A Little Help From My Friends

I now have hundreds of wogging playlists in iTunes, and creating new ones is sometimes a challenge. To the rescue comes a growing trend in computerized music listening: functions that suggest which songs might go together to make a synchronistic playlist. iTunes itself has the Genius function, which compares the songs in one’s computer to its database of other users’ computers, which is what I used to create this week’s wog: SynchroniciWog #1. It uses a Genius-created list based on the song Things She Said, by Toy Matinee. I have other SynchroniciWogs that also use websites such as Pandora and last.fm that employ their own proprietary methods of suggesting songs that match each other in tone, musical composition, or user preferences. Things She Said is a great pop song from the 80s, but not all songs on the list are from the 80s, such as Nature’s Way by Spirit. Bottom line, my cyber friends helped me put together a Very Vigorous 38-minute wogging list, which can be seen along with hundreds of other lists at Podwogging.com.