A quick search suggests we haven’t had one of these since June, so lets see what sort of mood your iPod or equivalent device is in. I happily confess that this thread occurred to be because my iPod was throwing up some very deep cuts on shuffle yesterday (the switch from The Dufay Collective to Captain Beefheart was oddly effective). It’s not quite so eclectic today.
As ever the rules are:
Set you music playing device to play random tracks
Post the first 5 it comes up with on here
No cheating by trying to impress us with your outrageously hip taste; we’ll be able to tell if you’re not being honest.
1. What Difference Does it Make? – The Smiths.
2. Bouree – Jethro Tull.
3. Wolf – Kathryn Williams
4. Overdose – AC/DC
5. Of Angels and Angles – The Decemberists
Here we go:
1 My Girl – Georgie Fame
2 Road Cases – Drive By Truckers
3 I Wasted Time – Paul Kelly
4 Rock Island Line Merrill E Moore
5 Think – James Brown
As it happens I’m having yet another go at playing all 25k tracks on my iPod on shuffle. Probably doomed, because the moment it runs out of juice it forgets and you have to start all over again.
1. Kate Bush – Symphony In Blue
2. Burial – Raver
3. Grimes – Vowels = Space And Time
4. Alicia Keys – Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
5. Doves – Catch The Sun
David Bowie – Loving The Alien
Bruce Springsteen – Youngstown
Jesse Malin – Silver Manhattan
Thea Gilmore – I’m Not Down
Nazareth – Hair of the Dog
1. My Morning Jacket – The Way That He Sings
2. Pink Floyd – Breathe
3. Paul Weller – Bang Bang
4. Gorillaz – The Parish of Space Dust
5. Graham Parker and the Rumour – Don’t Get Excited
1, Aunty Maggie`s Remedy – George Formby
2. Isle Of Capri – Al Bowlly
3. Ich Will – Rammstein
4. Valencia – Mario Lanza
5. Head Hang Low – Julian Cope
1. Saxophone Song – Kate Bush
2. Time on my Hands – Stan Getz
3. Indian Summer Sky – U2
4. Grey Day – Madness
5. Fall at Your Feet – Crowded House
I think you can generally tell people’s ages from their song selections.
I’m 45.
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness – Alabama 3
Night of the Lotus Eaters – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Last of the Heroes – Steve Mason
Solid Air – John Martyn
Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me – David Bowie
/Genius Shuffle
1 Sun Treader “Star Dance” (Morris Pert-led – him what played with Stomu Yamash’ta)
2 Bennie Maupin “Crystals” (him what played with H. Hancock’s Head Hunters)
3 Country Joe & The Fish “Porpoise Mouth” (YAY!!)
4 Dr John “Things Ain’t What They Used To Be” (from the fab Duke Ellington album)
5 Michael Nesmith “Dynaflow” (from the only-three-people-like-it Rays album)
Accidental- Inara George
Soul Serenade-Willie Mitchell
On The Wing Again-John Surman and Karin Krog
Light of Worlds-Kool and The Gang
Smile Please-Hermans Hermits
“Dust to Dust” – Chromatics (from “Kill For Love”)
“Down” – Jawbreaker (“Unfun”)
“Represent” – Nas (“Illmatic”)
“Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party” – Courtney Barnett
(“Sometimes I Sit And Think…”)
“Nosedive” – Wolf Alice (“Blush” EP)
The Jam – A Town Called Malice
Joan as Police Woman – Flash
Squeeze – Another Nail in my Heart
New order – Your Silent Face
The Beach Boys – Don’t Worry Baby
Even more retro, especially 80s than usually shows up when I do this…
From iTunes on my MacBook at work this morning….
1) Nothing Was Delivered [Take 3] / Bob Dylan & The Band (from Bootleg Series Vol 11; Basement Tapes)
2) Catania / Penguin Cafe (from The Red Book)
3) The Afternoon ; Tuesday Afternoon – The Time To Get Away / The Moody Blues (from Days of Future Passed)
4) Frank – The Part Time Clown/ Adrian Legg (From Mrs Crowe’s Blue Waltz)
5) Country Boy / Johnny Cash (from American II: Unchained)
Sweet Pea – Bearfoot Bluegrass
Mercedes – Joseph Arthur
Conversation – Charles Mingus
Candy Everyone Wants – 10 000 Maniacs
Meet Me On The Corner – Lindisfarne
Glenn Tilbrook – Morning
Freddy Martin – I’ve Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts
Howlin’ Wolf – Spoonful
Jimi Hendrix – The Start Spangled Banner
Lee Hazlewood – Little War
(This is true)
Why would you want to make it up?
Olivia Tremor Control – The Giant Day (Dusk)
The Triffids – Everything You Touch Turns To Time
David Bowie – I’m Afraid of Americans
Baby Shambles – Monkey Casino
Jimi Hendrix – The Star Spangled Banner (Live)
Ivor Cutler – Cage of Small Birds
PJ Harvey – Dear Darkness
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX – My Cloud
Ballboy – Public Park
Spiritualized – Cool Waves
Ivor Cutler – respect!
Cue memories of wandering away from arts lab happenings, Lol Coxhill etc etc.
1) Randy Newman – Great Nations Of Europe
2) Rolling Stones – Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
3) Brian Auger & the Trinity – Listen Here
4) Kevin Ayers – See You Later/Didn’t Feel Lonely Till I Thought Of You (Medley)
5) Richard Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights (BBC Version)
1. Tori Amos: ‘General Joy’
2. John Martyn: ‘Small Hours- Alternate Take #2’
3. Sandy Denny: ‘Quiet Joys of Brotherhood’
4. REM: ‘Green Grow the Rushes {Athens Demo)’
4. Neil Young and Crazy Horse: ‘Cowgirl in the Sand’
Plus randomised typing.
O.K. From Media Monkey on the PC:
Reconsider Baby – Lowell Fulson
Juju (live) – Wayne Shorter
She Only Sleeps – David Byrne
Air Mail Special – Ella Fitzgerald
The Town Crier’s Song – Bob Gibson
Sequent C – Tangerine Dream
From iPod #1
Lean On Me – The Redskins
S&M Sniper – Naked City
Mister Oh – Kass Kass
Dance Of The Firemen – Taraf de Haidouks
Feeling So Strange Again – The Wolfhounds
Sambop – Cannonball Adderley
From iPod #2.
Sweet Little Angel – BB King
Tea For Two – Carlos Bica
(Babba) Music Machine – HeeBeeJeeBees
Sabotage – John Cale
Dvorak: Symphony No.8 – Allegro ma non troppo – BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda
Lilia – Wayne Shorter
From my phone.
(unknown) – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quaw’wal & Party
25 Minutes To Go – Diamanda Galas
77 Slightly Delayed – Ashra
A Go Go – John Scofield
A Little Busy – Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
A Sprinkling Of Clouds – Gong
Um…
Pretty Skin – Emily Portman.
Ulysses – Dead Can Dance.
Highway Blues – Roy Harper.
Bouncin’ With Bud – Bud Powell.
Shut In – Strand Of Oaks.
And one for luck… Crazy As A Loon – John Prime.
Pure Narcotic – Porcupine Tree
Tell It Like It Is – Aaron Neville
Lord Grenville – Al Stewart
Black Money – Culture Club
Gold Dust Woman – Fleetwood Mac
El President – Drugstore
Falling In Love – Prefab Sprout
Planet Helpless – Puressence
Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 21 – LSO
Westchester County Jail – Lloyd Cole
Lozenge of Love – Radiohead (My Iron Lung EP)
Armagideon Time – Clash Live in Hamburg bootleg
White Riot – The Clash
How – Badly Drawn Boy
Stoned Love – the Supremes
curiously – and I’m not sure if it proves or disproves random as a concept, the next five tracks were three by Bob Dylan and two by the Maccabees. I only own 2 Dylan CDs – Modern Times and the Christmas one (obviously).
Right. That’s twelve women so far, in a list of, I dunno, a LOT. I’ve asked the mods to shut this thread down, because sexism. No less than fifty per cent of random selections to be by women, thank you. And only fifteen or so People Of Diversity? Can we not do better than this?
135 selections. more or less. Factoring in The Supremes as three brings the women up to the same total as the diverse people. So that’s about, what, I dunno, 12% of the total for each “minority”? This is just another White Male thread and I for one protest in the strongest possible terms.
Oh dear. But The Supremes are Diverse, too, so they go up to 18. Still way short of appropriate representation, though.
I hope you counted Drugstore in that total – female lead singers count surely?
This more complicated than I thought …
curiously – and I’m not sure if it proves or disproves random as a concept, the next five tracks were three by Bob Dylan and two by the Maccabees. I only own 2 Dylan CDs – Modern Times and the Christmas one (obviously).
oops. Meant to say – is it us or is it Apple? Think about it – what colour more than any other do we associate with apple products? The iPod in particular? Maybe we’ve stumbled onto something here…
Twelve women and at least three of them are Kate Bush.
Wearing the same stretch kaftan …
A Ship Without A Sail – Ella Fitzgerald
There’s A Place in the World For a Gambler – Dan Fogelberg
If I Ever Lose my Faith in You – Sting
Chopin’s Grand Valse Brilliante in E Flat Op 18 – Tomas Vasary
Being Alone Together – David & David
I lady out of 5. I shall hand myself in at the nearest Internet Outrage Centre for re-education immediately.
You made that Choppin’ thing up. Can’t fool us.
Moody Blues – The Voyage
Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg – Intimidation
Eels – Last Time We Spoke
DeVothchKa – Dearly Departed
Peter Gabriel – Intruder (from New Blood so probably no good)
Fluff – Black Sabbath
Anyway (West Palm Beach, Lamb tour 75) – Genesis
What Am I Gonna Do With You – Barry White
Believer – Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack DeJohnette
Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
Fluff!
An acoustic Sabbath compilation would be briliant:
1. Planet Caravan
2. Solitude
3. Laguna Sunrise
4. Changes
5. Fluff
6. Don’t Start (Too Late)
7. Supertzar
8. She’s Gone
9. Zeitgeist
1) Wig Wham Bam – Black Lace
2) Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue – Mrs Mills (accompanied by Geoff Love)
3) He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands – Gerry Monroe
4) Love is a Happy Thing – The Mike Sammes Singers
5) Born Under a Bad Sign – Homer Simpson
Do you also have Sally by Gerry Monroe?
Oh yes. I have the full horror. Here’s why: http://carbootvinyldiaries.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/little-box-of-horrors-part-1.html
How come there’s no Caitlyn Jenner tracks, you transphobic bastards?
Ready set go….rather slowly because of bad knees…
1. Situation (original US dub) – Yazoo
2. El Casino Royale – Lyn Taitt & The Jets (nice Trojan instrumental)
3. Uptight – Stevie Wonder
4. Give More Power To The People – The Chi-Lites
5. A Man Of Great Promise – The Style Council
Well, apart from not featuring more Mod/Punk guitar stuff and a not a trace of Country music, you could not see a selection that was less me ever. Early 80s pop – with synths, soul and reggae and Paul Weller. That’s a fairly accurate summing up of a lot of my musical history.
A second shot gives me:
1. That Lady (pts 1&2) – The Isley Brothers
2. Daughter Dub – The Aggrovators
3. Lonely Man – The Godfathers
4. Moaner – Underworld
5. Touch Me In The Morning – John Holt
Heh, soul and reggae, with some of that electronic stuff in there, and yup, something a bit Mod/Punk in The Godfathers.
1. Jumble Sale Mums – Suede
2. Only Prettier – Miranda Lambert
3. A Stones Throw Away – The Style Council
4. From A Train – Roddy Frame
5. Pot Kettle Black – Wilco
The country stuff starts seeping through on a 3rd go (ah lovely Miranda), with Suede representing the ‘other’ stuff an Ipod stuffed full with over 20000 tracks hides. But still here’s Weller again. And another lifelong musical hero, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Roddy Frame!!!!!!
Here’s what my phone offered up as a soundtrack when I popped out for lunch earlier.
“Thunder” – J.Dilla (off “Donuts”)
“Killpop” – Slipknot (“The Grey Chapter”)
“How You Get The Girl” – Taylor Swift (“1989”)
“Get With Me” – PINS (“Girls Like Us”)
“Nice Things” – Talib Kweli (“F*ck The Money”)
It’s no wonder those “If you like this, try this!” algorithms never suggest anything appropriate for me is it?
Interrupting my JC-inspired listening of FAFTAG (man, it’s BAD!)
Cold Rain & Snow – The Dead from Dave’s Pick’s Vol 10
The Canoe Trip – Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe
Shovels & Rope – Ohio
Clementine – Ryan Adams
Without a Shot – John Mellencamp
Now let me get back to the horror that is Donovan
John The Baptist – Afghan Whigs
Feel You – Julia Holter
Globalization – NRSB-11
Queen Bitch – David Bowie
Circus – Britney Spears
Let’s see:
Don Cherry – I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine
Sister Rosette Thorpe – Didn’t It Rain
Lloyd Nolan – I Don’t Know About You
Parliament – Chocolate City
Billie Holiday – These Foolish Things
1) Ween – Stay Forever – All Request Live
2) Isaac Hayes – The End Theme – Shaft
3) Luna – Black Postcards – Romantica
4) Genius/GZA – Living In The World Today – Liquid Swords
5) Camera Obscura – Before You Cry – Underachievers Please Try Harder
I kept shuffling and shuffling until I got a woman to kick things off. I found one and now we can begin.
And I Love Her – Diana Krall
The High Road – Broken Bells
Get Ta Steppin’ – Robert Parker
E Street Shuffle – John Cafferty
Listen Like Thieves – INXS
This is what you get folks when you fill your ipod with compilations
More blokes/ bloke bands, I’m afraid:
Crowded House: ‘People are Like Suns’
Manics: ‘Indian Summer’
Neil Finn: ‘Wherever You Are’
Leonard Cohen: ‘Suzanne’
Simon and Garfunkel: ‘El Condor Pasa’
1. Chris Pope – One Happy Man
2. The Strypes – Blue Collar Jane
3. The Who – Mirror Door
4. Brinsley Schwarz – Country Girl
5. Marc Bolan – The Lilac Hand Of Menthol Dan
Eight Days a Week – The Beatles
Dominique – The Singing Nun
Rehab – Amy Winehouse
Slumville Sunrise – Jake Bugg
Everything Has a Price to Pay – Paul Weller
Note two consecutive women, is there a prize?
Here goes
Mavis Staples – Last train
Jeff Beck – Full moon boogie
Los Lobos – La Pistola y el Corazon
Willy Mason – Restless fugitive
Robert Plant – The only sound that matters
Particularly like that Willy Mason track.
1-Belle and sebastian – Wrapped up in books
2-Sainte Colombe – Les Pleurs (Played by Jordi Savall)
3-Alain Bashung – Reviens – Va t’en
4-Vashty Bunyan and Max Richter- Martha My Dear
5-The Beatles Got to Get Into My Life
OK
1. Van Morrison – In the Garden
2. Mary Love – Baby I’ll Come
3. Vaughan Williams – Symphony no 4, final movement
4. Natalie Merchant – If No One Ever Marries Me
5. Macy Gray – I Can’t Wait to Meetchu
I can tell you how precisely one of these goes. Mind you, three women. I don’t read the Guardian for nothing you know.
Cowboy Junkies – I saw your shoes
Soft Machine – Nettle bed
Sparks – Here in heaven
The Groundhogs – Cherry red
Roxy Music – To turn you on
(…not very rog…)
…that’s prog…
I offer you…
1) Dancing Barefoot by Patti Smith (cool!)
2) Black Dog by Led Zeppelin (Also cool)
3) It Could Be Sweet by Portishead (haven’t heard this in about ten years, didn’t even know it was on my iPod)
4) Other Side To This Life by Fred Neil (Greatest singer EVER!)
5) These Arms Of Mine by Otis Redding (Second greatest singer EVER!)
Wee bit “too cool for school” I think. But then again, so am I.
Lucinda Williams – Compassion
The Doobie Brothers – Busted Down Around O’Connelly Corners
Bon Iver – Lump Sum
Electric Light Orchestra – Livin’ Thing
John Martyn – The Glory Of Love
haven’t heard the Doobies ‘Captain &Me’ for ages, so thats on the playlist for tomorrow