The Machine has Chosen

I've mentioned before that my iPod has a mind of its own and tends to lean towards songs that it likes and literally avoids others. With this in mind, I did an experiment this week to see which Bond songs my iPod likes and which ones it doesn't. Know it or not, I have a playlist of 32 songs encompassing all of the Bond movie title songs as well as some other tunes within the movies themselves (Where has Everybody Gone? from Living Daylights being a notable mention of one in that category).

Normally, I play the playlist in a restricted fashion having a smart playlist automatically select the least recently played, but this week, I just played wide open to see where the preferences would migrate to. Here are the results:

Top three are:

Nobody Does It Better from The Spy Who Loved Me - This one was the highest played song on my iPod before I reset the play counts of the Bond songs, so likely one of my iPod's favorites. I believe it even came up on day one when I created an "Unplayed in 2009" playlist to play through every song on my iPod.

Live and Let Die 

Goldfinger

Bottom three are:

The Living Daylights - This one came up twice during the drives, but only at the end to where it couldn't finish.

Never Say Never Again - Yeah, it would figure the Thunderball imposter would bomb.

These two tied for third lowest:

All Time High from Octopussy

Casino Royale Trailer Music

So there you have it. From Russia With Love wasn't in the bottom rung, but none of these surprise me, since the lower end always tended to have lower play counts and the higher end always tended to have higher ones before I made the smart playlist. I think it's interesting, anyway.