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Shuffled No.6 | R.E.M.

So, my all-time favorite band, R.E.M., put out a new record this week. I’m sure I’ll post more on the fantastic Accelerate in the future, but I thought I’d take this chance to do something different with my little Shuffled experiment.

One of my favorite things about getting new music from the artists I love is that it becomes an occasion to go back and listen again to the rest of their catalog. Often times I will go a long while without listening to a particular artist (as is the case when you have a 14,000+ song library), but R.E.M. is an exception to that rule. Even so, there are some things in this edition of Shuffled that surprised me. I guess it shouldn’t be that shocking though, considering that I’ve got 421 tracks to choose from.

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Shuffled No.5

I’m up to 14,700 songs, and it’s been about a month since my last effort, so it feels like as good a time as any for another edition of Shuffled. Plug in my headphones to the ol’ iPod and press play.

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