Start Your iPods

95 degrees with 80% humidity? Tres miserable!

  1. Robyn Hitchcock - Superman
  2. The Cure - Close To Me
  3. Vampire Weekend - Holiday
  4. Tonya Donelly - So Much Song
  5. Swirlies - Bell. one of the great noise-pop bands of the 90s.
  6. Robyn Hitchcock - Shimmering Distant Love
  7. Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band - You Should Never Swat A Fly
  8. The Kinks - Two Sisters
  9. The Kinks - David Watts
  10. The Kinks - Situation Vacant

Three songs in a row from the same Kinks album ?

If my math is right (well, if I chose an accurate hypergeometric distribution calculator, and the hypergeo dist was the right way to calculate it), the probability of getting three songs from that album in a random ten is: 0.000001425. (5225 songs on my iPod, 13 songs on that album, choosing 10, looking for 3 from that album)

I have no idea how to calculate the odds of those three coming up in a row, though.

6 thoughts on “Start Your iPods”

  2. cleek

    Kweskin… my dad used to play his records for me when i was really young – a lot of those songs are great for little kids. but, i forgot about them, over the years.

    he recently sent me a bunch of LPs to convert to CD, and Kweskin’s “Greatest Hits!” was one of them. and despite not having heard the songs in 35 years, i remembered all my old favorites from it, almost perfectly.

  3. The Modesto Kid

    Same here — I made tapes of my dad’s two Kweskin records when I left for college. Their cover of “Richland Woman Blues” is the song that got me interested in blues and old-time music.

  4. Rob Caldecott

    First playlist from my new job at Nokia Music.

    1. Bob Dylan – Jokerman.
    2. The Beatles – Pepperland.
    3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Little Shadow.
    4. The Jam – Beat Surrender.
    5. Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm.
    6. Radiohead – Planet Telex.
    7. Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah.
    8. Stevie Wonder – Master Blaster (Jammin’).
    9. Foo Fighters – Halo.
    10. The White Stripes – Cannon.

    Head still spinning!

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