Blame el hombre malo!
I was reading his contribution in Blogger Takeover CXXXIII and noted the joy when random play throws up something interesting, unexpected – and inspires you to connect it to something else, taking your listening down a different route. I sometimes have the random play set when I’m out for a walk and it often takes me by surprise (although in theory I shouldn’t be, since I loaded the music onto the player!).
So here’s a Randomiser thread, like we used to do…
You remember how it works – post the first five random selections that your chosen device picks for you (no cheating, of course – it’s an honour thing!). Gimme five minutes and I’ll put mine in the comments.
Hit the button – and let the chips fall where they may…
As it happens, I was out for a walk this morning – these were the final five random tunes before I got back in the house.
Big Big Train – The Underfall Yard
Culture – Love Shine Bright
Al Stewart – Ballad of Mary Foster
Tindersticks – Kathleen
Calexico – Ballad of Cable Hogue
(Not my usual fare at all. Note to self: I must dig out my Tindersticks LPs for a spin!)
Can you do random with Spotify?
Dunno – one would hope so…
@Twang
See Plumb1909 and RigidDigit below – looks like you can!
Dinner Bell – They Might Be Giants
Re:boot The System (Red Snapper Mix) – Coldcut
No.14: In Taberna Quando Summus – Charles Dutoit/ Montreal Philharmonic
Ah-Leu-Cha – Mile Davis Quartet
Free -Ash
I’m so cool, me ! (next up probably Steps or Bucks Fizz 😂)
From my iTunes library on the PC…..
Let ‘ Em In – Wings
The Moon Is Full – Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland
All Clear – George Benson
Sleeping Earth – Godley & Creme
Broken Arrow – Tori Amos
Not a bad little selection if I do say so myself.
I do wonder though how random the selection is on iTunes – I was playing the new Tori Amos earlier today and the other day was playing some Robert Cray. Is this just coincidence or is the evil AI overlord snooping on what I play…..
Concerning…I wonder if you’ll get offers to buy some Tori or Robert Cray back catalogue!
It went all jazzy…..
Unkle – Main Title Theme
Neu! – Hallogallo
Weather Report – Palladium
Yusuf Lateef – Blues for the Orient
Tom Waits – Spare Parts 1 (A Nocturnal Omission)
I don’t favourite tracks on Qobuz so I shuffled a playlist I made over on Tidal which I ported over to Qobuz a while ago.
Bastada – Livre.
Anenon – Body.
Bohren & Der Club of Gore – Constant Fear.
Alabaster Deplume – Visit Croatia.
Simon Fisher Turner – Turning Slowly.
Wow!
I normally drive home from work with my ‘favourite songs’ playlist on shuffle. Here’s what I’ll be listening to at 5pm this afternoon-
JC auto- Sugar
California Dreamin’- Mamas & the Papas
There’s no other way- Blur
I want to take you higher- Sly & the family Stone
Norman fucking Rockwell- Lana Del Ray
I-pod I use for walking / work:
Billy Strings – The Beginning Of The End
Nick Cave – Distant Sky (Live)
Van Morrison – Once In A Lifetime Feelings
Elgar – Cello Concerto (Excerpt – Julian Lloyd Webber)
Bob Dylan – Precious Angel
Old phone I use in the van:
Blur – Villa Rosie
Richard Thompson – Cold Kisses
Queen – All Dead, All Dead
Ravel – Boléro (HvK)
Stari Pesni (Old Songs) – Machina Vremeni (Time Machines – Russian Group)
I do buy and listen to a roughly equal number of women songwriters and performers, honest I do, but they are rarely represented in these randomisers for some reason. I’m always conscious of it whenever we do this exercise.
Oo, I love me a randomiser…..
I Tunes/Apple Music version, still proudly random (per algorithm, mind)
Lisa Gerrard/All along the Watchtower
Gallagher & Lyle/Sitting Down Music
Shelby Lynne/Tarpoleon Napoleon
The Sadies/Why Would Anybody Live Her?
Idlewild/Everything (As It Moves)
Computer:
A Mourir pour Mourir – Barbara
That Old Black Magic – Louis Prima
Daytime – Hedgehoppers Anonymous
Dream Baby – Cher
Prisoner of Love – Billy Eckstine
Phone:
Eli’s Coming – Affinity
Man With the Golden Arm – Billy May
Book’s Bossa – Donald Byrd
Oedipus Rex – Tom Lehrer
Shrimp Boat – Dr John
Oooh not done this for a while. I look forward to discovering some gems as per
Mine:
State Of The Union – David Ford
I Can’t Make You Love Me – SOAK
If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You – Super Furry Animals
Heard ‘Em Say – Kanye West
Fever – Carly Rae Jepsen
From Plexamp server on my phone:
Hell is Chrome (live) – Wilco
My Simple Heart – The Three Degrees
Radio Nowhere – Bruce Springsteen
Friends will be Friends – Queen
I’m the Greatest – Ringo Starr
I don’t use portable devices any more, or play music in my car.
This caught me in the middle of a Windows Update (of course) but once it was finished and Media Monkey had reloaded it’s database, these were the five selections from the Randomiser playlist that I set up in MM.
1). Western Isles from “Dawn Chorus” by Hidden Orchestra.
2). Radio War from “Our Endless Numbered Days” by Iron & Wine.
3). How Are You Doing, Really? from “The Don & Bunk Show: Rochester NY Dec 29 2001” (a bootleg) by Don Preston & Bunk Gardner.
4). Back To Schooldays from “The Stiff Records Box Set: Disc 1” by Graham Parker.
5). Thomas Dorsey from “Chainsaw Of Life” by Hellwood (Jim White and Johnny Dowd).
Not a trace of jazz there. That’s odd.
Why is that? (No portable devices or music in car)
I used an iPod when I used to have to commute into London on the Northern Line for work, but now I’m long-retired.
If walking anywhere I prefer it without music.
I have a selection of music on my phone (not updated for several years) but I never listen to it now and my earbuds reside in a drawer at home.
I will very occasionally listen to Radio 3 on the car radio, if I’m stuck in traffic. I find classical music easier to ignore if it’s not to my taste than pop music.
For quite a while, when driving a work van from job to job, I’d have the radio tuned to Radio 4 but I eventually got sick of the repetition of the news items. Mostly I prefer the car radio off these days.
At home I don’t listen to as much recorded music as I used to, these days. I find I just don’t need to.
I prefer cheap live jazz with a beer or two and maybe a meal. There are a plentiful supply of places to do that on this side of London.
Fair enough, just wondered. I listen less to music too, lot of podcast listening these days. Still buy stuff though 🙂
Wild Silk – Visions of a Plastic Sky
The Box Tops – Rollin’ in my Sleep
Super Furry Animals – It’s not the End of the World?
Quantic – Theme from Selva
The Hollies – Stop Stop Stop
Not listened to any of those in a long time.
Ooh! We haven’t done this in a while. I have no idea whose record collection these are from, but somehow they are on my Mac:
1. In The Same Old Way – Arthur Conley; from Sweet Inspirations The Songs of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
2. Match Box Blues – Blind Lemon Jefferson; from Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues Vol 1
3. Boom Boom – The Animals; from Inside Looking Out
4. This Uncivil War – Gretchen Peters; from 100 Downloads of the Month
5. Monlope – Jimmy Smith; from Walk On The Wild Side Vol 2
Hell is other Afterworders’ random lists it would seem.
Glad you could make it, tho’…
Must have a seasonal clear out as the sun beats down.
These are from the downloads on my tablet.
Winnipeg my Leg: Orchestre Jazira
Hey Santa Claus:The Moonglows
Bring Back Your Love: The Smooth tones
(It’s Gonna be) a Lonely Christmas: The Orioles
The Wind: Nolan Strong and the Diabolos.
From my Spotty playlist Good Things I’ve heard on BBC Radio6, which I have been adding to for the last few years and now stands at over 13 hours worth!
Everything Is Free ~ Gillian Welch
Six Years ~ A Blaze Of Feather
Texas Sun ~ Khruangbin, Leon Bridges
Hallelujah ~ HAIM
Calumet ~ Billow Observatory
I’ve been enjoying that Texas Sun EP a lot recently. Can’t get enough Khruangbin at the moment.
Pulled from a Happy Summer playlist on that there Spotify
Haircut 100 – Fantastic Day
John Paul Young – Love Is In The Air
Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
Fratellis – Henrietta
From Spotify:
Revolution – The Beatles
Derezzed – Daft Punk
Young Blood – The Naked and the Famous
Come Home Baby – The Charlatans
Power Run – Laserdance
Never heard of the last one but it is indeed right up my strasse.
My random 5:
Geography – Boo Hewerdine
All waters have the colour of drowning – Magica
Sun is shining – Bob Marley & the Wailers
May you never – John Martyn
If there’s such a thing as love – Magnetic Fields
I shuffled my liked songs on Spotify and lo:
Ride Like The Wind by Christopher Cross
Twisted Octane by Porcupine Tree
The Greatest by Lana Del Rey
Oh Well by Fleetwood Mac
Pain by War On Drugs
random shuffle for this morning’s dogwalk threw up
Voices in my Head – Amelie Lens
Bombacid – T78
Days We Left Behind – Macca
Dive In – Kulku
Amor (feat CERES) – Charlotte de Witte
1) Method Man – “Let’s Ride” (4.21… The Day After)
2) Robyn Hitchcock – “The Cat Walks Her Kind Of Line” (Shadow Cat)
3) Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Icon” (Join Hands)
4) Wire – “Blessed State (6th Demo Session)” (154)
5) Scott Walker – “Sleepwalkers Woman” (5 Easy Pieces)
1. Dub Along – The Full Experience (The Greatest Dub Reggae: 800 Spliff Smokin’ Versions)
2. Fingers Snappin’ and Toes Tappin’ – Bill Frisell (Ghost Town)
3. Soledad – Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart (Rising Above Bedlam)
4. A Love Letter – Maggie Rogers (The Echo)
5. No To Love – Jessie Ware (Devotion)
A happy little collection, It’s taking me a long time to work through the 800 dub tracks, but I haven’t heard a bad one yet. The Frisell is disappointingly short, but a nice taster. Soledad is one of my favourite tracks ever, and I never tire of hearing it. Then an early Maggie Rogers track, from when she was more folky & experimental and less country (on this track, the cello relieving some of the quirkily nostalgic lyrics), and finally the ever glam and smooth Jessie Ware. almost balancing the gender divide.
The next 5 are Ornette Coleman, Art of Noise, Jean-Michel Jarre. David Bowie and Thee Hypnotics. Plenty of abrupt genre changes there
Abrupt genre changes – this is what we want!
Randomiser isn’t quite the MO of my show, but it could almost be. I have seriously considered trialling random as my playlist.
Hey ho, put up a link to mixcloud, but it appears to have bounced. Or flounced. Try:
https://lichfieldradio.org/weekly-podcast-seuras-og-presents-ogland/
A two-hour mythical radio show (I just got Media Monkey to produce it from my digitised collection): 1h59m27s
Poem 3: Definition 2 – Elena Pinderhughes & Lionel Loueke (2023-02-20 Kuumbwa, Santa Cruz CA – A Diaspora Journey)
Ebony – Ahmad Jamal (Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1985)
Cocaine In My Brain (Groove Corporation Remix) – Dillinger (Faithless, The Bedroom Sessions)
No One’s Watching Me (feat. Olivia Dean) – Ezra Collective (Dance, No One’s Watching)
Movement VII: Back To Water – Mimika Mak Murtic Ensemble (From Scratch To Structure Suite)
God Bless America [Live At The Whisky A Go Go] – The Mothers Of Invention (Uncle Meat)
Timeline – Pat Metheny (Spotify Discover Weekly October 2021)
I’m Your Man – Spiritualized (Uncut 2018.10 Electric Wonderland)
Deep Night – Terry Riley, Gyan Riley (Way Out Yonder)
Uh Uh Mm – Sonny James (Bluecat’s Rockabilly Box CD79)
Strange Turn – Adrian Sherwood (BBC Radio 3: Mixing It 5th Jan 2003)
Radha Krishna – State Of Bengal (Global Rhythm On Disc: June 2004)
The Downtown Lights – The Blue Nile (Uncut: Unconditionally Guaranteed 2000.02)
Spanish Moon – Lowell George (Alexanders, Brown’s Mill NJ, June 26th 1979)
Is You Is, Or Is You Ain’t My Baby? – Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five (World War II Armed Forces Radio Service Jubilee Shows 1943-1945)
Pagan Love Song – Gene Ammons (Jungle Soul (feat. Kenny Burrell & Bucky Pizzarelli)
The Move – Matthew Halsall (On The Go)
Moonscape – Michael Garrick Trio (Moonscape)
Orinda-Morgana – John Fahey (Return Of The Repressed)
III Revised – Frank Zappa, Ensemble Modern (The Yellow Shark)
Girl Afraid – The Smiths (NME 011: Department Of Enjoyment)
Locomotion – John Coltrane (Blue Train)
I’d listen to that show…
Stoned Soul Picnic – 5th Dimension (More Music to Watch Girls Go By)
Jack and Jill Boogie -Sleepy LaBeef (A Rockin’ Decade)
It Hurts Me To – Robert Palmer (Drive)
Alone at Midnight (acoustic live) – The Smithereens (Especially For You (30th Anniversary))
Drinkin’ Beer – JB Summers (100 hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes from … The R&B Years 1949)
Culled from 199,630 tracks ripped from CD/digitized (a Covid project) and shuffled via Roon.
Was waiting, heart in mouth, for an embarrassing clunker – of which there are many when buying CDs which were cheap as chips.
199,630 tracks?
I thought I had a lot of tracks. Blimey!
A good deal of duplications (special editions, box sets and the like) magazines (NME, Vox, Select, Q, Uncut, Mojo) Now CDs, British Hit Singles 1954-1962, etc bulk it out.
Once upon a time I convinced myself i was “curating” an archive for the ages.
Now I release it is in the most part future landfill.
How much do i play?
I imagine drawn from about 0.5% (although i am currently enjoying the highways and byways this random exercise is taking me.
Just under 8% of my tracks have yet to be played.
I am mostly concentrating on playing the unheard ones, but I’m also currently listening to less recorded music etc. than in previous years.
Yeah, me too. 63,865 in my cloud storage – less than a third of Leem’s collection.
When you think the sun is big, and it gets told to hold the drink of Betelgeuse, who then gets to hold the drink of Canis Majoris…
There are reportedly 100 million + recorded songs in the world.
That means you have 0.2% of the music you could have.
99.8% still to collect, 99,800370 – tracks still to add.
One step at a time.
Gulp! I better get a move on🤣.
(It would be interesting to know, given repurchases etc, the number of unique tracks. Somewhat less than the headline figure. )
I’ve three different shuffle settings on my Lyrion – server. One shuffles classical music by work, appending all of the tracks from that version of that work together if there are more than one track. Another shuffles just the jazz tracks, and the third shuffles everything else.
Classical:
Marche Écossaise Sur Un Théme Populaire – Debussy, performed by MIchel Béroff & Jean-Phillipe Collard
La Fille Aux Chevaux De Lin, arranged for violin & piano – Debussy, performed by Itzhak Perlman & Samuel Sanders
Meerestille Un Glückliche Fahrt – Beethoven, performed by Gulbenkian Choir & Orchestra, conducted by Michel Corboz
Viola Variations – Charles Wourinen, performed by Lois Martin
Mikrokosmos Book Six, No. 146 Ostinato – Bartók, peformed by the composer.
Jazz:
Ebony Rhapsody – Duke Ellington
IHS – Alice Coltrane
Somethin’ Else – Cannonball Adderley
Jeepers Creepers – Stan Getz
Rainbow 7 – Neil Ardley
Everything Else:
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – Aretha Franklin
Cold Mountain – Pentangle
Fever – Elvis Presley
No End – Sandy Denny
I Should Care – Matt Monro
That’s very clever – especially being able to group classical tracks together.
Support for classical works went into Lyrion (formerly Logitech Media Server, as used by Squeezebox devices) about a year or so ago. Despite Logitech not being involved any more, the software is still being actively developed, and there’s still some improvements to come.
You have to ensure that tracks are tagged with the relevant Work tag, and that different recordings of the same work have exactly the same value in the Work tag.
It’s about 20 years since I added anything to my mp3 player so nothing remotely modern is on it at all…
Hey Bulldog – The Beatles.
Paper Wraps Rock – Momus
Paradise Lost (You’re the Reason) – HMHB
Son of a Gun – The Las
Lost Outside the Tunnel -Aztec Camera
Every one a classic!