Your Latest Genius Playlist
 

With the introduction of the "Genius" feature in iTunes 8, I thought we could do a take on the 15 shuffled mp3 thread.

Pick a song, create a 25 song genius playlist from it, and list it here.

Playlist Created from: Another Day-The Twenty Twos

1. Another Day-The Twenty Twos
2. It Dawned On Me-Calla
3. Boys Dont Cry-Reel Big Fish
4. Don't You Forget About Me-Rufio
5. Aside-The Weakerthans
6. Awake-Letters To Cleo
7. Phoebe Cates-Fenix TX
8. Wasted-Goldfinger
9. She Does-The Twenty Twos
10. Break In-City (Storm the Gate!)-Tenacious D
11. Online Songs-Blink 182
12. Over My Head-Lit
13. Line Up-Elastica
14. Haunting Me-Stabbing Westward
15. Little Girl-The Daylights
16. All I Want Is More-Reel Big Fish
17. Come Back Around-Feeder
18. Alone-Zebrahead
19. Liar-The Cranberries
20. Nü Rock-Morningwood
21. Shelter-Greenwheel
22. Lipstick and Bruises-Lit
23. Mutt-Blink 182
24. Just Like Heaven-Gatsbys American Dream
25. Got Me Wrong-Alice In Chains

I chose

Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth from The Brunettes

1) The Brunettes - Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth
2) Mates of State - Lullaby Haze
3) The Pipettes - Dirty Mind
4) Menomena - Wet and Rising
5) Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
6) The Polyphonic Spree - Love My Way
7) Islands - Rough Gem
8) Beirut - Postcards From Italy
9) Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
10) Peter, Bjorn and John - Chills
11) The Pipettes - Guess Who Ran Off With the Milkman?
12) Every Move a Picture - Signs of Life
13) Ash - You Can't Have It All
14) Boy Kill Boy - Suzie
15) Mates of State - Running Out
16) The Go! Team - We Just Won't Be Defeated
17) Of Montreal - Suffer For Fashion
18) The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
19) Metric - Monster Hospital
20) The New Pornographers - All The Things That Go To Make Heaven And Earth
21) Belle & Sebastian - I Could Be Dreaming
22) The Polyphonic Spree - I'm Calling
23) Mates of State - Jigsaw
24) Asobi Seksu - Citrus
25) The Submarines - Peace and Hate

After lunch playlist - started with "Here It Goes Again" - OK Go

1. Here It Goes Again - OK Go
2. Nth Degree - Morningwood
3. Break Out! Break Out! - All Time Low
4. Chocolate - Snow Patrol
5. 99 Red Balloons - Goldfinger
6. The Rock Show - Blink 182
7. Under Pressure - The Used/My Chemical Romance
8. DOA - Foo Fighters
9. I Fought the Law - Green Day
10. Where Does The Good Go - Tegan And Sara
11. The Saints Are Coming - U2 & Green Day
12. Never Know - Jack Johnson
13. Good Idea At the Time - OK Go
14. E Pro - Beck
15. Spice Up Your Life - Spice Girls
16. Spiderwebs - No Doubt
17. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
18. Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner - Fall Out Boy
19. The Distance - Cake
20. Helicopter - Bloc Party
21. Jetsetter - Morningwood
22. New Slang - The Shins
23. Hot Action Cop - Fever For The - Various
24. Bones - The Killers
25. Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games - Of Montreal

I chose Get Over It by OK Go

1) OK Go - Get Over It
2) Hot Hot Heat - Goodnight Goodnight
3) Death Cab For Cutie - Crooked Teeth
4) The Bravery - Time Wont Let Me Go
5) Gym Class Heroes - 1st Period: The Queen And I
6) Muse - Hysteria
7) The Strokes - You Only Live Once
8) Snow Patrol - Spitting Games
9) The Donnas - Take It Off
10) The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
11) Hot Action Cop - Fever for the Flava
12) Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
13) Weezer - Hash Pipe
14) Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
15) Pixies - Where Is My Mind
16) Lustra - Scotty Doesn't Know
17) OK Go - Don't Ask Me
18) Sugarcult - Pretty Girl (The Way)
19) Andrew WK - Party Hard
20) Death Cab For Cutie - Marching Bands of Manhattan
21) Morningwood - Nth Degree
22) The Strokes - Juicebox
23) Snow Patrol - Hands Open
24) Head Automatica - Beating Heart Baby
25) Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty

Somebody else has to have iTunes 8 on this board, right?

There seemed to be several people in the new iPod thread in Tech that were using it. I guess they don't venture into Music. My latest:

Starting with One-U2:

1. One - U2
2. Butterfly - Mariah Carey
3. You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
4. I'm Losing You - Corinne Bailey Rae
5. Jean Genie - David Bowie
6. Put Yourself in My Place - Kylie Minogue
7. The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
8. Tragedy - Steps
9. Around the World - Aqua
10. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo

Oddly it only gave me 10 songs! Interesting.

1. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes

2. For Emma - Bon Iver
3. Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - She & Him
4. Knife - Grizzly Bear
5. Eraser - No Age
6. Olympic Airways - Foals
7. The Step And The Walk - The Duke Spirit
8. You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campesinos!
9. Get Better - Mates of State
10. Impossible Germany - Wilco
11. Galaxy Of The Lost - Lightspeed Champion
12. Wordless Chorus - My Morning Jacket
13. Trains To Brazil - Guillemots
14. Brother - Annuals
15. Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes
16. Buildings & Mountains - The Republic Tigers
17. Fools - The Dodos
18. Re: Stacks - Bon Iver
19. Unless It's Kicks (demo) - Okkervil River
20. Balloons - Foals
21. Electric Feel - MGMT
22. Librarian - My Morning Jacket
23. Gamma Ray - Beck
24. Soldier's Grin - Wolf Parade
25. Scythian Empires - Andrew Bird

1. Where and When -- Hayden
2. Archaeologists -- Wintersleep
3. Sun In an Empty Room -- The Weakerthans
4. Fashionable People -- Joel Plaskett Emergency
5. Foxes Mate for Life -- Born Ruffians
6. F–ked Up Kid -- Broken Social Scene & Kevin Drew
7. The Men Who Live Upstairs -- The Most Serene Republic
8. Milkshake -- Holy Fuck
9. All the Old Showstoppers -- The New Pornographers
10. Nerves Normal. Breathe Normal -- Wintersleep
11. Ilyena -- The Mars Volta
12. All Fires -- Swan Lake
13. Weight of the World -- Hayden
14. Superconnected -- Broken Social Scene
15. Dark Come Soon -- Tegan and Sara
16. (Antichrist Television Blues) -- The Arcade Fire
17. Hummingbird -- Born Ruffians
18. Surf City Eastern Block -- Arcade Fire
19. Civil Twilight -- The Weakerthans
20. Atoms for Peace -- Thom Yorke
21. Search Party -- Wintersleep
22. Baby We’ll Be Fine -- The National
23. I Need a Life -- Born Ruffians
24. Robbers -- Cold War Kids
25. Lonely Security Guard -- Hayden

1. Walk with me in Hell-Lamb of God

2.Master of Puppets- Trivium
3. F*****g Hostile- Pantera
4. Suite-Pee- System Of A Down
5. Die, Die My Darling- The Misfits
6. Dead By Dawn - Deicide
7. Drunken Lullabies- Flogging Molly
8. Epic- Faith No More
9. Rooster- Alice In Chains
10. Arise- Sepultura
11. Indians- Anthrax
12. Angel of Death- Slayer
13. The Number of the Beast- Iron Maiden
14. If I Was Your Vampire- Marilyn Manson
15. Sugar- System Of A Down
16. Dragula - Rob Zombie
17. South of Heaven- Slayer
18. Last Caress- The Misfits
19. Time Bomb- Rancid
20. Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)-Deftones
21. Walk-Pantera
22. Can I Play With Madness- Iron Maiden
23. War Ensemble- Slayer
24. Redneck (Explicit Version)- Lamb of God
25. Refuse / Resist- Sepultura

So how does this genius option actually work? Does it create a playlist of your own songs to match the (for lack of a better term) mood of the song you suggest or does it make purchase suggestions based on the song you input? Just curious as One is in my top twenty songs and yet I barely like any of the other 10 on this list? How are they determining this?

Here's my Cheeseball 70s/early 80s Genius Playlist, based off of "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" by England Dan & John Ford Coley:

1. I'd Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
2. Just Remember I Love You - Firefall
3. The Things We Do For Love - 10cc
4. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer
5. You Can Do Magic - America
6. I'm Not In Love - 10 cc
7. Babe - Styx
8. Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill
9. Love Is the Answer - England Dan & John Ford Coley
10. I Think I Love You - Partridge Family
11. High On You - Survivor
12. Arthur's Theme - Christopher Cross
13. Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
14. All Out of Love - Air Supply
15. Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty
16. If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
17. Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
18. Ventura Highway - America
19. Saturday in the Park - Chicago
20. Fox On The Run - Sweet
21. Miami 2017 (I've Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) - Billy Joel
22. Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
23. When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt
24. Cool Change - Little River Band
25. Reminiscing - Little River Band

Yes, they use your own library and data collected from everyone who has "shared" their library information with Genius to pick songs that have something in common (style, mood, genre, whatever... I don't know what criteria they use exactly)

You can also refresh it if you don't like what you see... but since it only gave me 10 songs (supposed to be 25) I imagine the refresh would give me the same 10 songs. :shrug:

They also show a sidebar (I turned it off) that gives you suggestions for music you don't have that you may like to purchase.

It's odd too, because it doesn't work with everything. I could imagine it not working with stuff that is "questionable", i.e. live tracks, obscure stuff that got ripped from a CD, etc... but I tried it with Go, Speed Racer, Go by Ali Dee and the Deekompressors and it didn't work. I bought the track through iTunes, so obviously it is in their database.

The Genius playlist works by:

1) First establishing your iTunes library and grouping all of that information together.
2) Sending all of that information to iTunes to get better clarification of what it just grouped together.
3) iTunes sends the information back so it can match songs on your existing library together, but also give you recommendations to similar songs and albums that you could also buy on iTunes.

So far, 99% of the music in my iTunes library has worked (well) with it. There are a few songs that just bring back no Genius playlist at all. :(

I was wondering how it worked, too. Thanks for the answers.

Do you have to resync your library when you first use the Genius feature? I read that somewhere - I think on the iLounge forums. What's on my iPod and what's in my general music library are two entirely different beasts. I tend to be a pack rat and there's a whole lot of music in my collection that I don't put on my iPod (which itself has close to 17,000 songs), so I manually do my updates. The thought of the hours needed to get my iPod's library to its current state is not an enticing one.

If that's the case, I'm going to have to pass on this feature, at least until I get a new iPod and will have to reload all of my songs anyway

Of course, I'm using a 160 gb Classic, so it may be a non-issue.

You have to upload data to iTunes, but you shouldn't have to re-synch your iPod... maybe if you have an iPod that upgrades to get the genius feature (like the Touch). But I don't think the last gen Classic will be able to get the Genius feature for a while - until they update the software for it anyway.

Latest from me - starting with Metallica's One:

1. One - Metallica
2. School's Out - Alice Cooper
3. I Stand Alone - Godsmack
4. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
5. Crawling [Live] - Linkin Park
6. Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
7. Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
8. Higher - Creed
9. I Remember You - Skid Row
10. Live & Let Die - Guns N' Roses
11. Wherever I May Roam - Metallica
12. Dead! - My Chemical Romance
13. Voodoo - Godsmack
14. Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
15. The Anthem - Good Charlotte
16. Faint [Live] - Linkin Park
17. Even Flow - Pearl Jam
18. The Metal - Tenacious D
19. Dragula - Rob Zombie
20. Turn the Page - Metallica
21. Freak On A Leash - Korn
22. La Grange - ZZ Top
23. My Hero - Foo Fighters
24. Slow Ride - Foghat
25. The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson

Okay, thanks. When I got my Classic in January it took several days to get it straight. I loaded all of my music on it, then checked line by line a spreadsheet of what was on my previous iPod, deleting what didn't belong off of the new one. It was a tedious process, to say the least.

I have my doubts that Apple will give the Genius feature to the 160 gb Classic. Prove me wrong, Mr. Jobs!

I just had to post this one:

Starting with John Williams - The Imperial March:

1. The Imperial March - John Williams
2. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
3. Mr. Roboto - Styx
4. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants
5. Frankenstein - Edgar Winter
6. Slither - Velvet Revolver
7. Live & Let Die - Guns N' Roses
8. School's Out - Alice Cooper
9. Space Oddity - David Bowie
10. Battle Of The Heroes - John Williams
11. La Grange - ZZ Top
12. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica
13. Right Now - Van Halen
14. 99 Red Balloons - Goldfinger
15. Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails
16. The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
17. 10 - Man On The Moon - R.E.M.
18. One Week - Barenaked Ladies
19. Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
20. The Clash Of Lightsabers - John Williams
21. I Fought the Law - Green Day
22. Blue Monday - Orgy
23. Come Sail Away - Styx
24. Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
25. Rock and Roll All Nite - Kiss

I think its funny that there's only one other score track on the list.

Some of these choices are a bit odd.

Nellie The Elephant 3:28 Toy Dolls
Eloise 5:08 The Damned
Alternative Ulster 2:44 Stiff Little Fingers
Mommy's Little Monster(Live '90) 3:39 Social Distortion
Walls Come Tumbing Down 3:26 The Style Council ?
The Cutter 3:54 Echo & The Bunnymen ?
Girl U Want 2:57 Devo
Runaway Boys 3:01 Stray Cats ?
White Riot 1:57 The Clash
Firey Jack 2:54 Toy Dolls
Bloodstains [Original Version] 1:53 Agent Orange
Breathless (Single Mix) 2:17 X
Neat Neat Neat 2:40 The Damned
Town Called Malice 3:03 The Jam
The Perfect Kiss 4:50 New Order ?
Transmission 3:52 Joy Division
Time Bomb 2:24 Rancid
Bring On The Dancing Horses 3:59 Echo & The Bunnymen ?
James Bond lives down our street 3:50 Toy Dolls
Ziggy Stardust 3:15 Bauhaus ?
Spellbound 3:18 Siouxsie & The Banshees
Ghost Town (12" Vers.) 5:58 The Specials
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight 4:07 The Jam
Los Angeles 2:25 X
Prince Charming 3:17 Adam Ant

I guess it is just the Brit Pop that I don't really get...

Here is my playlist Starting Today:

1. Starting Today - Natalie Imbruglia
2. Disguise - Lene Marlin
3. To Be Free - Emiliana Torrini
4. Cologne Cerrone Houdini - Goldfrapp
5. Borrowed Time - A Fine Frenzy
6. Butterfly - Corinne Bailey Rae
7. Out of the Shadows - Sarah McLachlan
8. Scared - Duffy
9. Do You Love? - Natalie Imbruglia
10. Sky Fits Heaven - Madonna
11. Miss Sarajevo - U2
12. Wake Up - Alanis Morissette
13. Fools In Love - Inara George
14. Oh My God - Mark Ronson featuring Lily Allen
15. My Love - Lene Marlin
16. Don't Speak - No Doubt
17. Devil's Arcade - Bruce Springsteen
18. All Fired Up (single) - Pat Benatar
19. Slow Down - Natalie Imbruglia
20. What It Is About Men? - Amy Winehouse
21. Vision of You - Belinda Carlisle
22. Ohne Liebe bin ich nichts (Berlin Version) - Nena
23. UR - Alanis Morissette
24. Cosmic - Kylie Minogue
25. 1000 Miles Away - Jewel

This is an interesting idea for a thread. I chose 'Duke's Place' by Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington.

1. Duke's Place - Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
2. Beau Mot Plage - Christian Prommer's Drumlesson
3. Patterns - Oliver Nelson
4. Nubian Lady (Metisse Remix) - Yusef Lateef
5. The Bird - Jimmy McGriff
6. Tchfunkta - Stanton Moore
7. Yokada Yokada / The Rumproller - Nels Cline
8. The Angel of Angels - The Nels Cline Singers
9. Solitude (Alternate Take) - Duke Ellington
10. Can You Feel It - Christian Prommer's Drumlesson
11. Delilah - Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery
12. The Sidewinder - Lee Morgan
13. Rain Dance - Herbie Hancock
14. Count Your Blessings - Sonny Rollins
15. Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
16. Suite: Part I - Prayer And Meditation: Day / Part II - Peace And After... - John Coltrane Quartet
17. Slow Dance - John Coltrane
18. Original Faubus Fables - Charles Mingus
19. Rufus (Swung, His Face At Last To The Wind, Then His Neck Snapped) - Archie Shepp
20. All The Things You Are - Dizzy Gillespie
21. Moods In Free Time - Booker Little
22. You Got It! (Alternate Take) - Cannonball Adderley Quintet
23. Bebop - Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker
24. Humpty Dumpty - Ornette Coleman
25. Fall - Miles Davis

For contrast here's a second slightly different one, since I figured out a quick way to transcribe these what the hell.


1. Trower - Goatsnake
2. French Connection - Simon Stinger
3. Portraits Of Pain - Goatsnake
4. Wizard In Black - Electric Wizard
5. Greet Death - Explosions In The Sky
6. Calculating Infinity - The Dillinger Escape Plan
7. Hyperdrive - Devin Townsend
8. Vampira - The Devin Townsend Band
9. God Hates a Coward - Tomahawk
10. 04/30/05 - Saturday - Fantômas
11. Struggle - Radio 4
12. IV - Goatsnake
13. Lazy - Deep Purple
14. Behemoth - Electric Wizard
15. Forever My Queen - Pentagram
16. Into The Void - Black Sabbath
17. Green Machine - Kyuss
18. Anointing Of Seer - High On Fire
19. In Fiction - Isis
20. Dragon Time - Saint Vitus
21. Hot Rod (Black Oak Arkansas) - Goatsnake
22. We Hate You - Electric Wizard
23. Boris - Melvins
24. Call Of The Mastodon - Mastodon
25. Procreation (Of The Wicked) - Celtic Frost

1. Believe - the Bravery
2. Time To Pretend - MGMT
3. Underdog - Spoon
4. Music Is My Hot Hot Sex - CCS
5. Reptilia - the Strokes
6. the Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
7. Back In Your Head - Tegan & Sara
8. Naive - the Kooks
9. Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
10. Sat (All I Need) - OneRepublic
11. Famous Last Words - My Chemical Romance
12. Salute Your Solution - the Raconteurs
13. Crooked Teeth - Death Cab For Cutie
14. Chocolate - Snow Patrol
15. Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups
16. the World Has Turned and Left Me Here - Weezer
17. I'm Like A Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off - Fall Out Boy
18. Little Sister - Queens of the Stone Age
19. A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
20. Always Where I Need To Be - the Kooks
21. I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab For Cutie
22. Time is Running Out - Muse
23. You Don't Know What Love Is - the White Stripes
24. Pork and Beans - Weezer
25. Dashboard - Modest Mouse

1. Matthew Ryan - Guilty
2. Glen Phillips - Duck and Cover
3. Michael McDermott - Dance With Me
4. Van Morrison - Higher than the World
5. Son Volt - Tear Stained Eye
6. Elvis Costello - So Like Candy
7. John Cougar Mellencamp - Between a Laugh and a Tear
8. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - My Love Will Not Let You Down
9. Matthew Ryan - Me and My Lover
10. Peter Gabriel - Not One of Us
11. The Cranberries - Never Grow Old
12. Ryan Adams - Cry on Demand
13. Arcade Fire - Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
14. Bruce Springsteen - All That Heaven Will Allow
15. Matthew Ryan - Irrelevant
16. Graham Parker - Local Girls
17. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - When Will You Come Back Home
18. Uncle Tupelo - Give Back the Key To My Heart
19. Tom Waits - Downtown Train
20. John Hiatt - Lipstick Sunset
21. The Jayhawks - Save It For a Rainy Day
22. John Fogerty - Broken Down Cowboy
23. Ryan Adams - Note to Self: Don't Die
24. Son Volt - The Picture
25. Matthew Ryan - The Little Things

A bit disappointed that it picked several songs by the same artist as the 'seed' but overall looks like a pretty decent list I think.

1. Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
2. A Long December - Counting Crows
3. Look What You've Done - Jet
4. Wonderwall - Ryan Adams
5. Flake - Jack Johnson
6. The General - Dispatch
7. Rocket Man - Elton John
8. Run-Around - Blues Traveler
9. Round Here - Counting Crows
10. Ball and Chain - Social Distortion
11. A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
12. Morning Glory - Oasis
13. Satellite - Dave Matthews Band
14. On Call - Kings of Leon
15. She's Got a Way - Billy Joel
16. No Such Thing - John Mayer
17. Sideways - Citizen Cope
18. Drunken Lullabies - (Acoustic)- Flogging Molly
19. New York, New York - Ryan Adams
20. Buzzin' - Shwayze
21. Molly's Chambers - Kings of Leon
22. Hook - Blues Traveler
23. Roll With It - Oasis
24. Goodbye Mr. A - The Hoosiers
25. Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presely

I chose "Raquel" by Neon Neon, and the playlist it came up with is rather strange:

1. For Reverend Green - Animal Collective
2. Do The Whirlwind - Architecture in Helsinki
3. Show Girl - The Auteurs
4. I'm On Fire - Bat For Lashes
5. Silently - Blonde Redhead
6. Is this Love? - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
7. River Song - Dennis Wilson
8. Panda - Dungen
9. Satin Chic - Goldfrapp
10. Mammoth - Interpol
11. Hanna - Juvelen
12. I'm Good, I'm Gone - Lykke Li
13. Everybody But Me - Lykke Li
14. Kim & Jessie - M83
15. Apocalypso - Mew
16. Raquel - Neon Neon
17. Trick For Treat - Neon Neon
18. Accident & Emergency - Patrick Wolf
19. Let's Call It Off (Single Mix) - Peter Bjorn and John
20. The Devil - PJ Harvey
21. Cry Baby - Róisín Murphy
22. French Disco - Stereolab
23. Blues From Down Here - TV On The Radio
24. New Violence - White Williams
25. Soldier's Grin - Wolf Parade

i wonder what the common theme is with all of these?