Entertainment For Lively Minds
A different Randomiser
I am hoping David H allows this. 90 percent of the time I listen to my IPOD I do so on shuffle. Occasionally I can get a whole wad of songs I don't recognise or even artists I don't recognise.So I thought it would be fun to take five random songs and identify the artist, the song title and the album giving 1 point for each correct answer. Maximum 15 points, minimum a big fat zero. Same rules apply, no cheating etc:-
Can't get you outta my head (1), Julian Cope (1), You got a problem with me (1)
Over the hill (0), Loudon wainwright (1), Unrequited (0)
Winter birds (0), Ray LaMontagne (1), Gossip in the grain (0)
King of Rock and Roll (1) Prefab Sprout (1) 38 Carat collection (1)
Ophelia (1) Natalie Merchant (1) Ophelia (1)
Total score 11 which is higher than the next 2 goes I had and probably higher than my average.
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there used to be...
a game on my nano that was more or less based on this, not on my newer ipod though!
Anyway, havent got mine on me so cant play at the moment
Charlie Gillett
Late '70's Sundays on Radio London followed by David Ram-Jam Rodigan / Tony Williamson ? ( Alzheimers).
First place I heard Delbert McLinton, Elvin Bishop, Eddie Hinton and of course Flip City - whatever happened to them ?
Charlie then went on to brighten up years of GLR on a Saturday night - radio ping pong anyone ?
Got lucky!
Midlake[1] - Head home[0] - Trials of Van Occupanther[1]
Jimmy Reed[1] - Found Love[1] - Live at Carnegie Hall [1]
Eddie Hinton [1] - Wet Weather Man [1] - Letters from Mississippi [0]
Johnny Osbourne [0] - Jah Promise [0] - Truth & Rights [0]
Elvis Presley [1] - Rip It Up [1] - Complete 50s Masters [1]
10 - not bad, 2 old favourites and 1 I had listened to recently
Better than I feared I would
Atlantics (1) Goldfinger (1) Complete CBS Recordings (1)
Piano Sonata (0) Murray Perhia (0) Immortal Beloved (0)
A Day in the Life (1) Easy All Stars (1) Sgt Pepper (1)
Bad Moon Rising (1) John Fogerty (1) Q- Live From Glastonbury (0)
Through Being Cool (1) Devo (1) Pioneers Who Got Scalped (1)
11 out of 15 and that's being generous as I can't remember the EXACT title of the Atlantics or the Easy All Stars cd but I'm close enough I could find them if I needed to.
I currently have all the Word cds on my Zen mp3
Hence I can often manage to claim a score lower than 5!
(zen mp3 - other i-pod equivalents are available........)
Good game
I scored 11 too:
Reckoner (0) Radiohead (1) In Rainbows (1)
North Country Boy (1) The Charlatans (1) Tellin' Stories (0)
Well That Was Easy (0) Franz Ferdinand (1) You Could Have It So Much Better (0)
Come Together (1) Spiritualized (1) Ladies & Gentlemen (1)
I Saw A Light (1) Bat For Lashes (1) Fur & Gold (1)
Zen Like
Me Too Craig.
Great Game, Steve,Here's mine
Gave myself 30 seconds each track
10-Got lucky
Ken Boothe (1) Train is Coming (1) Catch This Beat (0)
The Gaylettes (1) Emergency Call (0) We Shall Sing (1)
Nella Dodds (1) Come See About Me (1) Mod 100 (bootleg) (0)
Brotherhood (1) Alphabetical Response (1) Elementalz (1)
Gillian Welch(1) Winter's come and Gone (0) Hell amongst the Yearlings 0
started well, fell apart in the middle
Ballad Of Bodmin Pill [1] - New Model Army [1] - Thunder & Consolation [1]
Pink Cadillac [1] - Bruce Springsteen [1] - Tracks [1]
Forgive [0] - Burial [0] - Untrue [0]
Folk Song Version [0] - Freedom Singers [0] - More Pressure [0]
Harry Hippie [1] - Bobby Womack [1] - The Essential BW [0]
8/15
Freaky 14
A Town With No Cheer(1) Tom Waits(1) Swordfishtrombones(1)
The Pocket Knife(1) PJ Harvey(1) Uh Huh Her(1)
Hook(1) PJ Harvey(1) Rid of Me(0 - I thought it was the 4 track demos version)
Comfortably Numb(1) Pink Floyd(1) The Wall(1)
Negativland(1) Neu(1) Neu1(1)
All in all 14, but from familiar and very distinctive stuff. Am also still breaking in a new ipod so might have a better awareness of what is on there (~2000 songs) than normal. Downside is that I have spent too much time recently "managing" my music rather than sitting back and listening to it.
Vaseline (1) Elastica (1)
Vaseline (1) Elastica (1) Elastica (1)
Police Station Blues (0) Peetie Wheatstraw (0) The Road To Robert Johnson compilation (1)
Tempted (0) Mark Mulcahy (0) Fathering (0)
Rocket Queen (1) Guns N' Roses (1) Appetite For Destruction (1)
Take Me Back Mary Jane (1) Young Heart Attack (1) Mouthful Of Love (0)
A middling 9. The Mark Mulcahy is one of those records I really like but have almost never listened to, and I have so many compilations of old blues that, frankly, I just tend to assume the answer is Big Bill Broonzy. I don't think I've ever even registered the existence of that Peetie Wheatstraw song before.
Great game!
Is there a time limit?
Just Like a Woman - Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (3)
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (3)
Trying to Find a Home - Tindersticks - Waiting for the Moon (3)
Saturday Night - The Noisettes - Young Wild Hearts (2)
Please Do not Let Me Go - Ryan Adams - Love is Hell (3)
14/15, and that's from a selection of around 2200 songs. The iPhone was very kind to me though. I'm sure if I had another go I'd struggle to get double figures.
It was very kind to me too
I had 3 more goes and all were below 10 and one was 5.
A lucky ten
Death Cab for Cutie (1) - Summer Skin (0) - Q Coverdisc (0)
Jesus & Mary Chain (1) - Happy Place (0) - Barbed Wire Kisses (0)
Elton John (1) - Tinderbox (1) - Captain & the Kid (1)
Jess Roden (1) - Me and Crystal Eye (1) - Blowin' (1)
Page & Plant (1) - Gallows Pole (1) - Glastonbury 1985 bootleg (0)
Not bad actually - the coverdisc threw me although I couldn't place the track anyway. Pleased to spot the Page/Plant version of Gallows Pole rather than the Zep one - it was obviously live but I went for Unledded rather than the bootleg.
Should have got the JAMC though!
Happy to get into double figures
A promising start, petering away around the middle then fortunately getting a couple of familar ones at the end.
Alice Cooper (1), School's Out (1), A Fistful Of Alice (1)
Big Big Train (0), Last Train (0), The Underfall Yard (0)
Tunng (0), These Winds (1), ...And Then We Saw Land (0)
The Doors (1), Ship Of Fools (1), Morrison Hotel (1)
Uriah Heep (1), Tears In My Eyes (1), Look At Yourself (1).
10 (must do better)
guesswork - so fun it needed doing twice
A Pitiful 7...
1. Radiohead - Rapperfection (ft. Mr. Lif) - Me And This Army Remixes (2)
2. Alex Peters - Love Is The Law - The Beautiful Heartbreak (3)
3. The Invisible - Spiral - The Invisible (0)
4. Hans Zimmer - Slaves To Rome - Gladiator OST (1)
5. The New Pornographers - The End Of Medicine - Letter From An Occupant (1)
(Its sad that the only one I got 3 for was a home recording I did myself)
A better 9...
1. Aphex Twin - Flaphead - Classics (0)
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm - Siamese Dream (3)
3. Akala - Yeah Yeah Yeah - It's Not A Rumour (3)
4. Ffa Coffi Pawb - Gafael Yn Dynn - Am Byth (1)
5. Idlewild - Low Light - Hope Is Important (2)
So, what have we learned? That 30'000 songs is quite a lot to remember? That experimental electronic music all sounds the same? And that album tracks are just that for a reason? Probably all of those. But mildly diverting nonetheless.
I'll play
Jane Siberry (1) Take Me To My Tent (-) With What Shall I Keep Warm? (1)
Aretha Franklin (1) There is No Greater Love (1) Misty (-)
Beach Boys (1) God Only Knows (1) Good Vibrations (1)
Abba (1) Super Trouper (1) Gold (1)
Lewis Taylor (1) Yeah (-) The Lost Labum (1)
That's a 12. I didn't allow myself any guesses, and only as long on each track as it took me to write down the info - except I cheated on Lewis Taylor and listened to that for a minute and a bit until I could place the voice.