The I-Pod Test

Oceansize - Rinsed - Psychedelic
The Seven Mile Journey - Theme for the Elthenbury Massacre - Post
Transit - Long Song - Post
VDGG - Lifetime - Eclectic
Amon Duul II - Syntelman's March of the Roaring Seventies: Pull Down Your Mask - Krautrock
PF - A Saucerful of Secrets - Pyschedelic
Marillion - Blind Curve/Vocal Under a Bloodkight/Pssing Strangers/Mylo/Perimeter Wa - Neo
Dun - Bitonio - Zeuhl
Pineapple Thief - What Have We Sown? - Crossover
Jethro Tull - Cold Wind to Valhalla  - Prog Folk

I guess that is better than a 4**** (more than 5 genres) but not quite a 5***** (does not include rap, punk, etc.)

Cool idea.


Edited by rushaholic - November 13 2008 at 10:06

Living In The Past - Jethro Tull (pop)
World Of Pain - Cream (psych rock)
Hotel Hobbies - Marillion (progressive rock)
That Time Of The Night - Marillion (progressive rock)
Web Weavers - Hawkwind (psych rock)
Duulirium - Amon Duul II (psychedelia)
Lady Of The Dancing Water - King Crimson (jazz, perhaps? No idea what to call it.)
Is She Waiting - McDonald And Giles (pop)
Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell (genres?!)
Biko - Peter Gabriel (progressive world)

Bit of an unfortunate selection... somewhat biased since my classical and (somewhat limited) jazz isn't on the I-pod due to size constraints.

A toss-up of psychedelia, psych rock, quirky pop, pop and jazz, plus a world and a progressive track thrown in for kicks. Marillion features twice. Second test featured Crimson again. Probably comes up as a 3ish. I'm bad at assigning genres to things.


Edited by TGM: Orb - November 13 2008 at 14:53

I love being to put my whole collection on shuffle.  Well Zune, what have you to offer up:
One to One, Joe Jackson, Beat Crazy
Penny Hitch, Soft Machine, Seven
Sea Journey, Stanley Clarke, Children of Forever
Moodles, Stereolab, Oscillions from the Anti-Sun
Snail Hair Dune, Torn/Karn/Bozzio, Polytown
The National Anthem, Radiohead, Kid A
Rumplestiltskin, Andy Summers, The Last Dance of Mr. X
Karma Police, Radiohead, OK Computer
Walk on...No Pussyfooting, King Crimson, The Great Deceiver
Black Country Woman, Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti

Hey, what's up with two Radioheads out of 15,224 tracks? OK Zune, one more:
Greensleeves [Alternate Take 6], Vince Guaraldi, A Charlie Brown Christmas

Wait, second round:
Impossible Guitar, Phil Manzanera, Primitive Guitars
Coyote, Joni Mitchell, Shadows and Light
Ellington's Way, Jan Akkerman, From the Basement
Flying Under Radar, Jerry Harrison, Walk on Water
Sleeping Beauty - Character Step, Tchaikovsky, Tchaikovsky/Borodin Classical Masterpieces
La Plus que Lente, Debussy, Debussy Piano Music
No Absolute Time, No Absolute Time, Jean-Luc Ponty
Bone Fire, Soft Machine, Seven
Mystical Adventures, Pt. 5, Jean-Luc Ponty, Mystical Adventures
Ballet Volta, Sky, Sky

Sometimes you get weird coincidences, two classical tracks and two Ponty and between the two groups of ten, two from the same album.

I'd put that at a 4, I think.

Just for fun, let's see what round three turns up:
Wavelength, The Bears, The Bears
Untitled Track 22, The Residents, Demons Dance Alone
Bad Shepherds, The Zincs, Dimmer
The Funky Avacado, Michael Hedges, Breakfast In the Field
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, The Beatles, The Beatles[White Album]
Entertain Me, Psychedelic Furs, Book of Days
Vinydjapana (Dolphin), Yothu Yindi, Tribal Voice
Outcas Islands, Jerry Goodman, It's Alive
Lateshow: A/Midnight Days, Henry Fool, Henry Fool
The Soul of a Child, Tower of Power, In The Slot

One last run at it.  This time from the last 100 albums I added to my collection:
Sing, Gongzilla, Suffer
Propositions, Curved Air, Alive 1990
Survivalism, NIN, Year Zero
5 Ghosts I, NIN, Ghosts I-IV
Jigsaw Falling Into Place, Radiohead, In Rainbows
Twenty Years on (Intro)
Awakening, The Reasoning, The Awakening
Scratching at Success, Rupert Hine, Immunity
Wolf Stalks, Jack Lancaster and Robin Lumley, Peter and the Wolf
Bodysnatchers, Radiohead, In Rainbows

Is this thing in a mood to play Radiohead or something?
They issued an update to the software recently.  Maybe they gave it desires.






Edited by Slartibartfast - November 13 2008 at 19:24

Excrementory Grindf*ckers - Track 42
Origin - Consuming Misery
Rage Against the Machine - Born Of A Broken Man
Frank Zappa - Ride My Face to Chicago
Frank Zappa - Our Bizarre Relationship
John Hartford - Leather Britches
Boards of Canada - Olson (version 3)
Frank Zappa - Who are teh Brain Police
Haystack - Car Fulla Whiteboys
A.C.T - Summary (Surveying Room)


I have a lot of Zappa on my computer...

1. Mercury Rev- Persistence and the Apis Mellifera

This is fun. I have 16515 songs on my 160GB iPod.

First shot:
1. Caramel - Cluster
2. Voyage 34 - Porcupine Tree
3. Occidental (Bandulu Remix) - The Orb
4. Oh Yeah - Fluke
5. Can I Play With Madness - Iron Maiden
6. I'm Gonna Be a Teenage Idol - Elton John
7. Arrival - Mike Oldfield
8. Everything All Of The Time - Jakob
9. Times When I know You'll Be Sad - Biosphere
10. Muhlheim Special - Grobschnitt

Second Try:
1. Loads of Birds - Underworld
2. Fell On Black Days - Soundgarden
3. Le Pays De Rose - Jean Michel Jarre
4. Amsterdam - Scott Walker
5. Rubycon Part 1 - Tangerine Dream
6. Hats off to (Roy) Harper - Led Zeppelin
7. Back When You Were Beautiful - No-Man
8. C'est La Bon - Supertramp
9. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 2 - The Flaming Lips
10. The Embers of Eden - Bruce Cockburn

Looks like a 4 on the Dick Heath (TM) scale - no classical, reggae, punk, rap, world music, traditional anglo-celtic folk.

Marvellous ennit, set this up only to discover I had left my IPod elsewhere. To make amends:

Here's the first 10:

Kings & Queens (Art & Illusion) - Twelfth Night (Neo Progressive)
The Funeral Portrait (Blackwater Park) - Opeth (Tech / Extreme Prog Metal)
The Sense In Sanity (Subterranea) - IQ (Neo Progressive)
Web Weaver (Hall Of The Mountain Grill) - Hawkwind (Psychedelic / Space Rock)
Caleb's Blues (Near Dark Soundtrack) - Tangerine Dream (Progressive Electronic)
Shell Of A Fighter (Flowermouth) - No-Man (Psychedelic / Space Rock)
Ocd (Mellodramatic) - Deadwood Forest (Crossover Prog)
Standing At The Edge (Warrior On The Edge Of Time) - Hawkwind (Psychedelic / Space Rock)
The Great Unknown (A Time Of Day) - Anekdoten (Heavy Prog)
I Watch The Moon (Gandalf) - Gandalf (Crossover Prog)

Here's the 2nd batch:

Act III Manhunt (Room V) - Shadow Gallery (Progressive Metal)
Megalázottak és megszomorítottak (Megalázottak és megszomorítottak) - After Crying (Symphonic Prog)
Wake Up Apartment 122 (Last Epic) - A.C.T. (Eclectic Prog)
Sinfonia Della Luna Part 1 (Höstsonaten) - Höstsonaten (Italian Syphonic Prog)
Guiprice (Orchestrate) - Michael Harris (Progressive Metal)
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Talk Of The Devil) - Ozzy Osbourne (Metal)
Bolero Part 4 Repetition (Stand By) - Heldon (Progressive Electronic)
Californication (Greatest Hits) - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Alternative & Punk)
Return To Oz (Scissor Sisters) - Scissor Sisters (Electronica / Dance)
La Natura E L'Universo (Scolopendra) - Gli Alluminogeni (Italian Symphonic Prog)

I'd say 4 stars - somewhat eclectic






Edited by Takeshi Kovacs - November 15 2008 at 10:15

genre is relative. how is one to assess difference in genre?

Ayreon - The Two Gates
AC/DC - Sin City
The Beatles - Savoy Truffle
Iron Maiden - Flash Of The Blade
Jimi Hendrix - Rainy Day, Dream Away
Def Leppard - Rock Rock ('Til You Drop)
Primal Fear - Fight To Survive
Anacrusis - Explained Away
Cream - N.S.U.
Erik Norlander - The Fall Of The Idol

And just for kicks, here's another 10.

Dream Theater - Afterlife
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Scorpions - China White
Megadeth - The Conjuring
AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
Masterplan - I'm Not Afraid
Metallica - Escape
Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
Ayreon - Computer Eyes
The Beatles - Please Please Me

3* - It's all rock, and mostly metal, but there's plenty of variation within it - plenty of different metal subgenres, mostly traditional, power, prog, and thrash. The Beatles and Ayreon were bound to come back up, since I have the entire discographies of both bands.

First post - hi, everyone!