From Sampler to Sower

My friend and colleague, Todd Owens, recently had an interesting idea on his blog: set your iPod to random shuffle and list the first 15 songs that play.  Seemed like an interesting way to get a look into one’s musical tastes.  Of course, I put everything and anything on my 160GB iPod classic.  And given the fact that our youth ministry subscribes to YLO: the works from Interlinc, everything and anything ends up being a lot of things, many of which have nothing to do with my personal tastes.  (If they did, I can guarantee there wouldn’t be any KJ-52 albums on there.)  So I tweaked the challenge a little.  Here’s a random shuffle of the 197 songs in my “My Top Rated” playlist:

1. If You Just Hold Out by Marion Williams from Through Many Dangers
2. Not Afraid to be Me by Kendall Payne from Paper Skin
3. Memphis Blues by Louis Armstrong with Ella Fitzgerald from The Wonderful Duets
4. Stay in Touch by Waterdeep from Heart Attack Time Machine
5. Spotted Cow by Steeleye Span from The Collection: Steeleye Span
6. The Way You Make Me Feel by Paul Anka from Rock Swings
7. We’ll Be Together Again by Vincent Herring from The Days of Wine and Roses
8. The Entertainer by Scott Joplin from Scott Joplin: His Greatest Hits
9. My One and Only (Funny Face) by George Gershwin from George Gershwin: American Master
10. The Glory of Jah by Sinead O’Connor from Theology
11. Your Cheatin’ Heart by Hank Williams from The Hank Williams Story
12. Unbelievable by Downhere from Wide-eyed and Mystified
13. The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding from Remember Me (Incidentally, my favorite song of all time. Glad it made the shuffle.)
14. So Many Reasons by Sarah Scharbrough from The Least of These
15. The Old Apartment by Barenaked Ladies from Live from E-town: Barenaked Ladies

How’s that for ecclectic?

And should you decide that you too want to be as cool as me, you can ourchase most of the playlist for your iPod as an iMix from the iTunes store.  Or, if you’re a smarter music consumer, you can get 11 of 15 of these songs from eMusic for far cheaper.