My iPod reads my mind

If you read Random Selection, my other blog where I post the list of songs my iPod played to me on the way to work (I leave the iPod on Random Shuffle and let it be) then you will know what I'm talking about - if you don't you will know anyway as I just explained it.

The reason for posting this in Up Your Ego is that I noticed a strange trend over the last couple of days, the iPod seems to be playing the songs I need at a particular moment - not want - need.

On Thursday it was a bright and sunny, if slightly cold (something to do with northern winds, the north should stop eating baked beans if you ask me) morning, but I hadn't slept much as was bloody tired so was hoping for something upbeat and cheeful BUT not to upbeat and not TOO cheeful.

This is what it gave me:

Modest Mouse - Dramamine
Velofax - Awkward Morning
Razorlight - Up All Night
U2 - Yahweh
The Beatles - What Goes On
The Wedding Present - Make Me Smile
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Scar Tissue
The Smiths - Panic

As you can see a selection that fit the mood and moment perfectly, and was exactly what I needed to get myself to work.

This morning (Friday) it was pouring down with rain and was miserable outside, it was the kind of nasty rain that sticks to you, the kind that causes car drivers to go through puddles fast so to splash pedestrians (like me), just to make them even more soaked (as if the rain wasn't doing a good enough job on its own) BUT I was in a good, cheeful, wide awake kind of mood - so need the same as yesterday but opposite).

This is what it started with:

The Verve - One Day
Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun
Snow Patrol - How to be dead
John Lennon - Mother

A selection that is relatively laid back but still fairly upbeat, then I started laggin a bit, feeling bogged down with rain and water and not really having the drive to move on - then spookily the iPod played me this:

The Who - Pinball Wizard
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Around the World
Bob Dylan - Forever Young
Libertines - Good Old Days

That got me to work in a great mood, even more cheeful than when I set off and ready to face the day.

For those of you wondering what iPod I have, I have the 4GB iPod mini in silver (the photo is actually of my iPod) with a silver protective case because I'm clumsy, I'm also using black in-ear headphones because I broke the white ones (don't know how though, they just sort of broke).

Check out these iPod related blog posts: Technie Diva is asking "How much do you love your iPod" - quite a lot thanks and Reaching out to Embrace is looking into "iPod Vending Machines", I'll have a coke thanks - my music is on my PC.

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