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Playing songs randomly from a library with 40,000 entries can be a dicey proposition ... to be honest, there's a great deal of stuff in there of which i have little to no knowledge. If i start your random play at an old favorite, chances are the next song will be something i don't know or don't care for. I'm not saying my library is stocked with songs i don't like, it's just that with my "whole album" policy comes a lot of filler. And with my rapid musical expansion of recent years, there's a fair bit of stuff that i never really checked out. But while this situation leads to hearing a ho-hum David Bowie album track (don't get me started) every now and then, it also causes some freaking fantastic and heretofore unknown to me songs to unexpectedly insert themselves in my playlist. Case in point: i've been in a comedy mood today, listening to Mitch Hedberg and Jim Gaffigan albums. Once those completed, i popped iTunes into random mode and focused on work while the background music played. But after a half hour or so a great indie rock song grabbed my attention ... what is this, i ask? Abandoned Pools ... ah yes, i got that a while back. Didn't i listen to it? Apparently not ... because this is awesome. An indie rock gem with a great vocal melody ... this guy could teach Muse a thing or two about keeping the plot.
It's like getting a Christmas present in ... December. Not a great analogy. Finding a twenty dollar bill in the street? Winning the lottery with a ticket you can't remember buying? Wait, one more ... oh, never mind.
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