On the drive to work this morning, I let the iPod choose the music. Here are the songs that it picked on my ride in, in the order they were played:

qqq|”Three Doors” by VAST from Visual Audio Sensory Theater
“20th Century Fox Fanfare” from Star Wars: A New Hope
“Little Drummer Boy” from the Christianbook.com 2003 Christmas commemorative CD
“Hey Now Everybody” by They Might Be Giants from Apollo 18
“Elysium” from the Gladiator motion picture soundtrack
“Santa Evita” from the Evita motion picture soundtrack
“Bad” by U2 from The Best of 1980-1990|qqq

I thought that a fun game to play might be to attempt to connect each randomly-selected song together in some way, sort of like playing the Kevin Bacon game, but not really. So, any takers? Can you connect all of the above songs together in some way? For example, did any of the composers or musicians collaborate on any projects, or appear in television or movies together? Or did any of the composers make reference to any of the other music, movies, etc? I haven’t tried figuring it out myself yet, but I’ll keep you posted if I get anywhere.

Update:
I did “Shuffle Songs” again on the way home. Here’s what I got this time:

qqq|”High Speed” by Coldplay from Parachutes
“Airbag” by Radiohead from OK Computer
“Subway Fight” by James Newton Howard from The Fugitive motion picture soundtrack
“Darkwood V: Passage” by David Darling from Darkwood
“When You’re Gone” by The Cranberries from To The Faithful Departed|qqq

Still haven’t made any connections, but then I haven’t put much thought into it…