Anyway

1. Steely Dan: Night by Night
2. Elbow: One Day Like This
3. Joan Armatrading: Water With The Wine
4. Prince: When You Were Mine
5. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: 40 Day Dream

I've whipped me littl'un out (ancient 2GB - for travel purposes)- and since I've filled it with folk - you'll not be surprised to learn the results are as below.

1. Up North: Catherine Howe
2. Uninhabited Man - RT
3. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Zep
4. Hills of Greenmor - Anne Briggs
5. I Love Music - Prefab Sprout

Perfectly perfect with a cup of tea in the out-laws conservatory overlooking the North Devon coast.

1. Tom Waits: Soldier's things
2. John Martyn: One world
3. Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu & Rabbit: Yellow House
4. Free: Crossroads (live)
5. Sigur Ros: Untitled 5

Real time typing.........

June Tabor - A Place Called England
Bruce Springsteen - What Love Can Do
T-Bone Burnett - Telepresence
Burial - Wounder
The Faces - Three Button Hand Me Down

This blog was a clean slate with no comments when I started randomising. Curious as to how many will get in before me

Get on the Good Foot- James Brown
Grounds for Divorce - Elbow
And the Beat Goes On - The Whispers
Boys- The Shirelles
I Never Loved a Man etc - Aretha Franklin

1) JAPAN - Ghosts (say what you like about the 80's, you'll never hear a record as strange as this in the top 5 ever again)
2) BASIL KIRCHIN - Negatives (from a Trunk Records compilation)
3) GLASVEGAS - Flowers And Football Tops (they get a regular shoeing on this board, but I like this album, though I can't see myself being desperate for a follow-up)
4) THE IKETTES - I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) (from the soundtrack of "Hairpsray", the original movie, not the film-of-the-musical-of-the-film)
5) Mozart's Motto Allegro

Pleasingly varied, though in all honesty probably not that representative of my regular listening...

If I say so myself

For The Roses-Joni Mitchell
Tweeter and the monkey man-Traveling Wilburys
The Only Living Boy In New York-S and G
Clerkenwell Polka-Madness
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp-Jimi Hendrix

An odd selection but that's randomness for you
1) World Party - The Waterboys
2) B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Bofore Leaving Earth)- GZA
3) Flying High - Cloud One
4) Grand Parade - Reindeer Section
5) Leave My Woman Alone - Ray Charles

1) Imperial Hotel - Stevie Nicks
2) Adult Education - Hall & Oates
3) Just Like THis Train - Joni Mitchell
4) When The Deal Goes Down - Bob Dylan
5) VIcar In A Tutu - The Smiths

1) (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below... - Curtis Mayfield
2) Joy To The World - Eef Barzelay
3) Desolation Row - Bob (live 66)
4) Take Me Back - Corey Harris
5) Ticket to Ride - The Summer Brothers

Elvis Presley - I Love You Because

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Samba Torto

Cesaria Evora - Sodade

Sèyfu Yohannès - Tezeta

Stevie Wonder - Black Man

Empty sky - Bruce Springsteen
Dub Extensions - Andy Sheppard
I need a man - Grace Jones
Rock this house - Jimmy Rodgers
Honkytonk Heart - Tom Russell

Given how much I like Tom Russell I think this is first time he has appeared on my randomiser.

1) Wild Night - Van Morrison
2) Dead End Job - The Police
3) Dear John - Aimee Mann
4) Ambient Guitars - Mike Oldfield
5) Its Hard To Be A Saint In The City - Bruce Springsteen

Radio Myanmar Broadcast: National Objectives
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra - Unza Unza Time
The Skatelites - The Reburial
Henegar-Union Sacred Harp Convention - The Child Of Grace
Oumou Sangare - Senkele Te Sira

Archangel Tale - M. Ward
After You - Quiet Elegance
You are one of the few Outsiders who Really Understand Us - Fanfarlo
I'll be Rested - Mavis Staples
The Earth is the Sky - Tom Verlaine

I like.

Neil Young - Southern Man
Led Zeppelin - All Of My Love
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Come On Baby, Let's Go Downtown
Orleans - Dance With Me

Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
Time Capsule - Matthew Sweet
Dave The Butcher - Tom Waits
Waltzing's For Dreamers - Richard Thompson
You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff

Sgueeze - Hourglass
ELO - Ticket to the Moon (Mrs G's favourite ELO, so she'll be pleased)
Martyn Joseph - People Crazy as Me
Pergolesi - Fac ut portem (from Stabat Mater)
Neilsen - 3rd mvt Poco Adagio (Symphony no. 4 "The Inextinguishable")

Not too bad a selection.

With the Arsenal game coming up the first tune out is Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

And they say there is no higher power.

Guided By Voices - Game of Pricks (Tigerbomb version)
Inspiral Carpets with Mark E Smith - I want You
Modern English - I melt with you
The Beatles - I need you
John Foxx - Dancing Like a Gun

Odd selection, not truly representive of what I generally listen to. All the fun of the randomiser.

1) Waiting - The Devlins
2) Bedside Manners are Extra - Greenslade
3) 29 Palms - Robert Plant
4) Kaya - Bob Marley
5) Get Off This - Cracker

Bone Broke - The White Stripes
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Moon, Turn The Tides...Gently Gently Away - Jimi Hendrix
This Is The Place - Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Lonely 1 - Wilco

Could you get Danny Baker to do one, please ?

Oh No not my baby - Rod Stewart and the Faces
Respectable - Rolling Stones
Rappers Delight - Sugarhill Gang
LSF - Kasabian
Spoilin' for a fight AC/DC

Townes van Zandt - Brand New Companion
Josh Rouse - Summer Kitchen Ballad
Freddie King - Hide Away
Duke Ellington - Isfahan
CSNY - Teach Your Children. 4 Way Street version.

...how I've missed it.

1) Nick Drake - Fly
2) Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life (Road Version)
3) John Martyn - May You Never
4) Damien Rice - Baby Sister
5) The Dears - We Can Have It

Quite possibly the least eclectic selection you'll see on this thread. Cheers, iPhone, you've made me look a charlatan

Stereolab- Nothing to do with me
Radiohead - Punch up at a wedding
Stereolab - Neon Beanbag
The Fall - Barmy
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Mystery Girl

1) DeVotchKa - You Love Me
2) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
3) Buddy Holly - Everyday
4) Hot Chip - (Just Like We) Breakdown
5) The Squadronaires Feat. Sam Browne - More Than Ever Before

1. Sugababes - Freak Like Me (Overloaded: The Singles Collection)
2. Sons & Daughters - Monsters (The Repulsion Box)
3. Arcade Fire - Une Année Sans Lumiere (Funeral)
4. New Order - Get Out (Control OST)
5. The Afghan Whigs - Something Hot (1965)

1) What We Know About Love - Dan Arborise
2) Martwa Cisza - Jacaszek
3) It's All Over Now - Rolling Stones
4) Please Don't Go - William Fitzsimmons
5) Stay - David Bowie

1) Orpheus Beach - The Go Betweens
2) Because - The Beatles
3) Undecided (Reprise) - Shack
4) Last Days of My Bitter Heart - The Eels
5) Rosasolis - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

HJH - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Part One
John Cale - Style it Takes (live)
Flaming Lips - Suddenly Everything Has Changed
Waterboys - Blues For You Baby

Birdie - John Hartford
Like Soldiers Do - Billy Bragg
Give A Little Love - Noah And The Whale
Honey Rider - Cinerama
World Leader Pretend - R.E.M.

Guinnevere/Crosby, Stills & Nash
Respect Yourself/The Kane Gang (from vinyl!)
Western Front 1992/Julian Cope
The Time Is Near/Keef Hartley Band
Deviation/Japan

Deaf School - Taxi
Love - She Comes In Colours
Crowded House - It's Only Natural
Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
Supremes/Temptations - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

My Thief - The Costello/Bacarach song as done by Bill Frisell
Crystal Chandeliers - Charley Pride
Didn't I - k d lang
Demon Lover Improv - Jolie Holland
Pretty Polly - The Byrds

Billy Joel - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

Frank Sinatra - We'll Be Together Again

Joe Nicholls - You Can't Break The Fall

Linda Thompson - Give Me A Sad Song

Paul Weller - Cold Moments

All should be known I imagine, except Joe Nicholls - an American country artist with a very deep voice.

Andy's Babies - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
The Beach at Redpoint - Boards of Canada
Scatta Head - Femi Kuti
Quick Fade - Feeder
Kiss that frog - Peter Gabriel

Lady Godiva - Dr Hook and the Medicine Show

Natalie's Party - Shack

Battle of Evermore - Zep

You Won't See Me - Beatles (remastered....!)

Are You Ready - Graham Coxon

Sax Mallard - Slow Caboose - The Chess Story (1950-1951)
Art Pepper - Blues Out - Modern Art
Miles Davis - Sur l'autoroute - Ascenseur pour l'Echefaud
James Brown - Stone Fox - Singles collection Vol 4
Steely Dan - Gaucho - Gaucho

Volcano Choir - Islands, Is (more experimental/electronic Bon Iver side project)

Violent Femmes - Country Death Song

Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket

LCD Soundsystem - 45:33

Leadbelly - Where Did you sleep last night?

1. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman

2. Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo

3. I Am Kloot - From Your Favourite Sky (John Peel Sessions)

4. The Low Anthem - Cage The Songbird (from 'Oh My God, Charlie Darwin')

5. Edwyn Collins - A Heavy Sigh (from 'Home Again')

Phew, The Wiggles didn't put in an appearance!

These Days - Joy Division
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
London, Can You Wait? - Gene
Kung Fu International - John Cooper Clarke
Wondering Wanderer - Misty in Roots

1. Tomorrow, tomorrow - Ellliott Smith
2. Please help the cause against loneliness - Morrissey
3. Killing in the name - Rage
4. Jeanne - The Smiths
5. Suedehead - Morrissey

Helpless - Neil Young - Greatest Hits - I'd forgotten just how lovely this is.

Sth Important - An On Bast - Worlds Are Dead - accessible glitchy beats/choppy synth electronica from Poland. Yes that's a capital S, not a five.

I Walked All Night - The Embers - Songs The Cramps Taught Us, volume 3 - slow-motion rock'n'roll.

#1 Country Song - The Handsome Family - Down In The Valley - gloriously downbeat country.

Waterbed Babies - Girls At Our Best - Pleasure - singalong post-punk pop from 1981.

Rufus Wainwright * Vibrate
Ulrich Schnauss * Gone
Moby * Hyenas
The Kings Of Leon * The Bucket
The Be Good Tanyas * When Doves Cry

...

Maximilian Hecker. I am falling now.
New Order. World.
A-ha. Lifelines.
Martin Gore. Stardust.
Moby. Disco Lies (Spencer and Hill remix).

Three out of five starting with the letter M.

1. I'll Work for Your Love - Bruce Springsteen
2. A Different Kind of Blue - Passengers
3. Spayed Kooley - Ry Cooder
4. Venus As A boy - Bjork
5. Pope - Prince

of reloading my iTunes after my hard drive fried. Luckily, I'd saved everything on an external drive, though it's given me the chance to have a bit of a spring clean.
This is out of four and a half thousand tunes reloaded so far...

Sheffield Grinder - Jackie Oates. Saw her live last Friday - she's wonderful. See her if you get the chance.
People Get Mad - Amy Lavere
Ya Ya Me Moy - Lila Downs
Perro Negro - Lila Downs (From two different albums, though I always wonder how efficient Shuffle really is when this happens - and it happens a lot).
Look What's Back (Out Come The Freaks) - Was (Not Was)

1. Arthur "Big Boy Crudup" - Give Me A 32-20
2. Scott Walker - Bouncer See Bouncer...
3. Burial - Ghost Hardware
4. George Harrison - Maya Love
5. Feeder - Stereo World

ah, that classic Blues, Avant Garde, Dubstep, Adult Pop, Rock playlist...

my ears

Willie And Laura Mae Jones - Shelby Lynne (from Just A Little Lovin')
Quicksand - La Roux (single)
Whales Tales - Cocteau Twins (Victorialand)
Old Enough - The Raconteurs (Consolers Of The Lonely)
Walk In The Sky - Bonobo (Days To Come)

Brand New Start - Paul Weller - Days of Speed (Live)
It's Not My Place (in the 9 to 5 world) - The Ramones - Anthology
Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Keep on Lingerin - Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies to God
Vivaldi Concerto for 2 Violins 2nd Movement Largo - Nigel Kennedy and Berlin Philharmonic

Ramones - Havana Affair
Jah Wobble - Elevator Music
Waterboys - In Search Of A Rose
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through The Mekong

1 I'm Leavin' You/Howlin' Wolf
2 Till The Morning Comes/Grateful Dead
3 Crabbit Version/King Tubby & The Aggravators
4 Don't Pass Me By/The Beatles
5 Ebb Tide/The Righteous Brothers

1. Heartbeat City - The Cars

2. I Ain't Got Nothin - New York Dolls

3. River Deep, Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner

4. Theme From Let's Go Native - Passengers

5. A Woman's In Love (It's Not Me) - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

I'm not a Punk– The Descendents
Deep Space - Rikki Lee Jones
Love Walked in - Gershwin arr. Percy Grainger for piano by Daniel Adni
St James Infirmary- Gutter Twins
Gut of the Quantifier - The Fall

Two guts following another? The iPod is ALIVE I tell you

Accessory After The Fact - Oui 3
Spirit of Radio - Rush
Song Of Life - Leftfield
Ways and Means - Snow Patrol (be quiet at the back there..)
A Letter To The Patient's GP, Please, Angela - The Amateur Transplants
(This isn't a proper song so I'll do another)
Magical Mystery Tour - HJHs

1/ Dan Arborise
Feet In The Sea Head In The Stars (Of Tide & Trail)

2/ Keith Jarrett
Part 3 FROM THE SECOND DISC (Testament)

3/ Oceansize
Trail Of Fire (live) (Feed To Feed)

4/ Kiki Dee Band
You Need Help (I've Got The Music In Me)

5/ Steven Wilson
Abandoner (Engineers Mix) (NSRGNTS RMX)

1) I Walk The Line- Johnny Cash
2) Chromakey Dreamcoat- Boards Of Canada
3) Dark End Of The Street - James Carr
4) Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
5) Long Gone Lonesome Blues - Hank Williams

That's all a bit "cooler than thou" for comfort I feel...

Fool In Love - Frankie Miller
Colin Blunstone - Feels Like Rain
Roger Chapman/Family - Weavers Answer
Steve Earle - I Can Wait
Dan Hicks - Walking One and Only

1) 'Jeru' - Miles Davis from Birth of Cool
2) 'Chimanimani' - Bhunda Boys from The Shed Session
3) 'Mis-Shapes' - Pulp from Common People
4) 'One Of These Things First' - Nick Drake from Way To Blue: The Best Of
5) 'Keep The Streets Empty' - Fever Ray from Fever Ray

A very pleasant listen.

I'm amazed that so many people seem to have room for so much old stuff on their ipod. I only have a 16G nano so there's not room for much over 5 years old and certainly nothing more than 10 years old.
Eyes Like Tar - Pete & The Pirates
Secret Yoga - Luke Haines
Zak & Sara - Ben Folds (OK I know it's old but I only got it a month ago!)
Punk Is Dead - Jeffrey Lewis
Missing You - Todd Snider

...the odds of getting something I actually want to hear is quite high. Here's the result of flicking that shuffle switch across...

1. Vivi Davvero - Giorgia (sort of the Italian Madonna, believe it or not)
2. Bruxelles - Jacques Brel (what are the odds of two foreign language tracks in a row, eh?)
3. Backwards down the number line - Phish (off their new album)
4. The Ruminant Band - Fruit Bats (again, off their new album)
5. Titties and Beer - Frank Zappa (from Live In New York)

I rest my case, m'lud... to be truthful, I am surprised it wasn't 'The Word Podcast' or something by Richard Thompson, but there you are...

1) Dark Road - Richard Hawley
2) I've Got A Feeling - The Beatles (remastered)
3) Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name - Del Amitri
4) Slap & Tickle - Squeeze
5) Glorious Fool - John Martyn

Great to hear the HJH on my phone at last - but only "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road" so far. Fingers crossed Santa can find a mono boxed set (and given the swiftly-whisked-away-and-hidden parcel which arrived from Amazon for Mr Mandy this week, I think I might be in luck).

....and shuffle...

1. Road To Somewhere - Goldfrapp
2. To Miss Someone - Maria McKee
3. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
4. A Little Time - Beautiful South
5. Searching For Mr Night - Young Marble Giants

Interesting. I didn't know I had the Beautiful South or Thomas Dolby on there. I'm not sure if that's a good sign or a bad sign, that I don't know what music I have digitally.

I haven't heard him for many years.

Poetic Justice - Buddy Mondlock
I Want To Take You Higher - Ike and Tina Turner
All Your Love(I Miss Loving) - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
We'll Never Pass This Way Again - Kirsty MacColl
It's Been A Long Time - Steve Forbert

Delighted!!

It's my first shuffle for a while since my hard drive power pack packed in.

...gives us:

I'll Keep On Holding On - The Marvelettes from A Complete Introduction to Northern Soul (Great collection)

Love Train - The O'Jays from The Return of the Super 70's (Visibly blanches at the idiocies of youth)

Living Proof - Bruce Springsteen from Lucky Town (I always thought it was the better of the two albums he released together at that time)

H Gang - Donald Fagen from a Word CD of May 2006 (Nice track and good to have it pop up)

We're All Alone - Boz Scaggs from Silk Degrees (An odd mix of new old material but it still stands up for me)

Douze Belles dans la Peau - Michele Arnaud

Man In The Fog - Flying Burrito Brothers

Can't Feel My Soul - Teenage Fanclub

Revolution Blues - Neil Young

Chance - The Teardrop Explodes

Achingly cool selection!

...who looks at the selections to see which ones I could have come up with. I don't think I've ever got the perfect 5 and 4 is pretty rare. Isn't music a wonderful thing?

As I write this, iTunes has just served up Honey in Your Hips by the Yardbirds - I rest my case.

1. Bob Dylan - Down Along The Cove - Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004

2. Kate Bush - Man With The Child In His Eyes - The Kick Inside

3. Phil Collins - I've Been Trying - A Tribute To Curtis Mayfield [which has Springsteen's version of 'Gypsy Woman' on it]

4. The Beach Boys - Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring (Demo) - Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys (Disc 1)

5. Crowded House - You Are The Only One To Make Me Cry - Time On Earth

I Wanna Know - The Icicles
Pledge Of Alliegiance - Louis XIV
Triple Face Boogie - Little Feat
Another Mans Vine - Tom Waits
Saturday Night - Ozomatli

Undertow (spooky remix) - Lush
Can't Buy Me Love - The Fabs
Blue Powder Monkey - Twelfth Night
With A Little Luck - Wings
He's Got All The Whisky - John Martyn

Kasey Chambers - Little Sparrow
Joni Mitchell - Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody
The Bobs - Lonely At The Top
Van Morrison - Centerpiece
Scott Walker - If Ships Were Made To Sail

And I'm bored. So I'm having another go.

You Don't Love Me - Matthew Sweet
Steal My Body Home - Beck
Learnin' The Blues - Katie Melua (My wife uses iTunes as well. Not mine. Honest)
Ain't No Longer Asking - Dodgy
Back To The Start - Razorlight (FPO's hand again)

So if I'm allowed another two to make up for my missus polluting the system..

Show Don't Tell - Rush
A Little Like You - Grand Drive

Ray LaMontagne - Barfly
Laika - Go Fish
Royksopp - What Else Is There?
The Beatles - Glass Onion
The National - Mistaken For Strangers

I don't normally bother but here goes :

Kate Bush - Joanni
Soft Machine - Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
The Who - PinBall Wizard
Back Door - Askin' The Way
Little Feat - Teenage Nervous Breakdown

To see if iPod comes up with more abstract choices than the (relatively) safe decisions iTunes made earlier.

1. Lifehouse - Anchor (Stanley Climbfall)
2. Radiohead - Give It Up (Rarities II)
3. Miles Davis - Drad Dog (Someday My Prince Will Come)
4. Dizzee Rascal - Seems 2 Be (Boy In Da Corner)
5. Elbow - Can't Stop (Asleep In The Back)

Again, some vary safe choices. I do have less mainstream stuff. Honest, guv.

1.The Smiths: The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
2.The Byrds: Mr Spaceman
3.Dusty Springfield: I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
4.The Psychedelic Furs: All That Money Wants
5.Placebo: Teenage Angst

Not a bad selection, even if I say so myself;

Carpenters - Top of the World
Martyn Bates - Your Jewled Footsteps
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Associates - Kitchen Person
Fatima Mansions - Only Losers take the Bus

Underdog (Save Me) by Turin Brakes
The Very Thought Of You by Frank Sinatra
The Ground Beneath Your Feet by Stephen Fretwell
Kiss by Prince
High Fidelity by Elvis Costello

1. Josh Rouse - Invisible

2. Salad - Nothing Happens

3. Radiohead - Killer Cars

4. Kyuss - Gardenia/Asteroid/Supa Scoopa And Mighty Scoop

5. Beirut - La Llorona

Underdog (Save Me) by Turin Brakes
The Very Thought Of You by Frank Sinatra
The Ground Beneath Your Feet by Stephen Fretwell
Kiss by Prince
High Fidelity by Elvis Costello

Love Me Or Leave Me - Nina Simone
Responsorium "Subvenite" - The Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heilgenkreuz
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream - Simon £ Garfunkel
Further On Up The Road - The Band (with Eric Clapton)
Love Will Shoot You Down - The Waterboys

Turn Turn Turn - The Byrds
An American Trilogy - Elvis
Resurrection (Instrumental version) - Public Enemy
The Fez - Steely Dan
Lebanon Tennessee - Ron Sexsmith

Four US acts, a Canuck, an American Trilogy and Lebanon Tennessee. Crikey.

Give Me Novacaine - Green Day (I decided when this came on that I would have to delete it, but I really enjoyed it...so it's staying!)
Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong - Radiohead
It's All Gonna Break - Broken Social Scene (forgotten classic)
Don't Stop - Rolling Stones (not a forgotten classic)
Team Handed - Mogwai

Cats Eyes - Guillemots
Under the red sky - Dylan
Everybody hurts - REM (see depression thread)
Glósóli - Sigur Rós
Goodbye - The Coral

Not bad

Prettiest Star - David Bowie
Soul Alive - Kevin Yost
Tell Me Why - Echobelly
Feeling is Gone - The Panics
Diamonds on my Windshield - Tom Waits

Conversation Intercom - Soulwax
Some Things Last A Long Time - Twilight Sad
No Bones - Dinosaur Jr
Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
Stavanger Toestub - Half Man Half Biscuit

Indian Summer - The Doors - Morrison Hotel (Hadn't heard it for years, sounded great!)

White Faces - Roky Erickson - I Have Always Been Here Before (sounds less weird than I remembered it)

John Riley - Rainy Day - Rainy Day (Paisley Underground)

Sweetie Pie - Tommy Blake - Sun Record Company : 50 Golden Years (Pop rockabilly)

It'll Be Me - Jerry Lee Lewis - Classic (Bear Family set, rockin & free)

Only In Your Heart - America
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Wide Eyed & Legless - Andy Fairweather Low
Pilgrim - Steve Earle
Let It Be - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Moldy Peaches - track 13 from an unknown album
The Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais - an alternate version from a bootleg
The Auteurs - Everything You Say Will Destroy You
The Raveonettes - Whip It On
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 - 1 Allegro Moderato

Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand (live at Massey Hall 1971)
Muse - Take a Bow
Feeder - Tender
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
Little Jackie - Liked You Better Before (Word CD)

I`m happy with that

ELO: Mr Blue Sky
Tom Waits: Young at Heart
Bowie: Sense of doubt
Warren Zevon: Fiery Emblems
Rihanna: Umbrella

Wow!

Golden Years
Fixing A Hole (remastered - sounds fantastic)
Waiting For The Man
Ziggy Stardust
Helter Skelter

no artists names necessary - all originals

1. AKA Pygmies: Boyiwa
2. X-Ray Spex: Identity
3. Little Jackie: The World Should Revolve Around Me
4. Regina Spektor: That Time
5. Cocteau Twins: The Itchy Glowbo Blow

Gryphon - Snakes & Ladders - from Treason
Pink Floyd - Julia Dream - BBC Archives 67-69
Pink Floyd - Sheep - Echoes Best Of
Mellow Candle - Break Your Token - Swaddling Songs
Interpol - Who Do You Think - Our Love To Admire

Good thing Interpol turned up to prove I have some music recorded after the 70s.

Knowing Me, Knowing You, Episode 2 Alan Partridge
Venus In Cancer - Amusement Parks On Fire
I'm Going Down The River - Mississippi Fred McDowell
Take it Away - Paul McCartney
Skellington Anti-Polltax Live in Lambeth, England (Medlay) Part 1Julian Cope

Slayer - Giant Drag (whatever happened to them?)
Travel - Thao
Room 512, All The News That's Fit To Print - The Wonder Stuff (one of my favourite songs ever - from the days when B-sides were still sometimes decent)
Two States - Pavement
I'm Amazed - Pixies ("There were rumours he was into field hockey players...")

Flyswatter - Eels
Stand - REM
Splendid Isolation - Warren Zevon
Alkhar Dessouf - Tinariwen
Tou Mi Arev Es (Chants D'Amour) - Gaguik Mouradian

Aphex Twin - "Goon Gumpas" (from "The Richard D. James album")
Sleater-Kinney - "Prisstina" (from "One Beat")
Asian Dub Foundation featuring Sinead O'Connor - "1000 Mirrors" (from "Enemy of the Enemy")
Dubstar - "Not Once, Not Ever" (from "Disgraceful")
Outkast - "Love In War" (from "The Love Below")

Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything is Alright)
Maya Angelou - Since Me Man Done Gone and Went
The Paris Sisters - Be My Boy
Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
Judy Garland - It's Yourself

I do have some modern music...

1. Fieldworker - Crosby & Nash
2. It's No Use - The Byrds
3. Crazy Baby - Joan Osborne
4. Harbour Bridge - Don McGlashan
5. Diane - The Bachelors

Oh no! So cool until 5. At least I am honest.

I should mention that I saw Joan Osborne play the Paradiso some 10 years ago and she was great, really great.

1 - Muddy Waters - Gipsy Woman
2 - The Trashwomen - Scream
3 - The Aliens - Robin's Flying
4 - The Ramones - Judy is a Punk
5- Yekermo Sew - A Man of Experience and Wisdom

1. VdGG - Ship of Fools
2. David Bowie - Joe the lion
3. SAHB - Sergeant Fury
4. Fairport Convention - Now be thankful
5. Kevin Ayers Banana Follies - 'Orrible Orange

Curious mix...

1. Lesley Duncan - Love Song (the original single mix, of course)
2. Julie Ruin - Aerobicide (the great Kathleen Hanna)
3. Connie Holiday - I'll Be At Your Command (from 'The Girls of Hideaway Heaven' vol 2)
4. Mike Sammes Singers - Pink Marble Shield (advertising something or other, but who knows what?)
5. Petticoat & Vine - Riding A Carousel (from 'Soft Sounds For Gentle People: He & She')

An Honest Mistake - The Bravery
What If We Stopped Paying Taxes - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
New Favorite - Alison Krauss
Mary, Queen of Arkansas - Springsteen (ouch)
Don't Be Square, Be There - Adam and the Ants

Alice Cooper - Wind Up Toy
Bluebird Is Dead - ELO
Moment In Paradise - ELO
We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters
Born To Be My Baby - Bon Jovi

Something appears to have gone wrong there...

Jay Z- Moment of Clarity
The Coral - Dreaming of You
Klaxons - 4 Horsemen of 2012
Metric - Front Row
Leonard Cohen- Hallelujah

1 hip hop, 3 indie, 1 Word favorite

Some 60s pop, some Sylvian, some Nordic chill and a band only 'we' like.

Wintry.

Heaven Only Knows - The Shangri-Las
You're Ready Now - Frankie Valli
Red Guitar - David Sylvian
Circles - Hooverphonic
Broken Loves - The Blue Nile

I was actually working

Kadir The Whurling Durvish - Suns of Arqa
Lawyers, Guns & Money - Warren Zevon
Turn Your Money Green - Pentangle
Family Snapshot - Peter Gabriel
(don't Go back To) ROCKVILLE - REM

hmm

The Police - Message in a bottle
The Wedding Present - Hula Doll
Warren Zevon - Gridlock
Warren Zevon - Run Straight Down
Sonic Youth - Chapel Hill

Pretty in Pink - Psychedelic Furs
Summer Fun - Barracudas
I am the resurrection - Stone Roses
Ichabod - Legendary Shack Shakers
Wire People - The Bonzos

1. Tom Waits - Intro (2)
2. Edith Piaf - Il Pleut
3. Elbow - Grace Under Pressure
4. Spiritualized - She Kissed Me (It Felt Like A Hit)
5. Gorillaz - Dare (Soulwax Remix)

honestly, this game will never grow old

1. Femme Mental - Sibrydion

2. Live It Up - Mental As Anything

3. Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues - mclusky

4. Funny Little Frog - God Help The Girl

5. Closing Time - Leonard Cohen

1. Come Wi Go Dung Deh - Linton Kwesi Johnson

2. Kaya - Bob Marley & The Wailers

3. You Might Need Somebody - Randy Crawford

4. Don't Cry - Culture Club

5. Thinking Of You - The Colourfield

john mayall's bluesbreakers (mick taylor edition) streamline.... so far so good

Brendan benson - metarie ...hmmm NFI = someonelse's compilation I loaded up

paolo nutini -worried man.... saw him last night as it so happens great singer uncharismatic performance spernt all night hunched obver facing one side of the hall- a nice version of a fine woody guthrie song

oumou sangare -donso ...from her latest album and excellent it is too

duke and the king- suzanne .... supposed to play in melb last week but cancelled due to illness

all in all respectable methinks

1. Flite - Cinematic Orchestra (live one)
2. Anyway - Bhundu Boys
3. Beverly Hills - Weezer
4. Finer Feelings - Spoon
5. Best Of All Worlds - Anthony Newley

All pretty fair and reasonable I think.

This one's from iTunes rather than the 'pod:

Casanova in Hell - Pet Shop Boys (Fundamental)
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby - Kirsty MacColl (Galore)
Violent Past - Low (Drums & Guns)
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Suzanna & the Magical Orchestra (an, ahem, Uncut compilation)
The One You Love - Rufus Wainwright (Want Two)

A nice late night vibe.

God Will - Patty Loveless
The Sound Of Music - The Bonzos
She's The One - Bruce Springsteen (Live at Red Bank)
Judy Is A Punk - Ramones
I Love You (Listen To This) - Dexy's Midnight Runners

Sky Pilot - Eric Burdon & the Animals
Vicious Traditions - The Veils
Irish Boy - Eric Bell
Bird Of Paradise - Snowy White
I'd Rather Go Blind - Chickenshack

1 What it is about me Amy Whinehouse
2 Oh My Life Beth Rowley
3 License To Fill Bob Dylan
4 Tin soldier Man The Kinks
5 We Are Family Sister Sledge

Don't like the first two at all.

1) Street Guru- Nitin Sawhney
2) Where is the Love - Cat Power
3) Beautiful Girl - Robyn Hithcock
4) Sao Paulo - Morcheeba
5) Firecracker - Ryan Adams

I must say, in all honesty, that I couldn't hum any of them.

Ordinary Pain- Stevie Wonder
Stay Positive- The Streets
The Christmas song - Vince Guaraldi
Oh Good Grief! - Vince Guaraldi
Double Barrel- Dave and Ansel Collins

Out of 15000 things on the ipod it throws up two Vince Guaraldi pieces in a row. Still, you can never have too much Charlie Brown music in your daily life.

Stones - Waiting on a Friend
Damned - Melody Lee
Counting Crows - Mr Jones
Thin Lizzy - Boys are Back In Town
Van Halen - Jump

Seems pretty representative I 'spose

Tried to add my selection to the above.

Opened up iTunes.

Clicked Shuffle icon.

Clicked Play. Nothing happened.

Double-clicked on an individual track. Nothing happened, apart from message asking if I want to locate the original file. If I navigate to the file (which is in the same place as it was the last time iTunes played it) it will play; however, I obviously don't want to go through this process every time.

Checked my iTunes Preferences. Still pointing to the external drive where they are stored. No recent changes.

Any suggestions?

maybe it's feeling cuckolded, due to my recent love for Spotify, little realising that this experience is likely to drive me further into the arms of the Scandinavian upstart...

by Slade - not a bad place to start
Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
Blockheads - Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Manic Monday - The Bangles
You're gonna make me lonesome when you go - Bob Dylan.

I thought it was picking to a theme until the last 2.

by Slade - not a bad place to start
Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
Blockheads - Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Manic Monday - The Bangles
You're gonna make me lonesome when you go - Bob Dylan.

I thought it was picking to a theme until the last 2.

Bobby Jean - Bruce Springstein
Fria Claridade - Lula Pena
Heard Them Stirring - Fleet Foxes
Why do fools fall in love ? - Four Seasons
Welcome to Tijuana - Manu Chao

Quite a fun idea. Could have been embarrassing...although my young son thought it a pretty sad thing to do.

...for the first time a selection I know AND like...

1. Elvis Costello - Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
2. Arcade Fire - Ocean Of Noise
3. The Clash - White man in Hammersmith Palais
4. Dvorák - Slavonic Dance No.9 in B
5. Saint Etienne - Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)

I have hardly listened to any dance this week.

1. Justin Timberlake - My Love (DFA Remix) my gosh I love every moment of the 8 minutes and 30 seconds of sleazy disco goodness
2. 23Hz & Numaestro - Thief Song VIP some wonderfully classy Bristolian dubstep from earlier this year with zoomy melodies
3. Samiyam - Snake Cola - a short instrumental hip hop track with fretless bass and what sounds like a wheezing harmonica
4. Shortstuff - A Rustling - more dubstep, this one fast and clattery with a Samba feel
5. Hercules & Love Affair - You Belong - gorgeous retro-house in the style of Inner City

1. Love Battery - Buzzcocks
2. Underdog (Save Me)- Turin Brakes
3. Waiting - The Style Council (not sure that I have ever listened to this)
4. Mean Mr Mustard - The Beatles
5. Wonder People (I do Wonder) - Love

1 THE CORAL -Flies (early B-side)
2 THE SUNDAYS - You're not the only one I know (from Reading, Writing and Arithemetic)
3 BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS - The Bridge is Over (from Criminal Minded)
4 LUKE HAINES - Buddha - BBC Session (from Luke Haines is Dead)

so far so good ... but wait....

5 MIDGE URE AND MICK KARNE - After a fashion (from Midge's Greatest Hits)

... so that's 80% credibility intact..
I must admit though that I could only hum two of these songs and, yep, one of them is the Midge Ure tune...

altogether now.. "..hey, ho, we wear it well.."

160GB iPod on shuffle:

Shine - Django Reinhardt
Epilogue - Miroslav Vitous
Mozambique - Bob Dylan
Standing On The Corner - Clifton Chenier
Ghazal: Tarif, Abu Dhabi - Uncredited

Media Monkey on Auto-DJ on the laptop:

Carencias - Mercedes Peon
Monk In Wonderland - Graehan Moncur III
Lindberg Hop - Memphis Jugband
Hermeto - Hermeto Pascoal
Double Lead Through - Ashley Hutchings & John Kirkpatrick

Clear Head - Graham Parker & The Rumour
Fall Breaks And Back To Winter - Beach Boys
Go West - Pet Shop Boys
Wake Up Dreaming - Little Feat
You - Judie Tzuke

Let's see what this throws up...

Anything You Need But Me - Nanci Griffith
Moving On (live) - Seahorses (obscure B-side from John Squire's post-Stone Roses band)
Hackett To Bits - GTR (from the abortive Steve Howe, Steve Hackett collaboration)
James - Martin Taylor
Apocalypstick - Panic Room (some nu-prog, and nothing wrong with that!)

The First Cut Is The Deepest - PP Arnold
B A Part - Thomas Dybdahl (I like the leap of decades there!)
Jeep Song - The Dresden Dolls
Talking To Me - Annabel Lamb
Afternoon - Carla Bruni

The Beatles- Strawberry Fields Forever (Demo Sequence)
Cat Stevens- Don't Be Shy
Just Jack- Disco Friends
The Kinks- You're Looking Fine
Take That- Pray.

The The Infected
Frank Black Velouria
The Wedding Present Come play with me
Tubeway Army Praying to the Aliens
Scientist cry of the werewolf

I should probably retire - or is it beginners luck...

This evening's less obvious choices from the iPod's shuffle button:

The Free Association - Sugarman
Air - Suicide Underground
Ian Brown - Dolphins Were Monkeys
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
Martina Topley-Bird - Stevie's (Day's Of A Gun)

A tasty eclectic mix with some tasty beats. This has been my most enjoyable shuffle so far.

Eventually - Ornette Coleman
Going Back To Harlan - Emmylou Harris
Here I Come - Barrington Levy
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin
Get To Love In Time - Dennis Brown

Andante Andante Abba
Ticket To Ride HJHs
John Wesley Harding Bob Dylan
I Threw It All Away Bob Dylan
Straight Back Fleetwood Mac

classy!

Paul Williams - Someday Man
The Lorelei - S.T.O.P.
America - Work To Do
Wake The Town And Tell The People - Les Baxter
(horrid advert for “the new album from Creed” which is “the comeback album of the year”, though you could have fooled me)
Hey Little Girl - Major Lance

Yippee ... just seen they’ve got Joe South. Untie Me straight onto the playlist. You gotta love “the ’Fy” as it’s known round ours.

Steve Earle - Don't Take It Too Bad
Bob Dylan - The Mighty Quinn
Jackson Browne - For America
Leonard Cohen - Bird on the Wire
Miriam Makeba - A Piece of Ground

Bach -- Suite BWV 817
Pink Floyd -- Bike
Laurie Anderson -- O Superman
Michel Legrand--"Theme from the Go-Between"

Gershwin--Prelude #2

Steps- Tragedy
Pet Shop Boys- What Have I Done To Deserve This?
The Decemberists- The Rake's Song
Neil Young- I Believe In You
REM- Nightswimming.

Blondie-Maria
Badfinger-Take It All
King Crimson-Requiem
Icehouse-hey little girl
10cc-Woman In Love

Wire - 12XU
The New Pornographers - Letter From An Occupant
C.S.S. - This Month, Day 10
JJ72 - Bumble Bee
The Noisettes - Burn (Live)

the none-more-indie shuffle!

Espers - I Can't See Clear
Charles Mingus - Pussy Cat Dues
Tubeway Army - Replicas
Jr. Walker - (I'm A) Roadrunner
Tom Waits - Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)

...it couldn't get any cooler:

Don Ellis Orchestra - Indian Girl
Suicide - Girl
PG Six - The Weeping Willow
Electric Prunes - Get Me To The World On Time
Frank Bango - Get Yourself Buried

U2 - Trip through your wires
Grinderman - Man in the moon
Martyn feat. dBridge - These Words
Steely Dan - Sign in stranger
Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension

From the 160GB

A Pillow of Winds - Pink Floyd
Radioland - Kraftwerk
Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Tear Stained Face - Don Varner
Touch Me, Hold Me, Thrill Me - The Inspirations

(last 2 from the same album - Up All Night (40 Northern Soul classics). I keep saying that the shuffle button has a file memory!

Labi Siffre I Got The Blues
Molly (from the film Wonderland) - classical compilation
Morrissey Alsation Cousin
Arctic Monkeys Fluourescent Adolescent
John Peel Festive Fifty 1992 Tape 1 Side 1

1) JELLYFISH - Calling Sarah (live at Bogarts, Fanclub disc)

2) RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT - Hoe Down (Billion Dollar Brain soundtrack)

3) THE UGLY DUCKLINGS - Nothin' (Nuggets Vol. 2)

4) PIERO PICCIONI - Kintabu (Colpo Rovente soundtrack)

5) THE SANDS - Listen to the sky (Nuggets Vol. 2)

Four more from them ...

Anyway, tried the FPO's iTunes on the upstairs office PC I am using to post this:

1. Bach Cello Suite #3
2. Albinoni Adagio from Concerto a Cinque Op 9, #2 [not the one by Giazotto]
3. Pachelbel Canon [Absolutely that one]
4. Joanna Newsom -- Cosmia
5. Psychedelic Furs --Highwire Days

1. Slint - Breadcrumb Trail
2. The Strokes - Red Light
3. Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard - To Zucchabar
4. Rage Against The Machine - Tire Me
5. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Dynamic Calories

1. Portishead - plastic
2. Beyonce - Halo
3. Tindersticks - My Sister
4. Air - Talisman
5. Charlotte Gainsbourg - AF607105

No.5 off of a 'now hear this'. Glad i did this, made me revisit the rest of the Tindersticks catalogue on my pod.

1. James - Destiny Calling
2. The Proclaimers - The Doodle Song
3. Robbie Williams - Strong
4. Oasis - Some Might Say
5. Pet Shop Boys - Go West

This is brilliant. On train journeys I do a random shuffle (as above) until I find the first track that i *really* fancy listening to that day, then do a Genius. I would have "Geniused" Destiny Calling today - mildly melancholy pop with a capacity to cheer up - next track would have been Dignity by Deacon Blue.

But like a suicidal moth, I am unable to keep away.

1. Gorillaz - Starshine
2. Anouar Brahem Trio - Astrakan Cafe (2)
3. Siobhan Donaghy - Nothing But Song
4. Feeder - Dove Grey Sounds
5. Magazine - Feed The Enemy

Kings of Leon - Holy Roller Novocaine
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Kraftwerk - Tour de France Etape 1
Bonny Prince Billy - Death To Everyone
Bon Iver - re: stacks

(ipod now in a huff at being asked to shuffle)

California Dreaming - The Mamas and the Papas
Teeth - Kristin Hersh
Harbour Bridge - Don McGlashan
With Arms Outstretched - Rilo Kiley
I'm Happy But You Don't Like Me - Asobi Seksu

The Arcade Fire- Keep The Car Running
Air- Sexy Boy
Good Shoes- The Photos On My Wall
Coldplay- What If?
The Decemberists- The Soldiering Life.

...after IT problems:

Compilation heavy, this one.

Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield (from a compilation rather than Superfly)
You're Lookin' At Country - Loretta Lynn (another compilation)
See Alice - The Mummers (from Tale to Tell)
Baby I Love You - Ronettes (from the Spector Back to Mono box set)
Inside My Love - Minnie Riperton (from, yes, a compilation)

Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Sous le ciel de Paris - Edith Piaf
Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
You Can Do Magic - Limmie & The Family Cooking

Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions - Graham Parker and the Rumour (live, unfortunately, so I always skip it. Just like the next one...)
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury and the Blockheads (though he does tell the crowd 'Oi you lot, you've only gone and made a GREAT HOLE in the FLOOR' at the beginning.)
Talking to a Stranger - Hunters and Collectors
Jump - Van Halen
Let's Go - The Cars