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01 September 2006

What's in your shuffle? →[More:]I don't recall seeing a look at the randomness of shuffle in a while, so here are the first ten that come up in mine:

Menthol "Future Shock"
The Replacements "Within Your Reach"
The Police "Be My Girl - Sally"
Linus of Hollywood "Building A Ship"
XTC "Funk Pop A Roll"
The Replacements "Another Girl, Another Planet"
The Psychedelic Furs "Valentine"
The Doors "Light My Fire"
Negativland "Christianity Is Stupid"
Neil Young "Ohio"

This looks very late 80's college rock to me. I'll never complain about 2 Repleacemnts songs, but I didn't even know I had "Light My Fire" loaded.

Not embarassing at all. How did you fare?

post by: Slack-a-gogo at: 11:34 | 34 comments

OK, here goes:

Dictators - The Next Big Thing
Evie Sands - Take Me For A Little While
Noble 'Thin Man' Watts - Shakin'
Equals - Honey Bee
Mudlarks - Lollipop
Ronettes - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Sly & The Family Stone - I Want To Take You Higher
Ames Brothers - Candy Bar Boogie
Rev. Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout (live)
Four Tops - Got To get You Into My Life

(hmmm, not bad at all. I'm pretty fuckin' cool)

posted by jonmc 01 September | 11:40

Negativland! Yay!

My first ten:

The Sex Pistols "New York"
Guided By Voices "Father Sgt. Christmas Card"
Depeche Mode "Just Can't Get Enough"
Lambchop "The Scary Caroler"
The Posies "Golden Blunders"
Nanase Aikawa "Seven Seas"
Ramones "Somebody Put Something In My Drink"
Wire "Marooned"
The Beatles "I Want To Tell You"
Robyn Hitchcock "Fifty-Two Stations"

I can't believe I went through ten songs without a Stereloab song popping up... I think they outnumber every other band in my MP3 player (except maybe Guided by Voices).

posted by BoringPostcards 01 September | 11:48

Dictators into Evie Sands is a little cool, but having the Equals in there is pretty damn fucking cool. Especially since it's not one of the hits. The Equals are sort of an obsession with me and I'm always glad to see another fan out there.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 01 September | 11:50

Pere Ubu - Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,
Swell Maps - Another Song
Incognegro - Brand New Cadillac
Original Sinners - Who's Laughin' Now
Impact - The Man Goes On
The Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
Meaty Buys - Criminal Mind (Duddle)
Scream - Things to Do Today
Butthole Surfers - Butthole Surfer
Les Savy Fav - The Sweat Descends

That Impact tune sucks, other than that I wouldn't go crazy abandoned on a desert island with these.

posted by danostuporstar 01 September | 11:52

The Equals are sort of an obsession with me and I'm always glad to see another fan out there.

*high-fives slack*

The Equals doth rock. 'I Get So Excited,' is possibly the best hormonal overload song ever. Grant sounds like he's gonna explode when that girl shows up.

posted by jonmc 01 September | 11:56

Is that The Equals that did 'Baby Come Back' with a young Eddy Grant on guitar?

posted by essexjan 01 September | 12:07

Blondie, One Way - Notably sung at a battle of the bands by an old flame of mine; a highly weird moment since we weren't entirely disentangled by that point
Season to Risk, Or Highwater - Awesome song by an underrated KC band
Jawbox, Green-line Delayed - Not one of my favorite Jbox albums
SV, Luka - My first exposure to Suze. It wasn't love at first sight.
Metallica, House that Jack Built - Or, as my friend's brother called them at this point, Alternica
APC, Sleeping Beauty - An ex insisted I get into APC. I already was, but that pretty effectively got me out of them.
Misfits, This Island Earth - After a decade of seeing Misfits stickers on lockers and patches on people's backpacks, I finally downloaded a bunch of their stuff one day in college (yes, all in one day). B-music based on B-movies, fun way to kill an afternoon.
Henry Rollins, Hey Henrietta - From a MeChatter.
Sifl n' Olly, Cindy's the Hostess - Sent to me by an lj friend; I never really got into S&O until all the episodes were uploaded to Youtube.
Faith No More, Digging the Grave

Not really indicative of my collection. Well, maybe more indicative than I like. Nothing I'd have in regular rotation made that list (except the S2R, who I can't stop listening to), though honorable mentions among the next five songs were OLP's classic Naveed and X-static off the original (and still best) FF album.

posted by Eideteker 01 September | 12:11

Shelby Lynne -- Go With It
Aimee Mann -- King of the Jailhouse (Gotta love a chorus that proclaims "Baby, there's something wrong with me" over and over.)
Dixie Chicks -- Cold Day in July
Joan Fucking Jett -- Five
New Pornos -- Star Bodies
Band of Horses -- Our Swords
Flogging Molly -- Another Bag of Bricks
Pretenders -- Night in My Veins
Crash Test Dummies -- The Psychic
Lucinda Williams -- The Night's Too Long

posted by mudpuppie 01 September | 12:12

Metallica - Phantom Lord
Candy Machine - The Merchant's Square
Sonic Youth - Starfield Road
Shudder to Think - Baby Drop
Metallica - The Small Hours
Public Enemy - Incident at 66.6 FM
Basement Jaxx - Always be There
The Crownhate - Ruin Piss Alley
Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Led Zeppelin - Black Country Woman

kind of eclectic-ish. And not nearly enough pop music to really reflect me. It's my angry shuffle.

posted by gaspode 01 September | 12:22

New Order - Kiss of Death
The Smiths - Unlovable
Stromkern - Histories
Jorane - Film III
Skinny Puppy - Deep Down Trauma Hounds
The Wedding Present - Always the Quiet One
The Great Depression - Meet the Hapsburgs
My Favourite - Working Class Jacket
The Black Heart Procession - It's a Crime I Never Told you About The Diamonds in Your Eyes
Trust Obey - Sleeping Angel

posted by cmonkey 01 September | 12:22

Heh. The Crownhate Ruin - Piss Alley

Going through too quickly there.

posted by gaspode 01 September | 12:23

It might be fun to take shuffle lists from a lot of people, anonymize them, and then play try to match the list with the user.

posted by cmonkey 01 September | 12:25

that would be fun, cmonkey. In previous threads I've had ppl tell me that they knew it was mine before they got to my username.

posted by gaspode 01 September | 12:26

I told Winamp to play random songs from an entire HD. It took several minutes to populate the playlist. Then I just skipped through the first bunch of tracks to see what they are. I did more than ten though.

Aerosmith - The Other Side
Goblin - Sleepwalking
John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - On The Dark Side
Radiohead - Airbag
The Feeling - Sewn
Soundgarden - Like Suicide
Kubb - I Don't Mind
311 - D'yer Mak'er (LZ cover)
Tonic - Liar
The Neverending White Lights - The Grace
Prince & NPG - Cream
Anthrax - Taking the Music Back
U2 - Desire
Zigo feat Joan Rochette - Sleigh Ride
Lene Lovich - Wonderful One
Blonde Redhead - Harmony
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In this Home on Ice
Steve Wariner - Lynda
REM - Pilgrimage

Odd that there were two songs so similar in title the dark side/the other side out of tens of thousands of choices for winamp.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 01 September | 12:26

Pop Princess - The Click Five
Shake Your Booty - Suburban Tragedy
Just One Step - Songs for a New World (OCR)
Chocolate Cake for Breakfast - Bill Cosby
Quality - Songs From the Capeman (by Paul Simon; musical concept album)The Great Highway - Myths and Hymns (OCR)
And They're Off - A New Brain (OCR)
Toxic - Nickel Creek (yes, the Britney Spears song; they did a cover)
Hot Patootie - The Rocky Horror Show (New BCR)
Celebrate - Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (London CR)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 September | 12:28

Set to display 15 upcoming, here's what's next:
Lie For A Lie -- Built To Spill -- Ultimate Alternative Wavers
Garden City Blues -- Silkworm -- In The West
Golden Brown -- Drive Like Jehu -- Yank Crime
Cowgirl In The Sand -- Neil Young -- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Whatcha Drinkin'? -- Hüsker Dü -- New Day Rising
Holland, 1945 -- Neutral Milk Hotel -- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Heaven Must Have Sent You -- The Elgins -- Hitsville USA, Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971
10 -- Blonde Redhead -- In an Expression of the Inexpressible
Why Does it Hurt? -- Hot Snakes -- Suicide Invoice
The Burly Spur -- Harkonen -- Shake Harder Boy
Let It Come -- Hot Snakes -- Automatic Midnight
Brick Is Red -- Pixies -- Surfer Rosa
Lullaby -- The Cure -- Disintegration
What You're Up Against -- Hey Mercedes -- Everynight Fire Works
Strangelight -- Fugazi -- The Argument

posted by safetyfork 01 September | 12:31

The Crownhate Ruin!!!

posted by safetyfork 01 September | 12:34

that would be fun, cmonkey. In previous threads I've had ppl tell me that they knew it was mine before they got to my username.

If people email me playlists, I'll make a thread about it.

posted by cmonkey 01 September | 12:37

Babsonicos - Mareo
Radiohead - High and Dry
Angry Samoans - Maizman's Brain is Calling
Rise Against - Blood to Bleed
Bad Religion - We're Only Gonna Die
The Rosebuds - Leaves Do Fall
A.F.I. - Bleed Black
Beck - High 5 [ Rock the Catskills]
Minor Threat - No Reason
Social Distortion - Shame on Me

posted by stynxno 01 September | 12:40

This song came up as I was skipping through and it is so lovely, I decided to YSI.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 01 September | 12:43

Moloko-Killa Bunnies
curve-Nowhere
Electrafixion-Timebomb
Garbage-Afterglow
Tom Jones-It's Not Unusual
Peggy Lee-I'm glad I Waited for You
Nouvelle Vague-This is Not a Love Song
(my life with the) Thrill Kill Kult-Martini for Two
Shivaree-Daring Lousy Guy
Delirium-Euphoria (firefly)
and oddly enough, Povi-Fireflies

It has no grace, rhyme or reason, but there it is.

posted by crush-onastick 01 September | 12:51

How Fun! Here's mine:

Wrathchild - Iron Maiden
Conquences - John Coltrane
Will Anything Happen - Blondie
Going Down Slow (live) - Muddy Waters
(-) - Swans
Big Day - Phil Manzanera
To Hold Your Tiny Toes - Mojave 3
Luv'd Ones - Up Down Sue (Girl Group Sounds box set)
Brickbats - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

Now thats some really random listening habits!!

posted by miles 01 September | 12:58

This is a pretty accurate sampling for me...Oddly, the only thing really missing is some old school punk, but then again, it's doesn't get much more old school punk than Johnny Cash.

The Jam / Billy Hunt (Demo)
Chet Baker / My Buddy
Dion / Lookin' for the Heart of Saturday Night (thanks jonmc!)
The Band / Don't Do It (studio version)
Cash, Johnny / San Quentin (live at San Quentin)
Neko Case / Buckets Of Rain (Bob Dylan)
Ray Charles / I Wonder Who
Graham Coxon / What's He Got?
Sarah Harmer and Jason Euringer / Songs for Clem - Summertime
Bob Dylan / Sara

P.S. Mudpuppie, I like your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter...where can I download your collection? Thanks!

posted by richat 01 September | 13:07

The following is queued up in my Party Shuffle:

1. Egypt - mc DJ / Sufjan Stevens
2. Track 02 - Radiohead live_ (something from a bootleg a neighbor gave me)
3. Epistrophy M'Boom Live At S.O.B.'s
4. Working Holiday - The Coctails
5. Ah-Bah-Nah, Coo-Bah - Desi Arnez and his Orchestra
5. Frozen Peas Spot - Orson Welles
6. Weather Systems - Andrew Bird (2003-04-05 @ Old Town School)
7. 24 Hours at the Golden Apple (pt. 3) - This American Life
8. Man From Malibu: Ending - Betty Page, Jungle Girl Jazz
9. Joe Wenderoth / Letters to Wendy (2) - Nerve Sweet & Vicious (Spoken Word)
10. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy - WAX

I apparently I have a lot more spoken word stuff than I realized.

posted by me3dia 01 September | 13:24

essexjan:

Is that The Equals that did 'Baby Come Back' with a young Eddy Grant on guitar?

Yup. That's the one. Other than "Baby Come Back" they seem to be best known for the original version of "Police On My Back", later covered by the Clash. They have a slew of great British R&B songs and a bunch of songs I can only describe at beat bublegum pop. They were the shit. I seldom go a week without playing at least one Equals song.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 01 September | 13:25

TPS, I love that Nickel Creek cover of Toxic. It's awesome live, too. (They're better live than recorded, I think. Go see them if you can.)

Richat, send $29.95 via paypal and expect first installment within 8-10 weeks.

posted by mudpuppie 01 September | 13:28

Klark Kent - Away From Home
Skinny Puppy - Testure (S.F. Mix)
Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep
SpaceLink - Time Zone (from Conversions: A K&D Selection CD)
Tricky - Wait for God
Manfredo Fest - Madrugada
Andrews Sisters - Well All Right
Mohammed El-Bakkar - Ah Ya Zain
Sly & Robbie - Sitting and Watching
Inolvidables Mexicanas - La Borrachita

This is why I never listen on shuffle. It just does not. make. sense.

posted by Otis 01 September | 13:50

Set Winamp to shuffle and this is what it came up with (the first 10 songs):

Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam/Moon Over Alabama (cause everybody knows about Mississippi, goddam!!)
Microfilm - Inouwall (downloaded a whole album of theirs on a whim; haven't listened to it much, though)
Herbie Hancock - The Essence
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (had I been exposed to her music when I was 15, I would totally have been in love with her voice. But I was't. Yet, in a way, I still am)
Arkestra One - Train to Machu Pichu
Pia Fraus - Right Hand Traffic (My Bloody Valentine clone)
Crusho - Kool Bavaria [Patchworks remix]
Blur - End of a Century [live] (I really don't like them in live)
Kino - Aprel' (Russian rock from 1980's. I used to like their songs (sort of), until I grew a bit older and suddenly discovered that their lyrics are bland and stupid.)
Gruff Rhys - Gwn Mi Wn

posted by Daniel Charms 01 September | 14:17

cool!

jello biafra, “propane and propane accessories”
sacred cowboy productions, “fabtasia, or: tomorrow never knows yesterday because things we said today help the inner light, flying helter skelter across the universe, come together here, there, and everywhere the night before. dig it any time at all.”
venetian snares, “vache”
charles ives, “orchestral set no. 2, ii, ‘the rockstrewn hills join in the people’s outdoor meeting’”
inspiral carpets, “joe”
red house painters, “lord kill the pain”
slepcy, “with charles bukowski on the ride”
steve reich, “come out”
autechre, “parhelic triangle”
keith fullerton whitman, “stereo music for farfisa compact duo deluxe (18), drum kit (3)”

posted by syntax 01 September | 14:24

OK, let's give this a spin.

Force Five - Yeah, I'm Waiting
Where the hell did this come from, it's great! (Ah it's from Rubble)

Wilco - Kidsmoke
Neu! Country

Therapy? - Stay Happy
Metal for retired indie kids like me. Chuffing great.

Therapy? - Black Eye, Purple Sky
Uh, OK. Still great.

The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Enough said.

Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently
From Guilty Pleasures. This really takes me back to being a kid and sitting in front of the telly watching cheesy American imports while eating my dinner. Why? I have no idea why.

Feather Bed - Feather Bed
I've never heard this before in my life. Pretty cool though.

Matthew Sweet - Knowing People
Sweet's a big fave of mine.

Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
Enough said. Again.

Graham Parker - Protection
I really should listen to this album more often.

posted by dodgygeezer 01 September | 15:37

After the Goldrush - Neil Young
Drunken Angel - Lucinda!
Something is in the Air - Tom Petty
236-6132 - Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer
Not With You - Tegan and Sara
Diamonds in the Mine - Leonard Cohen
Michelangelo - Emmylou Harris
Spectacular Views - Rilo Kiley
When It Comes To You - Buddy and Julie Miller
The New Romance - Pretty Girls Make Graves

It was hard to stop at 10.

posted by danf 01 September | 16:27

Set iTunes to Party Shuffle, here's the first 10:

Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground
Shakedown On 9th Street - Ryan Adams
Friends Are Hard to Find - Badfinger
Flashing My Whip - U-Roy & The Paragons
Uglier Than You - Clem Snide
It's Alright - Chris Kowanko
The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
Rip Her to Shreds - Blondie
Gays in the Military - Bill Hicks
I Looked All Over Town - The Magnetic Fields

posted by black8 01 September | 16:58

What the hay --

Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
UK Subs - Nazi Cunts
Tift Merritt - Good Hearted Man
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
Minutemen - Corona (fuck you, Johnny Knoxville, for trying to ruin that song)
Reverend Horton Heat - You Can't Get Away From Me
Don Caballero - Trey Dog's Acid
The Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
Calexico - Crumble
Badly Drawn Boy - Bewilderbeast

(those first four are terrible in that succession)

Also, danf, it looks like your player would make my SO squeal with delight.

posted by ufez 01 September | 17:51

Black Sorrows - Come on, come on
Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb
Jack Johnson - Drink the water
Black Sorrows - Sons of the sea
Pink Floyd - Careful with that axe, Eugene
Powderfinger - Glimpse
The Doors - Hello, I love you
The Beatles - Across the universe
Jamiroquai - Hooked up
Three Doors Down - Smack

God, that's awful.

posted by dg 03 September | 18:06

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