1. Biding My Time - Pink Floyd (decent start)
2. It Ain't Me, Babe - Bob Dylan (yup, looking good)
3. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin (topical)
4. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing - Aretha Franklin (oh yes)
5. Missing My Son - Tom Waits (just wrong after Aretha)

On the zenstone plus I recently got 'free' from BT (thanks BT):

Paint it Black - R Stones
Us and Them - Pink Floyd
Public Image - PiL
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - Smiths
Shine a Light - R Stones

Not terribly imaginative I know, except PiL - don't suppose many will come up with that one, but nothing embarassing. Still only newly acquired player so am starting with obvious stuff from my CDs.

I'm Still In Love With You - Al Green
Danny - Richard Hawley
Born Again - The Christians
It's Not Happening - The Be Good Tanya's
Kentucky Avenue - Tom Waits

1. Grant Lee Buffalo - America Snoring [Fuzzy]
2. Go Home Productions - Public Can
3. Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling [Super 70s]
4. John Martyn - May You Never [Solid Air]
5. Ralph McTell - Another Rain Has Fallen [Not 'Till Tomorrow]

English Scheme - The Fall
Mystery Dance - Elvis Costello
Rudderless - The Lemonheads
Planning Permission - The Darkness (how did that get in there?)
Night After Night - Bob Dylan

4 out of 5 ain't bad.....

1. The Gun Club - Emily's Changed

2. Kate St.John - J'attendrai

3. J Church - Yellow, Blue & Green

4. Stacey Kent - Landslide

5. Deep Puddle Dynamics - June 26th 1999 - Slight

1. The Long and Winding Road - Kevin Rowland - My Beauty (ooops!)
2. Nowhere To Run - Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix
3. My World Fell Down - Sagittarius - Nuggets
4. Mother and Child - David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
5. Christmas Day - Jim White - Searching For The Wrong Eyed Jesus OST

From my phone
1.All My friends- LCD Soundsystem
2.There's a Ghost in my house- RD taylor
3.Pace is the trick- Interpol
4. Pt1 IBM 1401 processor- Johann Johanson
5. Awkward Annie- Kate Rusby

Easy On The Eye - Gemma Hayes
Fedelity - Regina Spektor
This Flower - Kasey Chambers
I Never - Rilo Kiley
The Money Song - Monty Python's Flying Circus

and I was doing so well!

Leonard Cohen - Tower Of Song
Alela Dianne - Pigeon Song
Caetano Veloso - Os Argonautas
Jolie Holland - Tiny Idyll/Lil Missy
Roots Manuva - Bashment Boogie

Doing this always fills me with dread, but once again the really embarrassing stuff will remain hidden at least until next time...

...Depeche Mode -Leave In Silence
Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman
The Act We Act - Sugar
Finest Worksong - R.E.M.
Run Away From Time - Ray Davies

I leapt in foolishly earlier today on an "illegal" Randomizer. Send me to bed early with no supper. Meanwhile - I get another go I think......

Country Leaver - Dandy Warhols
Close To Me - The Cure
Cry On Demand - Ryan Adams
At My Most Beautiful - REM
(I Dont Want To Go To) Chelsea - Costello

Leonard Cohen - By The Rivers Dark
Wu Tang Clan - 16th Chamber (O.D.B special)
Louis Armstrong - Hotter Than That
Horace Silver - Sighin' And Cryin'
Beirut - The Gulag Orkestar

That'll do...
*polishes nails on shirt*

iPod still seems to be trying to protect my image by avoiding all the odd and embarrassing tracks (not sure about Steeleye Span, though - are they OK here?)

Allison Moorer - Cold In California
Bruce Springsteen - Seven Angels
Taj Mahal - The Bourgeois Blues
Steeleye Span - Long Lankin
Warren Zevon - Detox Mansion

1. Green River - Waylon Jennings (from Nashville Rebel, a boxed set I got for Christmas)
2. Stories Of The Street - Leonard Cohen (from his first album)
3. High Water (For Charley Patton) - Bob Dylan (Live version from last year's Dylan/Ronson single)
4. Santa Claus Is Back In Town - Elvis Presley (from Tiger Man)
5. It's Too Late - Carole King

That last hurdle thing again! I don't mind a couple of songs off Tapestry, but I was doing so well...

1. Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) - David Crosby
2. Once Upon A Time - Air
3. Not Dark Yet - Bob Dylan
4. The Death Of A Soldier - Ennio Morricone
5. New Year's Day (Live 'Under a Blood Red Sky') - U2

OK, this is my first Randomizer since I filled my shiny new 160Gb iPod Classic with nearly 20,000 songs, so here goes:

1. Tear Ya Down - Motorhead (nice rowdy start)
2. Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming - John Fahey (tip of the hat to that nice Mr.Hepworth for recommending this album)
3. Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads (best track from the True Stories album)
4. I Should Care (take 1) - Thelonious Monk (from the massive and wonderful Complete Riverside Recordings box set)
5. Fade Away - Oasis And Friends (From the Help charity album - but what's this about Oasis having friends?)

That went rather well, I think. My new gizmo can stand proud.

1. Place Called Home - PJ Harvey (good start)

2. Digsy's Dinner - Oasis (This is coming off when I get home)

3. Freedom - George Michael (MTV Unplugged bootleg thank you very much)

4. I Don't Want You Now - KT Tunstall (One of my favourites)

5. Welcome To The Working Week - Elvis Costello

My ipod went a bit mainstream this morning. Where's the Burial, Epic45, Maps, Battles and Tom Waits I've been playing lately? I think about 25gb of my ipod lies dormant while I only use a small bit of it.

1. O Nome Dela - Arto Lindsay (don't know this song - from a rival publication's very old free cd).
2. Garden Of Earthly Delights - XTC
3. Night And Day - Frank Sinatra
4. Darlin - Beach Boys
5. The Applicant - Blue Aeroplanes (Sylvia Plath poetry put to music - fantastic!).

Not bad, could be a lot worse. Once again a suprise that the randomizer didn't bring forth any Guided By Voices/Robert Pollard tracks, usually every other song seems to be one or the other..............

Family - Observations From A Hill
Crowded House - Weather With You
Doors - LA Woman
Crusaders - Keep That Same Old Feeling
UB40 - Kingston Town

First time I've ever been able to play this game so here goes:

1.Laptop - Whole Wide World (cool electro cover of Wreckless Eric)
2. Ronan Keating - Love Is A Rollercoaster (a guilty pleasure for sure but I maintain it is a wonderful song)
3. Flying Burrito Brothers - Do You Know How It Feels (phew I'm cool again)
4. Beachwood Sparks - Close Your Eyes
5. Jonathan Richman - Dignified and Old (on early evidence my ipod loves Jonathan as much as I do)

No Man Can Find The War - Tim Buckley
Happy Hi - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Talking To The Wall - Michael Nesmith
Your Funeral My Trial - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Not Enough Dub - The Aggrovators

Tuff Enou8gh - Fabulous Thunderbirds
The King of Zydeco - Rory Gallagher
Evening Mass - Willard Grant conspiracy
The distance from her to there - Lambchop
Bottle of Blues - Beck

Could have been a lot worse I guess

Will it be more jingly jangly stuff as usual? Here goes:
1) Collideascope - The Dukes of Stratosphear
2) Ray - Aimee Mann
3) Stephanie Tells Me - Jason Falkner
4) Saturday Sun - Nick Drake
5) Your Long Journey - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Every one a coconut as far as I'm concerned.
Nerdy fact: I believe Aimee Mann is the only person to drag Andy Partridge out to sing live since his retirement, sometime in the mid-90s, because XTC's Dave Gregory was in her band. The song he sang on? Collideascope.

1. Captain Beefheart: Tropical Hot Dog Night
2. Weather Prophets: Worm In My Brain
3. The Smiths: I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
4. Elastica: Line Up
5. Lou Reed: Busload Of Faith

Incidentally, has anyone ever found that all five of someone else's random selection are on their own ipod? Best I've ever managed is four out of five.

chucked my ipod away. Since then my life has been mellow. And I can hear the traffic and the birds. I thoroughly recommend it.

A better future-David Bowie
Ain't necessarily So - Bronski Beat
Mabel - Jools Holland et al
Doubleback - ZZ Top
City Lights - 10cc

Is it cool to be so uncool?

At least you know I didn't cheat

This is my first post on the Word website, let's hope my iPod doesn't ruin it all for me at the first hurdle.
We have....

1. Blur - Jets (I have been enjoying Think Tank recently)
2. Bob Dylan - Outlaw Bues (I keep meaning to listen to this album properly but alway listen to Blood on The Tracks)
3. Art Brut - Fight (Nowt to be ashamed of here)
4. US V. Them - LCD Soundsytem (Bloody brilliant album)
5. Ella Fitzgerald - Sleigh Ride (ummmm...I think I've forgotton to take my seasonal picks off)

So am I still allowed to be here?

Love Potion No.9/The Searchers (Hmmm...)
Anji/Davy Graham (That's better)
Mole/Barry Booth (only I know this one)
What's The Use Of Getting Sober (When Your'e Gonna Get Drunk Again)/Joe Jackson (leftfield)
She's A Good Girl/Sleeper (welcome back)

Go-betweens - The Devil's Eye
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
Blondie - Picture this
REM - imitation of Life
Blur - Strange news from another star.

I do have modern music on there too. Honest. Bit mainstream, but could have been worse. What if the Darius track had appeared? Whatever happened to him? No, don't bother answering.

...so here we go...
1 Campaigner/Neil Young
2 Burned/Buffalo Springfield
3 Soul Finger/The Bar Kays
4 Cry One More Time/Gram Parsons
5 I'm So Tired/The Beatles

A bit conservative, but a respectable showing.

Also got new iPod, therefore able to join in for the first time.

Kate Bush - "Sunset"
The Zutons - "Pressure Point"
Portishead - "Undenied"
Muse - "City Of Delusion"
Madonna - "Ray Of Light"

Rachel-next-to-me's selection.

Goldie Lookin' Chain - "21oz"
Coldplay - "Everything's Not Lost"
Nick Harper - "Caterpillar"
The Drifters - "Some Kind of Wonderful"
Natasha Bedingfield - "Ray Of Light"

Haven't heard Natasha Bedingfield's version of "Ray of Light" but I have a feeling that Madonna's is better...

Received for Christmas, we have the doubly enciphering "Random Autofill" to load songs on it, and then shuffled again by the player itself we have:

Norwegian Wood - Beatles (mmmmm, sitar-y)
How Soon Is Now? - Smiths (Criminally vulgar)
Comeback (Light Therapy) - Josh Rouse (serotonin deficient)
Roxette - Dr Feelgood (bricked up)
Buddy Holly - Weezer (geeky)

Hmm - 3 out of 5 off the same compleeyation album. Not entirely random, then.

Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine - Brian Wilson
Revolver - Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
Please Please Please - Fiona Apple (Original Jon Brion production)
Good Til Now - Gillian Welch
LA Connection - Rainbow (.. and I was doing so well too...)

I've uploaded 1,500 songs since getting my iPod last month - let's see what it comes up with...

It's hard to be a saint in the city - Bruce Springsteen
Genesis Hall - Fairport Convention
Paul McCartney - Laugh (obscure CD86 compilation track that the iPod seems to be attached to - it's come up on shuffle twice before)
I'm not angry - Elvis Costello
The otherside - The Apple (from a compilation of 60s Brit psych)

All in all, a reasonable summary of my collection in 5 tracks. I'll settle for that.

I only had 2 songs before I got to work this morning as one was Dark Mavis by Mansun and because of the 'hidden' track at the end it clocks over 14 minutes.

But yesterday I got Prefab Sprout's Machine Gun Ibiza twice...

Just read the small print regarding the randomizer, whoops, will never start an illegal thread again. Many apologies. Let's hope the following show myself in a better light*:

1) "So Danco Samba"-Stan Getz (nice late night listening)
2) "Everything"-Michael Buble (Oh No, how did this happen?)
3) "White Room (live)-Eric Clapton (better than above, but a tad predictable)
4) "We Can Get Wild"-Mark Knophler (See Number 3)
5) "The Operation"- Charlotte Gainsborough (a decent finish)

*They didn't really did they.

1. It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night [worst track from a brilliant album]
2.I Saw Nick Drake -Robyn Hitchcock [Quirky]
3.I Won't -The Replacements [another stonker from Westerberg and co.]
4.Under Your Thumb -Godley and Creme [10cc - massively underratted]
5.Imperial Zeppelin -Peter Hammill [strange song from the king of strange]

Standing In A Trash Can (Thinking Of You)-The Legendary Stardust Cowboy (Best voice in the world????)
Why Do I Cry?-The Remains (Mmm Nuggets!)
Winter Wonder Land-Animal Collective (A Modern Band!)
Dive For Your Memory-The Go-Betweens (The most beautiful song ever?)
Funeral Tango-Scott Walker(No, this is the best voice ever!)

It may be small, but my new nano has already shown that size matters not. Deep breath...

1. No Expectations: The Rolling Stones (looking promising...)
2. Caroline: The Casuals (maintaining its cool)
3. Blues and Out: John Barry (from 'The Knack', doing quite well)
4. Funeral Tango: Scott Walker (looks like my pod is listening to ip29's)
5. Sophisticated Boom Boom: The Shangri-Las (hooray!)

Weird. Since I got it the damned thing has only ever wanted to play The Beta Band. Suddenly it's being nice to me.

1. Crackenstein- The Halo Benders. Hmmm, this is not an entirely pleasant racket. I think I was initially attracted to them by the Built To Spill connection...

2. Merely A Man- XTC. I only discovered XTC last year and I am having a bit of a love affair with them now.

3. It's Not Peculiar- Husker Du. This takes me back to my mid-teens, bunking off school to go record shopping with my mate Matt.

4. Pieces Of The People We Love- The Rapture. I think this is the first time I have heard this particular song. The Rapture we're recommended to me by a friend by a couple of years ago but I never really *got* it. IT's pleasant enough though I suppose.

5. Condescend- Low. I do love Low, this is not one of my favourites though.

1. Rufus Wainwright - Pretty Things
2. Kathryn Williams - Flicker
3. ADULT. - Shake Your Head
4. Primal Scream - Miss Lucifer
5. Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?

I'd give that a 'B-', a late appearance from Bonzo Dog saves it from being a straight 'C'

1. Warfare - She Waits for Night - Uncle Earl (rootsy)
2. Four Stone Walls - Secret People - Capercaillie (folky - is a theme emerging?)
3. I'm alive - The Ultimate Collection - ELO (clearly not! ELO are a guilty pleasure about which I admit no shame)
4. Blues Run the Game - Films About Ghosts - Counting Crows (OK, I admit some shame. I do love Counting Crows but this is a filler compilation track, should be deleted, I guess)
5. Too much too young - Specials - Specials (ah well, a strong finish at least!)

1. Sarah McLachlan - Push (some of the Afterglow album isn't too bad but I don't know if this is my favourite)
2. Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops
3. Nitin Sawhney - Homelands
4. Scissor Sisters - Kiss You Off (I'm not seeing any links at all now)
5. Mali Music - Bamako City

It's not fair - I just got one for Christmas and I'm still spending every waking moment stuffing it full of songs. It therefore might be heavily weighted to the early letters of the alphabet.
Tonight It's You - Cheap Trick
I Have The Touch - Peter Gabriel
Key To The Highway - Big Bill Broonzy
Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
God On My Side - World Party

Thought I was going to get a soul selection for a minute there :)

Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers
Can't Let Go - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Moon - Cat Power
Treefingers - Radiohead
Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? - The Waterboys

Forever - Beach Boys
Juliet - Four Pennies
Toledo - Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach
Jellico Highway - Cindy Bullens
Go Or Go Ahead - Rufus Wainwright

I'll settle for this lot. Sunflower is the best Beach Boys' album. When I was a kid I loved Juliet even though it's a bit embarrassing to see it listed now. The Costello/Bacharach collaboration hasn't aged well. Isn't Cindy Bullens rather shamefully ignored? You can't help but love (or hate) Rufus.

1 Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes - All In My Mind
2 Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes - Love On The Wrong Side Of Town (live)
3 Melanie Garside - Centered Sideways
4 Freddie King - The Things I Used To Do
5 Squeeze - Crackerjack

This is a good game.

1. Wake Up (Live At Fashion Rocks)-Arcade Fire & David Bowie

2. Mars Bars-The Undertones

3. Bluehawk-Thelonious Monk

4. Unforgiven (Last Goodbye)-Jeff Buckley

5. Sweet Lorraine-Oscar Peterson & Benny Carter

How it avoided all of my 80s stuff I don't know! I'll do another one soon and see if China Crisis emerge!

1. Who knows where the time goes - Nanci Griffith Great version by the greatest singer of other peoples songs, her own are pretty good too
2. Black-eyed Dog - Nick Drake Just in from shopping like a good coal fire
3. I'm a fool for you - Bob Dylan Sent off for the Million Dollar Bash going to go through the Basement Tapes this year
4. Savoy Truffle - Beatles Great haven't heard this for years on the seldom played 2nd part of White album
5. Cupid must be angry - Nick Lowe National treasure to rival Macca

Not bad representation I dont know what I did before iTunes

Midnight on the Murder Mile - Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Stand and Deliver - Adam and the Ants (Ouch!)
Paradise - Birdland (double ouch!!)
Wendy - Jesse Malin (better)
Frivolous Tonight - XTC

Hmm - all things considered - a high scoring draw!

Queremos Paz - Gotan Project
Better be home soon - Crowded House
K.C.Violin - Tom Russell (one of the best songwrioters in USA today)
Pass the Kouchie - Mighty Diamonds
Letter to Memphis - The Pixies

Bit of a strange brew

Sometimes - James
I Love You Because - Jim Reeves
Alone Again Or - Love
Bumper Cars - Stephen Fretwell
It Hurts So Good - Millie Jackson

Here's mine:
Achoo - Sparks
Long Time Go - White Magic
I'm All You Need - Divine Comedy
You Do - Aimee Mann
Lowlands Away - Kate McGarrigle & Rufus Wainwright

The random play mode on the Creative MP3 players sometimes clumps tracks from the same source, hence the 2 tracks from the Rogues Gallery collection of sea shanties etc.
Gary

Atom (British Sea Power)
Hesitating Beauty (Wilco)
Pork & Beans (Bettie Serveert)
Highlands (Bob Dylan)
In My Command (Crowded House)

Shenandoah - Springsteen
Ophelia - Natalie Merchant
Tending the Wrong Grave For 23 Years - Half Man Half Biscuit
Outline of a Hairdo - Steve Nieve
Sugarbaby - Kristin Hersh

Hmm, eclectic? Representative?

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - O Children
Scheer - Nemesis (Demo Version)
Fiery Furnaces - Tropical Iceland
Divine Comedy - Tonight We Fly
5.6.7.8's - My Boyfriend From Outer Space

That'll do for me.

Van Morrison - The Way Young Lovers Do (serves me right for revealing his breakfasting habits earlier today)

Mason - Quarter (Dave Lambert & Mousetrap Remix) (serves me right for rubbishing Pete Tong earlier today)

Sweet - Little Willy (serves me right for...er, next!)

Steve Miller Band - Space Intro/Fly Like An Eagle - (hey, who's been surreptitiously syncing my iPod?)

Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come (I said, who's been....)

I'm not sure whether this point of this is to look cool, share the embarrassment, or simply get out of it alive. Anyhow, I fired up the trusty old 60gb iPod and asked it to search amongst it's 10,804 tracks. This is what it did--

1. Bad, U2 (The Unforgettable Fire).
I'm okay with is. It's all ringing guitars and such, and is before Bono sainted himself. I saw them do it live on the tour promoting the album, which was the loudest thing I ever heard. Definitely could be worse.

2. Building and Bridges, Ani DiFranco (Canon)
I've never heard this one before. Sounds pretty typical DiFranco. I picked up the 'best of' before Christmas, and so far it's ok.

3. Deathly, Aimee Mann (Bachelor No.2)
Now this song I love. Mann is a great songwriter, and lovely vocalist. This is probably her best album too.

4. Whatever Gets You Thru the Night, John Lennon (Walls and Bridges)
I'm kinda getting over the whole solo-Lennon thing. This track is good. Don't love the production, but it's fun and it has Elton on it.

5. If She Wants Me, Belle & Sebastian (Dear Catastrophe Waitress)
Nice song. Good guitar intro. This is easily my favorite Belle's album, even allowing for one or two truly terrible lyrics.

So, that wasn't too bad.

1. Music is my Radar -Blur (what a relief)
next one ....
2. Zoo Station U2 (it says its from Actung Baby but thats wrong isnt it . It was alot easier from CD's ,Tapes ,Vinyl because you were used to tracks and track order ..that has in part gone dont you think ...clearly the album indicated is wrong ..any way not a great track
3.Oh dear ...Impressions de France from some Walt Disney World Cd (not good, plenty of mitigation but I wont bore you with it.Does everyone have 'Junior Choice'type things on their i -pod reminding them like photo's of happy times. Pity I cant ringfence them at time of crisis like this !I will have to wait 8 mins for this to end now !
4. I Remember -Damien Rice from oh sorry O
5. Watch Your Step- EC and The Attractions best reflects my taste ...the Woody Allen of Popular Music ie good always interesting but not as funny as he used to be ..

PS 6 was peaceful by Bobbie Gentry from the best of great album

Great Excercise and the first time Ive blogged no doubt why its too long. Im insecure

Here I Go Again - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Anthology)
I Got 4 Bitches Is What I Got - Lightnin' Rod (Hustler's Convention - must get through it one day)
Long Distance Operator - the Band (Musical History)
Don't It Make You Want to Go Home - Joe South (some best-of)
Fancy Barrel - Aidan Smith (Fancy Barrel)

It would have been different picture if I hadn't recently shifted a quarter of what was in the player onto a hard drive: 1200 songs of 1950s/1960s New Zealand cheese, for a history project, "My Old Man's an All Black", etc.

Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder - pretty good start
Two More Wishes - Jim Lauderdale - Looking forward to his new CD
Land of 1,000 Dances - Wicked Wilson Pickett
Shotgun - Junior Walker and the All Stars
That's Right (You're Not From Texas) - Mr Lyle Lovett

Regina Spektor - Buildings
Beth Rowley - Sweet Hours
Yann Tiersen - Goodbye Lenin!
Rilo Kiley - Always
Athlete - Wires [It was going so well!]

Diem: Rodrigo y Gabriela
Where is my love?: Cat Power
The way I love you: Linda Thompson
Hal an tow: Oysterband (Trawler version)
Blue moon: Billie Holliday
Hmm, sounds if my monicker is about right......

Here's what came up using Party Shuffle on my i-Tunes

Tiger Woods - Dan Bern
Take An Old Cold 'Tater (and Wait) - Little Jimmy Dickens
Loved Up Blues - Kris Dollimore
Turn the Lamp Down Low - Little Willie Littlefield (feat. Little Esther)
The Greatest - Cat Power

Turned out nice again...

...so this selection is down to Media Player shuffle.

Chain Reaction - Diana Ross
Diaraby - Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Toure
Nod Your Head - Paul McCartney
The Sea Calls - Richard Hawley
Tulsa - Rufus Wainwright

Guilty as charged!

Santana - Smooth
R.E.M. - You
Thin Lizzy - Emerald
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Massive Attack - Risingson

The lack of twenty-minute angular progressive symphonic movements is somewhat unexpected. But possibly welcome.

1. Bells For Her - Tori Amos (Pink)
2. Doctor - Kevin Tihista's Red Terror (Don't Breathe A Word)
3. Falling Like Stars - Bird (The Insides)
4. Oops Upside Your Head - The Gap Band
5. We Are The Pipettes - The Pipettes (We Are The Pipettes)

Ay Chi hua hua!

New Order - Sub-Culture (7" edit off Singles) [not my fave NO track...]

Kraftwerk - Autobahn (the 11 minute cut from the Control Soundtrack album) [looking good...]

Yo La Tengo - Let's Be Still (from Summer Sun) [mmm...]

Richard Hawley - Naked In Pitsmoor (from Richard Hawley) [only the second time I've played this apparently. Actually it's pretty good!]

Puressence - Heart of Gold (from Planet Helpless) [not a bad finish there]

(1) Fix me now - Garbarge
(2) Proprietaire - Franco & Le tout Puissant OK Jazz
(3) Tomorrow Comes Today - Gorillaz
(4) I am the Resurrection (Jon Carter Remix) - The Stone Roses
(5) Dealer Pour suvivre - Expression Direkt (don't know anything about this lot. It's off the La Haine soundtrack)

Oh dear that list sounds a bit "its Grim Up North London" doesn't it? Usually it would be full of Richard Harris and Yes - honest.

I'm not working at my usual computer today so don't have access to my full music collection, nor do I have my old 20GB mp3 player or new 160 Gb (but only a quarter full so far) iPod with me to give me a large selection to randomise. What I do have is all my recently purchased albums that used this computer to mp3ify (if that's not a word, it should be). That's still 1126 tracks though that have been keeping me randomly amused these last few weeks. So here goes:

Paul Westerberg - $100 Groom
Maps - Lost My Soul (From word 59)
Radiohead - Last flowers
Sigur Ros - I Gaer
Eels - From Which I came/A Magic World

1. Nina Simone - The House of the Rising Sun
2. The Fresh Young Fellows - Hillbilly Drummer Girl
3. White Stripes - Let's Build a Home (live)
4. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Something Bigger, Somehing Brighter
5. Kylie Minogue - Cowboy Style (6783 and it comes up with that! Still it's from the Showgirl Tour).

1. The Clash - Lost In the Supermarket (My i-pod loves this song).
2. XTC - In another life
3. Bonzo Doo-dah dog band - The Strain (there goes my cred.)
4. R.E.M. - Crazy (Pylon not Patsy Clyne cover).
5. Billy Bragg - The Marriage

Apart from the Bonzo's that's four of my favourite all time artists so that's not a bad selection at all.

1. Transformer - Gnarls Barkley
2. Everyone's a VIP to Someone - The Go! Team
3. No More Drama - Mary J. Blige
4. A Bell Will Ring - Oasis
5. Body Rap - Badly Drawn Boy

(1) Split Enz - No Mischief (Kiwitastic!)
(2) Queen - I Want To Break Free (must do the hoovering)
(3) A-ha - Looking For The Whales (what the...)
(4) Crowded House - Silent House (tribute to Dixie Chick's granny)
(5) Scott Walker - Bolivia '95 (lemon bloody cola indeed)

My work is done.

(1) Men's Needs - The Cribs
(2) Own Up Time - The Small Faces
(3) Machine Gun Funk - The Notorious B.I.G
(4) Solomon A Gunday - Big Youth
(5) Marshmallow World - Darlene Love

Could have been worse, could have been better

1. Weit by Pole from Pole 2 (well I like it!)
2. How? by John Lennon from Imagine (Haven't listened to this in 10 years)
3. Less Than Zero by Elvis Costello from My Aim Is True (No doubt favoured by the randomiser due to the number of different versions EC has released!)
4. Spare Parts 1 (A nocturnal emission) by Tom Waits from Nighthawks at the Diner (Another not for 10 years one!)
5. Burned by Neil Young from Decade (What's that doing on there...I never listen to compilations...the integrity of the album is important!)

Considering I have everything Bob Dylan and Ryan Adams and the Fall have ever released (and a whole lot more) on there it's somewhat surprising they didn't feature

Freddie Freeloader Miles Davis (mmmm)
Sorted for "e"s and whizz Pulp (OK)
Song for a future generation B52s (Ah)
Magnification Yes (Shall I get my coat now?)
Thank you very much Kaiser Chiefs (Thank you and good night)

The Sonics - Strychnine
White Stripes - Ball & Biscuit
W.A.S.P. - Hold on to my heart
Heinz - Questions I can't answer
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a thin man

None of my vast collection of surf guitar, Bruce Springsteen or electronic music and embarrassingly enough I don't think I've ever listened to any of 'em on the iPod !! Still be thankful it wasn't the Fast Food rockers (somebody put it on as a joke OK and I haven't taken it off yet)

Shoot You In The Back - Motorhead (class)
Cemetry Gates - The Smiths (ok)
Hello My Lover - Willie DeVille (hurrah!)
One Emotion - The Clash (hardly their finest hour)
More Then My Old Guitar - Merle Haggard (great)

Everyone knows that random play is not random, bungle bonces!

...it's more random than choosing?

Burn - Ray Lamontagne (great Start)
The Table - The Beautiful South (nice)
Puncture Repair - Elbow (stunning)
The Same Mistakes - Cooper Temple Clause (good song/poor album)
Idioteque - Radiohead (good way to finish)

On another note, do you find that when you put your ipod on shuffle it prefers certain artists. maybe im going bonkers but im sure my ipod has a taste for Syd Barrett.

Jique - Brazilian Girls
As The Rain - Jeb Loy Nichols
Parting Gift - Fiona Apple
Backdoor Man - The Doors
Love Me Do - The Beatles

Any Major Dude Will Tell You -Steely Dan
Prove It - Television
She's The One - Bruce Springsteen
Don't Tell Me -The View
Dancing Shoes- Arctic Monkeys

Looked like there was an East Coast theme emerging (actually no.6 was 'Theme from Taxi Driver')

1.Any Time At All- Nils Lofgren
2.Fight Test-The Flaming Lips
3.Here Comes The Sun- The Beatles
4.The Pop Singers Fear Of The Pollen Count- The Divine Comedy
5.Top Of The Pops- The Rezillos

I Saw Three Ships - Sufjan Stevens
Climbing The Walls - They Might Be Giants
We Can Work It Out - Stevie Wonder
Caught By The Fuzz - Supergrass
The State I Am In - Belle and Sebastian

MLK - U2
Perfection - Run DMC (not exactly a classic)
Dawn Chorus - Boards of Canada
Revolution - Billy Bragg (Beatles cover)
Pearl fishers duet- Bryn Terfel and Andrea Bocelli ( a bit of culture)

David Bowie - Underground (Best of Bowie - ha! - 80/87): oh dear.
Johnny Cash - Solitary Man (American III: Solitary Man): that's better!
Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (What's Going On?): oh yeah!
Pixies - Dancing The Manta Ray (Complete B Sides): not bad.
Tindersticks - El Diablo En El Ojo (Tindersticks II): nice finish!

Off to a shaky start but recovered by the end...

'On the Other Side' The Strokes (Diminishing returns...)
'Sea Cruise' Frankie Ford (a belter)
'World on a String' Neil Young (everything on this album is good)
'(Here We Go Round) the Lemon Tree' the Move (early use of brackets in Rock)
'Help Save the Youth of America' Billy Bragg (that J. Marr on guitar?)

Here we go:

1) Wall of Fire, by Peter Elkas
2) You Can Call Me Leisure, by The Beautiful South
3) Cool Jerk, by The Capitols
4) A Man Is In Love, by The Waterboys
5) I'm Gonna Make You Love Me, by Diana Ross and the Supremes with The Temptations

Not too bad, although the first is a bit dreary.

...which is a good thing, I would say.

Most frequent seems to be Elvis Costello or Beatles (no surprise about Beatles I suppose). Also Smiths, REM, Billy Bragg, Stones (usually do well I think) doing all right with several appearances.

Just thought I'd share that observation.

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Bandit Queen - The Decemberists (Word credibility points to start)
Great Big No - The Lemonheads (Hadn't heard this in ages, Shame About Ray still gets a lot of play)
Don't Lie To Me - Big Star
Martin Luther King's Dream - The Strawbs
To Hell With Poverty - Gang Of Four (that's shaken the office up)

I Cry Everday - Shelby Lynne (Suit Yourself); good start.
Paper Boat - The Lilac Time (And Love For All); get in!
Wake Up - Alanis Morrissette (Jagged Little Pill); oh, er...
Monopoly - Shawn Colvin (Fat City); phew, what a response, sheer beauty
The Unforgettable Fire - U2 (The Best of...); nuts!

Out of the blocks like a rat up an aquaduct, round the bend in true Newcastle Utd stylee, a resurrection of Easter proportions before falling at the final hurdle.

Tony Joe White - Old Man Willis (must play this more often!)
Richard & Linda Thompson - Don't Let A Thief.. (fantastic!)
Wilco - Kamera (I'm on a roll!)
Frank Sinatra - Come Rain Come Shine (usually to be found on my sunday morning playlist)
Elton John - Your Song (How did that get there!)

1) Bernard Fanning - Which Way Home
2) Pulp - Disco 2000
3) Cary Brothers - Who You Are
4) Belle and Sebastian - White Collar Boy
5) RJD2 - Final Frontier

Well, there's a playlist I'd never make myself in a million years - glad there's some B&S in there though.

Just wondering, why are these randomiser threads always so damned popular?

Debaser.....Pixies(bloody hell,good start!)
Don't Think You're The First....The Coral(ok i suppose)
Water Tower.....British Sea Power(Great band very average track)
Love See No Colour....The Farm(Very good song)
C'mere....Interpol(also very good)

That was my second effort the first one had three songs by the same band.

1. Eric Clapton - She Rides (original Let It Rain from 1st solo Deluxe). Pretty good for something thrown away.
2. Family - Part Of The Load. If all bands will one day reform why is there no clamour for a Family reunion? For a brief, highly productive few years they covered all the bases and had no peers in, ahem, folk-prog.
3. Waylon Jennings - Dreaming My Dreams With You. (mmm, lovely.)
4. Donald Fagen - Chain Lightning (New York Rock & Soul Revue Live At The Beacon).
5. Big Star - Baby Strange (probably the first time I've ever heard it.)

(Just like we) Breakdown - Hot Chip

Going Out From Here - Penny Blacks

Daddy's Gone - Glasvegas

Unlovable - The Smiths

God - Attic Lights

I'm quite happy with that considering I have just started filling up again after losing the majority of my tunes :(

for Family - Part of the load. I have that on my IPOD too and whenever it comes on it really gets me hopping. They were a great band dont you think?

Josh Ritter - Naked As A Window (Great bonus track, under 2 minutes - OK so far)
Echo & The Bunneymen - Killing Moon (Classic 80's pop. Love it)
Billy Bragg & Ian McLagan - Sing Their Souls Back Home (off the free Live at Salisbury Town Hall album. Great stuff, a good sign for the Braggatollah's new album in March hopefully)
Protocol - Wheres the Pleasure? (The wheels fall off with this enjoyable but nonetheless 'Soccer AM Indie' rip off of Atomic)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - American Girl (Love it).

Not bad, the mask slipped briefly with Protocol, but sod it, I LIKE the song!

Love Me Do - The Beatles
You Trip Me Up - JAMC
Mojot Svet - Karolina Gocheava
Darkness Has Reached Its End - Virginia Astley
Take A Breath - David Gilmour

Happy Mondays - Donovan
Moby - If Things Were Perfect
bravecaptain - gunsforjesus
Beck - Beercan
Half Man Half Biscuit - Paintballs Coming Home

I'd forgotten how brilliant the last one is..