The Random Factor
Posted by David Wright on 18 November 2007 - 4:52pm.
It's been done before, but please select shuffle on your MP3 player and tell us the first ten songs that come up. It's always interesting to hear what people are listening to. No cheating please. To start off with, here are mine:
1) Faust Arp-Radiohead
2) Somewhere Else-Marilion
3) She's So Strange-Travis
4) Whatver Will Be Will Be-Doris Day
5) Stories To Tell-Stanely Clarke
6) The Chinese Way-Level 42
7) Dakota-Stereophonics
8) Tubby's At The Control-King Tubby
9) Leaving New York- R.E.M.
10)Silent Night-Sarah McLachlan
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On randomness
1. Catastrophe and the Cure - Explosions In The Sky
2. The Accident - ILIKETRAINS
3. Better On The Hard Side - The Lucy Show
4. Blessing - Popol Vuh
5. Fancy Claps - Wolf Parade
6. Glittering Blackness - Explosions In The Sky
7. On Horseback - Mike Oldfield
8. Hope I'm Around - Todd Rundgren
9. Signature Tune (Peel Sessions) - The Lotus Eaters
10.Set Me Apart - The Lotus Eaters
11. ..another Todd Rundgren song!
12. Wonderful World by Nine Horses
This is ridiculous. I have 4017 songs on this 30GB iPOD and whilst I have all of EITS's albums and most everything The Lotus Eaters did (which was a couple of albums 20 years apart and a few sessions tracks) and tons of Todd, this just goes to show that the random play on iPODs isn't very random. Yes I know that's the nature of randomness, but I'm sure we have all experienced the iPOD finally finding tracks by a band it has previously ignored and then suddenly returning to them again and again as if that area of the disc has been opened up....
13. Citrus - The Hold Steady
14. Benedictus - Acoustic Strawbs
15. Inside - Stiltskin
16. Beauty Secrets - Be Bop Deluxe
17. Track 2 - Steve Adams
18. Let There Be - Oasis
19. I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better - The Byrds
20. There's Nothing Wrong - Terry Reid
I love my iPOD.
Sound Quality
I don't love my IPOD but I like it quite a lot. Know what you mean re the shuffle feature, doesn't seem that random at times. Just listening to a proper CD and it makes you realise about the sound quality of IPODS. Not that brilliant really, but guess I've just got used to it. Have to say, the sound of my old Sony Walkman with MEGA BASS was great! Nothing has come close since, which is a poor state of affairs.
Random
Dark Blue and Gold - Pina
The Humpty Dumpty Love Song - Travis
Ghosts - 1 Giant Leap (featuring Eddi Reader)
Souvenir - Paul McCartney
Wednesday's Child - Emiliana Torrini
Come Round Soon - Sara Bareilles
Tradition - Kathryn Williams
La Dispute - Yann Tiersen
Mother - Afro Celt Sound System
Freedom of Choice - Devo
Not bad, although contrary to what you might think from this list, I do own some music (other than Devo) that is more than ten years old.
Here goes...
The Vespertine Park - Gavin Bryars ( Nouvelle Vague Late night Tales )
The Positive Touch - The Undertones
You can have it all - The Kaiser Chiefs
W.F.L - Happy Mondays
Listen Up! - The Gossip
Intro - Gorillaz
Keep the car running - Arcade Fire
Untitled 3 - Sigur Ros
Planet Claire - B52s
No regrets - The Walker Brothers
And special thanks to my 8 year old son for showing me where the hitherto unused shuffle button was...
Ten?
I guess that's inflation for you.
Steve Young - Lonesome On'ry and Mean
John Fogerty - Somewhere Listening (For My Name)
Fanfare Ciocarlia - Godzilla
Guignol - All or Nothing Machine
Minutemen - History Lesson (Part II)
Lucky Jim - Almeria
Papa M - Drunken Spree
The KLF - A Melody From A Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back
Che Fu - Chains
Slayer - Reborn
Splendid
Was going to be five but thought I'd push the boat out. I have only ever heard of four of the artists on your list Fraser. Very impressive!
Wouldn't have put old stuffy
Wouldn't have put old stuffy down as a Slayer fan.
Only joshing, Lewry.
10 from 11145.
Lou Reed- Busload of Faith
The Replacements - Merry Go Round
Half Man Half Biscuit - Reflections In a Flat.
Kirsty MacColl - You Still Believe In Me
Neil Young - Deep Forbidden Lake
Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me
Gang Of Four - Call Me Up
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Tricky - Evolution, Revolution, Love.
Icicle Works - Understanding Jane.
OK then....
The Boo Radleys - Find the Answer Within
The Who - Summertime Blues
The New Pornographers - Mutiny I promise You
Husker Du - Powerline
The Walker Brothers - Love Her
The Hoosiers - Clinging on for Life
R.E.M. - The Moral Kiosk
The Beatles - A Hard Days Night
The National - The Geese of Beverly Road
Bob Mould - The Last Night
OK, balls-on-the-line time for taste...
And as they come out of the traps, it's:
1. The Beach Boys - Darlin'
2. Gentle Giant - In A Glass House
3. Robert Wyatt - 5 Black Notes And 1 White Note
4. XTC - Wonderland
5. The Magnetic Fields - Blue You
6. Field Music - Working To Work
7. Chumbawamba - Learning To Love
8. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Underwater
9. The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
10. Caravan - Nine Feet Underground
Yikes, sometimes my iPod has even better taste than I do. I could even burn that sequence onto a CD and happily live with it on repeat play for a while.
Ten -- its almost like an album........
Hallway - Richmond Fontaine
Harder Now That Its Over - Ryan Adams
Feel Good Hit Of The Summer - Queens Of The Stone Age
Empty pages - Traffic
I Want You - Bob Dylan
Ballad Of John and Yoko - Teenage Fanclub !!!!
In My Pocket - The Cat Empire
A Thing About You - Tom Petty
Taylor John - Kelly Joe Phelps
Five To One - The Doors
Heres my ten
Johnny Cash - I see a darkness
U2 - Lemon
Josh Rouse - Street lights
Vangelis - La Petite Fille de la Mer
ZZ Top - Legs
Nanci Griffith - Tecumseh Valley
Nils Lofgren - Some must dream
Natalie Merchant - Cowboy romance
Chuck Prophet - Ooh,wee
Richard Thompson - Reckless kind
Actually liked the second ten better but in the interests of not cheating stayed with these.
Shuffle
1. You Got The Style - Athlete
2. This Is Hardcore - Pulp
3. Check On It - Beyonce (feat. Bun B & Slim Thug)
4. Size Too Small - Sufjan Stevens
5. Missing - Beck
6. Light & Day/Reach for the Sun - The Polyphonic Spree
7. Stan - Eminem & Dido
8. Satisfaction - Whomadewho
9. Musclecar Reform Reprise - Mylo
10.Bob's Yer Uncle - Happy Mondays
The Song From ''If...'' to a Monday's Riff
1) The Holiday Song - Pixies
2) You're Gonna Get Yours - Public Enemy
3) Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
4) Passing Me By - The Pharcyde
5) Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Bad Manners
6) Swamp - Talking Heads
7) Missa Luba African Mass:4 Sanctus - Boniface Mganda
8) If I Needed Someone - Joe White
9) Everything's Gonna Be Alright - P.P. Arnold
10) Step On - Happy Mondays
From ''Flim'' to ''Trimm (Trabb)''
11) Flim - Aphex Twin
12) Has It Come To This (High Contrast Remix) - The Streets
13) The Proud One - Rico & Joe's All Stars
14) The Box - The Big
15) All the Madmen - David Bowie
16) TV Blues - U.K. Subs
17) If You Tolerate This... - Manic Street Preachers
18) Leave Me Alone - New Order
19) Saint Angel - Goldie
20) Trimm Trabb - Blur
...and this week's ten are...
1) The Shins - The Celibate Life (live)
2) Yo La Tengo - Our Way to Fall
3) Aimee Mann - You Do
4) The Polyphonic Spree - Light and Day/Reach for the Sun
5) The Beatles - Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
6) The Magnetic Fields - The Desperate Things You Made Me Do
7) Madness - One Step Beyond
8) Richard Hawley - Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
9) Manic Street Preachers - Slash n' Burn
10) Portishead - Glory Box
That's typical, four songs in that ten that I've never heard in my life
Random?
1. Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further? Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
2. Balaclava. Arctic Monkeys
3. Little Palaces. Elvis Costello (like a bloody No 10, you wait for ages...)
4. When You Awake. The Band
5. Help Me Somebody. Brian Eno & David Byrne
6. Evangeline. Matthew Sweet
7. Blue Veins. The Raconteurs
8. The Old Laughing Lady. Neil Young
9. Workingman's Blues #2. Bob Dylan
10. I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart. The White Stripes (Jack White double dipping too!)
Random? Balsamic Vinegar?
Random? Balsamic Vinegar?
I'm a schizophrenic and I'm OK
The Cryan' Shames - Sugar and Spice (From Nuggets: Original Artyfacts)
Tindersticks - Sweet Memory (strange as I was listening to that in tha car this morning and have never listened to it on the iPod - randomness rocks!)
The Clash - Death or Glory
Calexico - Stinging Nettle
Robert DeNiro - That's Entertainment (from Raging Bull Soundtrack)
Elvis Presley - Don't (One of his best)
Prince - Silicon (Not one of his best!)
Crosby Stills & Nash - Just a Song Before I Go
Townes Van Zandt - Blaze Story (from Documentary)
U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing [V16 Exit Wound Mix] (They had to get in there to show me up!! I'm a fan yes yes.)
That's a pretty weird bunch. It appears that I have schizophrenic musical taste :)
Ooh, blimey
This could be interesting. Here goes...
1) Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
2) Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco
3) Letter Never Sent - REM
4) Amateur - Aimee Mann
5) Skyway - The Replacements
6) My Morphine - Gillian Welch
7) Ballad of Carol Lynne - Whiskeytown
8) Debaser - Pixies
9) Help! - Beatles
10) Hurt - Johnny Cash
not ipod but archos...
skipping - wynton marsalis (from the magic hour, worth a jazzy listen)
honky tonk blues - hank williams (both types of music)
sleepwalkers serenade - (the complete atomic) count basie
hippy hippy shake - swinging blue jeans. how on earth did that get on there??
jennifer she said - lloyd cole
a lady of a certain age - divine comedy (this is the first one i really like)
life of surprises - prefrab sprout
black queen - stephen stills
track 1 from betty blue soundtrack - gabriel yared (composer god)
eden - talk talk
i do not recognise myself in that lot. much older than me.
Random
Stayin' Alive by N-Trance featuring Ricardo Da Force
There's No Home For You Here by The White Stripes
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
Rebel Rebel by David Bowie
Tenement Yard by Jacob Miller
Gonna Fly Now by Bill Conti
Something Better Change by The Stranglers
Weather With You (Live) by The Finn Brothers
Someone Saved My Life Tonight by Elton John
Brompton Oratory by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I thank you. One singer one song. Etc.
BARNEY
Warmer Than Fire - Ash Music
Warmer Than Fire - Ash
Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust
I'm Amazed - The Pixies
No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
Someone Like the Moon - Pulp
Hand in Glove - The Smiths
Sorrow - David Bowie
No Strings - Roots Manuva
We Will Not Be Lovers - The Waterboys
Talk to Strangers - Saul Williams
Spot the one I got off of a Word CD
1. The Fall - Fiery Jack
2. Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective - Weyu Larigi Weyu
3. Paul Hardcastle - 19
4. Ben Folds - Bastard
5. Bjork - Gloomy Sunday
6. David Bowie - A New Career In A New Town
7. Jarvis - Tonite
8. M.Ward - Chinese Translation
9. Half Man Half Biscuit - Visitor For Mr Edmonds
10. Sandy Denny - Let's Jump The Broomstick
Can't say I like any of them that much!
NNNNNNNNNnnnnnnnineteen
"19" is a classic Bradford Rob! Bought it for 20p from a record shop in Bridlington a few months back.
Ok, here goes..
Bossa Nova In Blue - Willie Bobo
Missing You - Bim Sherman
Ganz Gag - Ian Pooley
Move Around - Steven Stills
Itch & Scratch (pt 2) - Rufus Thomas
He's Gone - Doris Duke
Vybra - Attica Blues
Can U Feel It? - Mr Fingers
Pilgrim's prayer - It's Jo & Danny
Headphones - Bjork
Another Archos
iPods - bah! Either too big physically or not big enough for storage... anyhoo
Elvis Costello - Our Little Angel
Pearls Before Swine - The Jeweller
The Muppets - Happy Feet
The Orb - Majestic
Mogwai - Stop Coming to My House
Cocteau Twins - Pepper Tree
The Beatles - For No One (Take 1)
Kristin Hersh - Mama's Gonna Buy
Elitsa Todorova - Voda (Water)
Sigur Ros - Von
To be honest, that's a rather better representation than I'd been expecting, seeing what else is lurking in there. Also I can claim the first Eurovision entry in the thread - hooray!
Party, party, um, party
Here's what happened when I hit the party shuffle button on ITunes (I hope this counts as I don't have an MP3 player). Dance your collective asses off to this collection of good time party tunes:
Wild Children (Live) - Van Morrison
Cardboard Cutout Sundown - Captain Beefheart
These Days - Joy Division
Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
WMC Blob 59 - The Fall
Down in Mississippi - Mavis Staples
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker - Prince
Turn The Heater On - New Order
This Flight Tonight - Joni Mitchell
I'll Be There - Nick Lowe
So much better than work... 10 from 10,735
Helen Wheels - Paul McCartney and Wings
How Bad Do You Want It? - Don Henley
Yellow And Rose - James Taylor
Falling Into You - Kasey Chambers
Abilene - Sheryl Crow
Follow My Way - Chris Cornell
Chest Fever - The Band
I Wait For Your Love - Richard James
Locomotive - Guns n'Roses
Universi - Choeur Monastique de'Abbaye (gregorian Chant)
Two things; Richard James' track from Word 40 (coincidence, non?) and as for the last one, it was my 'Sit on the beach and conemplate' era. And I'm none the worse for it.
the random factor
The Clarke Sisters - The Go-Betweens
She's The One - Bruce Springsteen
The Hardest Walk - The Jesus & Mary Chain
Zuton Fever - The Zutons
Suffragete City -David Bowie
Step On - Happy Mondays
Last Night - The Strokes
Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns'N'Roses
In the Future When All's Well - Morrissey
For All The Cows -Foo Fighters
somewhat rocky, it didn't bring up the John Zorn tracks I recently put on...
I feel uneasy about this, but...
Hobart Paving - Saint Ettienne
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
Past In Present - Feist
Invitation To The Blues - Tom Waits
Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan
Matadjem Yinmixan - Tinariwen
The Way That He Sings - My Morning Jacket
Trains To Brazil - Guillemots
Be Good Or Be Gone - Fionn Regan
Missing The War - Ben Folds Five
Could be worse, could be better. Certainly makes my i pod sound more miserable than it really is.
Here goes...
Laid - James
Angel - Belly
Alison - Elvis Costello
The Lovely Linda - Wings
No Place Like Home - Squeeze
Orion In The Sky - Shawn Colvin
Swap Meet - Nirvana
This Is Radio Clash - The Clash
If I Needed Someone - The Beatles
Sick of Goodbyes - Sparklehorse
Hmmm.... I must admit I haven't listened to some of these for ages.