(image from http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/blogs/blog-on-the-tracks/8634881/The-greatest-music-quotes-of-the-last-75-years)
One of my biggest creative writing fuels is music. I need to have music all.the.time. Riding Singapore’s amazing public transportation system, washing dishes, running, writing, shopping at the grocery store— music all the time. I create my own soundtracks for my books, with songs for different characters and events and setting. It helps me connect with the world I’m creating. This morning I conducted an experiment. I put my iTunes on shuffle and wrote down the first ten songs that came up. I did not let myself skip any.
Here they are in all their glory:
- “Terrible Lie (Sympathetic Mix),” Nine Inch Nails
- “Hey Brother,” Avicii
- “Marry Me,” Jason Derulo
- “Party Hard,” Andrew W.K.
- “Body Movin,’” Beastie Boys
- “Sister of Night,” Depeche Mode
- “Searle Finds the Crew of Icarus/Floating Free/Searle’s Last Blast,” Underworld & John Murphy (Music from the motion picture Sunshine)
- “No Sleep,” Wiz Khalifa
- “Always,” Blink 182
- “Big Sur Moon,” Buckethead
That actually was not as random as expected. Plus I rediscovered some songs I forgot I even had. Bonus! Guess I’ll have to do it again sometime. Maybe I’ll make it a weekly thing, so if you’d like a peek into my thousands of songs (and my random psyche) follow me and wait with bated breath!
Try it for yourself and see what happens. Post your results here!
Sarah J. Carlson 
I kinda love this idea… putting my i-tunes on random shuffle seems like a very interesting experiment given my wide variety of music (and doing it on a semi-regular basis seems like it could be a lot of fun. So, here goes my first try…..
(Song Title – Album – Artist)
1) Wrong Way – Examples of Wasted Time – Velabonz
2) Always It’s You (Album Version) – Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers On Warner Bros. 1960-1969 – The Everly Brothers
3) The Rap – Starlight Express (1992 London Cast)
4) The Chemical Workers Song – UP – Great Big Sea
5) Wonderful – Wicked (Broadway Cast)
6) Light Calvary: Overture – 111 Classical Masterpieces – London Philharmonic Orchestra & Horst Stien
7) Flash – Greatest Hits (2004) – Queen
8) Amazing Grace – How Sweet the Sound – Chanticleer
9) The Heat is on in Saigon – Miss Saigon (Original London Cast Recording)
10) The Bargain — the Waltz of Treachery – Les Miserables (Complete Symphonic Recording)
Hmm… yeah.. I have a strange assortment of music… Not a perfect representation of what I have, but a fair one. 🙂
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Haha amazing. Pretty random. Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, think I will do a weekly post on this. It was really fun, plus maybe we’ll discover new music. Another bonus. Can’t wait to see what we come up with next time 😉
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Ooh, I love music too! Here’s my selection from my media library (alas, not actually itunes!):
1. Walking Wounded – The Tea Party (I’m seeing Jeff Martin Friday night!!)
2. Like Callisto to a Star in heaven – Trivium
3. Rock n Roll is King – Rose Tattoo
4. Death Valley – Fall Out Boy
5. Fighting Song – Rose Tattoo
6. The Mercy Seat – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
7. Guilty Pleasure – Cobra Starship
8. The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
9. Two Sisters – Niahm Parsons
10. Thnk Fr Th Mmrs – Fall Out Boy
Music is a big part of my life. I literally wouldn’t exist if not for music, as my parents met through a mutual friend who was a singer – Mum owned a record shop and Dad was in a band. 🙂
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Nice variety! And many reasons for music to be a big part of your life ;P Thanks for sharing.
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Your list is pretty awesome 🙂 I tried it for fun…here is mine 🙂
1. Undone -Five Finger Death Punch
2. My Apocalypse – Escape The Fate
3. 43 – Mushroomead (my fave song atm)
4. Radioactive – Imagine Dragons
5. 5 Minutes Alone – Pantera
6. The Parade of Ashes – Periphery
7. Not falling- Mudvayne
8. Bullet with a Name – Nonpoint
9. Carry Out – Timbaland (ft Justin Timberlake)
10. Wait and Bleed – Slipknot
Ok…now most of it is metal but in my defense I only listen to this when I work out! More motivating 🙂
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Thanks! Yours is awesome! Slipnot, nonpoint, mudvayne, love it! Really brings me back haha. Now I want to go to a rock concert…
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Haha, May 11th here I get to see Mushroomhead…so im excited! My Mother’s Day present haha Thanks!
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Nice! So lucky. They don’t appear to get many rock concerts over here in Singapore….
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That is definitely sad!
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Yeah… especially when Dropkick Murphys showed up in my hometown a couple months ago…..
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Great idea! (I still have CD’s LOL, but I love to go back through them and things up!)
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You should! It’s so much fun. I’m discovering all this music I forgot I had.
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I was so inspired by this I had to try it out for myself ! With you permission I would like to blog about it and link to your post please let me know !
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Go for it haha can’t wait to see ur results. Glad to inspire. I’ll be posting my next batch on Sunday!
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I am looking forward to you next batch! If you would like to read the blog post I wrote Here is the short link Thanks !
http://wp.me/p4pWPw-2l
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