I actually love it when a mix is so wildly eclectic that you have no idea what might come up next. I’ve been known to make mixes for friends that segue from German industrial-noise band Einsturzende Neubauten into Patsy Cline and then into Dead Kennedys and Stan Getz. To me, that is far more interesting than the strictly homogenized formatting most radio adheres to.

I also know many people, like yourself, who find that head-spinning. To each their own. Heck, my sister-in-law doesn’t like mixes, period – she only wants to hear the full album by an artist, in order, and get your fingers away from that “random” button!