If a man's character can be judged by what he's got on his iPod then Protest the Hero bassist Arif Mirabdolbaghi is a card-carrying member of the counterculture, a self-avowed fan of things no one else has heard of and but a dabbler in the domain of heavy metal. Of the 20 tracks on his Random Shuffle list, only Black Sabbath is metal. Rush are kinda metal and we haven't got a clue what two-thirds of the rest of the songs are. Okay, we've heard of about half the artists, but we couldn't point them out in a police lineup. On a scale of 100, we give this Random Shuffle a 60 for sheer curiosity value, and a probable 40 for listenability -- unless you're an elitist, indie, artsy Spin reader with an ivy league education, in which case you've probably heard all this stuff on NPR and you'd give the list a strong 90. But if that's the case, what are you doing here? Click "more" to see the full list and watch a video from one of the artists:
1. Mocean Worker ft. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "Siss Boom Bah!"
2. The Orient Express - "Train to Bombay"
3. Koop - "Koop Island Blues"
4. Depeche Mode - "When the Body Speaks"
5. The Pinker Tones - "Pink Freud"
6. Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - "That Old Thing"
7. Philip Glass - "1934: Grandmother and Kimitake"
8. Miroslav Vituous - "Watching the Sunset Run"
9. Evgeni Ulugbashev - "The Sound of Mountain Singing"
10. Carla Bruni - "L'amour"
11. Oingo Boingo - "On the Outside"
12. Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightnin'"
13. Huun-Huur-Tu - "Ancestors"
14. Black Sabbath - "Rat Salad"
15. Mare - "They Sent You"
16. Rush - "The Camera Eye"
17. Ol' Dirty Bastard - "Cold Blooded"
18. Charles Mingus - "Fables of the Faubus"
19. Philip Glass & Ravi Shankar - "Prashanti"
20. Danny Elfman - "Rooftops/Wild Ride"
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