1. Clean Money - Elvis Costello
2. Power to the People - John Lennon
3. 1984 - David Bowie
4. What Comes Next? - Yo La Tengo
5. The Bastard Son Of Dean Friedman - HMHB

Well could have been more embarrassing!

Naim Karakand - Kamanagah
The Rich Morton Sound - Vinyl Score
Seven Gallon Jug Band - Wipe Em Off
Davie Allen & The Arrows - Apache Junction
Abba - Hole In Your Soul

1. Unbeliever - Therapy?
2. Goodnight America - Mary Chapin Carpenter
3. Crying - Roy Orbison
4. One - U2
5. Crash - the Primitives

I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations
Good Time Boy - Buffalo Springfield
You're The Nearest Thing To Heaven - Johnny Cash
Go On And Cry - The Mynah Birds
The One That Got Away - Tom Waits

Merry Christmas y'all...

1. Project Talk - RZA
2. It's Enough - Sleater-Kinney
3. Nude - Radiohead
4. My Song - Aretha Franklin
5. Whatever Makes You Happy - Paul Westerberg

1. Searchin' - Hazell Dean
2. Looking for Elvis - Patti Scialfa
3. Natwest Barclays Midland Lloyds - Manic Street Preachers
4. Strawberry Fields Forever (v. 4) - HJH from Anthology 2
5. Nobody's Diary - Yazoo

1) Digeridoo - Aphex Twin
2) The Hall Of Mirrors - Kraftwerk
3) Union Square - Tom Waits
4) The Long Spring - Explosions In The Sky
5) Pristeen - Julian Cope

Cow - Sparklehorse
Telling Lies - David Bowie
Strangers When we meet - David Bowie
Prelude de la Porte Heroique du Ciel - Satie played by Reinbert De Leeuw
Fire in the zoo - Mulatu Astake and the Heliocentrics

1 After Hours - Caribou
2 Take your love and shove it - Joe Pesci
3 The Devil in disguise - Flying Burrito brothers
4 Hello stranger - The Carter family
5 She says - Frank Sinatra

1. Slow Jam '98 - Fear Of Pop
2. Shell Game - Jerry Jeff Walker
3. Kingdom Of The Birds - Ian Neal
4. Piano Concrete MQ LP48/5 - John Baker
5. The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

The Flower of Carnage - Kill Bill soundtrack
Fatalism(Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi remix) - Massive Attack
We are the Champions - Queen
Slap and Tickle - Squeeze
Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie

1. Apparently Nothin' - Young Disciples
2. Who By Fire - Leonard Cohen
3. Am I Blue - Ray Charles
4. Surf's Up - Brian Wilson
5. I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree - The Sleepy Jackson

Paperback Writer - Beatles
Kings and Queens - Killing Joke
Paradise - Stranglers
Steam Fist Futurist - Andy Partridge
Summer Love - Frank Sinatra

1- No Surface All Feeling, Manic Street Preachers

2- Aunties and Uncles (Impulsive Youths), The Jam

3- You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing, Los Campesinos

4- Nine Acre Court, The Charlatans

5- Josefin, First Aid Kit

1. Love Minus Zero - Bob Dylan
2. Hysteric - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. Los Angeles - Phosphorescent
4. She Don't Love Me No More - The Aliens
5. Wut - Girl Unit

The Magnetic Fields - Abigail, Belle Of Kilronan
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Polly Come Home
Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere
Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin
The Orb - Majestic

(Todays randomizer was brough to you via last.fm - my iPod is at home)

She's Leaving Home - Beatles
Hunt - Goldfrapp
Wondering - Neil Young (live)
Things We Said Today - Beatles
Lazy Old Sun - Kinks

Look After Yourself/Stars
Help Is On It's Way/Glen Shorrock
Sally Go Round The Roses/The Jaynettes
Cecilia/Simon & Garfunkel
I Do/The Marvelows

Raging Sea - Steve Winwood
Sitting In My Hotel - The Kinks
Lullay Lullay (The Coventry Carol) - Annie Lennox (I know, I know)
Children Of The Moon - Alan Parsons Project
End Of The Road - Tom Jones & Jools Holland

Aren't You The Girl - Tim Buckley
Jumble Sale Mums -Suede
Judas Mon Coeur - Belly
VCR - The XX
Hey Hey My My - Neil Young and Crazy Horse

I'm doing the randomiser and writing this post all on my phone. I could be some time...

Elbow - An Audience With The Pope
Laura Marling - My Manic And I
The Flaming Lips - A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
Radiohead - 15 Step
Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die (Parts 1-4)

Turning Point - Brian Wilson
Bend and Break - Keane
When I'm Gone - Brenda Holloway
My Star - Ian Brown
Ina Trouble - Borgore

Soft Wold Tread - Grant Lee Buffalo
Drinking Muddy Water - Buddy Guy
The Lyre Of Orpheus - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Hit The North (Part 1) - The Fall

None of my daughter's JLS! Victory is mine!

as I have only 500 or so on the ipod at the mo´, all of them oldies

She´s leaving home - Macca from Back in the World
Time - Tom Waits from Beautiful Maladies
Ground Hog - Pete Seeger
Sun Zoom Park - Magic Band ( fitting ! )
Spanish Castle Magic - Jimi Hendrix

Thou Shalt Always Kill - Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
A Month of Sundays - Cherry Ghost
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
I've Changed My Plea To Guilty - Morrissey
The Power Of Love (extended) - FGTH

Unhappy anniversary - Loudon Wainwright
Monkey Man - Toots & the Maytals
Joke shop man - Bonzos
Boys don't cry - The Cure
Takin' on the world - Amsterdam

Here goes...........

1. Bob Dylan - Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart
2. Paul Westerbrg - Cackle and Drag
3. The Low Anthem - Ticket Taker
4. Blakroc - Dollaz & Sense
5. Counting Crows - Mr Jones

I'm quiet pleased with that lot.

Who Loves The sun - Velvet Underground
She La Na Gig (live 1993) - PJ Harvey
Green Shirt (demo version) Elvis Costello
Barabadabada - Ivor Cutler
Body Movin (Fat Boy Slim Remix) - Beastie Boys

Jealous Guy (8 Track Imagine Sessions) - John Lennon Anthology
Ask [Live] The Smiths - Rank [Live]
Escape Pod Stereolab - Oscillions Fron The Anti Sun
Ventilator Blues Pussy Galore - Exile On Main Street
Kiss And Make Up Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Red Right Hand
Billy Bragg / NPWA
Nick Drake / Black Eyed Dog
Super Furry Animals / Fragile Happiness
Teenage Fanclub / Every Picture I Paint

That's good, I was worried I might have to tell you about that Shakira song I'm hiding!

Whoops.

The boy in the pciture - The Seahorses
Numb - Jamelia doing a Linkin Park cover
Pick up the pieces - Average White Band
The outsiders - Athlete
Pushing the senses - Feeder

Slip Away by David Bowie

Standing In The Doorway by Bob Dylan

Slap & Tickle by Squeeze

Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison

Lay Down Your Weary Tune by Bob Dylan

Better Than Sunday - Ladyhawke
Across the Great Divide - The Band
For me - Mara Carlyle
Introduction - Tim Buckley (from Dream Letter, Live in London)
Somewhere in Between - Kate Bush

The fourth one is the dud, not because it's uncool or anything, but because it's not a song at all - it's just the lead-up to his arrival on stage. Bloody itunes, I thought I'd deselected that track...

The Wait - Killing Joke
Film - The Church
Reward - The Church
The Wait - The Pretenders
Downstream - Supertramp.

Not that random really eh?

1) Nha Mame - Manecas Costa - Paraiso Di Gumbe (an aural antidote to the weather)
2) It's Just Work for Me - Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine
3) I Wish I Were In Love Again - Tony Bennett - Perfectly Frank
4) Help Me Lift You Up - Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
5) I Was Made to Love Her - Stevie Wonder - Mowtown Chartbusters

Martin Doom It's Seven O'clock -The Boo Radleys
For No One -The Beatles
Ride Like The Wind-Christopher Cross
Touch Feel Lose-Ryan Adams
Steady As She Goes-The Raconteurs

Hymns to the Silence - Van Morrison
You'll See - Susan Boyle
The Mayor of Simpleton - XTC
Dig yourself deep - The Undertones
Precious Love - James Morrison

Why these out of 9000 tracks.

Ram On - Paul McCartney
For the Sake of the Song - Townes van Zandt
Betrayed - Peter Hammill
When I Paint My Masterpiece - Chris Whitley
Last Five - Archive

1. These Days - Jackson Browne
2. Pink O Boogie - Ry Cooder
3. Have You Ever Loved a Woman? - Freddie King
4. Money (That's What I Want) - Buddy Guy
5. Anji - Davy Graham.

Well. Just when it would have been convenient for some cheese to pop up I end up with one of the coolest shuffles I've ever had.

A Christmas song from the small playlist I made last week appears at the end.
1) I Saw the Light - Todd Rundgren
2) Something - HJHMs
3) Black Crow (Live) - Joni Mitchell
4) Drag the Lake, Charlie - Drive-by Truckers
5) I Want an Alien for Christmas - Fountains of Wayne

Merry Christmas!

Frou- Frou Foxes In Midsummer - Cocteau Twins
White Winter Hymnal Fleet Foxes
Liberteen Rag Edwyn Collins
Love Is Strange Everything But The Girl
You Told A Lie Camera Obscura

A Miss From Diss - The Singing Postman
A New Career In A New Town - David Bowie
Seven Forty Seven - Boards Of Canada
Isn't It Time? - The Babys
Eddie's Dream - The Small Faces

Gunslinger Man - The Long Ryders
The Beat Goes On - Normil Hawaiians
To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) - Dave Rawlings Machine (from a Word of Mouth CD!)
Monday Morning - Pulp
Polythene Pam - The HJHs

30 days in the hole - Humble Pie
last night - the Mar-Keys
grinding halt - the Cure
steamboat - the beach Boys
flor d'luna - Santana

1. Start Me Up/The Rolling Stones, Forty Licks
2. Avalanche/Ryan Adams, Love Is Hell
3. Straight Time/Bruce Springsteen, Live 1996 bootleg
4. The Power Is Gone/Eugene Kemp, The Heart Of Southern Soul
5. Main Title/Nino Rota, The Godfather soundtrack

Nick Drake - Sunday
The Ravens - A Simple Prayer
The Metronome All Stars - Victory Ball
Elvis Presley - Long Tall Sally
Soledad Brothers - Lowdown Streamline

World Leader Pretend - REM
Play It Cool - Super Furry Animals
Propaganda - Sparks
Pistol Of Fire - Kings Of Leon (they like fire a bit too much huh?)
Til I Fell In Love - Bob Dylan

1. Goldfish Bowl - The Stereophonics
2. Ballad of a Teenage Queen - Johnny Cash, Roseanne Cash, The Everly Bros
3. She's Too Much For My Mirror - Captain Beefheart
4. Vanity Fair - Squeeze
5. Chaos - UNKLE

...that's better !

1. Adelaide - Ben Folds
2. Dream Brother - Jeff Buckley
3. The American Life - Julian Cope
4. Fuck Me Pumps - Amy Winehouse
5 Prettiest Eyes - The Beautiful South

We Got The Funk - Positive Force
The Secret Life of Arabia - Bowie
The Rite of Spring Part 2 (arranged for piano duet) - Stravinsky
Revolution - Beatles
Corpus Christi Carol - Jeff Buckley

1.Ezio - At That Moment
2. Moby - The Sky Is Broken
3. Robyn Hitchcock - Cathedral
4. Daft Punk - Television Rules The Nation / Crescendolls
5. David Bowie - The Supermen

1. Out of the Bag 2: Seamus Heaney
2. Corona: Calexico
3. Falling In Love Again: William Burroughs
4. We Don't Own It: Joan As A Policewoman
5. Bendeable Poseable: Hot Chip

Kauai - Dave Brock
Juliette - Little Feat
Think - The Rolling Stones
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Poem 58 - Chicago

Hipster heaven huh?

1. Room To Roam - Waterboys
2. Tiny Demons - Todd Rundgren
3. UFOs Over Baghdad - Flaming Lips
4. You're Wondering Now - Specials
5. But Not For Me - Chet Baker

Playing In The Band - Grateful Dead - Winterland 1973 complete
Eep Hour - Jerry Garcia - Garcia
Dear Mr. Fantasy - Grateful Dead - 1989-10-09 Hampton
Bertha - Grateful Dead - 1977-07-09 Buffalo
Uncle John's Band - Phil & Friends - 1999-04-15 The Warfield

Here's mine.....

1. Off The Wall - Little Walter (Blues With A Feeling)
2. Take Me I'm Yours - Squeeze (Greatest Hits)
3. Don't Pass Your Judgement - Memphis Nomads (Complete Stax / Volt Singles Disc 9)
4. .....In That Quiet Earth - Genesis (Wind & Wuthering)
5. Hell In A Bucket - Grateful Dead (In The Dark)

Ian McNabb - The Human Heart and How it Works
Fine Young Cannibals - Blue
Lambchop - Timothy B. Schmidt
The Felice Brothers - Take this Hammer
Eels - My Beloved Monster

Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren
XTC - Grass
The Ethiopeans - Train to Skaville
Fleet Foxes - Your Protector
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground

Joanna Newsome - Ribbon Bows
The Band - Tears of Rage
Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street
Trader Horne - Here Comes the Rain
David Bowie - It Ain't Easy

An exceptionally Word-friendly selection I reckon. And completely unrepresentative of the contents of the ipod.

1) Devon Sproule - The Well-Dressed Son To His Sweetheart.
2) The Jimi Hendix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love.
3) Duke Ellington - Suite Thursday: Lay-By.
4) The National - Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks.
5) The Aliens - Smoggy Bog.

Not too shabby.

Slow Down - The Jam
When the War Came - The Decemberists
Verisimilitude - Teenage Fanclub
Couple Dancing - Luke Haines
Send Herman Home - Microdisney

my festive five penneth worth of random;

1. love is not enough - nine inch nails
2. mother - john lennon
3. enjoy the silence - depeche mode
4. TV eye - iggy and the stooges
5. dealer - john martyn

not too shabby, although no.2 and 4 might fluster granny a bit over the xmas dinner!

I Am A Pilgrim - The Byrds
Bending The Strings - The Dillards
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - CSNY live
Return Of Django - The Upsetters
Nobody Hurts You - Graham Parker

girls town ska - baba brookes
since i met you baby - ivory joe hunter
blues to be there - duke ellington
fire - magnetic man
wish someone would care - irma thomas

have fun folks

Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody - Joni Mitchell
Does He Love You? - Rilo Kiley
Colors - Portugal, The Man
You've Got A Friend In Me - Randy Newman
Ballard of John Parker - Willard Grant Conspiracy

The Price you pay - Bruce Springsteen
Leave my kitten alone - Elvis Costello
Antarctica - Mary Coughlan
The club - Nick Lowe
My mothers handbag - Chris Difford

John Baker - The Tape Recorder
Al Green - School Days
The Bureau - Find A Way
Johnny Clarke - Peace And Love In The Ghetto
Talking Heads - I Zimbra

1. slow movement of Mahler 6 which seemed nicely to capture the existential doubt & fear of whether I was going to make my connection at Nuneaton

2. Dave Brubeck's Pick up Sticks (well suited to sprinting across the platform).

3. Stop Dragging my Bag (sorry, heart) around by Stevie Nicks

4. Sleepless by King Crimson

and 5. was a particularly bleak and windswept bit of Prokoviev's Romeo and Juliet (again, well suited to Asda's cashpoint at Nuneaton-I had indeed missed the connection ...)

When #6 turned out to be Early Morning Rain in the slightly limp Judy Collins version I began to assume iPod was taking the piss of the morose traveller ... though turned out to be a nice seed for a Genius playlist.

I'm a long-time poster, first-time randomizerer (or something).

I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too) - The Pet Shop Boys
In a Sentimental Mood - Ella Fitgerald
Holly Up on Poppy - Andy Partridge
Venus & Mars / Rock Show - The Langley Schools Music Project
Bike - Pink Floyd

Sufjan Stevens: The Owl and the Tanager
Brian Eno: Understars
The Imagined Village: The Handweaver and the Factory Maid
Bruce Springsteen: Candy's Boy
Jackson Browne& David Lindley: El Rayo X (Live)

Tracey Thorn, nowhere near - 1st track on out of the woods
Mexicani Marimba Band - 12 days of christmas - itunes freebie
The Undertones - Casbah Rock - from The Undertones
Babylon Sisters- Steely Dan from Alive in America
Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Number 6 was Ceremony by Joy Divison from Heart & Soul
7 Repo Man by Iggy Pop.

You know, apart from the Mariachi band I'm rather pleased with that lot

but a none too shabby....
Mavis Staples: You are not Alone (from Word)
The Beatles: Something
Muse: Stockholm Syndrome
The Smiths: Sheila Take A Bow
Frank Turner: Imperfect Tense

1. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Love Burns
2. Weezer- Only In Dreams
3. Darlene Love- Marshmallow World
4. Peter Auty- Walking In The Air
5. Housemartins- You Better Be Doubtful

TWO festive songs? It's a Christmas miracle!

Scott Matthews - Earth To Calm
Roots Manuva - Kicking The Cack
Mogwai - With Portfolio
Four Tet - Twenty Three
Scott Matthews - Eyes Wider Than Before

Phone version (much less music to shuffle).

1: JC Hates Faggots - John Grant
2: Tighten Up (live) - The Black Keys
3: Sun King - those Beatles chancers
4: Calling It Quits - Aimee Mann
5: Not A Second Time - bunch of scousers with no prospects

1. Star for a Week - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
2. Obviously 5 Believers - Bob Dylan
3. Shine It all Around - Robert Plant & the Strange Sensation
4. Instellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
5. Day and Night - Man

I have to confess that number 3 was really a Melvyn Bragg In Our Time podcast on Sturm und Drang. But as Mr Hepworth clearly stated "tunes".....

unless anyone's hoping for a Dukla Prague away kit.

Dukla Prague Away Kit, Half Man Half Biscuit
Smile, The Jayhawks
Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken? Lloyd Cole
Manian, Rokia Traoré
Another Pearl, Badly Drawn Boy

Elvis Costello: Joe Porterhouse
Prince: The Cross
Kate Bush: An Architect's Dream
The Impressions: We're In Love
Grandaddy: Saddest Vacant Lot In All The World

C W MacCall - Convoy
Julie Covington - I Want to See The Bright Lights Tonight
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - You Got Living
Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Francis Rossi - Faded Memory

1. Ooberman – Souls of the Northern Lights

2. Gorillaz – To Binge

3. Smashing Pumpkins – Thirty-Three

4. Suede – This Hollywood Life

5. Doves – The Outsiders

Tombstone Eyes - Dickey Betts & Great Southern (Let's Get Together)
Forever Lillie May - Sonny Landreth (Prodigal Son)
Face In The Frame - Steve Knightley (Track Of Words)
We Are The Champions - Queen (Greatest Hits)
The Imposter - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (Get Happy!!)

1. Small Faces: E Too D
2. Preston Reed: Love In The Old Country
3. Sugar Minnot: So Many Things
4. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Overture, The Marriage of Figaro
5. Sally Oldfield: Mirrors

Like cradlerock above, there was a stray speech track came up between 2&3. The fact it was "You Cunt" by Derek & Clive makes me think I should be careful in case I ever put the iPod on in the presence of my in-laws or small children.

1. Mahmoud Ahmed - Metche New

2. Scott Walker - Through a Long and Sleepless Night

3. Jackie Mittoo - Jumping Jack

4. Randy Newman - Have You Seen My Baby?

5. Kate Bush - King of the Mountain

Steamroller-James Taylor
Nueva Vida-Ojos De Brujo
You Really Got Me-The Kinks
It Tears Me Up-Elvis Costello and the Confederates
Tokoloshe Man-John Kongos

Someday - The Strokes
In The Flowers - Animal Collective ( Merriweather Post Pavillion)
Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues - Beatles (Anthology 3)
Everybody Takes a Tumble - The Waterboys (Book of Lightning)
The Only One - Billy Bragg (Worker's Playtime)

29 thousand songs and the first 5 pretty much nail my tastes
I've just flicked through the next 30 and I'm not randomising again for a while, it's all good

Harbor Lights - Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees

Feeling Alright - James Last - The Triptych

The Be-all & End-all - Bic Runga - Birds [bonus disc]

New Years Baby - Jane Siberry - Child [Music For The Christmas Season]

Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It - Belle & Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds

1. A Condemned Man - Elvis Costello (National Ransom)
2. My Michelle - Guns N' Roses (Appetite For Destruction)
3. Chalice In The Palace - U-Roy (Dread In A Babylon)
4. Lion's Den - Bruce Springsteen (Tracks)
5. Edge Of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks (Bella Donna)

A very happy Christmas to all here

could I complete the "Name the song, artist and album" test.

Queen of the Slipstream - Van Morrison
For All My Days (Kidnapped)- Roy Budd off Get Budd
Coattail Rider - The Supersuckers
The Rodeo Song - Garry Lee & Showdown
Wear My Ring Around Your Neck - Ricky Van Shelton (from Honeymoon in Vegas)

No Hip Hop was a surprise.
Come on in my Kitchen-Delaney and Bonnie (Motel Shot)
It can't be True -Eddie Holman (Single)
Juke Joint Johhny - Lattie Moore (Roots of Rockabilly)
Rex's Blues -Jay Farrar & Kelly Willis (Son Volt. a retrospective 95-00)
Fearless -Pink Floyd (Meddle)

Like A Rolling Stone (Bootleg Series) - Bob Dylan
Dad's Gonna Kill Me - Richard Thompson
Stony Road - Chris Rea
Apache - The Shadows
Cold, Cold, Cold (live) - Little Feat

Phew! - not bad

1 New York Tenderberry/Laura Nyro
2 Sweet Gene Vincent/Ian Dury & The Blockheads
3 Lightnin' Strikes One More Time/Lightnin' Hopkins
4 Tomorrow Never Knows/The Beatles
5 Jesus Christ/Big Star

"Mrs Robinson" - Lemonheads
"November Starlings" - Trembling Blue Stars
"I Believe" - My Bloody Valentine
"Brittlesticks" - Fields
"Model, Actress, Whatever..." - The Wedding Present

1. The Rain - Hothouse Flowers (some obscure B-side)
2. Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
3. Dialing Tone - Will Kevans (no memory of this song at all - from an album I reviewed some months ago)
4. Blue - Sarah McLachlan
5. Don't Let Me Be Lonely - The Isley Brothers

Sha La La (Make Me Happy) - Al Green (from a collection)
In the Twilight Zone - The Astors (from Stax/Volt box set)
All Grown Up - The Crystals (from Back to Mono Phil Spector box set)
John Wayne is Big Leggy - Haysi Fantaysee
Farewell My Friend - Dennis Wilson (from Pacific Ocean Blue).

Only one from an actual LP. How very iPod.

Quick as White - Kasai Allstars
Beyond the Pale - Procol Harum
Taste - Animal Collective
So Many Things - Françoise Hardy
T Bone - The Rakes

Maria McKee - Smarter (from Life is Sweet)
Bruce Springsteen - Candy's Room (from DOTEOT)
Badly Drawn Boy - Walking Out Of Stride (from About A Boy)
Jayhawks - Crowded In The Wings (from Hollywood Town Hall)
Frank Sinatra - It's A Lonesome Old Town (from Only The Lonely)

Echate Pa'lla - by Quantic/Flowering Inferno
Dufay's Gloria - by Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) (Mono) - by the Beatles
[oh, great]
Vignette III - by Bellowhead
Limelight - by Rush

Might not have assembled that playlist by myself, I'll admit that.

Season's greetings, everyone.

Good Times - Chic
Wait for me - Anaïs Mitchell
The boys of summer - Don Henley
Lean on me - Bill Withers
Wagon wheel - Lou Reed

Actually I cheated. My first track was actually Day of the locusts by Bob Dylan, but I didn't think anyone would believe me...!

1. Mercury Rev - The Dark Is Rising
2. Mercury Rev - Trickle Down
3. Hot Chip - Slush
4. Drever / McClusker / Woomble - Rest On The Rock
5. British Sea Power - Down On The Ground

The double Mercury Rev is an interesting anomaly. The Hot Chip song is horrible, a blight on an otherwise great album.

Never fails to delight, the auld shuffle

1. Blackout. David Bowie
2. It doesn't matter. James Taylor Quartet / Cleveland Watkins
3. Eden. Talk Talk
4. Mary's boy child. Harry Belafonte
5. My one and only love. Ella Fitzgerald

1. A BBC4 Documentary "The Ghost Trains of Old England" (fascinating, looks at obscure train lines that only have one train a week or even less as its cheaper than closing them down. Stockport-Stalybridge via Denton anyone?)

2. The Engineers - Lets Just See

3. The Orb - Into the Fourth Dimension - The Orb

4. Everything Everything - Schoolin'

5. Wild Beasts - The Old Dog

I'm happy with that! Thanks Ipod. Thipod.

Cinematic Orchestra - All that You Give
Art of Noise - Wet Dream
Prince - I Would Die "4" You (extended mix)
Cut Chemist - The Audience is Listening
John Lennon - Happy Christmas (War is Over)

Joshua Come Home/Solstice(Wind Harp)/Symphonion Montage - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (from Symphonion Dream)

The Everyday Story of Smalltown - XTC (from The Big Express)

Saturday Night Waltz - Fiddlin' Bob Larkan (from sampler Echoes of the Ozarks)

Life In a Scotch Sitting Room Vol.2 Ep.12 - Ivor Cutler (from John Peel Tribute Show)

Front o' Town - Booker Ervin/Pony Poindexter/Larry Young (from Gumbo)

David Bowie - Stay
Gene Clark - Because of You
Nick Drake - At the Chime of a City Clock
The Zombies - Maybe after He's Gone
Bowie again - Wild is the Wind

Jurassic 5 - DDT
The Hold Steady - Party Pit
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (audio book) - 'A Savage Invitation from the Police...'
Lloyd Cole - Modern World (from Live in New York)
Public Enemy - Party for Your Right Fight
PS: Sixth song was Fils d'Immigrés by La Rumeur, an extraordinarily brilliant French hip hop collective

break your promise -The Delfonics
everything a good man needs - Billie Holiday
match box blues- Blind Lemon Jefferson
the fat lady of limbourg -Brian Eno
See that my gave is kept clean- Blind Lemon Jefferson

son of-judy collins
cover me-eddie hinton
he's a good lad-bread
mabel-procol harem
psi power-hawkwind

A Well Respected Man - The Kinks
Ha Ha Man - Guided By Voices
Cotton Balls - Killdozer
If I Was With a Woman - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Badlands - Bruce Springsteen

The Pretenders: 2000 Miles
The Be Good Tanyas: Dogsong 2
Santana: This Boy's Fire
Miracle Fortress: Hold Your Secrets to Your Heart
Joan Armatrading: Persona Grata

Foot of the mountain - Paul Weller
Lakeside Park - Rush
Waiting for Saturday Night - Dr Feelgood
Pretty as you Please - Cry of Love
Are You Man Enough? - The Four Tops

Everything's Turning to White - Paul Kelly
Sierra Morena - David Axelrod
Den Todd - Bach, Morimor
I am a Man of Constant Sorrow - Soggy Bottom Boys
Cracking Up - Jesus & Mary Chain

Before randomly serenading me with at least five summer related songs during a damp commute home last night the trusty 'Pod spat out the following:

Belfast Child - Simple Minds
Don't bring me down - Goldrush
Slumming Angel - Rory Gallagher
A matter of time - The Leisure Society
Concerto for Flute & Harp K299 - Mozart/Guiseppe Sinopoli

komakino - Joy Division
rebel rebel - Bowie
ice age - joy division
my dark places -television personalities
my beloved monster - eels

Bruce Springsteen -Reason to Believe (live) Austin Powers -Just the Two of us Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook extended mix) Gunter Kallman Choir -Daydream Mega City Four - Peripheral Well I was pleased with this till the F.P.O. said Mega City Four sounded like McFly????

Shine a light - The Constantines
Love in your heart - Kevin Coyne
Good Dancers - The Sleepy Jackson
Party of the mind - The Sound
Simply Thrilled Honey - Orange Juice

Street Life - Roxy Music
Nice To Be Nice - Pugwash
Another Day - Bruce Hornsby
Fools Paradise - Don McLean
Around and Around - The Rolling Stones

So can I stay or do I have to go - cast out into the snowy wastes as winter tightens its grip? Could you really be that heartless?

1. November Has Come : Gorillaz
2. I've Gotta Know Right Now : Rose Valentine
3. Button Fo Yo' Popcorn : Brother Jack McDuff
4. Since You Been Gone : Kelly Clarkson
5. Sally Simpson : The Who

Had Enough - The Enemy
Cousteau - Charlotte Hatherley
Yellow (Live) - Coldplay (from a Q cover disk)
The Quechua Song - Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble
Soul Redeemer - The Motors

Good old Santa!

I've twiddled me thing and this is what fell out:

Hard Being Me : UFO
Simple Man : Bad Company
Here I Am : Steve Earle
Bluebird Wine : Emmylou Harris
That's How Strong My Love Is : Buddy Miller

Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 - Muse
Roundabout - Yes
Suburbia - Pet Shop Boys
Time - David Gilmour Live in Gdansk
Cedars of Lebanon - U2

...there's a lot of Bowie going on here isn't there?

Way Back Into Love Drew Barrymore & Hugh Grant (!)
King And Queen of England Sandy Denny
Chance Meeting Roxy Music
Oh Sister (Hard Rain) The CIPCOYW? hitmaker
With A Little Help From My Friends The New Seekers

open all night - bruce springsteen
looking for the summer - chris rea
one summer dream - elo
once you love - steve earle
only you - flying pickets

Me And Baz - Blue Rodeo
No Cuttin' Loose - James Cotton
Smoke - Alejandro Escovedo
Daisy Jane - America
Baby - Lloyd Cole

KC and the Sunshine Band - Give it up
Judas Priest - Breaking the law
The Durutti Column - Madeleine
The Cramps - Psychotic Reaction
The Smith - What she said

Steal My Kisses - Ben Harper
Whiskey Rock-A-Rolla - Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Dream - The Cure
Daily Grind (Live) - Little Feat
My Heart Is My Clock - Dan Donnelly

......other than the warmth of my greeting to my fellow wordies - thanks for the thousands of words, humour, intellect, controversy and all the rest. Here's to another year of the same!

Hope to meet a number of you guys at the January "do", assuming that the transport infrastructure has been sorted by then.

as they pop up, so no idea just how embarrassing this might be:

Deacon Blues - Steely Dan
Honky Tonkin' - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Jesus will fix it - Snooks Eaglin
I feel so good - Muddy Waters
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music

Not as bad as it might have been (Andrea True Connection, Big Tom & the Mainliners, and Stompin' Tom Connors are all in there) but I would like to protest that I do have plenty of music from the noughties and even from 2010.

1. John martyn - Eibhli Ghail Ni Chearbaill - Sweet Little mysteries - Island anthology
2. Herbie hancock - It Ain't Necessarily So - Gershwins World.
3. Little Feat - The fan(Live) - Hoy-Hoy
4. kurt Elling - Whats New - Dedicated to you
5. E. clapton & S. Winwood - Pearly Queen - Live from MSG.

Phew - no blushes.

A cool yule to you all.

i-Pod getting a thrashing from my 'flu bed: any seasonality will be a glitch so here goes

(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear - Blondie
Best Days - Blur
E-Pro - Beck
Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode
Jumping Jack Flash - Rolling Stones

(phew: if track 4 had come out last it would have been highly questionable)
Merry Christmas One And All

The End of The Rainbow - Richard & Linda Thompson
Penthouse Letter's - Bill Hicks
It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier - Tom Lehrer
Effects: Get Art Of It! - Vernon Elliot & The Vernon Elliot Ensemble
Hypnotize - The White Stripes

A real mixed bag!

1. Incident On 57th Street - Bruce Springsteen
2. Knives Out - Radiohead
3. I'm In Love With A Girl - Big Star
4. Dream On - Aerosmith
5. Love Is The Message - M.F.S.B

Where the hell did No.5 come from??

Over the hills and far away - John Tams
Lady in Waiting - Don McLean
Queen Among the Heather - June Tabor
Up Against The Wall - Be Good Tanyas
The Plough - The Divine Comedy

Five Guys Named Moe - Joe Jackson
Brand New Cadilac - The Clash
Peaches -Stranglers
Kill- Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranois
The History of the World - The Damned

Martin Orford (prog rock keyboard player) - The Overload
Kula Shaker - Cavalry
Bruce Springsteen - I Wish I Were Blind
Bachdenkel (obscure prog) - Stalingrad
Yes (is there a pattern here?) - Amazing Grace

1- Swimming places (Sebastian Ingrosso Re-edit) - Julien Jabre - Chilled album 1991 - 2008
2 - Time Fades - Tallulah Rendall (Libellus album)
3 - Fjoll i austri fagurbla - Sigur Ros & Steindor Anderson
4 - Raining in Baltimore - Counting Crows (Across a wire live in New York City)
5 - Lies - The Black Keys (Attack & Release)

Now thats a strange mixture and not a combination I would normally put together.

Below the Radar - Grant Geissman
Never Called You Crazy - Galactic
Retro Boy - Richard Elliot
Spunky & Corissa - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Warehouse (Live) - Dave Matthews Band

And for my first attempt (takes deep breath because our ipod has music belonging to me, the FPO and the 5 year old daughter...)

1. Buffalo Springfield - Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing
2. The Bangles - Dover Beach
3. Chet Baker - I've Never Been In Love Before
4. Oasis - Live Forever (Demo)
5. Black Grape - Shake Yer Money

Phew, got away with it!

The Wedding March - Prefab Sprout
Arigato We Love You - Pizzicato Five
Another Plane Went - Shawn Colvin
Little Musgrave - John Wesley Harding
Black Peter - Grateful Dead

Revolutionary Kind - Gomez
Take Me To The River - Talking Heads
When It Falls - Zero 7
Wall - The Egg
Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Artist - track /album

1. Beirut - My Wife / March of the Zapotec
2. Sigur Rós - Starálfur / Hvarf-Heim
3. The Bees - This Is For The Better Days / Now Hear This! Word 51
4. Girls Aloud - The Promise / Out Of Control
5. Warpaint - Composure / The Fool

Pretty pleased with that!

1. Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
2. The Decemberists - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
3. Black Prairie - Red Rocking Chair
4. Elbow - Mexican Standoff
5. Pixies - Holiday Song

Could have been worse - children's/husband's music sucessfully avoided

Over recent years I had become a geezer who listened to almost all my music by sticking in earbuds and whacking the random button.
Then six months ago I came here and soon afterwards the speakers were hooked up and I was playing albums again.
If I was going to thank you lot for anything it would be that. And for making me laugh more than anything else this year.
Oh, alright then:

The National - Green Gloves
The Felice Brothers - Little Ann
James Carr - These Aint Raindrops
Madonna - Like A Prayer
The Revenants - The Emperor

Stay safe and enjoy the holidays!

Cato Salsa Experience "Waiting For The Summer Sun"
Fatima Mansions "Chemical Cosh"
Johnny Thunders "She's So Untouchable"
Creatures "Miss The Girl"
Dreadzone "Little Britain"

Anytime, Anywhere - Frank Sinatra
Modern World - Jonathan Richman
To Be Myself Completely - Belle & Sebastian
Basket Case - Green Day
The Strange Museum - Paul Weller

In real time:
The River Hymn - The Band (again)
Seesaw - Aretha Franklin
Pneumonia - Bjork
Yaafa n'ma - Rokia Traore
Haul Me Up - Richard Thompson

Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed
Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun (what are the odds?)
Prince - The One U Wanna C
Grandaddy - Underneath the Weeping Willow
Blow Monkeys - Let the People Dance

fun and games
merry christmas

Henry Cow - Viva Pa Ubu

Eartha Kitt - Santa baby

Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden - Body & soul

Daevid Allen - All I want is out of here

Vand der Graaf Generator - A place to survive

The usual mess, then....

Man In The Green Shirt (live) - Weather Report
Meglio Stasera - David Visan (Buddha-Bar V)
Bust It Up - Robben Ford
Man On The Silver Mountain - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits

Desert Island - The Magnetic Fields
Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks
You Can't Break A Broken Heart - The 6ths
Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Friends - The 22-20s

Generation Sex - The Divine Comedy
Time Will Pass Like Rain - Michael De Jong
Yellow Submarine In Pepperland - The Beatles
Debe - Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté
Another Horsedreamer's Blues - Counting Crows

Dust Devil - Madness
Talking Heads - Cities
David Mitchell et al - Dum-de-dum-de-dum-de-de-de-plunka-plunka etc. (opening theme to The Unbelievable Truth Series 6 Ep 01 which ensues)
Jason Falkner - Mother Nature's Son (instr'l)
Go-Betweens - Bachelor Kisses

Live from the MCG, or thereabouts, a Merry Christmas to all!

The Pale Fountains - Palm Of My Hand
Sentridoh - Morning's After Me
The Cure - Lovesong (Acoustic Version)
Shudder To Think - Day Ditty
The Wood Children - Can't Stand The Sound Of My Own Voice

Bright Eyes - If The Brakeman Turns My Way
Killers - Bones
Tony Joe White - Rainy Night In Georgia
Mamas & Papas - I Saw Her Again
Counting Crows - Mr Jones

1. Border Town - The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band
2. Adios - Michael Feinstein
3. Winter Light - Linda Ronstadt
4. This Time Last Summer - Jimmy Webb
5. King For A Day/Shout - Green Day

Where on earth did the last one spring from? It doesn't seem to sit too well with the others.

Sky's Dead - Saint Etienne
On A Chicory Tip - Denim
Le Secret Farida - Yello
I Wish I Was in Husker Du - Let's Wrestle
The Privateers - Andrew Bird

I always feel guilty when my first five is so whitebread but Terakft, Monsoon and Joe Gibbs pop up in the next 5.

This is my first contribution to the Randomizer, and the old pod's selection is a strangely representative mix (no Girls Aloud, Beatles or Bowie howevs...)

Wild One (real Wild Child) - Jerry Lee Lewis

I'd rather be the Devil - John Martin

Corporate Cannibal - Grace Jones

Cry to Me - Solomon Burke

Ticket to Ride - Echo & the Bunnymen

And this is what I came away with...

1. 'Oh Yoko!' - John Lennon

2. 'Don't Look Back In Anger' - Oasis

3. 'Tequila' - The Button Down Brass fearturing The "Funky" Trumpet of Ray Davies (no relation, I assume)

4. 'I Drove All Night' - Roy Orbison

5. 'Crack City' - David Bowie / Tin Machine

Peacetime Resistance - Kings of Convenience
You're the One That I Want - John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
Things I Panic About - Lauren O'Connell
Filthy/Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters
Echoes - Pink Floyd

Here goes...doing this as I type......

Somewhere a Clock is Ticking - Snow Patrol
Oh, I have Left The Ground - St. Thomas
Strange Magic - ELO
The Wild Colonial Boy - Clancy Brothers
MLK - U2

Pretty eclectic mix!!

And for once I get a pretty good selection of what I've actually been listening to lately, starting off with a particularly appropriate ditty:

Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice
The National - Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks
James Blake - Footnotes
Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
Darkstar - North

Spin the bottle, see who is up...

Coumba - Orchestre Baobab
New Face In Hell - The Fall
The Blue Stars Of France (En 1920) - Blossom Dearie
I Know - Barbara George
Terra - Caetano Veloso

Maybe should do this more often.

01. Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
02. Lot 105 - Blur
03. At The Chime Of A City Clock - Nick Drake
04. My Baby Thinks She's A Train - The Triffids
05. You Love Us - Manic Street Preachers

I'd forgotten I had some of these, but it was fun to listen to them. Should put on the "shuffle" more often.

The Galapogos - from movie "Master and Commander" - Ivo Davies
Neutroniks - k-os
Funkanzazenji - Putamayo Latin Groove
O Death - from movie "O Brother Where Art Thou" - Ralph Stanley
Butterflies - Sharon Shannon

1 sometimes in autumn - harmonia & eno 76

2 ride a white swan - t.rex

3 bigmouth strikes again - the smiths

4 star guitar - the chemical brothers

5 metal mickey - suede

The Smiths. Girl Afraid
Pet Shop Boys. Jealousy
Depeche Mode. Clean
Bruce Springsteen. Youngstown
Eels. Blinking Lights (for me)

1. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians: Arms Of Love
2. Toots & The Maytals: Pressure Drop
3. Black Sabbath: Sweet Leaf
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Hiding All Away
5. ABC: Valentine's Day

Blimey, my iPod's better at compiling playlists than I am. Made redundant by a machine. Again.

Lucinda Williams: Fancy funeral
Dodos: Undeclared
Rilo Kiley: Dreamworld
Guillemots: Blue would still be blue
Squeeze: Hourglass

Happy with that!

Swan Lake - Public Image Ltd
He's Gone - Doris Duke
Time Is On My Side - Irma Thomas
Guest List - Eels
Duet - Count Basie

If I Had You - The Korgis
It's A Girl Thing - My Life Story
Happy Together (Wade Nichols Edit) - The Turtles
Discovering Japan - Graham Parker & The Rumour
Put Your Head On My Shoulder - Michael Buble

1. Jack Common's Anthem - Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies
2. For Us All - Levellers
3. Gypsies - Jim Moray
4. White Lies - Paolo Nutini
5. Hey Ya! - Outkast

1. Spelling Bee - Missy Elliott
2. Up The Hill Backwards - David Bowie
3. Might Tell You Tonight - Scissor Sisters
4. Gotta Find Out - Earth, Wind & Fire
5. I Don't Know What It Is But It Sure Is Funky - Ripple

My randomizer seems to think I'm in a dancing mood.
Well, I usually am, so good guess!
*gets down, boogies, shakes the moneymaker, does the funky chicken*

Rufus Harley - Pipin' The Blues
The Decemberists - The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing
John Prine - The Oldest Baby In The World
Jeff Tweedy - Frank's Dream
David Arnold & LTJ Bukem - The James Bond Theme

The Dajon Song - Gomez
Streets of Fire - Bruce Springsteen
Mean Mr Mustard - HJH
Speed - Chris Rea
Wild Thing - Tone Loc

A disappointing final choice, but it could have been much worse. I was mentally preparing my resignation from the Massive speech in the face of some of the stuff on there.

Home - Shane Nicholson - The Loft Sessions
Sleep Like a Log - Paul McKenna
More Than Us - Travis
Thank You - Michael Franti and Spearhead
Feelin' - The La's

I have to say I don't think I've ever heard the Shane Nicholson or Travis songs, and couldn't hum Thank You. Maybe it shows I've too many songs in iTunes? Or maybe doing it in iPod would make it feel a bit more like me? But I am a bit surprised that more people haven't had any Michel Thomas language courses come up in their top 5, or even a little bit of classical.

Dan Sebesky - Guru-Vin (from Amorphous Androgynous)
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - La Conquista Della Posizione E (from Darwin)
Regina Spektor - The Calculation (from Far)
10cc - Ships Don't Disappear in the Night (from Two Classic Albums "10cc" and "Sheet Music")
Fountains of Wayne - Seatbacks and Traytables (from Traffic and Weather)

and now that I've shared the running order with you I'm going back to listen to them! Merry Christmas

I Need Your Loving (Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime) - Baby D
For Your Lover Give Some Time - Richard Hawley
Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Turnaround - Nirvana
Fortune Teller - Sugar

Pretty good! Merry Christmas, everyone.

Bodysnatchers - Radiohead
Push - The Cure
Down in Albion - Babyshambles
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop
Back and Forth - Maps

I almost didn't 'fess up to the Babyshambles tune.

Best to all... xx

Last Christmas - Wham!
Refugee - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Heaven(Unplugged) - Bryan Adams
Part of the union - The Strawbs
Limelight - Rush

The Wham track seems almost too obvious --- perhaps there are forces at work we don't understand despite what Richard Dawkins might say ...

Starstruck - The Kinks
Late for your life - Mary Chapin Carpenter
All along the watchtower - Jimi
I like it - Dixie Chicks
Goodbye Morai - Leon Hunt

I guess that defines "random" pretty well.... bit like 2010 to be honest..

Here's to 2011!

Writing On The Wall ~ Ted Nugent
The Right Side ~ OMD
Wo Bist Du ~ Rammstein
We're Mad ~ the Toy Dolls
I Want You To Want Me ~ Cheap Trick

"Never apologise - never explain"

Let's hope that 2011's better than we all fear.

Kittys Back - Bruce Springsteen
Don't Ask Me To Be Friends - Teddy Thompson
Reason To Cry - Lucinda Williams
Baby, I'm Yours - Barbara Lewis
Ain't Nothin But a House Party -The Showstoppers

So here we go, oops not a great start
1. Dido - Thank You
Not sure I have EVER heard/played this; free iTunes single I think
2. The Morning Benders - Promises
Loved this when it came out, nice surprise to hear it now
3. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Now we're talking!
4. Lover's Rock - The Clash
Not one I've played a lot, but you know what....it's good!
5. Danny Callahan - Conor Oberst

Well that passed a fun 20 minutes, oh alright so Dido didn't get a full play...same time next year?

I'll miss the little bugger when everything disappears into the cloud...

1. Wind Up - Jane Aire & The Belvederes
2. Take Your Knife Out Of My Back - Robyn Hitchcock
3. Summer Rain - Richard Lloyd
4. How Lucky You Are - David Bowie
5. Raised By Wolves - The Bloody Hollies

Not too bad, really.

1. Amazing Grace - Cat Power & The Dirty Delta Blues Band (from Dark was the Night compilation)
2. Downtrain Train - Everything But The Girl (stuck on cover version shuffle)
3. Aretha - Rumer
4. St Francis - Delta Spirit
5. Long Shadows - Josh Ritter

Let's Hang On - Four Seasons (!)
Big Tears - Elvis Costello
You Can Have It All - Kaiser Chiefs
Baby Please Don't Go - The Amboy Dukes (no, me neither. it's from the 'Nuggets' compilation)
Waterfall - The Stone Roses

never use shuffle on my entire iPod (Classic). the above list doesn't persuade to start doing so!

1. Jeannie Needs A Shooter - Warren Zevon
2. Life Without You - Matthew Sweet
3. Vesuvius - Vic Chesnutt
4. I Wish My Daddy - Codeine Velvet Club
5. My Last Regret - Robert Cray

Could be worse I suppose.

Morrissey - Lost (Roy's Keen)
David Bowie - Untitled No.1 (The Buddha Of Suburbia)
The Sound Magics - Don't You Remember? (Nuggets II)
Mouse On Mars - Gocard (Iaora Tahiti)
Mazarin - NE Winter (We're Already There)

Henry Kaiser - Punctual As Actual
Afro-Cuban Allstars - Amor Verdedera
Paul Brady - The Island
Thin Lizzy - My Sarah
Super Furry Animals - Dim Bendith

Apart from the Kaiser track dislodging a few fillings; and the Thin Lizzy track being a bit gloopy...not bad really, though I don't remember where the Afro-Cuban fellers came from...Cuba probably, ha!

DMX - Crime Story
Urban Thermo Dynamics - Do It
Roots Manuva - Black Box Interlude
Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Like Dirt
The Beatles - The Fool On The Hill

Wow that makes me seem a lot more gangster than I actually am.

Oh well. :)

1. Man Gave Names To All The Animals - Bob Dylan
2. How Do You Do - Euros Childs
3. All The Same To You - Laura Cantrell
4. Night Time - The xx
5. Hounds of Love - The Futureheads

Let's see if the iPod is hungover...

"What If We Give It Away?" - REM
"Bubba Sparxxx" - Bubba Sparxxx
"Dancing Like a Gun" - John Foxx
"Widening The Gravel Road" - Cathal Coughlan
"The Oncoming Day" - The Chills

Well, it does seem to have developed a liking for multiple "X"'s at least.

21,553 tunes on the unfeasibly tiny jukebox and this is what I got:

1) My Heart - Wildbirds & Peacedrums
2) Little Joe - Soundgarden
3) Red Angel Dragnet - The Clash
4) Ashes In The Fall - RATM
5) Half The World Away - Oasis

Hmm. I'd give that 4/10.

My Iphone came up with this...

1) It's my life - Talk Talk
2) St Judiths Hill - Jay Fisher
3) I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Eddie Dunstedler
4) Baby Come Home - John Martyn
5) I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters

Well interesting it threw in a seasonal number... also haven't heard a Jay Fisher track in years, and the Pod picked his tour-mate John Martyn also.
Must do this more often : )

1. Communist China - Japan
2. Powder Blue - Elbow
3. The Way That It Falls - Justin Currie
4. Pride and Joy (Unplugged) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
5. Passing Stranger (Acoustic) - Scott Matthews

Feel fortunate to have escaped the kids Disney, Lazytown and Mamma Mia tracks.......

1 Don't make me do it - Patrick Simmons
2 Lifeline - Citizen Cope
3 Take Aim - Kasabian
4 Can't get along ( without you ) - Hard Fi
5 Bombin' the L - Fun Lovin' Criminals

Stuff I forgot I had !!!

1. Christian McBride: Aja
2. Stephane Grappelli: Minor Swing
3. Lord Large: Way To Go
4. Roy Budd: Livin' Should Be This Way
5. Stevie Wonder He's Mistra Know It All

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Wolfmother - Colossal
Public Enemy - Leave This off Your F*****g Charts
Throbbing Gristle - Slug Bait Pt1
Mad Sin - Conquer the World

Poor Me - Fats Domino
Only Ones Who Know - Arctic Monkeys
Rock El Casbah - Rachid Taha
Jardin du sommeil d'amour, from Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony (Chailly)
Heaven and Hell - 20th Century Steel Band

Anyways here goes...

1) My Perfect Cousin - The Undertones
2) Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
3) The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite - REM
4) His Nibs - Neil Cowley Trio
5) You Belong To Me - Kate Rusby

- surprised there's no festive follies in there tbh

1) Push Th' Little Daisies - Ween
2) Some Unholy War - Amy Winehouse
3) Rusholme Ruffians (unreleased demo) - The Smiths
4) Aquarius - Henry Jerome
5) A Taste of You - Furniture

That's actually a decent representation of what floats my boat.

1) Canada Vs America - Broken Social Scene
2) Crynood yn dy Lais - Super Furry Animals
3) Callbacks - We Are Scientists
4) The Iliad - Tapes and Tapes
5) Stella was a dancer and she was always down (live)- Interpol

1) Canada Vs America - Broken Social Scene
2) Crynood yn dy Lais - Super Furry Animals
3) Callbacks - We Are Scientists
4) The Iliad - Tapes and Tapes
5) Stella was a dancer and she was always down (live)- Interpol

1) King Of Birds - REM
2) Lewis Takes Action - Owen Pallett
3) Give It Lose It Take It - Field Music
4) The State We're In - The Chemical Brothers
5) Stairway To Heaven - Led Zep

I don't remember ever hearing no 2 at all ..... Must give it a listen...

Usually on random so I thought I'd post the first tracks of the new year:

1) Better Thee Than Me - Sly & The Family Stone
2) Electricity - Spiritualized
3) Heartland - The The
4) Double - Gorillaz
5) One Of These Days - Doves

Happy New Year!

1) Use Somebody- Kings of Leon

2)Bow and Fire- Blackalicious

3)Two Doors Down Mystry Jets

4)This House- Graham Coxon

5)Pon de Floor- Major Lazor

Nuff said

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight(Edit) - Genesis (I don't like this version) Alternative Girlfriend - Barenaked Ladies
Seminal Animal - Circle of Animals
Pause - Furniture
The Perfect Cut (Rooty Poops) - Negativland

Bored in the office so here goes again (Christmas songs no longer being shuffled)...

1. Foals - Heavy Water / Antidotes
2. Spiritualized - Walking With Jesus / iTunes Live London Sessions
3. Sparklehorse - See The Light / Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
4. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Nine Million Rainy Days / Darklands
5. George Michael - Faith / Faith

If it hadn't been for good old Georgiou at the end there I may have been under suspicion of cheating...

and it produced

Hey (disco) Joe- Wah! Heat
Some kind of Nothingness- MSP
King of Rock and Roll- Prefab Sprout
New Baby Boom- Black Box Recorder
The Dreaming- Kate Bush

M.I.A. - Space
Avi Buffalo - Remember Last Time
The Dears - There Goes My Outfit
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement

Tra-la-la : The Banana Splits
The Fairy Fellas Master Stroke: Queen
You'll Be The Scarecrow: E
All You Can Eat : Ben Folds
Your Atom Bomb Heart: Hank Williams with Bud King and His Smiling Buddies

1. Tougher than it is - Cake (Pressure Chief)
2. Sé Lest - Sigur Rós (Takk)
3. Central Reservation (Ibadan remix) - Beth Orton (Pass In Time)
4. Strange Fruit - Twilight Singers (She Loves You)
5. Secrets - Tunng (Good Arrows)

Predictably unrepresentative ...but good enough.

by the huge number of covermount CDs on my ipod (and free cds from work) but here goes...

Laus Tibi Christus - The Music of Taize (eponymous)
I Get Around - The Beach Boys (Good Vibrations box set)
Final - Roedelius (Jardin Au Fou)
Happy Love Song - Captain Beefheart (A Carrot is as Close etc)
Ahimana - Tinariwen (Aman Iman)

OK I can live with that. Wait, what's next? Jan Garbarek...Juana Molina...Outback...David Sylvian man I'm hooked.

I Want to Know What Love Is- Big Daddy
______/Myopia - Man or Astroman?
Only You - The Platters
When I Get Low, I Get High- Chick Webb (from Reefer Madness)
Casaloma Stomp - Casaloma Orchestra

That is actually a pretty accurate depiction of what is on my ipod.

King of Vice - Ed Kuepper
Kingdom Come - World Party
IWIWAL (I Wish I Was A Lesbian) - Loudon Wainright III
Infected - The The
Hold Me Back - AC/DC

Out of 17060

Night Comes In - RT
The Day I Saw Bo Diddley In Washington Square - Willie Nile
Paddy McCarthy (Instrumental) - The Corrs
Smokestack Lightnin' - Grateful Dead
Yellow Dress - Albion Band

Not too embarrassing, Dead went on a bit, but they do don't they.