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The Randomizer needs you!
Posted by David Hepworth on 10 June 2008 - 11:46am.
Suddenly you are feeling very sleepy. You cease what you are doing, open up your iTunes, put it on "random" and then read off the first five tracks that come up.
No cheating, no re-shuffling, no double-clicking to come up with five tracks that show what a hell of a guy you are. Just read them off. As is traditional, I shall go first:
1. Liza Minnelli: Maybe This Time
2. Burial: Ghost Hardware
3. Nick Drake: Pink Moon
4. Sir Douglas Quintet: Catch Your Man On The Rise
5. Gwen Stefani: Hollaback Girl
Isn't it weird. . .
That the Randomizer almost always throws up an artist who's been mentioned on the Word blog shortly before, but who otherwise is hardly ever mentioned at all? In this case the Sir Douglas Quintet.
I still have my doubts about just how random it is, though. Whenever I do it, it seems heavily biased towards stuff that's recently be synced and played.
Ah, yes. I almost forgot:
1. Jackson Browne - Sleep's Dark & Silent Gate
2. The Field - Everday
3. Harry Enfield - Loadsamoney
4. Laurent Garnier - Crispy Bacon
5. The Sweet - Poppa Joe
Hmm. Make what you will of that little lot.
The first time...
That Laurent Garnier has followed "Loadsamoney" by Harry Enfield anywhere in the world ever surely! Great tune (Crispy Bacon, that is).
Random Rockers
1. The King of the Mountain Cometh - T. Rex
2. Never Enough - The Cure
3. Little Bitch - Specials
4. Arcade Precinct - The 1990's (from Cookies - possibly THE best album from last year)
5. Something That I Said - Ruts
not a bad selection. Some times my ipod throws up a right load of old rubbish. Memo to self - give your itunes a bit of a clear out and send some of that cak that you never really wanted to the recycle bin
Once again
My iPod instantly generates a better, more intriguing selection than I could figure out consciously:
1. Louis Armstrong: Basin Street Blues
2. Stackridge: Pinafore Days
3. They Might Be Giants: I'll Sink Manhattan
4. Mogwai: Ex-Cowboy
5. Mynta: Fuzzy
That's the great truth of the Randomizer
Er...
...are you ever actually going to DO anything with all this, David? As raw data, it's a bit like a kind of musical Tourette's, just shouting out 5 random track titles periodically. But, as ever, I'm game.
No I'm not going to do anything with it
It's like a musical version of a word association game, just a way of exercising the mind and it provides a way of coming up with a short list without any of the more tiresome features of lists.
Mostly 1990s
The High Llamas - Green Coaster
Cranes - Shining Road
The Auteurs - Wedding Day
Ella Fitzgerald - I'll Never Fall In Love Again
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Ella & Iron Maiden
Now there's a mashup to twist Mark Vidler's blood.
Gulp...
Here goes:
1. Ma Ma Ma Belle/ELO
2. Bring It On/Gomez
3. Soul Clap 69/Booker T & The MGs
4. For What It's Worth/Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66
5. A Time For Remembrance/The Cowsills
Gimme some...
Bluegrass, some rap, some alt-country, some folk, and some avant-garde.
The Stanley Brothers - Say You'll Take Me Back
Mos Def - Fake Bonanza
Uncle Tupelo - Coalminers
Tim Hardin - It'll Never Happen Again
Pere Ubu - One Less Worry
my 5
1.stob your sobbing - the kinks (good start)
2. i feel love - donna summer (poppatastic)
3. michael's bones - morrissey (have to have a mozza & about a corpse too: extra mozz points)
4.the ballad of laverne & captain flint ( a recent amoeba purchase as suggested by the word readership; i'm really getting into guy clark now - excellent)
5.lady caliph - ennio morricone (lovely end)
i'm pretty pleased with that lot.
Here goes...
Happy Home - Paula Cole
Sum - Immune
Rainbow - Battles
Higher than Reason - Unbelievable Truth
Milk - Garbage
It was all going so well until...
When You are Old and Gray - Tom Lehrer
Winter Woods - Charlotte Greig
20th Century Promised Land - Simple Minds
Summertime - Galaxie 500
While My Heart is Still Beating - Roxy Music
Soundtrack to a raging toothache.....
Ryan Adams - Twice As Bad As Love
Shirley Bassey - Light My Fire
Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
Kinks - Where Have All The Good Times Gone
Stooges - No Fun.
At least three of those accurately summate my mood as me gob throbs and I can't locate an NHS dentist!
More High Llamas - what are the chances?
The Goat Strings - The High Llamas
Second Language - Disco Inferno
Mashed Potato Popcorn - Freddie & The Kinfolk
Stories - Tunng
Sunshine Of Your Love - Long John Baldry
5 more
Why Me Lord? - Johnny Cash
Martha Ann - David Karsten Daniels
Its Your Thing- Cold Grits
My Girl - John Hiatt/Loudon Wainwright
Number Two - Pernice Brothers
My latest 5
Madman - The Jayhawks
Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
Hung Up - Paul Weller
You Can Make Him Like You - The Hold Steady
I Can Tell (Live) - Michael Penn
Bit samey. The Bangles is on my 'pod because I'm learning it for a covers show, but I love it now. The Jayhawks' 'Madman' is top of the shop for me, CSN-tastic.
still no Beatles, Springsteen, Neil Young
Jackson Browne / Stay
Mary Chapin Carpenter / We're All Right
Teenage Fanclub / Sparky's Dream
Bob Dylan / Dear Landlord
Dixie Chicks / More Love
and none of these played recently
Did this in the car driving in this morning...
I'm Shipping Up to Boston - Dropkick Murphy's
That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings
The Seeker - The Who
Poverty - Mick Hucknall
Sheep - Pink Floyd
(and I forced myself to listen to Sheep all the way through - in the words of Muttley, "medal, medal, medal, medal"
Psychedelic Furs - Heaven
Psychedelic Furs - Heaven (Full Length Version)
Betty Boo - Doin' The Do (7" Radio Mix)
Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism (Saul Williams Remix)
Depeche Mode - A Pain That I'm Used To (Telex Remix)
Sneaker Pimps - M'aidez
Phew. It could have been so much worse! :-)
It could have been so much worse...
Psychedelic Furs - Heaven (Full Length Version)
Betty Boo - Doin' The Do (7" Radio Mix)
Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism (Saul Williams Remix)
Depeche Mode - A Pain That I'm Used To (Telex Remix)
Sneaker Pimps - M'aidez
Something old and something new
Daydreaming - Massive Attack
Elevation - Television
Big Boat - M. Ward
Open The Door, Homer - Bob Dylan and The Band
Kids - MGMT
Not the best songs but a nice range of dates...
Go on
In The Bush - Musique
Sweet Songs – Jujus
Fur Immer – Neu!
Holding Out For A Hero – Bonnie Tyler
Destroyer II – Blood Everywhere
I think we need to stop here for just one moment.
& consider track 4........
In The Bush - Musique
Sweet Songs – Jujus
Fur Immer – Neu!
Holding Out For A Hero – Bonnie Tyler
Destroyer II – Blood Everywhere
........i thought that's what i read. hmmmmm.....i think we have a possible winner in the honesty stakes
It was inspired by this
And the train was to full for me to skip. But hey, I like it :)
So near, yet so far...
Lucky Town/Bruce Springsteen - nice start!
Shame/Evelyn Champagne King - the curse of the compilation but OK
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love/Wilson Pickett - that voice!
Midnight Stroll/Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra - toe tapping big band extravaganza
...and then...
This Waiting Heart/Chris de Burgh - curse of the compilation not OK!
Memo to self: Must clean out the Augean Stables - again!
Is it that time already ?
Lonesome Frisco Line-Tom Darby And Jimmie Tarlton
Right or Wrong-Asleep At The Wheel with Reba McEntire
Numbered Days-Eels
Souljacker part 1 Eels
Waiting Room-Holly Golightly
The first one is Downloaded from some pre-war Blues website which i Can't remember the name.
The most suprising thing is the double dose of Eels.
Could have been worse...
1. Sellotape (Pencils In The Wind) - Flight Of The Conchords (Did'nt expect that)
2. Lost Myself - Longpigs (Have not heard this in years)
3. Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
4. Why Don't We Do It In The Road - The Beatles
5. Song For Shelter - Fatboy Slim (That's coming off the iPod!!)
Could have been worse 2...
Benny Spellman – Fortune Teller
Black Francis – You Can't Break A Heart And Have It
Tartit – Tihar Bayatin
Field Music – Give It Lose It Take It
Linda Thompson – Stay Bright
Pick the bones out of that
1. Night Prowler - AC/DC
2. Is This Love - Whitesnake
3. I'll Stand By You - Girls Aloud
4. Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - Stevie Wonder
5. Helter Skelter - The Beatles
Now that I've finally got all my music on pc......
....I can have a proper go at this!
Free Wheelin' - Bachman Turner Overdrive
I'm Leaving You(Commit A Crime) - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Don't Be Crushed - Hawksley Workman
Ashes, The Rain and I - Joe Walsh
Westchester County - Loudon Wainwright III
Great! Well chuffed! Thanks!
Very Mellow
1. Soft Spectrum - Test Card Music (Department TV LP) - Winchester Hospital Radio)
2. Coquelicot - Marsen Jules (Les fleurs LP)
3. Good Day Sunshine - Slowdive (5 ep)
4. Tiffany Glass - Fuzzy Felt Folk LP (Trunk Records)
5. Osprey - The Advisory Circle (Mind How You Go ep)
Perfect for a warm Tuesday afternoon.....
As the Queen would say, what fun...
Middle Mass/Crap Rap (live in London 1980) - The Fall
Side With The Seeds (Sky Blue Sky) - Wilco
Table Top Joe (Alice) - Tom Waits
The End (Uh Huh Her) - PJ Harvey
Happy Jack (Very Best of The Who) - The Who
Hot Off The Work Computer
[but don't tell the lawyers]
Maria - Katheleen Edwards
Take My Hand - Angela Ammons
Tell Me Why - Texas
Maybe That's Something - Sheryl Crow
Being Boring - Merril Bainbridge
from my phone so not loads of choice
Chlorine fields By Speck Mountain (mazzy starish US/scandnavian types very good)
When Mac was Swimming By The Innocent Mission ( Marmite voiced vetaran american indie acoustic types also good)
Builders Book Club by H.I.G.N.F.Y ( the antidote to panel....:)
Chime by Orbital ( head tourch wearing old skool house music types, Tune!)
That's not my name By Ting Tings ( this week's number one probably, we love abit of new)
Breaking the rules
I started a new Randomize this morning with:
1. Complainte Pour Ste Catherine/ Kate & Anna McGarrigle
2. Searching For A Heart/Warren Zevon
3. Make It Good/ The Beach Boys
4. Colorblind/Counting Crows
5. Saturday Suit/Jimmy Webb
which I was damned pleased with.
When I read the current Randomize Needs You mine was going:
1. Take It Easy/The Eagles (sorry Mr H)
2. Beside You/Tim Finn, Bic Runga & Dave Dobbyn
3. Mona/The Beach Boys
4. ...And So You Fell/David Ford
5. Political Science/Randy Newman
which is also exceptionally fine.
A brand new Randomize came up with:
1. After You're Gone/Iris DeMent
2. Wichita Lineman/REM
3. Three Minutes/Mutton Birds
4. Supemodel/Jill Sobule
5. If Ships Were Made To Sail/Jimmy Webb
Sorry folks but I am sitting here smug and self-satisfied.
Yellow card
I've taken your name.
About that card
Go on, Mr H, admit it, you would have done the same with those selections. Well maybe not. Or was the yellow card for The Eagles track? The Last Resort came up shortly after!
When you are hauled in front of the disciplinary committee...
...they will point out that the rules clearly state just five.
But
which five?
I was just thinking
About an hour before you posted this, I was thinking: time for another Randomizer. So, here goes:
1. Stranger In The Crowd/Elvis Presley
2. It's Sure Been Fun/Waylon Jennings
3. Blue Moon Of Kentucky/The Stanley Brothers
4. Goin' Down Slow/The Electric Flag
5. Loving You Could Never Be Better/George Jones
Good God. I must like country music pre American Recordings, then.
5 From 14206
1. Ain't Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry
2. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
3. Climbing Up The Walls - Radiohead
4. Isn't It Good To Be Alive? - Spearmint
5. Wilderness (Live) - Joy Division.
Not representitive of me at all.
ahh but it is..
The randomiser is our hidden id bursting free like tourettes suffer yelling our love of the smiths or dumpy rusty nuts! ;)
Well...............
here I am, finger poised over the button, 91 gigs of music fighting their way to the front of the queue..............who's going to make it...........I'm moist with anticipation, so, fingers crossed....here goes..............and they're off!!!!
1. Givin' Up - The Darkness (from the MTV Birthday gig 2003). Hopefully that establishes from the off that there's no cheating going on here....
2. Take The Long Road And Walk It - The Music (from Welcome To The North). A good bit of scally rock.
3. Fire & Water - Paul Rogers (from The History, the second disc with the Muddy Water Blues CD). Excellent...not listened to PR or Free for ages. Another of those bands I failed to appreciate in my youth way back in the 70's. Too busy being seduced by glam rock....
4. Stockholm Syndrome - Yo La Tengo (from Prisoners of Love). Not sure I've ever listened to this before? It's not the Muse song of the same name (chances of that coming up next?????)
5. Poison Oak - Bright Eyes (from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning). Borrowed this from a workmate a few years ago, another one I'm not sure I've ever listened to.
As with most other people I'm asking "where's all the .......... (complete as required). Always expect Mr Pod to do the unexpected!
NOT ONLY, BUT ALSO....
My five pod's worth...
1. Waters of Nazareth - Justice (or is it Daft Punk, eh, eh eh?)
2. Life in Tokyo (Extended Remix) - Japan (ah, the foppish glam-romantics - are they due a big re-appraisal or what WORD?)
3. Eat Yourself - Goldfrapp (new album a lovely summer night listen)
4. Perfect Kiss - New Order (perfect whatever they were doing!)
5. Master Blaster (Jammin') - Stevie Wonder (ah lil stevie, definately wonderful!)
Probably more representative of my ipod than of my musical taste!!
Out of 7 thousand 4 hundred and something tracks I get...
My Own Time - Asia (Alpha)
Someday we'll be together - Diana Ross & the Supremes (Motown Gold)
Butterfly - Corinne Bailey Rae (CBR) - hmmm... not sure I've ever actually listened to this track, can't even bring it to mind...
Rough & Ready - Whitesnake (The Early Years) - I would refer the honourable gentlemen to the thread on classic rock...
After Midnight - Eric Clapton (The Cream of Clapton)
A broadly acceptable bunch of tunes. Of course, out of interest I kept on re-randomising to see how long it would take to get one which would have got through on coolness stakes had I been cheating. Took about ten or so more randomisers before a truly pseudo-cred selection popped out.
Slightly more varied this month....
...the last 2 Randomizers have thrown up 3 tracks from the same album, not this time.
1 New Order - Ceremony
2 Clarence In Wonderland - Kevin Ayers
3 Oh! Lucille - Belton Richard
4 The Calvary Cross - Richard & Linda Thompson
5 It Ain't Me Babe - Bob Dylan
Pretty happy with this lot...
Open All Night - Bruce Springsteen
Judy & The Dream of Horses - Belle & Sebastian
A Better Future - David Bowie
Boy - The Magic Numbers
Simple Twist Of Fate - Bob Dylan
I don't think I could hum any of these
Jimmy Reed - Close together
The Undertones - Bye bye baby blue
The Doors - The unknown soldier
U2 - Promenade
The Zombies - Imagine the swan
Blimey - I haven't heard any of those in yonks. It's also the first time in days the shuffle hasn't given me at least one Elvis Costello track - it's positively obsessed at the moment.
fine
Promenade from one of the finest albums ever made.
Live from the WORD office stereo, my iPod
1] THE FALL Senior Twilight Stock Replacer *
2] PET SHOP BOYS Integral [Dave Spoon Mix] *
3] ELECTRONIC Prodigal Son *
4] JOHN HARTFORD I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
5] STEVIE WONDER Fingertips
* Even on Randomiser I am quite predictable, sadly.
Tunes
1. What You Do to Me - Teenage Fanclub
2. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
3. Laura - Scissor Sisters
4. Da Funk - Daft Punk
5. Like Spinning Plates - Radiohead
All great tunes apart from #3, but you can't win 'em all
Give me Laura...
over the po faced Spinning Plates anytime!
One more time
Get Innocuous (Soulwax mix) - LCD Soundsystem
Jungle Rock - Hank Mizell
Yes - McAlmont & Butler
The Outsiders - Franz Ferdinand
Swing Your Daddy - Jim Gilstrap
"Jungle Rock"
*What* a wonderful record that is. I play it all the time.
Deep breath....
The Animals - Inside Looking Out
Spacemen 3 - Hypnotized
The Byrds - Chestnut Mare
Pablove Black - Push Pull
Television - Marquee Moon
Wow! That went well.
this time it throws up
Ray of Hope Hoe of Rape - The Fatima Mansions
Readymade - Beck
Riptide - Laura Veirs
I'm Sorry I Love You - The Magnetic Fields
Elevation - Television
all belters, god I'm cooool.
Lunchtime random
The Sun and The Moon - Pogues - Pogue Mahone
Once Again - Alvin Youngblood Hart - Start With The Soul
Black - Pete Yorn - Music For The Morning After
Put You To Sleep - Jeff Klein - from an "U*c*t freebie
La Citta Del Sole - Re Niliu - Routes (Various world music thing)
I'll stand by them!
Two for the price of one
Faust - Untitled IV
Camper Van Beethoven - I Don't See You
Sufjan Stevens - Carlyle Lake
Cardiacs - The Safety Bowl
Maximo Park - Kiss You Better
And my mate Alf (because I'm on his computer)
The Clash - Police & Thieves
The Good The Bad & The Queen - Three Changes
The Stargazers - La Rock & Roll
The Beatles - You Can't Do That
Lloyd Cole - My Other Life
It's all a bit trad dad...
The Randomizer,a bit of fun or Dastardly David Hepworths social experiment/market research?
Are Word readers catholic in their tastes or really quite conservative and old fashioned?
The most recent covers have featured, matey from Pink Floyd (I wonder how long before his dad gets mentioned?), prickly booze-hound John Martyn(nothing new to say but a DVD to sell) and the uninspiring Thom Yorke (not as interesting as he thinks he is).
I shall leave you to make up your minds how much your ipod shuffle decides the front cover of our favourite mag.
My Five
1, Augie March - Baron Of Sentiment
2, Young Marble Giants - Brand New Life
3, Duke Ellington - Rumpus In Richmond
4, Chris Whitley - Breath Of Shadows
5, Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
Fingers crossed...
Minnelli? Come on Hepworth - the old taste-ometer not working at the mo?!
One To Another - The Charlatans
I Won - The Sundays
Walk On By - The Beach Boys
Opus 40 - Mercury Rev
Oh Lonesome Me - Neil Young
I have to say though,I've gone right off Mercury Rev
There's nowt wrong with a birrov Liza
Stop being a snob. As Primal Scream - via the medium of a sample - all music is music. We are together. Etc
I purchased 'Liza With A Z' at the considerably snipular amount of £3 at Fopp a couple of months back, and threw it onto the pod. Despite being a medium strength, 'straight-acting' type, I wouldn't necessarily sit through the album in one go, but when something crops up in a shuffle, I don't skip it*
*Okay, well maybe I skip the 10 minute Cabaret medley (I prefer the original soundtrack actually. Darling)
This morning?:
MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice mix)
Soup Dragons - Soft As Your Face
Vitalic - My Friend Dario
Dave Edmunds - Born To Be With You
Alphabeat - Rubber Boots (surprisingly sauce-up tune for a band that usually sound like they're being forced to be S Club at gunpoint)
Liza
It's not snobbery mate...it's taste!
some music
Joy Division - Day of the Lords.
Tinariwen - Ahimana
The Velvet Underground - Beginning to See the Light
Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro
The Jesus and Mary Chain - The Hardest Walk
That could easily be the soundtrack to a Sofia Coppola film... hmm maybe apart from the second track..
not too bad.
Bah!
Bonnie Tyler apart, I don't believe any of you!
Here goes 60GB iPod at the ready.... (takes ages to shuffle...)
1. I Remember When (Emotional Version): James Fogel (some American chap who really loves Prefab Sprout)
2. Milkshake (Billie Jean mashup): Kelis vs Michael Jackson (this was HUGE on Irish radio a few years ago)
3. I'm Losing You: Corinne Bailey Rae (A Lennon cover I've no recollection of - that's a bit spooky Trevor_Raggett!)
4. Everytime It Rains (Hex Hector Club Mix): Sean Ensign (some ultrabland piece of poppers o'clock dance)
5. Shine (Moto Blanco Remix): Booty Luv (more handbag house).
Utterly unrepresentative and rather disappointing. Now, look me in the eye and tell me I cheated!
Playing some newish
1. The Clockwise Witness by Devotchka (a Word CD track)
2. Ce Matin La by Air
3. Star of Bethlehem by Neil Young
4. I Might Be Wrong by Radiohead
5. Cheated Hearts by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
This album is not available in the shops
Dancin' with Danger – Frehley's Comet
A.M. 180 – Grandaddy
Manta Ray - Man or Astro-man?
Clog Dance – Violinski (oooof!)
New #1 – Bob Mould
Amity – Elliott Smith
Nice transition from Mould to Smith. Well done ipod!
Hmmmn - narrow musical style selection there Mr. iPod...
1. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: It's Hard To Kill A Bad Thing
2. Boards Of Canada: Bocuma
3. Basement Jaxx: Everybody
4. Underworld: JAL To Tokyo (Live From Tokyo)
5. Mylo: Drop The Pressure
Well it's not exactly classic, is it...
First time with the full collection at my finger-tips, and what do I get...
Fellow Hoodlums - Deacon Blue
I've Been Waiting For You - Abba
I Know She's In The Building - Mike Scott (Live, Greenbelt, 1994)
Where Would I Be - Nanci Griffith
Lady Ice and Mr. Hex - Heaven 17
A bit average, I think. Better luck next time.
...would you believe it
...and it then proceeds to give me Joni Mitchell, U2, Bruce Cockburn, Staple Singers and Pet Shop Boys in the next five. It's not fair!!!
5 from 903
1. My Latest Novel - Ghost in the Gutter
2. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
3. The National - Baby, We'll Be Fine
4. The Twilight Sad - That Summer, At Home...
5. Kid Dakota - So Pretty
oh, that'll do nicely.
Strong showing
for Radiohead so far. Also Television. Bit of an audio visual link there he observed.
Reinventing The Wheel To Run
Reinventing The Wheel To Run Myself Over - Fall Out Boy
Dollars & Cents (Canal+ Session) - Radiohead
(Antichrist Television Blues) - Arcade Fire
Bones (Live) - Radiohead
Random Summer - Mum
not all that surprising that there's more than one radiohead track for me, but it does quite well represent most of my tastes.
ok here goes...
I've Been Working - Van Morrison
Spanish Moon - Little Feat
Good Morning Judge - 10cc
Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim - Kirsty MacColl
Love Will Freak Us - Joy Division Vs Missy Elliot
Sorry about the last one...
Tommy's Holiday Camp - The Who (from the Deluxe Live at Leeds)
Memphis - Joe Jackson (from the Deluxe edition of Night and Day)
North Hanging Rock - British Sea Power (from Open Season - not the Deluxe edition)
London's Brilliant Parade - Elvis Costello (from Brutal Youth)
Anyone - The Feeling (from an Uncut coverdisc dated July 2006)
That Tommy's Holiday Camp is never off the iPod, honest.
I also have copious soul, reggae, jazz and blues selections on my iPod but it doesn't like them. I have to pick them myself otherwise I never get to listen to them. The bugger has a mind of its own.
We have a family shuffle, nano & classic
Here are Nano's
Ride a White Swan - T.Rex (6th Form tune)
My City of Ruins - Bruce ( Magnificent Manchester gig recently)
Steal my Heart Away - Van Morrison ( Old Favourite)
Cell Phones Ringing In The Pockets of The Dead - Willie Nile (Good to play when riding the New York subway)
A Song For Europe - Roxy Music ( more 6th form stuff)
One more before bed...
That's How People Grow Up - Morrissey
Madder - Groove Armada
Waterloo - Abba
This Whole World - The Beach Boys
Golden Sands - Paul Weller
Robust selection, I'd say...
Wretched Wilbur - Sandy Denny (North Star Grassman And The Ravens)
Suspended Animation - Rachel Sweet (Fool Around)
If You Can't Rock Me - Rolling Stones (It's Only Rock 'n' Roll)
Wind Chimes - Brian Wilson (Smile)
Angst In My Pants - Sparks (Plagiarism)
Wot, no Todd Rundgren or The Church?
America - Survival (from 30 years set)
Ray Wilson - Change (ex Genesis - very good actually)
Terry Reid - Speak Now etc (Never played it)
Howard Shore - Hope Of Memory (Lord of the Rings OST)
Chris Rea - You Must Be Evil
Shuffle stakes is high
Samba de uma Nota So - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Glamur - Amiina
Main Stem - Ben Webster
Ring The Alarm - Tenor Saw
Loch Lomond - Noel Coward
every one a winner, thanks 'Pod!
Shuffling off
1. Tori Amos - Angels (Tales of a librarian)
2. Peter Bjorn & John - Writers Block (writers Block)
3. Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet - Coney Island Dreaming (Requiem for a Dream soundtrack)
4. Underworld - Stagger (Second Toughest in the Infants)
5. The Broken Family Band - All I want from you is some effort (Balls)
Up late interview for new job today can't sleep
1. The revealing science of god - Yes 22.00
2. Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares - Tangerine Dream 11.00
3. Fat City - Airbourne 3.27
4. Slave New World - Sepultura 2.56
5. Angel With The Scabbed Wings - Marilyn Manson 3.52
When Dinah Met The Louvins
Cash On The Barrelhead - Louvin Brothers
Well Respected Man - Kinks
Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys
I Wanna Be Your Man - Beatles
This Can't Be Love - Dinah Washington
Not bad
Bit of folk, soul, indie, a beatles cover & the best song from the best album so far this year. And all played in the car on a sunny drive home from work. Life is good.
The Final Lot – Seth Lakeman
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Old Yellow Bricks – Arctic Monkeys
Getting Better – Wedding Present
One Day Like This - Elbow
That's the morning fecked...
1. "Trunk" Kings of Leon (Because of the Times)
2. Track 13 Bob Dylan's Chronicles Audio Book 4 read by Sean Penn (talking about "Political World" & "Most of the Time" from the Oh Mercy sessions)
3. "Pen Gwag Glas" Gorky's Zygotic Mynci (Barafundle)
4. "James River Blues" Old Crow Medicine Show (Big Iron World)
5. "Main Title Theme (Billy)" Bob Dylan (Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid)
Now listening to Sean Penn reading the big book of Bob and failing to get any work done.
¨Soul,Irony,Africa,Rock, Americana
Down in Mississippi - Mavis Staples
The Beehive State - Randy Newman
Baay Faal - Yossou N´Dour
Thirteen- Big Star ( a Word feature, please )
Letter to Bowie Knife - Calexico
something for all?
Frontier Pscychiatrist - The Avalanches
Can't Go Back to Jersey - G.Love and Special Sauce
Smile Like You Mean It - Killers
Jacob's Ladder - Brooce
Whipping Boy - William Topley
The Avalanches...
...haven't heard that in ages....great track
Started a new one on the walk to work this morning...
...and the first five were:-
Delta Goodrem - My Big Mistake
Sophie B Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
Bryan Adams - Cloud Number Nine
R.E.M. - Bad Day
Eurythmics - Right By Your Side
As a non iPod owner
I never quite understand DH's comment that he usually posts along the lines of "no cheating, it will be obvious".
When you're compiling material for your iPods surely you only put on the stuff you like; that in your worldview is cool. Or is there some service that supplies rubbish music that you can mix in with your randomiser?
I think he means
that if it looks too cool then said person will be branded a cad, a bounder and a cheat; presuming that everyone has some crap on their iPod that they either have forgotten to erase or won't admit to liking.
I have tons of stuff on my iPod...
....that I don't think is all that wonderful. It just finds its way on there in the course of my life. Then I have a load of stuff that I don't *know* is wonderful. And I think the definition of growing up is not *caring* what's supposed to make you look cool. The sort of people who would draw those sort of conclusions are the sort of people I have no desire to impress anyway.
To prove my point I shall now shuffle again:
Washington Phillips: I Was Born To Preach The Gospel
Manfred Mann: I'm Your Kingpin
Michael Franks: St Elmo's Fire
Ike & Tina Turner: Tra La La La
The Ink Spots: My Prayer
I'm only aware of having *heard* three of those records. It doesn't matter. They are my musical neighbours and I shall make their acquaintance in time.
Musical ignoramus
I can't say that I've heard any of those five.
Here we go...
Talking Heads - Once IOn A Lifetime
Gang Starr - The Place Where We Dwell
Laura Nyro - Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby (The Heebie Jeebies)
Mary J Blige - Didn't Mean
Laura Nyro - Walk The Dog and Light The Light (Song Of The Road)
Surely that contravenes the dictionary definition?
Nano
Mavis Staples - This Little Light Of Mine
Animals - Club A Gogo
Elsie May - Do You Really Want To Rescue Me
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Ella Mae Morse - Forty Cups Of Coffee (TTRH)
Retro Heaven
- Thorn of Crowns - Echo & the Bunnymen
- Do-Re-Me - Sparks
- Miss the start, miss the end - Sparks (hmmmm, not so random ?)
- Lust for life - Iggy Pop
- Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground
Two songs I don't know in this list
and they're both from Word discs. I must listen to them after work.
The Temptress - The Flies (from a Word disc)
Rip This Joint - Rolling Stones
Better Days - Bruce Springsteen
If I had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
Stuck between stations - The Hold Steady (from a Word disc)
Stuck Between Stations....
...is a great track. All three albums of theirs are excellent as well.
Good to see...
...Lyle Lovett on someone elses list. I thought I was the only person in this country who liked him!
That's right, I'm not from Texas
If I had an iPod, Lyle would be on mine.
1st 5
Be Well-Luka Bloom
Love Is A Hard Waltz-Nanci Griffith
Your Own Worst Enemy-Bruce Springsteen
Crawl Back (Under My Stone)- Richard Thompson
So You Think You're In Love - Robyn Hitchcock& The Egyptians
Just about got away with it, I'd say.
I'm way funkier than this list would suggest...
1) Come As You Are - Nirvana (haven't played this in years)
2) Blowing In The Wind - Bob Dylan (from Live 1975 The Rolling Thunder Revue)
3) Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa (never played this in my life, no idea how this got on the ipod to begin with)
4) Everything Goes To Hell - Tom Waits (brilliant! forgot I had it)
5) Peace In The Valley - Johnny Cash (from Live at San Quentin)
Perfectly acceptable Word fodder if a bit rock dad. I'm not even a dad.
Today's five
Wasteland -John Cale
Down the Alleyway -Slow Down Tallahassee
Save Us - John Cale
Cobh - Mark Eitzel
Things - John Cale
Hmmm - now I'm a big John Cale fan - but his songs account for 132 out of the 12345 songs (I checked - that's a great number in itself!) on my ipod, so getting 3 out of 5 was distinctly unlikely. And I've been listening to the Slow Down Tallahassee album on heavy rotation, because it's brilliant. But I suppose those 5 were as likely as any other.
Bonus Track Rule Invoked
1. Orlando Cachaito Lopez, Siempre Con Swing (Intro) [Cachaito] - this only lasts 25 seconds so I'm going to add a sixth bonus track at the end - if that's okay with everyone?
2. Tom Waits, Long Way Home, [Orphans, Bawlers and Bastards - disc 2]
3. Robert Marley, Judge Not [Songs of Freedom - disc 1] - it's the opening track produced by Leslie Kong in 1962.
4. Dixie Chicks, Voice Inside My Head [Taking The Long Way]
5. Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band, Atlantic City [Live in Dublin]
6. (Bonus track) John Lee Hooker, Serves Me Right To Suffer/Syndicator [Chill Out]
What an excellent bonus track!
Sin bin
Ten minutes. What's the point of having rules etc etc?
What earthly difference does it make to anyone reading this that one track is short? By the same token anybody starting with something long should just stop right there.
You are forgetting....
....that Mr H. takes this very seriously
Here we go!
Sound & Vision - David Bowie (Good Start!)
Fu Man Chu - Desmond Dekker (From a 'Trojan Reggae Brothers compilation)
Electricity - Suede (never actually listened to this before!)
First Night - The Hold Steady (A more mellow track from their third album)
Caroline, No - The Beach Boys (A good end to a good randomiser!)
Has anyone yet found a randomiser from which they have all the tracks? Or is that just the impossible dream?
Shuffle
I love to shuffle, it's what iPods are for.
1) Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and The Banshees
2) It's The Love - The Breeders
3) Hickory Wind - The Byrds
4) N'Gotolén - Rokia Traore
5) My Friend Goo - Sonic Youth
A great selection, it's the first time I've heard The Breeders track as I have only recently uploaded it and the Rokia Traore track hasn't been heard in a long while.
PS Track 6 was C.R.E.E.P. by The Fall which ain't too shabby either.
Pathetic, my last randomiser was rubbish so I do another one...
... in order to gain the approval of a bunch of posters on a messageboard. I am now leaving to get a life but before I go;
1) Finity - Boards Of Canada (from A Few Old Tunes cos I'm geekish enough to own this stuff)
2) The Denial Twist - The White Stripes (wouldn't skip it, good sign even though it aint their best)
3) Katelina - Terrafolk (Slovenian folkies worth a listen, playing free show in London at the end of June)
4) Invention No'9 in F Minor, BMV 780- Glen Gould (from his recording of Bach's 2 and 3 part Variations, which is just nice plinky plonky stuff even though I know buggerall about classical music)
5) Time Is Tight - Booker T and The Mgs
This obsessive nonsense will now end...
5 don't get over excited
Jolie Louise - Daniel Lanois
That's Amore - Dean Martin
Love & Regret - Deacon Blue
A Little Time - The Beautiful South
Hey Eugene - Pink Martini
Today's Shuffle
1. Monty Got a Raw Deal - REM
2. Field Of Dreams - Johnny Cash
3. Perfect Situation - Weezer
4. Give a Little Love - Rilo Kiley
5. Asleep on a Sunbeam - Belle & Sebastian
5 At 11
1. Watch That Man - David Bowie
2. Tears - Teenage Fanclub
3. Jack-A-Roe - Bob Dylan
4. Rememo - Kings Of Leon
5. You Threw Your Love On Me Too Strong - Albert King
This Evenings Hot 5
1. Fun Loving Criminals - Run Daddy Run
2. Cocteau Twins - Tranquil Eye
3. Captain Beefheart - Orange Claw Hammer
4. k.d.lang - Thread
5. N.W.A. - 8 Ball (remix)
The Hottest 5
1) Inertiatic Esp. - The Mars Volta
2) Whispering Pines - The Band
3) Chimes of Freedom - Bob Dylan
4) Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
5) The Prophet's Song - Queen
Hopefully the last one will have spared me the "lying wannabe-hipster" accusations.
...
1. Twice Removed From Yesterday - Robin Trower
2. Kitty's Back - Bruce Springsteen
3. Light Of Day - ditto
4. 99 Degrees - Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
5. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Late Entry
Poison Prince-Amy Macdonald
Turn! Turn! Turn!-The Byrds
Santa Maria-Gotan Project
Cold Cold Heart (live)- Hank Williams
Weird Fishes / Arpeggi-Radiohead
Well, then..
Laughing - David Crosby
Hopeless - KT Tunstall
Radioactive Toy - Porcupine Tree
She Has No Time - Keane
Baby Dreamer - Allison Moorer
Today's 5 from 14206
1. Whistling In the Dark - They Might Be Giants
2. You're The One For Me - D-Train
3. Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury - Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
4. Minas Mogul - Howard Shore
5. For You - Bruce Springsteen
Good God! Someone's clearly swapped their i-pod for mine. Where did the majority of these songs come from???
Random Zen
...because I prefer my little two gig Zen to a huge iPod...gets cleaned out regularly so tends to be full of recent acquisitions...in random sequences tracks seem to comment on each other in a, well, zen way.
So here goes, in case anyone's still reading (this is all starting to seem sooo June 10th):
1: If You Want To Make Me Happy - Alan Jackson
2: Ahimane - Tinariwen
3: I Dream Of Spring - k.d.lang
4: Lisa's Birthday - Drive-By Truckers
5: Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Hmmm...not very zen, is it? Alan Jackson to Tinariwen is a nice little swerve, though.
But hey, where did this ten-minute rule (see above) suddenly spring from? Not part of the original brief, surely? What if I'd stumbled onto 'Dark Star'?
Nothing to boast about, but not embarrassing either
1. "In and Out of Love" - Bon Jovi (Crossroads Best Of)
2. "Brainville" - The Flaming Lips (Clouds Taste Metallic)
3. "Soo-Bawlz" - Devo (Pioneers Who Got Scalped 2CD Best Of)
4. "Let Down" - Radiohead (OK Computer)
5. "19th Nervous Breakdown" - The Rolling Stones (London Years 3CD Best Of)
This is from 11,500 songs (500 are marked as "Skip When Shuffling" so all my Beatles albums will not play on shuffle etc).
Bon Jovi are good in small doses.
I really like the last three Flaming Lips albums, not too keen on this one from 1995.
Devo are good.
Radiohead are borderline excellent.
And the Stones are the Stones so nothing new to say about them.
My 5
1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
2. Queen - Put Out The Fire
3. The Magnetic Fields - Born On A Train
4. T.Rex - Zip Gun Boogie
5. Leonard Cohen - Light As A Breeze
iFinger in the ear
Cowboy Junkies - To Love Is To Bury
King Creosote - My Favourite Girl
Martin Simpson - Never Any Good
Cabaret Voltaire - Spread The Virus
Love - Maybe The People Would Be The Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
Leaning a bit heavily on folkiness there (including that northern folk combo Cabaret Voltaire of course). I don't think I've even listened to the Martin Simpson song, which is from the recent That's Proper Folk! sampler
never any good
give it a listen fabulous song about his late father
An odd bunch
1.One Last Love Song, The Beautiful South
2. Groovin' Slowly, The John Butler Trio
3. Estupenda Graca, Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays
4. Feels Like Home, Randy Newman
5. Family Affair, Sly & the Family Stone
June's Randomizer
1. A Gospel - The Style Council
2. Fat Mama - Herbie Hancock
3. Apache - Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band
4. Flatlet - Ian Pooley
5. TenFour - Joey Beltram
LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED
Oh.
Youssou N'Dour featuring Neneh Cherry, '7 Seconds'
These New Puritans, 'Elvis'
Brad, '20th Century'
Belle & Sebastian, 'Black & White Unite'
Secret Machines, 'First Wave Intact'
Low key Thursday afternoon
The votes are in from the Leeds jury
Madonna's wedding - Richard Thompson
Under African Skies - Paul Simon
Sparkys Dream - teenage Fanclub
Tragedy - Emmylou Harris
Pulsewidth - Aphex Twin
Loved the new issue btw. hope having JM on the cover doesn't scare too many toddlers in Sainsburys.
Five from Stockton...
The Modern Age - The Strokes
Burlesque - Family
Montreal - The Devlins
Velvet Morning - Verve
Harder - Kosheen
--takes deep breath--
.
1. Nuclear War (Version One) - Yo La Tengo [Prisoners of War]
2. Eggs And Their Shells - Cocteau Twins [From Lullabies to Violaine]
3. An Eagle In Your Mind - Boards Of Canada [Music Has The Right To Children]
4. New Brat In A New Town - The Auteurs [After Murder Park]
5. Super-Connected - Belly [King]
-- exhales, relatively happily --
first five
On The Road To Mandalay - Frank Sinatra
30th Century Man - Scott Walker
You Baby - The Ronettes
Cosmic Dancer - T.Rex
The Waxen Pith - Aphex Twin
first five shuffles
Hercules - Aaron Neville
I Want More for Me Than This - Abram Wilson
King of Comedy - R.E.M.
Jack-Ass - Beck
Muzzle #1 - The Whip
Not bad, could have been far more embarrassing!
This is from a selection of
This is from a selection of around 3500 songs...
1. Odd Man Out - Tom Jones & Jools Holland
2. Countdown Here I Come - The Tempos
3. Broken Family - Chris Difford
4. Everything Happens To Me - Mr Hudson and the Library
5. Fell In Love With A Girl - White Stripes
Five to go, sir ?
Desert Roots - Hamid Baroudi
Fade Away - Bruce Springsteen
Zion Gate - Horace Andy
Numb (gimme some more dignity mix) - U2
Out Of Season - The Icicle Works
Latest Randomizer
Lonesome Reverie Nick Lowe
007 Desmond Dekker
Boys from the County Hell The Pogues
Twydales Lament Half Man Half Biscuit
Day after Tomorrow Tom Waits
Not bad could have been much worse. Not surprised about Half Man Half Biscuit there's nearly always at least one
I like this game
1. I'm a Tree - Imani Coppola
2. And Still - Laura Cantrell
3. Too Tough - Joe Jackson
4. War Baby(Live) - Tom Robinson and Martyn Joseph
5. Factory (Live Bootleg) Bruce Springsteen
See you all next time
Am I wrong?
1. I'll be around-Otis Gaye
2. Paper gown-Midlake from Oz special edition of "trials of"
3. Am I wrong - Etienne de Crecy
4. Love of my life-Richard Hawley
5. Glittering prize - Simple Minds
Thought I was on a bit of a run there, till Glittering prize reared it's buff head. Too many embarassing memories of school discos, glittering scarfs and tukka boots. Always seems to be one song on randomizer that's guaranteed to remind us that perhaps were not as cool as we think.
Stumbling into friday
It beats 4 U - My morning jacket
I'll wear it proudly - Elvis Costello
Tijuana Bible - Tom Russell
Soon to forget ya - Julian Cope
Back street slide - Richard Thompson
Not bad, 3 of my favourite artists out of 5 - doesnt usually do that.
OK
Tom Traubert's Blues - Tom Waits
Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder - from Handel: Messiah
Bach's Cello Suite No 6 - Steven Isserlis
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
Sea Song - Rachel Unthank and the Winterset
Here's mine
Buddy, Stay Off the Wine - Betty Hall Jones from the Theme Time cd.
Monterrey - Wes McGhee - from an excellent country cd compiled by Mary Costello a few years ago.
Take Time to Know Her - the very wonderful Percy Sledge singing this very funny song.
I'm the One You Need - Smokey Robinson - just how good would it have been to be in the Miracles, or the Pips, or the Temptations
Don't You Fall - The Be Good Tanyas. It'd also be rather good to be in the BGT's
My 5...
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Allman Brothers - Jessica
Althea And Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
Soft/Rock - Soft (aka Lemon Jelly)
Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful world, beautiful people.
Not a bad selection, though I have recently had a cull of the filler...
Rich
5 at 5 to 5 (ish)
Blue - Out of Time
Super Furry Animals - (A)Touch Sensitive
Talking Heads - Mr Jones
Jarvis Cocker - I will kill again
Quickspace - Standard 8
nope .... no idea who the last lot are .......
it's Friday and I'm hacked off,
so I thought I'd do this again
Aeris Gainsborough (RIP) - Heartyeah
Rawhide - Scott Walker
Faster Pussycat (Live) - The Cramps
Fight Test - The Flaming Lips
Honey are You Straight or Are you Blind? - Elvis Costello
last hour at work on a friday...
...thanks for helping me waste time.
1, A Dream - Lou Reed & John Cale
2, Hungry for Love - Todd Rundgren
3, Search and Destroy - The Stooges
4, Babylon - Aphrodites Child
5, Sexy Sadie - The Beatles
Shabby to none me thinks.
Ahem...
What your soul sings - Massive Attack
Goin Away baby - RL Burnside
Yes it is - Beatles
Stir it up - Wailers
I need you - Beatles
Guess who's the biggest presence on my itunes....
Second go
Comes Love - Stacey Kent
First Bubble Love - The 5,6,7,8's
Green Eyes - Husker Du
Tong Poo - Yellow Magic Orchestra (seeing 'em on Sunday)
Come On, Come On - Goldrush
Now that's a little better than before..
Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins: Handle With Care
Pet Shop Boys: Dreaming Of The Queen (Live At The Mermaid Theatre)
Mercury Rev: The Dark Is Rising
The KLF: Madrugada Eterna
Orlando Voorn: Solar System
Sarah McLachlan - I Will
Sarah McLachlan - I Will Remember You
Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U
Sara Melson - Don't Wanna Know
Liz Phair - Perfect World
10,000 Maniacs - Verdi Cries
3 of these get 5*
De La Soul & Teenage Fanclub - Fallin' (Judgement Night - Music from the Motion Picture)
Department S - I Want (Sub-Stance)
Inner City - Good Life (Paradise)
Visioneers - Ike's Mood I (Dirty Old Hip Hop)
The Beat - I Am Your Flag (Wha'ppen?)
Been listening to old vinyl...
Hmmm ... maybe I should buy something released this century?
Lloyd Cole - 'Mercy Killing'
Doris Troy - 'Special Care'
Tom Waits - 'Old Shoes (and Picture Postcards)'
Neil Young - 'Danger Bird'
Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe Eugene (Live)'
100% honest...what a loff...what a geek
Loving is Easy (Live) - Barclay James Harvest (From "A Concert For The People - Berlin") Remember taping this on a VHS tape off BBC2 20 odd years ago and still have it !
Lullaby of Broadway - Tony Bennett (From "Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits of the 50s")
Little Green - Joni Mitchell (From "Blue")
Walter's On The Lam - Richmond Fontaine (From "Post To Wire")
Love's Theme - Barry White (From "The Barry White Collection")
There you go......
second attempt
as I've just been enjoying the podcast walking back from a Friday 13th party.
1. September - EWF
2. Rip Off - T-Rex
3. 2 Hearts - Kylie
4. The Eternal Kansas City - Van Morrison
5. Sittin' On My Sofa - The Kinks
Cinq without a trace...
...of cheating
1. Coming Second - Elbow
2. Erin O'Connor - The Long Blondes
3. Bigger Wheels - I Am Kloot
4. To The Dogs Or Whoever - Josh Ritter
5. Nice Weather For Ducks - Lemon Jelly
Good to see that my recent nano flotsam cull wasn't entirely a wasted effort.
All Killer, Some Filler
Fairy Tale in the Supermarket - Raincoats
The Sweetest Gift - Sade
Surprise - James
Open Up - Leftfield
Slave Master - Gregory Isaacs
Johnny Too Bad - The
Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers
The Happening - Diana Ross And The Supremes
Johnny Friendly - JoBoxers
Rivers Of Babylon - The Melodians
Kiss and Make Up - Saint Etienne
hmm. Thanks shuffle! Nice pick!
first five
Peacock Tail - Boards of Canada
Leave My Monkey Alone - Warren Zevon
Out On The Tiles - Led Zeppelin
Glam Bucket - Underworld
C'thlu Thlu - Caravan
First five tracks....
1. Curtis Mayfield: Right On For The Darkness
2.Harry McLintock: Big Rock Candy Mountain
3.Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings: My Man Is A Mean Man
4.Little Milton: Walking the Back Streets and Crying
5.Crowded House: Don't Dream It's Over
But it took me six tries to get up a list I felt like publishing....!
"..it took me six tries to get up a list I felt like publishing"
I think DH may give you a yella for that when he reads it !
Could have been a lot worse. Thank You Ipod.
1. Throw It All Away - Zero 7
2. Snooks (Progress Report) - Elbow
3. Piazza, New York Catcher - Belle & Sebastian
4. Caroline - David Gray
5. Time Out From The World - Goldfrapp
Hmmmm....nice...great
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
Before Today - EBTG
Angel - Massive Attack
Cool, Cool Water - The Beach Boys
Father of Night - Bob Dylan
Here are my 5!
1) Falling and Laughing - Orange Juice
2) Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire
3) 3 Speed - The Eels
4) Dial a Cliché - Morrissey
5) Star Sign - Teenage Fan Club
Notes - only put best of OJ on ipod a few weeks ago - suchan under estimated band!
Only just 'got' Arcade Fire - great album
3) Love The Eels - get that new best of! Amazing stuff!
4) I am massive Morrissey fan but this is maybe the weakest track of first album Viva Hate
5) The only track by Teenage Fan Club I know or own!
And here are mine
1) 1969 - Boards of Canada
2) Splash 1 - 13th Floor Elevators
3) Tenement Yard - Dennis Brown
4) Gambling - Roots Radics
5) No Delay - The Green Arrows
first post
man loves two - little milton
cocaine - robin thicke
banned in dc - bad brains
them bones - eddie kirk
we got more soul - dyke and the blazers
and because it's my first post you get the next 5 too
no one like you - al greene
you're laughing at me - ella fitzgerald
where are you goin' - jerry butler
fever - junior byles
it's over - ghostface
Two pops at the randomiser
First go
1. Introduction - Nick Drake - from Bryter Later
2.Pink Moon - Nick Drake (hang on, just how random is random?)
3. Rotten Peaches - Elton John from Madman Across the Water
4. Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
5. The Modern World - The Jam
Second go
1. Hackensack - The Fountains of Wayne (from an old Word of Mouth CD!)
2. Ganges Delta Blues - Ry Cooder and VM Bhatt (sublime!)
3. Beethoven - Miroslav Vitous from Universal Syncopations (maybe we could stray onto the 'Is all jazz crap?' theme, which it isn't, by the way!
4. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
5. Bus Stop Boxer - Eels (now there's a genius for you).
My Five
Five Years David Bowie
Vagabonds New Model Army
Lost For Words Pink Floyd
Master Of Puppets Metallica
Get Stoned Hinder
First time I've done this...
1. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
2. Ruben González - La Engañadora
3. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
4. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way / It's About That Time
5. Konono Nº1 - Ungudi Wele Wele
First time I've done this...
1. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
2. Ruben González - La Engañadora
3. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
4. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way / It's About That Time
5. Konono Nº1 - Ungudi Wele Wele
here goes!
1]man research-gorillaz
2] starting to hurt-Ryan adams
3]paperback bible- lamnchop
4}let it be -nick cave
5}my affair- kirsty Maccoll.
i can live with that!, no noddy theme tune or anything too bad
Couldn't tell you the last
Couldn't tell you the last time I had my Ipod on anything but shuffle / randomizer.
Only complaint is that I have to select Cypress Hill's Illusion & Janet Kay's Silly Games, if I want to hear 'em and for a period of time, my snob Ipod wouldn't play Ween's Pure Guava but it has come around now.
1. Mike Allen's Capital Radio Hip Hop Show (28/2/86)
2. Hot Chocolate - Emma
3. Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy
4. J Dilla - One Eleven
5. Joe Tex - The Woman Cares
Why not?
I never have the iPod on shuffle, but here's what it came up with this time:
1. Boxing Day - Aphex Twin [Chosen Lords]
2. Singing in the Rain - U2 [Pop Mart Live from Leeds 1997]
3. Natural Blues - Moby [Play]
4. She Fell Into My Arms - Ed Harcourt [Here Be Monsters]
5. Sugar Magnolia - The Grateful Dead [American Beauty]
Did anyone say eclectic?
a few more of these
and we can knock the thatcher thread off the top spot over there ->
I Feel So Bad - Jackie Edwards
I Hate Rock n Roll - JAMC
Black Betty - Nick Cave
The Way That She Usually Is - Mark Mulcahy
Reminisce (part one) - Dexys
Not high points from the Mary Chain or Cave back catalogues, but saved by one of Kevin's finest rambles
My name's fandang and I'm a shufflaholic
Undercover of the Night - The Rolling Stones
Plan B - Dexy's
Tired - Adele
Alabama - Neil Young
Dead On It - Prince (from The Black Album)
Falling off the wagon never sounded so good...
No shame here
The Doors – Hello, I Love You
Fountains of Wayne – Comedienne
Sigur Ros – Sé Lest
Johnnie Taylor – Toe Hold
Yo La Tengo – Nowhere Near
I have many, many guilty pleasures in my record collection. Thankfully, none of them came up.
I always come late to this party
and put on a late 70's/early 80's mix tape: -
1. The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes -
2. Kraftwerk - The Man - Machine -
3. XTC - Harvest Festival -
4. Tom Verlaine - Kingdom Come -
5. Kate Bush - The Sensual World -
Coming slightly late to this one
Brian Eno - Bone Bomb
Mike Oldfield - Latin
Butterfly Boucher - Never Leave Your Heart Alone
Gotan Project - Mi Confesión
David Byrne - Dialogue Box
Not too bad, considering the Wombles are on there ...somewhere.
1.The Acid Song Loudon Wainwright III
2.Making plans for Nigel XTC
3.Personal Jesus Johnny Cash
4.Take Me to the River Nina Simone
5.To Love Somebody Nina Simone
Keeping score
So far 85 put the track name first and 36 put the artist first. I'm just saying.
Here's mine. I keep mostly newish stuff on my meagre 8 GB iPod.
Goldfrapp: Cologne Cerrone Houdini
Devotchka: The Clockwise Witness (from Now Hear This, May 2008)
Dale Watson: Time Without You
Super Furry Animals: Baby Ate My Eightball
The Teenagers: Feeling Better
Make that 37.
OK........
She Came and She Touched Me - Townes van Zandt
Gun - John Cale
That's Alright By Me - Gene Clark
Coeuer de Parisienne - Rufus Wainwright
Choked - Sons and Daughters
Randomiser
Feel So Bad - Rory Gallagher
Unmilitary Two-Step - Rory Gallagher
(It's never done THAT before)
Goin' Home - Delaney and Bonnie
Hunting Shooting Fishing - Dr Feelgood
The Pond - Bobby Purify
Random
Super Furry Animals - Battersea Odyssey
Nada Surf - The film did not go round
The Silver Seas - High Society
Neon Neon - I Lust You
Mudhoney - Touch me I'm Sick
Second go...
Sparklehorse - Spirit Ditch
Zumpano - Snowflakes and Heartaches
The La's - I Can't Stop
The Young Knives - Up All Night
Talking Heads - Ruby (Dear Bush Mix)
The soundtrack to a Wednesday afternoon...
Adam and the Ants 'Killer in the Home'
Outkast 'Ms Jackson'
Paul McCartney 'Live and Let Die'
Aphex Twin 'White Blur 2'
Billy Bragg 'Lovers Town Revisited'
Second go, not good
Jona Lewie 'You'll always find me in the kitchen at parties'
Timo Maas 'O.C.B.'
The Only Ones 'Oh Lucinda'
Greta Keller 'Heiraten (Married)' Cabaret Soundtrack
Roy Budd "Goodbye Eric!' Get Carter soundtrack
It's been a while, so...
1) BEATLES - She Loves You (can't argue with that!)
2) BLUE RONDO A LA TURK - Carioca (had to digitise this from vinyl, can't believe they're not available on CD)
3) XTC - Chain Of Command (ah, the free 7" single given away with the Drums & Wires LP, those were the days!)
4) THE TEARS - A Love As Strong As Death (I maintain Suede are the lost heroes of Britpop, and this Brett 'n' Bernard album also got lost in the shuffle, no pun intended)
5) DAVID BOWIE - Looking For A Friend (from the Bowie At The Beeb set, highly recommended!)
Randomizer virgin. Here goes....
I'm Looking Thru' You - Davy Graham
Loudmouth - The Ramones
Guitar Miniature - North Sea Radio Orchestra
2 Rights Make 1 Wrong - Mogwai
Everybody's Movin' - Glenn Glenn
Would have hit the skip button for at least two of 'em!
First Five
1 Lovin' In, Lovin' Out - Ann Peebles
2 Dandy In The Underworld - T.Rex
3 Changes - David Bowie
4 That Old Black Magic - Ella Fitzgerald
5 Steels - Autechre
the only one that disapointed me was Led Zep
I Shall Be Released - The Band
Hired Gun - Chris Rea
Rock This Town - Stray Cats
Walked Her way - Crowded House
When The Levee Breaks - Led Zepplin
Ok ok, joke's over... Who put the Monster Magnet on there?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Pin
Rolling Stones: Torn & Frayed
Monster Magnet: Down In The Jungle
The Ramones: I Don't Care
The Mountain Goats: Best Ever Death Metal
Sorry. I'll understand if no one wants to be my Facebook friend
This is pointless...why is it so much fun?
School of Language - "Extended Holiday"
Black Crowes - "Sting Me"
AC/DC - "Touch Too Much"
The Cure - "Us or Them"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Rich"
Hmmm...Indie Schmindie I think the phrase is.
Trusty Walkman?
Don't take your guns to town - Johnny Cash
Biba Nova - Rock Follies OST
My blue eyed Jane - Bob Dylan
Roll on John - Bob Dylan
Sweet neo con - Rolling Stones
Not too bad at all but no punk???
5 of the best...first go, honest!
The Cure - Jumping someone else's train
The Beatles - Octopus's Garden
Sugababes - Change
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
Garbage - Milk
I gotta learn to not put that chili on my eggs
Riot Radio - The Dead 60s
#1 Must Have - Sleater Kinney
Boat To Bolivia - Martin Stephenson and the Daintees
End At The Beginning - Asobi Seksu
When Bobby Comes Down - Hamell On Trial
Could certainly be worse (with a couple of exceptions...)
Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
We Can Run Away Now They're All Dead and Gone - Snow Patrol
Taper Jean Girl - Kings of Leon
Lucinda - Tom Waits