Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell On You) - Aqualung
No Need To Worry - Yeasayer
One Day - Dodgy (apt?)
Still In Love Song - The Stills
Revenge - Spoon

Strange - Joe Satriani
Still D.R.E - Dr. Dre (thanks to Word site contributors to my "What rap to buy" thread)
The Bottle - Gil Scott Heron
Sin City - The Flying Burrito Brothers
La Cravat - Cajun Grass Band

ps - ta to Joe Satriani for making it clear I didn't make this up.

Had the pod on shuffle walking to work this morning.. Here's how it went.

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memhis Blues Again - Cat Power
Good Friday - Elvis Perkins
Something in the Night - Bruce Springsteen
Green Eggs and Ham - Dylan Hears a Who
Annie's Song - John Denver

How could something so right go so wrong? It's the joy of shuffle!

Planes and boats and trains by Laura Cantrell: from her excellent new download only release of transport songs.
Blasphemy by Miracle Fortress: A long term favourite this year a one man band from Canada, Guitary electronic music
Some Riot by Elbow: The best album this year?
Red skies and factories by Baltic Fleet: the keyboard player from the Bunnymens' solo album kraut rocky keyboards and rhythm top stuff.
Yeah we know by Dinosaur Jnr: It's big, it's dumb and it makes me smile

England's Latest Clown - Graham Parker
The Snow White Diner - Handsome Family
Fraternity Blues - Townes Van Zandt
Do it Again - Nada Surf (from Word of Mouth Cd - Oct 05)
Crazy As A Loon - John Prine

Not representitive of me at all.....

Color of Water - M. Ward
An Occasional Dream - David Bowie
For Your Life - Led Zeppelin (oh yes a well known song in Word circles)
Red Earth (As Sommmertime Ends) - Rain Tree Crow
Flags and Banners - Faces

hmmmm that's a bit boring...must do better.

1. Daydream - Gunter Callman Choir
2. O Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
3. Second Hand News - Fleetwood Mac
4. Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
5. PCP - Manic Street Preachers

happy with that...

Disco Lies - Moby
Small Energies - Balil (not the hip-hop / soul Balil, but an alias of Plaid/Black Dog from early 90s electronica days)
Loro - Adem
The Old Schoolhouse - The Advisory Circle
Runnin' With The Devil - Van Halen

NWA - Gangsta Gangsta
Bert Jansch - Black Water Side
Beastie Boys - Bobo on the Corner
The Five Satins - The Masquerade is Over
Nas - Ether

Folk, hip hop and doo wop - that's all I listen to.

Un Besco Llega - Juana Molina
Call Me Animal - MC5
Little Pad - The Beach Boys
Red Dust - Calexico
One Fell Swoop - Chris Knox

I'm still amazed my 'Teach yourself Korean' files or my vast collection shortwave radio numbers station broadcasts haven't popped up when I'm Randomizing™.

I'm going to get called for cheating because of track 1 - but I didn't, I promise, guv.

1. Way Down In The Hole - Blind Boys of Alabama
2. Your Life on Magnetic Tape - The Russian Futurists
3. Validation - ABC
4. Gatekeeper - Feist
5. Roscoe - Midlake

Roam - B-52s
Dirge - Death In Vegas
Like Flames - Berlin
Mad Mad Moon - Genesis
Nothing About Me - Sting

My next three were a 20 minute Mike Oldfield track, 12 minutes worth of 'War of the Worlds' and 'Sheep' by Pink Floyd at nearly 11 minutes. Maybe one day we should do 'what's the longest five track randomizer you can come up with'...

Wild Swans - The Revolutionary Spirit (from Mojo CD)
Flamin' Groovies - Whisky Woman
Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (Uncut CD)
Pictures of You - Cure
New Order - Ceremony

Not sure what The Decembersits one sounds like. Otherwise good.

1. Pink on White Walls - Paul Weller
2. Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley
3. Perfect Blue Building - Counting Crows
4. Away From Here - The Enemy
5. Gloria - Van Morrison

He's 24.

I am genuinely excited as I say...

1. Woncha Come On Home - Joan Armatrading
2. Razor Boy - Steely Dan (this is a GREAT game)
3. One of these things first - Nick Drake
4. Some Unholy War - Amy Winehouse
5. Limehouse Blues - The Jazz Police

Thanks everybody

When Doves Cry / Patti Smith
Teach Your Children / Richie Havens
The Lost Highway / The Coal Porters
Humboldt / I See Hawks In LA
Rasta Man Chant / Bob Marley and the Wailers

1) Moving to New York - The Wombats
2) Like Princes Do - Diesel Park West
3) Ten Storey Love Song - The Stone Roses
4) I Need You - The Jam
5) Natalie's Party - Shack

I do listen to other types of music, honest Guv...
Alex

...and no diversions to the constellation 60s girl pop either.

1. Elbow - Some Riot
2. The Smiths - Cemetry Gates
3. The Raveonettes - Here Comes Mary
4. The Supremes - Love Is Here & Now You're Gone
5. REM - Living Well Is the Best Revenge.

What did I say about diversions Commander?
You're demoted with immediate effect. Please stand down from your post.
On second thoughts, that was rather good. Randomize the co-ordinates and full steam ahead.

I Am Kloot - Cuckoo
The Aloof - Bittersweet
Richard Thompson - Dad's Gonna Kill Me
Augusto Pablo - Pablo In Red
Blue Boy - Remember Me

1. Bob Dylan - I Want You
2. The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Beck - Runners Dial Zero
4. Carolanne Pegg - A Witch's Guide To The Underground
5. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

All great songs - rare that happens!

1. Ian McNabb - Keeping Your Love Alive
2. League Unlimited Orchestra - Don't You Want Me [Remix]
3. The Misunderstood - I Unseen (from Pillows and Prayers, Cherry Red pay-no-more-than-99p compilation)
4. Beth Orton - City Blue
5. The Teardrop Explodes - Reward

Not bad, if not as varied as I might have liked...

1. Spooky Girlfriend - Elvis Costello
2. A Fool Says... - Pete Townshend
3. Rebel Waltz - The Clash
4. Strapped For Cash - Fountains Of Wayne (Spreading the gospel on the Wayne alone justifies the existence of the magazine)
5. Lemon - U2

blushes spared

Back in Black - ACDC
Left of the Dial - The Replacements
Omaha Nights - Gary Louris
Memory Lane - Elliott Smith
Can We Still Be Friends? - Todd Rundgren

Bit samey. Hey Ho.

1] ANNIE Chewing Gum - amazing
2] ELVIS COSTELLO King Of Thieves [demo] - pretty rubbish actually
3] MORRISSEY I Am Two People - *says nowt*
4] SUPERGRASS Whiskey And Green Tea - EMI owns my iPod
5] JAMES Sit Down [Factory 12-inch version] - yes it's "baggy o'clock"

Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates

If Dogs Run Free - Bob Dylan

Intro to Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne (can't help laughing at the relevance of this, given the recent discussion about separating tracks from inter-track banter)

The World Turns All Around Her - The Byrds

City Of Gold - Bob Dylan

Mind Garden - The Byrds
Ize of the World - The Strokes
I Only Want To Be With You - The Tourists
Somerville - The Pernice Brothers
Born Under a Bad Sign - Cream

The Bathers - For Saskia

Mose Allison - Spring Song

The Gun Club - Hearts

Smashing Pumpkins - Real Love

The Libertines - Vertigo

Crash Test Dummies - Afternoons and Coffeespoons
One More Time - Daft Punk
Kate - Ben Folds Five
Atomic - Blondie
Mystify - INXS

You know what; i don't care how uncool INXS were/are - Mystify is still brilliant....

1. Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney and Wings (The Best of James Bond)
2. Truly (Wise Buddah Mix) - Delerium featuring Nerina Pallot (Truly CD-Single)
3. John Barbury - Kate Rusby(Awkward Annie)
4. Anything you need but me - Nanci Griffith (Flyer)
5. Don't stand so close to me - The Police (Every breath you take: The Classics

Yup... I can live with that!

Managed to stuff the new ipod with a few more songs since the last shuffle, so:

The very next fight - Sparks
Under my thumb - Stones
Man in Black - Johnny Cash
Time ain't nothing - Green on Red
I can't explain - The Who

Hmmmm. Bit mainstream isn't it ?

And they're off..........

1. Nite & Fog - Mercury Rev
2. Prime Mover - Joan as Police Woman
3. If - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
4. Islands - Cat Power
5. Frankie & Albert (Live) - Jack Johnson

You would have thought that the bloody thing would have found something English out of 22,500 tracks wouldn't you??

Out of frustration, here's the best of the rest!

6. God's Monkey - David Sylvian/Robert Fripp
7. Country Road - Adam Green
8. Opus #20 - Dustin O' Halloran (from Word 48 CD)
9. You have to be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain) - Flaming Lips
10.How to get to Heaven - Willard Grant Conspiracy

I give up..........

1)Love The World Away - Kenny Rogers - from the Urban Cowboy OST
2)Pungee - The Meters
3)Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
4)Five Guys Named Moe - Louis Jordan
5)Precious Words (Instrumental!) - Swing Out Sister.

Of which should I be most ashamed? Bear in mind that I really like Swing Out Sister!

Tie Your Mother Down - Foo Fighters (with Taylor and May, live at Hyde Park a couple of years ago)

Dedicated to You - John Coltrane (from Coltrane for Lovers)

Side Car II - Mile Davis Quintet (the 65-68 box set)

Tenderly - Sarah Vaughan (from a 'mellow jazz' compilation)

Poor Old Soul - Orange Juice (from Ostrich Churchyard)

Mmmmmm. Nice. Where'd all that Jazz come from?

Bubbling under, we have David Bowie, Radiohead, The Walker Brothers, The Feelgoods and ELP.

1 Jamaican Calley (Version)- Linval Thompson
2 Rebel Dance - Observers & King Tubbys
3 Out Of Order Dub - Prince Jammy & The Aggrovators
4 Down To The Wire - Buffalo Springfied (Decade)
5 Down Home Girl - Alvin Robinson (Stoned Alchemy)- original versions of songs covered by The Stones.

For the second month in a row I've randomised 3 from the same album (Flashing Echo - Trojan Dub 1970-1980) and for the second month in a row, I have copies of all of Sven's list (24 April, 10.20am).

Any way I don't mind giving it another go so here goes -
Rusted Pipe - DNA featuring Suzanne Vega.
Cafe Del Mar (Michael Woods Remix) - Energy 52
A-Punk - Vampire Weekend ( Brilliant to run to on the treadmill)
I am who I am - Ben's Brother.
Wake Up - The Arcade fire.

1) Weezer - Living Without You
2) The Magnetic Fields - *SILENCE* (Great, I've just realised I have a song on my mp3 player which is, essentially, 4 minutes 32 seconds of nothing. I wonder if the Magnetic Fields had to pay John Cage to 'cover' this...)
3) The Amps - Pacer Pixies
4) The Cooper Temple Clause - The Same Mistakes
5) Nick Lowe - The Club

Thank you to Mr Lowe for sparing my blushes there, the other 4 are surely ripe for deletion

Sleeperbold - Stereolab (Aluminium Tunes)
(Getting Some)Fun Out Of Life - Madeleine Peyroux (Dreamland)
Step Into The Realm - The Roots (Things Fall Apart)
Highway - John Lee Hooker (Mr. Lucky)
What To Do - Stephen Stills (Manassas)

Pretty, pretty, pretty good' (Said in a Larry David accent)

Something I Must Tell You-Aberfeldy
Lullaby In Ragtime-Joe Brown
Rabbit Foot Blues-Blind Lemon Jefferson
I Hate The White Man-Roy Harper
How Dare You-The Darkness

I-Pod following a colour trend on songs 2,3 and 4

some to reap milton mapes
over your shoulder calexico
right in the head m.ward
dawn lanterna
the hatist american analog set

although next up was old tubeway army b-side we are so fragile

Love Is The Drug - Roxy Music
England's Glory - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Pezo - Autechre
Sand In My Shoes (Steve Lawler's We Love Ibiza Mix) - Dido
Marz vs. Sven - Zilla

Hmmm

Vampire Racecourse - The Sleepy Jackson
Parade - Magazine
Spring Rain - The Go-Betweens
Container Drivers - The Fall
Life's Too Easy - The Undertones

funny how the old shuffle sometimes plays a bunch of stuff from a certain era or genre..

Just Another Day - The Wire Daisies (Just Another Day)
Dear Someone - Gillian Welch (The Revelator)
Paranoid Android - Radiohead (Ok Computer)
Singapore - Tom Waits (Rain Dogs)
Lets Make A Den (Home Demo) - XTC (Coat Of Many Cupboards Disc 3)

Surrender To A Stranger - Soft Cell
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
Black Angel - The Cult
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Amused As Always - Associates

1. Jethro Tull - Sealion II (from Nightcap)
2. Neil Young - Down By The River (live, 28th Feb 2008)
3. The Church - Eastern (from Sometime Anywhere)
4. Ray Wilson - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (from Live)
5. Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends? (Best Of)

story of isaac-leonard cohen
shelter from the storm-rodney crowell
he's gone-doris duke
we came down from the trees-kathryn williams
kurt's rejoinder-brian eno

not bad at all

i think its going to rain today-judy collins
tank park salute-billy bragg
black hills of dakota-doris day
rusted guns of milan-art brut(live at Los paradiso)
love letters-ketty lester

Far Far Away - Wilco

Queen of the Highway - The Doors

Unfinished Business - The Au Pairs

Too Much For You - Bobby Angelle

Out-Side - The Beta Band

I`ll give ya mainstream...
Crown of Love - Arcade Fire
Roses - Cherry Ghost
Just a Day - Feeder
Why Do Men Fight? - Carbon/ Silicon
Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

The Coral - Eskimo Lament
The Charlatans - Good Witch, Bad Witch 1
Andrew Bird - Heretics (A theme developing?)
System 7 - Desir (Nah...)
Tindersticks - Dying Slowly

Someone Else's Tomorrow - Patty Griffin -from Children Running Through
Down In Hollywood -Ry Cooder
Can You See Me Shining - ShellyDevoto (from an Un**t freebie)
Chips - The Saw Doctors - not their finest moment!
Old West African Song - Jackie Leven from Fairy Tales For Old Men

Here I go again:

"World On Fire"-Sarah Mclachlan
"Heard From Telegraph Lines"-Boards Of Canada
"Everybody Must Be Saved"-British Sea Power
"All The Jazz"-Mel Torme
"Father And Daughter"-Paul Simon

Laurie Anderson - Big Science (cue reminiscing about dance classes and Twyla Tharp)
Tori Amos - (Not sure, drifted off at this point)
Richard Hawley - Dark Road ("He was in Pulp, you know", "Uh-huh..?")
P.J. Harvey - One Line ("What's she cross about now...?")
Mika - Grace Kelly (Obligatory joining in with the 'hhmmmhmmm' bit just after the line "Try a little Freddie")

Cosmic Rough Riders - Have You Heard The News Today?

Tricky - Bad Dreams

Tom Waits - Blind Love

Nick Cave - Loom Of The Land

Christopher Franke - Messages From Earth - haven't heard this in ages. This is an amazing piece of music, from the second Babylon 5 soundtrack album. It's 10 minutes long and the last three and a half minutes in particular are heavenly.

" Turn On Me " The Shins
" Tallahassee Lassie " The Flamin´Groovies
" Until the Real Thing Comes Along " Sandy Denny
" My Own Blood " Luther Russell
" Blackwater Side " Bert Jansch

Fairport Convention - Yellow Bird (from Live at LA Troubadour)
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes - Restless Heart
Richard Thompson - The Poor Ditching Boy
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - You're More Than Fair
Squeeze - Model

Vein Melter - Herbie Hancock (from Head Hunters)
Dare - Gorrilaz (from Demon Days)
Career Opportunities - The Clash (from Live: From Here To Eternity)
Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead (from OK Computer)
Going Underground - The Jam (from The Sound Of The Jam)

Not bad at all; proud of all of these, with the possible exception of Dare. I seem to have made it through with musical dignity intact!

"C'Mon Every Beatbox" - Big Audio Dynamite
"If You Think You Know How To Love Me" - Pat Benatar
"Underneath It All" - Nine Inch Nails
"Little Red Rooster" - The Jesus and Mary Chain
"Lunch Hour Pops" - Broadcast

I think one of those in particular proves that there was no post-shuffle editting to make me look good!

1. The Collector - Nine Inch Nails
2. Free Huey - The Boo Radleys
3. White Shadows - Coldplay
4. Get It and Go - Razorlight
5. New Slang - The Shins

Letters To Cleo - Boy
Roy Orbison - You Got It
Tori Amos - Toast
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
The Bonzo Dog Band - Karma Sutra

Stupid Thing - Aimee Mann
No Holding back - Graham Parker
Come on - Lucinda Williams
Rosemary Moore - Caitlin Cary
Vera - Erin McKeown

FLYIN SHOES-LYLE LOVETT
NAPALM BRAIN/SCATTER BRAIN-DJ SHADOW
BLACK SWAN-THOM YORKE
ACT NATURALLY-BUCK OWENS
THE BLACK LIGHT-CALEXICO

Here we go:

1. The Bird Charmers Destiny - Be Bop Deluxe (Air Age Anthology)
2. The Believer - Neil Young (Chrome Dreams II)
3. Frank's Wild Years - Tom Waits (Swordfishtrombones)
4. You Make Me Brave - Billy Bragg (Mr Love and Justice)
5. Nightmare Part II - The Zutons (Who Killed The Zutons)

7 days too long - Chuck Wood
From Clare to here - Nanci Griffith
Kiss them for me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
As tears go by - Marianne Faithful
Two weeks last summer - Sandy Denny and the Strawbs

Torch- Soft Cell
Sexy No No No- Girls Aloud
The Beat Goes On- Buddy Rich
Sylvia- Pulp
Sie Liebt Dich- The Beatles

Mystic Lipstick - Christy Moore
Slip Inside This House - Primal Scream
The Way I Feel - Cowboy Junkies
Summertime Blues - The Who
Kings - Steely Dan

1. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You - Sting

2. Silly Boy Blue - David Bowie

3. Nirvana - The Cult

4. Helden - David Bowie

5. Western Union - Elvis Presley

The last one is in honour of the fact that I'm off to Nashville tomorrow for a month to record an album!

Bummed Out City - Joe Strummer & the Mascaleros
Ai Du - Ry Cooder & Ali Farke Toure
10 miles To Go On A 9 Mile Road - Jim White
Dont Go Into The Barn - Tom Waits
Pilots - Goldfrapp

Any Second Now (Voices) - Depeche Mode
This House Is Empty Now - Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach
Lover To Fall - Scritti Politti
God Give Me Strength - Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach again
Ramona - Toro

Hmm, 2 eighties, 2 from the same album and a curve ball latino thing. Don't know what that says about me...

1. Nightlife: Bonobo
2. If You Could Read My Mind: Gordon Lightfoot
3. Ash Wednesday: Shivaree
4. A Riverboat's Gone/Bumblebee: April Verch Band
5. A Man You Don't Meet Every Day: The Pogues

Statue Of Liberty - XTC (this IS pop!)
Cliffs - Aphex Twin (this isn't)
You & I - Dennis Wilson (the other genius Wilson? - discuss)
Loving Cup - Rolling Stones (effortless, grooooovy and LOVING that brass)
Boy From The Moon - The Milk & Honey Band (criminally underrated - epic and very beautiful)

I hardly ever use the shuffle, on this evidence maybe I should do it more often... stone cold classics the lot of them other than the Aphex Twin track for which the words 'coasting' and 'filler' could have been invented.
And if you haven't heard them then check out The Milk & Honey Band who are on Andy Partridge's Ape label (strange symmetry there, first and last).. one of their finest moments.

... anyway...

I Believe In My Soul - Dexys Midnight Runners

I Shot The Sheriff - Bob Marley

What Would I Be - Val Doonican

Rattlesnakes - Llyod Cole & The Commotions

Barbara Ann - The Who

Does all this info go into some great mixer? And then do all the results tell us something about us WORD readers? Lets hope so :-)

"I Love You Golden Blue" - Sonic Youth
"C'Mon Kids (Mekon remix)" - Boo Radleys
"Get Out Of My Life Woman" - Lee Dorsey
"Fear" - Throwing Muses
"North West Fashion Show" - The Fall

That Boo Radleys remix is a very odd and clanking thing indeed. Sounds like a giant steam-powered robot trying to mate with a traction engine.

Black Arrow, Bleeding Heart - Whiskeytown Faithless St
At My Window Sad and Lonely - Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Ave
Should've Been in Love - Wilco A.M.
Suiciday - Bob Schneider
You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi Crossroad

The Decemberists: The Sporting Life
David Bowie: Future Legend
Natacha Atlas: Daymalhum
John Cooper Clarke: Psycle Sluts Pts. 1 & 2
New Scorpion Band: The Truth Sent From Above

Oh gawd, that almost looks too cool to be genuine. Thankfully, closer inspection reveals a track that's just an album-intro rather than a song (Bowie), and a genuine obscurity (New Scorps) from a brilliant English folk band whose ranks include bassoon-playing genius loon, Brian Gulland, who used to be in Gryphon, back in the day. Nice to see JCC represented, after his starring role in the recent Swearing thread.

Hot Corner - The B-52's (Thank you Word!)
You Used to Hold Me - Ralphi Rosario
The Needle and the Spoon - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sister Moon - Transvision Vamp
Lost Patrol - Big Country

Lucky Bag - Electronic (Electronic)
Stumbled - Alpha (The Sky is Mine)
Hum a Song (from your Heart) - Lulu (The Atco Sessions)
Olympic (flutey mix) - 808 State (808:88:98)
Where Do I Go From Here - Elvis Presley (Burning Love)

The Red Telephone - Love
The Warming Sun - Grandaddy
Time of no Reply - Nick Drake
When the Night Comes falling from the Sky (Bootleg version)- Bob Dylan
Born to be with you - Dion

1. Goodbye, Dusty Springfield
2. How?, John Lennon
3. Cherry Pie, Sade
4. Burning Love, Elvis Presley
5. Lord, Help The Poor and Needy, Cat Power

1. Dream Lover - Leslie West > Alligator
2. Nails In my Feet - Crowded House > Together Alone
3. Ol'Man River - Temptations > Anthology CD1
4. S.M.F. - Twisted Sister > Live At Hammersmith CD2
5. Space Dementia - Muse > Origin of Symmetry

1. Who's Gonna Win The War - Hawkwind > Levitation
2. (Ghost)Riders In The Sky - Me First And The Gimme Gimmes > Love Their Country
3. Worried About Ray - The Hoosiers > The Trick To Life
4. Flowers In The Rain - The Move > Best Of Heartbeat Compilation
5. Childe The Hunter - Seth Lakeman > Freedom Fields

-

This time I used the shuffle on my PC as it had 74GB to randomise I figured it would reflect better - seems pretty much the same actually; I'm proud of all the music I choose to keep!

Everyone Wants To Lose Control - The Tranzmitors (Rough Trade Counter Culture 07)
I Love Perth - Pavement (Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition)
Drinking About Life - The Wildhearts (Earth Vs. The Wildhearts)
The Summerhouse - Divine Comedy (A Secret History)
Natural Grace - Ride (Carnival Of Light)

Pavement and Wildhearts tunes make up a good portion of my available space - as do tracks from the tremendous Counter Culture comps. In light of that, quite representative of what I have on there, topped off with a couple of numbers to suit the steadily improving weather. Result.

EDIT - Wouldja believe? The very next track was one gleaned from a Word CD (a Felice Brothers number, as it happens). Lawks!

The Ipcress File John Barry
Happy Death Men Echo and the Bunnymen
Booker-Loo Booker T and The MGs
Silver Bells Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney
The Times They Are A Changin' Bob Dylan

Metronomic Underground - Stereolab BBC Version
Muzzle Of Bees - Wilco
Rhythm and Soul - Spoon
What's Going Ahn - Big Star
All The While - Jon Brion

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 'Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere'
2. Holly Golightly - 'An Eye For An Empty Heart'
3. Death From Above 1979 - 'Pull Out'
4. Nirvana - 'Oh, The Guilt (Origional Version)'
5. Jean Michel Bernard - 'Generique Debut'

Camille - Au Port
Elgar - Enigma Variations Variation 1 C.A.E. (doesn't anyone else have any classical music on their MP3 players?)
Relax Signs - Frankie Goes To Hollywood vs Snoop Dogg Mash Up
Aimee Mann - Say Anything
Najwajean - The Wild Bunch

Wow! The most eclectic of my Randomizer contributions to date. French, Spanish, America, Classical and a mash-up!

Bright Eyes - Laura Laurent
Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
Dandy Warhols - I Am A Scientist
Nick Cave - Get Ready For Love
Ridley Rider - AC Acoustics

and there was me thinking my large and credible hip hop collection would show me to be a 21st century man and not an indie freako

George Harrison, 'All Those Years Ago' [Somewhere in England]
The Beatles, 'The Inner Light' [Past Masters, Volume 2]
David Gilmour, 'A Pocketful of Stones' [On An Island]
Sterling Magee & Adam Gussow, 'Freedom For My People' [ Track 7, U2 - Rattle and Hum]
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, 'This Time It's For Real' [Best of...]

Southside now finds himself in the 'Friday-Night-Going-Out-Music' playlist, or what should be more truthfully called the 'Friday night going into the garage and grabbing a Black Sheep' playlist- cheers!

My head is my only house unless it rains - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Could Well be in - The Streets

Without a Kiss - Badly Drawn Boy

Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler

Nashville Skyline Rag - Bob Bylan

Random!! and male...

Stay With Us - The Young Gods
Calling All Ebthusiasts - Radio 4
Silver - Pixies
Man On The Moon - Sugar
Little Bear - Guillemots

Last of the steam powered trains - The Kinks
Let it rock - Chuck Berry
Last Years Man - Leonard Cohen
House party at Boothy's - Little Man Tate
Musicology - Prince

Cocteau Twins - Wolf In The Breast
Lemonheads - Fed Up
Wilco - Shouldn't Be Ashamed
Graham Coxon - Bitter Tears
Meat Beat Manifesto - Strap Down Pt.2

The Who - Pictures Of Lily
Greatful Dead - China Cat Flower - Road Trips Vol 1
The Be Good Tanyas - It's Not Happening - Chinatown
Al Kooper - Love Theme From The Landlord - Easy Does It
Pentangle - Forty-Eight - The Time Has Come Box Set
Then Beyonce spoils it at number 6

Shake - The Supremes
Moonshine - Alison Moorer
Fourth Time Around - Bob Dylan (from Vanilla Sky)
Injured Bird - Vic Chesnutt & Michael Stipe (from End of Violence)
Death and The Lady - Bellowhead

...all slightly interesting but kind of third or fourth tier stuff.

It's Not For Me To Judge - Rodney Crowell
Roll With It - Oasis
Dreams Of Children - The Jam
Six O'Clock News - Kathleen Edwards
Rainy Day Man - Patti Scialfa

I'd almost forgotten how good Rodney Crowell is. Also, this prompts me to note that Kathleen Edwards has announced a couple of dates in UK in June. Hopefully more to come.

Western Stars - KD Lang
Something Good - Utah Saints
Scaredy Cat - Neil Cowley Trio
Race:Out - Battles
Anti Love Song - Betty Davis

Second Lover Song - Townes van Zandt
Stop The World - The Clash
Caipirinha - Peeping Tom
Sitting Round At Home - Buzzcocks
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight - Johnny Cash

"We're Away" - Elbow
"The Safety Dance (12" version)" - Men Without Hats
"Christopher Mayhew Says" - The Shamen
"The Messerschmitt Twins" - OMD
"Faxing Berlin" - Deadmau5

"My Old Man" by Joni Mitchell from the album "Blue"
"Pinkerton" by Richmond Fontaine from the album "Lost Son"
"Rag & Bone" by The White Stripes from the album "Icky Thump"
"Bang And Blame" By R.E.M. from the album "Monster"
"Borrowed Wings" by Jim White from the album "Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See"

Considering how weighted my pod is in their favour, it's very rare to press "Shuffle Songs" and not come across Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits or Richard Thompson within five.

Also consider my Word forum virginity well and truly lost.

By the way, Humphrey Lyttelton R.I.P.

"Opening Day" by Gene Clark from the album "White Light"
"Pushkin" by Bonnie "Prince" Billy from the live album "Summer In The Southeast"
"Wildwood In The Pines" by Johnny Cash from the album "Personal File"
"Dirge" by Bob Dylan from the album "Planet Waves"
"A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free" by Elliott Smith from the album "From A Basement On A Hill"

Not a single British Isles based or born singer amongst the 10. A problem I really must eradicate.

1) The Beat - Elvis Costello
2) Dream Baby - The Big 'O'
3) Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads
4) Together Again - Emmylou Harris
5) It's all wrong but it's alright - Percy Sledge

1. Elvis Costello - Everyday I write the book
2. Arab Strap - The red thread
3. Badly Drawn Boy - Born in the UK
4. Delakota - The Rock (no idea, off some cd that was free with meoldy maker about 18 years ago)
5. Mo - The Word (a friend's ukulele project, good title though!)

QOTSA - In my head
Blackalicious - Chemical Calestenics
John Martyn - Sugar Lump
Eric Clapton - Hey Hey (unplugged)
Ronnie Size - Mad Cat

My ipod being on shuffle tends to be highly contentious affair and offends most people- taking them on an uneasy change from one mood to another, its quite a liberating experience but in my opinion its a past time that is highly unsociable and best not done in public...

Four Tet - She Moves She
Thin Lizzy - Do Anything You Want To
The Rapture - Olio
Razorlight - Back To The Start
Manic Street Preachers - The Everlasting

Arctic Monkeys - This House Is A Circus
Perry Blake - How Can The Knower Be Know
Shins - Fighting In A Sack
Robyn - Cobra Style
Laura Marling - Crawled Out Of The Sea

Don't you love it when there's a four or five track random sequence that perfectly fits the mood? Doesn't happen after but when it does it is special indeed. Sure it won't happen now as I click PLAY...

1) J. Beez Comin' Through - Jungle Brothers - Done By The Forces Of Nature. This must be nearly twenty years old by now. Some hip-hop just doesn't age.

2) Smells Like Content - The Books - Lost And Safe. Philosophical Tunngians.

3) Mike Mills - Air - Talkie Walkie. The album name sounds like a Russell Brand radio feature. Who is Mike Mills?

4) One Day - Bjork - Debut. Awww, Bjork in caring mode, giving you a big cuddle.

5) Contribution - Jurassic 5 - Quality Control. Perhaps the best hip-hop act of the last ten years.

Chances of the same five appearing twice on this list???

1. Grandma's Hands - Marion Gaines Singers (from Soul Jazz's excellent Gospel Soul comp)
2. Black Eyed Dog - Nick Drake
3. Isle Of Her - Klaxons
4. Keys To Your Heart - The 101'ers
5. 4 Horsemen of 2012 - Klaxons

DJ iPod clearly is loving Klaxons today. Can't say I'm in the mood for them, but the rest came out very well.

I trained her to love me - Nick Lowe ( soooo goood )
Change of Heart - Teddy Thompson
The Piano has been drinking - Mr. Waits
Welcome to the Cabaret - Christy Moore
Hace Calor - The Ronaldos ( Spanish )

Dennis Wilson, 'River Song'
A R Kane, 'Sugarwings'
The Beatles, 'The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill'
Snoop Dogg, 'Sensual Seduction'
Dragonette, 'I Get Around'

... which sort of defeats the object.

We Came Through - Scott Walker
Naughty Little Boy - The Direct Hits (fairly obscure 80s Mod band...)
Skeleton Song - Kate Nash (I'm not ashamed to say I love this)
Critical Mass - Teenage Fanclub
Joy's Address - Float Up CP (ah Neneh Cherry.....)

Not too shabby. For some reason my iPod is stuck on Scott Walker today. The next three after this five were Scott.....

Chris Barron (of Spin Doctors) - Providence
Southerly - Young William Snow
Dave Matthews Band - Still Water -> Don't Drink The Water (live)
Paperlung - Beating Hearts
Joseph Arthur - Chapter 1

Pretty good stuff IMHO.

Redemption Song - Bob Marley
Breaks - Roni Size
Midnight Cowboy - John Barry
Obviously 5 Believers - Bob Dylan
Venus - Television

No cheating here, just an illustration of my imminent dementia...

1. Because - Abbey Road, The Beatles
2. Sunrise - Feels Like Home, Norah Jones
3. Ngiculela Es Una Historia, I am singing - Songs in the key of Life, Stevie Wonder
4.Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - The Classic Experience, Rachmaninov
5. Rose Darling - Katy Lied, Steely Dan

Funny, but when I pressed the shuffle button, I thought I'd get the 'filler' tracks from the 4,000 odd songs on my i-pod, but it actually picked some of my genuine fave artists (OK, with the exception of the classical track - I have to be in the mood for that... anyway probably couldn't have got a more representative bunch as it included the Beatles, the Dan and Stevie Wonder.

Up the 'Ammers !!

Once Upon A Time There Was An Ocean - Paul Simon
Shakara - Fela Kuti
Old Man - Love
Aluminium - The White Stripes
Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More - Steely Dan

Emiliana Torrini - Next Time Around
The Magnetic Fields - World Love
Rilo Kiley - 15
35 Ghosts IV - Nine Inch Nails
Beautiful Child - Rufus Wainwright

1. Too Nice To Talk To (Extended Remix) - The Beat - much maligned early 80's!
2. Temptation - New Order - always cool!
3. Spasticus (Autisticus) - Ian Dury - oh so catchy tune!
4. People In The City - AIR - loved this live on their tour last year!
5. My Name Is Despair - The Charlatans - from new album which i downloaded free from them!

...not too bad for a change from my every changing ipod randomness!

Maria-David Sylvian
Dead Horse-Robin Holcomb
The Easy Blues-John Martyn
Mic Mak Mok-Julian Cope
Up In The Hills-High Llamas

Strangely the Julian Cope track(far from his best)seems to be the track that plays the most.....The Robin Holcomb track is from The Rogues Gallery album of Sea Shanties.

Vein of Stars - The Flaming Lips
Numb - Jamelia (oops, how did this get there?)
Reaching out from here - The Boo Radleys
Chaos Theory - Badly Drawn Boy
The Who Medley: My Generation/Can't Explain/Substitute (live) - Richard Thompson

Well, I registered in the last hour, what better way to introduce myself by risking ridicule in a game of chance...

Rumble, Link Wray
Rheinland (Heartland), Beirut
Love Calls You By Your Name, Leonard Cohen
Wonderland, Sol Seppy
Let It Loose, Rolling Stones

Hmm, could have been much worse...

Qu'ran, Brian Eno and David Byrne from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
How to Open My Heart in 4 Easy East Steps, Erin McKeown, from Distillation
Dear Mr Supercomputer, Sufjan Stevens, from Avalanche
Cliche, Todd Rundgren
Downtown Train, Tom Waits

Oh, and shuffle isn't as random as you might expect - see one of the many online blogs on this issue

1. Come Together - The Mojo Filters (from Help - War Child Album)
2. The Only Mistake - Joy Division
3. Empty Space - Teenage Fanclub
4. Hold On - Hot Chip
5. The Wake of All That's Past - Radar Bros.

Where Do The Children Play/Cat Stevens
She's Gone/Hall & Oates
Amazing Grace/Pipes & Drums & Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
When You Are A King/White Plains
Dat/Pluto Shervington

1. Dust Bowl - 10,000 Maniacs
2. Flag Day - The Housemartins
3. Somewhere My Love - Frank Sinatra
4. Pop Song 87 - R.E.M.
5. Goodnight - Baby Bird

I know shuffle mode doesn't really shuffle but once again this selection is not representitive of me at all. I have only 1 cd by the Maniacs, Housemartins and Baby Bird and they all appear. Bands who I have dozens of albums are non-existent. Where's Warren Zevon, XTC, Guided By Voices, Squeeze and Billy Bragg when you need them?

driving death valley blues - mark lanegan
me and my chauffeur - memphis millie
midnight show - the killers
the grey funnel line - jolie holland (rogues gallery the pirate sea-shanty album)
little white church - mac weisman (blame the library, i've got acres of old cowboy songs)

1. Catweazle - The Boo Radleys
2. Voyager - Daft Punk
3. Sucker Punch - Fujiya & Miyagi
4. Is It In You? - Charlatans
5. The Ocean - Richard Hawley

I'm sure I posted this yesterday.Can't miss out on a Randomizer...

1. Catalyst(720 re-edit) - Pariah
2. Hot Like A Sauna(Metal Mix) - Tricky
3. The Chemical Brothers - Scale
4. Interview - Erick Sermon
5. Play It Rough - System Eight

My iPod does its usual trick when "Randomizing" in picking a bridge track when it decides on a hip-hop tune rather than a "real" one!

Hey Jude - Las Vegas version (off a Beatles Bootleg)
Goodnight Irene - Tom Petty and Willie Nelson (off Will The Circle Be Unbroken Volume 3)
I'm Ready - Jeff Healey Band (off Cover To Cover) RIP Jeff
Mississippi Mud (V M Bhatt and Jerry Douglas) off Bourbon & Rosewater
That's Me Trying - William Shatner (off Has Been); I love this one - a confession of completely useless parenting but funny, moving and creepy all at the same time

1- Footprints-Squeeze
2- Lovesong- The Cure
3- I Feel Free- Cream
4-Speak to Me/ Breathe- Pink Floyd
5- Folsom Prison Blues- Johnny Cash

Really great game!!

I Want To Be Straight - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Hung Up On A Dream - The Zombies
On The Town Square - Robert Wyatt
Drip Fed Fred - Madness
In The City - The Jam

Jump Sturdy - Dr John
Noisy Summer - The Raveonettes
Only Teethin' - Charlatans
This Rope's Getting Tighter - Emma Pollock
17 - Shena Ringo

Stay With Me - Spiritulized
The Man In The Iron Mask - Billy Bragg
Cigarette In Your Bed - My Bloody Valentine
Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles
One More Time - Daft Punk

Not the most inspiring selection, but I thought it was worth posting as that Billy Bragg track popping up amused me given that I saw IRON MAN at the cinema last night.

Morrissey - The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
Gomez - High On Liquid Skin
Neil Young - Change Your Mind
Electric Soft Parade - Things I've Done Before
Johnny Cash - In The Jailhouse Now

I've done this a couple of times before but this is by far the most representative of the stuff on my player. A bit of R.E.M., Belle & Sebastian, The Flaming Lips and Teenage Fanclub and you'd have all my most heavily features artists.

I'm scared as to what is going to crop up.....but there they are.

*Datarock - Maybelline
*Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps
*The Rolling Stones - Ventilator Blues
*Kelly Clarkson - Since You've Been Gone (My gosh....)
*Elvis Costello - Neat Neat Neat(Live) (I think this makes up for the last one.

I've realised its that time of the year where an ipod cleaning is necessary.

Here goes:

1. Without Love: Nick Lowe
2. The Road I'm On: Dion
3. Joy: Bettye Lavette
4. Riviera Paradise: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
5. Friank's Theme: Holly Cole

My random 5

1. Rocketship to Mars: Dorie Jackson
2. Leaving New York : REM
3. 2:19 : Tom Waits
4. Farm Boy: Billy Bragg
5. My Old Man : Ian Dury & The Blockheads

Good ipod! Well-behaved ipod!

I can honestly say that I haven't listened to any of these tracks before today and some of them will be coming off my player tonight...

Moogie Wonderland/Stereolab

Ditshe Tshiekutala/Konono No 1

From Her to Eternity/Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Horrible day/Frank Black and the Catholics

Making of Music. Part 10/taken off-air from Radio 3

1. Poison Hearts by the Ramones
2. Heart of the city by Nick Lowe
3. Just like heaven by the Cure
4. Anyone else but you - Juno soundtrack
5. Im a fool to want you by Dinah Washington

Apart from number 4 its pretty cool!!!

1. Lovestruck by Madness
2. Lady by Supertramp
3. You're Going To Make Me Lonesome When You Go by Bob Dylan
4. Say It's Not True by Queen/Paul Rogers
5. The Man Who Told Everything by doves

Not bad... hopefully I don't look like a total doofus. Glad the 'Tramp made it in!

Could be worse, more mainstream than most which probably reflects the choice on my mp3.

1. Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango
2. California Sun - The Ramones
3. The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
4. Brainwaves - Nitin Sawhney
5. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - The Flaming Lips

Puttin' on the Dog - Tom Waits (Phew!)
L'enfance - Jacques Brel
Bad Old World - Justin Sullivan/Dave Blomberg (see...)
Icarus Smicarus - Mclusky (phew again)
Christian Science Reading Room - Mark Eitzel

Nothing from that 'Jackie Magazine-The Hits' 3 CD set I got for my birthday,some of which has been aired more regularly than 'Absolutely Sweet Marie' to be truthful....

1.Bob Dylan-Absolutely Sweet Marie
2.I Am Kloot-Great Escape
3.The Zombies-Care Of Cell 44
4.Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello-Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further
5.Moby Grape-Fall On You

Geeky Excel spreadsheet-at-play alert. Unlike seemingly everyone in the world, at the very least this blog, I don't own an iPod. What I do own is a collection of music most folks would find unfeasible, but I expect all of you would find very normal. I do maintain a spreadsheet of everything, and recently instituted a shuffle function for that. Here's an example:
1. LP Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power - Penetration
2. CD Scott Walker - The Drift - Hand Me Ups
3. LP Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come - Death at One's Elbow
4. CD Michael McGear - Woman - Young Man
5. LP Kinks - Great Lost Kinks Album - Groovy Movies
Nothing entirely embarrassing then, although diminutive character actor Hamilton Camp's version of The Frog Prince follows as track 20, so diversions are definitely still possible. Nice that it insists on the non-decibel shredding Raw Power LP, too.

Geeky Excel spreadsheet-at-play alert. Unlike seemingly everyone in the world, at the very least this blog, I don't own an iPod. What I do own is a collection of music most folks would find unfeasible, but I expect all of you would find very normal. I do maintain a spreadsheet of everything, and recently instituted a shuffle function for that.

Here's an example:
1. LP Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power - Penetration
2. CD Scott Walker - The Drift - Hand Me Ups
3. LP Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come - Death at One's Elbow
4. CD Michael McGear - Woman - Young Man
5. LP Kinks - Great Lost Kinks Album - Groovy Movies

Nothing entirely embarrassing then, although diminutive character actor Hamilton Camp's version of The Frog Prince follows as track 20, so diversions are definitely still possible. Nice that it insists on the non-decibel shredding Raw Power LP, too.

1. Mika - Stuck In the Middle (Acoustic)
2. Seasick Steve - Yellow Dog
3. Editors - Bullets
4. R. E. M. - The Great Beyond
5. Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own

Northern Sky - Nick Drake
Us and Them - Pink Floyd
Everybody Hurts - REM
Poor Places - Wilco
Funeral Face - Suburban Kids with Biblical Names

Cringed when the REM track came out. Strange how decent songs can become suddenly unappealing when adopted as a standard by Bland FM.

River Man - Nick Drake
Brassneck - The Wedding Present
Geek Love - Bang Bang Machine
Don't Sweat The Technique - Eric B And Rakim
Master Teacher - Erykah Badu

Well, I lost my main MP3 player, a 20gb iriver. Now, I use a 1gb USB stick type thing which, no matter how often I drop it, doesn't break. That ranks highly for me when choosing MP3 players.

Anyway.....

http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/tracklisting/tracklisting.html

1. Sit Down Stand Up - Radiohead
2. Numb - Pet Shop Boys
3. Thick As Thieves - Natalie Merchant
4. Gypsy - Suzanne Vega
5. Deciphering Me - Brooke Fraser

1. Spaceship - Kanye West
2. You Got the Love - The Source (feat. Candi Staton)
3. Long Distance Call - David Gray
4. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. Let's Go To Bed - The Cure

Now, that's a varied selection!

I Wanna be Sedated -The Ramones
Another Tribe-Robert Plant
Eat Yourself-Goldfrapp
An Audience With The Pope-Elbow
Only Talking Sense-The Finn Bros

Roses - deus (new album not reviewed by word :-( )
anyway, anyhow, anywhere - the who
threadbare - south
still falling - saybia
manchild - eels

1. Tell Her Tonight - Franz Ferdinand
2. I'm Wrong About Everything - John Wesley Harding (High Fidelity Soundtrack)
3. When I'm Sixty-Four - The Beatles
4. Hysteria - Muse
5. So Sorry - Feist

First go at the Randomizer

1 Looking for the heart of Saturday night Tom Waits
2 Snoopy versus the Red Baron The Hotshots
3 Sunnyside of the Street The Pogues
4 Coast of High Barbary Joseph Arthur
5 Nettie Moore Bob Dylan

I don't know how no.2 got in there

1) Cockle Shell - King Creosote
2) Also Ran - French Kicks
3) Cracks In The Wll - Marjorie Fair
4) San Diego Serenade - Tom Waits
5) Multiple Suns - Cass McCombs

....hmmm...not sure about that selection ????

1. Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
2. Black Country Rock - David Bowie
3. Golden Brown - The Stranglers
4. I Feel Free - Cream
5. Israel - Siouxsie & The Banshees

Not too bad...

Sarn Helen - Super Furry Animals
Four Points - Friska Viljor
St Swithins Day - Billy Bragg
Queen Jane Approximately - Bob Dylan
Gotta Get Over (Taking Loot) - Gang Starr

No.2 is from a Word CD.
No.5 is average at best.

Probably not very cool to be doing this at 10.30 on a Friday night, but hey...

..The Boo Radleys and Teenage Fanclub still popping up. I've got pretty much the complete Teenage Fanclub on mine, b-sides/rareties etc

This is what my iPod shuffled out:
1. "Picture Book" - The Kinks
2. "Weather With You" - Crowded House
3. "Soul Mate" - Phil Judd
4. "Lead Balloon" - Liam Finn
5. "Bowie" - Flight of the Conchords

Hmmm...think it's time to add more tunes...

1. Cold Turkey - John Lennon
2. What the World is Waiting For - The Stone Roses
3. In The Future When All's Well - Morrissey
4. Dy-Na-Mi-Tee - The Ukulele Orchestra
5. Old Black Dawning - Frank Black

Great selection, if I say so myself!

Under Starlight - The Popguns
Ya Slippin' - Boogie Down Productions
Home and Dry (Blank and Jones remix) - Pet Shop Boys
Ruthless (BBC Session version) - Cabaret Voltaire
We Got To Have Peace - Curtis Mayfield

Hmmmm, 2nd time I've got lucky, now I won't dare attempt a 3rd go

He's Misstra know it all -Steve Wonder
Night by night - Steely Dan
Female of the Species - Space
You are in my system - Robert Plant
6th Avenue Heartache - The Wallflowers

could easily have been so much worse, thank you, God of Randomness..