it's ending

my vampire weekend station has repeated at least three separate songs since the afternoon. it's not like i've had it on the whole time either; maybe three hours total. this is where i start to check out. i had been thinking the playlists were deeper, but it still looks like the equivalent of loading up a 10-disc changer and hitting random. not that you'd hear the same song from the same album twice if you did that.

while the shallow playlists seem ridiculous in the internet era (cf last.fm, where you will be slowly barraged with new artists and hear multiple alternate versions of familiar songs), what if there was a service that would let you pick any five discs and hit random? a virtual cd-changer. a niche, throwback, but controllable product. it's sad that a company that pays teams of music experts to tear apart tracks in their minute elements is basically giving us the same thing--but where we pick one artist and hope the other five we'll hear endlessly are worth it.