of the gate with that swinging, brassy intro.

Only gets better from there, too.

2.

Artist: Kanye West

Song: Through The Wire

Album: The College Dropout

Chaka Khan sample = David Foster writing credit = diamond nipple piercing for Brody Jenner

3.

Artist: guillemots

Song: Through the Windowpane

Album: Through the Windowpane

Great pop song on a great pop album.

Criminally under-appreciated.

Saw them live in Amsterdam.

The show was far better than my efforts to flirt with the bassist.

4.

Artist: Fiona Apple

Song: The Way Things Are

Album: When the Pawn...

No voice sadder. She unleashes at 3:08

The ellipsis after When the Pawn is a placeholder for over 400 characters of text.

It held the Guinness Record for Longest Album Title until 2007.

5.

Artist: Silverchair

Song: If You Keep Losing Sleep

Album: Young Modern

Kaleidoscope. Could you get any further from Frogstomp?

Album cover is an homage to Mondrian, one of my favourites.

Bottom Line: a fairly enjoyable 5-song run. Not stellar, wouldn't put it in a time capsule but it mixes some inventive, personally affecting stuff with a song by Kanye West.

chrstphr

UPDATED

So, I think Fun w/ iTunes would be more fun if you can hear the tracks I'm talking about. So, with a little internet digging I have found a way to upload this 5 song mix. Fingers crossed that it works AND that you dig.