Do the shuffle...

Usually I am an album guy. I prefer listening to albums from beginning to end. But from time to time I'll throw the Ipod on shuffle while doing cardio or something. Today was one of those days. Quite the list, check it out...

At Dawn They Sleep Slayer
Beyond The Realms Of Death Judas Priest
Blackhearts and Jaded Spades Tokyo Blade
Burn The Sun Virgin Steele
Chain Gang Woman Malice
Close My Eyes Forever (w/Lita Ford)Ozzy Osbourne
Coming Of Age (feat. Ted Nugent) Night Ranger
Creeping Death Metallica
Dark Wood Of Error Sepultura
Fuken Eh! Anvil
Gears of War Megadeth
God Of Thunder Death
Hammerhead Venom
Hangar 18 Megadeth
Hard Attack Accept
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due Megadeth
I Don't Call This Love [Album Version] Night Ranger
In Union We Stand Overkill
Juggernaut Of Justice Anvil
Killogy Overkill
Light Comes Out Of Black [Buffy Version] Halford
Motopsycho Megadeth
No Seed Of Mine Anger As Art
Party With The Animals [Album Version] Ozzy Osbourne
Powersurge Overkill
Revolution Accuser
Sins Of Omission Testament
South Of Heaven Slayer
Suicide Messiah Black Label Society
Time Keepers Lynch Mob
War Pigs Tesla
WashingtonNext (Live) Megadeth
Wrecking Crew Overkill
X-T-C U.D.O.
Zap City [Album Version] The Cult
Electric Rattlesnake Overkill
Locked in Chains Moshketeers

This list tells me I have too much Slayer, Overkill and Megadeth on my ipod. Haha!

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This list tells me I have too much Slayer, Overkill and Megadeth on my ipod. Haha!

Too much? Bah!! Never enough!!

I hate how when I do this it always picks a bunch of stuff I'm not totally in the mood for.

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

I hate how when I do this it always picks a bunch of stuff I'm not totally in the mood for.

This is what happens to me. I end up skipping song after song after song....so I might as well just pick out the darn album I want and listen to it.

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

I hate how when I do this it always picks a bunch of stuff I'm not totally in the mood for.

I hate when mine plays the same song twice within a 20 minute span. 500 songs to choose from and you played 'Daydream Believer' AGAIN? WTF?

I prefer the shuffle. The only thing I hate is when 2 songs which go together get split up -Savatage's Prelude To Madness/Hall Of The Mountain King for example. Prelude To Madness comes on and I want to hear the second part but on shuffle that ain't happening.

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Orion Crystal Ice wrote:
I hate how when I do this it always picks a bunch of stuff I'm not totally in the mood for.

That's me as well. Or I end up hearing a song and then decide I'd rather hear the whole album it's from. Too much of an album guy these days for the shuffle. It never lasts.

I Don't Call This Love by Night Ranger doesn't fit in.

My shuffle would make for some jarring listening, did a random in iTunes and ended up with this bizarre concoction...

Camel - Slow Yourself Down
Iron Maiden - Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
Red Garland - It Could Happen To You
Anthrax - Madhouse
John Coltrane - Dear Lord
King Crimson - The Letters (live)
Miles Davis - I Fall In Love Too Easily (live)
Gene Ammons - Body And Soul
Lou Donaldson - Snake Bone
Coroner - Der Mussolini
Gil Evans - Sunken Treasure
Pink Floyd - Lost For Words
Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth II
Voivod - Pre-Ignition
Bernard Herrman - Love Theme from Vertigo

here's what mine came up with:

Black Sabbath - Lady Evil
Grave Digger - Silence
Morbid Angel - Prayer of Hatred
Amorphis - The Smoke
Millenium - I Will Follow
Pentagram - Run My Course
Keldian - Plains of Forever
Dark - Fool
Rainbow - Snake Charmer
Arch/Matheos - Any Given Day (Strangers Like Me)
Rage - War of Worlds
Running Wild - Running Blood
Vanishing Point - Wake Me
Wadada Leo Smith - The Medicine Wheel: West
Enigma - Seven Lives
Limbonic Art - Darkzone Martyrium
King Crimson - Formentera Lady
Clearlight - Jungle Bubbles

Had the iPod on shuffle today while working and these songs were played.

Deep Purple - Almost Human
Lacuna Coil - Without Fear
Dimmu Borgir - Reptile
Lord Belial - Black Wings Of Death
Dream Evil - The Return
Alice Cooper - Simple Disobedience
Anthrax - Who Cares Wins
Stratovarius - Deep Unknown
Death Angel - When Worlds Collide
Dokken -Night By Night
Kiss - Dark Light
Overkill - Thanx For Nothin'
Rush - Rivendell
Bruce Dickinson -Back From The Edge
Black Sabbath - Wicked World
Iron Fire - Stand as King
Velvet Revolver - Slither
Anthrax - Time
Deep Purple - '69
Blue Öyster Cult - Hot Rails To Hell
Whitesnake - Forevermore [Acoustic]
Motörhead - Crazy Like A Fox
Whitesnake - Hit An' Run (2007 Digital Remaster)
Megadeth - Dread And The Fugitive Mind
Witchfynde - Big Deal
Megadeth - Head Crusher
Rainbow - Kill the King
Overkill - Damned
Don Dokken - 1000 Miles Away
Metallica - Ain't My Bitch
Sebastian Bach - Stuck Inside
Axel Rudi Pell - Only The Strong Will Survive
Kreator - Slave Machinery
HIM - Beyond redemption
Iron Maiden - Isle Of Avalon
Dangerous Toys - Bones In The Gutter
Susperia - Anguished Scream
Kreator - Riot Of Violence
Hammerfall - At The End Of The Rainbow (Live)
Bruce Dickinson - Killing Floor
Whitesnake - Adagio For Strato [Live]
Flotsam & Jetsam - Missing
Talisman - Hands Of Time
W.A.S.P. - Let It Roar
Alice Cooper - I'm So Angry
Elvira Madigan - Ribbons
Pantera - Strenght beyond strenght
Lemmy - Big River
Metallica - Mama Said
Celtic Frost - Circle Of The Tyrants
Whitesnake - Is This Love [Live]
Sencirow - Insidious Dimensions
Magnum - Road To Paradise (BBC)
Masterplan - Spirit Never Die
Iommi - Resolution Song
At The Gates - Primal Breath
Rhapsody - Lord Of The Thunder
Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
Savatage -Commissar
Stormtroopers Of Death - Sargent D And The S.O.D.
Candlemass - Solitude
Bruce Dickinson - The Magician
Blue Öyster Cult - Searchin' For Celine [Album Version]
Grip Inc. - Blood Of Saints
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Caprici Di Diablo
Kamelot - Forever
Iommi - Saviour Of The Real
Overkill - Stone Cold Jesus
Testament - Into The Pit
Gillan - John (Bonus Trk)
Saxon - Rock the Nations (Live At Hammersmith)
Whitesnake - Crying In The Rain
W.A.S.P. - The Invisible Boy
Unleashed - We Must Join With Him
Paul Di'Anno's Battlezone - Nuclear Breakdown
Alice Cooper - Love Should Never Feel This Way
Blaze Bayley - Evolution
Masterplan - Soulburn
Hellfueled - Face Your Demon
Overkill - Old School
Dream Evil - Lady Of Pleasure
Ted Nugent - Hibernation
Abstrakt Algebra - April Clouds
Britny Fox - Fun In Texas
Amon Amarth - As Long AsThe Raven Flies (Live)
Sepultura - Manifest
Candlemass - Gothic Stone
HIM - Venus Doom
Whitesnake - The Deeper The Love
Whitesnake - Steal Your Heart Away
M.O.D. - Override Negative
Faster Pu$$ycat - Jack The Bastard
Vader - Death Metal (Possessed)
Saxon - Red Alert
Sodom - Where Angels Die
Machine Head - Blood Of The Zodiac
Annihilator - City Of Ice
Iced Earth - Wolf
Metallica - Don't Tread On Me
Halford - She
Axel Rudi Pell - Holy Creatures

007 wrote:

I prefer the shuffle. The only thing I hate is when 2 songs which go together get split up -Savatage's Prelude To Madness/Hall Of The Mountain King for example. Prelude To Madness comes on and I want to hear the second part but on shuffle that ain't happening.

Yes, I hate that too. Any kind of intro that is supposed to set-up the next song is doesn't happen. Sometimes an intro segues into another cool tune though. It's happened to me before....but I can't think of a specific example.

I rarely listen to albums unless I'm driving, typically opting for shuffle all other times.

You can see my listening habits in my sig.

I could never listen on shuffle all the time, it would drive me nuts. I judge bands by albums and how well the songs work together to create something larger than their separate parts. I know most people don't care about "albums" any more, but I've been an album guy since the mid 70s so I don't see myself ever changing.

This is what I do 75% of the time in my car. I've got a 4 gig flash drive that I've filled up with a wide assortment of stuff from all genres. I like to put it on "random" and see what comes up. I do find myself hitting the skip button fairly often because as OCI said, sometimes it picks something I'm just not in the mood for.

My iPod on shuffle went like this:

The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Big World - The Brave
Download This Song - MC Lars
Get Ready For The War - Arnion
Suzy is a Headbanger - The Huntingtons
This is the Line - Demon Hunter
Get it Right - Authority Zero
Sister Wisdom - Guardian
Blood Still Stains - Brainstorm
Denial Revisited - The Offspring
Together Forever - Stryper
Hard To See - Five Finger Death Punch
RIP - Randy Rose
The Unforgiven - Metallica
Ignite - Fireflight
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture - Igor Markevich - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Break Me - Jesus Wept
Guns Guns Guns - The Guess Who
Refrigerator Car - The Spin Doctors
Just Reach Out - Petra
Simply - Pillar
Stuck on You - Elvis Presley
As I Shall be Raised - Mojo
Strung Out - Van Halen
Look Alive - Incubus

I love variety in my music but thats a little ridiculous! I almost never run on random for this exact reason. I tend to prefer albums

S.D. wrote:

I could never listen on shuffle all the time, it would drive me nuts. I judge bands by albums and how well the songs work together to create something larger than their separate parts. I know most people don't care about "albums" any more, but I've been an album guy since the mid 70s so I don't see myself ever changing.

I'm with you! I much prefer the album format!

The only times I end up listening to a whole album is if I just got it. After a few days I switch back to shuffle while I'm at work. Unless a song comes on and makes me want to listen to the rest of the album, then I'll switch. If I'm driving somewhere with my gf its on shuffle too but most of that time I'm skipping cause I know she'll laugh at certain songs because they are so "Cheesy". haha

007 wrote:

I prefer the shuffle. The only thing I hate is when 2 songs which go together get split up -Savatage's Prelude To Madness/Hall Of The Mountain King for example. Prelude To Madness comes on and I want to hear the second part but on shuffle that ain't happening.

I do that a lot and have that same problem. However, to avoid songs I'm not in the mood for, when I do that, I make a playlist of songs I want to hear. With my wide ranging tastes, shuffle is a godsend for variety. The only thing I hate is certain players that repeat several songs on longer playlists. Luckily the ones I've had in recent years don't have that problem.

I have become much more of an album person in recent years, but I always seem to attatch more to songs than albums. That's why filler doesn't bother me too much. If I like about 70-75% of an album, I consider it a keeper.

I like to listen to a full album, but if the music is on in the background while I'm working or whatever, I enjoy the variety of the shuffle!

Sutekh wrote:

I like to listen to a full album, but if the music is on in the background while I'm working or whatever, I enjoy the variety of the shuffle!

That's exactly how I am nowdays. I do more full albums than in the past but for long car trips, house cleaning, and various stuff (when I run out of radio podcasts) I prefer shuffling several songs from playlists that I pre make the day or so before.

Every day I'm shufflin':

Lost and Found by Prong
Child's Play by Carcass
The Demon's Name is Surveillance by Meshuggah
Creeping Death by Metallica
Broken, Beat, and Scarred by Metallica
Close the Door by Prong
Dethharmonic by Dethklok
Staring at the Light by The Living End
Fear by Disturbed
The Moor by Opeth
The Great and the Good by Napalm Death
Tom Sawyer by Rush
Psychopathy Red by Slayer

I prefer the shuffle since i pretty much never put full albums on my mp3 player (mainly for space considerations as i dont have that much room on it). Heres the first 10 that come up:

Green Day-She
Kix-Heartache
Megadeth-Black Swan
Europe-Cherokee
Foo Fighters-Times like These
Blind Guardian-Battlefield
Sum 41-Mr. Amsterdam
Meat Loaf-Everything Louder than Everything Else
Cheap Trick-Up The Creek
Petra-It Is Finished
Ultimatum-Heart of Metal

thejokeriv wrote:

S.D. wrote:

I could never listen on shuffle all the time, it would drive me nuts. I judge bands by albums and how well the songs work together to create something larger than their separate parts. I know most people don't care about "albums" any more, but I've been an album guy since the mid 70s so I don't see myself ever changing.

I'm with you! I much prefer the album format!

Ditto here

It's like watching a movie or reading a novel, gotta cover it from start to finish. However with other genre such as New Age, 80's Pop or Blues, I DO shuffle a lot.

With the shuffle on the home computer:

Bitter Sweet -King's X
Lovely Rita -The Beatles
Swarming Spirits -Tourniquet
The Riddler -Nightwish
Seven Cities of Gold -Rush
A Thousand Miles Away -Hoodoo Gurus
I Am Not Alive -Paramaecium
People -Oscar Peterson Trio
Ixtapa -Rodrigo y Gabriela
Battalions of Steel -Saxon
Sweet Jane -Lou Reed
Seek & Destroy -Metallica
My Ashes -Porcupine Tree
Aces High -Iron Maiden
The Spider -Kansas
Aqualung -Jethro Tull
Whispers of Dead Sisters -Virgin Black
Crossroads -Cream
Under Pressure -Queen
Another Hand/The Killing Hand -Dream Theater