As if to prove my previous post for me, the tunequest-pod offered me these selections today (in order):

1. pearl jam-live at the fox theatre in atlanta (which i skipped because i had just heard a live show yesterday)
2. vince guaraldi’s oh good grief (a decent jazz album)
3. sonic youth experimental jet set trash and no star (my first sonic youth record and, for lack of a better word the group’s most "quirky." to this day, ‘self-obsessed and sexxee’ remains one of my favorite songs.)
4. tchaikovsky’s symphony 4 (ooo, the lush strings of its marvelous second movement)
5. spiritual vibes’ newly (more work from the ever-fascinating nobukazu takemura. before tunequest began, i would have named his songs as top candidates for removal from the library, but now i’ve a much renewed and invigorated appreciation for his musical talents.)
6. john williams’ score for the 70s disaster film earthquake (skipped because i wanted to pay extra attention to it and couldn’t at the time)
7. a pearl jam single (hail hail, b/w black red and yellow. that one’s a good b-side)
8. two beck singles, then a beck album (mutations. all of which were skipped because i wasn’t in a beck mood)
9. two more symphonies i didn’t feeling hearing at the time
10. finally, the 1992 re-recording of maurice jarre’s lawrence of arabia. (fine stuff there)

So despite the fact that albums by Beck, Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth have only a roughly 10% chance, combined, of being the next one played, we see here that, in fact, said artists account for 6 of 11 “randomly selected” albums for the day, or 55%. My iPod choose them at 5 times the rate I would have expected.

I’m not railing against it, since it doesn’t really bother mean though; just pointing it out.