Been a while, post first 5 tracks on random. No cheating!
1 Blur – To the End
2 Peter Gabriel – Listening Wind
3 Bruce Springsteen and the E St Band – Jungleland (live 1980)
4 Bruce Springsteen (!) – The Ties That Bind
5 I’m Gonna Try – The Monkees
The Seventh Son – Willie Mabon
Isn’t It a Pity – George Harrison
Tear Off Your Own Head – Elvis Costello
Down in Mexico – The Coasters
Loan Me a Dime – Boz Scaggs
On My Phone
Nu Suede Shoes – Back To Base with Benjamin Zephaniah (World 2001)
O Children – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (The Lyre Of Orpheus)
One Time (live) – King Crimson (On Broadway 1995)
Orange – Ken Nordine (Colors)
Oslo Skyline – Jaga Jazzist (What We Must)
On The Computer
Douce Ambience – Django Reinhardt (The Django Reinhardt Anthology 1934-1946)
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama – Frank Zappa (Live 1984-12-18 Vancouver BC Early Show)
Daisies – The Real Tuesday Weld (Where Psyche Meets Cupid)
One Time – King Crimson (VROOOM VROOOM Live in New York City)
Ask The Dusk – Dakota Suite & Quentin Sirjacq (There Is Calm To Be Done)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPrfn8WwLqA
(Ken Nordine – Colors)
What chance of getting 2 different live versions of the same King Crimson track, eh? And that Jaga Jazzist track that I only mentioned here the other day.
Shan’t bother with either of my 2 iPods as both have flat batteries from lack of recent use.
Isn’t your phone list more alphabetical than random?
Hmmm, now that I look at it in the cold (rainy) light of day it seems you’re right.
The app doesn’t seem to have a random play setting.
The phone tends to be full of recent stuff so it’s a bit skewed to New, but here goes
“Is It Possible / Sleep Song” – Frankie Cosmos
“Yes We’re In A Band That We Love” – Helen Love
“I’m Telling You Now” – Veruca Salt
“Don’t Wanna Be Anywhere” – La Luz
“Unlearn This Hatred” – New Order
Breakfast° listening:
1. Make Me Say It Again Girl – The Isley Brothers
2. Seeing Red – Little Axe
3. Just To Walk That Little Girl Home – Mink Deville
4. One Of These Days – Neil Young
5. It Ain’t The Meat – The Swallows
* Fruit salad. And not out of a tin, neither. Proper chopped and everything.
Sick day – Fountains of Wayne
Spirit on the water – Bob Dylan
Music that you can dance to – Sparks
Sweet mental revenge – The Long Ryders
Blue – Mcalmont & Butler.
Autopsy – Fairport Convention
Thirteen – Kathryn Williams
Trophy – Bat for Lashes
Tme Wounds all Heels – Nick Lowe
The Thoughts of Mary Jane – Nick Drake
Very mellow
Head Charge – Headley Bennett
Light Up or Leave Me Alone – Traffic
I Need A Woman – Ry Cooder
Speed – Daily Fauli
Save Your Love – Renee & Renato
I’m obviously most pleased about the last one, but all were interesting tunes
I think you may win the naffest track award! What’s that doing on there?
To selectively quote Primal Scream, selectively quoting Jesse Jackson:
“Today on this program you will hear gospel, and rhythm and blues, and jazz. All those are just labels. We know that music is music”
Come again? What’s the game?
Just wondering that too. Are we hitting shuffle and listing what comes up?
Exactly. Take your iPod (if you’re old school like me) or other music playing device, set it to play random tracks, and list the first five here with no cheating to look cool or the other boys and girls will know.
Got it! Here’s mine…
Underworld — Cowgirl
Love — You Set The Scene
Morrissey — I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday
Isaiah Rashad — Don’t Matter
808 State — Cubik (Kings County Perspective)
Nice. OK, here’s mine:
Beastie Boys feat. Santigold – Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win
Portishead – Roads
Pixies – Here Comes Your Man live (official bootleg from Edinburgh in 2005)
St. Etienne – Join Our Club
I Break Horses – Faith
Happy with this…
1. Weather Report – Palladium
2. Oasis – Gas Panic!
3. HJH – I Should Have Known Better
4. Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing
5. Teenage Fanclub – Mellow Doubt
Love Gas Panic! A much underrated track, oirekkin.
Gas Panic! is probably my choicest track to play to Oasis-deniers.
Doesn’t always win, but there is often begrudging acceptance of its worth.
Received wisdom suggest Champagne Supernova should have a similar effect, but Gas Panic! is the most successful
As ever a strong 80s representation…
Working for the Yankee Dollar – The Skids
Pumping on your Stereo – Supergrass
Liberty Ship – The Las
Sunkissed – Friends Again
My Spine is the Bassline – Shriekback
Here goes….
Everybody Dance Now – World Party (from Arkeology)
I’ll Remember You – Thea Gilmore (from Chimes Of Freedom – Songs of Bob Dylan)
Afraid – Neko Case (from The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight…..)
Alive & Kicking – Simple Minds (from Once Upon A Time)
Blue Gangsta – Michael Jackson (from Xscape)
The results are in from Freddy Towers
Disenchanted – The Church
Kings – The Church (!)
No Mercy – 50ftmonster
Vendetta -Adorable
Pain in my temples – Steve Kilbey (leadsinger and bass player of The Church..)
It’s a fix!
Or you are Burt’s new alias.
@harold-holt
Alas no, I am not Burt who would surely hope for a track off Gold Afternoon Fix.
I am however a big fan of “Bondi’s finest” but 3 linked tracks is a tad extreme.
5 more:
Bob Dylan and the Band – Pretty Mary
Crosby, Stills and Nash – Til it Shines
Bruce Springsteen(!!) – Dancing in the Dark
Someone’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in – Fleetwood Mac
Island of No Return – Billy Bragg
I’m pretty well all Spotify these days which means I can’t play this game like we did in the old Hepworth days.
Boo to Spotify!
Remember when we we used to enjoy doing this back in the day, it seemed so innocent ?
Rockpile – Let’s Talk About This (live)
Chris Whitley – Home is Where You Get Across (demo)
Altered Images – Love & Kisses
Grateful Dead – When I Paint My Masterpiece (Oakland 1975)
Emmylou Harris – Long Tall Sally Rose
Must be the first time I can say “that’s not bad”….
It seemed so cutting edge, too.
James Brown – Since You Been Gone
Boo Radleys – Butterfly McQueen
Stone Roses – Waterfall
Vashti Bunyan – Don’t Believe What They Say
Louise McCord – Better Get a Move On
The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
The Byrds – Yesterday’s Train
Over The Rhine – Ohio (live) – not the Neil Young song, but OTR’s own song of that title.
JJ Cale & Eric Clapton – Don’t Cry Sister
Frazey Ford – Three Golden Trees
I played and listened, rather than running through the first five titles that came up and it was a thoroughly pleasurable listen.
Are Over The Rhine’s albums worth investigating. I have one track of theirs from a magazine cover CD (Trouble) that I quite like, but I’ve never taken it any further.
I think so.
I came to them via the Ohio album, which I really like. It is a double CD set.
Going back into their catalogue Till We Have Faces, Good Dog, Bad Dog and Films For Radio.
The live version of Ohio is from the Changes Come and is maybe a good place to start being in effect a best of up to that point.
Okay here goes:
PJ Harvey – The Orange Monkey
Bibio – Haikuesque (The Gentleman Losers Whispers In The Rain Mix)
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – Backstreets (Live in East Rutherford 1984)
Nick Drake – Time Has Told Me
Thievery Corporation – Saudade
A pretty varied bunch.
1) JACQUES BREL – Mon Enfance
2) LONDON CAST OF “JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS” – Alone (Seul)
3) SOFT CELL – Tupperware Party (Demo)
4) POLICE – King Of Pain
5) PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE – The Upper Room (Dance I)
(1 & 2 are a complete coincidence)
Brel is brill!
2 iPods, one for hip hop (that does have around 3,500 non-hip hop songs on playlists) and one for non-hip hop (which also has around 250 hip hop songs on a playlist)
Non-Hip Hop
1 – Bruce Springsteen – Loose Ends [from Tracks]
2 – Bob Dylan – Blowin’ In The Wind (Live) [from Live At Budokan]
3 – LL Cool J – I’m Bad [from Bigger And Deffer]
4 – Blondie – Once I Had A Love (AKA The Disco Song 1975 Version) [from Plastic Letters – bonus track]
5 – The Jam – Beat Surrender [from Direction, Reaction, Creation]
Hip Hop
1 – Tha Alkaholiks – AA Meeting (Intro) [from Likwidation]
2 – Group Home – Up Against The Wall (Get Away Car Mix) [from DJ Premier Rare Play Volume One]
3 – De La Soul – Say No Go (New Keys Vocal) [from 3 Feet High And Rising Special Edition]
4 – ABBA – Lay All Your Love On Me [from Super Trouper]
5 – Grieves – Wild Thing [from Together/Apart]
The 6th song on the Hip Hop one was Sektor Seven from Mix Master Mike’s Anti-Theft Device, but I stuck to the rules and didn’t skip the track from the missus’s ‘Best ABBA’ playlist!
Just for the heck of it I’ll do another one from my iTunes, which has everything on it, including all the rubbish I’ve gathered over the years that doesn’t make it on to either of the iPods.
1 – The Lilac Time – On Milkwood Road [from Paradise Circus – bonus track]
2 – Pulp – Can I Have My Balls Back, Please? [from This Is Hardcore – bonus disc]
3 – The Jam – The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) [from Direction, Reaction, Creation]
4 – Bob Dylan – God Knows [from Under The Red Sky]
5 – Coleman Hawkins & His All Stars Jam Band Featuring Django Reinhart – Out Of Nowhere [from Woody Allen: Music From His Movies]
Guess the iPod and iTunes are both wanting me to get the Jam boxed set down from the top of the shelves!
I always enjoy these.
1. Moondog – Be a Hobo
2. Desert – Leaving
3. The Advisory Circle – Vibrations and Waves
4. Françoise Hardy – LAmitié
5. Goblin – Opening to the Sighs
Japandroids – True Love And A Free Life Of Free Will
Scientist – Cry Of The Werewolf
Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown (live Christic Benefit 17/11/90)
Neil Young – It Might Have Been
Josh Ritter – You Don’t Make It Easy Babe
…starts well, tails off a bit by the end
Chas & Dave – Scruffy Old Cow
Brinsley Schwarz – Country Girl
Dogs D’Amour – Back On The Juice
Inspiral Carpets – Dragging Me Down
Transvision Vamp – Sister Moon
(that last one has not been heard for at least 15 years – the joy of randomising?)
Julian Cope – Wreck My Car – Christ Versus Warhol
Will Oldham – Sapele – Seafarers Music
The Charlatans – Senses – Us And Us Only
The Kinks – Creeping Jean – Village Green…
The Cure – A Reflection- Seventeen Seconds
Bill Withers – Let Me In Your Life
Yusef Lateef – The Plum Blossom
The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray (Live At The Matrix)
Kylie Minogue – Promises
Tim Garland – Interlude 4
Big Black Delta: IFUCKINGLOVEYOU
Simple Minds: Glittering Prize
Magazine: The Book
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Christina the Astonishing
Dusty Springfield: Breakfast in Bed
track six – Maria’s Little Elbows by Sparklehorse ——- TUUUUUNE!
@badartdog
That Big Black Delta track is FUCKINGHUGE.
Was it you who recommended them to this place some years ago?
I did, yes – must see what he/they’ve been up to lately.
I always like to see whether anybody’s 5 could have come up on my iTunes whenever we do this, but so far there aren’t any 5’s that I have all of. Just makes me wonder how many tracks there would be if we all pooled our collections together!
Ooooooo, late night, so hope it’s quiet……
1. (Everything gives you) Cancer: Joe Jackson Trio/Live Music: Europe 2010 (Of course it’s Graham Maby on bass!)
2. By Your Side: Ben Taylor/The Bachelor (Fab version of the Sade song)
3. Maid That’s Deep in Love:Pentangle/Scarborough Fair (Sure thats’s a variation of Moveds thru’ the Fair, from a quite good folk sampler)
4.Requiem Again: the Durutti Column/Vini Reilly (Did he really put out an album as his own name? Dunno, but love its spareness.)
5. Lord Help Me: Donny Hathaway/Extension of a Man (Lovely!)
Quite chuffed by that selection.
Janet Jackson – The Body That Loves You
Dylan and the Band – People Get Ready (Basement Tapes Complete)
Ryan Adams – Nobody Girl
Flanders and Swann – Twice Shy
Harry Nilsson – Yellow Man
1. REM – Funtime (Stooges cover – ace!) – The Automatic Box
2. The Crystals – Santa Claus is Coming to Town – A Christmas Gift for You
3. Talk Talk – It’s My Life (US 12″ mix) – 12″/80s
4. Willie Williams – Armageddon Time – 100% Dynamite
5. The Fall – Hexen Definitive (Strife Knot) – Complete Peel Sessions
That’s quite a nice selection. If there’s a better track than no. 4 comes up anywhere in this thread, I wish to be informed.
The Band – King Harvest (has surely come)
Trinity Xperiment – Visions of Fire (from a Mahavishnu tribute album…)
The Associates – White Car in Germany
Uriah Heep – Sunrise
Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Tornquvist – Fire in the Hole (gorgeous Dan cover)
A curious mix….all good stuff…
….and at number 6…
Charlotte Church – Nerve
Well, I never…..where did all the prog go??
Five tracks, no cheating, eh? Okay, here goes….
1. Dylan – Sooner or Later (One of Us Must Know) – not bad. Solid tune.
2. Pink Floyd – Have a Cigar – all good. A bit of a Mojo magazine vibe so far.
3. Mint Gun Club – Eels – good stuff. A bit anonymous, a bit nineties, but listenable.
4. The Avalanches – GiMix – a forty minute mixtape from 2001. Genius stuff.
5. Spiritualized – Think I’m in Love (Drums/Wah) – early mixdown from the Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space sessions – dreamy.
My Randomiser was in a mainly 80s mood tonight apparently…
Jesse Winchester – The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Echo & the Bunnymen – King of Your Castle
XTC – Respectable Street
Soft Cell – Down in the Subway
Paul Buchanan – Cars in the Garden
(and at six: Wilco – I Am Trying to Break Your Heart – mmm!)
Overture and Whirlwind – Transatlantic
The India Song – Big Star
Try Me – James Brown (Newport Jazz Festival, 1969)
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts – Bob Dylan
Get On The Floor – Michael Jackson
Private Investigations – Dire Straits
My Pockets Empty – Bert Jansch
You Really Got A Hold On Me – The Beatles
Ask Me Why – The Beatles
Willowood – Amazing Blondel
20,000 odd songs and 2 early Fabs turn up!
Very interesting reading all these, 3rd bite:
Dusty Springfield – Spooky
Julian Cope – Road of Dreams
John Martyn – Head and Heart (alt take)
Edu Lobo – Cinco Crancas
Elliott Smith – Alameda
All relatively unknown to me, all wonderful
Spooky hit the nation’s consciousness (and possibly its heart) when it featured on the soundtrack for the ex-Mr Madge film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
I did not know that. My version comes from a superb compilation Complete A and B sides 1963-70, a double CD I picked up for around 4 quid from the tax dodgers.
Art of almost – Wilco
Bullet the blue sky – U2
Stay – Blue Nile
Scary monsters (and super creeps) – Bowie
Memo to my son – Randy Newman
I could only hum you one of those…
Though I’d give the stuff I uploaded to Google Play a go. No idea what Googly wizardry is going on here, but Google thinks it knows where my head’s at.
1. There’s a Place – Beatles
2. The Last time – Stones
3. Rockin’ Pneumonia etc – Huey Piano Smith
4. Daily Planet – Love
5. David Watts – Kinks
Actually I think that what’s going on here, after another hour, is, If you like the Kinks you’ll like Ray Davies, and vice versa, with a bit of If you like the Kinks you’ll like DONOVAN thrown in.
Is Google sentient?
I wouldn’t rule it out. The Brain suddenly thought, with a perceptible crashing of gears, if you like the Kinks you’ll like Ella Fitzgerald, and we were off from there into Dean Martin territory.
‘If you like the Kinks you’ll like Ella Fitzgerald, and we were off from there into Dean Martin territory’.
T-shirt.
1. Elusive Dreams – Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood
2. Long Long While – The Rolling Stones
3. I’m finding it Harder to be a Gentleman These Days – The White Stripes
4. Invisible – Dio
5. Workin’ Woman Blues – Valerie June
Thank Heavens for that Dio track. It was looking worryingly cool without it.
Long, Long While is a gem.
I’m thinking Aftermath should have been a double album, including all twenty of the tracks recorded during those two three-day sessions.
Try:
Paint It Black
Stupid Girl
Lady Jane
Think
It’s Not Easy
Long, Long While
Mother’s Little Helper
Sad Day
Take It Or Leave It
Doncha Bother Me
What To Do
Ride On, Baby
19th Nervous Breakdown
Flight 505
Out Of Time
High And Dry
Sittin’ On A Fence
Under My Thumb
I Am Waiting
Going Home
You’ve ploughed this farrow before, yes maybe it could have been a double but not a very good one!
furrow
I reckon that double is much better than either the U.S. or the UK single albums.
iPod:
1. Martin Stephenson &The Daintees – Caroline (from Boat To Bolivia)
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Running Scared (from B-Sides & Rarities)
3. Tiffany – I Think We’re Alone Now 12″ Version (from Blank & Jones So80s Vol. 8)
4. Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (from Foxbase Alpha)
5. Stiff Little Fingers – Here We Are Nowhere (from Inflammable Material)
iTunes:
1. David Bowie – Neukoln (from Heroes)
2. The Kinks – You Can’t Win (From Kinks Kontroversy)
3. Julian Cope – Non-Alignment Pact (from Saint Julian [Expanded Edition])
4. Mogwai – Mogwai Fear Satan (U-Ziq Remix) (from Kicking A Dead Pig)
5. R.E.M. – Cuyahoga (from Lifes Rich Pageant [Deluxe Edition])
Make of them what you will…
Inflammable Material is 40 years old … TODAY
Just saying
Often voted in the Top 3 (or at least Top 5) of Best Punk debut albums, but no 40th Anniversary enormo-box to celebrate it.
40th Anniversary Tour kicks off next month
38
I can’t count!
Er…. I know you say you can’t count, and I believe you but how can the 40th anniversary tour kick off next month if it’s 38 years ? Has it been advertised as the 40th anniversary year tour and who exactly is responsible for this. Eh? I’m on the edge.
They must be planning to tour for the next two years.
Whether we like it or not!
Me getting confused and befuddled by details (as usual)
Tour is 40th Anniversary of bands existence (still have 2 original members).
Two original members isn’t actually bad after 40 years is it ?
I have to say I have never been a real fan, probably not enough melody for me. I was and still am a Black and White era Stranglers man mainly due to that bass sound …I could bore you for ages on that if you want?
1. Heartbreaker – Free
2. The old man from the mountains – Merle Haggard
3. Who do you love – Quicksilver Messenger Service
4. Wayfaring Stranger/Fly me to the moon – Giant Sand
5. Ready for love – Bad Company
Not bad…
Plenty of Paul Rodgers action there.
1. One Thing Left To Do – Del Amitri
2. Saxophone Song – Kate Bush
3. Highland Scenery – Big Country
4. Sail Away – David Gray
5. On Returning – Wire
Quite Celtic flavoured until I got to Wire… The next track up was a comedy sketch from Steven Wright.
Fired up Taxdodger Music app on the phone, chose ‘My Music’, hit shuffle…
1. Teenage Fanclub – Live In The Moment
2. Bob Dylan – Obviously Five Believers (!!)
3. Burial – Young Death
4. I Am Arrows – No Wonder
5. Radiohead – How To Disappear Completely (BBC Radio One Evening Session – 15/11/00)
…and it tried to make me look cool! Could easily have thrown up some random xmas tunes or that Michael Ball album I bought for my mum 🙂
Fri evening selection:
Hey! Jealous Lover – Frank Sinatra
Too much, too little, too late – Jellyfish
When the Ship Comes In (live) – Bob Dylan
Gypsy Biker – Bruce Springsteen (again)
Something (live) – Elliott Smith
After spending all of January listening to the same tunes over and over and over and (OK we get it), I’m so in love with listening to music on shuffle again, getting surprised by every new track that starts playing…it’s so nice I feel the need to randomise again:
1: The New Ashmolean (Marching Society and Student’s Conservatory Band) – Bonus track on the “Guys and Dolls” Original 1950 Broadway Cast CD, from the musical “Where’s Charley?”
2: Look Around – tUnE-yArDs
3: How Can I Say I Miss You? – Adam Ant
4: Three Cheers for Our Side – Orange Juice
5: Let the South Wind Blow – Grinderswitch
Nice.
Better Late Than Never..
1: A Foggy Day – Frank Sinatra – Songs For Young Lovers
2: Clouds (Album Version) – The Jayhawks – Music From The North Country
3: Distant Early Warning – Rush – Grace Under Pressure
4: River Knows Your Name – John Hiatt – Walk On
5: Things – Bobby Darin – Single
nothing there too scary, quietly pleased with that..
1. Church Not Made With Hands – The Waterboys
2. The Prophecy – Howard Shore (Fellowship of The Ring OST)
3. Home Computer – Kraftwerk
4. Stay – David Bowie
5. Silver Lining – HURTS