Rules: set your Ipod to shuffle. Confess your musical sins by listing the first ten without skipping teh suxorish.
Go!:
Tonight In Bilbao – Sun Kil Moon
Something 4 The Weekend – Super Furry Animals
Buenos Aries – The Golden Palominos
Otro Mundo – Manu Chao
Hours – TV On The Radio
Toto Dies – Nellie McKay
The Magdalene Laundries – Joni Mitchell & The Chieftains
West Germany – The Minutemen
Until Lately – Dream Syndicate
Alchoholiday – Teenage Fanclub
and one more that doesn’t have a country or city in its name: Warp Asylum – White Zombie
New additions his week: NIN – Ghosts I-IV, Aimee Mann – @#%&*! Smilers
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Here it is
Nothing as it Seems – Pearl Jam Live at Benaroya Hall
Special – Garbage Version 2.0
1234 – Feist
Train of Love – Johnny Cash
Walk Between the Raindrops – James McMurtry
Back to the Sea – The Futureheads
The Oldest Baby In the World – John Prine
No Song III – Mudhoney
Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 – Ludwig van Beethoven
Track 10 – Random track from Ecuador from my Sis and her Hubbie in the Peace Corps (DFH!!!)
Van Big Star – You Get What You Deserve
Van Spoon – Jonathan Fisk
Van Django Reinhardt – My Blue Heaven
Van Cure – Caterpillar
Van Tortoise – Cornpone Brunch
Van Robert Bradley & Macy Gray – Down On Me
Van Adrian Belew – People
Van Apples In Stereo – Dots 1-2-3
Van Robert Johnson – Terraplane Blues
Van Pink Floyd – In The Flesh
Ooh such a beautiful way to break your heart
Ooh such a beautiful way to break your heart
There’s someone calling your name
You’re gonna miss that chain
“Beautiful Way” – Beck
“Down On The Corner” – Johnny Marr and The Healers
“You Dance” – Eastmountainsouth
“Pump Up The Bass” – DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince
“Brother Jake” – The Blues Brothers
“No Apagues La Luz: – Enrique Iglesias
“Do It Again” – Steely Dan
“F.O.D. (All By Myself)” – Green Day
“All Wrong” – Morphine
“She Be The One” – Enrique Iglesias
Plus Special Guest Track – “Down By The Riverside” – Clay Walker
Wow. That was bad. Awful.
“Hurry up, get along, be on your way
And make sure that you’re certain
It’s not the wrong day.
Punctual people are lost in their plight,
To become unprecedented when they are right.
Why am I searching and when will I know,
All the years that I waited with nothing to show.
I’m ready to listen, I’m to win,
But I can’t wait much longer before we begin.”
Shiny Cage – The Dukes of Stratosphear
When the Whistle Blows – Ghost of an American Airman
In the Cage LIVE 1975 – Genesis
Excitable Boy – Warren Zevon
Steppin’ Out – Joe Jackson
Time Waits For No One – Ambrosia
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) – The Monkees
Battle of Who Could Care Less – Ben Folds Five
The Riverflow – Levellers
Extrovert – XTC
bonus:
Away – The Grapes of Wrath
I See Moe – Guadalcanal Diary
Setting Sun – The Chemical Brothers
“I’ve got friends, that’s for sure.
But Larry and Curly don’t come around much anymore.”
1. Down on the Ground – British Sea Power
2. See Me, Feel Me – The Who
3. Baby I’m a Star – Prince and the Revolution
4. Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Op. 55 I. – Grieg/Ole Kristian Ruud
5. 45 – Elvis Costello
6. Meandher – Mermen
7. Milk It – Nirvana
8. I Took Your Name – R.E.M.
9. Male Model – Sleater-Kinney
10. Sunset Song – Richard Thompson
Bonus Hot Hit: Small Gardens – Ruby Falls
Okay. This is not funny. Out of the previous 68 artists, I’ve heard of 20 of them.
Twenty.
And that doesn’t mean I could identify them if I heard the music, only that I’ve heard of them.
You kids get offa my lawn. And turn down that noise. And don’t laugh so loud. It’s rude.
1/New Order/I.C.B.
2/Simon and Garfunkel/Bookends Theme
3/Pablo’s Eye/The Adjuster
4/Giant Sand/Sage Advice
5/He Said/Pump (Instrumental)
6/Gipsy Kings/Tu Quieres Volver
7/Sheryl Crow/Am I Getting Through (Part I & II)
8/House Of Freaks/Never
9/Dol-Lop/Flow
10/Tom Waits/Gun Street Girl
Required Bonus track to make up for whichever track above you absolutely hate
11/American Music Club/Dallas,Airports,Bodybags
Additional Bonus tracks because AMC is so great
12/American Music Club/Johnny Mathis’ Feet
13/Soul Coughing/City Of Motors
OK then.
1. “Two Step”- DMB- Live at Piedmont Park
2. “You May Be Right”- Billy Joel- Greatest Hits
3. “Firebird Suite (1919), Finale”- Igor Stravinsky- Music, An Appreication
4. “Ego Tripping (Self-Admiration With Blow-Up Mix)”- The Flaming Lips
5. “#36″- DMB- Warehouse 8 Vol.3
6. “Spanish Castle Magic”- Jimi Hendrix- BBC Sessions
7. “Diamonds from Sierra Leone”- Kanye West- Late Registration
8. “Charity Case”- Gnarls Barkley- The Odd Couple
9. “Amplified”- Cypress Hill- Stoned Raiders
10.”Hey, Girl”- Damien Marley- Welcome to Jamrock
and teh bonus:
11. “Taste the Pain”- Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Mother’s Milk
Big Brother & the Holding Company — “Ball and Chain” (live Mont. Pop)
Foo Fighters — “All My Life”
The Brothers Johnson — “Ain’t We Funkin’ Now”
Ikara Colt — “Rudd”
The Vibrators — “Lookout Lookout”
D.R.I. — “Blockhead”
Norman Greenbaum — “Spirit In The Sky”
Roky Erickson & the Aliens — “Sputnik”
The Offspring — “Gotta Get Away”
Chaotic Dischord — “Rape & Pillage”
It’s All Over Now – Rolling Stones
Dissolved Girl – Massive Attack
Down for Whatever – Ice Cube
California – PC Munoz and the Amen Corner
The Wanderer – Johnny Cash w/ U2
The Serpant’s Tooth (Take 1) – Miles Davis
Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters
Boogie Woogie – Kruder & Dorfmeister
Mystic Voyage – Roy Ayers
To All the Girls – Beastie Boys
“It was a long and dark December, on the rooftops I remember there was snow. White Snow. Clearly I remember, from the windows they were watching as we froze, down below. When the future’s architectured by a carnival of idiots on show you better lie low. If you love me, won’t you let me know.”
1) Coldplay – Violet Hill
2) Blue Man Group – Piano Smasher
3) Smashing Pumpkins – Stand Inside Your Love
4) Bare Naked Ladies – Too Little Too Late
5) Modest Mouse – Float ON
6) Parliament – Flash Light
7) Audioslave – I am the Highway
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Higher Ground
9) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – The Waiting
10) The Stone Roses – This is the One
I liked this mix. Little weird, but definitely good stuff. One more just to see if I can screw it up:
The Streets – Dry Your Eyes Mate.
Nope, good song too. Have a great day everyone.
1. Brianstorm- Arctic Monkeys
2. I’m Scared- Duffy
3. Going Nowhere- Oasis
4. Bang Bang You’re Dead- Dirty Pretty Things
5. Albion- Babyshambles
6. Glitter and Trauma- Biffy Clyro
7. No Distance Left To Run- Blur
8. LDN- Lily Allen
9. When The Sun Goes Down- Arctic Monkeys
10. Koko- Goldfrapp
Bonus-
11. Elephant Stone- The Stone Roses
12. Tumbling Dice- Linda Ronstadt
1. Sound of Silver – LCD Soundsystem
2. Squealer – AC/DC
3. On Planet Off – The Notwist
4. “My Two Nads” (Dad reprise) – Out Hud
5. Music is My Hot Hot Sex – Cansei De Ser Sexy
6. Long Player (I have the whole album as one giant MP3) – The Faces
7. N.E.R.D. -She wants to move – The DFA Remixes
8. Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles
9. The Godforsaken Angels of Epistemology – Saint The Fire Show
10. Lets Make Out – Does it Offend You, Yeah?
Bonus Two
11. Scenic World – Beirut
12. Venus – Television
I am finally getting an iPod. Should arrive today, in fact. Then, I can play this game and get some recognizable tunes onto the lists.
This random 10 is for xpurg8d:
1. “Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell” – The Stooges
2. “Mahogany Hall Stomp” – Louis Armstrong
3. “Bye-Ya” – Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane – At Carnegie Hall
4. John Adams, “Phrygian Gates” – Gloria Cheng
5. “Body Movin” – Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim remix
6. “Midnight in Paris” – Peter Stampfel – Have Moicy!
7. “Pure Imagination” – Bill Charlap
8. “I’m Talking About You” – Chuck Berry
9. “Soul Survivor” – Rolling Stones
10. Tchaikovsky, “Valse des Fleurs” from “The Nutcracker” – Slovak Philharmonic
Bonus: Beethoven, “Sonata No. 3 in A”, 1. Allegro ma non tanto – Jacqueline De Pre, cello and Daniel Barenboim, piano
One of the better ones. Inspirational verse: “You wear my beret, and I’ll use your bidet, cherie/I’ll be clean, you’ll be free/Won’t you share love with me/Toujours, l’amour!”
greetings to the new brunette – billy bragg
birthday suit holiday – haymarket riot
quite – smashing pumpkins
she will only bring you happiness – mclusky
smokers outside hospital doors – editors
bargain – the who
old fashion morphine – jolie holland
christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis – neko case
valentine’s day is over – billy bragg
shouting out loud – the raincoats
1. All I Know – Pernice Brothers
2. Love is for Lovers – dBs
3. The Troubles – The Roches
4. Virginia Plain – Roxy Music
5. The Equestrian – Les Savy Fav
6. Promise – Violent Femmes
7. Casanova – Roxy Music
8. Timer – Laura Nyro
9. Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) – Yo La Tengo
10. You Make It Easy – Golden Smog
A lovely Friday morning list. #8 is a concession to the girlfriend.
1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Love Song No. 7
2. The Beach Boys – Take a Load Off Your Feet
3. P.J. Harvey – Rub ‘Til It Bleeds
4. Neil Young – Down By the River
5. Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Shabby Doll
6. E-40 – Tell Me When to Go (Featuring Keak Da Sneak)
7. The Black Lips – Katrina
8. The Replacements – Answering Machine
9. Iggy & The Stooges – I’m Go Glad
10. Richard Gere, Renne Zelwegger – We Both Reached For the Gun (from Chicago)
BONUS: BARR – The Song Is The Single
1-I Wanna Roo You-Van Morrison (for Lara Logan)
2-Keep Me In Your Heart-Warren Zevon (for Russ Feingold and Chris Dodd)
3-Hard Sun-Eddie Vedder (for James Inhofe)
4-Find the Cost of Freedom-CSNY (for Antonin Scalia)
5-Redneck Woman-Gretchen Wilson (for Monica Goodling and Esther Slater MacDonald)
6-She Was Hot-Rolling Stones (also for Lara Logan, I mean… DAMN)
7-I Will Remember You-Sarah McLachlan (for Barack Obama… Will you remember me?)
8-Fake Empire-The National (for Dick Cheney)
9-Tortured, Tangled Hearts-Dixie Chicks (for John Yoo)
10-Where Was I?-Kenny Wayne Shepherd (for Colin Powell)
Bonus: Across the Great Divide-Nanci Griffith (for Steny Hoyer and his aweseomest bipartifuckship)
Young Girl’s Lament – The Big 3 (Momma Cass’s pre-M&P group)
Underture to Tommy – The Who
Against All Odds – Phil Collilns
A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
Cry Baby Cry – The Beatles
Heaven Can Wait – Meat Loaf
No Surrender – Bruce
Tortured Tangled Hearts – The Dixie Chicks
I Believe in Love – The Dixie Chicks (wow – a double play!)
She’s Got a Way – Billy Joel
Stuck in the Past!
1. David Byrne – “Burnt By The Sun” – Feelings
2. Ben Folds Five – “Narcolepsy” — The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Weege
3. Paul Thorn – “Crutches” — A Long Way From Tupelo
4. Donovan – “Three King Fishers” — Sunshine Superman
5. Little Walter – “Can’t Hold Out Much Longer” — The Essential Little Walter
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Maps” — Fever To Tell
7. Love – “A House Is Not A Motel” — Forever Changes
8. Kurtis Blow – “Basketball” — The Best Of Kurtis Blow
9. Yes – “Your Move” — The Yes Album
10. Neil Young – “Tired Eyes” — Decade
**Bonus** Modern English – “I Melt With You” — Pillow Lips
Depending on your perspective, I should probably be embarrassed by either the Kurtis Blow or the Yes cuts (or maybe even Donovan), but I remain unashamed and unrepentant. And for those of you who are not yet familiar with Paul Thorn, go buy every album he’s ever made, right now. Otherwise it’s your loss.
Foreign Window- Van Morrison
Misguided Angel- Cowboy Junkies
Franks Wild Years- Tom Waits
Pavlov’s Bell- Aimee Mann
Brothers Under the Bridge- Cowboy Junkies
Tough Mama- Bob Dylan
I Prefer You- Etta James
Swallow- Wailin Jennys
Potion- Morphine
A Raga Called Pat, Part One- John Fahey
This is why I hate shuffle on a big deck of songs. Good songs, bad mix.
Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA – Devo
Rattlesnake Round-Up (Reprise) – Henry Kaiser & Sergei Kuriokhin
Road Ladies – Frank Zappa
Don’t Believe The Sensorair – DJ Pantshead v Cabaret Voltaire v Public Enemy v Air v Pharcyde
Sugar Cone – Twink
Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow (Fire) [chime edit] – The Beach Boys*
Tschaka – Feeling B
The Downtown Talent Scout – The Mothers Of Invention
Mistrio, track 06 – Wild Gunmen
Barbecutie – Sparks
*Yeah, I know, but that’s how I distinguish it from the 2004 version.
“Varpusen Polska” – Maria Kalaniemi – s/t
“Slice & Dice Blues” – Giant Sand – Purge & Slouch
“The Criminal” – Sons of Freedom – s/t
“Cheated Hearts (Peaches Remix)” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cheated Hearts 12″
“My Family’s Role in the World Revolution” – Beirut – Lon Gisland EP
“Casimir Pulaski Day” – Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
“Better Off Alone” – The Black Angels – Passover
“Sucking Ice Cubes” – Luna – Bewitched
“00200″ – OOIOO – s/t
“Sing This All Together” – Cibo Matto – Super Relax EP
Bonus tracks:
“Not Even Ten Horses” – Klee – Honeysuckle
“First Night Back in London (edit)” – The Clash – Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg
It’s technically Friday, but what the hell …
Back in Central Park — Earl Klugh (it’s working music … no words … and … uh … )
Kenya — Eric Leeds (more work music)
Me and Bobby McGee — Janis Joplin
Roll Right — Rage Against the Machine
Stir it Up — Bob Marley and the Wailers (old, ska-like version)
Sweet Home Chicago — Blues Brothers
Fome Total (Funky Lowlives Dub) — Zuco 103
You Don’t Have to Draw Me Pictures — Mostly Bone (the band I play in)
We Never Change – Coldplay (I don’t give a shit what anyone says — I like ‘em)
Red House — Jimi Hendrix
Bonus track most will think is teh sux0r:
China Cat Sunflower – Grateful Dead
Okay … much less suck on the last one. Strange mix, though.
Thank you, Lawyerbob. I see that since the sun’s come up there are a number of others who favor the music I know and love, too. So this morning I feel not quite so geriatric as I did last night, when I was like the doddering aunt who stumbled into a dorm room while searching for a place to powder my nose.
So now, embarrassing or not, here’s mine (yes, kids, I do have an iPod):
Handyman – James Taylor
By Myself – Tony Bennett
Piano Concerto No. 11 – Mozart
Someday My Prince Will Come – Miles Davis
Matthew and Son – Cat Stevens
The Long Way Home – Norah Jones
New York Minute (Live) – The Eagles
Loving You – Paulo Nutini
Fly Too High – Janis Ian
Mrs. Robinson – Simon and Garfunkle
Bonus: Those Sunny Days – Lee Oskar
Poorboy Shuffle Creedence Clearwater Revival-Willy and the Poor Boys
Rosemary Grateful Dead-The Best Of Skeletons From The Closet
In Old Bavaria Brad Oscar-The Producers
Donald, Where’s Your Drunken Scotsman? (Live!) Brobdingnagian Bards-LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus
A Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum-The Best of Procol Harum
Theme The Monkees-Greatest Hits
Slither Velvet Revolver-Contraband
Forever Man Big Head Todd & The Monsters-Big Head Todd & The Monsters Live At the Fillmore
It’s Nice To Be With You The Monkees-Greatest Hits
I’m Not Supposed to Care Gordon Lightfoot-Gord’s Gold, Vol. 2
I are old.
Late to the party…
Do You Miss My Head – The Voluptous Horror Of Karen Black Black Date
Tu Meri – Asian Dub Foundation Facts And Fictions
Are You Gonna Get Through With Your Life – 2 Mile Death Plunge
Bad Seeds (Live) – Beat Happening
The Makings Of You – Curtis Mayfield The Very Best…
Fuck Me Pumps – Amy Winehouse Frank
Under Different Stars – Sun Ra Space Is The Place
Shove – L7 Tank Girl s/t
Never Got The Chance – Lazy Cowgirls Ragged Soul
(I Wanna Know) What’s Going On – The Detroit Cobras Tied And True
1. Five Short Stories - Weather Report - Tale Spinnin’
2. You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You’re Makin’ Love) - Ann Harada/D’Abruzzo, Stephanie/Jennifer Barnhart/John Tartaglia/Jordan Gelber/Natalie Venetia Belcon/Rick Lyon - Avenue Q
3. Cerulean Skies - Maria Schneider - Sky Blue
4. Christe Redemptor - Monastic Choir of the Abbey of St. Peter, Solesmes - Gregorian Anthology
5. Manhattan - Ella Fitzgerald - The Rodgers & Hart Song Book (Disc 1)
6. Hall of Mirrors - The Cast - Colours of Lichen
7. Ring of Fire - dick dale & his deltones -
8. Comin’ Back To Me - Jefferson Airplane - 2400 Fulton Street [Disc 1]
9. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite! - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
10. El Nabiyouna - Toumani Diabate - The Mandé Variations
Bonus: Shaman (Medicine Man) - James Galway - The Wayward Wind
OK, I’ve never tried this..
Piggies – The Beatles (I swear I didn’t even know that was in my itunes)
Dreadlocks In Moonlight – Lee Scratch Perry
Helplessly Hoping – Taxiride (a walk on the moon – soundtrack)
Mona Lisa Please – Leon Russell
What You Think About – St. Germain
Hawai’i 78 Introduction – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Pick Me Up – (Mushroom Jazz) Deadbeats featuring Isi Samuel
Cubafro Con Amigos – Ballistic Brothers
Crazy Mama – J J Cale
Pipes Honour – Nightmares On Wax