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14 December 2007

SHUFFLE-A-GOGO anyone? 10 songs on shuffle from your MP3 player or other audio delivery system? →[More:] No cheating - first 10 songs that come up.

It's been a while, so here goes mine with real time comments.

1) NICK GILDER - Backstreet Noize (You Know Who You Are 1977) - It took me a second to remember what this was - I couldn't think of which woman glam singer it could. But when the chorus kicked in I remembered it was the oddly voiced Nick Gilder. This is glam pop fun along the lines of Sparks of the same era. Lately I've become sort of evangelical about spreading the word of Nick Gilder - if you like glam or 70's power pop and you're not digging his first four albums you're missing out.

2) the INSOMNIACS - The Pop Cycle (Wake Up 1994) - Killer garage pop with equal parts garage rock and power pop goodness.

3) CHEAP TRICK - Southern Girls (In Color 1977) - There's a boatoad of Cheap Trick on my MP3 player so it's not much of a surprise they come up so often. Man I love the drums on this one.

4) SHOES - Burned Out Love (Tongue Twister 1981) - Good lord, shuffle loves the pop today! I love most of the Shoes catalog, but I've noticed that the Gary Klebe songs tend to be my faves. For me Shoes are the gods of power pop, followed closely by the dBs and the Records.

5) PAUL McCARTNEY and WINGS - Let Me Roll It live (Wings Over America 1976) This song didn't do much for me until I saw Paul live a few years ago he did a great version of it. Now I'm not sure how I didn't fall in love with that killer guitar line from the first listen.

6) BLONDIE - Sunday Girl (Parellel Lines 1979) - Parellel Lines was one of my most played albums in highschool and college, and I still love all the way through. It's one of the few albums that made it in it's entirety to my MP3 player.

7) GARBAGE - Only Happy When It Rains (Greatest Hits) I didn't think I wa that much of a fan of Garbage, but I bought the hits collection for two songs (this being one of them) and was surprised to find out that I love 6 or 7 songs on the album. They do glossy-grunge-pop well.

8) FLESHTONES - Shadown Line (Roman Gods 1982) Seeing this song live in Urgh! A Music War made me an instant Fleshtones fan. I wish I could dance like Peter Zaremba - he's just too damn cool on stage.

9) BLONDIE - X Offender (Blondie 1976) 2nd Blondie song, which isn't a bad thing.

10) the MARY ONETTES - The Companion (the Mary Onettes 2007) - Imagine Peter Murphy fronting the poppier songs of Echo in the Bunnyment circa 1984 and you have an idea of what this Swedish band sounds like. It's retro as hell, but this is one of my favorite albums of the past year or two.

Wow - that was probably the "coolest" round of shuffle-a-gogo I've had. Normally I have at least two that I feel the need to defend or justify and at least one song that I'm not sure why I ever put it on in the first place. But I loved every single one of those!

post by: Slack-a-gogo at: 13:49 | 42 comments

This is what the new last.fm functionality at metafilter does! This is pretty typical for me.

And You Will Know Us . . . - Heart in the Hand of the Matter
Lords of Acid – I Must Increase... 1 minute ago
Jane Jensen – Happiness 4 minutes ago
Garbage – Begging Bone 9 minutes ago
Cibo Matto – Scifi Wasabi 11 minutes ago
Rosemary Clooney – Christmas Time is Here 14 minutes ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Pulled To Bits (Live) 18 minutes ago
Miranda Sex Garden – Open Eyes 25 minutes ago
Green Day – She 27 minutes ago
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Frequency 29 minutes ago
Metric – Calculation (Theme) 32 minutes ago

posted by crush-onastick 14 December | 14:20

World Without Tears - Lucinda Williams - The title track from 2 albums ago. Lucinda has really jumped the shark for me, and her new one, West, while I bought it, just does not hold my attention. But before recently, she could do NO wrong for me, musically.

Peace&Hate - The Submarines -I know nothing about this and do not know how it got in my library. But then there are a lot of songs like that.

The Sheik of Araby - The Beatles - George singing in the Liverpool days. From one of the collections that George Martin put together.

Constipation Blues - Screaming Jay Hawkins - I was glad to find a digital version of this. I had it, plus "Feast of the Mau Mau" on cassette for years.

Horse Pills - The Dandy Warhols - YAY PORTLAND!

If I Had $1,000,000 - Barenaked Ladies - They do this for an encore, and many times have guys in real green dresses jump the stage. It's cruel.

Traffic Jam - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - One of my great musical experiences: They were playing second bill to Emmitt Rhodes at the Troub, and I heard them interviewed on the radio and ended up going to both shows on two different nights. No one had heard of them before in LA. One of the nights, they did a third set because Rhodes was sick. Hicks complained. This record was gleaned from those nights.

Norwegian Wood - The Beatles - Codeword for marijuana, or else, code word for "Knowing She Would," which was just as evil, in parents' estimations back in the day.

Burned - Buffalo Springfield - First LP. One of the only songs that Neil Young sang on. I was deeply into them.

Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris - Title track from her achingly beautiful and groundbreaking CD. The whole record is other-worldly and very very very good.

posted by danf 14 December | 14:20

I'm already a few hours into a shuffle set so here are the next ten songs:

40. The Call Up - The Clash
41. Kitty's Back - Bruce Springsteen
42. Texas Rangers - Dave Alvin
43. Coma Girl - Joe Strummer
44. Steal the Crumbs - Uncle Tupelo
45. Find the River - REM
46. Wake up Sad - Wild Colonials
47. Question - Son Volt
48. We Can't Make It Here - James McMurtry
49. Making Plans for Nigel - XTC

posted by octothorpe 14 December | 14:21

(This is my work computer.)

1. Archie Shepp and Dollar Brand - Fortunato
I've been loving the duo and trio jazz lately, and Shepp's one of my favorite sax players ever.

2. Susan Cadogan - Shame
I picked up this lovers rock reggae album because Lee Perry produced it, but wound up enjoying Cadogan's singing a lot more than I expected.

3. Dub Specialist - Old Man Dub
Coxsone Dodd alias. My pal B's favorite dub producer.

4. Nightmares on Wax - Nights Interlude
I used to listen to a lot of trip-hop/downtempo/electronic/whatnot. Not so much these days, but I'm still a big NoW fan.

5. Coil - Panic
Thanks, BP!

6. Stevie Wonder - Nguciclela/Es Una Historia
Stevie's #1 on my last.fm page.

7. Henry Threadgill's Very Very Circus - Exacto
Might be my favorite jazz composer.

8. Quasimoto - Greenery
I've got a bit of a love/hate relationship with this helium-voiced, weed-obsessed Madlib side project.

9. Marvin Gaye - Running From Love
From the deluxe edition of Let's Get It On, an amazing record that will never escape the limits of its reputation.

10. Charles Mingus - Make Believe
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus!

posted by box 14 December | 14:22

Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine - I really dig these guys, especially this one.

Mark Knopfler - Boom Like That - MK is one of my absolute faves. His more recent albums remind me of the old west for some reason. This one's about Mickey D's founder.

Greg Khin - The Breakup Song - this is one that never lost its edge, for me.

Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go - this chick rocks in the pocket.

Cake - Cool Blue Reason - these guys grew on me. this isn't my fave from them but I still like it.

Marshall Crenshaw - Cruel to be Kind - this is one from arsey, I think! Reminds me of my senior year in high school.

Sniff & the Tears - Driver's Seat - another of a handful of 80's ish tunes I like.

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue - don't bogart baby. :D

Santana - Africa Bamba - I wore out the Supernatural cd.

RJD2 - Ghostwriter - one of my fave chillo-ish tracks.

Beck - Hell Yes - Guero is the first Beck album I bought. He's amazingly diverse, the album's almost better as each song stands alone.

Suzanne Vega - Last Year's Troubles - SV's another fave I didn't start collecting until recently. I love the strings.

Oops I think that was more than 10.

posted by chewatadistance 14 December | 14:24

Elvis Presley - The Wonder of You

Allen Touissant - Goin Down

Patton Oswalt - The Best Baby in the World

Shout Out Louds - Seagull

88 Keys feat Kanye West - Stay Up (Snippet)
from the Can't Tell Me Nothing mixtape

Flaming Lips - The Observer

Holopaw - Cinders

Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia

Kings of Leon - Slow Night, So Long

mcDJ - Riffs
from the Illi-Noise remix album of Sufjan Stevens' Illinois

posted by pokermonk 14 December | 14:27

1. Art Of Noise - Crusoe
I've been a fan of AON for years. Great theatrical stuff!

2. Art of Noise - Opus 4 (pfm remix)

3. Live recording - RUSH at Nissan Pavilion, Part 3
This is a lo-fi recording of the last Rush show at Nissan in 2007, made on my MP3 player's microphone. Even lo-fi, it's fun to listen to, with comments and cheering from my friends and myself.

4. Pete Townsend - Uniforms (Corp d'Esprit)
My favorite member of the Who. This album, and 'White City' were wonderful.

5. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown.
Motown, FTW!

6. The Beer Song - It shows up as TMBG on my player, but I can't see them singing this. They might have written it though. It _sounds_ like South Park or Family Guy crew.

7. Christine Lavin - You Look Pretty Good For Your Age.
Christine's an old friend, and I'm an unregenerate folkie to begin with.

8. Foo Fighters - Halo
I've been impressed with Dave Grohl since he founded FF. Can't wait to get the new album.

9. Persuasions - From Me To You
This a capella group (the first to be signed to Frank Zappa's Barking Pumpkin label,) have great chops. This song is from an album of Beatles covers. They have also covered Zappa, and have several albums of their own out. I like a capella to begin with, but these guys are a cut above the norm.

David Bowie - Fashion
Need I say anything? The Thin White Duke Himself.

posted by fferret 14 December | 14:30

Lords of Acid – I Must Increase... 1 minute ago

crush, you fucking rock.

My shuffle is partially a lie 'cause it's shuffling from my "ULTRADANCE!!~!" playlist, but here goes:

1) Justin Timberlake - Sexyback
2) No Doubt - Making Out
3) Camille Jones - The Creeps (Fedde Le Grand Remix)
4) Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
5) No Doubt - Hella Good
6) Kanye West - Stronger
7) Lenlow - Vegas Baby
8) Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At
9) Alex Gaudino ft. Crystal Waters - Destination Calabria (Club Mix)
10) Basement Jaxx - Get Me Off

posted by eamondaly 14 December | 14:36

danf:

Constipation Blues - Screaming Jay Hawkins

I love seeing some screaming Jay and having it not be the obvious (although incredibly) obvious single. I never dug this song that much, but "Feast of the Mau Mau" just kicks my butt! After 20 years I still can't hear a Screamin Jay song and not think of Eva in Stranger Than Paradise saying "It's Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and he's a wild man, so bug off."

box:

I've got a bit of a love/hate relationship with this helium-voiced, weed-obsessed Madlib side project.

My thoughts escatly - which is why I just couldn't bring myself to put it onto my MP3 player.

chewatadistance:

Marshall Crenshaw - Cruel to be Kind

Wow - I've never heard Marshall's version of this! I'll bet he nails it.

pokermonk - I see you had the Patton Oswalt come up. How do you like having comedy bits come up in shuffle? I'd like to add a bunch of comedy records to my MP3 player to listen to while out and about, but since I do most of MP3 player listens via shuffle I wasn't sure if that wrecks the flow.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 14 December | 14:42

Fun!

1. The Byrds "So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star": I'm not a huge fan of the Byrds, but I like a lot of the folks they influenced, from Robyn Hitchcock and R.E.M. to some of the Elephant 6 bands of the late 90s. And, this is a good song.

2. Coil "Heaven's Blade": from their final album, The Ape Of Naples, which was released after John Balance's death. This has a kind of shuffling, electronic beat going on, with lots of reverb and stuff going on behind it, and John rasping over it all, "Just cut yourself with heaven's blade." RIP John.

3. Aphex Twin "Power Pill (Pac Man)": A hilarious riff/remix of sounds and music from Pac Man. I'm not sure it was ever officially released, but it was all over the place back in the Napster days. Demo-quality, but lots of fun.

4. Gang of Four "5-45": From one of the best albums ever, Entertainment!. Their anti-materialistic punk-pop sounds as fresh now as it did in 1980.

5. Brian Eno "Long Way Down": from 2005's Another Day On Earth, Eno's first non-ambient album in a long time. This song sounds kind of ambient-ish, though he does sing on it... it reminds me of his other album with "another" in the title, Another Green World. It also reminds me a little bit of the last Eno/Fripp collaboration, The Equatorial Stars, which got terrible reviews, but I love it, and still play it at least once a week.

6. Kahimi Karie "Clip Clop": Japanese pop. She's singing in English, but her accent is so hard to understand I have no idea what the song is about. The chorus is great though... "Clip clop clip clop, something something taking off your shoes." I guess it's about shoes.

7. The Gun Club "A Devil In The Woods": "HOW! DARK! CAN! AN ANIMAL BE? WHOOOOOHEEEEAAAAAA!" Jeffrey Lee Pierce was an amazing singer.

8. Bikini Kill "Rebel Girl": This song kicks ass. This is their original single version, which was basically a demo- the re-recorded studio version they did later is actually better, because it has more sonic punch. (One of my Flickr buddies does a great lip-sync to this song on YouTube.)

9. Marvelous 3 "Better Off Alone": Atlanta's own late-lamented power pop kings... I didn't get into these guys until they'd already broken up, sad to say.

10. Epic Soundtracks "Landslide": speaking of late and lamented, Epic Soundtracks was a guy who did three albums of brilliant, doomed, drug-soaked pop music, then died of an overdose. Heart-breaking.

posted by BoringPostcards 14 December | 14:48

Not cheating, but I think my shuffle function favors songs not recently played:

Guster - Satellite
Marianne Faithful - Broken English
Morphine - Good
Fat Boy Slim - I Get Deep
Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked
Van Morrison - Jackie Wilson Said
Kate Bush - Big Sky
Toni Price - Tumbleweed *
Rusted Root - Union 7 *
Joss Stone - Super Duper

* Two songs courtesy of metchazens!!! Cool!

posted by rainbaby 14 December | 14:50

eamon: it's hard not to rock with the Lords of Acid playing inappropriately loudly in your office. I am all about the chair dancing.

posted by crush-onastick 14 December | 14:54

1. radiohead, "thinking about you"
2. harvey milk, "the boy with bosoms"
3. flipper, "sex bomb"
4. sunn 0))) & boris, "etna"
5. shellac, "'95 jailbreak"
6. stereolab, "university microfilms international"
7. public image ltd., "poptones (bbc session)"
8. phil ochs, "i ain't marching anymore"
9. rush, "closer to the heart"
10. devo, "beautiful world"

posted by syntax 14 December | 14:58

8. phil ochs, "i ain't marching anymore"

OMG, I saw him do this at an anti-Vietnam demonstration at UCLA!

posted by danf 14 December | 14:59

My man Stevie Wonder wrote the music for 'Tears of a Clown,' then Smokey wrote the lyrics. That's just gossip, though.

posted by box 14 December | 15:05

Took me a while to get through ten songs today. Busy day!

Disclaimer: I lost my iPod a couple months ago, and the new one barely has any music on it yet.

1. Broken Social Scene - Windsurfing Nation
2. Boards of Canada - Energy Warning
3. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (uhh, my iPod is stuck on B's!)
4. Aphex Twin - Logon Rock Witch
5. The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
6. Sleater-Kinney - Wilderness
7. The Killers - Change Your Mind (the Hot Fuss album is a guilty pleasure of mine)
8. Beastie Boys - High Plains Drifter
9. Blonde Redhead - Balled of Lemons
10. A Frames - Surveillance

This is fun, like that *cough*LiveJournal*cough* meme where you post the first few lines of lyrics of the songs that come up on shuffle, and everyone tries to figure out the artist and song.

posted by misskaz 14 December | 15:07

Last 10 played on my iPhone...

1. 99 Problems - Jay Z
2. Fake French - Le Tigre
3. Do Wah Diddy - 2 Live Crew
4. I Got It From My Momma - will.i.am
5. Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
6. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
7. So Alive - Love & Rockets
8. Alex Chilton - The Replacements
9. Smoke It - The Dandy Warhols
10. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC

...

11. All My Exes Live in Texas - George Strait

posted by birdherder 14 December | 15:22

How do you like having comedy bits come up in shuffle?

Ah, it depends. That particular album (Werewolves and Lollipops) works pretty well since most of the bits are under three minutes and the recording quality is very high. It can be a relieving break-in-the-action as long as it doesn't become too much; I'd equate it to banter at a concert. I do have a sizable collection of bootleg recordings and it can often be unbearable when the shuffle-algorithm decides it really wants to laugh. In itunes you can disable certain tracks/albums from coming up in shuffle, which I'm in the process of doing.

posted by pokermonk 14 December | 15:25

1. Cocteau Twins - Crushed
2. Pulp - Dishes
3. Interpol - Slow Hands
4. Luna - Bonnie and Clyde
5. Mission of Burma - What we Really Were
6. The Hold Steady - 10 Knuckles
7. Tom Waits - Warm Beer and Cold Women
8. Fugazi - Margin Walker
9. Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
10. The Dismemberment Plan - Spider in the Snow

posted by gaspode 14 December | 15:44

my playlists are always so boring and typical

posted by gaspode 14 December | 15:45

1. Scott Joplin & George Gershwin -- Mapleleaf Rag
2. The Eagles -- Lyin' Eyes
3. Queen -- 05 '39
4. Ramones -- Rock 'n' Roll High School
5. Bob Dylan -- Don't Look Back (live 1965)
6. Step Forward Youth -- Prince Jazbo
7. Lenny Kravitz -- Black Velveteen
8. Richard Hawes -- There Goes that Dude
9. The Clash -- Clampdown
10. Dead Milkmen -- Punk Rock Girl

posted by mrmoonpie 14 December | 16:00

Old 97s - Dressing Room Walls
The New Pornographers - The Spirit of Giving
Tegan & Sara - Speak Slow
Pete Yorn - Black
The Beatsteaks - God Knows
The Replacements - Talent Show
Green Day - Brat
Social Distortion - I Wasn't Born to Follow
The Weakerthans - Exiles Among You
Bad Religion - 21st Century Digital Boy

posted by stynxno 14 December | 16:04

gaspode:

my playlists are always so boring and typical

What?!?! You've got Interpol, Mission of Burma, Hold Steady, and Tom Waits! Hardly what I'd call boring.

Based on these playlists I wanna hang out with all of you and listen to tunes! Except for you eamondaly - when you're around the alcohol flows a bit easier and the last thing I need is to get drunk and be caught dancing to Justin Timberlake.

eamon, of course I kid. That's not why I don't to want to hang out with you. (insert dumb ass smiley emoticon here)

posted by Slack-a-gogo 14 December | 16:24

I'm a dingbat, apologies. Cruel to be Kind was Nick Lowe, not Marshall Crenshaw. D'oh.

note to self: ask santa for some BOC, Delerium, Deep Forest, and some flamenco.

posted by chewatadistance 14 December | 16:24

1. Beale Street Blues - Louie Armstrong
2. Should I Stay or Should I go? - The Clash
3. Take Five - Dave Brubeck
4. The American Way - The Crystal Method
5. Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
6. Parade - Garbage
7. The National Anthem - Radiohead
8. So Very Hard To Go - Tower of Power
9. Pursuit of Happiness - Weekend Players
10. Tengo La Vaz - Nortec Collective

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 14 December | 16:39

I've Just Seen a Face-by a local bluegrass band
Little Bit O' Soul-The Ramones
Holland, 1945-Neutral Milk Hotel
Brass Monkey-Beastie Boys
Christmas in Hollis-Run DMC
Hey Joe-Jimi Hendrix
In the Street-Big Star
Monkey Man-Rolling Stones
Rocky Top-Osborne Brothers
With Arms Outstretched-Rilo Kiley

A goodly number of those songs would not be on my list without my mecha peeps. Thank you, lovely people.

posted by jrossi4r 14 December | 16:40

Aw, thanks Slack-a-gogo. I kind of mean boring for this crowd, y'know? I have music-taste-inferiority complex with all of youse guys.

And I wanna listen to all of your playlists right now!

posted by gaspode 14 December | 16:45

1. The Divine Comedy - My Imaginary Friend
2. Nicolai Dunger - Harp's Coming In
3. Cat Power - Metal Heart
4. A Perfect Circle - Brena
5. Sugababes - Never Gonna Dance Again
6. A.C. Newman - Better Than Most
7. Tori Amos - Virginia
8. Whiskeytown - Bar Lights
9. Anti Atlas - Sefrou
10. Great Lake Swimmers - Song For The Angels

posted by TheDonF 14 December | 16:46

1. Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy
2. The Bangles - Going Down to Liverpool
3. Thin White Rope - Wire Animals
4. Tommy Keene - Tattoo
5. The Forty-Fives - Daddy Rolling Stone
6. Marion Abernathy - Voo-It! Voo-It!
7. The Swingin' Neckbreakers - I Live For Buzz
8. Julian Cope - The Bloody Assizes
9. Mercan Dede - Ab-I Hayat
10. Delbert McClinton - The Rub

posted by bmarkey 14 December | 16:56

ha! gaspode: when i saw your list, i thought "huh. I bet we'd have a 95% musical compatibility rating at last.fm." what with the Cocteau Twins/Mission of Burma/Tom Waits trifecta.

posted by crush-onastick 14 December | 17:03

The last ten songs that played as I was falling asleep last night:

1. The White Stripes – Now Mary
2. Old 97's – Four Leaf Clover
3. Old 97's – Question
4. The Dead 60s – Riot Radio
5. Billy Bragg – The Warmest Room
6. The Pogues – If I Should Fall from the Grace With God
7. The Replacements – Hold My Life
8. The Replacements – Little Mascara
9. Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue
10. Rancid – Ruby Soho

posted by mullacc 14 December | 17:23

1) Beck-Novacane: A classic off of Odelay.

2) William Bolcom-Infant Sorrow (from Songs of Experience): From a cycle of settings of William Blake's poems. It's pretty hit and miss, though this one is good.

3) Rock Lobsters-Stairway to Heaven: A cover of Stairway done in the style of the B-52s. Got this off of a WFMU blog post consisting of a dozen or so odd covers of the song. Most of them are cute once or twice, then kind of annoying.

4) For Heavens Sake!-from For Heavens Sake!: Also from WFMU, this time the 2007 365 days project. This is the title song from a sort of evangelical cabaret musical. It's actually really good, if not particularly inline with my beliefs.

5) David Lynch-Translating the Idea (from Catching the Big Fish): Generally my audiobooks are set to not shuffle, but most of the pieces from Lynch's book are pretty short. He's a little dippy when it comes to meditation, but I love his voice.

6) Koda Kumi-So Into You: Dancy Jpop. Koda Kumi comes up way too often on shuffle mode, for someone I'm vaguely embarrassed to listen to. Apparently I have a ton of her stuff. Damn internet.

7) His Name Is Alive-Crawlin': nice'n'slinky track from one of HNIA's more soulful releases (Last Night).

8) The Blue Hearts-ロクデナシ: I have no idea how to pronounce that, though I did once. Something-something-something-something-shi? Punky Japanese with nice throaty vocals. Like a lot of people, I first found out about the Blue Hearts from Linda Linda Linda.

9) Finnegans Wake-"The thing pleased him...": another audio book that I let shuffle. I think this is the second bit of "The Ondt and the Gracehopper" section. I'm pretty sure I'll be returning to Joyce in 2008, after not touching his stuff for years.

10) Ellen Allien-Erdbeermund: Stripped down electronica from everybody's favorite Berlinette.

posted by Lentrohamsanin 14 December | 17:38

bmarkey: Swinging Neckbreakers, Tommy Keene, AND B.O.C.!?!?!?! I want to party with you, cowboy.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 14 December | 17:43

Heh. Winamp was kind today.

posted by bmarkey 14 December | 18:00

1. Our Singer -- Pavement
2. I Feel Good, Little Girl -- The Gibson Bros.
3. Softly and Tenderly -- Elvis Presley
4. Solidarity -- Rancid
5. Trucker Speed -- The Meat Purveyors
6. The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History -- Aesop Rock
7. Crawlin' King Snake -- John Lee Hooker
8. Mozart's Requiem in D Minor K 626, 4. Sequentia: Tuba Mirum -- Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus

9. It's Over -- Earl Greyhound
10. Horror Business -- The Misfits

Now playing: Hey Come On -- Verbena

posted by BitterOldPunk 14 December | 18:59

I Feel Good, Little Girl -- The Gibson Bros.

Goddamn but Memphis Sol Today! is one of the best albums ever.

posted by Lentrohamsanin 14 December | 19:04

Slack, haven't you heard? It's okay to like JT now!

posted by eamondaly 14 December | 23:35

Slack, haven't you heard? It's okay to like JT now!

No, I'm sorry... it isn't.

posted by BoringPostcards 14 December | 23:37

eamondaly:

Slack, haven't you heard? It's okay to like JT now

Mrs Slack bought that Timberlake album and kept telling me that it wss actually pretty good and I should check it out. I listened to it to appease her and I reluctantly admitted that a few songs "weren't so terrible". Then after a few more listens I was horrified to find that I like four or five songs on the record. Really like them - they're catchy and fun. But I still haven't been able to bring myself to put them on the MP3 player - that's sacred ground.

So eamon - my concern was not HEARING the JT songs, it was being seen ENJOYING them under the influence of alcohol.

Oh, and can we keep this "Slack doesn't hate the Justin Timberlake album" business between us MeChas? Thanks.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 15 December | 02:37

I love Justin Timberlake and I'm not afraid to admit it. So there.

posted by misskaz 15 December | 10:36

Justin Timberlake is nothing to be ashamed of. If you have discovered him, you are one of the special ones.

posted by pokermonk 15 December | 11:26

Hell, let's have a go, Slack - GO:

Jonathan Edwards - Don't Cry Blue
Elton John - Honky Cat
David Mallett - Moon Upon The Left
Ulrich Schnauss - Blumenweise Autobahn
Cote Family - Les Fraises et Les Framboises
David Mallett - Moon Upon The Water
Bill Monroe - With Body and Soul
Edith Piaf - T'es Beau, Tu Sais
Death Cab For Cutie - Different Names For The Same ThingHandsome Boy Modeling School - Waterworld

There you have it: LT's Loves in Ten Songs. A good dose of folkie (David Mallett and Jonathan Edwards), great bluegrass (Bill Monroe), lovely traditional songs (The Cote Family), some melodic indie stuff (Death Cab), some hip-hop turntablism and heady electronica. (Handsome Boy and Ulrich Schnauss).

That's me in a bucket. Ask me in ten minutes and my iPOD will cough up the Monkees, the Three O'Clock, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band, and the Dropkick Murphys.

Viva rapid-fire synapse technology!

posted by Lipstick Thespian 15 December | 13:10

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