What Goes On...

I've written before about the ITunes Genius.  It does require uploading your musical tastes to a central database, but hey, I'm already on the HUAC and no-fly list, so giving Apple some of my data seems like small blue M&Ms, right?  For a while, Genius would get stumped by obscure music, but it seems to be getting better.  This afternoon, it came up with this (check out the initializing song:  Byron, by the Mekons.  Back when they were so punk, one chord was too many).

1. Byron, The Mekons
2. What Goes On, The Velvet Undreground
3. Powderfinger, Neil Young and Crazy Horse (live)
4. Satisfaction (I Can't Get No), Devo
5. Fearless, Pink Floyd
6. A Forest, The Cure
7. Lips Like Sugar, Echo and the Bunnymen
8. Cars, Gary Numan
9. Gold Lion, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. Icky Thump, The White Stripes
11. rosanne, The Mekons
12. Pictures, Galaxie 500
13. Conduit For Sale, Pavement
14. 'Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram), Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three
15. In Between Days (The Cure)
16. Whip It, Devo
17. Space Oddity, David Bowie
18. Work All Week, The Mekons
19. We Love You, The Psychedelic Furs
20. Fable Of The Brown Ape, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
21. Poledo, Dinosaur Jr.
22. Here Comes Your Man, The Pixies
23. Here Comes A City, The Go-Betweens
24. The Killing Moon, Echo And The Bunnymen
25. Certain Songs, The Hold Steady

Now that's a playlist I can relate to.  How do you pigeonhole that, Zelmo?  But I'm telling you, three glasses of whine and a pretty good day, it sound just fine sittin here.

Well played, iTunes, well played indeed.

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