Hooray! It's the return of the Randomizer
Posted by David Hepworth on 22 October 2007 - 7:35am.
Usual rules. Give your iPod (other MP3 players are available) a random shuffle and then tell us the namesof the first five songs that come up. Cheat and everyone will know and small children will snigger behind their hands and point at you in the streets.
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MyPod
Howard Tate - Everyday I Have The Blues (Mono)
Yo La Tengo - How To Make A Baby Elephant Float
The Ruby Suns - Trepidation Part Two
Candi Staton - You Don't Have Far To Go
Common - Chi City
Randomizer
Young Rascals: I Ain't Gonna Eat out My Heart Anymore
Tinariwen:Kyardadem
Traffic: Heaven Is In Your Mind
Steve Miller Band: Living In The USA
Sam Collins: Slow Mama Slow
The Rascals are skill
Especially Dino Danelli the drummer
Rascals
I once spent the night in Central Park with Dino Dinelli.
Whoever he is...
Now if it was Dino Danelli of the Young Rascals you might have a story.
Ooh, you little tease
Come off it, you can't just leave statements like that dangling in the air. Perhaps when the children are tucked up in bed, safely out of earshot, you might like to furnish us with a few more details about this little escapade.
Did Dino, for example, greet the new dawn by launching into a lusty rendition of this little belter . . .
Yes, come on Governor..
..make with the details.
Or are you saving it for the retirement fund "tell all?" I can see it now.
"Just Off Desolation Row;A Life On The Edge Of Rock" by David Hepworth.
Poptastic!
Jerusalem - Fat Les
Everyday is Like Sunday - Morrissey
Bootilicous - Destinys Child
A Forest - The Cure
I've Just Seen a Face - The Beatles
random
to me you are a work of art - morrissey
somebody somewhere - moloko
the last song but one - the bluetones
young folks - peter, bjorn and john
graffiti - maximo park
Bluetones
Last Song But One - an absolute belter! Whoever I have burned that for love it.
Tasty!
I've Got A Flair - Fountains Of Wayne
I Do Have Weapons - Mogwai
French Kissin' In The USA - Debbie Harry
Aurora - Foo Fighters
London - Steeleye Span
There - from pure pop to post-rock via folk-rock.
on my iPod Video (did I mention it's got video?) -
I'm In The Mood For Love - Julie London
This House Is Empty Now - Elvis Costello w. Burt Bacharach
Brother - Stephen Fretwell
Tempted - Squeeze
A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
thank heavens for the last one, since my Word profile says I'm 'Beatles'. imagine if the Stones had come up? the embarrassment!
Shuffletastic!
The Knock - U.N.K.L.E
Can't Hardly Wait - The Replacements
White Feathered Medicine - Scott Matthews
The Mission - Ennio Morricone
Trans Island Skyway - Donald Fagen
Next up on Party Shuffle....
Psychedelic Furs - Here Come Cowboys
Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
Seu Jorge - Rebel Rebel
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Propaganda - Dr Mabuse
7,063 songs to choose from...
...and I get one with Isaac Hayes talking for three minutes.
1) Ike's Rap - Isaac Hayes
2) Dark On You Now - Peanut Butter Conspiracy (did you know that there were two bands with this, frankly rubbish, name?)
3) I Won't Let That Chump Break Your Heart - Carl Carlton
4) Little Drummer Boy - The Crusaders
5) The End Of The Race - Willy Mason
randomiser
Off my phone mp3 player: So a smaller selection.
Hello Saferide : San Francisco
Benny Goodman: Rose of Washington Square
The Arcade Fire: Blacl Wave/Bad Vibration
Clint Eastwood & General Saint: Another one bite de dust.
Smog: Rock Bottom Riser
The Sonics: She's a witch.
do I win a prize?
Maxine - The T Wilburys I
Maxine - The T Wilburys
I don't care where you live - The Charlatans (from Us & Us Only, their greatest work)
Untitled - REM (track XI from Green, where Peter Buck plays drums apparently)
Girl Sailor - The Shins
Juicebox - The Strokes (whoever say this their 3rd album is a dud is so wrong)
having a stroke
Juice Box sounds like a kids packed lunch though what next Petit Filous with cheese string arrangements ;)
Five-Song Shuffle
Knives Out by Radiohead
The Ballad of John And Yoko by The Beatles
Ever Fallen In Love by Buzzcocks
Caravan by Van Morrison
Take My Hand Precious Lord by Mahalia Jackson
From the tiny Zen Stone
1.Four Seasons - Opus 17
2.Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
3.Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
4.Detroit Spinners - I'll Always Love You
5.Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment
Shuffling
I normally shuffle albums rather than songs, so I had to reconfigure things for this to be worthwhile.
Depeche Mode - Halo (Goldfrapp mix)
Salif Keita - Tomorrow (Sadio)
Flybuzz - Your Vegas
Speed of Light - Joseph Arthur
The Tangent Universe - Michael Andrews
Randomize
Atmosphere - Joy Division
Leave Me Alone - New Order
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
U.S. 80's-90's - The Fall
Ghost Dance - Prince Buster
Spanish Bombs - The
Spanish Bombs - The Clash
Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom Boom) - The Staple Singers
If You Wear That Velvet Dress - U2
Four Or Five Times - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Skanking Dub - Augustus Pablo
Weird!
Moondance/My Funny Valentine - Van Morrison (from A Night in San Francisco)
That Ain't No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins
Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
Bad Love - Eric Clapton (from 24 Nights)
Girl In The War - Josh Ritter (A Word Magazine Selection!)
It makes little sense to me and it's my iPod.
Random thingy
Another Black Feather - Deyna Kurtz (From Word CD May 2006!)
Put The Sun Back - The Coral
Eyes Without a Face - Paul Anka
Sat Hello to Angels - Interpol
Mojo Pin - Jeff Buckley
My Fab 5
Questions by Mike Scott
Cathedral by Crosby Stills & Nash
Just take my heart by Mr Big
Into Temptation by Crowded House
House by the sea by Iron and Wine
OK so Mr Big is a bit embarrassing but the rest are just fine
;-)
5 Tunes
1. Teenage Kicks - Nouvelle Vague
2. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
3. I Just Don't Know What to Do with myself - The White Stripes
4. In My Life - Johnny Cash
5. No One Would Riot for Less - Bright Eyes
#5 is fantastic.
Shuffled
Space And Time- The Verve
Agent Double O Soul- Edwin Starr
Winterlong- Neil Young
The Ha Ha Wall - The libertines ( No, me neither)
Theme From Hill Street Blues- Mike Post ( Oh Yes!)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, do the iPod shuffle
1. Waltzin' With Sin - Bob Dylan, A Tree With Roots (cough-bootleg)
2. Paths Of Victory - Bob Dylan, The Witmark Demos (I can see a pattern emerging)
3. Night Flyer - Emmylou Harris, Luxury Liner
4. 'Cause I Love You - Johnny Cash, Love
5. Sexy Sadie - The Beatles, White Album Demos
Not too shabby
The Killers - All these things that I've done
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
Electric Light Orchestra - The Diary of Horace Wimp
The Mighty Wah! - The Story of the Blues
Gavin Degraw - I don't want to be
Quite an anthemic line up.
not as iffy as it might have been
White Bird / It's A Beautiful Day
California / Rufus Wainwright
Search and Destroy / Iggy Pop
If He's Ever Near / Linda Ronstadt
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) / Neil Young
The first five of the morning
Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness (Saturday Sessions)
The Beach Boys - Surfin' (Good Vibrations)
Indigo Girls - Closer to FIne (Indigo Girls)
Low vs Diamond - Moonage Daydream (Saturday Sessions)
The Dramatics - Whatcha See I Watcha Get (Have a Nice Decade: 70s Pop Culture Box Set - Rhino)
A strange, slightly 'popularist', mix this early in the morning - Where is Quo, Zep, All-the-Bands?
Ah! There we go... the sixth is Lowell George - Heartache (Thanks I'll Eat It Here).
Eat My Shuffle
This Is Just The Beginning - Gruff Rhys
Keep It To Yourself - Family Cat
All You Need Is Love - Beatles
Green Room Sex Kitten - Scheer
Lightning Bolt - Riff Wraiths
Wonderfully appropriate first track. Odd lack of Pavement and Super Furry Animals, despite them making up a large proportion of my current collection. On the whole, though, I'm happy with that little lot.
Shuffle The Pack
Always fun...
Tunng - Kinky Vans
Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together
Scritti Politti - Cooking
Seu Jorge - Ziggy Stardust
Isaac Hayes - I Stand Accused
David L
Why has no one mentioned the young David Letterman on double tambourine duty in the Young Rascals YouToob above? He went on to greater things, I hear. PS I once spent a night in Central Park with Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the cast of Hair and Richard Nixon.
Thank goodness..
David Bowie - Velvet Goldmine
PJ Harvey - Big Exit
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down By The River
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Spun
Ramblin - Ornette Coleman
I have to say, if my iTunes was normally this good at 'randomisation' I would use shuffle facility more often.. I'm so glad MC Hammer did not feature..
Shuffle off
The strokes - Take it or leave it
Ash - Angel Interceptor
Liz Phair - What makes you happy
Cast of Buffy the vampire slayer - Something to sing about
Lauren Laverne - In the bleak midwinter
Where do we go from here?
God bless you for having the Buffy 'Once More With Feeling' soundtrack on there - a guilty pleasure of mine ever since I saw the episode. Triffic.
Shuffle Skuffle
From a 1st generation iPod, still grinding away ...
John Prine - Six O'Clock News
The Comedian Harmonists - Bin Kein Hauptmann
Ralph Stanley and Friends - I'll Remember You Love
Hot In Here - Boss Hoss (Berlin cowboy band. Huge fun)
Thelonious Monk - Abide With Me
Five from 9760
XTC - Great Fire
Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Shack - Black & White
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Tom Waits - Good Old World (waltz).
No Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices which is strange as every other song usually is.
Randomised
Let Them Eat Shit - Billy Mahonie
R.A.M.O.N.E.S. - The Ramones
Are You the Trash - Mark Eitzel
Until I Say So - Mark Mulcahy
Low Desert - R.E.M.
I'm pretty happy with that!!
Zenned
Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim - Fountains of Wayne
Bloody Well right - Supertramp
A history of lovers - Iron and wine/Calexico
Church as Witness - King Creosote
First Star - Justin Adams
We seems to be on low-key shuffling this morning - at least including Supertramp lets you know I'm telling the truth. I still have a soft spot for Crime of the Century though - ironically BWR is my least favourite track - (after Dreamer obviously).
Mr Randoms ramblings
Royksopp - Royksopps night out
Teardrop Explodes - Tiny children
Richard Thompson - Aint going to drag my feet no more
Sinead O'Connor - Jackie
Squeeze - Separate Beds
Great fun again
You Can Leave Your Hat On - Randy Newman (from Songbook Vol 1)
Song For The Dumped- Ben Folds Five
Not A Cloud In The Sky - John Bucchino
John Wayne Gacy, Jr - Sufjan Stevens (from Now Hear This Nov 05!)
On The Wind - Bryndle
Here we are, then
Galveston/Glen Campbell
Suzanne/Nina Simone
Dry Land/Joan Armatrading
A Slow Song/Joe Jackson
Groovin' With Mr Bloe/Mr Bloe
pseudorandom
Because any sequence produced by a computer programme is not truly random - see me after class for details - but here goes anyway
Rough Lions Tongue/Juliet Turner
Waltz in A minor/F.Chopin
Daylight/Alison Krauss & Union Station
Push Push/Loyd and Devon
My First Lover/Gillian Welch
Day Old Blues- Kings Of
Day Old Blues- Kings Of Leon
Pam Berry- The Shins
Heysatan- Sigur Ros
Neighbourhood #1- Arcade Fire
Everlong (acoustic) - Foo Fighters
Of we go into the vast (un)known...
1. Valentine (The Replacements) Pleased To Meet Me
2. The Kildareman's Fancy (Planxty) Live 2004
3. Carry Me (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) The Lyre of Orpheus
4. Green Flower Street (Donald Fagen) The Nightfly
5. Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan) Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Tour
What became of the good tunes?
Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Danger Mouse (Jay-Z v The Beatles)
All I Want Is You (Live - Dublin, 1989) - U2
I Wasn't Born to Follow - The Byrds
Red Light - U2
What Became Of The Likely Lads - The Libertines
Well that was traumatic.
another first gen ipod shuffle
not too shabby this lot,even got a track released this year!
ruby tuesday - melanie
diamond dogs - bowie
dirty water - buddy and julie miller
heading out to the highway - judas priest
last to die - bruce springsteen
Ah. Now, you see....
I've just had a bit of an iPod spring clean, so currently I've not got any tracks ripped from my own retail cd's, just stuff from e-music, wippit, coverdiscs and the like. Most of which I haven't heard yet. This could be interesting.
Cry - The Raspberries
Hollow Horse - The Icicle Works
c30 c60 c90 go - Pretty Girls Make Graves
Martin's Third Letter - Dirty Fan Male
Radio Houston - Go Home Productions
Actually, no. Not very interesting at all.
underrated, methinks
Hollow horse by The Icicle Works is in my opinion one of the most underrated songs out there. Regular plays on my ipod anyways.
I can't remember how any of these go...
...except maybe #4...
1. Cat Power - Free (You Are Free)
2. Kate Bush - Mrs Bartolozzi (Aerial)
3. Go! Team - Flashlight Fight (Proof of Youth)
4. Cherry Ghost - 4AM (Thirst for Romance)
5. Vashti Bunyan - Brother (Lookaftering)
Am I alone in having listened to Aerial loads of times, really enjoying it, and not being able to remember any of the 'tunes' afterwards (apart from the chorus of King of the Mountain)? I am? Ah well...
Shuffle baby shuffle
Get It Get It - Scissor Sisters
Hungarian Peasant Song - Bela Bartok
Dog Door - Tom Waits
Chaos Streams - Son Volt
Wires In the Sky - Dawn Killard
Even surprised me - maybe I should go again.....
The Ipod on random is the only way to listen
though it does make the Archers podcasts a tad confusing. My entry (with no need for any cheating!)
Seven Swans - Sufjan Stevens
Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars (forgot I had this. Marvellous. Radio Stars, the Art Brut template?)
Mistry Babylon - Heptones
Pink Light - Laura Veirs
Between the Wars - Billy Bragg
Saturday morning iTunes shuffle
Fighting In Built Up Areas - Ladytron
Vivo Sanhando - Wanda Sa
I Wait For Your Love - Richard James
Catholic Girls - Frank Zappa
Fade To Grey - Visage
Bloody hell!
Do the iTunes Shuffle
The Partisan - Electrelane
Sunrise - Lambchop
The Beach/Sandwiches [A Capella] - New Order/Detroit Grand Pubahs
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
End Of Story - Peshay
Not too bad...
BonzoDog IS interesting
Anyone with The Raspberries on their iPod IS interesting. They are one of my great "near misses" in rock - 2 years ago almost to the day I arrived in LA to stay at the Mondrian and was humming and haa-ing in my usual indecisive manner as to whether I should go to see Eagles at some barn downtown when I discovered that The Raspberries were playing at The House Of Blues, literally across the street from the hotel. Jet lag and family pressure prevented me from sliding in, a decision I regret to this day, especially as the gig is now out on cd/dvd - and by coincidnce I ordered it just yesterday.
So BonzoDog, interesting, especially when compared to my aimless ramble!
How did number four get in there.....?
Vehicles & Animals - Athlete
The Crying Game - Boy George
There Is No Place Like Home - The Million Dollar Quartet
The Arrest - Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack
It Was a Pleasure Then - Nico
And on iPod number 2...
Wang Dang Doodle - PJ Harvey
Monster - The Automatic
Sweet Sweet Surrender - Beck Bogert & Appice
Means To An End - Joy Division
Go Slow Down - The BoDeans
rockin' yer sunday nite :)
Ice Hockey Hair - Super Furry Animals
They're Red Hot - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Talk To Me Baby - Elmore James
Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M.
The Big Gangster - The O'Jays
Randomizer on my IRIVER, not ipod, thats right!
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
New Order - Thieves Like Us
The Cure - Lullaby
Half Man Half Biscuit - New York Skiffle
Beastie Boys - Slow And Low
hello, im new!
The Chillout Tent - The Hold
The Chillout Tent - The Hold Steady (track off the brilliant Boys & Girls In America album)
Atom - British Sea Power (free download from their website, will be on the new album)
Surging Out Of Convalescence - Half Man Half Biscuit (from Achting! Bono)
Brixton Leaves - The Duke Special (from the free CD with Word 44!)
Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield (from his best of CD)
.. A pleasingly Word Approved selection!
5 from 5236
Three of these artists were the soundtrack to my formative years. I hadn't got around to listening to the other two...!
Fighter Pilot - The Church
I'm Gonna Do It Myself - Jimmy 'Preacher' Ellie
Bloody Dub - Stiff Little Fingers
I Didn't Mean To Hurt You - Paul Weller
We're a Winner - Mother Earth
1) Ben Lee "In My Life" 2)
1) Ben Lee "In My Life"
2) Belle & Sebastian "If You're Feeling Sinister"
3) Ween "Gabrielle"
4) Felt "Fortune"
5) Neil Young "Alabama"
From an old school model iPod
Television - Friction
Bob and The Band - Baby Let Me Follow You Down (from The Last Waltz)
Rod Stewart - Pinball Wizard
Ready Men - Shortnin' Bread (from a Mojo guide to garage bands)
Orange Juice - Upwards and Onwards
Strange there was no Stones or Ramones as it seems that's all I ever get
Randomizer
In The Morning-Razorlight
You're All I Have-Snow Patrol (Jesus!!)
I Don't Feel Like Dancin'-Scissor Sisters
I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You-High School Music OST
Walk Like An Egyptian-The Bangles
Obviously my ipod has decided to get me back for having really cool tunes on the last randomizer! are these the uncoolest tunes of all time?!
So that's what happened!!!!
i was shuffling through my nine year old's playlist, can i go again?!
One more go..
I Lost It - Lucinda Williams
1959 - Patti Smith
Exodus Damage - John Vanderslice
Cloudy Room - The Twang
Asleep At The Back - Elbow
at random
Old Man - Neil Young - Retrospection (bootleg)
Pure Bug Beauty - Wilco - The Wilco Book
Hanging on the Telephone - Teenage Kicks Vol 1
Take me with you (when you go) - Hollywood Town Hall
I don't Wanna Fight - Tom Petty - Echo
Yeah that feels about right - not sure i wouldn't skip the Blondie if the other half wasn't in the car!
Randomly good
Here Comes The Sun- The Beatles
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For- U2
You Can See Me- Supergrass
Baggy Trousers- Madness
End- The Cure
I'm actually amazed at the quality. On any other day the iPod would have exposed some dubious entries. I will post again next week and see what emerges.
Oh Dear......
Can I have numbers 6-10 on my machine?
6. Neil Young - For the Turnstiles from On the Beach
7. Blur - For Tomorrow from Modern Life Is Rubbish
8. Shack - Mood of the Morning from Waterpistol
9. The Cramps - Human Fly from As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Part 2
10. The Futureheads - Stupid And Shallow from The Futureheads
No? Oh well 1-5 were
1. The Coral, - Dreaming of You from The Coral,
2. World Party - She's the One from Egyptology
3. Mark Knopfler - Coyote from The Ragpicker's Dream
4. Pavement - Newark Wilder from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
5. The Doobie Brothers - South City Midnight Lady from The Captain and Me
No 2 ...I know....