Shared iPod Shuffle

I tend to be a bit of a mean mom an "old fashioned" parent. Cam, 12, does not have a Wii, or any other gaming console for that matter. He does have a PSP which is currently being held hostage until his grades improve. His cell phone is for special event use only (i.e., I'm dropping him off at baseball practice, he's out riding his bike, etc.) and the poor, mistreated child does not have an iPod, instead he has to share mine!

This morning, as I was perusing Google Reader and trying to catch up on my blog reading, I had a seat on the Big Leather Couch and read Vince's iTunes Shuffle Game post. The "rules" are fairly simple - sit down with your iTunes, iPod or whatever mp3 music player you have, select your entire collection to play, make sure your settings are on shuffle all songs, hit play and record the first 3,4,5,6 songs that come up. I decided on 4 songs. I knew this would be interesting - Cam and I listen to very different types of music, but I got a better variety than I thought I would.

First one to play was his and is proof that peer pressure is alive and well. We live in the puckies rural Illinois where Country and Western is an acceptable genre of music for the pre-teen crowd. Now, you won't find any C & W in our home or in our cars, but it lives on the iPod. I had hopes to avoid videos in this post, but this one was only available in a video format.




The second song to play? Well this one is Cam's as well, although I'll admit to listening it on occasion.



Number 3? Well, I was starting to wonder if any of my music was actually going to show up. Again, this one is Cam's, but I was a little surprised to find that he had downloaded the acapella version. I guess his taste in music really isn't too bad!



Finally! Song 4 is actually one of mine, and a Simon & Garfunkel tune at that!



So what's on your iPod that might surprise me?