……there hasn’t been (dum dum dum) THE RANDOMISER!
Yes it’s time to show your cool duds and lie yer tit’s off. 5 of your best o random. I’ll start:
1. Omri Coulu Leek : Transglobal Underground/Habibi: Classics and Collaborations, 2013
Nice bit o’ Natacha Atlas. When will Tigger give her the kudos she deserves?
2. Jaded : Toyboy & Robin/Sound of Deep House, 2013
Shit, think the daughters been buying on my card again…….
3. Universe and u : K.T.Tunstall/Eye to the Telescope, 2004
Hasn’t really aged well, has it?
4. When I Get My Rewards : Nitty Gritty Dirt Band/Will the Circle be Unbroken Vol 1, 1973
A lesser track from this milestone, but not at all bad.
5. Life is Hard : Timbuk 3/Greetings Fro Timbuk 3,1986
I’d forgotten getting that, actually OK!
Let me make it easy for everyone – just paste this in:
1. Something uncool that I’m not telling you about
2. Something uncool that I will tell you about while making clear that it’s ironic and I didn’t pay for it
3. see 1.
4. AT LAST! SOMETHING COOL! that I have no memory of whatsoever
5. Bob Dylan, probably
1. Jimmy Mack – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
2. Movie Kisses – Thea Gilmore
3. I Believe In You – Dottie Peoples (from Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan)
4. Smarty Pants (1 minute edit) – The Retro Spankees
5. For A Western – The Durutti Column
I probably need to get out more.
1. Atomium – Karl Bartos
2. Desperate Straits – Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
3. Jubilee Street – Nick Cave
4. King of the Mountain – Kate Bush
5. Freddie Freeloader – Miles Davis
None more Prog – oh….wait a minute….
1 Burning Lights – Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants
2 The Mod Squad Theme – Al Caiola
3 I’m on Fire – Bruce Springsteen
4 Fingerprints – Patsy Cline
5 New Moon Over Jamaica – Johnny Cash/Paul McCartney
1/ Good Morning Starshine – Hair soundtrack
2/ Clock Strikes Ten – Cheap Trick
3/ New York City – Wire
4/ Bug Powder Dust – Bomb The Bass
5/ Yarrington Town – Nanci Griffith
I don’t know about anyone else but I always read these posts. I am still looking for one that could have come from my ipod. Only came close once. I had four exact matches and the fifth I had the song but not by that artist
Am I the only one round here that hasn’t got an ipod? (Not that I want one mind so, please, no fund-raising charity singles).
You are not alone. Never had one.
Nope, me neither.
No form of portable music player is plugged into my earholes.
The Randomizer is done through Windows Media Player (which contains only a limited selection of the collection).
Alternative Randomizer methods include going to the CDs, closing your eyes and selecting 5 discs at random, and then getting the wife to shout a number at me
(is it any wonder she says “I’m worried about you” ?)
1/ Good Morning Starshine – Hair soundtrack
2/ Clock Strikes Ten – Cheap Trick
3/ New York City – Wire
4/ Bug Powder Dust – Bomb The Bass
5/ Yarrington Town – Nanci Griffith
It seems my long quest is over
GOTHIC NORTH – Clouds
BUD – Honeyblood
BELLY OF THE BEAST – Gazelle Twin
DO YOU REALLY WANNA KNOW WHY YR STILL IN LOVE WITH ME?
– Joanna Gruesome
TIGER DREAMS (PHOTEK REMIX) – Karin Park
…oh come on – you made those up! I’ve usually heard of at least one artisit in anyone’s list. Diversity – dontcha love it?
My five :
Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
Two Goes into Four – Kevin Ayers
No Reply – Buzzcocks
Measurement – James Blake
Ezy Rider – Jimi Hendrix
nah, I recognise at least three of them and now I’m all excited about Clouds, because a song called Gothic North has to be worth checking out, right?
Definitely, though it’s not the best track on the parent album (“Ghost Systems Rave”) to be fair, give “Gothic” or “Modular Scarf” a go if you want to dip in.
It’s quite a Poppy-friendly album I’d have thought, so there’s a reasonably decent chance that you’ll like it 🙂
Heh 🙂 I like to think that if I was making stuff up I’d have come up with something better than the godawful name that the overwise-very-wonderful Joanna Gruesome have saddled themselves with!
These came from the 500 or so songs on my phone, which tend to be – relatively speaking – the newer purchases, so not a lot of Recognisable Old Classics on there. Nothing more than 2 or 3 years old I don’t think.
I will be heading to Spotify or wherever to check them out. They’d better be OK or I’ll be having words
The suspense is killing me, was there anything there that didn’t make you want to stab yourself in the ear with a heated knitting needle…? 🙂
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band/Will the Circle be Unbroken Vol 1, 1973
I acquired this album following a rave recommendation on the old site.
It is indeed monumental.
Good man! Vols 2 and 3 aren’t quite so good, but only cos 1 is so astonishing. The all instrumental side (2?), I bought the triple vinyl when it came out, blew my teenage socks off, and some of those tunes have never been played better
Randum dum
When All you Got is Hammer – Gretchen Peters
Aim Towards The Sky – I haven`t a clue
3 Hours – Nick Drake
Sahid Teri Bandi – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
New Orleans Wins The War – Randy Newman
Some Nusrat?
Good man!
Love – The Cult
How She Lied By Living – The Posies
Evil Dub – Trentemøller
Glue Man – Fugazi
If I Were Going – Afghan Whigs
Richard Hawley – Naked in Pitsmoor
Young Holt Trio – Wack Wack
The JBs – The Grunt Pts 1&2
The Jam – All Around the World
Louis Jordan – Reet, Petite and Gone
I still don’t understand what this is.
Having reset the thing I’ve been piling stuff on, so let’s see what we find
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash – Crying Over You
Marianne Faithfull – The Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife
John Fullbright – Going Home
Teenage Fanclub – Discolite
Roy Buchanan – Wayfaring Pilgrim
Where’s the reggae then?
Here we go…
4 White Stallions – Counting Crows
Munich – Editors
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now – McFadden and Whitehead
O Superman – Laurie Anderson
Nashville – David Mead
Last Call for Love- Squeeze
The Feels- Ty Segall
Give Us the Wind- Future Islands
Call Me Crazy- John Martyn
See a Girl- Andy Burrows
Stone Roses – Ten Storey Love Song
Rudi – Big Time
Clout – Substitute
Asia – Heat of The Moment
Pigbag – Papas Got A Brand New Pigbag
Sorry or Please – Kings of Conveniance
Scentless Apprentice – Nirvana
Von der Shoenheit (from Lied Von Der Erde by Gustav Mahler) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The New Dance – Familiar Faces
Someone – Simple Minds
Kings of ConveniEnce of course…
1. Two Faced Love – Richard Thompson, from “Mock Tudor”.
2. A Measured Room – Brian Eno, from “Music For Films”.
3. Violet Ray Gas – Violet, from “The Wire Tapper 21” (Wire magazine coverdisc).
4. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight – R.E.M., from “The Best Of R.E.M. In Time 1988-2003”.
5. Amandrai – Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder, from “Talking Timbuktu”.
The R.E.M. is playing right now as I type.
Quite a mixture there, Mike.
Mary Margaret O’Hara – To Cry About
The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
The Baptist Generals – Clitorpus Christi
Paul Westerberg – I’ll Do Anything
Slum Village – Intro (to Fantastic Vol. 2
Thanks to Contraryarticle for The Baptist Generals.
Okey Dokey…
10cc: Old Wild Men
Patti Smith: Because The Night
Traveling Wilburys: Dirty World
Madness: Disappear
Richard Hawley: I’m Looking For Someone To Find Me.
Pretty robust selection I’d say.
Roxy Music – “To Turn You On” (Avalon)
The Magnetic Fields – “The Machine In Your Hand” (Love At the Bottom Of the Sea)
Beck – “Holy Man” (Nacho Libre OST)
Q65 – “The Life I Live” (Nuggets II)
Danger Doom – “No Names” (The Mouse And The Mask)
We built this village on a trad. arr. tune – Half Man, Half Biscuit
Strike one! – Teddy Reynolds
Now see! – John Surman
Mo gorilla – The Ideals
Rock and roll blues – Linda Hopkins
A strong start followed by an unrepresentative number of exclamation marks. All good though.
Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns – Don’t You Just Know It
Solomon Burke – Lookin’ Out My Back Door
Raul Malo – Hot Burrito #1
James Chance – Almost Black
The Ramones – Don’t Come Close
Moanin’ and Groanin’ – Alvin Cash
That Gospel Music – Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives (just saw these guys live – terrific)
Ruler of My Heart – Irma Thomas
El Pussycat Ska – the Specials
Sonho Meu – Maria Bethania