very simple

• Terrible Lie – Nine Inch Nails
• Sunday Sun – Beck
• Saturday Night’s All Right for Fighting – Elton John
• Where the Streets Have no Name – U2
• Around the World – Red Hot Chili Peppers
• It Ain’t Me Babe – Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash
• Gunshy – Liz Phair
• Atonement – Lucinda Williams
• Hey Baby – No Doubt
• A Heart in New York – Simon and Garfunkel

So that was interesting, but not incredibly descriptive of my musical taste for some reason, so I hit refresh, and this is the new list that appears:

• Wooden Heart – Elvis Presley
• The Holiday Song – the Pixies
• Birdhouse in Your Soul – They Might Be Giants
• Angie – The Rolling Stones
• Pinhead – The Ramones
• Perpetual Blues Machine – Keb Mo’
• Solitude – Billie Holiday
• New Times – Violent Femmes
• To Here Knows When – My Bloody Valentine
• 3 the Hard Way – The Beastie Boys

Great. Well now it just looks like a mid-nineties power playlist from WDRE (the now-defuct, awsomest alternative rock station that ever existed in the NYC region, back when alternative rock was still, well, alternative).

I mean, I own every Eminem album, every White Stripes, almost every REM, every Barenaked Ladies, the entire Clash on Broadway box set, and a whole lot of Madonna, yet none of them had even one song on either of the lists. It’s just weird. Don’t get me wrong, I love all of this music, that’s why it’s all on my iPod. But my iPod clearly has a preference for the folk and blues-based rock.