Entertainment For Lively Minds
School's out for summer so let's do the Randomizer!
Posted by David Hepworth on 28 July 2008 - 8:20am.
Usual rules. Take your iPod - other MP3 players are available - and spin its wheel or "random" function and then read off the first five, without deviation, repetition or tortuous efforts to make yourself seem fashionable (and is there honestly a more dated concept than "fashionable"?), and just write 'em down. As is traditional, I shall go first. Ahem.
Autumn Defense: Where You Are
James McMurtry: I'm Not From Here
Ray Charles: Rainy Night In Georgia
Sylvie Lewis: If Love Songs Are All We Have
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Small Axe
Over to you.
Ooh! First reply!
1. The National - Slow Show
2. Giant Sand - Punishing Sun
3. Eels - Dirty Girl (Live At Town Hall)
4. Bloc Party - Plans
5. Pulp - Common People
Not hugely diverse, but five good tunes..
ipod shuffle
sonic youth youth, against fascism
my chemical romance, this is how i disappear
explosions in the sky, what do you go home to?
foo fighters, over and over
massive attack, simple rules,
god, wish i'd never ripped that chemical romance cd, embarrassing or what plus that foos album sucks donkey balls
Here goes
1. Valentines Song - The Felice Brothers
2. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night - Madeleine Peyroux
3. Eggs In Her Basket - Susan McKeown
4. Blue Dress - Jon Boden
5. Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy
Five
Debaser - The Pixies
CC Rider - Old Crow Medicine Show
Thru Fade Away - Mother Love Bone
Little Red Shoes - Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys
Rags and Tatters - Waterson: Carthy
Hmmm, not bad, although I really haven't sat down and listened to The Pixies for several years and am now enjoying Frank Black's insane shouting once again. That'll do me for another few years I think...
Very Random
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain- Willie Nelson
Laugh,Laugh,Laugh-The Butlers
Doctor Blind-Emily Haines and Soft Skeleton
Brand New Cadillac-Vince Taylor and the Playboys
Train Tour to Rainbow City-The Pyramids
oops
.
and again
.
Ooooh, my first time. Exciting
yet somewhat nerve-wracking.
The Adams Family - Barry Adamson
Four in the Morning - Ivy
It Won't Be Wrong - Byrds
Our Love Will Grow - The Showmen
Loveless - Lloyd Cole
Five
Debaser - The Pixies
CC Rider - Old Crow Medicine Show
Thru Fade Away - Mother Love Bone
Little Red Shoes - Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys
Rags and Tatters - Waterson: Carthy
Hmmm, not bad, although I really haven't sat down and listened to The Pixies for several years and am now enjoying Frank Black's insane shouting once again. That'll do me for another few years I think...
Banged to rights
Work Hard/Play Hard - Palace Music
Che - Suicide
Let There Be Rock - Drive-By Truckers
Every Day - Sophia
Must - Daniel Johnston
Oh dear. My indie background has finally caught up with me. Where's the hop-hop? The soul? The jazz? The world music? The country? The folk?
Nowhere, that's where.
I count the Drive-By Truckers as country.
And they're fab. Indie they ain't, not with those beards. And Palace Music is Bonnie "Prince" Billy, innit, so same thought applies.
Daniel Johnston is hardly etc etc etc
(You trying to trick us, Lewry?)
Surprisingly undiverse?
Have a Nice Day: Stereophonics. And why not? Precedes their now somewhat naff image anyway. (See under OCS, Toploader??)
We'll Sweep out the ashes in the morning: Gram (and Emmylou, natch). Lovely
They'll Never Take her Love from me: Coward Brothers, from the expanded King of America,I'm afraid, much as I'd love to say it was from the original b-side of their sole single. Time for Elvis and T-Bone to reprise this pairing? I think so.
Ceol Anna: Relativity. I'd forgotten this, from the wonderful 2nd LP from the Cunningham brothers, Phil and the late Johnny, and the O'Domhnaill (sp?)siblings, from the Bothy Band. Hence the name. Geddit!
What ye Wha I met the Streen/Ribbons of the red-headed girl/Rid Gan Ainm : Dave Swarbrick. Tip top instrumental electric folk-rock, with, I presume, the Fairport rhythm section.
An "Ol' dirty" flavoured stroll 'round Sainsbury's
1. John Barleycorn - Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbick
2. Dirty Run - Ol' Dirty Bastard
3. Money Honey - The Drifters
4. American Dirt - Matthew Ryan
5. 16th Chamber (ODB Special) - Wu Tang Clan
Fab five..
Truckstop Honeymoon - Johnny and June
The Duke Spirit - The Step and The Walk
The Stones - You Got Me Rockin'
Neko Case - Bowling Green
House of Love - Beatles and The Stones
Not bad.
The other morning it chucked up Johnny Cash's The Night Hank Williams Came To Town, followed immediately by The Waterboys' Has Anybody Here Seen Hank. Makes you wonder...
Made it good to be alone
the HOL did an excellent version of "Beatles and the stones" at Lattitude last week. It almost made up for the ropey line "put the V in Vietnam" which is shockingly bad ;)
let's have another go the gremlins are out
In force this morning!...
My selection may look “Fashionable” but it’s down to it coming from my phone which only has 2 gb memory so I have turn over tracks a lot to keep them fresh, so the ones on it are my more recent purchases.
The National Start a War
Sigur Rós Illgresi
Laura Cantrell her cover of New Order’s Love Vigilante
The theme for the “World at War” * coughs* looks at shoes which is *mumbles* my ringtone.....
Pentangle Lightflight (the theme from take 3 women!)
Take 3
Well remembered! That's where I first heard Lightflight - I just thought it was a fantastic tune, didn't realise it was the 'tangle 'til years later.
pentangle
tks for reminding me abt pentangle. off to i tunes now......
The sun is out! Hurrah!
New Grass - Talk Talk
I Heard Wonders - David Holmes
Head - Prince
Love Come Down - Evelyn Champagne King
Waiting Room - Fugazi
Four out of Five ain't bad...
Hyperactive! – Thomas Dolby
Feel Good Hit of the Summer – Queens of the Stone Age
Lover’s Walk – Elvis Costello
Can’t Come Down – Mark Lanegan
Where Did It All Go Wrong? - Oasis
Not even sure what that lat one is doing on there. I must have put it on there in one of those "It-can't-be-as-bad-as-they-say-it-is" moments. But it is.
What the hell. All together now: "Nicotine, Valium, Viconin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol. C-c-c-c-c-cocaine."
Vicodon? Vicodin? Viacom?
Started off a birthday party DJ set with that. People soon lost interest in the light buffet and went bonkers
Spill chuck malfunction
Shoud, of course, have been 'vicodin'...
Here goes...
Criminal Record - John McIntire (from OST to 'Reach the Rock')
Fast Cars - U2
Controversy - Hefner (Cover of the Prince song)
The Ugly and the Beautiful - (The Real) Tuesday Weld
Going to California - Led Zepplin (From BBC Sessions)
Yes, I do like U2, and Prince.
Oooh.....ouch..bad start
Sunrise - Simply Red
Standing in the Way of Control - The Gossip
Sara - Bob Dylan (Rolling Thunder version)
Cubik - 808 State
Sherry Darling - Broooooooooooce....
Two Paul Simons, Frank, Bob and Eddie
Oh, Marion - Paul Simon
Hearts & Bones - Paul Simon
You'd Be So Easy to Love - Frank Sinatra
Buckets of Rain - Bob Dylan
Man on the Edge - Iron Maiden
Here goes...
1. Voices Inside My Head - The Police
2. Ghostdancing - Simple Minds
3. Sara - Fleetwood Mac
4. Tina Toledi's Street Walkin' Blues - Ryan Adams
5. Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
Scruffy and wobbly
Dixie Hummingbirds - Cool Down Yonder
Mr Scruff - Champagne Nibbler
Jim White - Done Got Old
Money Mark – Eyes That Ring
Jah Wobble/Bill Laswell – Alsema Dub
Nicely eclectic? Sure, but the trouble is that there's only one track on here that I really know properly. This is the problem. Give someone an 80GB iPod and EVERYTHING goes on it – the process of being selective becomes an increasingly lost art. The tunes are on there, but do they get a proper hearing? Do they arse. 80GB is just too much, isn't it? I must de-clutter...
No no no nigel
You mustn't just fill it up with all and sundry. You must clear out the dross. Otherwise you WILL need a 160. And I bet the 320 ain't too far away either. Of course it is too much, but sooner too much you are not confused or embarrassed by. Go thru it track by track. Delete anything that isn't as you would wish. This wil take some time, but the chances are you will hear some forgotten treasures.
Less is more
Or ...Just get a shuffle (other flash card type players are available). Put 2/3 LP's(ahem) on it, get into them ,know them, love them ,hate them,move on.Plus it doesnt fail as easily or matter quiet as much if it is lost,stolen .
Nothing after 1989 - should I be worried?
1) FRAZIER CHORUS – Typical (recent charity shop purchase inspired by good memories of their Dream Kitchen single)
2) RONETTES – Do I Love You? (from the Phil Spector Back To Mono box set)
3) SPIKE JONES & HIS CITY SLICKERS – The Man On The Flying Trapeze (no comment!)
4) THE SMITHS – These Things Take Time (from Hatful Of Hollow)
5) SERGE GAINSBOURG – Bani Basadi Balalo (from a French box set)
Hmmm – my normal taste isn’t quite as eclectic (or vintage) as this selection implies (tho' no surprise to see The Smiths pop up), but the ‘pod never lies…
Dream Kitchen
Is that on iTunes yet? I know Virgin/EMI have been releasing bits and bobs as downloads only
It wasn't when I checked a few months back...
... hence me buying the album at the local Cancer Research shop! Dream Kitchen is still a top track, the rest of the album... er, not so much...
A Beautiful Peace - Robert
A Beautiful Peace - Robert Wyatt
Stanky (Get Funky) - Billy Davis
Paint It Black - Africa
Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache - Bandwagon
You've Made Me So Very Happy - Cher
Conclusion: my iPod's a better DJ than I am.
Summer sounds?
Black Star - Radiohead
I know what I like - Steve Hackett (Tokyo Tapes)
Catch - Leaves
Bags' Groove - Oscar Peterson
Waterfall - Stone Roses
OK, one of these is the remains of my wifes tenure on the pod
Nigel River - Martha Wainwright
Sometimes You Cant Make It etc - U2
Mr Wendal - Arrested Development (no idea what this is! I've just listened and dont recognise it at all)
Time Makes Two - Robert Cray
She Never Cried In Front of Me - Toby Keith
Roz gives the game away...
Zongamin: Tunnel Music
Primal Scream: Long Life
The Notwist: Good Lies
Rozlyne Clark: Dancing Is Like Making Love
Nirvana: Plateau
Hot 5
Save It For a Rainy Day - The Jayhawks
My Before and After - Cotton Mather
Friends of Mine - The Zombies
Sequestered in Memphis - The Hold Steady
Reasons to Be Cheerful Pt 3 - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Not bad. The Cotton Mather song is the greatest song the Beatles never wrote. Great to hear Mr Dury of a morning.
So true about the Cotton
So true about the Cotton Mather song. Have you got the Future Clouds & Radar CD? I thought it were great.
Cotton Mather
My Cotton Mather favourite is "Spin my Wheels" which is another the Beatles could have written and John Lennon could have sung. Though it has a Queen-esque guitar solo at the end. Great stuff but I never really followed up after the "Kontiki" album. is it worth it?
ITunes randomised pick as follows:
Steely Dan : Aja
Gene Chandler : Duke Of Earl
Pete Seeger : Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Pentangle : Turn Your Money Green
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club : Complicated Situation
My, now there's a spread of different genres!
I´ve recently revamped my i-pod
so here it goes...
Slight Return - The Bluetones ( where did they get to ? )
Hold On - Tom Waits from the very brilliant Mule Variations
Fly Now - Brian Protheroe
Master of Disaster - John Hiatt
Traffic and Weather - Fountains of Wayne.
Uh..Only one of the new songs turned up.
I hate being this bloody honest
I am not the kind of person who would take pot luck as a method of organising his life and this is why :-
1) Recording Ex 2 Rhythm Magazine 133 ( yes its a track from the drumming magazine and another turns up in the first five and indeed they reached 7 out of 20 when I carried on to see what would happen ! )
2) Lived in Bars..... Cat Powers....Now hear this . The only song track
3) GS Ex 4 see 1)
4) The people I grew up with were afraid ....Poem read by Pauline McLynn ( Tea Mrs Doyle )
5) Lesson for a Boy......Stephen Fry ...The Ode Less Travelled .
So there one blooming song ! any bets on me being a poetry loving drummer .
gambling
at what odds?
First go…and could have been far worse!
Chloe – Ry Cooder
Somewhere in Hollywood – 10cc
Heavyweight Champion of the World – Reverend and the Makers
Foxy Lady – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Intergalactic – The Beastie Boys.
It's been a long time
1. Synchronicity II (live) - The Police
2. Read my Lips (Enough Is Enough) Jimmy Somerville
3. Monkey Man - Toots and the Maytals, feat. No Doubt
4. Who Wants to live forever - Queen
5. Becoming More Like God - Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart.
Not embarrassing but not inspiring either
1. Just Passing - The Small Faces (very nice start)
2. Perfect Lovesong - The Divine Comedy (not his finest hour but not bad)
3. B-A-B-Y - Carla Thomas (ooh, lovely)
4. Endorphin - Burial (bought on Word recommendation, still not 'got it')
5. Elizabeth My Dear - The Stone Roses (unsatisfyingly brief)
Finally ...
some Beatles for the first time ever
1 Beatles / I Saw Her Standing There
2 Leonard Cohen / Waiting For The Miracle
3 Go-Betweens / When People Are Dead
4 Booker T and the MGs / Green Onions
5 Burning Spear / Queen Of The Mountain
My 5...
Kate Bush - Somewhere In Between
The Crystals - Girls Can Tell
The Rolling Stones - Country Honk
Steely Dan - Rose Darling
John Tavener - The Protecting Veil
1 hit and 4 obscurities
Queer - Garbage
Gustav's Arrival - Amplifier
Speed of Light - Airbag
Disappeared - John Wesley
Magnificent Gallery - Steve Roach
Which one was the hit?
Not heard of any of 'em - have I missed anything?
5 From 7020
You - Roy Harper
Sicknessing - South San Gabriel
Leavin' Train - Bruce Springsteen
I'll Take New York - Tom Waits
Everything And Nothing - Hamell On Trail
Phew - could have been worse....
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
You Shook Me - Jeff Beck
If I only Had a Car - Golden Smog
Jesusland - Ben Folds
Suedehead - Morrissey
V
1. Katy Carr - Jelly Bean
2. Santana - Song of the Wind
3. Pixies - Caribou
4. The Pretenders - Middle of the Road
5. Sun Ra - The Bad & the Beautiful
Waking up with a coffee.....
I was just thinking yesterday - been a while since we randomized....
Banging Camp - Hold Steady - from Separation Sunday
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
Cottonseed - Drive By Truckers from The Dirty South
Let Him Be - Julie Moffitt - from a Paste magazine freebie
Green River - CCR
Tentative debut post ...
1) David Mead - World Of A King
2) Go Home Productions - Flaming Mary Can Out Run Prince
3) Cherry Ghost - Alfred The Great
4) Stars - What I'm Trying To Say
5) Decemberists - The Engine Driver
Interestingly #1 is the only one of these I could hum.
And as for #5, in spite of their critically acclaimed status, I suspect I'll be depodifying them after a couple more "just don't get it" listens. Still not bad for no cheating. I really expected the Wombles to come up this time
I got these
Kosheen - Harder
R.E.M. - Lotus
Osaka Popstar - Wicked World
The Dears - Who Are You, Defenders Of The Universe?
Eels - Trouble With Dreams
Not too bad. Should have done this last Friday - all that day shuffle play was throwing out classics and hidden gems.
Another five
1. It's Just Work For Me, Ry Cooder
2. Mitchell Lane, Ben Folds Five
3. Join Together, The Who
4. The New Timer, Bruce Springsteen
5. Hang on to Your Love, Sade
The Monday shuffle
1. Incubus - Redefine
2. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. - I-Spy
3. Bright Eyes - Cleanse Song
4. Fairport Convention - Meet on the Ledge
5. David Ford - A Short Song about Stars
Most of that makes me look far more down with 'the kids' than I am... ho hum
Meet On the Ledge
The kids favourite.
Yeah, right!
Not in my house!
;-)
Ezit
cos it foook?
Come again?
?
Young street talk Retro
I say fine fellow, "Would it be because it is folk?" music
Oh, righty-ho
Thats the ticket!
Of course that is the ticket in my house, locked in my study away from the "turn off that dirge" coming from elsewhere within.
Savages!
Dad?
Is that you?!
Not another one!
It was enough of a shock discovering I 'd squired someones mother some weeks ago. The discovery, that is.
Won't win the youth vote
RL Burnside - Hard Time Killing Floor
The Stooges - No Fun
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Ramblin' On My Mind
Billy Bragg - The Warmest Room
The Jackson 5 - ABC
Not bad, but nothing impressively unusual
Here we go...
1. Both Sides Now- Herbie Hancock
2. I'll Set You Free- The Bangles
3. Dream On- Aerosmith
4. The 13th- The Cure
5. Lament- The Cure
I didn't even know that I had 2 of those 5, I think that I have too many songs on the 'pod!!
Can I have a review please ?
Is the Herbie Hancock CD to be recommended?
I haven't....
listened to it a whole lot. I like the bits I've heard, but not enough to tell you to run out and buy it!!!
Yes yes yes
Fabulous CD. And vocals from the like of Tina Turner that will blow away all memeories of her previous existence(s), with Ike or with inFMamy (AOR/"smooth FM" type radio formatting). To say nothing of Corinne Bailey Rae and many others.
Buy it. All of you.
See also Ian Shaws Joni album, a little less accessible but worth the effort. As someone who has only recently "got" Ms Mitchell, having resisted her charm from the early 70s, I have suddenly done an awful lot of catching up, her own stuff and the myriad sublime interpretations out there.
Cover me, I'm going in
First time at this and as certain as I'll ever be my iPod will sink my cred like the Belgrano.
1. Astral Projection Blues - Jimmie Vaughan
2. Say Goodbye - Aynsley Lister
3. Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley (honest)
4. Venom Wearin' Denom - Junior Brown (equally honest)
5. Lubanga - Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Toure
Not bad, though No. 6 is Stuck in a Rut by The Darkness. Which, I'll be frank, is something I should have kept to myself.
weird
Weird, that Junior Brown track came up twice yesterday as I was sipping stout in my back garden.
Five At Four
1. Cold Roses - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
2. Chinatown - Thin Lizzy - class
3. Curly Dub - The Upsetters
4. Trouble - Coldplay (Cough! how did that get in there?)
5. Antichrist Television Blues - Arcade Fire (over rated rubbish that's going in the bin)
No, you don't stand a chance
Not in ooooooooooooold Chinatown.
Class indeed. Great OTT album cover too
Lynott...
possessor of the finest moustache / giant earring combo in rock.
Random Debut...
1. I Believe In You - Bob Dylan (hmmmm not a great start!)
2. Hard To Handle - Otis Redding
3. God Knows - Bob Dylan (is this a conspiracy?)
4. Dancing Barefoot - Allison Moorer
5. Sloop John B - Beach Boys
My favourite game.
Here we go;
1. Soap, Soup and Salvation - Lone Justice (not heard this for years).
2. Take Your Time (Alternative version) - Spiritualized.
3. Ineffable Me - Sonic Youth (I have a LOT of SY on my iPod)
4. We Just Won't Be Defeated - The Go! Team
5. Singapore - Tom Waits (marvellous).
Debut selection
It's a rainy day sunshine girl-Faust
Mirador-Efterklang
Pogles Walk brisk-Vernon Elliot ensemble
Hosianna Mantra-Popol Vuh
Farther along-Flying Burrito Brothers
My Top 5
Big Bill Broonzy - Saturday Night Rub
Amy MacDonald - Mr Rock and Roll
The Pretenders - Day After Day
R.E.M - New Orleans Instrumental No 1
Ryan Adams - Bartering Lines
Here Goes...
1) The Way - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
2) So Young - Ron Sexsmith
3) 8 Miles from Memphis - The Grid (ayup, that's from Word 63)
4) I'm Looking Through You - The Beatles
5) Pour Le Monde - Crowded House
90s win this time
Can - Mushroom
Neil Young - Blue Eden (something by him always seems to be in my five)
Supergrass - Lose It
Supergrass - Tonight
Magazine - Motorcade
Has anyone scrolled down this far?
1. Dancing Mood - Delroy Wilson
2. Letter from Home - DJ Shadow
3. Walk Away Renee - The Four Tops
4. Dread Lion - Lee 'Scratch' Perry
5. Bad Love - Randy Newman
Some of us
start at the bottom and scoll up...
I've scrolled down this far
Neil Young - My, My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
John Martyn - Small Hours
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
Nils Petter Molvaer - Song of Sand II
Moby - Jam for the Ladies
God, this is a bit indie
1) The Flaming Lips "Ode To C.C. (Part 2)"
2) The Cure "Temptation Two (AKA LGTB - RS Studio Demo)"
3) Pavement "Saganaw"
4) Peter Bjorn & John "Paris 2004"
5) Neil Young "Time For You To Leave, William Blake.."
Monday's Five
A Day in The Life - The Beatles
Suffocated Love - Tricky
Limassol - Maximo Park
Helicopter - Bloc Party
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Every time you do this i am at word ipodless
So have the anticipation of wondering what my IPOD throws up on the way home - well here it is:-
For the Roses - Joni Mitchell
Going away baby - Jimmie Rogers
Throw back the little ones - Steely Dan
Juke - Little Walter
Absent Fathers - Martin Stephenson
More Blues influence than would normally expect. Dan is a particular favourite. And Martin Stephenson is a personal favourite artist - if Word were really brave they would do an in depth but I guess the readership would go South.
Spot The Odd One Out ...?
Cornfield Ablaze - Prefab Sprout
No Mo Do Yakamo - Dr Feelgood
Electro Kardiogram - Kraftwerk
This World Is Not My Home - Lone Justice
I Just Want To Have something To Do - The Ramones
This is why perhaps I seldom shuffle.
Scrolling , Scrolling, Scrolling
Sufjan Stevens- The black hawk War......
Mercury Rev- The Dark is rising
Soft Cell - Say hello, wave goodbye
Pixies - Nimrods Son
Amy allison - just give me moonlight in Vermont
I seriously need some new music!
South - Fragile Day
PJ Harvey A place called Home
Daniel Lanois - Fire
James - Afro Lover
Ian Brown - One way ticket to paradise
None more gloomy...
Franz Schubert - Kraftwerk
I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes
Interzone - Joy Division
About the Weather - Magazine
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam
Very late '70s, very white, very, er, downbeat, shall we say.
But nice use of brackets in number two.
Would you believe me if I told you Gil Scott-Heron, Martha Reeves, NWA, The Magnificents, Bobby Womack, Public Enemy and Big John Hamilton were all in the next ten up?
No?
Oh.
my school's been out for a week.
my face is already lobster red.
On the ipod:
The Crooked Beat - The Clash (Sandinista)
Oh, Me - Nirvana (MTV Unplugged)
Bailed Out - The Auteurs (New Wave)
Autumn Shade - The Vines (Highly Evolved)
ABoneCroneDrone2 Sheila Chandra (ABoneCroneDrone)
oooh - thunder over Dover harbour. Guess Summer's over.
Truly Random?
The Tragically Hip - Gift Shop
Rolling Stones - Fool to Cry
Pet Shop Boys - Jealousy
Amy Winehouse - Take the Box (Seijus Buggin' Mix)
Steely Dan - the Fez
Quite pleased with these. This blog has inspired me to shuffle my song list and listen to every single song until the the very last one - all 5945 of them. I am allowed to skip a song if I hate it, however - but I'm not sure if that's cheating or not. It probably is.
I'd Rather Be With You -
I'd Rather Be With You - Bootsy Collins
Dirty Little Thing - Velvet Revolver
Idioteque (live) - Radiohead
Last kiss - Guillemots
Since I've Been Loving You (live) - Led Zeppelin
Nice selection sir :-)
1. The Funny Bird - Mercury
1. The Funny Bird - Mercury Rev
2. The Levee's Gonna Break - Bob Dylan
3. Abbaon Fat Track - Tricky
4. All The Madman - David Bowie
5. 3 Dimes Down - Drive By Truckers
What amazes me is whenever I have the Pod on shuffle alot of the same stuff comes up yet whenever put it on shuffle for this it throws up things I hav'ent heard in ages
Here goes.....
1. You Got Yr Cherry Bomb - Spoon. Pretty good start from one of last years best albums.
2. Meltdown - Ash. Not bad. Keep forgetting how good Ash are. Need to play more.
3. Through the Windowpane - Guillemots. Good stuff.
4. Neon Wilderness - The Verve. Haven't listened to this for ages. Can understand why. Not the best track on the album.
5. Corpus Christi Carol - Jeff Buckley. To easy to take Mr Buckley for granted but when you really listen to his voice he is incomparable.
No cheating this time
After my yellow card last time
1. All By Myself - Eric Carmen
2. Whistle Of A Distant Train - Ed Harcourt
3. Skywriter - Art Garfunkel
4. We Learned The Sea - Dar Williams
5. Island Of Dreams - The Springfields
Wow!
Just a quick shuffle...
The Chemical Brothers: In Dust We Trust
Cherry Ghost: Here Come The Romans
Death In Vegas: Girls
Outkast: Spread
Misty's Big Adventure: There's A Lot Going On In My Mind
Meh.
1. Angelica - Lamb
2. King of the Rodeo - Kings of Leon
3. Shadows Fall - The Coral
4. Play Dead - Björk
5. It Could Be Sweet - Portishead
And again...
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Jetstream - New Order
Dazed And Confucious - This Is Serious Mum
Reptile - The Church
If Music Could Talk - The Clash
None of which I've listened to in the last six months...
OK, first time doing this...
... and strictly speaking it's my missus' iPod, but:
1 Lonely Woman - Basquiat Strings
2 Memory Band - Minnie Riperton
3 Oh Lori - Alessi
4 Reuben James - Scott Walker
5 Blind Paper Dragon - Tin Hat Trio
Of which I claim 2-4; other half 1 & 5.
The-lack-of-crediblizer, more like...
Rules is rules - no cheating!
Together in Electric Dreams - Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder
Perfect Life - Sheryl Crow
Emerald (Live and Dangerous) - Thin Lizzy
Move It - Riff Pilchard aka His Cliffness
Ruby Nights - Bic Runga
Phew, think I may have managed just to save it, right at the last minute.
First five
On the shuffle, here goes:
1. Technique - Prefab Sprout - Swoon
2. Minstrel Boy - Joe strummer and the Mescaleros - Global a go Go
3. The White Noise Revisited - Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
4. when I'm Sixty Four - Beatles
5. Umbrella - Manic Street Preachers (some kind of cover version thing)
Can't remember much about about the first three.
Truffle shuffle
Decatur, Or, A Round Of Applause For Your Step-Mother - Sufjan Stevens
One by One - Lora Stimson
King Kong - Tom Waits
My Drug Buddy - The Lemonheads
Long Long Long - The Beatles
Wow, that could have been a lot worse. (Number 6 was Watermark by Enya)
Odds and ends, no gems
Tim O'Brien: Father of Night
James Brown: A Man Has To Go Back To The Crossroads
Flamin' Groovies: Second Cousin
Lucinda Williams: Return Of The Grievous Angel
Sloan: Will I Belong
Is it just me but....
Until the ever reliable Steve Turners selection, I was feeling what a particularly wierd and diverse readership we all must be, as, in especially the first dozen or so choices, there seemed to always be at least one artist mentioned that I had never heard of, often more, let alone at least one I had never heard, making me wonder just how much unheard stuff there is still to hear. The last dozen or so are more reassuringly familiar.
But which is right? To be in awe of the unheard or in praise of the familiar? Rhetorical question, I feel....
Let's see...............
My Ancestors - Jimmy Cliff
I Know - Shortwave Set
Salt Bean Fumble - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
The Swish - The Hold Steady
Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife - Drive-By Truckers
Fancy that!
Temptation - New Order
Thieves Like Us - New Order
Blue Monday - New Order
Your Silent Face - New Order
Confusion - New Order
Admittedly, I do have a lot of New Order and... oh sod it, no excuses. Yellow card time
But
What a great line up from NO tho'
I don't know anything about
number 3 or how it got there and take no responsibility for number 4.
War - Edwin Starr
Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine
Mreimida - Malouma
Flashback - All Saints
Great Houses of New York - Hem
Malouma...
is AMAZING! An incredible voice!
5 For Today
The Longer You Wait - Richmond Fontaine
Sometimes - Ash
London Girl - The Jam
Everything Means Nothing To Me - Elliott Smith
Dirty Old Man - Neil Young
Pretty good selection, IMHO...next up was City Of Angels by 10,000 Maniacs.
Walking Back To jesus, Pt 1
Walking Back To jesus, Pt 1 - Broken Family Band
The Drowning Man (Live) - The Cure ...I've had the old pod of I on shuffle a lot recently, and when it plays the Cure, it only ever seems to play the extras from the recently re-released albums...mmm, perhaps it knows I would never get around to it otherwise...
Back For Good (Session Version) - The Wedding Present
Sweet lew- Pearl Jam - Hmmm, perhaps it's time to remove that one from the ipod...you can tell why the bassplayer doesn't get many songs through quality control.
Really The Blues - Carbon/Silicon - "This is the story of eggboxes in rehearsal rooms"
Next up would have been Paranormal In The West Country (Krankenhausmusic) - Julian Cope
One of my better randomisers
For the first time on the randomiser threads, I listened to all the tracks in full rather than skipping ahead to see what the first five are.
The New Soft Shoe Gram Parsons (GP)
Can't remember listening to this before, but it's rather good.
Down the Dolce Vita Peter Gabriel (1)
Not one of the best tracks on the album, but that orchestra still sounds great.
O Children Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (The Lyre of Orpheus)
Just love the slow build and that choir.
Mining for Gold Cowboy Junkies (Trinity Sessions Revisited Live)
Suddenly after the volume of the last two tracks, Margo's solo voice. Beautiful.
Stabat Mater (opening) Pergolesi (Salve Regina in F minor)
More beautiful singing (Barbara Bonney and Andreas Scholl. The opening stately strings segue nicely from Ms Timmins.
Not bad, a bit on the old side, but then so am I. Three of them have **** ratings from me (and I don't have ratings for classical music). So it could be much much worse.
Breaking news - the sixth track has just started: Sam Cooke's version of The Tennessee Waltz - nice sax!
Ms Timmins begins...
The Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis) [The Trinity Sessions]
Edwin Starr - Twenty-Five Miles [The Best Soul All-Nighter...Ever!]
Killing Joke - Eighties [The Best Punk Album in the World...Ever!]
The King - Piece Of My Heart [Gravelands]; (an Elvis impersonator covering songs made famous by deceased artists - I bought it because of 'No Woman No Cry', which was on heavy rotation on GLR at the time - circa late 90s).
John Hiatt - Death By Misadventure [Riding With The King]
I have nothing to say about this one
Beastie Boys, 'Dr. Lee, PhD'
Ambulance LTD, 'Michigan'
Coldcut, 'Mo Beats'
Paul Heaton, 'The Pub'
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, 'Das Regenecho'
And so we had a cuppa tea and...
R.E.M. - Until the day is done
Roddy Frame - On the avenue (Live in Osaka)
The Primitives - Crash
Billy Bragg & Jill Sobule - All the young dudes (Live at The Barbican)
Bernard Cribbins - Right said Fred
Cribbo
Right Said Fred was my last iTunes purchase. 79p well spent.
Dad rock rules...
1. 7th Son - Edwyn Collins
2. Gene By Gene - Blur
3. Cool It Down - Velvet Underground
4. Get Your Share - Fink
5. Trash - Roxy Music
I'm having another go...
The Earlies - Morning Wonder (From Dead Man's Shoes OST): a good start I think.
High Llamas - Leaf and Lime: from a rival publications cover cd. Don't think I ever listened to it before though - honest.
Beck - Broken Train: yep, like that one.
The Radio - Prmenda Star: Haven't listened to this much, recommended by a friend. Seems acceptable though.
Kashmere Stage Band - All Praises (Live): A good strong finish...We like the funk, gives us that funk!!!!
No-one will ever get this far down...
So the debut embarassing fivesome is fairly safe:
The Mourners of St Pauls - Liam Frost & the Slowdown Family
All I Want To Do Is Rock - Travis (Oh dear)
Nightblindness - David Grey
Outrageous - Paul Simon
Recovering the Satellites - Counting Crows
Only one of these gets the four star rating - it's #5 and its popular with my 15-year old as well
Well, it was a bit of a hike...
but I managed it.
My 5
Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones
Buy you a drink - T Pain feat Kanye West
Stir it up - Bob Marley and the Wailers
I'm not sorry - Morrissey
345 - Supergrass
Apart from Quincy and Bob, a bit underwhelming.
randomiser
1. The Badloves - Sugar Daddy
2. Joni Mitchell - California
3. Van Morrison - Cypress Avenue
4. The 4 Tops - It's The Same Old Song
5. Mudy Waters - You're Gonna Miss Me
Phew! That could've been SO much more embarassing...
Whoops, sorry dad
Whoops, sorry dad
First Post. Ever
First post ever, ever on this site. Feeling happy. I also think I'm the youngest on he site, anyone wanna beat 13? Well, here's my five...
Leggy Blonde-Flight Of the Conchords
Maybe that's The Meaning of life- Carbon/Silicon
Toxic- Britney Spears
I'm a believer- The Monkees
Whistle for Will- Hot chip
It started so well, and then The Monkees popped up.
Won't you tell your Dad get off my back...
On the contrary, The Monkees only ramped the quality up a notch before crashing and buring at the end there.
Ditto: virgin poster :-)
First 5 to pop up when I hit shuffle on my iPod classic;
Joni Mitchell...Lesson In Survival
Two Gallants....Two Days Short Tomorrow
Sufjan Stevens...For Clyde Tombaugh
Jeff Buckley.....Yeh Jo Halka Saroor Hai
Modest Mouse.....Edit The Sad Parts
random selections
James Brown-Superbad
Charlie Parker- Billie's bounce
Säkert(Swedish version of hello saferide!) - Allt som är ditt
Television -Torn curtain
Mantled King - I am the white (from a Word CD!)
Torn curtain
Playing as I type - great song
Random Selections
No fudging honest! Have to admit there are a couple I haven't listen to that much.
Tuesday's Five
1. Ankle Injuries - Fujiya & Miyagi
2. Sulk - Radiohead
3. U-Mass - Pixies
4. Bliss - Muse
5. Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead
Deep breath...
1. Ella Fitzgerald - You Can Have Him
2. Koop - Drum Rhythm A
3. Stephin Merrit - I Die
4. The Pogues - Small Hours
5. James - How Was It For You?
Better late than never
The Who - Bargain
Headlines - Damage to the Sea
That Fucking Tank - Say Goodnight
Artic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down
Spiritualized - I Didn't Mean to Hurt You
......
'Bargain'....
what a tune that is....
Played it about 5 times in a row the other day and decided that I'd never heard a band make a more beautiful racket than the 'orrible 'Oo.
I call that an error, the worst you've ever made
Surely some mistake. Didn't you mean to type 'Won't Get Fooled Again'?
The beauty of randomness ......
That's the thing about having everything you own randomised. I'd never pick out Bargain normally I'd go for a Won't Get Fooled instead. I keep discovering things I own, that I like and that I don't listen too.
Cracking
And the suns out too ................
No, cos 'WGFA' wasn't chosen by his i-pod!
I am not suggesting 'Bargain' is a superior tune to 'WGFA', but it is splendid in its own right.
Ruby Tuesday
Thunder road - Mary Lou Lord
You know more than I do - John Cale
Rollin and Tumblin - Jeff Beck
Bad Blood - Bright Eyes
Pick the Wildwood flower - Johnny Cash
My debut randomisation proceeded thus.
On a nice, breezy mid-summer's early evening, post work drink in hand, the beloved 60Gb Creative spewed forth the following:
1) The Beatles - Dig A Pony from Let It Be... Naked
Decent song, decent album, decent start. I can penetrate any place I go, y'know.
2) The Temptations - My Girl
Incredibly annoying in the early 90s when it charted at No 2 and was in that film, and was played left, right and centre, but most enjoyable having not heard it for ages. Love my Motown compilation, even such "obvious" songs on it.
3) Magic Numbers - All I See from Those The Brokes
Their second album hasn't got many listens around here because most songs on it outstay their welcome and are somewhat lacking in the hook department after the immediacy of most of the first record, but I enjoyed hearing this in isolation. Very good, very sparse, very well sung.
4) The Only Ones - Flaming Torch, from an Only Ones Best Of
Well, it's not Another Girl, Another Planet, my reason for buying said Best Of (after I heard Belle And Sebastian cover it at a gig years ago, not because of that damned ad it was on) and this isn't as good, but it has reminded me of their existence and that I should give the whole thing another listen.
5) Smashing Pumpkins - XYU from Mellon Collie And The Infinitely Poor Album Title
Undoubtedly one of the songs you'd get rid of if you were reducing this big, bloated double o a single record. I mean, it's no Disarm, is it?
Satisfactory debut RandomiSer. I look forward to another.
Virtually Old Testamentally Old
Listen to the Band - Monkees
Powerman - The Kinks
I Just Want To See His Face - The Rolling Stones
The Swimming Song - Loudon Wainwright III
Learn How To Fall - Paul Simon
Fairly impressed by the Gods of Random music (who too often play cruel tricks)
Hmmmm...
Dirty Fan Male - Dale [An album of genuine letters written to porn stars as read out in the voices of Cary Grant and Richard E Grant amongst others]
Dirty Pretty Things - Bang bang you're dead [From the days when allofmp3.com was still around and you could download stuff like this for about 9p. Wouldn't have paid any more than that for it]
Black Grape - Submarine [Funny thing, I really like this album but had no memory of this track. Must be the drugs...]
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Willie The Wimp (Live - Philadelphia 1987)[From the exquisite SRV box set]
The Wonder Stuff - The animals and me [Not the best track from their debut album. Is it really 20 years old this year?]
Here's mine
1. Glow Girl - The Who
2. Blue Sky Thinking - The Liberty Takers
3. Human Touch - EC & The Attractions
4. Tuxedo Junction - Gene Krupa
5. The Lincolnshire Poacher - The Conet Project
Does it make me look interesting that I have The Conet Project on my iPod, or like a twat?
Let me save you the energy: twat...
Have I Won Again?
Miracle Fortress - Maybe Lately
Felt - Vasco de Gama
Marillion - Angelina
The Byrds - What's Happening?
Steve Kilbey - Providence
5 from here
36 Inches High – Nick Lowe
The Sea – Sandy Denny
Barbed Wire Blues – Wilko Johnson
Bring Me To Life – Evanescence
Portrait – Duke Special
The Sea - Sandy Denny
Sublime, but it's actually by Fotheringay (unless it's off the Gold Dust live CD or some bootleg or...you know what, I'll get me coat). No, sod it, I've scrolled down this far I deserve some pedantry!
Here y'are ...
1. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite - R.E.M. (overplayed)
2. Spanish Bombs - The Clash (smashing)
3. Warszawa - David Bowie (ambient)
4. Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips (lovely)
5. Bird of Prey - Fatboy Slim (cripes)
Random mostly wants soundtracks
Tied Up - Yello (from their "Essential" compilation)
Leather - Tori Amos (from Little Earthquakes)
Saavedro's Lair - Jack Wall (from the soundtrack to the computer game Myst III)
Mahk Jchi (Heartbeat Drum Song) - Robbie Robertson and the Red Road Ensemble (from the soundtrack to the Native Americans TV series)
The Year Zero - Mike Oldfield (from the soundtrack to The Killing Fields)
Schools here are practically back in again, by the way.
Spin it for 5
In a Future Age-Wilco
Cocaine Blues (Live)-Johhny Cash
Strange Days-the Doors
4th Time Around-Robyn Hitchcock
Air-Talking Heads
A bit strong on the alt-country...
Betty Jean--Chuck Berry
Reason to Cry--Lucinda Williams
Karankawa Daughters-Blue Diamond Shine
Roll On Babe-Ronnie Lane
Drown-Son Volt
First Randomizer on the new iPhone...
Talking Old Soldiers – Elton John
Lazarus – Porcupine Tree
Loveless - Sam Brown
Nothin’ – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
The Season Turn – Amorphus Androgynous
With fear and trepidation, I press the button...
1. Midnight Blues: Gary Moore ( Well I like it)
2. This Old Heart of Mine: The Isley Brothers (Great, just great)
3. The Club: Nick Lowe (From the Word CD, no less)
4. Our House: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (It's been a while)
5. Heads in Georgia: Cale & Clapton (An album I have really enjoyed)
Phewee! I'm out the other side and still in one piece.
Steady, ladies...
STILL RANDOMISING (OOER MISSUS) ON A WEDNESDAY!
Here goes with my threepenth worth of itunes tomfoolery...
1. One Too Many Mornings - David Gray (from some live covers download album i think?)
2. Fruit Machine - The Ting Tings (one of my fave bands still at the moment!)
3. I'm in Love - Moby (from latest album, ok'ish!)
4. Dreamer - Dennis Wilson (re-issue of the year, apparently, i dunno myself!)
5. Say Something - James (hey they're back - and bald!)
So there we have it, itunes shuffle as eclectic as ever (well mine is!)
Phew!
Phew! Reputation intact - all less than 12 months old - The Last Shadow Puppets won't be there if you ask again cos I'm going to remove it to make way for something hopefully better later today.
1. I Don't Like You Anymore - The Last Shadow Puppets
2. Birmingham Jail - Chatham County Line
3. A Heavy Sigh - Edwyn Collins
4. This Hungry Life - Tanya Donelly
5. Trains & Boats & Planes - Laura Cantrell
5 from 14497
1. It was once my life - Van Morrison
2. Russians - Sting
3. Damn Dog - Manic St Preachers
4. Beaver Patrol - Pop Will Eat Itself
5. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
word! (gangsta-style)
stupid - sarah mclachlan
careful what you wish for - raine maida
get home - sarah slean
p.i.m.p. - 50 cent
smuggler's cove - ian tyson
well you can tell i enjoy my canadian music!! with a little gangsta on the side...
Bit of everything...
Dub In Love - The In Crowd
Ages Of You - REM
When Tomorrow Hits - Spacemen 3
Something Like You - Michael Head and The Strands
The Traitors - The Packabeats
Smack rock, dub, indie and '60s instrumentals. Nice!
Ball ad Of Big Nothing - Elliot Smith
I hall Be Released Bo Dylan
5 55 Charlotte Gainsbourg
Black Bottom - Johnny Hemp's Kentucky Serenaders
You're Asking Me - Ray Davies
I'm goin' again.
This time with better results...
Rose- The Feeling
Hunting for Witches- Bloc Party
Inner City Pressure- Flught of The Conchords
She's a Saint, Not a Celebrity- Foxboro Hot Tubs
Pressure Drop- The Clash.
There we go, much better.
I can never resist this game...
Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones (Groovy Baby!)
Singin' In The Rain - Gene Kelly (didn't even know I had this, from the Clockwork Orange Soundtrack which maybe explains)
Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield (turning into a nice selection this)
The Smile - David Axelrod (space jazz funk, this whole selection is all sounding a bit movie soundtrack which is no bad thing)
40 - Franz Ferdinand (equally cool if less soundtracky than everything else here)
Well I wouldn't skip any of these...
Hmmm - bit blokey [and dated - 'cept for the View]
Stuck inside of Memphis - Bob Dylan [No Direction Home version]
Spare Parts - Bruce Springsteen [Tunnel of Love]
You know I couldn't Last - Morrissey [You are the Quarry]
Old England - The Waterboys [Live Adventures of..]
Don't Tell Me - The View [Hats off to the Buskers]
Cool.. not
First I have a very uncool Sansa...
1, The Doors - You're Lost Little Girl
2. Rush - Malignant Narciscissim
3. Radiohead - 15 Step
4. The Jam - Town Called Malice
5. The Beatles (ha!) - Blackbird.
first timer
From my 30GB Zune, which is only about 2/3 full, with 3,200 songs...
Man or Astro-Man, "Mystery Meat", Destroy All Astromen!!
Razed in Black, "Blush V.2", Dark Trance vs. Neo-Goth Vol. 1 compilation
Juno Reactor, "God is God", Bible of Dreams
Emergency Broadcast Network, "Sexual Orientation", Telecommunication Breakdown
Twisted Sister, "I'll Be Home for Christmas", A Twisted Christmas
Whew. Good thing none of my Korean Language lessons appeared there. Or the inexplicable 33 copies of "Mean Machine" that have apparently been copied over one at a time, each time I've synced up. I'd think my Zune was trying to warn me about The Man, if it wasn't for the fact that it itself came from The Man. Mean Machine indeed.
Late night 5 from Bristol
First up - Abilene by Sheryl Crow from C'mon c'mon
Second - The only one by Roy Orbison from Mystery Girl
Third - If I have to go - Tom Waits (who incidentally I saw in Paris last week and was excellent!) from Orphans - Bawlers
Fourth - Forgotten Love - Jaco Pastorius from his eponymous debut
Fifth - I'm Diggin a hole to bury my heart - by Jimmy Lee from the superb collection 'Hillbilly Music Thank God - Volume 1, produced by Marshall Crenshaw. Was there a volume 2?
I read someone else's entry about Martin Stephenson - I had the pleasure of a weekend of guitar playing with Jim Hornsby, who made an album called 'down to the woods' or similar with Martin. Travelled up North with Twangathon, who contributes regularly to these columns, and a German Folk singer called Regina, who did nothing but moan all the way from South East London to the Lake District. Didn;t like the tapes in the car, Didn;t want to go in the pub. Didn;t like people playing guitar.
Twangathon - anything to report?
Hog
A late 5
1 When A Man Loves A Womaqn - Percy Sledge
2 Withered And Died - Richard & Linda Thompson
3 Has He Got A Friend For Me - Richard & Linda Thompson
4 Roadrunner - Bo Diddley
5 A Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello
Once again, more than 1 track from the same album.
My 5
36 Degrees - Placebo
Disorder - Joy Division
Working Man's Cafe - Ray Davies
Broken Stones - Paul Weller
Homework - Peter Green Splinter Group
I love a shuffle first thing in the morning...
It's Great To Be Here Again - The Posies
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
On Your Own - The Verve
Alphabet Street - Prince
On The Steet Where You Live - Mr Hudson & The Library
I have an old skool iPod mini so I have to swap stuff around
Excuses....excuses
'Underpass'-John Foxx
'Take That Situation'-Nick Heyward
'Naked In The Rain'-Blue Pearl
'Unnecessery Trouble'-Hard-Fi
'The Apartment'-Duncan Lamont (Sweeney Soundtrack)
This is what came out and I have to stand by it.
Shit...where was that Miles Davis track?
I can't help it... I love questions like this...
Depeche Mode - Precious (Sasha's Spooky Mix)
Billy Joel - Only The Good Die Young
The Smiths - Hand In Glove
Kraftwerk - The Model
Prefab Sprout - Andromeda Heights
I'm very happy with that... it could have been SO much worse!
From 4935 songs comes...
1. Bright Eyes - True Blue
2. The Shins - Saint Simon
3. Now It's Overhead - Reverse
4. Vetiver - I Know No Pardon
5. Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
Am I a rounded individual? I was beginning to think not but number 6 was Bob Marley - Mr Brown which makes me feel slightly better. Although I guess number 6 don't count. Oh dear.
Hmmm
New kid in town - Tricia Yearwood
M62 song - Doves
Swingin' the blues - Count Basie
Victim to the tomb - Old and in the Grey
Don't let the teardrops rust your shining heart - Everything but the Girl
I'm just off to the therapist.
PS - not a single ABBA track in 165 posts, supporting my theory that no one actually listens to them, "classic pop" or no.....
Abba
Wrong! I've got Dancing Queen (how can anyone not have this on their iPod?) Voulez Vous and SOS!
Random Bones
1. Jones Crusher- Frank Zappa
2. I Remember- Devendra Banhart
3. I Can't Stop Loving You- Ray Charles
4. Brick Is Red- The Pixes
5. Donovan Said- Brain Jonestown Massacre
It's not an iPod but here goes...
1. Supertramp "School"
What the hell? I think it's only here because it was used as the theme for some BBc programme back in the late 70s.
2. Lightning Seeds "Flaming Sword"
A lost classic from Mr Broudie.
3. New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle (iTunes Originals Version)
Another pub-rock live version of one of their classics.
4. David Bowie "Speed Of Life"
The most mental album opener ever..?
5. Beck "Timebomb"
Beck - one of the last great singles artists.
It surprised me a lot this time
Illegal Smile - John Prine (Gives me an idea for this weekend)
Making Whoopee - Dinah Washington (Gives me another idea for this weekend)
I Believe I'm Going To Leave - Professor Longhair (Very occasionally in the heat of some moment but I never actually do and don't believe I ever would)
January - Mose Allison (one of his early instrumentals, pleasant)
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino ('I LOVE the music of the late 20th Century' says Bruce Willis when this comes on the radio in 12 Monkeys - and we'd agree)
Hmmm
Matthew Sweet - "Smog Moon"
The Who - "Daddy Rolling Stone"
Graham Coxon - "Don't Believe Anything I Say"
Felt - "Crystal Ball"
Guided By Voices "My Valuable Hunting Knife"
A healthy dose of primal rnb to scare the fey indie types away...
Soul of all sorts (and Lily Allen...)
Betty LaVette "Before The Money Came"
Lily Allen "Alfie"
Dave Alvin "Prayer" (bit of the old spoken word there...)
Marvin Gaye "Anna's Song"
Bruce Springsteen "Point Blank" (live in 1981...)
Phew! for me too - first five from the iPod...
Oh babe what would you say - Hurricane Smith
Red red wine - Tony Tribe
Walk unafraid - REM
A Summer Long Since Passed - Virginia Astley
There Oughta Be A Law - Ian McNabb
A fair cross section from 8,095 tracks - and how polite of the iPod: the last one is a Word CD track (from Word 29)!
Phil
A bit on the hard side
Led Zeppelin-Ramble On
Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together
Birthday Party-Deep In The Woods
Klaxons-Golden Skans
Iron Maiden-Can I Play With Madness?
A boring Friday, I have my other iPod here so...
1) SUEDE - Bentswood Boys (from the superb B-sides album, though far from the best track on it)
2) VELVET UNDERGROUND - Venus In Furs (from a Lou Reed "Best Of" - actually inspiring me to play more John Cale)
3) BLUR - Turn It Up (from "Modern Life Is Rubbish" - a great underrated album)
4) STEELY DAN - The Boston Rag (from "Countdown To Ecstacy", wonderful)
5) HUMAN LEAGUE - Dreams Of Leaving (from "Travelogue" - Phil Oakey hates this album but I still love it...)
Hmmm, not sure classic rock, Britpop and early electronics sums up my listening, but there you go...
5 came up when painting the bathroom
Touch me I'm going to scream Part 2 - My Morning Jacket
Rat Trap - The Boomtown Rats
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Christy Moore
Tron - Foals
Rock Lobster - The B-52's
Well that's a surprise, probably not one for a dinner party
Hows this for eclectic?
From 10354 songs;
Goldfish Bowl – Stereophonics
Stir it up - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Beautiful – Christina Aguilera
These Pines – Kasey Chambers
More Songs About Chocolate & Girls - The Undertones
01. Joy Division
01. Joy Division "Wilderness" - good start :-)
02. Indochine "Une Maison Perdue" - can live with this one
03. Dream Theater "Surrounded" - did not manage to listen to the whole track
04. The Fall "Is This New" - good one from their latest album
So far not too bad... come on, 05, embarrass me... ;-)
05. The Cure "Lime Time" - nice demo track, me thinks
The Cardigans
1. The Cardigans - "Live & Learn"
2. Fountains of Wayne - "Fine Day For a Parade"
3. The Chesterfield Kings - "Elevator Ride"
4. The Fall - "I Feel Voxish"
5. The Fuzztones - "My Nothing"
This is me today
False Alarm Cherry Ghost
Hearts & Bones Paul Simon
Homeland Nitin Sawhney
Mr Brown Bob Marley
A Heavy Sigh Edwyn Collins
Here goes
Brand new friend - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Senior Twilight Stock Replacer - The Fall
Is This The World We Created - Queen (Live Magic)
Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri
Ok, so I like Queen. But could have been worse :) Why is this like emptying out your underwear draw in front of a crowd of people you don't know?
At least the disney compilation didnt show up
1. Mountain - Stereolab
2. Péarla an Bhrollaig Bháin - Micheál ó Súilleabháin
3. Clocks - Coldplay
4. Hand of Stone - Mastadon
5. Why do I keep Counting - The Killers
Memo to self: We're back off holidays...Loose the coldplay
here's mine
1. Just- Mark Ronson
2. Wicker Man- Iron Maiden
3. Get Miles- Gomez
4. Cold Cold Cold- Little Feat
5. The Island- Decemberists
go figure...
my first post
Fljotavik - Sigur Ros
Bad Baby - PIL
Ready Or Not - The Delfonics
Frightened - The Fall
Doesn't Make It Alright - The Specials
Phew! Kajagoogoo weren't selected...
1: In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Julie London
2: Art School - The Jam
3: Absolutely Sweet Marie - Bob Dylan
4: Underground - Curtis Mayfield
5: The Boy Done Good - Billy Bragg
Randomizer
Pop A Cap In Yo' Ass - Ben Watt feat. Estelle
Swimming Pool - The Submarines
Too Far - Crazy Penis
Happiness - Superpitcher
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
Here goes..
Beautiful Noise - Neil Diamond
Easy - Groove Armada
Do It Fluid - The Blackbyrds
Have A Nice Day - Roxanne Shante
The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get - Morrissey
Almost made it without making a fool of myself
Cigarette Smoker Fiona - Artic Monkeys
Bus - Radio Dept.
Methamphetamine Blues - Mark Lanegan Band
Cracked Actor - David Bowie
Chipmunks Are Go! - Madness (Oh dear)
Well, who'd a thunk it?
1. She belongs to me - Bob Dylan - from 'Live at the Royal Albert Hall' ( The Bootleg Series - vol 4 )
2. Hast manana monsieur - Sparks - from 'Kimono My House'
3. Flashback Blues - John Prine - from 'John Prine'
4. Black Bush - 16 Horsepower - from 'Sackcloth 'n' Ashes'
5. Drown me Slowly - Audioslave - from 'Out of exile'
Great Sunday morning listening
This has made for a rather enjoyable set:
1. Yekermo Sew - Mulatu Astatqu (Very Best of Ethiopiques (Disc 1)
2. One Big Love - Emmylou Harris (Red Dirt Girl)
3. Buffalo Ballet - The Walkabouts (Satisfied Mind)
4. How To Be Invisible - Kate Bush (Aerial: Sea of Honey)
5. Martyr - Depeche Mode (Best of Volume 1)
Blimey, my i-pod's in a mood
On the cusp of 1970 - Bongwater
Sex, God, Sex - Swans
True Hardcore - Sebadoh
Marilyn Moore - Sonic Youth
I will Never See the Sun - Great Lake Swimmers
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John Martyn - Our love (Grace and Danger)
The Beatles - Let it Be (Naked)
Van Morrison - Gypsy (St Dominic's Preview)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - I'm Partial to your abracadabra (Best of)
The Beatles - I feel fine (1)
I do have more recent stuff but it's on a retro tip at the moment...
Live from the WORD office, again
1] GOLDFRAPP Caravan Girl - jolly!
2] COLOGNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2: Allegro assai - thank God most of the staff are on holiday.
3] FORTRAN 5 Ken Livingston - two minutes of a confused old lady saying "Ken Livingston, he's very nice, a lovely man, very natural..."
4] FATBOY SLIM Acid 8000 - hasn't aged well, it has to be said.
5] THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS Turn Into - thought I'd deleted this ages ago and I will be doing so very shortly.
Four and One
1. If You See Natalie - Eels
2. You Keep It All In - The Beautiful South
3. The Dangling Conversation - Simon & Garfunkel
4. Gotta See Baby Tonight - Louis Prima
5. The Beast In Me - Nick Lowe
So a bit of jumpin' jive, (or is it jivin' jump?) from King Louis the only up beat in a set of pretty mellow grooves for this afternoon.
Catholic taste? We´re all protestants in Norway, supposedly
1. Ancient Egypt - Tom Verlaine
2. Megans Present - Khonnor
3. Third Man - John Howard
4. Love Me Like You Do - Magic Numbers
5. Boogie Nights - Heatwave
No cheating.
You're Gonna Miss Me - Turntable Orchestra
Miracles - Pet Shop Boys
You Don't Love Me - Dawn Penn
Waiting for the Sirens Call - New Order
These Things Take Time - The Smiths
No shame here
1. Sally Dances - Longpigs
2. Changes - David Bowie
3. Banquet - Bloc Party
4. Beautiful Ones - Suede
5. Clouds Up - Air
(Tell me) have you ever seen
(Tell me) have you ever seen me - Small Faces
Don't let me be lonely tonight - James Taylor
My Little Red Book - Love
Friends = Joan Armatrading
Orland Park - Mike Randle
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"Cow Cud Is A Twin" - Aphex Twin
"On Your Own" - Blur
"Diamond Rib Cage" - Belly
"Is This Music?" - Teenage Fanclub
"Sundrops" - Kristin Hersh
Are we still playing this game?
Just came across this and thought I'd join in:
1) My Ride's Here (Warren Zevon from the LP My Ride's Here)
2) Wavelength (Van Morrison from the LP Wavelength)
3) You Gave Me A Mountain (live) (Elvis Presley from the LP Burning Love)
4) Play It All Night Long (Warren Zevon, unreleased live recording from 23 September 1984)
5) On A Night Like This (Bob Dylan from the LP Planet Waves)
Nice!
Nervous, but hopeful
1. Le Prochaim Amour - Jacques Brel, appropriate, we just got back from France (via Belgium)
2. Candy's Room - Bruce Springsteen - from one of his finest outings
3. Fast Train - Van Morrison - from one of the Man's less brilliant efforts, but slack is duly cut for this guy. Funny how Bruce and Van crop up together a lot!
4. Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters - Oh Yeah!
5. Adagio from Symphony No.92 in G 'Oxford' - Joseph Haydn -glorious and prolific he finished on Symphony No.104 'London', and thats not all he wrote - think of the royalties!
Knife Wounds
Kino - The Knife
16 flavours of Hell - Pop Will Eat Itself
Pass This on - The Knife
Zamsu - Sigur Ros and Mogwai
The View from the afternoon - Artic Monkeys
Late Entry for the Randomizer
1 Good Vibrations. The Beach Boys
Not Bad
2 I'm coming home. Sleepy LaBeef
Just love his voice
3 Walk Away. Eliza Carthy
O.K.
4 27 Yards of Dental Floss. Half Man Half Biscuit
There's nearly always at least one hmhb
5 Night Comes In. June Tabor and Oysterband
Not a bad lot this time
Randomiser
1. God Give Me Strength - Elvis Costello
2. Shin Kicker - Rory Gallagher
3. Who Killed Big Bird? - Guy Clark
4. Please Don't Think I'm Nosy - Charlie Musselwhite
5. Old Man Down The Road - John Fogerty
five from the phone (only 1gb - small selection)
Matthew sweet - falling
Sloan - Hollow Head
Alejandro Escavado - Put you down
Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube
David Garza - Sadness
My 5, take 'em or leave 'em
Kirsty MacColl - They Don't Know (subject of another recent Word blog I believe)
Scott Walker - Prologue
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Handle with Care (if I truly was of the iPod generation I'd remove this iffy cover, but it's part of the album so it stays)
Nanci Griffith - Trouble in the Field
Howling Wolf - Wang Dang Doodle
My random selection
Neal Casal 'Fell On Hard Times'
Show of Hands 'Country Life'
Brett Dennen 'Darlin' do not fear'
Megson 'Butternut hill'
Anton Barbeau and Su Jordan 'Cool as folk'
Hmm, not bad. Reflects my tastes in americana and folk/roots. Don't know what happened to the world music and blues though! Maybe if I tried random play again they'd turn up.
Interestingly also reflects the influence of The Word CD's with the Brett Dennen and Anton Barbeau selections...
My Random 5
R Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane
Ride - Unfamiliar
Bell X1 - Alphabet Soup
Plastic D'amour - Sirenes
Morning Runner - Be All That You Want Me To Be
Any thoughts?
1. Roots- Show of Hands
2. The Hand That Feeds- Nine Inch Nails
3. Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)- Arcade Fire
4. Into the Fire- Bruce Springsteen
5. Knights of Cydonia- Muse
This is strangely fun, I'll have another try in a bit....
5
1. Sam Hall - Johnny Cash
2. Going To Brazil - Motorhead
3. Frankie's Gun - The Felice Brothers
4. Clap Hands - Tom Waits
and..well dont shoot me yet, i m new here..
5. Deeply Dippy - Right Said Fred
(there i did type it)
Tidy
1. A Spade - Ani Difranco
2. I Am Yours - Derek And The Dominos
3. I Get Along Without You Very Well - Billie Holiday
4. Debe - Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate
5. Back On A Roll - Super Furry Animals
Fairly Representative. I have no idea what two of these sound like which is also fairly representative.
Have i missed the deadline...
Blur - Tracy Jacks
The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
Vince Garaldi - It's Your Dog, Charlie Brown (from Peanuts cartoon) - I've added this one to my 5 star ratings!
Sam Cooke - You Send Me
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Hmmm fairly safe...and luckily managed to avoid number six, which seems to be some twiddly guitar 'pyrotechnics' from Eric Johnson...
Ran Dumb
1. Stone Crazy - Beautiful People.
2. One Night as I Lay On My Bed - Steeleye Span.
3. Mattress - Fela Kuti.
4. The Cape Verdean Blues - Horace Silver.
5. Child of the Moon - Radon Daughters.
'now hear this':...!
1. Sonic Youth - The Sprawl
2. Neil Young - If I Could Have Her Tonight
3. Radiohead - Reckoner
4. The Fall - 2 x 4
5. Roots Manuva - Do Nah Bodda Mi
- actually took me to a song from the latest word compilation on that last one.....
Steve Earle - Tennessee
Steve Earle - Tennessee Blues (Washington Sq)
Solomon Burke - All For The Love Of Sunshine (The Collection)
The Beach Boys - Surfin' U.S.A. (20 Golden Greats)
Marilyn Manson - I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)(Mechanical Animals)
Rufus Wainwright - Going To A Town (Release The Stars)
Good grief!!!
1, yeah, 2, great, 3, OK? 4, what the... 5, nice!
Ok...
... here goes:
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
Guy Clarke - It's About Time
Dwight Yoakam - Fast As You
Joni Mitchell - Comes Love
Not horribly embarrasing, not terribly exciting either...
"When It Began" The Replacements
"St. Petersburg" Supergrass
"That's the Way of the World" Earth, Wind and Fire
"The KKK Took My Baby Away" The Ramones
"D-7" The Wipers
I like this game
Strange Pursuits - Devo (I honestly can't remember how this goes)
Christine - Sioxsie and the Banshees (Not my favourite S&B number. Like the gloomy production though)
Love & Glory - Magic Ship (This rocks and it's new)
Vietnamese Baby - New York Dolls (This rocks and it's old)
James Bond Theme - the Skatalites (Ska Jazz reworking. Lots of fun)
A bit more mainstream than I would have expected. Still that's random for you.
Too tempted to cheat...
...so I am doing this live. Deep breath - here we go:
1. Soul Inside - Soft Cell. Not the best of starts. As Yazz would say "The Only Way Is Up"
2. Too Drunk To F*** - Dead Kennedys. Is it after the watershed?
3. Passive Manipulation - The White Stripes. Not sure about that one.
4. Detroit City - Tom Jones. Yazz lied!
5. I'm Beginning To See The Light - Harry James & His Orchestra
Failed to medal I am afraid. Randomness - 9/10. Fair representation of 7534 songs - 1/10. Roll on London 2012, er, I mean the next opportunity.
Mine's quite boring..
Aerosmith - Shut Up And Dance
Rolling Stones - Shattered
Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69
Queen - She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettos)
The Beatles - Getting Better
and here we go.... top of
and here we go....
top of the chopper- john hegley
people think they know me -sloan
please be with me -eric clapton
dark days -DJ Shadow
all you need is love- the beatles
Greetings `Life Forms` as
Greetings `Life Forms` as the late great J.P. used to say, here`s the first five my `Pod threw up,
Alabama 3 Amos Moses
Kinks Come Dancing
Pogues Turkish Song Of The Damned
Link Wray Rumble
Love Gazing
My go (revisited).
1. Black Mountain - Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
2. Silver Morning - Brian Eno (Daniel Lanois helped out)
3. Rikki Don't Lose That Number - Steely Dan
4. Big Jet Plane - Primal Scream
5. Groovy Situation - Keith Rowe (Lee 'Scratch' Perry produces)
Avery mellow mood has been created.
The Randomizer
Here we go, Family Tolch, as live, with some trepidation :
Adam 5,039 songs (son - 17)
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1 Bone Broke - The White Stripes
2 Sexy Mexican Maid - Red Hot Chili Peppers
3 Take The Power Back - Rage Against The Machine
4 Mony Mony - Billy Idol
5 Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
Verity 562 (daughter - 13)
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1 Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know - Britney Spears
2 Golden Compass (lines 36-141) - Philip Pullman
3 Beautiful Liar - Beyonce & Shakira
4 True Love Ways - David Essex
5 She's My Man - Scissor Sisters
Martin 8,201 (dad - 45)
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1 Metal - Gary Numan
2 Just Like A Woman - Jeff Buckley
3 How I Wrote Elastic Man - The Fall
4 Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack
5 Fine Time - New Order
Angie 2,534 (mum - a little older than dad)
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1 Waiting For A Miracle - Leonard Cohen
2 In The City - The Eagles
3 Security - Joss Stone
4 Time Is Tight - Booker T & The MGs
5 As - Stevie Wonder
....holding our heads up in Guernsey.
Best
Martin Tolcher
Nice idea, involving the whole clan...
... quick question: is the weather as bad this summer in Guernsey as it is in the rest of the UK & Ireland?
Hi, Damp and windy (but I am
Hi,
Damp and windy (but I am 45).
...not as cold as UK. In the winter, one snowflake and traffic grinds to a halt.
Main benefit is with only 25 square miles, maximum journey home from work is about 20 minutes.
Martin
5 more
1. Pinball wizard - the Who
2. Different kind of tension - Buzzcocks
3. Whatever happened to? - Buzzcocks
4. Sunday - Nick Drake
5. All screwed up - Ramones (intro sounds like Slade)
Next up Here Comes the Summer - Undertones about 2 months too late!
First post
The Pogues - Metropolis
Manu Chao - Rainin In Paradize
The Replacements - We're Comin' Out
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Hamell On Trial - When Bobby Comes Down
Not bad, at least my fondness for high-NRG disco house and Chas 'n' Dave both stay hidden for now.
Am I accepted into the gang?
Popping the comment cherry...
British Sea Power- Canvey Island
Bjork- The Boho Dance
Notorious B.I.G- Ten Crack Commandments
Snow Patrol- You're All I Have
Mamas and the Papas- Do You Wanna Dance
Not that indicative of my music taste, but made me remember how awesome 'Do You Wanna Dance' is, and how mediocre Snow Patrol is.
And I feel bad for saying this- as a Joni Mitchell fan- but Bjork did Boho Dance much better than she ever did.
Notamusician's music
Here we go......
Caballo Viejo - Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban
Hey Joe - Spirit
Raggamuffin Love - Tracey Niceness and Chris Wayne
The Magic Number - De La Soul
Momy - Thione Seck
Fingers crossed for a good 5
When Things Explode - Unkle feat Ian Brown
Rudy Foolish - Superwolf
What A day that was - Talking Heads
The Brouhaha - The Beastie Boys
Big Monsters crush Cities - FingaThing
Could of been so much worse
I'm too late but I want to play anyway
Doot Doot - Freuer
Drifter - Souxsie and the Banshees
Bread and Wine - Peter Gabriel
I've Got A Match - They Might Be Giants
Original Sin - INXS
I want to go again, I could have had a much cooler one!
http://www.awesomeplaylist.com/
This could be a bit random...
Dashboard - Modest Mouse
Oubliette (Live at Brixton Prison) - Cable
Young Hearts Run Free - Nancy Wallace
Mame - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
An End Has A Start (Radio 1 Live Lounge Session) - The Editors
The latest shuffle
The Undertones - "Get Over You"
- still sounds so fresh - shame Feargal packed it in.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Albert Goes West"
- one of the best songs on my favourite Cave album
The Muttonbirds - "Ngaire"
- if you think REM have lost it I recommend checking out New Zealand's Muttonbirds as a worthy substitute.
The Third Bardo - "Lose Your Mind"
- underated 60's psych
The Lyres - "Help Me Ann"
- one of the first and best of the garge rock revival bands
A touch of prog and oddness
Ear Elephant - The Kilted Generation
He's So Gay (from YCDTOSA Vol. 6) - Frank Zappa
Plug In Baby - Muse
Level Five - King Crimson
The Release - Marillion
Dublin to Vegas via Basildon
Roisin Dubh - Thin Lizzy
Elevation - U2
Jr Painkiller - Depeche Mode
Stories For Boys - U2
Everything Will Be Alright - The Killers