It's blowing a gale outside so why not stay in and DO THE RANDOMIZER!
Posted by David Hepworth on 31 January 2008 - 12:20pm.
Send an urchin out for your lunch, pick up thy iPod (other MP3 players are available) or hit random on your iTunes and read off the first five tunes that came up. The rules remain the same: fiddle it to make yourself look interesting or cultish and we shall all know. As is traditional, I shall go first. Ahem:
1. Pink Floyd: One Of These Days
2. Ike and Tina Turner: Somebody Somewhere Needs You
3. Huey 'Piano' Smith & The Clowns: Don't You Just Know It
4. Hank Williams: Setting The Woods On Fire
5. Derek & the Dominos: Bell Bottom Blues
Pretty cutting edge, eh?
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Interesting and cultish!
Honest - I didn't make this up!
1. The Kinks - Phenomenal Cat
2. The New York Dolls - Lonely Planet Boy
3. Jackie Mittoo - Hot Milk
4. Frank Zappa - Help, I'm A Rock
5. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
It's press day for Word#61 so timewasting is frowned upon but...
1. Derrick May - 'Nude Photo'
2. Brothers In Rhythm - 'Such A Good Feelin''
3. Sparks - 'Beat The Clock' [12-inch]
4. Echo And The Bunnymen - 'Evergreen'
5. Pinch feat. Yolanda - 'Get Up'
That doesn't look very random at all, does it? Sorry.
Here we go
1. Tempation/The Everly Brothers
2.A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall/Bob Dylan
3. You Might As Well Smile/Glen Campbell
4. They Killed Him/Bob Dylan
5. California Blue/Roy Orbison
Shit. Now everyone knows I have Knocked Out Loaded on my iPod. May I point out that it's there solely for the sake of completism?
That's almost as Saxondale-esque...
as my record collection, which is saying something!
My hot 5
1. Party Pit - The Hold Steady
2. Hurt - Johnny Cash
3. 4th Time Around - Bob Dylan
4. Locked Out - Crowded House
5. Please Tell My Brother - Golden Smog (Jeff Tweedy)
Not exactly well rounded, but could be a lot worse...
With that selection, you
With that selection, you should read Uncut!
"No matter what the object I will count in fives"
I like to imagine this randomizer as an episode of Top Of The Pops, in which the presenter - Simon Bates - is dressed up as the front end of a pantomime horse (co-host Peter Powell is the rear end - the card!) and is counting down the top five, while The Wizard by Paul Hardcastle plays in the background.
1. Thin White Rope - Ring
2. Mercury Rev - Goddess On The Highway
3. The Gun Club - St. John's Divine
4. Luke Haines - The Walton Hop
5. Judee Sill - Down Where The Valleys Are Low (Live in London)
Respect...
... to The Rope!
Respect...
... to 'The Walton Hop'!
I can't think of anything clever to write here
1. Chali 2na ft. Jurassic 5 - Linguistics (DJ Dez Remix)
2. Chico Buarque - Chico Canta
3. The Clash - One Emotion
4. Mark Lanegan - Boogie Boogie
5. Ween - Makin' Love in the Gravy
I have a feeling this will be very embarrassing...
1. Kate Walsh - Fireworks
2. Ed Harcourt - Metaphorically Yours
3. Solomon Burke - None Of Us Are Free
4. Nat King Cole & George Shearing - Let There Be Love
5. Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Phew... thank god the Pilot, Bay City Rollers and SClub7 didn't come up ;o)
Pilot came up on mine
Pilot came up on mine. Nothing to be ashamed of.
Hmm, OK
they're not the worst offenders, true. I was struggling to think what else could have come up that could have been classed as embarrassing
Random
1. The Beatles - Her Majesty
2. Tiny Tim - Down Here Where You Belong
3. David Bowie - See Emily Play (Can't work out why The Dame is sometimes ridiculed for this version. It floats my boat every time!)
4. Word Podcast #26 (I kid you not)
5. Scott Walker - Windows Of The World
5 from 12403
1. Men They Couldn't Hang - Green Fields of France
2. Guided By Voices - White Whale
3. Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues
4. Levellers - Hope Street
5. The Smiths - Back To The Old House
That's a genuine first 5, hope its not too interesting and cultish ;)
Never done this before.
Never done this before. Don't have an i-pod but do have i-tunes with a "party shuffle" facility so here goes:
January - Pilot
Shake Some Action - Flaming Groovies
You Want To Change Me - Bobby Hebb
Obviously - McFly
Bring Back The Joy - Freda Payne
The mcFly one's my daughter‘s. Don't mind it though. Next up is Patti Page's Old Cape Cod which is the one I think I'll listen to.
Bobby Hebb...
is he the guy that sang "Sunny"? That's a great song.
He did Sunny and a song
He did Sunny and a song called Love, Love, Love which is a Northern Soul biggie. Don't know much about him other than that but I've got a few of his songs. Check on i-tunes. Personally, I think it should be illegal to have a music collection without Sunny in it.
Pilot
Oh Richard, and I thought it was only me who had Pilot on the old iPod! Seem to recall apologising last Randomizer for it too. Maybe it's the Webb Connection?
First time
My first time!
1. Isobel - Bjork
2. Evil - Howlin' Wolf
3. Where will I be - Emmylou Harris
4. Le journeedes Tziganes - The Hellecasters
5. Dry - Feeder
The last one is off a comp - I have no idea what it is like - din't know I had it!
My first randomizer:
1 Pink Floyd - One Of My Turns
2 Kool & The Gang - Celebration
3 David Bowie - Up The Hill Backwards
4 Björk - The Anchor Song
5 Suede - Have You Ever Been This Low
two classics, two fillers, and Björk.
No "Firth of Fifth" (for once !)
Every time I've hit shuffle recently, "Firth of Fifth" has come up in the first five or so. Let's see...
Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
Gorillaz - El Manana
Genesis - Entangled
Kate Bush - How To Be Invisible
My son went to a party recently which had a children's entertainer who, for work purposes, has the collected works of Black Lace, Steps & S Club 7 on his iPod - he'd probably dread this...
Clearly ...
... in this case, you would need two iPods - for the sake of your sanity and to reduce the possibility of ridicule during those "let's see what's on your iPod" moments down the pub.
Choice cuts
The Gift - The Velvet Underground (not sure why anyone would want to hear this more than once, *SPOILER* he dies in the end!)
Bros - Panda Bear
The First Big Weekend - Arab Strap
Cheryl Tweedy (Demo) - Lily Allen
Dandy - The Kinks
Yet more stuff dragged up that I don't remember owning.
Misread....
I misread your five tracks and thought you had a Bros track called "Panda Bear" gotta cut down on the caffeine. :)
Maybe...
...it's on "Bros : the Basement Tapes" and we just don't know it.
I must admit
I was thinking that as I was typing it in...and maybe it supposed to be Lily Allen by Cheryl Tweedy, who knows.
Waldo Jeffries
The Gift ought to be like that, but I find I always come back to it way more than much of the Velvets. Something about its spookiness, the viol playing, the stereo separation and the dulcet Welshness of Cale is mesmerising.
Very female heavy...
... but I'm not complaining!
1. Do I lie? - Alisha's Attic (a band I really didn't know until about a year and a half ago but which I'm getting to like more and more...)
2. Big Yellow Taxi - Counting Crows with Vanessa Carlton (I like them, so sue me!)
3. Stormy Monday - Beth Rowley (from her first, self published, self-titled EP and a stonking version of a blues standard to boot)
4. Last of the hopeless romantics - Esther Alexander (another independent release from a female singer-songwriter. Good song, great singer and excellent sound and production by Kipper)
5. Stick with me baby - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (from one of my fave albums of last year).
It's funny just how a randomiser can skew what the impression of your musical tastes are. Just for fun I hit shuffle again and these popped out... Daylight by Asia, Pictures of Lily by the Who, Spirit of Radio by Rush, Borderline by Thin Lizzy and No More MY Lawd by Ollabelle. Who would have thought it was the same iPod Nano?
Very random
1 Sudden Town / The Soft Boys
2 Shout Shout Knock Yourself Out / Ernie Maresca (from Don't Stop Doo Wop)
3 Go All The Way / The Raspberries
4 No Time Like The Right Time /The Blues Project (from Nuggets)
5 Mark My Word / Allison Moorer
I know it's random, but when you have every Beatles album + solo + bootlegs, every Springsteen album + bootlegs, every Neil Young album + bootlegs ... how does it miss them all?
Mustn't Grumble...
1. Fancy Funeral - Lucinda Williams
2. Presume Too Much - Merz
3. Glittering Prize - Simple Minds
4. Actor In The Street - Paul Westerberg
5. Can't Win (Live) - Richard Thompson
Not too shabby.
Eyes down...
Waiting On The World To Change - John Mayer (Continuum)
Can't Get It Out Of My Head (Live) - Fountains of Wayne (Out of State Plates)
Look At Miss Ohio - Gillian Welch (Soul Journey)
Loving Arms - Dixie Chicks (Wide Open Spaces)
One Small Year - Shawn Colvin (Whole New You)
Oh me, oh myo, won't you look at Miss Ohio for the rest of the day then.
Random schmandom
Oh No - Lavender Diamond
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
Take Me To The River (studio version) - Talking Heads
Intoxicated Man - Serge Gainsbourg
Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera - Elin Manahan Thomas
Here goes
Broken Imaginary Time - Soundtrack of Our Lives
Devils and Dust - Bruce Springsteen
Prophet 15 - Supergrass
Answering Bell - Ryan Aams
Streets of Arklow - Van Morrison
Lots of Albarn....
1. Bad Boy Boogie - AC/DC
2. Quicksand - Bowie
3. Globe Alone - Blur
4. White Light - Gorillaz
5. The First Snowfall - Lalo Schifrin (Bullit OST)
Here we go then.........
1. The Rocker - Thin Lizzy
2. Sound of the Screaming Day - Golden Earring
3. Face Up - New Order
4. Death On Two Legs - Queen
5. Hey Joe - Robert Plant
Bloody hell............looks like I never listen to anybody under the age of 105!!
Second go just to prove that the first wasn't representative:
1. Sacred Cow - Crowded House
2. Shoot Out The Lights (Live) - Richard Thompson
3. The Red And The Black - Blue Oyster Cult
4. Praise - David Sylvian
5. I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack
OK.....it's a fair cop.........all the young scallies must be off on a uni reading week or something, leaving my pod to the dinosaurs...........
Normal service suspended
Snow and heavy winds here that normal work (which is from home and computer-based) has been temporarily suspended whilst I add an uninterruptable power supply to my shopping list.
On with the random...
Untouchable - Garbage
Dolly Dagger - Jimi Hendrix
Penitent - Suzanne Vega (this is a great song and I hardly ever hear it. Thank you, shuffle)
Five Ten Fiftyfold - Cocteau Twins
Childhood Montage - BT (which is the title sequence music from the film "Monster)
Better than I was expecting
1. The Charlatans - I Just Can't Get Over Losing You (Wonderland)
2. The Flaming Lips - Buggin' (Soft Bulletin)
3. The Magic Numbers - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (86/06 - Q 80s Cover Versions CD)
4. The Shortwave Set - Roadside (The Debt Collection)
5. New Order - Bizarre Love Triange (Brotherhood)
Love 3 of those (#2, #4 & #5); quite like #1; don't recall ever hearing #3...
I have that 80's cover CD
And I like their version of TIALTNGO actually.
Give it a go.
For your files
1. Long Hot Summer - Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. Four Flight Up - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
3. Maybe the People would be the times or between Clark and Hilldale - Love
4. Morse Code - Roni Size/Reprazent
5. That Teenage Feeling - Neko Case
From my Mp3 phone
1. The Balloonist-Epic 45 the rural sound of young Staffordshire.
2. Circuits- Antartica Bedroom tastic californian indie pop about polar exploration (not out yet)
3.Canada- Low a very rocking unlikely track from everyone's fave slow core band.
4.Straight down the line- British Seeeeeeeeeaaaaaaa Pooowwweer! Easy easy easyily the best band around.
5. Sunday lovely Sunday- Edson. More Swedish Belle Sebastianish indie pop.
I can safely recommend them all.
Come on you Epic45 fans!
nice one, Chris
Call that random ... ?
I've always thought that whoever programmed what the iPod actually does when you hit "Shuffle" had built it with a preference for certain artists. So, for example, if you happen to have, as in my case, Beth Orton on your iPod, she seems to get way more play than she should, statistically speaking that is.
Perhaps other readers have found this too?
1. The District Sleeps Tonight - The Postal Service
2. Fight The Power - Public Enemy
3. The Big Sky - Kate Bush
4. I'm Just A Lucky So And So - Dr. John
5. Fight Test - The Flaming Lips
Damn. That didn't prove my theory at all.
random fandom
Findlay Brown Separated By The Sea
Nas Just Another Day In The Projects
Mariee Sioux Wizard Flurry Home
Dudley Morre The Millionaire
Mike Sammes Singers Youth: Barefoot
I Got 5 On It
1. All By Myself - Fats Domino
2. Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
3. Hold On (I'm Coming) - Bryan Ferry
4. I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love - Hubert Sumlin & Keith Richards
5. Juanita - The Flying Burrito Brothers
Nothing to be ashamed of there. The Van Morrison tune was the first dance at my wedding. Another reason to punch the miserable old bastard on the nose if I ever run into him, despite the fact that I adore his music.
How random is your Ipod?
Here's some discussion about whether your pod "prefers" Beth Orton to S-Club
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115876952162469003.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=...
I like this game
1) The Be Good Tanyas "The Littlest Birds"
2) Sufjan Stevens "Angels We Have Heard On High"
3) Dosh "Um, Circles and Squares"
4) Frank Sinatra "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"
5) Barry Manilow "Bermuda Triangle".
Under the Beth Orton rules, this has mis-represented the amount of Christmas music I own. and the amount of Barry Manilow I own.
Yeah right
Yeah right
alright, you got me
it's nothing but Christmas Hits and Manilow round mine.
I vow to find a "Manilow sings your favourite 3000 Festive tunes" album, then I'll be in heaven.
This may be misconstrued as cheating, but ...
I set all my Christmas related songs to "Skip when shuffling" because if I want to hear them I'll want to have elected to hear them.
I used to do the same thing with audiobooks until I found out how to get them to remain separated from the music.
brilliant!
cheers for that, I'll have a go...
iPod Skip On Shuffle...
...is great! It means that, as well as Christmas tracks, you can skip all the 'noodly' bits that are essential to albums but that you really don't want to hear on shuffle - Fitter, Happier off OK Computer would be a good example.
The function that lets you choose a cut off time on tracks is great too as it means you can miss out all those rubbish, annoying 'hidden' tracks that appear after 20 mins of silence.
Non-Brit Shuffle
Neil Young - Look out for my Love
Lou Reed - Vicious
Air - You Make it Easy
Mercury Rev - Holes
Spoon - Rhythm and Soul
Suspiciously interesting and cultish perhaps but genuine, honest!
It's actually quite drizzly in Houston too...
...so here goes...
1. Cry - Texas (how appropriate, the Texas part, not the crying)
2. Wheels on Fire - The Magic Numbers
3. Peace - Weezer
4. How My Heart Behaves - Feist
5. A Comet Appears - The Shins
3, 4 & 5 are top notch, not sure about 1 & 2 though
It's now sunny in Houston, gorgeous blue skies...
let's see what our next random shuffle brings...
1. You've Got Her In Your Pocket - The White Stripes
2. Dy-Na-Mi-Tee - The Ukulele Orchestra (yes, a cover of Ms Dynamite, Mr Ellen may like this - from Cosmosonica covers album)
3. Go To Hell - David Ford (from a Word Now Hear This CD)
4. All Night Long - Aretha Franklin
5. Sally Cinnamon - The Stone Roses
Just got in and pressed shuffle and it gave me:-
Satellites - Rickie Lee Jones
Soultime - Graham Parker
The Gulag Orkestar - Beirut
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Frontera - Calexico
Quite pleased with that - Soultime never fails to get me dancing around the room and comes up quite often on the old shuffle box.
The Famous Five
Sadly I wasn't sent home early from work, despite the snow and have to go in early tomorrow, such is the joy of employment with the Jaundice Pages. Anyway, here we go:
1) Well Worn Hands-Editors
2) Rocks Off-The Rolling Stones
3) When You Leave-MAPS
4) Rooted-Level 42
5) Climb Through-Hayley Hutchinson.
Cold and wet in Seattle...so what's new?
1. In The Garden/You Send Me/Allegheny - Van Morrison, Live in San Francisco (a little too much Brian Kennedy.)
2. Texas Hop - Pee Wee Crayton
3. Lost My Driving Wheel - Cowboy Junkies
4. Sound Of The City - Tom McRae
5. Feral - Beth Orton
Any Brian Kennedy is too
Any Brian Kennedy is too much. I went to see Van once and Brian sang more than he did....
a cat being strangled
he really does ruin any Van record he's on
A fine selection, with added gratuitous swearing
1. Women's Realm - Belle & Sebastian
2. Motown Junk - Manic Street Preachers
3. What A Fucking Lovely Day! - Stephin Merritt
4. Bredda Gravilicious - The Wailing Souls
5. My Love Paramour - Cocteau Twins
The depressing thing is, although I put all the music on there in the first place, my iPod produces better playlists than I could.
Slightly more muscular than I'd anticipated...
1. Control, I'm here - Nitzer Ebb
2. I will lead you - Filter
3. Dog Shelter - Burial ( I had to buy it to see what the fuss was all about, still making mind up about it)
4. Apathy - KMFDM
5. Psyche Out - Meat Beat Manifesto
Yep, guilty. A child of the "Industrial Dance" craze that lasted about 10 minutes in 1990. I do have other stuff on my player. Honest!
Radio iPod
1. U2: I Will Follow [Under A Blood Red Sky]
2. John Lee Hooker: I Believe I'll Go Back Home [That's My Story and the The Folk Blues of JLH]
3. Paul Rodgers: Feel Like Making Love [Muddy Water Blues/The History]
4. Aldo Ciccolini: Les Fils Des Etoiles, Wagnerie Kaldéenne Du Sar Peladan — Prélude Du 3e. Acte: L'Incantation [Satie - Œuvres Pour Piano]
5. Harrison Kennedy: Bad Luck And Trouble [Voice + Story]
I can't think of a radio programme that would ever put this together - but it works on some sort of level. Although the next track is 'Vultan's Theme' from Flash Gordon...now where is the delete key?
Anyome care to swap?
1. The Church - Chaos (from Priest = Aura)
2. David Bowie - Quicksand (Hunky Dory)
3. ELP - Sheriff (Trilogy) it was going SO well too.
4. Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood (Funeral)
5. Sisters Of Marcy - Flood II (Floodland)
Mmmmmm......
Four out of five ain't bad.... ;)
With trepidation in his heart...
1. Bad Woman - Arctic Monkeys (B-side of Teddy Picker)
2. Groom's Still Waiting At The Alter - Dylan
3. Serpents - Nitin Sawhney (From Beyond Skin, good album)
4. All You Pretty Girls - XTC (From the Fossil Fuel compilation that I need to get around to listening to more.)
5. Black and White Town - Doves
Well, I'm pretty happy with that.
Could have been worse...
1 Run For A Long Time - Bill Landford
2 All You Need Is Love - The Beatles
3 Just One Look - Doris Troy
4 Clubland - Elvis Costello
5 Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine - Bob Dylan
Time to turn off the randomizer for a moment...
1. I Wish I Had An Evil Twin, Magnetic Fields
2. Above the Clouds, Electric Light Orchestra
3. Opportunities, You Am I
4. Dry Lighting, Bruce Springsteen
5. It's True That We Love One Another, White Stripes
Well, looks like randomizer fairy didn't love me today. None of the tracks are really major or memorable, and at least one really is just a novelty piece. In all honesty, the next five weren't that inspiring either. Maybe time to clean out the iPod.
On the nightshift
1.Shoot Out The Lights (Live in Austin) - Richard Thompson [great solo Rich!]
2.Writing To Reach You - Travis [before they became unbearable]
3.Abraham, Martin And John - Marvin Gaye [it's the vibraphone that pushes it into genius territory]
4. The Sleepless - Red Snapper [severely underrated band, love that double bass]
5. In The Devil's Territory - Sufjan Stevens [just lovely]
Oh dear...here we go agan...
Essence - Cocteau Twins
Dr Mabuse - Propaganda
John Saw That Number - Neko Case
Bone 2 Pic (Wit U) - Angie Stone
Remember - John Lennon
Actually pretty good, that one - poptastic credentials remain intact for a while...
I'd really love to look cool...
Political World/Bob Dylan
"Heroes"/David Bowie
When I Kissed The Teacher/Abba
Rumpole And The Old, Old Story/read by Leo McKern
I COuld be Happy/Altered Images
And it started so promisingly...
The dog ate it....
Sorry to be so late posting in my homework, been listening to CDs all the way thru', as nature intended etc etc.
So, on the way into work today:
1. White Room : Vassar Clements.Yes, that song, but the bluegrass version, or, to be fair, as Mr C is way more than a country scratcher, the Hillbilly Jazz version, albeit not off the LP of that name. Recommended.
2. Fare thee well : Willard Grant Conspiracy. From the excellent Regard the End. Some of the songs on this make RT's End of the Rainbow sound like the Archies. Fabulous.
3.Somewhere across the water : Anthony Thistlethwaite. There was a time when the Waterboys were off-shooting in o so many ways, and with a bigger budget Ensign, the label, could have had 3 class acts from the one, what with themselves, World Party and Anto. Never mind, its a cracker full of songs (Wheels, is the LP), mainly seeming to profess love for his, um, tractor....
4.Soar : Christine Aguilera. Whaaaat! No, stop, this is actually very good. Lump her neither in with Britney, Pink and their ilk, nor with Mariah and the squawlers. The girl can sing. Don't let Herbie Hancock be the only person to realise that!
5. I don't get it : Cowboy Junkies. From the original, rather than revisited Trinity Sessions. Just listen to it. The only group who had the (lack of) volume to make the old pre-refurb Town Hall, B'ham, accoustics work to their favour.
Phew, quite chuffed with that, especially as the next 5 were a little dodgy by anyones standards....
How did that get on there?
Texas Fever by Orange Juice
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head by Manic Street Preachers (oh crap I don't even like them. It's on a compilation, honest!)
Summer Days by Phoenix (That's much better)
Reasons to be Cheerful Pt. 3 - Ian Dury and the brilliant Blockheads
In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence - Procul Harum
Next patient please....
Raindrops.....
The first Warchild compilation, with its mix of good and, like this one, less good. Nothing to stop you deleting the ones you don't like.
Incidentally, given the argy bargy elsewhere about the 'Head, their song on this,"Lucky" is the only thing of theirs I have ever liked, and is the only thing on mi-pod. This would also foit on the great song crap band trail.
Not bad
1. Baby, I'll Come: Mary Love
2. Revolution: Tomorrow
3. Savoir Faire: Suede
4. The Seventh Seal: Scott Walker
5. Blue Veins: The Raconteurs
That'll do for me.
This comes to you from beyond the grave....
.....as I obviously died in about 1975!
1. Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystal
2. Flesh For Bones - Terra Naomi (someone must have slipped a Word CD into the coffin).
3. Rubber Bullets - 10CC
4. These Foolish Things - Brian Ferry
5. I Love The Dead - Alice Cooper
I'm going to haunt you for ever Mr Randomizer.
That witty line at the top...
Harry's Dilemma - Tindersticks, beautiful in small doses, too many songs and his voice starts to grate.
Crazy Train - The Waifs, much better live than on record.
Thin Line Between Love and Hate - Pretenders, the meat hater can do no wrong for me.
World Looking In - Morcheeba, not in the cold light of day! This needs a glass of red wine and dimmed lights.
Jokerman - Bob Dylan, I suppose it could have picked a much worse Dylan song.
Other than "Thin Line" I couldn't see myself putting any of these into a playlist.
Marked down for lateness
1) Expansions (Original 12" Mix) Lonnie Liston Smith - jazz funktastic, Mucho sampled bassline. Probably goes on about 2 minutes too long tho'
2) Last Gang In Town - The Clash
3) How Can We Hang Onto A Dream - Tim Hardin
4) Catch The Man On The Rise - Sir Douglas Quintet
5) United We Stand - The Mike Curb Congress (Damn, all going so well until track came up from Greatest Hits bought purely for theme tune to 'Kelly's Heroes' throws up this clonker. Hey ho).
Love this game
Chase the Blues Away Tim Buckley
I Love Rock and Roll Jesus and mary Chain
Itchycoo Park Small faces
In-Between Days The Cure
What A Shame Rolling Stones (B side of something , first time this has ever come up according to itunes, but rather good)
Pretty pleased with this lot...
Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers
The Small Faces - Every Little Bit Hurts
Smashing Pumpkins - Daphne Descends
Kathryn Williams - Birds
Broadcast - Valerie
Varied I suppose
Rhinestone cowboy - Glenn Campbell
While my guitar gently weeps - The Beatles
Walk on by - Isaac Hayes
Down the line - Jerry Lee Lewis
Sweet Home - Sam & Dave
Not a bad soundtrack to walk the dog in the snow
Tom Waits Time
Sir Vincent Lone When The Bridegroom Comes
The Saints Brisbane (Security City)
Alice Cooper Black Juju
De La Soul Me Myself & I
Vary Random
Warum - Juli (German band but I guess the title is a clue)
Singer of Songs - Johnny Cash
Moving - Supergrass
Me & Julio down by the Schoolyard - Paul Simon
Where or When - Brian Fery
Funky Five
Worry Worry - The Fiery Furnaces
A Version Of Myself - The Go! Team
Fragile Happiness - Super Furry Animals
Origin Of Love - Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Sex, War & Robots - Super Furry Animals
Nice double-show from the fuzzy ones, and yay! for Hedwig - a fine soundtrack to a fine film. I'm happy with this one. Next...
February's Five
1. Bamboo(Interlude) - Outkast
2. Acid Enlightenment - Aldo Bender
3. Blue Flowers(Instrumental Mix) - Dr Octagon
4. Celestial Annihilation - UNKLE
5. Give Me Your Love - Curtis Mayfield
I'm happy with that. Although, I'd have preferred a "proper" track from Speakerboxxx.
long time listener, first time poster
1.Guardrail - Fu Manchu (starts with monstrous bass riff, goes nowhere)
2. Carried Away - Television (oh yes, might sound hip, but iTunes tells me this is only the second time I have listened to it)
3. DC - Semifinalists
4. Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More - Mudhoney
5. We Will Not Be Lovers - The Waterboys
Could have been so much worse. I seem to have dodged a lot of bullets there.
Hmmm
Ole black'n'blue eyes - The Fratellis
The levee's gonna break - Bob Dylan
Dragon island cathedral - Gary Hughes
Dhyana and donalogue - Sheila Chandra
My friend Stan - Slade
Teacher's note : Must try harder
Well played that iPod
Crowded House - Silent House (live at the i-tunes festival)
Bruce Springsteen - Long Walk Home
Radiohead - Bodysnatchers
Billy Bragg - Tank Park Salute (live at the Barbican)
Roddy Frame - Portastudio
Pod still displaying unerring ability to sniff out my old Bragg favourites no matter how much new stuff gets crammed on
I'm leaving on a jet plane
just packing my ipod for a weeks business trip in USA so will regale you with another five:-
Louis Armstrong - Blueberry hill
The Delgados - All rise
Robert Wyatt - I'm a believer
Pixies - letter to Memphis
Lou Reed - Pale blue eyes
5 x 5
Aimee Mann, 'Red Vines'
Muddy Waters, 'Rock Me'
Holmes Brothers, 'Beast of Burden'
Randy Newman, 'The World Isn't Fair'
Stereophonics, 'Don't Let Me Down'
Phew, two under 50.
Dock Boggs!
Obstacle 2 - Interpol
Johnny Barleycorn - Frank Black
Suffragette City - David Bowie
The Word Before Last - Human League
Railroad Tramp - Dock Boggs
Just about into the 1980s.
1 Thin Lizzy, Dancing In The Moonlight
2 Squeeze, Is That Love
3 Dr Feelgood, Keeka Smeeka
4 Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Just Like The Devil
5 Elvis Costello, The Great Unknown.
Totally Random Man
Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds
McArthur Park - Donna Summer
I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four
Charlton Heston - Stump
Strict Machine - Goldfrapp
Someone's left that cake out in the rain, and that...
and my five.......
Welcome back - Trash Can Sinatras (not aware of this one - from a compilation thing)
Saturday Superhouse - Biffy Clyro
Western Highway - Maura O Connell - from the wonderful Bringing It All back Home CD of Irish music from the good people at the BBC
The Road - Turin Brakes
The Apologist REM
Recovered after a wobbly start.......
Honey, I`m A Big Twat Now
Honey I`m A Big Boy Now - Billy Bragg
Something On Your Mind - Karen Dalton
Our Lips Are Sealed - Fun Boy 3
Beam Me Up - New Fast Automatic Daffodils
Twat - John Cooper Clarke
Not very varied. Thank heavens for La Dalton.
Piku
Piku - Chemical Brothers
Wasn't Born to Follow - The Byrds
The Same Boy You've Always Known - The White Stripes
Nightbirds - Ryan Adams
We Float - PJ Harvey
I think that's the best five I've ever gotten on the Randomiser.
No apologies necessary!
KINKS/I'll Remember You
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL/Bring It On Down To My House
JOHN MARTYN/Johnny Too Bad
JONATHAN RICHMAN/Not Yet Three
BONNIE RAITT/What Do You Want The Boy To Do?
I stand by all of these beauties, ego intact! Phew...
Possibly not the best each artist has to offer, but not too bad
1) The Beatles - Girl
2) Radiohead - True Love Waits
3) Toots and the Maytals - My Daily Food
4) Ray Charles - You Won't Let Me Go
5) Al Green - Call Me (Come Back Home)
Not bad, not bad at all
It Ain't Raining - Jimmy Webb
The Waltz - Brian Wilson
After The Thrill Is Gone - The Eagles
Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger/Bo Diddley - Warren Zevon
Ballad Of Mott the Hoople - Mott The Hoople
This is my best Randomizer yet although some may disagree about the Eagles. Just had a thought, After The Trill Is Gone by Budgie? Please no...
Here we go again
A Man Without Love/Engelbert Humperdinck
Empty Pages/Traffic
Fake Friends/Joan Jett
Mr E's Beautiful Blues/Eels
Which Way The Wind Blows/Anthony Phillips (with Mike Rutherford)
Pleasing.
Randomiser goes all American
1. Only a Hobo. Bob Dylan (Bootleg Series Vol. 1)
2. Lie To Me. Tom Waits (Orphans: Brawlers)
3. Something In The Night. Bruce Springsteen (Darkness On The Edge Of Town)
4. All That You Dream. Little Feat (As Time Goes By)
5. Ignoreland. REM (Automatic For The People)
My Dad's Sunday night music sessions have a lot to answer for..
1. "Menage All'Italiana" - Ennio Morricone
2. Save Me A Saturday Night - Neil Diamond
3. Hope Goes Blind - Alpha featuring James Roberts
4. I Don't Want to Hear it Anymore - Dusty Springfield
5. What's Happening Brother - Marvin Gaye
Eeek..
1. "Laura" - Scissor Sisters
2. "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag (12" mix)" - Pigbag
3. "Death or Glory" - The Clash
4. "Your Generation" Generation X
5. "Tread Lightly" - Kirsty MacColl
How spooky, seeing as how Carbon/Silicon are absolutely my favourite band of the moment, that it should throw up Mick Jones & Tony James next to each other!
Randomizer
I hereby state that I have fully complied with the strict conditions laid out by the Randomizer,
Here goes:
While You Were Sleeping - Elvis Perkins
Smash - Calexico
Cold Water - Tom Waits
Hyper Music - Muse
Get Innocuos - LCD Soundsystem
5 from 12778
Gram Parsons - A Song For You
Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne
New Pornographers - My Rights Versus Yours
Primal Scream - I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have
Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
That's probably the best 5 random tracks that have come up for the randomizer. Really pleased with that selection.
shuffles on...
HMHB - Bob Wilson, Anchorman
Talk Talk - Wealth
Bats for lashes - Sad Eyes
Billy Bragg - The Milkman of Human Kindness
Lee "Scratch" Perry - Creation Dub
No guilty secret ones there..
random selection
Paradise (Robert Racic Mix) - New Order
Love Field - Elvis Costello
Rome Wasn't Built in a Day - Nick Lowe
Glory Bound - The Wailin' Jennys
Ocean Rain - Echo and the Bunnymen
Guess the track from a Word 'Now Hear This' CD ?
Well I put them on for a reason
so whatever comes up ..........
Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash
Fair Exchange - Be Bop Deluxe
Sad eyed lady of the Lowlands - Bob Dylan
Change of heart - Teddy Thompson
Sixteen fishermen raving - Christy Moore
I enjoyed that! Must put it on shuffle more often
After all that action on the Brit thread...
..I need a break.
Here goes:
1.Silver & Gold / Neil Young
2.In The Lost and Found / Elliot Smith
3.Stars / The Beep Seals
4.Don't Marry Her / The Beauful South
5.Evil And A Heathen / Franz Ferdinand
Embarrassing or cool?
Mr Mistletoe - The Magnetic Fields
Ordinary Girl - Alison Moyet
Let's Jump - Toots & The Maytals
Talk Of The Town - Pretenders
You're Tender And Tired - Manic Street Preachers
Guilty as charged Your Honour
Sweet Nothings - Loudon Wainwright III
Right Here - Lucie Silvas
Alaska - UK
Our Lips Are Sealed - Fun Boy Three
Flambay - Frank Zappa
I thought...
...I'd already posted here, but the memory isn't what it was.
1 Down Home Girl - Alvin Robinson
2 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
3 Crabbit Version - King Tubby
4 Baby Let Me Follow You Down - Bob Dylan
5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
My 5 random wotsits
New Order - Waiting For The Sirens Call
Electronic - Getting Away With It
Kraftwerk - Strom
Kraftwerk - Boing Boom Tschak
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Jesus wept...i swear my iriver just doesnt understand shuffle very well...it shuffles like a mom playing snap after a glass of wine at christmas.
1,2,3,4,5
1. Marry Song - Band of Horses (Cease to Begin)
2. When the President Talks to God - Bright Eyes
3. Beethoven Symphony #9 in D Minor, Op. 125, "Choral" - 2. Molto Vivace - Ludwig Van Beethoven
4. Cannonball - Damien Rice (O)
5. Setting Sun - The Chemical Brothers
Phew!
OK, not too bad...
Chenko - Red Box (their fine first single on Cherry Red. Shame they were dismissed as one hit wonders...)
No Surprises - Thom Yorke live at worthy charity event. Just guitar and ocarina. Let's Rock!
No! - They Might Be Giants
Hanging on a Star - Nick Drake
Blow The Wind (Pie Jesus) - Jocelyn Pook. Blow the Wind Southerly meets Pie Jesus? Could this be the most genteel mash-up ever? Discuss...