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It's the return of The Randomizer, the game that everyone but cheats can play!
Posted by David Hepworth on 13 November 2008 - 11:41am.
It has been decreed that only one thing can lift the current combination of Seasonal Affective Disorder and economic gloom. It's the return of The Randomizer!
Seasoned members of the Massive will be familiar with the routine. Just open your iTunes, put it on random and then, without cheating, censorship or any other form of jiggery-pokery, just read out the names and artists of the first five tracks that come up. To demonstrate, I shall, as is traditional, go first:
King Tubby: Shuffle And Deal
epic 45: The Balloonist
New Riders Of The Purple Sage: Mama Tried
The Byrds: Nashville West
Pinch: Widescreen
On your marks! Go!
Happy with that!
School Of Seven Bells: Wired For Light
Inex Foxx & Charlie Foxx: Mockingbird
The Beatles: Glass Onion
Happy Mondays: Freaky Dancin'
The Byrds: Wasn't Born To Follow
Here's mine (fingers crossed it makes me look cool)
Beatles - Why don't we do it in the road
Roy Harper - MC Goohan's Blues
Maxïmo Park - By The Monument
Gomez - Hamoa Beach
Tim Finn - Salt To The Sea
-Sorry, clicked the wrong reply-
Here goes
I Shall Be Released - Paul Weller
Life Is Bad - Shelby Lynne
What A Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers
Um, Circles and Squares - Dosh
O Sapo E O Grilo - Yamandu Costa
Procrastination is the Thief of Time
was one of my favourite prog albums of 1973...
Anyway:
Steely Dan - Josie
Blondie - I'm gonna love you too
Brighouse and Rastrick Band - Floral Dance
Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
They Might Be Giants - James K Polk
Given my third selection, when's the Brass Band special feature?
Yet again, the Randomizer fails to embarrass me
Tall Dwarfs - Stumpy
Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indian Band - Handa Wanda
John Fahey - Dance of Death
George Leningrad - George Five
Talking Heads - Blind
On tenterhooks
Rhythm Of The Real Thing/Kirsty McColl
Born Under A Bad Sign/Cream
One Sure Thing/Fairport Convention
Again And Again/Status Quo
Love Theme From St Elmo's Fire/David Foster
You couldn't make it up
Not too bad (if a bit British)
Considering that I am using an 8GB iPod that I've only just started filling after the demise of my Sony. I am hoping Santa brings me a full size iPod.
Watching the detectives - Elvis Costello
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands - Eddi Reader
Dad's gonna kill me - Richard Thompson
Stealing my heart - Rolling Stones
Who knows where the time goes - Fairport Convention
Tubby day
King Tubby And The Aggrovators - Blessed Dub
Teenage Fanclub - Don't Look Back
Goldfrapp - Caravan Girl
Radiohead - Go To Sleep
Rolling Stones - Have You Seen You Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadows?
Welcome back old friend
Ae Fond Kiss/Dougie MacLean: Best version, I feel of this Robert Burns song.
Canta el Rio/Ceci Bastida: This is good! Hispanic song from one of the SXSW promotional sites.
Midnight Train to Georgia/Indigo Girls: Fine, but not the best version of a cracking song.
Seasons in the Sun/Blackbox Recorder: Fabulous
Sixteen, maybe less:Calexico with Iron & Wine: Good track on a great LP. Much better than the "similar", ideawise, Bonnie Prince Billy/Tortoise collaboration.
Blimey, I know I like covers, but even this is a bit more extreme than I would have expected, especially when its a full 80gig pod. (Quick peek reveals Jack Johnsons version of Imagine is next..........)
I just did....
a second randomizer after reading your post and first song up was a cover version! (Hey Jude by Elvis) That is just weird!!
Welcome back old friend
Ae Fond Kiss/Dougie MacLean: Best version, I feel of this Robert Burns song.
Canta el Rio/Ceci Bastida: This is good! Hispanic song from one of the SXSW promotional sites.
Midnight Train to Georgia/Indigo Girls: (Close to)Fine, but not the best version of a cracking song.
Seasons in the Sun/Blackbox Recorder: Fabulous
Sixteen, maybe less:Calexico with Iron & Wine: Good track on a great LP. Much better than the "similar", ideawise, Bonnie Prince Billy/Tortoise collaboration.
Blimey, I know I like covers, but even this is a bit more extreme than I would have expected, especially when its a full 80gig pod. (Quick peek reveals Jack Johnsons version of Imagine is next..........)
No, I don't know why twice, but gives me a chance to edit the Indigo Girls comment in a jackanapes jolly ho-ho kind of way. Or not, as you see fit.
Here we go then;
New Kingdom - Mother Nature (stoner 1990's hip hop)
Erik Satie - Vieux Sequins Et Vieilles Cuirasses (jaunty piano solo thing)
John & Beverley Martin - Stormbringer
Ennio Morricone - Titoli (theme for A Fistful Of Dollars)
Marc Moulin - Bottle (funky Belgian - I think - organ jazz)
Eww......nb - Can we also have the Friday Disco back - themed?
Cocaine in my Brain - Dillinger
Hot n Cold - Katy Perry
Shot by Both Sides - Magazine
My Love Will Not Let You Down - Broooooce
Sexy No No No! - Girls Aloud
I'm sure you must have been asked this many times...
but are you THE John Waite?
Missing You or Radio 4?
I was famous for 5 mins when Uncle Tel took a wrong turn out of the Beirut Hilton a few years back
Strange but true
I used to have the avuncular Tezza's phone number
My first
Hello
1. Half Man Half Biscuit - The Trumpton Riots
2. A chapter From "Breakthrough French" Tutorial, oops.
3. The Smiths - William It Was Really Nothing
4. Half Man Half Biscuit - He Who Would Valium Take
5. Nine Black Alps - Cosmopolitan
I'm not sure how random this iPod is, I listened to HMHB for an hour's drive last night and another hours comuting this morning, and then it puts 2 of their's in the shuffle. Hmm.
Oh, next would have been Ween - Voodoo Lady.
hmmm!
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Subway to Venus
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity
3. The Beatles - Fixing a Hole
4. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Mary Please
5. The Walkmen - Blue Route
Surprisingly random.
Nice
1. Can't Stop Lovin' My Baby - Elmore James
2. Frozen Heart - George Jones
3. Handbags & Gladrags - Rod Stewart
4. When You're Away From Me - Willy DeVille
5. Here Comes The Knight - Van Morrison
Lovely extra K, Pat
Puts a whole different spin on it. Unless, of course, as will be instantly shown, Van ripped off a witty pun on his old Them hit, which seems counter-intuitive. I can picture Van in one of his pastoral idylls on Coney Island enlightened (always enlightened) by the sudden entry of, say, his old mucker, Sir Cliff Richard
(Bet Van can't understand where his has gone,'tho, as in (Knight)hood.Allegedly)
It's Van's Pun
It's one of the tracks on the utterly brilliant No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
I rather hoped it would be.....
Thanks for that, Pat, hitherto unaware. He has gone up in my estimate of him, but I still enjoyed my reverie.
I am seeking the lesser turned stones of Van, having only, I guess, the ususal suspects. I will add this to my LPs to look for list.
My first
1. Teenage Fanclub - What you do to me
2. Sugababes - In the middle
3. The Stone Roses - One Lonve
4. Kevin Smith & Scott Mosier - Smodcast 48
5. Reel Big Fish - Ban the Tube Top
(If this is supposed to be music only, the next track was Doves - Satellites, but hey - the memory card on my phone is actually mostly filled with podcasts, and it was surprising not to see the word podcast in there)
New Stuff
Here goes - I've just got a new ipod which should allow more space for classics but I expect most of what comes out at random will be new stuff - lets see......
1. Dark As Days - Army Navy
2. Shut Your Mouth - Helen Love
3. Days Of Grace - Tanya Donelly
4. Mike T. Interlude - The Mendoza Line
5. The Chain - Ingrid Michaelson
Yep - I reckon that they're possibly all less than 18 months old. Next time the randomiser calls I may have some more old stuff on but I bet I just end up filling it with new music. How would I cope without the perfect ipod emusic combo?
'ere we go ... two free four
You're Asking Me - Ray Davies
Love Potion No 9 - The Coasters
Lola - The Rubettes (gulp!)
(You're The) Devil In Disguise - Elvis
You Got Me Hurtin' All Over - Barbara Randolph
So three beginning with "You", two with possible Kinks links (although it's actually a different "Lola"), two beginning with "Lo"...hmmm. Perhaps not so random after all?
My Five
Streams of Nancy-Kate Rusby
The Stranger Song-Leonard Cohen
The Fairest of All Yarrow-Kate Rusby
Are You Tired of Me Darling?-Nanci Griffith
Cheat Me- Kevin Coyne
Oh goody
Julian Cope - Promised Land
What Else could it be? - Lambchop
If Not by fire - Mandy Moore (absolutely no idea what that is)
Just Won't Stop - The Herbaliser
Lost My Soul - Maps
Wow!
Pinkerton's Assorted Colours / Mirror Mirror (the sound of my youth at Nuneaton Co-op Hall)
Specials / Guns Of Navarone
Loudon Wainwright III / Trilogy (circa 1967)
Bettye LaVette / Serves Him Right
Steely Dan / Kid Charlemagne
here's mine
From my Nokia N95
I could be happy by Altered Images (Scotland)
Little trees by Miracle Fortress (Canada)
25 days by Hello Saferide (Sweden)
Brunton town by Pentangle (England)
Winterbirds by Epic 45 (Staffordshire)
Very nice of you to ask...
Money Mark – Dha Teen Ta
Fairfield Four – The Bells Are Tolling
Youngblood Brass Band – From Now On
Euros Childs – Dawnsio Dros Y Mor
Devon Sproule – 1340 Chesapeake St
OK here we go
Rolling Stones. She was hot
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Something's changed.
Radiohead.Bulletproof..I wish I was.
Radiohead (again!) Bones.
Alan Hull. United States of Mind.
This last a recommendation fomr a thread on this very site a few weeks ago.
I got lucky
Bon Iver - Creature Fear
Bowerbirds - Slow Down
Wolf Parade - Solder's Grin
Sigur Ros - Svo Hijott
Kid Koala - Annie's Parlour
5 off the top
Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb - Come Tomorrow
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Quarter to Three
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
Nick Lowe - She's Got Soul
The first time I've....
heard any of them!!
Cat Power: Lived In Bars
Keith Jarret Trio: I Hear A Rhapsody
Bon Iver: re: stacks
John Carty: Flowers Of Spring/The Wily Old Man
The Coral: In The Rain
I don't want to appear critical/confused
.....but how the heck did they get there, if you've never heard them? Or is mrsm (huge leap of faith) the compiler of the, ha, records?
Only curious, free world, each to own etc etc.
Not bad choices, mind.
I have 10,000...
tunes on 'ver pod'! and a good load of them were put on a few weeks ago by a friend! These were the ones that came up! So I've decided that for the next few weeks it's going on shuffle!
Same here...
Since I upgraded from my Nano to a Classic 6 months ago there's been a whole load of stuff that's gone on there and it does take time to work through the stuff.
I've just...
started and have already found a couple of excellent tunes!
Five from my library + bonus anagrams in brackets!
1. Suede - The Living Dead
(Ed Sue - Thin Aged Devil)
2.Charlotte Hatherley - Rescue Plan
(Hello Teary Thatcher - Cleaner Pus)
3. Diabolical Masquerade - Revelation of the Puzzle
(Roadie Lambada Cliques - Venereal Fuzz Tithe Pool)
4. Saint Etienne - Andrew McCarthy
(Neat Nineties - Cancer Ward Myth)
5. The Streets - Turn the Page
(Test Ethers - Huge Pattern)
No particularly cool this time....
Natalie Merchant - Thick As Thieves
Clannad - In A Lifetime
Corduroy - Winky Wagon
Eva Cassidy - Early Morning Rain
Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
A few not so new,
Tom Robinson Band - The Winter of '79
Bob Dylan - Jokerman
Big Country - Inwards
JJ72 - Sinking
Boxcar Racer - There is
Tom Robinson
from back in the day, on the frontline, when he thought the world was going to end..........oh it has! (but not in the way he imagined I suspect).
Let's have a look
Ben Harper- I Shall Not Walk Alone
Whiskeytown- Indian Gown
Diamond Joe- Fair Play
Dolly Parton,Emmylou Harris,Linda RonstadtThose - Memories of You
Dusty Springfield- Little By Little
My 5 tunes...
Bobby Bland - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
Elvis Presley - Wearin' That Loved On Look
John Taverner - The Protecting Veil
Pete Townshend - Keep On Working
George Boswell - Jah Fire
Sounds like me for once
Joni Mitchell-Help Me, from "Hits" compilation HDCD.
John Dowland track played by Nigel North-Linn Promotional CD
Movement from an Avison Concerto played by English Concert-DG Archiv Compilation CD.
Doors-Light My Fire.
Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny-Waltz for Ruth
No Jiggery Pokery
BLUE RODEO - Diamond Mine
THE DURUTTI COLUMN - Otis
MICHAEL J. SHEEHY - Pigboy
DAVID GRAY - Babylon
THE COLOURFIELD - Virgins and Philistines
Ready, steady...
Sharon Shannon: Galway girl
Oasis: She is love
The Smiths: Pretty girls make graves
The Smiths (again!): Ask
Scott Walker: Big Louise
XTC leads too
XTC: The Somnambulist
David Bowie: It's Gonna B
Bruce Springsteen: Devil's Arcade
The Last Shadow Puppets: The Chamber
Junior Murvin: False Teachin'
Gulp, here goes...
Atomic Dog : George Clinton - fuuuuunky
Say Hello Wave Goodbye : David Gray - see the recent threads, the only sin this album committeed was having songs on it that many people liked
Hide in your shell : Supertramp - from a best of, can't even recall how this one goes!
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You : Led Zep - oh yes!
Brother Jack : Phil Keaggy - from a sublime acoustic album by a much underrated American guitar player from "Glass Harp" who now just works on the Christian music scene. Dedicated to CS Lewis
Yup, I can live with that selection.
Tunes, Tunes, Tunes
1. People are Strange - The Doors
2. Everything I Cannot See - Charlotte Gainsbourg
3. Ruled by Secrecy - Muse
4. Bach:Violin Concerto in G Minor, BWV 1056-2. Largo-3. Presto
5. Going Nowhere - Oasis
here you go
City Of Shame - Robyn Hitchcock
Eleventh Earl Of Mar - Genesis
Up On Cripple Creek - The Band
Rez - Underworld
Truth Don't Die (Nuyuorican Soul Mix) - Fela Kuti
Mmm, nothing embarrassing for once.
woo, my first time, i've only recently gone mp3...
Eels - Get Your Freak On
The Times - I Helped Patrick Mcgoohan Escape
Jarvis Cocker - Big Julie
Fela Kuti and Afrika 70 with Ginger Baker - Ye Ye De Smell
Boards Of Canada - Music Is Math
It's only a 4 gig mp3 player so i know i'm going to dig everything that comes up...
I
First one done the rest reported as they emerge
The band - The Unfaithful servant (original Alt country)
MIDIval PunditZ – Night (ethnobeats that are actually from India)
Laura Veirs - John Henry Lives (nice slide guitar at the start, catchy "It's all painted in red" chorus)
The Teardrop Explodes - Falling Down around Me (not the best off the album but it has a classic TTE trumpet sound on it, with Saint Julian doing his own "bamb per raah" trumpet impression)
Moby Grape - Hey Grandma (has me doing imaginary drum rolls too enthusiastically on the desk and messsing up a word doc I was working on)
The crucial 5
Weather With You - Crowded House
Beautiful - Elvis Costello. Cover of the Cristina Aguilera song from the House OST
Fine Line - Oh Laura. One from the Word archives (March 08)
Vagabonds - Gary Louris
Fanfare - Eric Matthews. Top drawer Flugelhorn-pop!
A bit of everything...
Tom Waits - Blow Wind Blow
Blink 182 - Feeling This
Burning Spear - Dread River
Manu Chao - Piccola Radiolina
Louis Prima and Keely Smith - (Nothing's Too Good) For My Baby
I appear to be pretty cool...
Candyskin - Fire Engines
Jolene - Dolly Parton
1977 - Dr Octagon
Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Leadbelly
Battered Hake / Jon O'Grouts - The Gloworms (from The Imagined Village)
There's usually something embarrassing there. How odd.
Mi Tunes
Including some stuff I wouldn't ever choose to play. That's the beauty of the randomiser...
SFA - Fire In My Heart
Elvis - Oliver's Army
New Jersey Kings - Solid
Oasis - Hello
REM - King Of Birds
A good start then went down hill
X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths
Tom Waits - Blind Love
Badly Drawn Boy - S.P.A.T. (whats this?)
George Michael - Praying for time (oh dear)
Supernaturals - Lazy Lover (never heard of it)
The absolutely no cheating list
My new Ipod has a lot of "Stuff I should hear" on it
I've My Love to Keep Me Warm - Artist unidentified (off Best of Irving Berlin)
Losing My Religion-REM
Rollin' and Tumblin' - Bobby Dylan
Burden in my Hand - Soundgarden
Mad Puppet - Goblin
I only knew two of those without checking.
Goblin?
Is that the fellas used by John Carpenter in all his early films, for the music written himself? Halloween, for instance
I haven't heard of any connection to John Carpenter
But I reckon you've got the right band. They did soundtracks to Italian horror films. Suspiria, Deep Red.
The soundtrack to my walk home will be:
British Sea Power - Great Skua
Bobby Parker - Watch Your Step
DJ Shadow - Dark Days
Queen (w/ Bowie) - Under Pressure
Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe
Fascinating, I must say
Brian Wilson - ´Til I Die
Iron Maiden - Out Of The Shadows
Metallica - That Was Just Your Life
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
Nisse Hellberg - Trettifyran
Those of you not from a lovely country called Sweden could have problems with the last one. And I don´t really listen that much to heavy metal. William Elliott Whitmore was number six, btw. He deserves a namecheck.
Ah, randomiser, how I've missed you...
1. Take Me Home Country Roads/Jason & The Scorchers
2. It's All Wrong But It's All Right/Laura Lee
3. Kingsport Town/Bob Dylan
4. Back In Your Arms/Bruce Springsteen
5. Winter Lady/Leonard Cohen
Phew. Credibility intact.
Not a bad selection
XTC - The Mayor of Simpleton
999 - Emergency
The Pretenders - Talk of the Town
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At
Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time
Mine and the Wife's
My 160GB coughed up
1.Casanova's Last Words-The Go-Betweens
2.The Smokey Life-Leonard Cohen
3.Sheep Season-Mellow Candle
4.Ecoute Mon Coeur-Ria Bartok (From a great EMI French Ladies Comp)
5.F.Scott Fitzgerald and William Shakespeare-Neon Philharmonic
The 80GB that my wife Jo owns:
1.Ivor Short Theme-Vernon Elliot and the Vernon Elliot Ensemble
2.Ain't Got Nobody-Grand Funk Railroad
3.Summertime-Bill Hicks
4.Not Fade Away-Rolling Stones
5.While My Guitar Gently Weeps-The Beatles
Ian
looks like it's fab four day on shuffle...
Yesterday - The Beatles
Penny Lane - The Beatles
Planet Telex - Radiohead
Train to Florida - Ry Cooder
Rumba Mama - Weather Report
Here Is My Tuppence Worth
1. The Faces - You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board Or Any Other Domestic Short Comings)
2. John Martyn - Glistening Glyndebourne
3. Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
4. Sufjan Stevens - Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother!
5. Grateful Dead - Space (Go To Nassau version)
I was getting worried towards the end of the first one that the Fairports track with the really long title was going to come up next!
And for credibility
6. John Cale - Mercenaries (Ready For War)
Mikeo
Great...
since I've been uploading lots of music to my shiny new 750 GB external drive...
01. The Cure "Hot Hot Hot!!!" (UK)
02. Weekend Warrior "In 2012 (Live)" (Thailand)
03. The Pigeon Detectives "I'm A Liar" (UK)
04. Morrissey "Everyday Is Like Sunday" (UK)
05. Teenage Prostitute "Staring At The Rain" (Liechtenstein)
Without cheating, out of 4556 tracks [51.96 GB, recently started importing CDs as AIFF files], two came up that I played on... Spooky...
you cant leave that hanging...
which?
I wish...
... I could claim it was The Cure and Morrissey, but no... Weekend Warrior & Teenage Prostitute.
I hope Elbow don't come up - enough threads on them already
Heard you were dead - The Bluetones (aww lovely Britpop nostalgia)
The Coast is always changing - Maximo Park (aww, er, more britpop)
My Blood - The Neville Brothers (whatever happened to...?)
Music for a found Harmonium - The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (what?)
We Both go Down together - The Decemberists ( nice, thats my evening sorted rediscovering this lot)
In a rush ... off out to see the Fall ....
JON SPENCER'S BLUES EXPLOSION - Can't Stop
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - The Turning Tide
BEN KWELLER - Penny on the Train Tarck
SIGUR ROS - Hoppipolla
DIE IN THE SUMMERTIME (DEMO) - Manic Street Preachers
Not a mix I'd choose
Surprisingly no Johnny Cash
Generally, whenever I do a 'random' thingy the i-pod picks at least two Johnny Cash songs...must have been a falling out between the Shuffle and Mr C as my fiver are
London Festival Orchestra The Bridge On The River Kwai
Long 'Cleve' Reed and Little Harvey Hull Original Stack O'Lee Blues
Dan Bern Oh Sister
Lee Griffths Slow Down
Jackie Leven The Sexual Loneliness of Jesus Christ
'ere we go 2-3-4....
The Weight - Joe Cocker (Mad Dogs & Englishmen)
One Last Love Song - The Beautiful South (Website download)
Money's Too Tight (To Mention) - Simply Red
I Still Have That Other Girl - Costello/Bacharach
Night of the Living Baseheads - Public Enemy
At last! The Randomiser finds some Music of Black Origin on my iTunes!
But how did Charlie Drake get in there?
5
Marcella Detroit - James Brown
Sonny Landreth - Country Blues
Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In The Country
Richard & Linda Thompson - Beat The Retreat
Bonnie Raitt - All At Once
The fuggin' Fleet Foxes auditioning for the Swingle Singers...
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Bob Marley - Simmer Down
Spoon - The Underdog
M.I.A. - World Town
Calexico - Falling From Sleeves
It's never usually this good
Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City (The In Crowd Box Set)
Department S - Is Vic There? (Sub-Stance)
Cyril Neville - Tell Me What's On Your Mind (New Orleans Gold)
The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (Some Girls)
Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix (Reunion - The Songs of Jimmy Webb)
Then again No.6 was 'Living In A Box' (Hits of the 80's) - oh the shame!
Famous Five
Lets' randomise again, like we did last summer:
1) Product Of The Working Class-Little Angels
2)Kansas City Milkman -Level 42- always thought this should have been entitled Isle Of Wight City Milkman considering Mark King was born there!
3) Deacon Blues-Steely Dan
4) One Morning In May-July Skies
5) Counting On Time-Genesis
Two XTCs and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Warm and Beautiful- Wings
Your Gold Dress- Dukes Of Stratosphere
Sleeping With The Television On- Billy Joel
Wake Up-XTC
Please No More Sad Songs- The Idle Race
Randomiser Virgin
I've not participated in this before, but I'm assuming an implicit footnote of "other players are available". Selections courtesy of DJ Winamp.
1. The Waterboys - Sweet Thing
2. Simon & Garfunkel - April Come She Will
3. Slowdive - Machine Gun
4. Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
5. Massive Attack - Teardrop
You lot got no work to do?
Come home from a hard days slog to find latest Randomiser already has 80 hits to it, give me a chance for chrissake. Anyway here goes:-
Morcheeba - Who can you trust?
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the silence
OV Wright - drowning on dry lane
Prince - Delirious
Neil Young - It's a dream
A bit more mainstream than I would have liked.
The Curious Five
Kings of Convenience - Sorry or Please
Sufjan Stevens - They are Night Zombies!! They are Neighbours!! They have come back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
Joy Division - Candidate
Richard Hawley - Long Black Train
Two consecutive songs from the same album....mind you, with all the tracks on Illinoise it's not that great a coincidence.
Here we go
FRISCO JASS BAND Cute Little Wigglin' Dance (from an Edison cylinder, downloaded from a site we did a story on a few years ago)
BOOKER T & THE MGS vs BIG DADDY KANE Another Melting Pot - mashup of Big Daddy Kane and the track he originally sampled for 'Another Victory'
STEPHIN MERRITT Shall We Sing A Duet? - from 'Showtunes'
BJORK Alarm Call [Mark Bell Potage Du Jour mix]
RY COODER Chinto Chinito - from 'Chavez Ravine'
Inferiority complex
My first posting on this site. Randomiser: do your worst!
I loves You Porgy - Nina Simone
Capo Di Monte - James Taylor Quartet
Golden Slumbers - Beatles
David Watts - The Jam
Science vs Romance - Rilo Kiley
Here goes
Minha Namorada - Nara Leão (always a good chance my favourite singer ever would crop up)
Touch Me - Suicide
Myrah - The Left Banke
Sleep Song - The Redlands Palomino Co (oh dear... my own band. I honestly didn't fix this.)
Qué Harás - Mina
Why is this so nerve-wracking?
It's just a list.
Cover me, I'm going in.
Dear Someone - Gillian Welch
What Mama Said - Jeff Beck
Sexy Christmas Baby Mine - Morphine
Talkin World War III Blues - Bob Dylan
Into Temptation - Crowded House
That's not a bad effort, I must say. I haven't listened to Morphine in ages. Anyone remember 'Honey White'? Now that was a single.
Honey White was a single
The rest of the album Like Swimming was less impressive. Morphine never really bettered Cure For Pain and then Mark Sandman died.
Mmm...poppy....
...and mostly from this century, which is unusual.
1. The Last Shadow Puppets - Only The Truth (The Age Of The Understatement)
2. The Jam - Dreams of Children (Snap! 2)
3. The Smiths - I Won't Share You (Strangeways, Here We Come)
4. My Morning Jacket - Lowdown (Okonos 1)
5. Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (Demon Days)
Not bad at all
Fairly representative.
1. Life On A Chain - Pete Yorn. Musicforthemorningafter is a very good album and doesn't seem to get the recognition it deserves.
2. Robbers - Cold War Kids. Not really given this album a real chance. Like the bits I've listen to though.
3. Cobra - Inspiral Carpets. Cool As F*$k.
4. The Blowers Daughter - Damien Rice. Starting to really appreciate his talent.
5. It Doesn't Matter Anymore - Puressence. Big, lovely pop sound. Criminally overlooked.
Five from me
Lee Morgan:Since I fell For You
Gregory Isaacs:Feeling Sad Tonight
The Rolling Stones:Let's Spend The Night Together
The Blow Monkeys:Heaven Is A Place
The Lovin' Spoonful:Do You Believe In Magic
Another 5
Aztec Camera - The Crying Scene
James Brown - Super Bad
Neil Diamond - Coldwater Morning
The Waterboys - Has anyone here seen Hank?
Elbow - Some Riot
So...
Pink Floyd - Outside The Wall
Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
Bob Dylan - High Water
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Don't Bring Me Down
Peter Sellers - So Little Time
I'd have to be part of the Word massive with that list, wouldn't I..?
randomizer
first 5 then
"It's a Sin to go away" We All Together (from Nuggets ii)
"Love Hangover" Associates great Diana Ross cover from the CD version of Sulk
"Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Live)" Dylan from the Rolling Thunder tour 1975
"I started a joke" The Beautiful South (2nd cover version in the list)
"I never saw my hometown 'til I went around the world" Icicle Works B-Side
fairly happy with them on the whole
This is my first try at this game. Here goes...
1. Mountain Dew - The Pogues
2. Sans Remission - Fonky Family
3. YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS! King Kong Five - Manu Chao
4. Like Soldiers Do - Billy Bragg
5. Play Dead - Bjork
What a great game. Thoroughly enjoyed that...
Shoogle
(Apple really ought to sell an iPod Shoogle in Scotland - it'd be great as long as it wasn't in tartan or something)
Fairport Convention - Some Sweet Day
Eurythmics - Thorn In My Side
Richard and Linda Thompson - The End of the Rainbow
Franz Ferdinand - Auf Achse
Emiliana Torrini - Blame it on the Sun
That could have been worse really, I still have songs in my iTunes library from a Halloween-party-for-young-children playlist.
Pesky kids at my iPod again!
Kylie -Spinning Around
Fall Out Boy - That Ain't a Scene
Runrig - Move a Mountain
Norah Jones - Little Room
Van Morrison - Warm Love
Only three out the five are mine, honest
Tracks six to ten were really cool but the first five were
Wedding Bells - Fred Rich & His Orchestra (vocal by The Rollickers) - That's What I Call Sweet Music: American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s (One of Robert Crumb's favourites)
La Nature - KANA - OGM_planete En Danger (90s French environmentally friendly protest pop)
The Zoo Closes At Dark - Scream - Still Screaming/This Side Up (80s American Punk)
The Ides Of March - Iron Maiden - Killers (80s NWOBHM)
Roller Coaster - 13th Floor Elevators - Another Dimension (60s US Psych)
High Five!
Tuesday Heartbreak - Stevie Wonder
Into The Deep - Kula Shaker
More Adventurous - Rilo Kiley
Rosalita - Gomez
If Dogs Run Free - Bob Dylan
54321
Daniel Johnston: Worried Shoes
Big Star: Best Chance We've Ever Had
Chris Knight: Back Water Blues
Sex Pistols: Liar!
Unbelievable Truth: I Can't Wait
Odd Bunch
Your Molecular Structure - Mose Allison
I Will - Joan As Policewoman
Performance - Merry Clayton (from soundtrack of film of same name)
Shame - Randy Newman
Bear Creek Blues - John Prine
Ah-ha.
Joan as Policewoman. From one of the Mojo White Album freebies a couple of months ago, maybe? I really enjoyed them.
Love and that,
Dames
first time i've done this in
first time i've done this in ages plus i can't sleep
itunes do your worst :
1)last flowers to the hospital radiohead
2)miss europa disco dancer manic street preachers
3)star shaped blur
4)time to pretend mgmt
5)rio duran duran
it's not too bad could easily be worse
I'd listen to this radio station
1) Tricky - School Gates: By turns acoustic/epic number off the new album (which I am still getting to know).
2) The Go! Team - A Version of Myself: Quite nice out-of-character track off the slightly disappointingly samey second album.
3) Ash - Girl From Mars: Soundtrack to the year I met my wife! Caused one of the maddest mosh-pits I have ever seen when we caught live in Manchester in 1995. Not bad for an Only Ones rip-off.
4) Aimee Mann - Susan: just about as good an example of her gift for a pop hook as you can find.
5) British Sea Power - Something Wicked: I downloaded this album off eMusic because I liked the latest one, but haven't listened to it much. My initial thought was that it was about Harry Potter, but it's probably not.
Sessions takes gold and silver
Together Again - Ray Charles (from Complete Country & Western Sessions)
Dream Girl Blues (Take 1) - Mick Jagger & the Red Devils (Famous Blues Sessions)
Clay Pigeons - John Prine (Fair & Square)
Ventolin - Aphex Twin (I Care Because You Do)
This Time - Los Lobos (This Time)
random indeed
blackie and the rodeo kings - down to hell - as referenced by theword sampler
paul kelly- dumb things - australia's premier poet/songwriter
bob dylan - forever young fast version
bill evans - the dolphin
baaba maal and mansour seck muudo hormo the acoustic duo album - for my money the best he has done
Mine's in my car
but I predict it will throw up something by the Charlatans as it usually does whenever we're randomising even tho there's only one of their cds on the ipod; something by Costello as I have a lot of his stuff; and unknown track from the time i was loading stuff on without internet access; something with a Japanese title and a track from a word cd.
a paltry one correct
just snuck out and my five are:
the Invisible Man (demo) - Elvis Costello
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
Home Truth (demo) Elvis Costello
Albert Goes West - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
and
First Chance I Get - Ron Sexsmith
this is why I have never won a bean on the lottery.
ok here goes...
1. Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes
2. Temptation - James Yorkston
3. You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But You Were Looking Straight at Me - Arctic Monkeys
4. The Childcatcher - Patrick Wolf
5. Reggae Rhythm : It's Gone Internationally - Horace Andy
Well now, what have we here...
All For You - Earl Van Dyke And The Soul Brothers: Groovy organ in a northen soul instrumental
Call It Stormy Monday - T. Bone Walker: Great version by a blues giant
Heart Full Of Soul - The Yardbirds: From their 'Best of' collection
Moon River - Bobby Darin: Well, I like the rest of the album
Oklahom Stomp - Spade Cooley and His Orchestra: And finally some western swing, as featured on a Word CD.
OK, so I'm just different from you folks!
Call It Stormy Monday
T-Bone Walker recorded this - his signature song - in at least 4 versions that I know of (2 as "Call It Stormy Monday", 2 as "Stormy Monday Blues"). All are very good to excellent except one horrible "funked-up-'60s" late-career version with girly backing singers. That one is to be avoided, in my opinion.
Here's hoping
Highway Blues - Marc Seales
Sweet Foregiveness - Iris Dement
Song Seller - Paul Revere & The Raiders
Marionette - Mott The Hoople
Tribal Gathering - The Byrds
I have no idea what the hell Highway Blues is about! Otherwise, top banana.
Eclectica
Paper - Talking Heads - Fear of music
Low expectations - Edwyn Collins - Gorgeous George
Alifib - Robert Wyatt - Live at Drury Lane
The fan - Little Feat - Feats don't fail me now
Palace guard - Rick Nelson - Garden party
The first two tracks have never popped up on my iPod in all the years I've had it. Weird!
My Five
Something Is -Richard Hawley
Acadian Driftwood - The Band
Crime And The City - Neil Young
Never Any Good - Martin Simpson
I'm A Broken Heart - The Bird & The Bee
Late Again
On TV - The Buggles (it was OK until the chorus)
An Open Book - Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time
Silver Rider - Low
Felix The Cat - Glass Hammer (that's some modern prog)
I Only Want My Love To Grow In You - Strawbs
I wish I hadn't bothered now.
FIVE AT TEN:THIRTY
Whacked the random (ooer missus!), and this what came out at 10:30am -
Army Dreamers - Kate Bush (still kinda saucy)
Black Ice - AC/DC (new album, same as the old album, why fix what ain't broken?)
Disco Lies - Moby (skinhead NYC rave)
Master & Servant - Depeche Mode (ooh you perv!)
Horror Movies - Eddie Izzard (just as good to listen to on audio as seen live)
Well, it could have been worse, had to download the new Girls Aloud album for the 'er indoors' this morning and really didn't want that to pop up all random and everything!
30.75G gives us...
I Get A Kick Out Of You - Ella Fitzgerald
Blue Condition - Cream
Because Of You - Gene Clark
Corpus Christi Carol - Jeff Buckley
I Need Somebody - The Stooges
Retro? Me? Hell yeah!
Must delete that drab MSPs album
TV On The Radio, 'Lover's Day'
Moody Boys, 'Free'
Scissor Sisters, 'Filthy/Gorgeous'
Manic Street Preachers, 'Send Away The Tigers'
Dennis Wilson, 'Holy Man'
Shockingly, no Fall...
Culture - Jah Pretty Face
Calexico - Old Man Waltz
British Sea Power - Childhood Memories
Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes
New Order - As It Is When It Was
Here goes...
Santogold: L.E.S Artistes
Girl Talk; Shut The Club Down
Michel Thomas: Spanish Disc 1l (erm, supposed to be learning Spanish...)
Jordin Sparks with Chris Brown: No Air (em...)
The Flying Lizards; TV
Something for everyone (weird) then...
hmmmmm
50 Cent ft. Justin Timberlake - She Wants It
Bel Canto - Feel's Liek I'm Already Flying
Tomahawk - God Hates a Coward
Band of Horses - Wicked Gil
Evanescence - Call Me When You're Sober
Scary - but fun
so this is how it feels when honest?
Jimmy Patton – Oki’s in the Pokey (thanks to B.Dylan)
John Parish & Polly Jeah Harvey – Heela
Nina Simone – Do I move you
Manfred Mann’s Earht Band – Martha’s Madman
Ry Cooder – Mexican Divorce
When you first have started doing this (scary) – how the hell do you stop?
PJ Harvey – Naked Cousin (where did John go?)
REM – Orange Crush
……
:-)
Here goes
Lindström & Prins Thomas - Claudja
The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us
Klaus Doldinger, Das Boot - Titel
John Williams, Star Wars Ep1 - The Droid Invasion / The Appearance of Darth Maul
Nebular Spool - Antifaith
And if anyone reads down this far...
1. The Communards - Disenchanted
2. Boyoyo Boys - Tsotsi
3. The Magic Numbers - Loves a Game
4. Bellowhead - Vignette (Fakenham Fair)
5. The Byrds - Mr Spaceman
In the spirit of the thread
I'm reading entries at random. Yours was number 1. (NB Fakenham in Norfolk?)
Better than expected
1. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Free Bird
2. Madonna, I Love New York
3. Buddha Bar (Trentemoller Remix), Les DJinns
4. Johnny Cash, Man In Black
5. Marius Müller, Snapp
Totally Random
Kylie & Robbie Williams - Kids
Pet Shop Boys - Rent
Beatles - You Like Me Too Much
Howlin Wolf - Evil
Matthew Jay - Draw
Hmmm, not embarrassing, but hardly exciting...
1) XTC - Crocodile (from "Nonsuch")
2) MAYTALS - Pressure Drop (from a Trojan comp)
3) ROLLING STONES - brown Sugar (from "Rolled Gold +")
4) CATATONIA - Road Rage (from a random 90's comp)
5) DIONNE WARWICK - Walk On By (from a Bacharach & David comp)
Let's see
Currently on shuffle so the next tracks to appear are:
I'm Bored - The Bonzos
The Last Farewell - Roger Whittaker
Livin' Proof - Ian McNabb
All the ever mattered - Shop Assistants
Girl from Mars - Ash
If I start a brand new shuffle I get:
Here in Heaven - Sparks
Queen of Hearts - Dave Edmunds
No such thing - Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
Intro - Amsterdam
Leader of the Pack - Shangri-Las
My Songs!
Gavin Rossdale - Love Remains the same
The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions
Jokke & Valentinerne - Her Kommer Vintern
Mott the Hopple - All the Young Dudes
Dover - Serenade
glitch-easy listening-rock pop(?)-electronica-electronic
Fennesz - Chateau Rouge
France Gall - Ella, Elle L'A
Silvetti - Spring Rain (original Tom Moulton 12"mix)
Xploding Plastix - Last Ninja
Burial - Dog Shelter
Let's have a look...
Potbelleez - Trouble Trouble
Roisin Murphy - Checkin' On Me
Rogue Traders - Childlike
Foo Fighters - Erase Replace
Girls Aloud - Close To Love
I was thinking earlier this week it's been a long while...
I'm at work so won't actually be listening to any of these, but the generic mp3 player I have seems to prefer:
Belle and Sebastian - Winter Wooskie
Violent Femmes - In Style
The Sea and Cake - Crossing Line
Space - Me and You vs. the World
Ash - Angel Interceptor
It all went a bit Britpop towards the end there. It's been a while since I've heard any Space though.
truely odd.....
ribbons and leaves - graham coxon
pomp & circumstance marches No.2 in A minor - london philharmonic
girls - death in vegas
strike up the band - oscar peterson
the garden - faithless
WMP
From my windows mediaplayer:
Richard Thompson - Am I Wasting My Love On You
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
Seasick Steve - Rooster Blues
Emma Kirkby - Full fathom Five Thy Father Lies (from Musique and Sweet Poetrie: Jewels from Europe)
Emma Kirkby - Dolce Tempo Passato (from same album)
It looks far too eclectic to be genuine, but it is, cross my heart....
Ok then ladies and gentlemen
Dazzle the Blind - Manhattan Love Suicides
The Geese of Beverley Road - The National
Coal - Vernon Elliott Ensemble (from Ivor the Engine incidental music)
Heartbeat - Big Black
Time Code - Bright Eyes.
Here we go....
Mr Songbird - The Kinks
If I Lose - The Band
Hard Hand To Hold - Willy Mason
Why - Tracy Chapman
I'd Rather Be The Devil - John Martyn
11,000 tracks on my iTunes, so why are the first three country?
Bayou Jubilee - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Darcy Farrow - Nanci Griffith
Hello In There - Kris Kristofferson w. Joan Baez
How It Goes - Devotchka
Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
Here's my random assortment
Captain Soul - The Byrds
One of Us - Abba
School Days - Loudon Wainwright III
Break Away - The Beach Boys
Snowman - XTC
Ready Teddy:Elvis
Ready Teddy:Elvis Presley
Slave Master:Gregory isaacs
Unchain My Heart:Ray Charles
One Woman:Al Green
Jambalaya:Hank Williams
Ipod Randomizer
Rollins Band: You didn´t need
John Trudell: Grafitti Man
16 Horsepower: Haw
David Bowie: Panic in Detroit
REM: I took your name
5 from 4326
Never Forget - Fleetwood Mac ( from Tusk )
The Message (live) - John Martyn ( from Sunday's Child )
N.Y.C. - Steve Earle ( from El Corazon )
It's All In Your Mind - Beck ( from Sea Change )
There's A Story In Your Voice - Elvis Costello with Lucinda Williams ( from The Delivery Man )
Well pleased with that-probably the best bunch i've ever posted!
p.s. note to Santa my four year old 40gb pod is on it's last legs - a new 120gb classic would go down lovely thank you.
the gospel according to my ipod
Country Sad Ballad Man - Blur
Wealth - Talk Talk
He'd Send In The Army - Gang Of Four
What's Going On? - Jungle Brothers
A Conspiracy - The Black Crowes
5 from more than 15.000 songs...
Simon and Garfunkel - The 59th...
A-ha - Minor Earth Major Sky
Michael Jackson - Heal the world
Håkan Hellström - Den fulaste flickan i världen (swedish)
U2 - All I want is you
Didnt like my first selection
so I am having another go:-
I'll see you again - Roy Harper
Hit the road Jack - Ray Charles - loved this song since I was a kid
Bratislava - Beirut
Teardrops in my Tequila - Martin Stephenson
Ecstasy of gold - Ennio Morricone (From the essential Yo-Yo Ma)
Randomizer-izer-izer-izer-izer
Real - William Shatner
Paint the Road - Adrian Belew
Wang Wang Blues - Violet Hensley
Please, Uncle Sam - The Charmels
Susan's Strange - Psychedelic Furs
Playing now on the computer:
Sea Song - Rachel Unthank & the Winterset
The grass is always greener on someone else's Ipod
Stalingrad - Tom Verlaine
Vasos Vacios - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Bloopsport - Killing Joke
The name of this thing is not love - Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Small Axe - Bob marley & the Wailers
Can't remember the last time I listened to any of these
1. Just Like You - Roxy Music
2. No Need to Cry - British Sea Power
3. Sonic Wind - Calexico
4. This is England - The Clash
5. She's not Dead - Suede
I'm sure the last time I did this it picked a Clash track.
Here goes...
John Lennon - Don't Be Cruel (Bootleg version)
Orange Juice - Simply Thrilled Honey
Ryan Adams - Sweet Little Gal
Townes Van Zandt - Colorado Girl
Bob Dylan - Lay Down Your Weary Tune
It's all good baby!
WARNING: young person ;)
Abe Vigoda - Lantern Heights
The National - Patterns of Fairytales
Tool - Lipan Conjuring
Silver Jews - My Pillow is the Threshold
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower.
You know I didn't cheat, I would've been much more impressive if I had.
Son of Steve?
We know he named his daughter after a favourite song.(Rhiannon, was it?) You presumably after his favourite singer, allowing for Billy Turner sounding a bit Rover book for boys....
Right story...
wrong father, sadly. You are correct in deducing the source of my given name (and the essence of my mother's objection to Billy), but my father is not quite so impressive as Steve Turner, journalist extraordinaire.
ITunes? Nah, Creative Zen
I got:
Longview "Will You Wait Here"
Erland Oye "Sheltered Life (acoustic version)
The Charlatans "Ballad Of The Band"
Beth Orton "She Cries Your Name"
Teenage Fanclub "Accidental Life"
hmm..could be worse
The Sisters Of Mercy - Afterhours
Spiritualized - Won't Get To Heaven (The State I'm In)
The Cult - Wildflower
Billy Bragg - The Milkman Of Human Kindness
Shooglenifty - Horace
Hilarious!
Eels: "God's Silence"
Godspell soundtrack: "On the Willows"
Eels (it can't be random!): "Susan's House"
The Breeders: "Hag"
The Magic Numbers (whatever happened to them?): "Love Me Like You"
I was having so much fun I decided to do 10....
Alvin Youngblood Hart "Just About to Go"
Doves "M62 Song"
The Clash "Clash City Rockers"
The Stone Roses "She Bangs The Drums"
Mando Diao "God Knows"
Rufus Wainwright "Shadows"
Scott Walker "Joanna"
Johnny Cash "He Turned The Water Into Wine - Live at San Quentin"
Curtis Mayfield "Pusherman"
Richard Hawley "(Wading Through) The Waters of My Time
Better late than never
A Wolf At The Door - The Radiohead
In The Pie Shop Again - Flight Of The Conchord (that's a bit of the radio show, should have taken that off shuffle, oh well, not cheating here.)
Four Winds - Bright Eyes (not really a fan though.)
Outro - Bruce Springsteen (Bootleg)
Fruit Machine - The Ting Tings
A pretty run do.
Lucky Spin!
I got:
Steely Dan "My Old School"
Cancel The Astronauts "Outside"
Howard Shore "Forth Eorlingas"
Better Friends Than Lovers "Half The Battle"
Ray Charles & Willie Nelson "It was a Very Good Year"
Because you care
Jeff Tweedy-New Madrid
ACDC-She Likes Rock N Roll
Neil Young-Heart Of Gold
Wilco-When You Wake Up
Townes Van Zandt-Texas River Song
OK, here we go...
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick: Bonny Lass of Anglesey
Esbjorn Svensson Trio: The Unstable Table & The Infamous Fable
Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Harry You're A Beast
Marc And The Mambas: The Bulls
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly
Nothing wrong with that lot.
Randomiser
I'll See You Again - Roy Harper
Jersey Girl - Tom Waits
Let Him Roll - Guy Clark
Kathleen - Josh Ritter
Escape - Muse
Twilight zone moment
I'll see you again - Roy Harper was my IPOD's first choice in my selection posted on 15th - Do you think IPOD's have a plan for some sort of world domination?
It's a long time sinced I shuffled...
I must try it more often
Do Right Woman - William Bell
Till the Morning Comes - Neil Young
Walking the Long Miles Home (Live) - Richard Thompson
Blues in D - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
A bone through her nose (Live) - Richard Thompson again
While I'm on; a quick plug for The Sacred Shakers album of the same name, featuring the lovely Eilen Jewell and her band plus some pals. God-fearing hillbilly tunes, lovingly and energetically performed. I'm about as aetheist as it gets, but I loved it
mmm, I hope none of my daughter's cbeebies tracks come up
Big Star - Mod Lang
Badly Drawn Boy - Centrepeace
Glen Brown and King Tubby - Version 78 Style
Rufus Wainwright - Agnus Dei
Calvin Harris - Love Souvenir
She's eclectic
I Want You (She's so heavy) Beatles
The Fez - Steely Dan
Roadrunner - Modern Lovers
Hi Hi Hi - Wings (Ah-haaaa!)
and er, 'Raindrops Keep Falling on My head' - BJ Thomas
Hmmmmmmmmmm
Led Zep - Black Country Woman
RT - Ghosts in the Wind
Sufjan Stevens - O Holy Night (Ready for Christmas)
Doves - The Sulphur Man
Pulp - Common People
"Do some old!" I yelled. "OK," said my iPod...
1. Eurythmics - Paint A Rumour (Touch)
2. Manic Street Preachers - Crucifix Kiss (Generation Terrorists)
3. The Stone Roses - Love Spreads (Second Coming)
4. The Jam - Time For Truth (Direction, Reaction, Creation)
5. Puressence - Heart of Gold (Planet Helpless)
Gone a bit mad
Skinhead Moonstomp - Symarid ( I think )
Rising - Yoshida Brothers ( awesome, truly awesome )
Burn Baby Burn - Ash
Disorder in the House - Warren Zevon and Bruce Springsteen
Why Should I be so lonely - aaron Neville from a great Jimmy Rodgers tribute album.
I am quite pleased with that one
Out of 16,883 songs this is what the Ipod chose
My second stab
Life is What You Make it - Henry Mancini
Channel Surfing - The Dictators
Wild Winds are Blowin' - Slade
Purple People Eater - Judy Garland
Something in the Way - Nirvana
I had to laugh at the fourth selection. The audience sounds as drunk as Judy.
I've never done this before....
.. and before I start, be aware that the High School Musical 3 soundtrack is for the kids. OK?
1. Duffy: Rockferry
2. Barry White: Don't Make me Wait
3. Feist: The Water
4. Missy Higgins: Where I Stood
5. Reality: David Bowie
Phew, no HSM 3 for me.
Again! Again!
The Smiths "What She Said"
Rufus Wainwright "Poses"
The Smiths "The Queen Is Dead"
The Beautiful South "Girlfriend"
The Pogues "Hell's Ditch"
Surely nobody is still reading...
....but I hope so as I've come out of this smelling of roses....
Plaid: Eph
Meat Puppets: Plateau
Ayinde Bakare: Ibikunle Alakija
Orbital: Halcyon + On + On
Misty Dixon: No More To Long Ago
Great track to kick it off
Streets Of Your Town – The Go-Betweens
I've Gotta Get A Message To You – Bee Gees
The Cape – Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt & Guy ClarK - Together At The Bluebird Cafe
Mr. Tambourine Man [Alternate-Version] - Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack
Lake of Shadows - Moving Hearts – Irish Heartbeat
Sorry I'm late I've had some work to do...
Bob Dylan - Time Passes Slowly - Biograph
Issa Bagayogo - Tounga - World 2002 [Complied by Charlie Gillett]
Reverend Gary Davis - Right Now - Pure Religion & Bad Company
Oasis - Wonderwall - (What's The Story) Morning Glory
Otis Taylor - Went To Hermes - Below The Fold
Better late than never...
Kristin Hersh - Gazeebo Tree
Oasis - Roll With It
Blur - Brothers & Sisters
K.D. Lang - Flame Of The Uninspired
De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
Proving iTunes has a sense of humour, there.
Last?
Ivor Cutler - Moist Flier
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Sun Shines Down On Me
Lilys - 356
Ride - Xmas Song
Peter Bjorn & John - Does It Matter Now?
The Plunge
I Want You Back- Jackson Five Excellent.
Monkey Travels- Monkey Meh. Bit plinky plonky.
Banquet (Black Sessions)- Bloc Party It always starts so well...
London Underground- The Amateur Transplants A classic, non?
Should I Stay or Should I Go- The Clash ...
Let down by the middle, methinks.
Anything I should be embarrassed about? Comments welcome..
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick/Ian Dury and the Blockheads
The Groover/T.Rex
The Sound of Crying/Prefab Sprout
Put Your Hands Together/D-Mob
A Change is Gonna Come/The Neville Brothers
A dance track has come up! Looking at other contributors' "selections" this is pretty rare..
Not at all a reflection
On the shuffle setting of my confirmedly indie, unerringly Anglophile, male-dominated 'pod', I come out looking like an electro-junkie with an eye on the US. Quelle domage.
The Beatles - "Girl"
Phantom Planet - "Confess"
Amy Winehouse - "You Know I'm No Good"
Neon Neon - "Belfast"
MGMT - "Further Reflections"
Here's mine
Speed of Life - Bowie from Low
I Live on a Battlefield - Nick Lowe (but not from the Bowi ep)
Good Morning Heartache - Billie Holiday
I Sang Dixie - Dwight Yoakam
Valentine - Willie Nelson
Once upon a shuffletime
Once Upon A Summertime - The Walker Brothers
I Look Alone - Buzzcocks
Sun In My Morning - Saint Etienne
Slide (Slidin' The Blues) (Take 1) - The Stooges
Fade To Grey - Nouvelle Vague
A little late - but heres mine
Avalanche Ryan Adams (Love is Hell)
Jealousy - Natalie Merchant (Tigerlily)
Get Up Jake - The Band
Forever Reeling - Kinesis (from an HMW freebie)
While You Were Sleeping - Elvis Perkins - (thank you Hear All Sides)
Shuffle button pushed and ....
I've Had it with blondes - Cud - not heard that in a while....liked it muchly
Man You Gotta Get Up - Apples In Stereo - Same as before....
August - Rilo Kiley - Crumbs...Prefer the Jenny Lewis fronted songs, still it's alright I guess
Don't Run our Hearts Around - Black Mountain...just getting into this lot...
Won't Be Long - Thrum....While it's not the mighty So Glad, it's still got the wonderful Monica Queen on it....
Hmm, not that representative, but not a howler amongst it.
1st 5
Jackie Leven - Say A Little Prayer (The Mistery Of Love...)
Over The Rhine - Born (Drunkard's Prayer)
Yardbirds - Got To Hurry (Hoochie Coochie Men Box Set)
Al Stewart - Pink Panther Theme (Time Passages Live)
Angel Pavement - Water Woman (Psychedelic Pstones Vol 3)
From a selection of 6,378....
Baby Don't You Do It (New York Demo) - The Who
Waiting In Vain - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Strange Days - The Doors
Thorn - My Bloody Valentine
Fitter Happier - Radiohead
Wow, that was a good one! A demo and an EP track! And all of a good quality. Nice!
My five
Mama Don't - J.J. Cale
Daisies Of The Galaxy - Eels
Burning Wheel - Primal Scream
Hurt In Your Heart - John Martyn
Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys
Now that's what I call Random!
A Chapter from Ian Flemings 'Moonraker'
Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles
L'Inveno - William Orbit
If You Go Away - Scott Walker
'Number 6 is Presented to You' from 'The Prisoner'
High Llamas - Incidentally
High Llamas - Incidentally N.E.O
Supergrass - Mansize Rooster
Stereolab - Moodles
The Bluetones - Unpainted Arizona
The Frank & Walters - Let Me Know
Nice mixture there I reckon. Glad it didn't throw up anything embarrasing!
Five from one
Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell-The Flaming Lips
Blue Light-Bloc Party
Crazy Man Michael-Fairport Convention
2+2=5(The Lukewarm)-Radiohead
The Song of a Hundred Toads-The Handsome Family
Son Of Randomizer
My i-phone allows me a mere 1300 songs, thus editing the potential randomization down from the mothership's 3,000-plus. Here then is what son of randomizer has just thrown up:
The Smiths: This Charming Man
Abba: Mamma Mia
Crowded House: Don't Dream It's Over
Atomic Kitten: Whole Again
Van Morrison: Cleaning Windows
Jesus wept, non?
There was potential for embarassment here...
...but it turned out okay :)
The Flaming Lips: The YeahYeahYeah Song...(With All Your Power)
Ray Lamontagne: Truly, Madly, Deeply
Tom Waits: 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six
Missy Higgins: The Sound of White
Nizlopi: Love Extraordinary
Randomizer - Here We Go!
Wow! - I got:
Richard Thompson - Persuasion
John Martyn - Glory Box
Dave Cousins - Hellfire Blues
Tom Waits - Martha
Rod Stewart - Mama, You Been On My Mind
First post... be gentle
Hendrix - Spanish Castle Magic
Money Mark - Pepe Y Irene
Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You - Tom Waits
The Love Parade - The Undertones
Wolf City - Amon Duul II
Here goes...
1. The Way You Move (Featuring Sleepy Brown): Big Boi
2. Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday): Moby
3. I've Got You Under My Skin : Frank Sinatra
oh drat
4. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart): Backstreet Boys
5. Malchik gay : Tatu
And only one track from a Word CD!
The East Coast Orchestra - Doa Jeupe
The Lightning Seeds - The Price
Saul Williams - Coded Language
Catherine Feeny - I Still Don't Believe You(the Word CD Track)
Steely Dan - Josie
All Over The Place
New Frontier - Iron Maiden
Khasha Macka - Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Fuck The Police - NWA
Platoon II - Ciccone Youth
Running On Empty - Jackson Browne
Randomizer randomizes
Dancing Shoes - Arctic Monkeys
Seconds - Human League
I Want To Be The Boy - White Stripes
Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Not really cheating...
...but I brought up my first five, a nineties selection including Blur, Suede, Nirvana and then pressed a button on my pod as I started writing this and it all went a bit...wrong. Anyhow, here is the second, more diverse, selection. Here's hoping Mr. Hepworth doesn't pass on the details of this Randomizer fixing scandal to one of the Red Tops, eh?
Radio, Radio- Elvis Costello
The KKK Took My Baby Away- The Ramones
The Hold Up- The Answering Machine
Caroline, Yes- Kaiser Chiefs
Born to Lose- Johnny Cash
Another week, another selection
1. Cymbal Rush - Thom Yorke
2. Concepts/99 Luftballoons - Interstellar-Nena (as heard on Radio Soulwax - 2 Many DJ's)
3. Morning Glory - Oasis
4. Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
5. Right Where it Belongs - Nine Inch Nails
Great Smashing Pumpkins song and the 2 Many DJ's album is fantastic
Here we are then
Levithian, Bound - Shearwater
Houses - Vetiver
Lyin' In Bed - David Vandervelde
Over The Hill - John Martyn
Mother Witch - Sir Victor Uwaifo
That'll do.
Over The Edge
"Gilt Complex" - Sons and Daughters
"Showbiz" - Muse
"Watching Windows" - Roni Size and Reprazent
"Milk" - Garbage
"No Way In Hell" - Throwing Muses
Could have been far, far worse.
Freedom - Wham! (Didn't even know it was in there. Honest)
The Great Wall of China - Lincoln
Maybe It's Imaginary - Kirsty MacColl
You Gotta Love Someone - Elton John (employer of naked male paratroopers)
The Q-Man Loves Nobody - Family Guy (Live in Las Vegas)
Here goes nothing
The Small Faces-Song of a Baker
Jellyfish-All I want is Everything
Kid Creole and the Coconuts-Christmas on Riverside Drive
Mott the Hoople-All the Way from Memphis
Mighty Mouse-Mr.Bloe
Hmmmmm!
Norway says...
Cakewalk - Ved en mur
Sia - Natale's Song
Magnolia Electric Co. - Memphis Moon
Ride - Vapour Trail
Jose Gonzalez - Slow Moves
5 From 15288
1. Lou Reed - The Last Shot
2. Neil Diamonnd - Forever In Blue Jeans
3. Leonard Cohen - Closing Time
4. Uncle Tupelo - Give Back The Keys To My Heart (Live bootleg version)
5. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - The Invisible Man
Hmmm, that's a very "grown-up" selection, most unlike me.
OK this could be embarassing
1. Why cant you be nice to me? - White Stripes
2. 14th Street - Laura Cantrell - no even sure if i've listened to this before
3. Oh my Lover - PJ Harvey
4. Yellow Sun - The Raconteurs (or the Saboteurs as itunes seem to call them!)
5. People Help the People - Cherry Ghost (quite bored by this now but sounded good once)
Few the Sugababes didn't come up
Another Selection - Walkman Mp3
Robert Palmer - Looking For Clues
Jellyfish - She Still Loves Him
Shelby Lynne - I Don't Want to hear It Anymore
Uncle Walter - Ben Folds Five
Beth Rowley - Oh My Life
The random is sometimes not as random as I would like.
Another Selection - Walkman Mp3
Robert Palmer - Looking For Clues
Jellyfish - She Still Loves Him
Shelby Lynne - I Don't Want to hear It Anymore
Uncle Walter - Ben Folds Five
Beth Rowley - Oh My Life
The random is sometimes not as random as I would like.
0.049% of my collection
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby
Dennis Wilson - Tug of Love (Feel the Pull)
Madonna - Impressive Instant
Oldham Brothers - Wouldn't it be Nice
New Order - 1963-94
Kid Creole still does it. Two Beach Boys related - what are the chances of that then eh? And I really must delete those Madonna album tracks.
shuffle trouble
The Byrds - Dolphin's Smile
Burial - Distant Lights
Lou Reed - Coney Island baby
David Bowie - Time Will Crawl (MM remix)
The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends
Thank god Burial popped up our I wouldn't have had anything from the last 20 years
Fingers crossed!
Wizard Flurry Home - Mariee Sioux. (From the Word CD doubtless).
Black - Okkervil River. (Saw them at Manchester Academy a couple of weeks ago - v good and a good track).
Zephyrus - Bloc Party. Have a soft spot for BP keep waiting for them to make something as good as helicopter (this isn't it).
Marching Band - Sufjan Stevens. A genius track from a musical genius.
Sleep - Dandy Warhols - Melow!
That could have been a lot worse I can tell you!
Gay Welsh Dub Apparently.
Dim Brys Dim Chwys - Super Furry Animals
Young Offender - Pet Shop Boys
Voulez Vous - Abba
Heaven Or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
Time (Alternate Version) - Easy Star - All Stars
Fingers crossed...
1. On The Lavatory 2 - John Sparkes (MP3 of sketch from Absolutely)
2. Henryk Gorecki's Beatus Vir, Op 38 (31 mins!)
3. Burn It Clean - Mudhoney
4. Lost Someone - Cat Power
Blimey, 4 down and nothing embarrassing yet... What could possibly go wrong?
5. Finger Lickin' Good - Beastie Boys
Hooray!
I Like This Game
Zoom! - Super Furry Animals
The Golden Age - Beck
Caravan - Love To You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)
Tom Verlaine - The Earth Is The Sky
Guillemots - We're Here
Not bad at all.
1-2-3-4-5 Let's go...
The Great Beyond - REM
Hari's On Tour (Express) - George Harrison
Concerto Brandebourgeois 3 - Wendy/Walter Carlos
Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) - Paul McCartney & Wings
Friday Night - Dennis Wilson
Hmmm. I don't think I've actually even HEARD any of those
more than once before!
Does this make me sound like someone's grandmother?
Be What You Are (Staple Singers)
Can't Get Enough of You (Barry White)
Yamato-Chosi (Komuso)
Luka (Lemonheads)
Bat Out Of Hell (Meatloaf)
Not sure what it means, but this is what it says...
My Head's In Mississippi - ZZ Top
King And Country - Seth Lakeman
Lorelei - Cocteau Twins
Son Of My Father - Chicory Tip
I Wish, I Wish - Rachel Unthank & The Winterset
I had to listen to the Chicory Tip song to hear what sounded like - curse of the compilation strikes again. This is why I never listen to my iPod on Random...
1st time caller
in the garden-dylan (live 1990)
yesterday once more- carpenters
winter- the fall
honey bee- lucinda williams
the sun ain't gonna shine anymore- ipod says 'scott walker-sings the songs of jacques brel' but gorgwous racket coming out is definitely scott's hymn to solitude
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I'm not that keen on most of these to be honest
Hero - Enrique Iglesias (instant embarrassment, in mitigation I have every UK number one from 1952-2007 on my Ipod, couldn't land on Voodoo Chile though could I!)
Night of The Living Bassheads - Public Enemy (My cool is redeemed, and introduced by John Peel as part of his Festive Fifty, double cool)
All Right Now - Free (Sounds like a rerecording though, tinny eighties drums give it away)
The Life and Crimes of Lenny Bruce - Radio 3 documentary presented by Charles Shaar Murray
Cool - My Bloody Valentine (Part of Peely's Festive Fifty again)
Any old way you choose it.....
1) Rock and Roll Music - Chuck Berry (The Chess Blues songbook)
2) Dreamed I saw soldiers - Neil Halstead (Sleeping on roads)
3) I fought the law - The Clash (Story of the Clash)
4) Soul Power Pts 1 & 2 - James Brown (Out of site: Best of)
5) Fan the Bellows - The Chameleons (The Peel Sessions)
Why don't more bands release their Peel sessions? Often better than the LP versions (see The Chameleons 'Don't Fall' for example....)
shuffle whuffle
little man - tom waits
breakout - swing out sister
it's good to be careful - shack
tell me why - patti page
music! music! music! - carmen cavallaro & his orchestra
From the 23108 songs on my Classic...
Highway Chile - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Melt Away - Galaxie 500
Ain't That Enough? - Teenage Fanclub
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan
My Donny - Seasick Steve
Nice.
Come on play something cool !!
1. Mercury - Bloc party
2. Weekend wars - MGMT
3. Non Non Non - Melaaz
4. Icky thump - White Stripes
5. lump sum - Bon Iver
sdgdfh
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