I also believe the iPod randomiser to be better than 'The 8 Ball' or coin-flipping for predicting future events/offering advice. Example - ask the iPod a question - stick it on random and voila - the first song title is your answer.

*insert disclaimers regarding pod-guidance to kill/maim/self-harm here*

hmm...this practice could in fact prompt the new 'Dice Man'. I would be interested in anyone that lived by the i-Pod randomiser for a week or two...

1. Thom Yorke: After The Gold Rush
2. Belle and Sebastian: A Summer Wasting
3. Spiritualized: Yeah Yeah
4. Wilco & Fleet Foxes: I Shall Be Released
5. Teenage Fanclub: Is This Music?

1. Bob Dylan; Eternal Circle
2. Move; Night of Fear
3. Bjork; The Anchor Song
4. Temptation Inside of Your Heart; The Velvet Underground
5. Stimme Frisst Feuer 1982; Einsturzende Neubauten

1. New Order - Everything's Gone Green (Substance)
2. Lou Reed/John Cale/Nico - Ghost Story (Bataclan '72)
3. Hot Cha - Jr Walker & the All Stars (Complete Motown Singles Vol 5)
4. Heatwave - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas (Hitsville USA)
5. Stay in School - Otis Redding (Otis Redding Story)

So finally iTunes recognises the existence of MOBO in my collection! Took a bit of prompting though...

MGMT - Kids
David Bowie - Stay
The Smiths - These Things Take Time. From Louder Than Bombs compilation.
Smith - Baby It's You. From Death Proof soundtrack.
Tinariwen - Cler Achel. A Word CD track.

60s, 70s, 80s, noughties, but no nineties. Smith follows The Smiths - how fortuitous.

1. Blur - Coffee and TV
2. Bob Dylan - Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
3. Mudcrutch - House of Stone
4. The Band - Look out Cleveland
5. Blur - Country House

Kate Rusby - All God's Angels
Jeff Buckly - Hallelujah (wow - I haven't heard that in ages)
Prince - The Everlasting Now
Cara Dillon - False, False (a song I have never heard)
Regina Spektor - Fidelity

1) Queens Of The Stone Age - "Someone's In The Wolf"
2) David Kitt - "Headphones"
3) Ween - "Waving My Dick In The Wind"
4) Pixies - "Dead"
5) Pixies - "Isla De Encanta"

My iPod currently has 20333 songs to choose from. Only 94 of them are Pixies songs. What are the chances of that happening?

Lucinda Williams - Fruits Of My Labour
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Beauty In The River
The Jayhawks - Madman
Michael Marra - All Will Be Well
Eddi Reader - Wonderful Lie

1. Steely Dan - Green Earrings
2. Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
3. Steely Dan - The Fez
4. Steely Dan - Everything You Did
5. Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive

Some of you may be eagle-eyed enough to notice something of a pattern occurring here, namely five tracks by Steely Dan off the same album. The fact that my iPod chose to wipe itself as soon as I arrived in Italy meant that I was 'senza musica', as the locals might say. Thanks for that, you useless pile of junk! Anyway, a quick trip to the local record shop later, and I am the proud owner of one CD here in Firenze, the very wonderful 'The Royal Scam'....

1. Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
2. Ronettes - Sleigh Ride
3. Heads, Hands & Feet - Delaware
4. Van Morrison - When That Evening Sun Goes Down
5. Chris Difford - Never Coming Back

on me pod

Born In The USA (live at the Bridge School) - Bruuuuuce
Lie For A Lie (cassette demo) - XTC
Hang On To Your Ego - Frank Black
You Really Got Me - The Kinks
Mary & The Soldier (from 3rd disc of Bootleg Series 8 (no i didn't strictly legally pay for it)) - Dylan

The Beauty Of The Days Gone By - Van The Man
15 Step - Radiohead
The Jean Genie - Bowie
God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

1. On Meurt Tous D'Amour - Valerie Lagrange. French chanteuse once backed by members of The Ruts. Fact.

2. Them Heavy People - Kate Bush. Current people's favourite. This is the version from her Live On Stage EP.

3. Before I Go - John Hiatt. From Crossing Muddy Waters.

4. When You're Young In The City - Patti Scialfa. I think she's excellent but can't decide if she would be taken more seriously if not married to you know who, or just completely unheard of. Suspect the latter, sadly.

5. Farewell My Love - Seth Lakeman.

I think the 'pod has been reading some of these threads ...or at least knows where it is right now

1. Do It Again-Steely Dan

2. Haitian Divorce-Steely Dan

3. The Ipcress File-John Barry

4. Cold as Ice-Foreigner

5. Babooshka-Kate Bush

Hello guys, I'm a Wordblog and Randomizer virgin, so be gentle...

1. Plant & Krauss - Stick With Me Baby

2. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

3. Bob Dylan - Revelations (spoken interlude, Theme Time Radio Hour - The Bible)

4.The Editors - Well Worn Hand

5. Brian Wilson - Cabin Essence

1. Joy Division - These Days

2. The Searchers - Needles and Pins

3. Red Guitars - Good Technology

4. Jive Bunny and The Mastermixers - That's What I Like

5. The Cure - The Figurehead

Note to self - how the freakin' hell did No 4 get in there?! Must edit Zen...

1) I'm Waiting for the Man - Velvet Underground
2) Hay Wrap - SawDoctors. (How i love that tune...)
3) Miserabilism - Pet Shop Boys
4) Sylvie - St Etienne
5) I Put a Spell on You - Creedence Clearwater Revival

1.Rolling Stones. Paint it Black.
2.Decemberists. When the war came.
3.Bruce Springsteen. Nothing man.
4.Steely Dan. Green earrings
5.Steely Dan. Throw back the little ones.

This is what comes from downloading the Citizen Dan box set as recommended on this very site a week or so ago.

1. Gillian Welch - Acony Bell
2. Ennio Morricone - The Ecstacy of Gold
3. Elvis Presley - Mary in the Morning
4. Minor Threat - Filler
5. Built to Spill - Big Dipper

1. Steely Dan - Green Earrings
2. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
3. Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
4. Steely Dan - The Fez
5. Steely Dan - Everything You Did

I think I need a new CD for my iPod...

1 - Mary Chapin Carpenter - We're all right
2 - Whiskeytown - What the devil wanted
3 - Billy Bragg - Wish you were here
4 - Kelly Willis - You can't take it with you
5 - Fairport Convention - Come all ye

What I don't understand David, is what a Roy Harper song is doing among your selections. I recall on your GLR programme some guy demanding "more Roy Harper" (it wasn't me) and you got in a bit of an argument because you thought Roy (apart from one song) was crap.

Jersey Girl - Bruce (Live '75-'85)
I'll be the one (Remix)- Boz Scaggs (Fade into light)
Grey Street - Dave Matthews (The Lillywhite Sessions)
Stars above us - Saint Etienne (Tales from Turnpike House)
Lying in the sunshine - Free (Chronicles)

An eclectic shuffle!!

1) Come Inside - The Chemical Brothers, from Push The Button.

2) Under The Moon - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, from B-sides and Rarities.

3) A sound sample of a Paiste Signature 18" Power Crash cymbal, from the Paiste website (when I was browsing for cymbals).

4) Marshall's Been Snookered - The Freelance Hairdresser [mashup of Eminem's Without Me with The Black And White Rag by Winifred Atwell (latterly know as the theme to Pot Black)].

5) Tattoo - The Beautiful South, from Miaow.

4 and 5 are the only ones I actually recognised. Rather lost interest in the Chem's since Come With Us, and never got round to listening to NC's B-sides album.

As my son has discovered iTunes and I could have some Nickelback or Evanessance appear...

1. Lord Hereford's Knob - Haf Man Half Biscuit. Sound.
2. Without Love - Tom Jones. Iffy.
3. Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed You Black Emperor. Earnest.
4. Angelina - Craig Armstrong. Lovely
5. Cutting Ice To Snow - Efterklang. Quirky.

Stormy Weather - Pixies
Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
Star Sign - Teenage Fanclub
Black Mirror - The Arcade Fire
Get Up on it Like This - Chemical Brothers.

Hmm - not bad actually. Managed to avoid that rogue Spice Girls track this time round.

A Love Song - Del Palmer - Leap of Faith
Tara - Fish - Sunsets on Empire
Backdoor Angels - Jethro Tull - Warchild
Room For The Life - Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
James And The Cold Gun - Kate Bush - Live at Hammersmith

Dave

1. Brain Wilson - ´Til I Die
2. The Clash - Stay Free
3. Pink Floyd - Echoes
4. Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg
5. Eldkvarn - Han Har Dig (He´s Got You in Swedish)

"Food For Thought" - Peter Cook (E. L. Wisty)
"Dirt Road Blues" - Bob Dylan
"Cracking Up" - Jesus And Mary Chain
"Wait 'Til We Get Home" - Lone Justice
"No One Is Alone" - Stephen Sondheim

I'm almost disappointed there's nothing I'm ashamed of...

Let's spin the dial again, and your winners are:

Marche De Menilmontau-Emile Prud ' Homme
Let Me Be- Kate Rusby
Take It Away-Lucky-Eddie Noack
Lust For Life-Iggy Pop
Candela-Buena Vista Social Club

Off the top of my head, I can only remember the tune to one of the above. Never heard oF Eddie Noack, where did that come from me wonders?

(1) A.N.I.C. - Sum 41 (It's really my son's, honest)
(2) Ab Joi Mou Lo Vers E I Comens (Canso) - Martin Best Consort (Pretentious, moi?)
(3) Abacab - Genesis (It's really the GLW's, honest)
(4) Abandoned Ship's Bells - Mum
(5) Abbonda Di Virtu - Anonymous 4 (see (2))

I'm going to have to do this again ...

Hot and Cold - Augustus Pablo (Lee Perry "I am the Upsetter" Boxset)
Promises - Fugazi (13 Songs)
She Chameleon - Marillion (Fugazi)
Follow You, Follow Me - Genesis (3 Sides Live)
I Can Complete You - Luke Slater (Alright on Top)

Actually, that wasn't random, was it? (gives up and goes to bed)

Sky Holds the Sun - The Bees
Hate and war - The Clash
Chanson Triste - Carla Bruni
Shakespeare's Sister - The Smiths
Blowin' in the wind - Bob Dylan

Hurrah for me..

Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan
Now Drop Your Bombshell - King Creosote
The Comedians (demo) - Elvis Costello
Wicked Messenger - The Black Keys
I Nearly Lost My Mind - Kelley Stoltz

I'll Be Glad - Bonnie Prince Billy
Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine - Hank Williams
Baddest of the Bad - Reverend Horton Heat
Goddess of the Metal - Puny Human
Closer - Jonathan Richman

steve earle - over yonder off jerusalem
john lennon - my mummy's dead 0ff plastic ono band
bob dylan - mississippi off deluxe bootleg sweries vol 8
fotheringay -banks of the nile off sandy denny anthology
al green - memphis tennessee off green is blue

nonetheless respectable

1. Bob Mould - Stop Your Crying

2. CAN - Mushroom

3. Kyuss - Green Machine

4. Blur - Sweet Song

5. Saint Etienne - Marcie Dreams of Deptford

Gomez - Meet Me In The City
Grandaddy - This Is How It Always Starts
Delirious - Our god Reigns
The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
M.I.A - Jimmy

The Shins: So Says I, from Chutes Too Narrow
Jarvis Cocker: Tonite, from Jarvis
Ottmar Liebert: Snake Charmer, from Rumba Collection 1992-1997
The Weakerthans: Hymn of the Medical Oddity, from Reunion Tour
The Spinto Band: The Black Flag, from Moonwink

might I suggest adding to your post the total amount of tracks the device is choosing from?
Selected from 27,445 tracks;

1] World Price of Love - New Order - Singles (disc 2) [I have never heard this]
2] Winter Wooskie - Belle and Sebastian - Push Barman... [Never heard this either..]
3] Blue Eyes Crying in The Rain - Willie Nelson - Essential Willie Nelson [..ok this is embarrassing now]
4] Somebody Told Me (king vocal mix) - The Killers - Club Fever 2008 [you guessed it]
5] Where The Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave & Kylie - Murder Ballads [Hurrah! - finally]

See that's what I was afraid of...

That's from the pod so I think I'll do it again from iTunes

from 27,430 chances

1] Danger in The Past - Robert Forster - Danger in The Past [Yes!]
2] A Heart Disease Called Love - John Cooper Clarke - Best of [here we go again]
3] The Hams o'Muckle Roe - Jenna Reid - Word cd July 08 [no, never]
4] Dead Souls - Joy Division - Still [er, next]
5] Þversögn - Sigur Ros - Hlemmur [get in!]

'Taxi for Chas'

Randy Newman - Losing You (I didn't even know I had this one!)
Steps - Dagger (NOT those Steps!)
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Melt Your Heart
Gillian Welch - My First Lover
Luke Haines - Going Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop

From 1427 songs on my nano.

From 10,410 songs; just had a New Year's cull...

1. Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
2. Long May You Run (live at the Bottom Line 1974) - Neil Young
3. Champagne Illinois - Carl Perkins
4. The Air Near My Fingers - The White Stripes
5. With God On Our Side - Bob Dylan

All a bit inter-linked! The Carl Perkins song was written by Dylan, Jack White's just been working with him, and the other three have all appeared on stage together.

something in Japanese by the wonderful Shena Ringo
Sanctum - Nick Cave (a reading from And the Ass Saw the Angel)
Only in Dreams - Weezer
The Limit to Your Love - Feist
Limassol - Maximo Park
Nothing very- oh yeah - but that's the Randomiser for you.

That's How Strong My Love Is / Otis Redding
Dream For Him / CSNY
Beautiful Child / Rufus Wainwright
Indian Rope Man / Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll
Glory Of Love / Otis Redding

Breeders - No Aloha
Radiohead - Exit Music
Radiohead - There There
John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Back of Love

Foundations / Made of Bricks / Kate Nash
One Day / Debut / Bjork
Shine / Charles & Eddie / Q: Sweet Sixteen (various artistes)
Love Song For Yoshimi / The Kleptones / Yoshimi Battles The Hip-Hop Robots
Bedshaped / Hopes and Fears / Keane

Yankee Bayonet - Decemberists
Kinda Easy Like - Booker T & MGs
Don't Go Near the Water - Beach Boys
My Sweet Lord - John Gary Williams
Maple Leaves - Jens Lekman

Apart from the very annoying Jens Lekman, not bad. (memo to self, delete all traces of Jens Lekman from ipod, he's highly irritating).

and is an audiobook, so I've included the first six

Nice to see Chris Squire getting an airing. It's prompted me to listen to 'Fish Out Of Water' again. A forgotten prog classic, IMHO.

Tomstone Blues - Bob Dylan
Two Silver Tress - Calexico
Starlings - Elbow
Nothing Gives Me Pleasure - Josh Rouse
Shankill Butchers - The Decemberists

Part of the Queue - Oasis
Vanish - Freshlyground
Famous One - Chris Tomlin
Babe - Styx
Whistle for the Choir - The Fratellis

You Take Me Up - Thompson Twins
Race:In - Battles
(Don't Sit Down) - Bowie
Pilgrims - Van der Graaf Generator
Head Held High - Velvet Underground

60 posts in, and nobody has had a Beatles track come up. St Etienne appeared four times, and i'm not even going to start with The Dan...

Third World - Feel a Little Better
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Love remix)
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (acoustic demo)
Annette Peacock - Dear Bela
Roy Ayers - Tarzan

As cutting-edge 'n' contemporary as ever, I see. The most recent is only 30 years old.

"Mull of Kintyre" Wings (Hitspan compilation)
"Time in a bottle" Jim Croce (Natural Acoustic compilation)
"John Walker's Blues" Steve Earle (Jerusalem)
"Helen Wheels" Wings (Hitspan compilation)
"Piano Concerto in C", Mozart, played by Mitsuko Uschida

Perhaps two of my least favourite Wings tracks followed by a couple of goodies from the USA.

In defence, I did only get the iPod for Christmas and am still only about a third of the way through transferring my CDs to it.

After that I did it again:

"Green shirt" Elvis Costello (Girls, girls, girls compilation)
"Honey Pie" The Beatles (White Album)
"Tart" Elvis Costello (When I was cruel)
"Love Thang" Seasick Steve (Unknown album)
"Tartan" Filarfolket (excellent Swedish folk band), should be a little circle over the first 'a' in Tartan. (Smuggle)

1) Incubus - Clean (my questionable rock past is catching me out here)
2) Unkle Bob - Too Many People (from a Word CD I believe)
3) Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
4) Devendra Banhart - The Good Red Road
5) The Shins - Know Your Onion

Despite evidence here to the contrary, I do own music that isn't made my white Americans under the age of 40.

Highway to Hell (Live) - Hayseed Dixie
Girl Afraid - The Smiths
Merge, A Vessel, A Harbour - Great Lake Swimmers
Scenic Railway - Mick Harvey
Alone iwth the Moon - The Tiger Lillies

Homeless - Burial
Bone Us - Holy Fuck
Felicity - Orange Juice
The Beast - The Only Ones
Way To Blue - Nick Drake

1. Bellowhead - Across the line
2. Lia Sumerano - Act 1 finale (this is from 'The Forlorn Hope' possibly the worst musical ever written, performed and sold to the public. I urge you to find it on iTunes and listen to 'Billy' - a love song from a girl to her missing horse)
3. Amy Winehouse - Addicted
4. Prince - Adore (Hits 1)
5. Prince - Adore (Sign o' the times)

Weird.

Farewell Nancy - Ed Hardcourt (Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys)
Talk Her Down - Starsailor (Love is Here)
The Model - Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man (Out of Season)
Jack Meller's Song - Adam and Joe (Adam & Joe's Song Wars Vol. 1)
Ave Maria - Giulio Caccini (Donnie Darko soundtrack)

Cortez The Killer - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Boogie Woodie - The Beach Boys
Freedom Road - The Divine Comedy
Keep An Eye On Summer - Brian Wilson
Edith And The Kingpin - Joni Mitchell

1) Rich woman - Robert Plant & Allison Krauss
2) Rock and roll friend - The Go-Betweens
3) Texas 1947 - Guy Clark
4) The tallest tree - Roy Harper
5) Trick or treat - Paul Brady

A wider geographical spread with this selection.

Junior Boys, 'Double Shadow'
World Of Twist, 'The Lights'
Supergrass, 'Ghost Of A Friend'
The Beatles, 'Yellow Submarine'
The Beatles, 'Medley: Rip It Up, Shake, Rattle 'n Roll'

Dark Was The Night - Ry Cooder
Sunset Scenery - The Dragons (was it ever established if they were a genuinely lost 60s band or a record company/internet scam?)
Understanding Jane - The Icicle Works
Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle and Sebastian
Lips Like Ether - Love and Money

The Streets - Don't Mug Yourself
Deerhoof - Running Thoughts
The Beatles - Here, There and Everywhere
Eels - To Lick Your Boots
Cornelius - Mic Check

Let It Die: Foo Fighters
Lucky: Radiohead
Maxwell's Silver Hammer: The Beatles
Every Little Bit Hurts (Live): The Spencer Davis Group
Looking For Water: David Bowie

That is actually a pretty nice list.

I'm Your Puppet- James & Bobby Purify
Lounge Act - Nirvana
Ticket To Ride - The Carpenters
Plateau - Nirvana
Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane

I'm Just Happy to See You Get Her - Andwella's Dream
Supertzar - Black Sabbath
There's No Such Thing as Aliens - Sparks
Weeping Wall - David Bowie
Dennis Moore Song - Monty Python

Given the amount of Queen and Alice Cooper on my ipod, I was confident on having the least hip list so far, but Bowie and Sparks stopped all that. Are Sabbath hip these days or not?

I Can't Control Myself - The Troggs
Frankie Teardrop - Suicide
The Idea - Adam and The Ants
Dime Store Mystery - Lou Reed
Punk - Gorillaz

Love and Anger - Kate Bush
Love, Deep As The Ocean - Muddy Waters
Walk All Over You - AC/DC
The Woman I Love - B.B. King
Somewhere My Love - Frank Sinatra

1. Derek and Clive - Horse Racing

2. Malcolm Middleton - Fuck it, I love You

3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - City of Refuge

4. U.N.K.L.E (Feat, The Duke Spirit) - May Day

5. The Fall - Trust in Me

Baltimore - Stephen Malmus

Cemetaries of London - Coldplay

(Don't Fear) the Reaper - BOC

Phantom Limb - The Shins

Christobel - Joan as Policewomen

I get the first Coldplay instance!

We Went For A Drive/Tibble
Drinking In LA/Bran Van 3000
He's On The Phone/St Etienne
I'm Gonna Change Everything/Jim Reeves
Last Date/REM

Cheap Astrakhan - John Gustafson (from the former Roxy bass player's solo album "Goose Grease")
Aviation High School - The Volcanos (obscure surf rock combo a la The Ventures and Dick Dale. Reverb ahoy!)
Barbarella - Alisha's Attic (a little bit of pure '90s pop)
Cry - Godley and Creme
Caroline No - Beach Boys (honest, not a desperate credibility raising ringer, I wouldn't have chosen this track if it had been anyway!)

Not a bad Randomiser to start the New Year.

1) Violently Happy - Bjork - Live Box (Disk 1)

2) Mulder And Scully - Catatonia - Brit Box

3) Wave of Mutilation - Pixies - Doolittle

4) Try Me - Henrik - Word 72

5) Collarbone - Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things

Doh! 2 Various Artist collections and a Live Album, one of Catatonia's worst songs and a Word CD special I'd never heard before !

1)Aht Uh Mi Hed - Shuggie Otis
2)On Saturday night - Lyle Lovett
3)I Got A right Ta - Common
4)Tiny Dancer - Elton John
5)Pigs (Three different ones) - Pink Floyd

Two of the five I can't ever recall hearing before.

1) One Way Ticket - The Nerves
2) Life's Greatest Fool - Gene Clark
3) The CD In Your Hand - The Fall
4) Mrs Robinson - The Lemonheads
5) Pete International Airport - The Dandy Warhols

1. Let's Make This Precious - Dexys Midnight Runners

2. Mighty Hard Rocker - Cash Money & Marvelous

3. Garageland - The Clash

4. She's A Lady - Pulp

5. Charge - The Divine Comedy

Well, that was a pretty decent selection. Especially as my iPod could have just as easily thrown up Mika, Spandau Ballet or the theme from Sorry!

From 11420 songs...

1. Let's Make This Precious - Dexys Midnight Runners

2. Mighty Hard Rocker - Cash Money & Marvelous

3. Garageland - The Clash

4. She's A Lady - Pulp

5. Charge - The Divine Comedy

Well, that was a pretty decent selection. Especially as my iPod could have just as easily thrown up Mika, Spandau Ballet or the theme from Sorry!

an 'obscure album track' shuffle by mistake...with exception of the Blnd Boys none of these have been on heavy rotation.

Black And Blue - Louis Armstrong
Silver Palomino - Bruce Springsteen
Symphony No 2 - Sibelius
Soldier - Blind Boys of Alabama
Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman

1. T. Rex - Truck On
2. Guns N' Roses - Anything Goes
3. The Prodigy - Speedway
4. Gene Autry - Back In The Saddle Again
5. Fairport Convention - The Hiring Fair

1. PILOT Magic
2. PET SHOP BOYS Jealousy live with Robbie Williams singing
3. SYD BARRETT No Good Trying
4. JUAN GARCIÁ ESQUIVEL Medley from Mexico Days
5. XX Teens (Reprise)

Daniel Dolphin - Free Design
Mirrored Horse Odyssey - Blood Everywhere
I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby - Kid Creole & Coconuts
Guilty - Barbra Streisand
The Four Horsemen - Aphrodite's Child

1. KAISER CHIEFS - Na Na Na Na Naa
2. KT TUNSTALL - Other Side of the World
3. SUPERGRASS - See the Light
4. BRIGHT EYES - Lan Locked Blues
5. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Failsafe

1 Magazine: About the Weather
2 Siouxsie and the Banshees: Placebo Effect
3 The Associates: Boys Keep Swinging
4 King Creosote: Cowardly Custard
5 Hot Chip: Look After Me

Different Light - Steve Winwood (from About Time, an excellent listen)

Save The Last Dance For Me - The Drifters (from The Atlantic Story)

Faithful and True - Z.Z. Hill (from the fabulous Take Me To The River)

- Did you see what the smart a**e machine did there?

Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin (from The Queen of Soul)

- Spooky or what!

Whatcha Gonna Do About It - The Small Faces (from Rediscover the 60's)

- I do believe there ain't a damn thing I can do about it!

Not too bad really...

God Only Knows : The Beach Boys
Wet Blanket: The Chills
Eyelids into Snow : Scullion
Peach Trees: Rufus Wainright
Walking Down Madison: Kirsty McColl

(From 31755 songs)
1. Times Of Trouble - Temple Of The Dog
2. Wonderful Remark - Van Morrison
3. The Everlasting - Manics
4. Little Spacey - Cocteau Twins
5. White Magic For Lovers - Drugstore

Mudhoney - Urban Guerilla
The Godfathers - I Want Everything
Stones - Ruby Tuesday
White Punks on Hope - Crass
I'm a Hog for you Baby - Dr Feelgood

Larry Jon Wilson Goodbye Eyes
Half Man Half Biscuit Soft Verges
Mary Gauthier Ways of the World
Nick Lowe Poor Side of Town
Boris Gardiner Elizabethan Reggae

I'd would have been surprised if there hadn't been a Half Man Half Biscuit, so far one's shown up every time

Manassas - Rock and roll crazies
White Noise - Black mass
The Righteous Brothers - Hung on you
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Drivin' thunder
Lone Justice - Heaven

ifanku

The Magnetic Fields: Blue You
Lupe Fiasco: Intruder Alert
Underworld: Glam Bucket
Crystal Castles: Alice Practice
Madonna: Sorry (Pet Shop Boys Maxi Mix)

Handful of Arrows - Kelly Joe Phelps
Cat Food - King Crimson
Lies - Black Keys
Highway Chile - Jimi Hendrix
Winter's Come and Gone - Gillian Welch

Good thing it didn't come up with Hazel Eyes by The Darkness first, or I'd have had to ignore that one and go for the next five. Ahem.

German Studies - The Breeders
New Puritan - The Fall
Hard Life in the Country - The Fall
Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
Open Field - Taken by Trees

How Sweet To Be An Idiot - Neil Innes
Watercolour Guitars - The Fireman
Dress Me Up As A Robber - Paul McCartney
Crying - George Harrison
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - Al Kooper and Stephen Stills

1) Lilys - "356" from "The Lilys" (so is it Lilys or The Lilys?)
2) Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come" from "Faces Without Shadows", a compilation my mate Gaz made
3) Korpus Krypto! - "Second Version" from "Cosmic Doom", my mate Les' solo stuff
4) The Beatles - "P.S. I Love You" from "Please Please Me"
5) The Apples In Stereo - "Yore Days" from "Velocity Of Sound"

Nothing like a spot of Randomizing to make me a happy bunny! This time may I offer;

1) Going To The River - Prince Buster
2) Good Good Loving - James Brown
3) Mullholland Drive Theme- Angelo Badalamenti
4) You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me - Frank Sinatra
5) Richard III - Supergrass

All a bit too cool for Christmas maybe, but that's what sprung up...

Ryan Adams - The Rescue Blues
The Cure - Going Nowhere
JJ Cale - Ride Me High
Led Zeppelin - In The Light
JJ Burnel - Eurospeed (Your Own Speed)

but why, iPod, why?

Erykah Badu - Back in the Day (Puff)
Weather Report - Herandu
Tinariwen - Amidinin
Bob Dylan - Beyond the Horizon
Todd Rundren - Flamingo
...alright !

A change of heart - Bernard Butler
Wild cats of Kilkenny - The Pogues
L'Anamour - Serge Gainsbourg
Wait - The Beatles
Fill me in - Craig David

In my defence, Itunes tells me that I added that last song to my collection in February 2004, and have never yet played it.

I'm A Mess - Nik Lowe
Like Little Willie John - Mark Lanegan
I'd Give You Anything - Ash
Inspection Check One - Leftfield
Marble Arch - Roddy Frame

From a selection of 3677:

Coldplay: Clocks
John Barry: The Beyondness of Things
OMD: Call My Name (McClusky's solos stuff has always been underrated)
Pulp: Something Changed
John Barry: Mary Queen of Scots

Remarkable.

My Old Man - Joni Mitchell
Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Simon & Garfunkel
Angel - Eg (of "and Alice" fame)
Mexican Standoff - Elbow (I know it's gonna be a good day when "Station Approach" pops up as we're pulling into Mcr Piccadilly)
Devil May Ride - Gomez

from a small selection currently on my phone.

Tried it on Windows Media Player on my PC but it gave me 3 tracks I hadn't heard before and "Lesson 4" of Learn Italian with Michel Thomas ...

... so it's going to make me look a RIGHT knacka just to spite me

Here we go:

Oo La La - JJ Cale (Rewind)
Baby Jane - Dr Feelgood
Kinky Woman - Jimmie Vaughan
Americans - Eddie Izzard (a track from his 'Circle' show - must listen to the whole lot. He should have been Doctor Who, you know)
Jesus On the Main Line - Aerosmith. (From Honkin' On Bobo. Not a good album it has to be said)

Hmmm, I'm not sure what to think. But I know my iPod knows...

1. Elbow - Switching Off [Acoustic 04]

2. Chris Montez - Let's Dance [Rock'n'Roll Is Here To Stay] - it's even better than I remember, ...er Daddio!

3. Crosby Stills Nash and Young - Out of Control [Looking Forward] - one of the three excellent Neil Young tracks on the album.

4. Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care [Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1]

5. Sugar Boy Crawford - Jack-A-Mo [Chess: The 50th Anniversary Collection]

Heaven Right Here-Jeb Loy Nicholls
Surfin USA-The Beach Boys
Blow At High Dough-Tragically Hip
Surly Girl-Aberfeldy
The Last Balloon-XTC

Bob Dylan - From a Buick 6 (Highway 61 Revisited) - According to my star rating, it's my least favourite track on the album.

Jerry Douglas - Here on Earth (Hip, Hop & Wobble) - Don't think I've heard this before.

Frank Sinatra - Someone to Watch Over Me (Songs for Young Lovers) - Just bought this for £4 along with Swingin' Lovers and Wee Small Hours. Not really heard Sinatra before and wish he'd stop singng flat, Ella's version much better.

John Tams - You Don't Know Me Anymore (Home) - Don't know this one very well either.

Britten - Lacrimosa (War Requiem) - Just love the way the soprano wails over the chorus.

Not a bad selection really. As I type the 6th track has started and I'm getting on down to This Train and Sister Rosetta.

From 6696 songs on my computer:

So Begins Our Alabee - Of Montreal
Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles
Princes Of The Universe - Queen
Hippies! - Soundtrack To Glastonbury The Film
I'm Good - DJ Format feat. Abdominal

'Hippies' is more of a 20 second snippet of commentary than a song, but thems the rules I guess!

P.S. The next track was 'Friends Will Be Friends' by Queen again. Funny that.

Old Friends, Simon and Garfunkel
Anyone for Tennis, Cream
Sure Shot, Beastie Boys
Sunlight, Richard Hawley
All In It, British Sea Power

First of all, here's mine, about which I can think of nothing smart to say:

1) Oh The Hampshires Do Like Duff (Regimental March) - Sam Bond
2) Cowbell Polka - Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang
3) Tie Your Mother Down (low quality) [sic] - Queen
4) River Song - Meg Baird (off Word CD 53)
5) Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley & Muddy Waters

But while I'm on, has the webiquitous question of "How Random is the iPod's shuffle?" surfaced on The Word Blog? It's a fascinating one.

...but here's what the old one threw up:

1. Pixies - Bailey's Walk (Complete B-Sides)
2. Madonna - To Have And Not To Hold (Ray Of Light)
3. Twenty Four Hour Garage People - Half Man Half Biscuit (Peel Session 25/8/99) - "10 Kit-Kats and a motoring atlas..."
4. Pet Shop Boys - You Know Where You Went Wrong (Alternative)
5. Monaco - Junk (Music For Pleasure)

Mmm...

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Middle of the Road
Tears - Ken Dodd
Release Me - Englebert Humperdinck
Come Outside - Mike Sarne
Need Your Love So Bad - Little Willie John

1] Maps - We Can Create
2] Rolling Stones - Time is on my Side
3] Emmylou Harris - Cup of Kindness
4] Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
5] REM - I'll Take The Rain

Better!

from 27,454

...so that requires multiple swappy choppy changey deletes and reloads.

A la Adam & Joe, I've gone for a "weedy music" special with limited artistes.

Inches and Failing - The Format
Past In Present - Feist
The Build Up - Kings Of Convenience
Dream of Love - The Silver Seas
Amazing Glow - Pernice Brothers

[1] La Traviata Dell'invito trascorsa e gia l'ora - Various opera peeps!
[2] Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis
[3] Little Bit of Love - Free
[4] The Reflex - Duran Duran
[5] Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

That's actually quite respectable and gives no indication of the high level of Abba and Dixie Chicks floating around my playlist. Ah the joys of 4GB! :p

From 7074 songs (My ipod has a lot of podcasts...)

Building Steam With A Grain Of Sand - DJ Shadow
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish - The Smiths (Lordy these titles are getting long)
Brighter Day - Pinch ft Jukali (From a Word CD. I have played this only once. It's a bit odd))
Hallelujah I Love Her So - Ray Charles
Burn Girl Prom Queen - Mogwai

Hmmm... I'd struggle to jog to that lot

I try - Macy Gray
The world is full of crashing bores (live at earls court) - Morrissey
You're the storm - The Cardigans
Dog new tricks - Garbage
Get Myself arrested - Gomez

I don't actually like any of these songs

Despite my vast collection of avant-garde Japanese improv-jazz and early German electronic sine-wave music this five showed up on my iPod shuffle!

1. I Trawl The Megahertz - Paddy McAloon (okay, this is great)
2. I Heard A Rumour - Bananarama
3. Go Wild In The Country - Bow Wow Wow
4. And You And I - Yes
5. Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young - Fire Inc.

I'm only sleeping - The Beatles
Sun is shining - Bob Marley & The Wailers
More fool me - Genesis
Valerie - The Zutons
Carnival - Santana

1. Theme From Tiswas / This is Cult Fiction
2. Make Love - Lisa Stansfield / Real Love
3. No Victims (Guitar Heroes Mix)- Kirsty MacColl / Kite
4. The Carpet Crawlers - Genesis / Seconds Out
5. Gypsy Biker - Bruce Springsteen / Magic

Not sure which came first - the reissued version of Kite with the "Guitar Heroes Mix" or the game of the same name....

1) Heavenly - Patty Griffin
2) Hush - Catie Curtis
3) I wanna roo you - Van Morrison
4) Idea # 21 (Not too late) - Over The Rhine
5) Losing game - Sandy Denny

Van sandwiched between four female vocalists. Has anyone ever posted a Catie Curtis song in a Randomiser before?

Each and Everyone - Everything But The Girl
Marble Arch - Roddy Frame
Spottieottiedopalisciois - Outcast
Blue Flower - Mazzy Star
Papa - Thione Seck

How Much I Lied - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry [Transition] - The Beatles
Why Baby Why - George Jones & Ricky Skaggs
Woman Across The River - Freddie King
Circles And Xs - Lucinda Williams

cool

Sting came up next, not cool

Radioland - Kraftwerk
High Flyin' Bird - Jefferson Airplane
19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) - Gorillaz
Another Round - Foo Fighters
The Musical Box - Genesis

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son
Stereolab - Variation One
The Jackson Five - I want you back
Fennesz and Sakamoto - Aware (from a Word CD)
Betty Everett - Hound Dog

The Jackson 5 track is the only one that I could hum.

to lazy to go and get my ipod from the other room so its itunes turn to make me look bad/cool delete as appropriate :

your love alone is not enough manic street preachers
i like you so much better when your naked ida maria
l.e.s artistes santogold
syrup and honey duffy
venus in furs the velvet underground

well its a mixed bag but not to embarrassing

ish

1] The Jerky Boys - Facelift Without Surgery
2] Peter Bjorn & John - Objects of my Affection
3] Morning Bride - Stepping Out in Front of Cars
4] Supergrass - Late in The Day
5] Hal - Worry About The Wind

from (27,454)

Been listening to compilation CDs, so Mr I-pods sat in the Bose, recharging his batteries. From the comp, then:
Family affair/Mary J Blige/Now that's what I call Music 9
Roll out better days/Eleanor McEvoy/Love must be Tough
Oleo/Eric Dolphy/"download"
Willie O'Winsbury/Dick Gaughan/Prentice Piece
End of the Innocence/Don Henley/Actual Miles

I think the source material of the first rules out any suspicion of tampering. Worryingly ambiguous source of track 3 shouldn't worry Feargal Sharkey too much. (Is it 50 years old?) 2 best of's also should get me a telling off.
22,752.

1. Rock & Roll For The Time Being - Radio Stars.
2. Mexico City - Jolie Holland.
3. Lift Up Every Stone - John Hiatt. From Crossing Muddy Waters (again).
4. No Going Back - Johnny Coppin.
5. Cleveland - Rachel Ries.

so I was sat in the car with the ipod tuned to my radio. I knew I had put the Control Soundtrack on there (part of about 15, 000 songs at the time) but hadn't listened to it. One of the tracks is preceded by Barney's introduction of the idea of hypnosis...
at 70mph on the M57 my ipod said...."Ian, I've got an idea" When your ipod addresses you by name that's got to mean something.
Anyway;

My Boyish Days (12" version) by Care - short lived 80s gorgeousness by Paul Simpson and Ian Broudie

Over (Live in a stable in Liverpool) The La's

I Still haven't found what I'm looking for - U2

Fallen Angel Elbow from Cast of Thousands

Strangers James (from Millionaires) - no idea what that one sounds like

She's Lost Control - Joy Division - Preston 28 February 1980
Free Country - Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left
Here Comes The Breeze - Gomez - Bring It On
Je Te Kiffe - Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - Bob Dylan

1. God Save The Queen - The Sex Pistols

2. The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan

3. Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend - Sister Rosetta Tharpe

4. Minuet - Ernest Ranglin

5. Chagrin - Geraint Watkins

NOTE: Last one was from Now Hear This! Oct 2008

These are mine - completely random!

1. Round of Blues - Shawn Colvin

2. The Boy with the Gun - David Sylvian

3. Pint of Mint Tea - Al'anbar CD2 Dance - Marrakesh

4. Takes You Back (unexpected dub) - Jazzanova

5. Track 4 - DJ Vlada (from "Soundtrack of your Life" CD4 (Russian DJ)

1. XTC: Outside World
2. Tom Waits: Shiny Things
3. Brad Mehldau: The Bard Returns
4. Grinderman: When My Love Comes Down
5. Crowded House: Something So Strong

1. Dragonette - True Believer
2. Whitney Houston/Jermaine Jackson - If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful
3. Yann Tiersen - La Valse des Monstres (from Amelie)
4. Propaganda - The Chase
5. XTC - Ballads for a Rainy Day

life is long - david byrne/brian eno
mysteries - yeah yeah yeahs
church on time - ben harper/blind boys of alabama
attics of my life - grateful dead
poor edward - tom waits

Randy Crawford 'You Might Need Somebody'
M Ward 'Archangel Tale'
King L 'Don't Believe in Hollywood'
The Apartments 'Mr. Somewhere
Hercules And Love Affair 'Hercules Theme'

King L were a group involving Gary Clark from Danny Wilson, Boo Hewerdine from the Bible and Neill MacColl. King L must be up their with the worst name for a band in history, though given that Clark was more famously in a band apparently named after a mediocre midfielder for Sheffield Wednesday he did have previous in this area.

Isn't this whole shuffle/first five thing just market research being done on the cheap by the Word editorial staff? If so it's a fine wheeze and one I'm very happy to be complicit in!

Good to see the Fennesz/Sakamoto track from the Word compilation on someone's list, really beautiful that track.

1. The Move - California Man
2. Morrisey - First of the Gang to Die
3. Elbow - The Lonliness of a Tower Crane Driver
4. Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy
5. Bruce Springsteen - Goin' Down

I've never used 'shuffle' before - there's stuff on my player I forgot I had - and some I can't believe I've got - maybe that could be a new thread - what the hell was I thinking when I bought that ?

is that (assuming people aren't cheating) the average Word reader appears to have genuinely quite rarefied taste (which we sort of knew anyway). Thank God for Jive Bunny and Fish (don't worry Dave, the big man's on mine somewhere, too.)

Anyway, for the record:
1) Buy A Bug - Joseph Arthur (Redemption's Son)
2) Let Me In - REM (Monster)
3) Something mysteriously called Track 2 (some sort of audiobook chapter)
4) Entertain Me - Psychedelic Furs (Should God Forget)
5) Sail Away - David Gray (White Ladder - phew, a bit of mega-selling, housewives favourite MOR fodder to prove I'm playing by the rules).

1] Arctic Monkeys - Perhaps Vampires is a Bit Strong But...
2] Duke Special - And it Stoned Me
3] U2 - Walk On
4] The Jerky Boys - Paradise
5] ELO - Ma Ma Ma Belle

(from 27,456)

A Trip Out - British Sea Power
Momentum - Aimee Mann
Indigo - The Yoshida Brothers
Missing Children - Teddy Thompson
This is for the Better Days - The Bees

French Dog Blues - Babyshambles
To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high) - Ryan Adams
Huge Gold AK-47 - The Blood Brothers
Heroes - David Bowie
Pyramid Song - Radiohead

Spin the dial and this is what comes out:

1. I Want You Bad : The Long Ryders (Two-Fisted Tales)
2. Into The Blue : Drever, McCusker, Womble (Before The Ruin)
3. Angel Dance : Los Lobos (Just Another Band From L.A.)
4. No Quiero : Ry Cooder (Music By Ry Cooder)
5. Ten Little Friends : John Entwhistle (Whistle Rhymes)

Hmm, that represents a fair cross-section of the contents of my iTunes/iPod.

1. Traveller - Talvin Singh (OK)
2. Free - George Michael (Older)
3. Protect Me (Live at Krog) - James (Seven)
4. Breezeman - Cymande (The Message)
5. Black Gold Blues - Laura Veirs (Year of Meteors)

Hope this information is of interest

De La Soul - Breakadawn
The Clash - Clampdown
The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Broken Heart Of Mine
A Guy Called Gerald - Money Honey
Ike & Tina Turner - What Kind Of Love

1) Joni Mitchell - Cactus tree
2) Chick Corea - Captain Marvel
3) Elvis Costello - Brown to Blue
4) Bruce Springsteen - Point Blank
5) The Gliders - Snakes & Ladders

Workingman Blues - Bob Dylan
Cocaine In My Brain - Dillinger
Nowhere to Run - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Fishes Eyes - New Fast Automatic Daffodils
Madeleine Peyroux - River

Watching Xanadu - Mull Historical Society
The Cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen
Never turn your back on mother Earth - Sparks
There she goes again - Velvet Underground
One step beyond - Prince Buster

Down by the River O - Rev Hammer - Festival of Folk

Florence in Florence - Dick Gaughan - Prentice Piece

What it is - Catatonia - Paper, Scissors, Stone

Without Her - Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy, the best of Glen Campbell

I want to hold your hand - The Beatles - 1

Of all those, I'd probably listen to the Catatonia one least.

1) Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Free fallin'
2) Paul Brady - Don't keep pretending (2nd day in a row for Paul with a song from the Trick Or Treat album with four others to pick from)
3) God is in the roses - Rosanne Cash
4) This is to mother you - Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
5) Santana - Every step of the way

what fun,
slightly disappointed that it's all fairly credible, there's some right old chuff on the old 'pod

1) Monkees - If I Learned To Play The Violin (Headquarters)
2) John Renbourn - Passing Time (Guitar Of John Renbourn)
3) Old Romantic Killer Band - Pigs (Swan With Two Necks)
4) Paul Ritchie & The Cryin' Shames - Come On Back (Real Life, Permanent Dreams box set)
5) Electrelane - Gabriel (Rock It To The Moon)

Haven't ever listened to the ORKB album, bought it on the strength of reviews and then forgot about it. Will give it a go now.

.....but since I put another 130 or so cds into my library last night I'm going to have another, just to see if any of the new ones show up in the top 5.

2:19 - John Hammond Junior(Wicked Grin)
The Note - Stacey Earle/Mark Stuart(Never Gonna Give You Up)
Thirty Years Of Tears - John Hiatt(Stolen Moments)
Lookin' At The River In The Rain - Steve Forbert(Loose Change)
Nitwit - Canned Heat(Boogie House Tapes Vol 2)

Nope...no newly added ones. Americana and Blues is just what I'd expect it to throw up.

1) I Believe In You - Talk Talk
2) Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
3) Horizons - Genesis
4) Spiritude - Ron Sexsmith
5) Signals - Brian Eno

Me and My Imaginary Friend – Colin Hay

Drunken Hearted Man (Alternate Take) – Robert Johnson

Maybe The People Would Be The Times or Between Clark and Hilldale – Love

American Girls – Counting Crows

Ruby Mae – The Felice Brothers

1. The River- Brooooooooooooooooce
2. Remote Control- The Clash
3. Two Sevens Clash- Culture
4. The Leader- The Clash
5. Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime- Glasvegas

A pretty impressive selection for a 14 year old : )

1. See me, feel me - The Who

2. Could you, would you - Them

3. A Whisper - Coldplay

4. Generations - Inspiral Carpets

5. Tin Soldier - The Small Faces

A bit of a sixties bias from the iPod, but otherwise happy.

Turkish Revelry - Loudon Wainwright III - Rogue's Gallery
The Whistler - Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
China Girl - David Bowie - Let's Dance
Pink Panther Theme - Henry Mancini - This Is Easy
Say You Don't Mind - Colin Blunstone - Guilty Pleasures

Move Myself Ahead - Mark Eitzel - West
Feeling Good - Nina Simone
Go Away - Röyksopp - The Understanding (Bonus Disc)
Tom Tiddler's Ground - Roy Harper - Flat Baroque and Berserk
Imidiwaren - Tinariwen - The Radio Tisdas Sessions

I seem to remember that at some point I had to set a software switch to say if I wanted my own ratings etc to be used. Would be interesting to know how random different people's 'Pods have been set to be-also, is the Genius stuff creeping in to the onboard s/w in the newer ones ?

From the same shuffle as my 1-5 above, the 'Pod threw up this gorgeous run as #s 24-28.

These Foolish Things-Charlie Christian. From the Proper box.
He Needs Me-Nina Simone.
Through December-Laura Veirs. A Word CD "keeper".
The Queen and the Soldier-Suzanne Vega.
L'Heure Exquise-Hahn. From "Reflections" DG compilation.

If that's "random" I am a [insert suitable word] ...

Graceland - Paul Simon
The Peacocks - John McLaughlin
Wayfarin Stranger - Maria McKee
Solitary Man - Neil Diamond (have a feeling this one came up before)
Moonrise - Nitin Sawhney

Bit of a strange bunch - think retropath did a posting about songs that had been covered by numerous artists - Wayfarin Stranger is certainly one of those.

Stevie Wonder - Maybe Your Baby
Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Two Can Have A Party
Steely Dan - Black Friday
Johnny Guitar Watson - Nothing Left To Be Desired

Everyone a swimmer, any colour you like, they're all red

Infected - The The (watched 'em thru one eye due to few too many pre gig 'liveners' around '90.
Rebellion (Lies) - The Arcade Fire
Chatma - Tinariwen
The Rescue Blues - Ryan Adams (Really like it but thought I didn't like him!!)
My Iron Lung - Radiohead (watched 'em thru one eye due to few too many pre gig 'liveners around '94)

Seems to be a thread there somewhere.

Hopefully when I sort my vinyl to MP3 turntable thingy out there'll be a bit more Racey and 'Pocket Money Thursday' stuff.

From a choice of 8,518, it selected...

Break Like The Wind - Spinal Tap, Break Like The Wind
Let's Get Away From It All – Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me
Just Checkin' – The Beautiful South, Painting It Red
Toccata in D Minor – Neva Krasetva, The Best of Bach
Letterbomb – Green Day, Q Best of 2004

Tap fans will note the Pod's wry in-joke there

The Decemberists - The engine driver
Hoodoo Rhythm Devils - Gypsy Fly
Tony Joe White - Saturday night in Oak Grove Louisiana
Ry Cooder - Barrio Viejo
Waylon Jennings - Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys

iPod currently has only 1446 songs on it as it died and had to go back to Apple and I have only just started putting stuff on it again - lost 11333 tracks which was a tad annoying to say the least.
No Bruce or Neil Young which is odd but at least it didn't throw up "The Fast Food Song" except I've just mentioned it - oh bugger !

1. The Snow White Diner - The Handsome Family
2.Smile - Jody Raffoul (an Ontario/Detroit favorite)
3. Better me - The Clumsy Lovers (the greatest band name - also from Canada) - seems to be a Canadian connection going
4.Nothing To Say - Waco Brothers
5. Away With The Fairies - The Saw Doctors

Miss Otis Regrets - Kirsty MacColl & Pogues
Schoolttecher - Rowan Atkinson (Bland, Hemaglobin, williams, Williams Wicket, Williams wocket Wicket, Williams, Wicket Wocket etc)
That's Entertainment (BBC Session) - Paul Weller
You Keep It all In - Beautiful south
Bus Stop - the Hollies

I like a bit of comedy on me pod to break up the music

Here we go....doing the old shuffle thing...oooh!

No 1 Down in Yon Forest Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
No 2 Wuthering Heights Kate Bush
No 3 The dark is Rising Mercury Rev
No 4 Hey Jude The Beatles
and lastly ....
No 5 Stand By Me Oasis

Jolly good fun what?
Toodle Pip

...I can live with it.

1. Too Bad, Faces
2. Good Golly, Miss Molly, Creedence Clearwater Revival
3. Final (Take 3), Miles Davis
4. Things Have Gone to Pieces, Van Morrison
5. Lies, Status Quo

Moon Is Down Gentle Giant
Whenever I call You Stevie Nicks
That's Alright Fleetwood Mac
Art School Babe Ray Davies
I Tired To Leave You Leonard Cohen

1. Simple Minds - Room
2. The Birthday Party - Happy Birthday
3. Interpol - Narc
4. Bowie - The Secret Life of Arabia
5. New Order - Ceremony

Dammit! #6 was REM's Don't Go Back To Rockville! Great Song!!!

Don't Go Back To Rockville is indeed a great song, and one of REM's best

here's my first five this morning:

1) I Thought I Was A Child - Bonnie Raitt

2) The $20Bill - Taxi Driver Soundtrack

3) Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths

4) Nowhere near - Tracey Thorn

5) Sunrise - Eric Carmen

Say what you like but that Eric carmen is a great slice of 70's pop!

1 Electricity - Avalanches (Since I Left You)
2 Add it Up - The Violent Femmes (Violent Femmes)
3 1000 Miles - Ride (Carnival of Light)
4 I Don't Want Control of You - Teenage Fanclub (Songs from Norhern Britain)
5 My Little Underground - Jesus & Mary Chain (Psychocandy)

I'd shag me.

Tu Me Fasinas - The McGill Clan
Greenback dollar Bill - Louis Prima
If You Could See Me Now - Chet Baker
I'm Back - Eminem
I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole - Blind Willie Johnson

Pixies - Mr Grieves (Doolittle)
Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the Vast Oceans (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
Jethro Tull - The Whistler (Somgs From The Wood)
Gentle Giant - Peel The Paint / I Lost My Head (Live Playing The Fool)
Magazine - Motorcade (Rays and Hail)

Came out somewhat better than I was expecting

Bankrobber - The Clash
Bermuda Highway - My Morning Jacket
Atlantic - Keane
Naked Twister - Mansun
Furious Angels - Rob D.

Shortly afterwards, the iPod started mixing it up with LOTR soundtracks and Tenacious D intra-song bits.

…and the nominations are:

Never Ever Seen - Dance of The Vampires Soundtrack (in German, no less)
Quivver "Surin" - Hybrid, Soundsystem 01 album
Under Pressure - Queen and Bowie
This Side Of The Moon - Del Amitri
One Fine Day - David Byrne and Brian Eno

Could have been worse (and sixth was a radio comedy show, which may or may not count for the purposes of this game).

Byrds - Draft Morning
Nick Drake - Cello Song
Low - Tired
Martin Newell - Former Phonebox Vandal
Camel - Starlight Ride

PS Can we agree to put the artists first? Or the songs?

Everytime I get a new Handsome Family album at least one person mishears me:

Johnny Paycheck - The Little Folks
Australia - The Shins
Emily Shore 1819-1839 - The Handsome Family
Rain - Patty Griffin
Any Old Time - Merle Travis

Let Me Go - Nouvelle Vague
(Love Is Like) A Heatwave - Martha & The Vandellas
Window Wide Open - Scritti Politti
The Rope and The Colt - Scott Walker
Why Can't You Be? - Shelby Lynne

Hmm. Maybe I need to cut down on the dinner parties and start inviting people over for go-gos.

Dave Hole - I'm A King Bee
Six Feet Under - Seed Of Filth
Elvin Bishop with The Homemade Jamz Band - Come On In This House
J Geils Band - Whammer Jammer
Behemoth - Slaying the Prophets Ov Isa

Focus on Sight - Thievery Corporation (from The Mirror Conspiracy
Vicious Battle Raps - DJ Format (from Music For The Mature B-Boy)
Here's Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy - Martin Simpson (from Kind Letters)
Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys (from Favourite Worst Nightmare)
The Strain - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (from The Bestiality Of...)

Elliott Smith - Going Nowhere (a fave off New Moon)
Foals - Like Swimming (yeah...kinda regret this album)
Frightened Rabbit - I Feel Better (much more like it!)
Syd Matters - My Lover's On the Pier (dreamy)
Beat Happening - You Turn Me On (rounding out the impression of me as a fey, waifish boy who wears cardigans and writes sweet songs bout holding hands. Oh, OK, not a million miles off).

*
decided to 'jazz' it up with ratings - you don't like stars here, so,

1] REM - Star me Kitten (feat WS Burroughs) (60/100)
2] M. Craft - You Are The Music (70/100)
3] XTC - Senses Working Overtime (81/100)
4] Damien Rice - Elephant (12/100)
5] Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! (55/100)

(from 27,469)

Rice has to go...

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - O'Malleys Bar Reprise
2. Grace Jones - Private Life
3. Buzzcocks - What Do I get?
4. Gay Dad - Pathfinder
5. Nancy Sinatra - Let Me Kiss You

1. Lucie Silvas - Alone - The Same Side
2. Franz Ferdinand - Auf Achse - Franz Ferdinand
3. Spear of Destiny - Liberator - Alternative Eighties (Disc 2)
4. Foo Fighters - Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
5. a-Ha - Locust - Memorial Beach

1. David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind
2. Tom Waits - Depot Depot
3. The Loving Spoonful - Pow (Theme from What's Up Tiger Lily).
4. Robert Pollard & his soft rock renegades - Instrument Beetle
5. Moby - Feeling So Real

Not bad, could have been better - but could have been a whole lot worse........

John Brown - Bob Dylan and Grateful Dead (Bootleg)
My Boy Elvis - Janis Martin (Theme Time Radio)
Cold-Blooded Woman - Memphis Slim (Theme Time Radio)
Feats dont fail me now - Little Feat ('88 Bootleg)
Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

1. Karaoke -Queen Bicycle Race
2. Jellyfish - The King Is Half-Undressed [Live]
3. Jane's Addiction - Obvious
4. Mr Bungle - The Girls Of Porn (Album Version)
5. The H Band - Nothing to Declare (live)

notes:
1 - look, you never know when you're going to need a karaoke version of Bicycle Race, OK?
4 - are we to assume there was a single version??

The most frequently featured on i-pods as a 5/x, where x is the number of total tracks per i-pod. And it's dependent also on the number of tracks by any artist available, comapared to the number on the i-pod. The best band in the world may be, say, the Rockingbirds, yet, say you also like, say, the Byrds. You may well have more Byrds tracks available, improving their chances of appearing within a random (OK, an acceptable variant of random)but not neccessarily liking them better. And, for all you can predict, the i-pod will spit out the Birds for the amusing Ronnie Wood completist.
So, simple really.