iTunes Game

I was at work today listening to my iPod. I was listening to something by Janis Joplin when I noticed how much the song reminded me of Florence and the Machine. I've also had a song by Fall Out Boy stuck in my head, so I decided to see if I could set up a playlist where each song logically followed the one before, either by similar chords, themes, or just sound alike. I successfully did this. I then decided to expand this method to see if I could bridge from that song to others that I randomly think of. I did this for a bit, then realized that I was at work, but had been playing with my iPod for the last half an hour. I mentally made up the following game, then decided to try it out when I got home.

The iTunes Game

1. Open iTunes, put your library on shuffle
2. Play a random song and put it in a new playlist. Move on to the next song, and add that song to the playlist. Repeat until your playlist is six songs long.
3. Figure out a series of songs that each follow from each other to make a flowing sequence from the first to second song.
4. Repeat for songs 2-3 and on and on until the entire playlist is connected.

Here's the playlist I just generated. Songs are in bold are the six random ones I had to connect between.

1. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) - Arcade Fire
2. Blinding - Florence and the Machine
3. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
4. Live and Let Die - Guns N' Roses
5. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
6. Party Out of Bounds - The B-52's
7. Hornets! Hornets!
8. These Are My Twisted Words - Radiohead
9. A New Machine - Pink Floyd
10. Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap
11. Laughing With - Regina Spektor
12. Gotta Get Drunk - The Little Willies
13. Beer - Reel Big Fish
14. Wrong Way - Sublime
15. C'mon Girl - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
16. Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
17. Lovers (Live A Little Longer) - ABBA
18. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
19. Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - AC/DC

I give myself bonus points for getting from ABBA to AC/DC in one step