iPod Analysis

This hungover afternoon, I decided to embark on a musical analysis project that might give me some sort of perspective into my musical tastes and inventory. So, what I did is I let my iPod play 10 songs chosen at random from the general song population. Its fun to rediscover songs you haven't heard in a while and to even hear songs on you iPod that you haven't ever heard before.

Heres the list:
(Artist - Song - Album)
- Tosca - Busenfreund - Suzuki


- Grateful Dead - Dark Star - 10/31/91


- Gas Face - Tong and Spoon


- Soggy Bottom Boys - Man of Constant Sorrow - O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack


- Mo Horizons - Remember Tomorrow - Putamayo Asian Groove


- I'm on the Wonder - Buckwheat Zydeco - Putamayo Zydeco


- STS9 - Glogli - Arifact
- Elvis - Surrender
- M.A.N.D.Y. - Put Put Put
- Santanta - El Corazon Manda

Lets break it down:
- GENRE: Depending on how you look at it, you could argue 8 to 10 different genres are represented
- ORIGINATION DATE: 60% of the songs were from the 2000's, one song from the 1990s, two from the 1970s, and one from the 1960s. Clarification: Dark Star was created in the 1960s but this version was played in the 1990s. Some could argue that this would be placed in the 1990s category, because each version of Dark Star was unique. I put it in the 1960s slot after consulting with myself
- BEATS: 40% of the songs sampled had beats that originated from an artificial beat machine
- LYRICS: 40% had no lyrics whatsoever. 40% had English lyrics. One had Asian lyrics, one had Spanish lyrics

In conclusion, did this exercise and analysis provide me with any new insight into my musical tastes? Not really, but I got to jam out to some good tracks in the process.