The return of the Randomizer - accept no substitutes
It has been noted that lately there have been attempts to trifle with the essential purity of the Randomizer concept by extending the number of tracks thrown up by the iPod to more than five. This is wholly wrong. The point of the Randomizer is not to show off the eclecticism of the owner's taste or the extent of their record collection. It is instead to reveal our unguarded selves, to illuminate how we are as opposed to how we would wish to be seen, to reduce our massive cultural hinterland to just the first FIVE tracks thrown up by activating the "shuffle songs" function. Don't edit them, don't trifle with them, just read them off. To cut the tape on today's snapshot of the community's taste I shall begin. Ahem:
1. XTC: I'd Like That
2. Bruce Springsteen: Open All Night (Live)
3. Fountains Of Wayne: Bright Future In Sales
4. Carbon Silicon: Why Do Men Fight?
5. Fountains of Wayne: Stacey's Mom
Now did I make that up? No!
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Five for me
Night Bird Flying - Jimi Hendrix
Hickory Wind - Gram Parsons
Trapped Again - Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Your Mother Should Know - The Beatles
Song For Bob Dylan - David Bowie
'Random' always makes me think. Some of these five I can't remember the last time I played them, others are very recent.
Also, my iPod still seems to be running some protection for my reputation and not pulling up tracks that might make me squirm! (But not enough to take them off my iPod, because I like them.)
Randomiser - my first five on shuffle
Cockney Rebel - Come Up and see Me
Queen - Man on the prowl
Bowie - Man who Sold the World
Nelly Furtado - Maneater
Lightning Seeds - Marvellous
And thats from an IPod shared with a 13 year old!
5 Intrepid Shufflations
1) Beastie Boys - Kangaroo Rat - The Mix-Up.
2) Boom Bip - Last Walk Around Mirror Lake (Boards of Canada Remix) - From Left to Right.
3) The Cranberries - Zombie - No Need to Argue.
4) Psapp - Hi - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted.
5) Jurassic 5 - After School Special - Power In Numbers.
Horay!
Here's mine...
Tom Waits - Wrong Side of Town
Arctic Monkeys - View From the Afternoon
Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem
Orbital - The Moebius
Frank Sinatra - Someone to Watch Over Me
Like adze, I can't remember the last time I listened to a couple of them...
Five track shuffle
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Way Downtown
When - Ruin Mix
Ros Sereysothea - Oun Nu Rung Jam Jreun Chnam
Madvillain - Do Not Fire!
Flaming Lips - Hold Your Head
The Randomizer has worked in my favour here, I think - this is as good a spread as you'll get from me: some bluegrass, a slice of Norwegian noise, a bit of Khymer pop, some underground hip-hop, and The Flaming Lips. Luckily my 'teach yourself Korean' files didn't show up.
5 from 11346
John Mellencamp - We Are The People
The Go-Betweens - The House Jack Kerouac Built
The Human League - Love Action
The Jam - The Bitterest Pill
Elvis Costello - High Fidelity.
That's a (fairly) catchy selection from me - most unusual.
Representing the non-iPod users are...
The Shins - Caring is Creepy (live)
Lit - Over My Head
Bright Eyes - Train Under Water
The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home
Brian Wilson - Cabin Essence
...could've been worse I guess
Here comes the fun
1. Stoned - The Rolling Stones/The Singles Collection
2. Stage Fright - The Band/The Last Waltz
3. Holidays - The Beach Boys/Smile bootleg
4. All Things Must Pass - The Beatles/Anthology 3
5. I Guess I Planted - Billy Bragg & Wilco/ Mermaid Aveune
I am thoroughly relieved. Although, shockingly, no Dylan or Elvis; a shock because between them they cover about a third of the whole lot.
Let's hear it for the girls...
Mostly girls this morning..
A Brand New Me - Dusty Springfield
By Piccadilly Station... - Tracey Thorn
Gotta Get Back - Shelby Lynne
Leave - REM
Only a Fool - Cerys Matthews
Take Five
1. Shooglenifty: The Hijab
2. Tom Waits: Just The Right Bullets
3. Goldfrapp: Pilots
4. Fountains Of Wayne: Someone To Love
5. Thelonious Monk: Round Midnight (Take 2)
God, I love running my iPod in Shuffle mode. It's like those happy evenings Back In The Day, when I'd go round a mate's house and they'd serve up an endless sequence of their favourite singles and album tracks. Except this way I don't have to endure their inevitable lapses in taste. Only mine. No duffers here, though.
Jaysus-pod
1. I Just Don't Give A Damn - George Jones
2. Crystalline Green - Goldfrapp
3. The Enchanter - Robert Plant & The Strange Sensations
4. They Won't Go When I Go - Stevie Wonder
5. Goin' Down South - R.L. Burnside
George Jones followed by Goldfrapp? There isn't a radio station on the planet where you'd get that, thank you Jaysus for the iPod.
Wow, my pod's gone all weird
Wow, my pod's gone all weird folk/Americana on your asses. And I've noticed before that it likes the Faces more than I do.
On Bedford And Grand - The Besnard Lakes
Three Button Hand Me Down - Faces
Good Vibrations - Delaney & Bonnie
Ash Wednesday - Elvis Perkins
The Wind Up Bird - Tunng
Here we go again
David Bowie - The Boys Keep Swinging
James Yorkston - Orgiva Song
The Doors - When The Music's Over
The Band - (I Don't Want To Hang Up My) Rock 'n' Roll Shoes
Calexico - Yours and Mine
Fair enough.
Not Too Bad
She Brings The Rain - CAN
Terrapin - Syd Barrett
Guiding Light - Television
Evacuation - Pearl Jam
I Never - Rilo Kiley
I didn't even remember I had these...
Elouise - Maps
Handsome Molly - Bob Dylan
Red Wine Success - Cold War Kids
Pipey Obrady - Babyshambles
Live-in Skin - Foo Fighters
Break Down The Door - The Specials
Yellow card
That's six
ooops
maybe that random function does have a mind of it's own, or (more likely) I just can't count!
Caution
They're always out there. Watching.
push the button
Here's my tuppennth (from my phone).
Walk the Jetty By Eileen Rose
(heard it on the radio years ago and some how it's found it's way to my pc)
Superstar walking blues By Edwyn Collins
Us v Them By LCD Soundsystem
(my Lp of the year)
Nothing Without You (Tery Bina) By Future Pilot AKA
(dance music tracks always have complicated titles don't they)
Make your mum be proud By John + Jehn
( north London's newest Franco Velvetesque powerpop organtastic Duo)
Not too bad
Lake Swimming - Laura Veirs [Year of Meteors]
Harvest - Neil Young [Decade]
Foxxy - Cassius [1999]
Nobody - The Doobie Brothers [Meridian 1970 (compilation)]
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite - REM [Automatic for the People]
Not too bad - let down a bit in the middle by late-1990s dance, but you can't win them all.
.........And you have also
.........And you have also let yourself down with your spelling of "tonite". Please go and stand at the back of the classroom until you feel ready to re-join us.
is it 2nite?
is it 2nite?
He was right the first time..
Actually he was right the first time, they spell in "Tonite" on the album sleeve.
Here Goes...
Well, it could have been worse.
You Can't Look Back - John Stewart
Map of the Problematique - Muse
The Shadow - Tanya Donelly
Little Digger - Liz Phair
Betcha By Golly, Wow - The Stylistics
Lucky it didn't throw out Haysi Fantayzee's Shiny Shiny. Not that its on there, obviously. Doh! Me & my big mouth.
Not quite sure what they say about me though.
The first five out the box...
... scouts' honour.
They are:
1) Do I Have to Do This All Over Again - Monkees
2) The Mayor of Simpleton - XTC
3) You're My Drug - Duke of Stratosphear
4) We Can Work it Out - Beatles
5) Time Wraps Around You - Velvet Crush
An awful lot of 60s jingling and jangling going on. Nothing wrong with that.
'Ows about this then, guys and gals?
1) Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
2) Remember To Remember - Robert Palmer
3) Stranger in My Own House - Tower of Power
4) Look-ka Py Py - The Meters
5) Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me - The Fab Baker Boys OST
I have an hours drive to work - nothing makes it pass so quickly as creating a randomised 70 minutes long play list, only including tracks not played in the last two weeks. It's like the best radio show you ever heard. Try it - you'll love it...
A bunch of fives...
1) Snowy Morning Blues - James P. Johnson
2) Spellbound - Tango (from Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks)
3) Sea Of Heartbreak - Johnny Cash
4) I Miss You - Bjork
5) Handwriting On The Wall - RZA
Bit bizarre - and I have never knowingly listened to track two before in my life.
matt
The music goes round and round...
1) Single Father - Jackie Leven
2) I'll Always Love You - Brenda Holloway
3) Digital - Joy Division
4) I Don't Know Why - Delroy Wilson
5) Tell Me - Rolling Stones
Great first four tracks, then stumbled at the last with duff Stones number. Still better than the stuff I've heard on the radio today, but that wouldn't be hard.
Won't have that said
"Tell Me" notable for being:
a) the first song that Jagger and Richard wrote together;
b) bloody good.
Tell Me
Your right David, "Tell Me" is bloody good. You'll be turning me on to James Blunt next.
Don't care whether people like James Blunt...
....just puzzled about why they put so much energy into hating him.
Couldn't agree more...
...there's a lot worse in the world than James Blunt.
No energy
No energy is needed. It's easy.
This was
rather ruined by my IPod deciding to send 9,000 songs (count 'em) into the ether shortly before I have a 10hr flight. Thus have been frantically refilling - any tips on retrival, folks?
My five are
1) Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
2) Sisters of Mercy - Marian
3) Towers of London - I'm a Rat
4) Fountains of Wayne _ Red Dragon Tattoo
5) Mark Lanegan - Lexington Slow Down
Are iPods biased towards Fountains of Wayne? This seems to be the third time the latter-day Steely Dan have cropped up here
Here's mine
1. Ora pro nobis by Carolyn Sampson
2. It's a Shame by Hymns
3. Weather Machine by Signal To Noise
4. Soho Square by Kirsty MacColl
5. Imidiwan Winakalin by Tinariwen
And mine...
Karate - Root And The Ruins
The Housemartins - Sheep
Field Music - Alternating Current
Alasdair Roberts - The False Bride
Clinic - Pet Eunuch
Finally
I turn up on time for the Randomiser party. Yer they are. (I do own some music later than 1981, honest.)
1. Wagner - Lohengrin - Prelude & Bridal Chorus
2. Eno, Brian - By this river - < Before and after science >
3. Magazine - Shot By Both Sides - < Rays & Hail 1978-81 >
4. New Order - Dreams Never End - < Movement >
5. Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes - < Punk 1 >
Funky fistful
Odi Et Amo - Johann Johannsson
Don't Ever Think (Too Much) - The Zutons
Goodbye? - Grandaddy
Poison - Prodigy
Return To Oz - Scissor Sisters
The Real Random Factor ( Even Better Then The Random Thing)
Guess I should be barred for my suggestions of ten with the "poor" imitation thread; "The Random Factor". Anyway, here's my hand:
1)"White Line Fever"-The Fall
2) "High Hopes"-Pink Floyd
3) "You Can Have Watergate"-The JB'S
4) "If They Move, Kill 'Em"-Primal Scream
5) "Since I've Been Loving You"-Led Zepplin
Fearsome five
Anutha Zone - Dr. John
Is she conscious? - Waterboys
Another Mans done gone - Billy Bragg and Wilco
Black Lexus - Joseph Arthur
Nocturnal Tourist - Andy Shepherd
Less mainstream than my previous choice and more indicative of my current preferences.
I note that Carls selection threw up Single Father by Jackie Leven which is one of my all time favourite songs. A couple of years back I tried to persuade a friend of mine of the fairer sex that Jackie Leven was an awesome talent and I used this song to back up my argument.Her opinion was that it was a direct rip off of Paul Simons Mother and child reunion.Did she make a justifiable argument? I dont see it myself.
Single Father
Steve, I think your friend may be on to something. Although not a direct rip off, I can hear certain elements of Mother and Child Reunion in there. You should have played her 'Palace of Love' by Doll by Doll, very reminiscent of Mrs. Robinson!
And mine are...
Amadou and Mariam - Mbife Blues
Patrick Wolf - Secret Garden
Beastie Boys - Freaky Hijiki
Arrctic Monkeys - Leave Before the Lights Come On
Bat For Lashes - Seal Jubilee
I've hardly (if ever) heard two of these, and am not that keen on two more. The Amadou and Mariam track is great though.
Arrctic Monkeys?
A pirate tribute act, maybe?
My Zen moment
Being a Zen user I'm not sure if I'm allowed to join your club, but here goes....
Tallahassie Lassie - The Flamin' Groovies
Give Me An Inch - Robert Palmer
Never Is Enough - Barenaked Ladies
In My Bed - Amy Winehouse
Mystery Of Being - The Yardbirds
I normally pick a song title letter for the eclectic mix of tunes I am looking for as the Zen's random function usually picks up too many of the same artist but this lot's not too bad - and the next 10 were (mostly) good too.
For a band with pub rock beginnings how cheesy were The Motors by the way?
Fingers crossed
Westchester County - Loudon Wainwright III
They Are Night Zombies! They Are Neighbours! They Have Come Back From The Dead! Ahhhh! - Sufjan Stevens
Helpless - CSNY
Special One - Ultra Vivid Scene
The Look Of Love - The 3 Sounds
Nice...
Random factor, like a tractor (with apologies to Vic Reeves)
Brighter - Inside Out - There And Back Again Lane
The Charlatans - (No One) Not Even The Rain - Between 10th And 11th
The White Stripes - Red Rain - Get Behind Me Satan
Bambi Lee Savage - Darlin' - Sling Blade Soundtrack
OK Go - Return - OK Go
Once more...
Wallis Bird - Counting to Sleep,
Mylo - Valley of the Dolls,
Afro Celt Sound System - Inion / Daughter,
Dougie MacLean - The Emigrant,
Totó La Momposina Y Sus Tambores - La Sombra Negra (from one of the "Real World Notes" CDs).
That went on a bit of a folk/ world thing, I quite enjoyed that.
Here's mine!
Looking East - Jackson Browne
My Bag - Lloyd Cole
Kitty "Tommy, Quick! Get Up, I Can Hear Clogs Goin' Up The Street." Tommy "Well Stick Mine Out And See If They'll Go With 'Em!" - Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson
Ivan Meets G.I. Joe -The Clash
Cut My Hair The Who
Random harvest
Computer Blue - Prince
Devil's Haircut - Beck
You Won't See Me - The Beatles
Rains On Me - Tom Waits
My Friend -Groove Armada
must remove childrens music from my ipod
It came from Japan - The Von Bondies
Ring a ring a roses - The Paul O'Brien Allstars
Dirty Dancehall - The Zutons
Life can be so nice - Prince
Bobulski - Shawn Lee's Ping Pong orchestra
Mine went on a country outing
1. Rake - Townes Van Zandt/Texas Troubadour
2. Tres Lindas Cubanas - Bebo Valdes/Bebo
3. Lights Of Madgala - Johnny Cash/Personal File
4. It's The Little Things - Robert Earl Keen/West Textures
5. It Won't Be Long - Beatles Jazz/Another Bite Of The Apple
Retro randomizer
1. Dusty Springfield 'No Easy Way Down' (Dusty in Memphis)
2. Led Zeppelin 'When the Levee Breaks' (Led Zeppelin Remastered - Boxed - Disc 3)
3. Ben E King 'Stand By Me' (All About Soul) - I thought Sean Kingston had started up for a minute!
4. Brian Wilson ''Til I Die' (I Just Wasn't Made for These Times) - a sunny summer groove going on now.
5. McCartney 'Maybe I'm Amazed' (Wingspan:History)
A touch retro - but pleasant enough.
Fujiya to Norah in 5
1. Cassettesingle - Fujiya & Miyagi (Transparent Things)
2.Lover You Should Have Come Over (Live) - Jeff Buckley (Live at Sin-e - Legacy Edition)
3. A Day In The Life - The Beatles (Sgt Pepper's...)
4. March of The Pigs - Nine Inch Nails (The Downward Spiral)
5. Painter Song - Norah Jones (Come Away With Me)
random five
Personality Crisis -New York Dolls
Jacqueline - Franz Ferdinand
Forest Fire - Lloyd Cole& The Commotions
Coffee & TV - Blur
Michael - Franz Ferdinand
there is some sort of six(five?)degrees of separation thing hiding...
phew!
walking in memphis - marc cohn
rome wasn't built in a day - nick lowe
everybody's got to learn sometime - korgis
mainstream - theo gilmore
valley road - bruce hornsby and the range
Oh well could have been worse....
I Could Hurt You Now - Aimee Mann
The World Turned Upside Down - Billy Bragg
Wake Up - Love Spit Love
Silk Pyjamas - Thomas Dolby
Combination - The Upper Room
Here we go...
1. Step Right Up - Leah Kunkel
2. Train Leaves Here This Morning - Eagles
3. Call Me Round - Pilot
4. Met Her On A Plane - Jimmy Webb
5. Jolly Roger - Roger McGuinn
I do not apologise, nor am I ashamed. You may mock.
Wow...i never new that was on there...
1. Genesis - In The Rapids (Live)
2. NWA - 8 Ball
3. Killers - Shadowplay
4. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
5. New FADS - Every Once In A While
Forgot a couple of them even existed...thank heavens i removed all my wife's cliff richard xmas songs...
Not too bad
Cloudburst - Oasis
Witch - The Sonics
Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks
Keep Your Dreams - Primal Scream
I Can Feel the Fire - The Faces
Always worrying this....
Now We Are Free (Gladiator Soundtrack) - Hans Zimmer
Van Occupanther - Midlake
Maddox Table - 10,000 Maniacs
Map Of The Problematique - Muse
Recitativo Calmatevi (Don Giovanni) - Elizabeth Schwarzkopf et al
Playin' favourites
Guillemots - Redwings
Little Feat - Long Distance Love
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Duels - The Slow Build
Cream - Crossroads
Duels track is fantastic, like a Man Who Sold The World out-take.
Blimey
Blockbuster - The Sweet
Touch Too Much - Arrows
Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys
Funky Kingston - Toots and the Maytals
Do What You Like - Passenger*
*a result of a punt on itunes, random purchase. Lovely.
My Random Lady Godiva
Take Care - Hot Chip
Fat Children - Jarvis Cocker
Rosemary - Randy Newman
Honeysuckle Rose - Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - no, the Richie Havens version
Could have been so much worse.
You couldn't make it up
Strike!-Ry Cooder
I've Tried Everything-Eurythmics ( as a result of the Sopranos actually)
*In Your Back-Keren Ann
Love Gets YouTwisted-Graham Parker & The Rumour
Little Bit O' Time-Nils Lofgren
* A Word Greatest Hit I believe
5 from 21868
1. Dogsong 2 - The Be Good Tanyas
2. Pancho and Lefty - Dick Gaughan
3. King of Thieves - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
4. Paddy Fahy's Reel - Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill
5. The Age of Gold, Introduction - Shostokovich (Gothenburg Symphony cond. Neeme Jarvi)
As others have said, it could have been a lot more embarrassing.
Pebble Mill at One
Lot 105 - Blur
Spoonful - Howlin' Wolf
Midnight in Moscow - Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
Carry That Weight - The Beatles
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
Five nuggets from the goldmine
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning - Frank Sinatra
Feelin' Satisfied - Boston
Catch Hell Blues - The White Stripes
Sunrise - Pulp
Nothingman - Pearl Jam
My iPod is quite insistent in random mode. sometimes I'll skip a song because I don't fancy it and then a few songs later it will put another song up by the same artist as if to say to me "go on you really do fancy a bit of insert artist name here, don't you?"
Mmmm
British Sea Power - Childhood Memories
Tupac - California Love
Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel
Lil' Lavair and the Fabulous Jades - Cold Heat
Depeche Mode - Suffer Well
Could have been a lot lot worse
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock
Babes in Toyland - Mother
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Miss June 75
Dinosaur Jr - The Post
Bright Eyes - Soul Singer in a Session Band
Well, it's ok
Well, it's not necessarily what I'm typically listening to today, but the Great Randomiser in the Pod provides this:
1. Tonight and Forever, Joe Jackson
2. Sleepin' on the Sidewalk, Queen
3. Rosalyn, David Bowie
4. Revolution, The Veronicas
5. Echoes, Pink Floyd
In truth, I'd probably skip at least one of those.
Not as embarrassing as I had hoped
Velvet Underground - Waiting For My Man
Lambchop - Paperback Bible
Chris Botti featuring Paul Buchanan - Are You Lonesome Tonight
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head
Morcheeba featuring Kurt Wagner - What New York Couples Fight About
Think the Lambchop and Morcheeba ones are the only two Kurt Wagner tracks on my ipod so that's a bit odd. Buchanan's (Blue Nile) vocal on Are You Lonesome Tonight is wonderful even by his standards and well worth checking out.
Shuffled
Bruce Springsteen - Pay Me My Money Down
The Nosebleeds - Ain't Bin To No Music School
Kim Richey - Good
The Blue Nile - Happiness
The Divine Comedy - The Frog Princess
That'll do.
Second bite of the cherry...
Battles - TRAS2
The White Stripes - Black Math
Four Tet - As Serious As Your Life (J-Dilla Mix)
The Allman Brothers Band - Done Somebody Wrong (Live at Fillmore East)
Tacks, The Boy Disaster - Paris
Last one was new to me, courtesy of December's cover disc. Quite liking it...
The 4am Drop
It's Time To Break Down: The Supremes
Mercury, The Winged Messenger (from Holst's The Planets): Orchestre Symphonique du Montreal
They Say: Common feat John Legend & Kanye West
Everything I Cannot See: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Metamorphosis Five: Philip Glass
Very nice 4am selection. Good job, iPod.
From my 1GB Zen Stone
Isley Brothers - Who's That Lady
Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
Beach Boys - In My Room
Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band
Barenaked Ladies - If I Had A Million Dollars
The Aretha track is the one I've deflowered every new piece of audio playout equipment that I've possessed for the past 30 years or so. Barenaked Ladies is the official office singalong song.
First five out of the hat go
First five out of the hat go thus:
1. I go walking after midnight-Patsy Cline
2. I can't stand the rain-Eruption
3. 300mph Torrential outpour blues-The White Stripes
4. Sailor song-Regina Spektor
5. I am a poseur-X-ray specs
Bloody hell, I'd forgotten all about X-ray specs. 'Scuse me all, I'm of to dance like a loon round the kitchen
Another 5 from 11346
Leonard Cohen - Democracy
P J Harvey - Grow Grow Grow
Levellers - Bozos
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
Billy Bragg - Body Of Water.
My i-pod has not let me down there, very happy with those five.
Rachel (who I sit next to at work) wants to join in.
"This is making me look much cooler than I actually am".
1) Still Take You Home - Arctic Monkeys (Whatever People Say I Am...)
2) With My Own Two Hands - Jack Johnson (from Curious George)
3) A Bad Dream - Keane (Under The Iron Sea)
4) If God Will Send His Angels - U2 (City of Angels Soundtrack)
5) Sunday - Bloc Party (A Weekend In The City)
Hopefully I'll actually have one by the next time we do this !
Office move finished - let's play!
Here goes...
Tom Waits - Altar Boy
The High Llamas - Period Boy
Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir - Go Tell It On The Mountain
Martha Tilston - Silver Dagger
Lilac Time - Morning Sun
Blimey! Best credibility-protecting random selection imposed on me thus far...
'ere we go then
Monster ballads - Josh ritter - The Animal Years
Three Boats Down From The candy - Marillion - 12" single
Tin Soldier - Small Faces - The Autumn Stone
There Goes God - Crowded House - Recurring Dream
God on my Side - World Party - Goodbye jumbo
Three Boats
Yes (no pun intended)! Three Boats Down From The Candy.
What a great song.
No matter that it is clearly caught in the post-Genesis, burgeoning New Romantic, pre- BritPop era and therefore doesn't know how to get home at the end of a boozy evening, this was Los Marillos at their pretentious best.
Why?
Because in amongst all the strange chord sequences, time signatures and unfathomable (to those with short attention spans) lyrics, they remembered what it most of us listen to music for; that three-and-a-half minutes where reality suspends itself in a glut of melody. Say what you like about them (and most people already have to tiresome degree), but 27 years after buying Market Square Heroes, I'm still listening to them. Which is the point, non?
What? No Jazz?!
Backfire at the Disco - The Wombats
Back In The USSR - Beatles
Lost Art of Keeping A Secret - Queens of the Stone Age
All of the Day and All of the Night - Kinks
Another Girl Another Planet - The Only Ones
And...
Ears To The Ground - Josh Rouse
Like Emily - All About Eve
Phantom Limb - The Shins
No Names - Kate Rusby
Sing Me Sweet - Matt Nathanson
I thank you.
Mr. Sandman - Emmylou
Mr. Sandman - Emmylou Harris
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan
Painted Bells - Boz Scaggs
Other Side of The World - Luther Vandross
Amazon - Michael Franks
I am just delighted that the stuff I put on for my sons birthday party didn't materialise!
Eclectic Mainline...
You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face) - Mudhoney
Nightclubbing - Iggy Pop
One Place - Everything But The Girl
Sæglópur - Sigur Rós
Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
Not quite sure what that says, other than to remind me to check what other stuff my wife has put on MY iPod!
My 5 tracks
ok,here we go..
Street Scene-Benny Carter
Firehouse-Kiss
Cold Gin-Kiss
Killing All The Flies (3/26/04)-Mogwai
Zawinul/Lava-Brian Eno
Hmm.. Wasn't expecting the kiss double dip,was confident for the Grateful Dead to show up,as i have a ton of tracks from them on my shiny new pod.. anyways...
Peace out..
Five Gems!
Crop-Dust-The Fall
I Don't Want To Be Here (Original Demo)-Andy Partridge
Swan-The Andersens
Cars-Katzenjammer
Smackwater Jack-Carole King
Carole King sharing the bill with Mark E!
Ian
This could be embarrassing...
Now let's see:
March From A Clockwork Orange/Various Artists (it says here)
Red Dawn/Mike Oldfield
Overture From Tommy (A Rock Opera)/The Assembled Multitude
Market Song/Pentangle
Dragging Me Down/Inspiral Carpets
Could have been worse.
5 from a newbie
Ring The Bells - James
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
I Miss You Now - Stereophonics
My Funny Valentine - Elvis Costello
When Love Struck You Down - The Proclaimers
My Creative Zen is always on Random Play All. There's about 3,500 songs on tehre, so it regulalry plays a song I haven't heard in aaaaages. However, it will often play 3 in 7 from one artist. Not sure about the random algorithm used by creative.
My Five Tracks.
E.M.I - The Sex Pistols
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
Sing - Blur
Beautiful People - Terry Hall
Refuse To Be Blind - Pulp
Just the 5 then -
Fermanagh Highland etc....Altan
Lewis - Yo La Tengo
AllFor Swinging You Around - The New Pornographers
Pictures at an Exhibition 8. Promenade
Vultures - Jana Hunter
I'm quite pleased with these....
1. David Surkamp (Pavlov's Dog singer) - No Control - from his Roaring With Light CD
2. Spirit - World Eat World Dog - from Farther Along
3. Cracker - Euro-Trash Girl - from The Virgin Years
4. Jethro Tull - Sunshine Day - from the 20 years of Box
5. Barry Benson - Cousin Jane - Fairytales Can Com... (I think this may be a late 60s psych/pop album I read about and downloaded).
a bunch of...
Simon
Oh dear...
The Bunker - Beirut
Never Had A Dream Come True - SClub7
Aint No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Undercover Of The Night - Rolling Stones
Dreams By The Sea - John Martyn
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Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club - Blur
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
The Order of Death - Public Image Ltd.
Karmacoma - Massive Attack
Cannibal's Hymn - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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Babyshambles - Unstookie Titled
U2 - Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Richie Allen & The Pacific Surfers - Undercurrent
Saint Etienne - Mountain Rain
Terry Lee Hale - Dead Is Dead
hi, and welcome to jazz club.
01. a love that never grows cold - jimmy & louise tig and company (dave godin's deep soul treasures, volume 2)
02. section iiib - steve reich (music for 18 musicians)
03. coffin for head of state (part 2) - fela kuti (music is the weapon)
04. karma police - radiohead (ok computer vinyl rip)
05. hora decubitus - charles mingus (mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus)
My first go...
I've drawn...
New Order - Blue Monday
Alfie - Where Did Our Loving Go?
New Order - Shellshock
Inspiral Carpets - Sackville
Jarvis - I Will Kill Again
Seems to be favouring the music of my adopted home of Manchester today. In 5th it actually brough up one of my own demo's, should I have listed this instead of Jarv (6th)? Thought it might have seemed a bit suspect if I had included it...
Oh Dear . . .
Chocolate City by Parliament
The Greatest Love Of All by George Benson
She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5
A Man Needs A Maid by Neil Young
Work It by Missy Elliott
Total playcount? A mighty 12, or less than three apiece. I'll g me c . . .
To get this up to 100...
Neil Diamond - We
Lovage - Pit Stop (Take Me Home)
Cassetteboy - (That's Enough Meaningless Track Names - Ed)
David Ruffin - My World Ended (The Moment You Left)
Amelia - Between The Bars
Today's choices
1. Men's Needs - The Cribs
2. Sparky's Dream - Teenage Fanclub
3. Gone - U2
4. Cowboys - Portishead
5. Can't Tell Me Nothing - Kanye West
I like this game
My second entry on this page... here goes
1.Led Zeppelin - Sick Again
2.Ed Harcourt - Little Silver Bullet
(I'm doing quite well so far, haven't heard this Harcourt b-side in a while, it's great!)
3.Pulp - Pencil Skirt(Peel Session version)
4.Johnny Cash - San Quentin (live at SQ)
5.Misty's Big Adventure - I Killed The Neighbours
(anyone into these? Quirky brilliance.)