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Title: My Three Songs, courtesy of iTunes
Post by: urth on November 03, 2005, 04:05:24 PM

Not really a quiz, but this afternoon, my iTunes, set to "random," played these three songs in sequence:

A Legal Matter-The Who
Modern Man Blues-10cc
Train in Vain-The Clash

All three are songs of infidelity and breakup. No, not an uncommon theme in pop music, but nonetheless, it gave me pause to think: "whoa, what's going on here?"

Title: My Three Songs, courtesy of iTunes
Post by: Gazoo on November 03, 2005, 05:49:32 PM

You're actually not the first person who's noticed that.  There was a thread about it on the I Love Music messageboard a couple weeks ago.  My suspicion is that it's airplane-crash syndrome: You think it happens more than it does because it's *apparent* when it does and it's *not apparent* when it doesn't.  There are probably 80 combinations of three-songs-in-a-row in a day of iPod listening, and if you notice one a day you think it's un-random.

Title: My Three Songs, courtesy of iTunes
Post by: Gazoo on November 03, 2005, 05:51:17 PM

P.S. and N.B. I was using "you" in the sense of the generalized "one," not the specific "Jim."  I just re-read my post & it would seem really pompous if it were personally directed.   :o

Title: My Three Songs, courtesy of iTunes
Post by: urth on May 07, 2007, 03:58:28 PM

Another bit of synchronicity courtesy of my at-work iTunes.

Among all the music, I also have a number of audio clips of old movie ads and such, and this afternoon one came on for a b-movie called "The Naughty Cheerleader." The gist of it is that every male in the school--teachers included--lusts after the naughty cheerleader.

The song that followed this? I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend by the Ramones.

I tellya, there's some kind of artificial intelligence built into iTunes...