On Friday over at AaronGleeman.com, our resident blogstar kicked off his second annual "the iPod Shuffle" bonanza. The concept is very simple: he asks us Bloggers and readers alike to set our iPods on shuffle and then record the first 50 songs that appear.

Let me preface this exercise by indignantly remarking that I had an iPod before anyone else I knew, therefore making me a bold trendsetter and you people just pitiful copycats. I purchased mine on the 2nd day that the 3rd generation came out in the winter of 8th grade, so almost 4 years ago. The fact that the 3rd generation came out just before I bought mine is nothing more than dumb luck, and I could easily now have the original brick with the moving scroll wheel.

Also, if any of you have heard of more than 3 or 4 of these bands, I'd be pretty impressed.

1. Resolution - Motion City Soundtrack
2. She'll Never Understand - Matchbook Romance
3. Head Up - Sugarcult
4. Nothing Boy vs. The Echo Factor - Gym Class Heroes
5. Stationary Stationary - Anberlin
6. Cure Me - Crashing By Design
7. King For A Day - Goldfinger
8. Bleed For You - Hidden In Plain View
9. Hurricane - Something Corporate
10. Inside Out - Yellowcard
11. The Drama Summer - The Starting Line
12. Indoor Living - Motion City Soundtrack
13. The Ides of March - Silverstein
14. Blood Red Summer - Coheed and Cambria
15. Take It Away - The Used
16. The Blue Note - Underoath
17. Drowning - Scary Kids Scaring Kids
18. I Would Walk 500 Miles - Allister (Proclaimers Cover)
19. Cemetery Drive - My Chemical Romance
20. Niki FM - Hawthorne Heights
21. NJ Falls Into the Atlantic - Senses Fail
22. The Weak and the Wounded - Silverstein
23. Good To Know That if I Ever Need Attention All I Have to Do Is Die - Brand New
24. Grenade Jumper - Fall Out Boy
25. Space Rock - Weezer
26. Time Turned Fragile - Motion City Soundtrack
27. Five Days and Counting - Spitalfield
28. The Red Dress - Motion City Soundtrack
29. She's Gonna Break Soon - Less Than Jake
30. Come Back - The Early November
31. The Mountain Range in My Living Room - The Early November
32. Decency - Rufio
33. Lullaby In Belle Haven - Four Letter Lie
34. Everyone Wants To Rule The World - Jamison Parker (80's Cover)
35. Blue And Yellow - The Used
36. Hurricane - Bob Dylan
37. Cute Without The "E", Cut From The Team - Taking Back Sunday
38. The Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer - Coheed And Cambria
39. Sunday Drive (Accoustic) - The Early November
40. Last Blas Off - Small Towns Burn a Little Slower
41. Something That Produces Results - The Early November
42. Smashed Into Pieces - Silverstein
43. Forever Young - So They Say
44. This Could Get Dangerou - Crashing By Design
45. The First Time It Shouldn't Taste Like Blood - Boys Night Out
46. Junesong Provision - Coheed And Cambria
47. Halcvon Daze - Hidden In Plain View
48. Westbound - Allister
49. The End Of A Fraud - Armor For Sleep
50. Everything's A Miracle - The Semester

Ironically, the list ended with my favorite song of all time, which is far and away the most played song with more than 200 plays. The Semester, for the record, is a band from my town of Bloomington. They're 19 and 20 now and tour the country almost full time, while also having released 3 CD's. My band opened for them on their sold out CD Release show last June.

While I love music (in my opinion) much more that most people, I'm the first to admit that I have a pathetic lack of variety. With the exception of Bob Dylan, every single band on this list could be labeled as modern Pop Punk/Emo/Post Hardcore. Like I also said, I wasn't able to incorporate the 620 songs on my laptop, which also reflects some of my new tastes.

If you feel like going through the trouble, shuffle up a little bit yourself and leave it in a comment.

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