I often get concurrent songs that seem non-random, such as when, on my drive from AL to TX Monday, I heard Camper Van Beethoven's "Interstellar Overdrive," followed by Syd Barrett's "Baby Lemonade," followed by The Television Personalities' "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives".
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Hayden - Oct 26, 2006 10:53:25 am PDT #4299 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
tommyrot - Oct 26, 2006 10:56:00 am PDT #4300 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Once I went to the student union with a friend to celebrate her 22nd birthday. Just as we were walking in, the jukebox had Dylan singing, "On your 22nd birtday...."
esse - Oct 27, 2006 12:07:17 am PDT #4301 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Heh, Numb3rs just did this on an episode. But this morning, I got 4 tracks by Zero 7 one after another. It totally suited my mood, but I'm always curious how that happens.
Fred Pete - Oct 27, 2006 3:54:55 am PDT #4302 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Not music-related, but when I was a kid, my neighborhood celebrated a birthday every day from August 4 through 9. All boys, all withiin 3-4 years of each other. Out of an entire elementary school (K-6) of maybe 200-250 students.
So that kind of odds-beating is far from unknown.
esse - Oct 27, 2006 4:28:13 am PDT #4303 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I love that our brains try desperately to see patterns in random behaviour. So interesting.
Sean, regarding your earlier question, one song that is now irrevocably linked in my mind with Supernatural is Kansas' "Carry on my Wayward Son" which I can no longer listen to (actually, I was never inclined to listen to it before, but now it has favored status on itunes, which really tells you something) without fist-pumping and imagining myself in the Impala with Dean the Winchesters. Talk about a song fitting another medium.
Sue - Oct 27, 2006 7:08:43 am PDT #4304 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Last night on my walk home, my iPod threw at me 2 South San Gabriel Songs and 2 Vic Chesnutt songs within 5 songs.
For a while, Liz Phair was coming up an awful lot on shuffle.
Then, this morning, as if it knew I was onto it, it threw up all kinds of songs that it never usually plays.
DavidS - Oct 27, 2006 7:51:41 am PDT #4305 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Speaking of Kansas, I was watching the video for Radiohead's "Street Spirit" the other day and noticed how similar it was in places to "Dust in the Wind."
In that same genre, a song which has been forever changed for me because of a media association (for the better) is Styx's "Come Sail Away" - thanks to Freaks and Geeks.
tommyrot - Oct 27, 2006 7:56:24 am PDT #4306 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Styx's "Come Sail Away"
How come there are no more humans-going-off-with-aliens pop songs? Why were there so many in the '70s? Besides "Come Sail Away" there was Neil Young's "After the Goldrush" and Klaatu's "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft."
Hayden - Oct 27, 2006 8:28:14 am PDT #4307 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
And BOC's "Stairway to the Stars". At least, I think that's what it's about.
Sean K - Oct 27, 2006 8:46:58 am PDT #4308 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Also, not to be forgetting Billy Thorpe's Children of the Sun.