my ipod has a sense of humour

do you ever feel like your ipod is having you on? sometimes the randomly generated playlist is just too genius to be mere.. well... randomness. i'm usually not a random kinda girl. i'm pretty serious about my music and what to listen to what i want to listen to. i rarely pick the shuffle option. i like to hear the music in the order that the artist intended it to be listened to.... some of them actually want to take you on a journey. the debate about song sequencing can get pretty passionate.

however, occasionally i just don't know what i want to listen to and let the random surprise me. often it will pick a song which will make me go to the album that song is on and all is right in my musical world again.

and then other times you get a sequence of songs you are just enjoying so much (for various reasons) that you just can't bear to tear yourself away. today was one of those days. for today i was treated to the following (and i am exposing my musical soul here, warts and all for you to see) :

golden years - david bowie (amazing to walk down the street to)
back in the u.s.s.r - the beatles (the airplane sounds were hilarious while i was on the bus as it sped down keele street)
butterfly (live) - david usher (an intense live song)
sailing - rod stewart (and song just to drift away on)
song of the sibyl - dead can dance (perfect for the rattling leaves this time of year)
famous blue raincoat (live) - tori amos (leonard cohen cover) (this song had me actually fighting tears as i was getting off at eglinton station. i really think tori should do an entire album of cohen songs. the world should be so lucky)
morpheus laughing - skinny puppy (bit of a juxtaposition - to be certain!)
sink the bismark - johnny horton (ok - at this point i think my ipod has gone mad - this is a country artist from the 1950's. he's actually quite brilliant - you should look him up for a treat)
jesus was my girl (live) - david usher (i'm totally smiling at this point... to go from a nationalistic "let's win the war boys!" song to david's lyrics screaming, "fuckings over, but i just keep coming")
concertina - tori amos (a pretty and gorgeous meditation on acoustic and electric elements in music)
toxic - britney spears (*blush* ok, alright.... it's true... i have brit's greatest hits on my ipod!)
mandolin - moist (to go from a very slick sounding track to this gorgeously understated song off of moist's last album... priceless)
hey kids - david usher (which then went to one of the most fun but sardonic statements off of "if god had curves")
girls on film - duran duran (and i nearly spit out my mouthful of latte when the clicking camera's of this classic duran track started)
lucky man - richard ashcroft (ahh - lucky men have girls on film... i see)
yellow - coldplay (this just reminded me that at one point i actually really did love coldplay. before they began to be overly profound and feeling like they needed to carry the burdon of the world on their musical might. *yawn*)
lazy days - robbie williams (robbie has a knack of writing crappy songs about absolutely NOTHING, but still manage to make them sound a little interesting)
bittersweet symphony - the verve (greatly overplayed in it's day... but really is a stunning piece of work)
these days - joy division (i was nearly home as bittersweet was ending and i wanted to turn off the music because i couldn't imagine anything more perfect... but then this joy division song came on. these days of autumn are upon us indeed)