QuikSand
02-01-2013, 01:01 PM
Okay, not intended to be a serious deep thinker, just one of those things I noticed and thought to myself "that might make a clever little puzzle." I'm sure I will be proven wrong, as usual.
Here's the setup:
Some time ago, preparing for a holiday event at our house, I wanted to get some holiday-appropriate music for the kids who'd be coming over. I don't recall the details, but I guess I must have loaded up iTunes and purchased several singles - so they are still sitting in my iTunes library. There might be 5-6 songs out of a decent-sized iTunes library of maybe 4,000 songs.
Anyway, here's the thing I noticed. Two of this very small set of songs happen to land right next to one another on my usual sort (Album by Artist). Just seemed oddly improbable... given there doesn't seem to be any particular connection between the two different artists who are credited with the two songs. (No, they are not listed together as both being from some sort of "Various Artists" agglomeration - the correct artists are listed)
I will confess, as a hint in the interests of fairness, that while one of the songs is/was a complete no-brainer for the theme I was seeking, the other one really wasn't. I don't recall if I picked it from a special list promoted by iTunes (likely), but I don't think it would have occurred to me to search for that specific song, like it would have for the first. (Hope that makes sense -- one song obvious, one slightly obscure but still reasonably theme-related)
So... what are the two songs?
Here's the setup:
Some time ago, preparing for a holiday event at our house, I wanted to get some holiday-appropriate music for the kids who'd be coming over. I don't recall the details, but I guess I must have loaded up iTunes and purchased several singles - so they are still sitting in my iTunes library. There might be 5-6 songs out of a decent-sized iTunes library of maybe 4,000 songs.
Anyway, here's the thing I noticed. Two of this very small set of songs happen to land right next to one another on my usual sort (Album by Artist). Just seemed oddly improbable... given there doesn't seem to be any particular connection between the two different artists who are credited with the two songs. (No, they are not listed together as both being from some sort of "Various Artists" agglomeration - the correct artists are listed)
I will confess, as a hint in the interests of fairness, that while one of the songs is/was a complete no-brainer for the theme I was seeking, the other one really wasn't. I don't recall if I picked it from a special list promoted by iTunes (likely), but I don't think it would have occurred to me to search for that specific song, like it would have for the first. (Hope that makes sense -- one song obvious, one slightly obscure but still reasonably theme-related)
So... what are the two songs?