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.

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

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

...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.

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

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

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

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.

Happy Home - Paula Cole
Sum - Immune
Rainbow - Battles
Higher than Reason - Unbelievable Truth
Milk - Garbage

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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 (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! :-)

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...

In The Bush - Musique
Sweet Songs – Jujus
Fur Immer – Neu!
Holding Out For A Hero – Bonnie Tyler
Destroyer II – Blood Everywhere

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!

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.

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!!)

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

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

....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!

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.....

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

[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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!!

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.

...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

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

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.

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.

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

Get Innocuous (Soulwax mix) - LCD Soundsystem
Jungle Rock - Hank Mizell
Yes - McAlmont & Butler
The Outsiders - Franz Ferdinand
Swing Your Daddy - Jim Gilstrap

The Animals - Inside Looking Out

Spacemen 3 - Hypnotized

The Byrds - Chestnut Mare

Pablove Black - Push Pull

Television - Marquee Moon

Wow! That went well.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

That's How People Grow Up - Morrissey
Madder - Groove Armada
Waterloo - Abba
This Whole World - The Beach Boys
Golden Sands - Paul Weller

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)

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

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!

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)

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

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

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.

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

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

...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

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?

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?

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)

- 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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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!

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?

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.

... 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...

Jolie Louise - Daniel Lanois
That's Amore - Dean Martin
Love & Regret - Deacon Blue
A Little Time - The Beautiful South
Hey Eugene - Pink Martini

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

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

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)

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

Poison Prince-Amy Macdonald
Turn! Turn! Turn!-The Byrds
Santa Maria-Gotan Project
Cold Cold Heart (live)- Hank Williams
Weird Fishes / Arpeggi-Radiohead

Laughing - David Crosby
Hopeless - KT Tunstall
Radioactive Toy - Porcupine Tree
She Has No Time - Keane
Baby Dreamer - Allison Moorer

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???

...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'?

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.

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

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

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

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

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'

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.

The Modern Age - The Strokes
Burlesque - Family
Montreal - The Devlins
Velvet Morning - Verve
Harder - Kosheen

.
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 --

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

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 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

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