iPod Days
We do this thing in the office here where we take it in turns on Fridays to have an iPod Day. The person whose day it is creates a playlist from their iTunes library and plays it over the internal system, giving us all;
a) exposure to music we might not know about otherwise, and
b) a break from the usual nightmarish muzak.
In typical ‘me’ style, I suspect I overthink these things when my turn comes around, and I really work at something like a sensible order for the songs, rather than just dragging everything over and setting it to shuffle. I don’t think other people do the same.
So the last time it was my turn, there was a little run that started with the original Kate Bush version of Hounds of Love, moved on to the Futureheads’ version, then shifted to The Puppini Sisters’ cover of Wuthering Heights before wrapping up with the Kate original - you see the kind of thing I’m doing here?
Today (for it’s my turn again) I was in a bit of a hurry pulling something together after getting in from the theatre last night, but I’m still happy with some details I’ve wrangled in, like leading into the first Pet Shop Boys track with The Loving Kind, the Girls Aloud song they wrote, and including Inner City Pressure, the Flight of the Conchords PSBs pastiche nearby. And there’s other little groupings that I’m quite pleased with.
Most of the office here don’t recognise much of what I tend to include, which I think is good - it reinforces that I come from somewhere different, and have exotic tastes (:-)). But I suspect the little batch of numbers I think of as ‘the rude songs’ I tacked on the end might stop them in their tracks. Britney’s If You Seek Amy is just for starters. The whole playlist builds up to Lily Allen’s Fuck You.
I know it seems a lot of trouble to go to, but I take a certain pride in making a little more effort than I strictly need to on these occasions.
I acknowledge that this probably makes me quite sad.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Very F**king Sad !!!
June 12th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
*genius*
You should put the playlist up on the site
I tend think I’d take a lot of time putting something together.