Saturday, July 16, 2022

The pitfalls of shuffle mode

If your music collection is diverse enough and you listen to it through shuffle mode in iTunes, you're in for the occasional train wreck of a segue.  Three days ago, random play resulted in my hearing "Talkin' To Myself" by Sarah Shook & The Disarmers.  Its upfront, no-holds-barred guitar and vocals have made it one of the year's strongest rock tunes.  Following that, however, was "Here Comes Peter Cottontail" by The Richard Wolfe Children's Chorus.  There's no universe in which those two songs flow into each other seamlessly.  It amused me, though, to hear such disparate songs paired with each other.  

Given the range of my purchased music, I'm surprised such clashing segues don't happen more often.