Cycling Through Songs

After a rain squall in Changhua killed my iPod Shuffle in less than a minute, I bought a new one, and I don't like it as much. Earbuds already suck, but there are the best so far. My biggest problem, and I am not joking, is the fact that my otherwise normal looking ears were actually reconstructed by a Dr. Moriano in Seattle after years of wrestling resulted in pretty severe couliflower ear. The "Hey, feel my ear" game is a great conversation starter at cocktail parties of picking up chicks in bars, but earbuds just pop out.

Anyways, I have it all loaded up and shuffled, just waiting to surprise me with that perfect song to revive a dying cadence. So... what's in the ipod?

My List Of My Last 25 Songs From My Evening Ride (I'm surprised as well):

1. Animal--Miike Snow

2. You Say You Don't Mean It-- Young Fresh Fellows

3. Teardrops--The Proclaimers

4. Tarzan Boy--Baltimora

5. I Don't Want To Get Over You--The Magnetic Fields

6. Thunder Struck-- AC/DC

7. Chain Gang-- The Pretenders

8. Ramble On-- Led Zepplin

9. Bad To The Bone-- George Thorogood

10. Look Back In Anger-- David Bowie

11. 96 Tears-- The Stranglers

12. The Harder They Come-- Jimmy Cliff

13. Right Here Right Now-- Jesus Jones

14. Ruby-- Kaiser Chiefs

15. Radio GaGa-- Queen

16. Peaches-- The Stranglers

18. Cruel-- PIL

19. Saturday Night-- Bay City Rollers

20. Pure-- The Lightning Seeds

21. Because The Night-- Patti Smith

22. Seventeen-- Winger

23. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes-- Home

24. Museum of Sex-- Robyn Hitchcock

25. Sex Pistols-- New York

"Taste? I have no taste..."

When I am out on my long rides I commit the sin of listening to music with headphones. I guess in Taiwan you get to a certain risk saturation point and you just can't add any more. Drivers are going to be nuts no matter what you do. I can still hear with headphones on... it just takes some common sense and awareness of your surroundings.

I have a biking folder of about 500 songs in iTunes and Autofill to make a random playlist. Music lets the mind wander to far off places and still focus on riding. It can be a welcome distraction at the right moment too. A little Journey can make the difference on a sustained 7% grade. I can do the music, but I can't do podcasts. Podcasts are just as bad as talking on a phone. They take my attention off the road. I sometimes just ride and laugh at some song or another that suits my taste. The thing is... I have no taste.

Anyone else do the same?

Here's the last 25 songs from Sunday's century. Just thought I'd share. :)

1. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker--The Ramones
2. No More Heroes--The Stranglers
3. Nirvana--The Cult
4. Nobody Is Innocent--The Sex Pistols (with Ronnie Biggs)
5. Walk On By--The Stranglers
6. Spinal Tap--Big Bottom
7. Pour Some Sugar On Me--Def Lepard
8. Arthur Theme--Christopher Cross
9. Pictures of You--The Cure
10. Particle Man--TMBG
11. Knock Three Times--Tony Orlando
12. Pistol Packin' Mama--Bing Crosby
13. The Captain Of Her Heart--Double
14. Mad Donna--T-Rex
15. Sri Lanka Sex Hotel--Dead Milkmen
16. Love Plus One--Haircut 100
17. Seventeen--Winger
18. Magic--The Cars
19. My Hooptie--Sir Mix A-Lot
20. Thunderstruck--AC/DC
21. Dear God--XTC
22. A Dozen Girls--The Damned
23. Lady Luck--The Proclaimers
24. Dance Hall Days--Wang Chung
25. Bridge Over Troubled Water--Elvis Presley