There and Back Again

Listening: Parachute (Coldplay)
Pondering: This music won’t do. There’s not enough sarcasm in it. (Samuel Goldwyn)

Here’s what you do:

* Take your iPod (or whichever mp3 player you have).
* Make sure it’s set to shuffle.
* Scroll down to Songs (on your main menu).
* List the top 30 songs it randomly plays.
* No cheating.

1) Yellow - Coldplay (Parachute)
2) I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You - Tina Arena/Marc Anthony (In Deep)
3) Oops!…I Did It Again! - Britney Spears (Oops!…I Did It Again!)
4) Days Go By - Keith Urban (Be Here)
5) El Deseo De La Sangre - Alberto Iglesias (Sex and Lucia Soundtrack)
6) Drifter - Ron Sexsmith (Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot)
7) Out of Reach - Gabrielle (Out of Reach Single) That’s The Way I Like It - Backstreet Boys (Backstreet’s Back)
9) A New Day Has Come - Celine Dion (A New Day Has Come)
10) Lothlorien - New Zealand Symphony (Lord of the Rings Soundtrack)
11) Hands Clean (Acoustic) - Alanis Morissette (Feast on Scraps)
12) Who Do You Tell? - Tamia (Tamia)
13) (A Place to) Hide Away - Carpenters (Carpenters)
14) Timothy - JET (Get Born)
15) Givin Up On You - Lara Fabian (Dawson’s Creek: Volume 1)
16) Mr. Brightside - The Killers (Hot Fuss)
17) Favorite - Liz Phair (Liz Phair)
18) Mad Word - Gary Jules and Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko Soundtrack)
19) Rainbow Wings - Eagle Eye Cherry (Desireless)
20) Love Doesn’t Have to Hurt - Atomic Kitten (NOW 54)
21) Look What You’ve Done - JET (Get Born)
22) I Wanna Be With You - Mandy Moore (I Wanna Be With You Special Ed.)
23) Yeah Yeah Yeah - Rahsaan Patterson (After Hours)
24) Look What You’ve Done - Bread (Retrospective: Disc 1)
25) I Turn To You - Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera)
26) Daylight - Coldplay (A Rush of Blood to the Head)
27) Morning Light - Truman (Morning Light Single)
28) Your Body Is A Wonderland (Live) - John Mayer (Any Given Thursday)
29) You’ve Made Me So Very Happy - Gloria Estefan (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me)
30) Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente! (Marvin the Album)

Second thing you need to do:

* Go to your iTunes Library.
* Go to New Smart Playlist.
* Search for song names that contain the word “time.”
* List the top 20 randomly selected songs.
* Again, no cheating.

1) Forward to Time Past (John Williams)
2) Summertime (Fantasia)
3) Sometimes (Britney Spears)
4) This Is The Last Time - Live (Keane)
5) …Baby One More Time (Britney Spears)
6) As Time Goes By (Rod Stewart/Queen Latifah)
7) Do You Have A Little Time (Dido) Time (Backstreet Boys)
9) Time After Time (Eva Cassidy)
10) Sometimes (Carpenters)
11) Everybody Needs Someone Sometime (Jewel)
12) The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Celine Dion)
13) Ready for the Good Times (Shakira)
14) Every Time (Janet Jackson)
15) Shiver: Joe Whiley Lunchtime Social (Coldplay)
16) Ev’ry TIme We Say Goodbye (Carly Simon)
17) (I’ve Had) the Time of My Life (Jennifer Warren)
18) Everytime I Close My Eyes (Babyface)
19) In My Time of Need (Ryan Adams)
20) She Has No Time (Keane)