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Keith Pille's Weekly Shuffle Every week, I will fire up the Shuffle Songs option on my iPod; the first song to come up, no matter what it is, will get an instant, unvarnished review. We're at the mercy of random chance and the limits of my digital music collection. Let's see where this takes us. The Ride
of the Valkyries I know, it's
one of the songs you're most likely to see included in some Bestest
Classical Hits of All Time compilation CD being hawked on low-budget
TV. That's ok-- I make no pretense about knowing anything about
Classical music (I hear that Salieri didn't like Mozart much). In
this area, I'm a sad little dabbler, and I'm fine with that. I've
got a handful of pieces that I love to listen to, and this is one
of them (and if I can make a quick, serious point, I'd argue that
this sort of cherry-picking in unfamiliar musical areas is one of
the beauties of the digital music revolution; it's wonderful to Sometimes it makes me think of helicopters attacking a village. Sometimes it makes me think of Illinois Nazis. Sometimes it makes me think of driving in my car with the song cranked, feeling like a total badass. That's because this is often what I'm doing when I go riding with the Valkyries. Weekly Shuffle
Scoreboard (Best to Worst): 1. "Rock
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