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11 April 2008

Another round of MP3 Player Shuffle-a-gogo anyone? The first 10 songs from the music delivery device of your choice on shuffle.→[More:]

Here's mine, with some real time comments.

1) SAM PHILLIPS - Circle of Fire (Martini's & Bikinis 1994) - It's been pointed out to me on several occasions that I don't listen to many female artists, which I'll admit is true. But Sam Phillips is an absolute fave of mine, I love her voice and she always has great arrangements. I prefer her slightly weirder records (Omnipop and Martini's & Bikinis), but like everything she's done.

2) UTOPIA - There Goes My Inspiration (Utopia 1982) - For me a little Todd Rundgren goes a long way - he has some incredible moments, but he also has a LOT of filler. Out of everything he's done, my faves are the first three Utopia albums of the 80s (Deface the Music, Swing to the Right, and Utopia). I wish they knocked out ay least one more power pop/new wave album like this one.

3) SMITHEREENS - Top of the Pops (Blow Up 1991) - You can always count on the Smithereens for a solid, rocking pop song with a head bopping melody and sing along chorus. This is a band i often take for granted, not acknowledging what a big fan I think I am.

4) X - Sex and Dying in High Society (Los Angeles 1980) - I was late to the Los Angeles Party (I was always more of More Fun in the New World and Big Black Sun man), but the energy on this album is incredible.

5) PLACEBO - Protege Moi - M83 remix (Singles collection) - About four years ago I went from just liking Placebo to thinking they're one of the most interesting bands out there and have listened to them more than just another current band out there. My MP3 player is very Placebo heavy, so they come up quite a bit in shuffle.

6) PIXIES - There Goes My Gun (Doolittle 1989) - My least favorite Pixies album, but some solid songs none the less.

7) PIXIES - U-Mass (Trumpe Le Monde 1991) - Hey, a Pixies twofer! Other than Surfer Rosa (one of my two all time favorite albums), Trompe Le Monde is my fave album in the Pixies catalog. I fucking love this song - especially when Black Francis starts yelling "It's Educational". And that riff - good stuff.

8) HANK BALLARD - Finger Poppin' Time (Sexy Ways: the Best of) - I was getting worried that shuffle wouldn't hit anything before 1980 this round. This is a prime example of why I love running my MP3 on shuffle. I wouldn't break out the Hank Ballard collection very often, but when it comes up on shuffle I'm quite happy. It really seems to keep my entire collection active.

9) the BABY'S - Sweet 17 (Babys Anthology) - Yeah, that's right, the Baby's. This is a fine bubblegum glam rock song. A bit cheesey, but also quite rocking.

10) the Undertones - Wednesday Week (Hypnotised 1980) - The first two Undertones albums are sacred with me. For 25 years they have been regulars in my playstack and I don't think there's been a period in my adult life where those records weren't favorites.

post by: Slack-a-gogo at: 11:42 | 16 comments

1 - Good Thing - Everything
2 - She's Vibrator Dependent - Mojo Nixon
3 - Nasty - Amy Henderson
4 - Should Have Known Better - Nickel Creek
5 - Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
6 - Orange Colored Sky - Nat King Cole
7 - Come - Lindsey Buckingham
8 - Missundastood - Pink
9 - Satellite - Guster
10 - Baby Got Sauce - G Love & Special Sauce

posted by rainbaby 11 April | 11:55

1) Lucy Kaplansky - Don't Mind Me - A happy little song about infatuation with a bit of lust tossed in.

2) Jolie Holland - Old Fashioned Morphine - Which I have Mudpuppie to thank for, and do a lot. Jolie's an original.

3) Jeff Defty - Analusia - The local children's librarian who plays cello and composes as a side gig. He's very very good.

4) Tegan & Sara - We Didn't Do It - Seeing them up in Salem next week!!!!!

5) Grateful Dead - Ramble on Rose - From the closing of Winterland CD. Some of the late Dead is embarrassing to listen to, but this is really really good, if you are into them at all.

6) Rolf Harris - My Boomerang Won't Come Back - I think I keep this on my iPod because not only is it racist, but it is racist in such a clueless manor. Aboriginal Australians doing faux Native American chants and then bursting into this fake African American singing. It's stunning.

7) Pretty Girls Make Graves - Selling the Wind - Holdover from Daughter when she shared this unit.

8) Buffalo Springfield - Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing - Can anyone else here say they have seen this song performed live, by this band? Didn't think so. . .*smile*

9) The Decemberists - The Bagman's Gambit - I love the ambience of this song. A loser bureaucrat falling for a spy.

10) Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer - When I Go - Now that Dave's passed on, this is REALLY hard to listen to, if for no other reason than the genius that we won't get to hear any more of.

posted by danf 11 April | 12:04

1. Split Enz - Poor Boy. Not my favourite Split Enz song, but it's OK.
2. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On. Which... wasn't this playing when Willow tried to seduce Oz? That's what pops into my head anyways.
3. Imperial Teen - Mr. and Mrs. Hrm. I don't listen to this album (On) much.
4. Bloc Party - Where is Home? I liked their first album much better.
5. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter. Hey! My favourite Stones song.
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely. Best played loud so you can sing along.
7. The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket. This is still one of the best albums ever, IMO.
8. The Hold Steady - Knuckles. From an out of 5 compilation, I think
9. Guns n Roses - Rocket Queen. \m/
10. Flight of the Conchords - Hiphopapotamus vs. Rhymenocerous. NZ comedy at its finest.

posted by gaspode 11 April | 12:07

danf:

Rolf Harris - My Boomerang Won't Come Back - I think I keep this on my iPod because not only is it racist, but it is racist in such a clueless manor. Aboriginal Australians doing faux Native American chants and then bursting into this fake African American singing. It's stunning.

Good lord danf, this sounds so wrong it might go full circle and actually be right again. It's not on either Rolf record I have, but I am intrigued!

posted by Slack-a-gogo 11 April | 12:13

I'm not in shuffle mode right now. I'm going alphabetically (by title) through my work harddrive, deleting crap and discovering stuff I forgot I had. The last ten are:
10. Paradise Place (Live)--Siouxsie & the Banshees (from Nocturne)
9. Paradise Place--Siouxsie & the Banshees
8. Paradise Lost--Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy
7. Paradise (Wherever you are)--the Finn Brothers
6. Paradise--New Order
5. Paradise--Echobelly
4. Parade--Pretty Girls Make Graves
3. Parade--Luscious Jackson
2. Parade--Garbage
1. Parachute--Elysian Fields

posted by crush-onastick 11 April | 12:27

1. Ocean - The Velvet Underground: I love this song. So drony and dreamy.

2. No Horizons - Ladytron: not the best song from this album.

3. FYU2 - Add N to (X): this band's songs always seems to range somewhere between glam and hardcore, even though it's played on analog synths. This one's fast and furious and trippy. I may have to play through this whole album on the way home later.

4. No One Is To Blame - Howard Jones: Most of HJ's music is upbeat 80s pop, but he had a couple of slower, mellower piano-based songs like this one that kept his albums from being to "fluffy."

5. Machine - The Mekons: Retreat From Memphis (which this is from) was the Mekons' last really great album. Hearing Sally Timms' gorgeous voice over jangly, crashing guitars... I never get tired of that.

6. Radioactivity - Kraftwerk: This is the live version from Minimum/Maximum. Ironically, with them being an electronic outfit, this live album may be the coolest thing they've ever done.

7. Rising Son - Patterson Hood: A song from Hood's Killers & Stars album, his only solo album I think (Hood is one of the two leads in the Drive-By Truckers). It's a very dark, stripped down acoustic album, almost sounding like demo recordings.

8. The Falconer - Nico: wow, two dark, dark solo albums in a row! Her music always makes me think of ice, stone, black ink, starless night skies, etc.

9. The Living Dead - Suede: Oooh! My favorite song by Suede (or London Suede, as they were called in the US for legal reasons). It was a B-side, and is sung from the point of view of a woman whose husband is addicted to heroin. The bridge always sends chills up my arms:

"If I was the wife of an acrobat
I look like the living dead, boy
Caught on the wire and I can't get back
Let's talk about the living dead

Could have had a car
Could have had it all
Could have walked in the sky
But we stare at the wall"

All of the lyrics to this song are brilliant... so sad, but amazing.

10. Arthur - The Kinks: oh good, something a little more upbeat to end with. :)

posted by BoringPostcards 11 April | 12:34

Slacky, check your gmail. . ..

posted by danf 11 April | 12:43

1. Your Daddy Hates Me -- Drive-By Truckers
2. Hey Joe -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. Ingrid Bergman -- Billy Bragg & Wilco
4. Pedro to Cleveland -- The Book of Knots
5. If We Never Meet Again -- Johnny Cash
6. Fan It -- Woody Herman & His Woodchoppers
7. Pinhead -- The Ramones
8. Most People Are DJs -- The Hold Steady
9. Been So Long -- Two Cow Garage
10. You Can't Hold the Hand of a Rock and Roll Man -- Okkervil River

BONUS TRACK
11. The Minnesota Strip -- The Dictators (this one goes out to jonmc...)

posted by BitterOldPunk 11 April | 13:07

my .mp3 player is currently hiding somewhere in that heinous pit of despair the mister and I refer to as "the bedroom". We both succumbed to a gigglefit on the way out the door to work this morning because I told him "Dude, this place looks like a chinese laundry threw up in a bordello." Fucking slackers! We need to do some serious, serious spring cleaning and it ain't gonna happen this weekend 'cos we're both off bike racing.

Shuffle Playlist I Would Most Enjoy Hearing Right Now For No Real Reason At All:

1. Shankhill Butchers - The Decemberists
2. My Little Town - Simon & Garfunkel
3. Chromakey Dreamcoat - Boards of Canada
4. Lucky Man - The Verve
5. I Love A Man In Uniform - Gang of Four
6. Sealion Woman - Feist
7. Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics
8. Venus In Furs - DeVotchKa
9. How Soon Is Now - The Smiths
10. I Believe - Simian Mobile Disco

posted by lonefrontranger 11 April | 13:23

1. Ziggy Stardust (acoustic version) - David Bowie. Rated 3 stars. Of course I've known the song for awhile now, but I was a very late-comer to the album, which I discovered like 8 years ago. Not sure what was keeping me from it, but at the time I couldn't get enough of it.

2. Logon Rock Witch - Aphex Twin. Rated 3 stars. What can you say, this guy's a twerped-out genius, ascending slide whistle and all. He dreams his compositions and wakes up to try his best to recreate them.

3. Here Come The Warm Jets - Brian Eno. Rated 3 stars. What can you say, this guy's a genius. I should probably rate this song higher.

4. Intimate Slavery - Pig Destroyer. Rated 3 stars. Fine Grindcore from VA, although I prefer the Terrifyer record.

5. Revolution Is My Name - Pantera. Rated 3 stars. I almost never listen to these guys, I dled this years ago to find out more about them. The instrumentation is good (cowbell even!), but the vocals bug me. Too 90s Seattle.

6. Let's Get High - Dr. Dre. Rated 3 stars. Indeed. It is Friday, after all. Thanks for the tip, Dre. Awesome album, despite the misogyny, but this track is no "The Next Episode".

7. Havamal - Burzum. Rated 3 stars. Sort of a departure for him. The vocals on this sound like something that would fit well on Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, except that it's twelve plus minutes long, translates as "The Words of Odin" and sung by Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, founder of Ásatrúarfélag, the Icelandic heathen organization. Varg provides the simple ambient preset-sounding keyboard accompaniment. A pretty chill, meditative track.

8. Notch To My Crotch - Government Issue. Rated 3 stars. GI's songs always seem longer than they are. This one clocks in at 1:11. This stuff goes back to my high school days, I've happily rediscovered it recently.

9. I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) - The Cox Family. Rated 3 stars. From the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack. Don't listen to this track much, but it's nice and soothing. Makes me wish I had porch and a mint julep about now.

10. I Can't Tell You What To Do - ESG. Rated 3 stars. Not their best track, but it's straight up ESG - good dubby baseline, talky-vocals, funky up-tempo beat.

posted by Hellbient 11 April | 13:37

"From the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack. Don't listen to this track much..."

yanno, I have the OBWAT soundtrack ripped to my digital collection as well, and everytime one of the tracks comes up I'm all like "woah, this is wonderful, I should listen to this album more..."

and then for whatever reason I never do. thank buddha for "shuffle all", eh?

posted by lonefrontranger 11 April | 13:41

While My Guitar Gently Weeps -- The Beatles
Faith -- George Michael
How Sweet it Is (To Be Loved by You) -- Marvin Gaye
7 -- Prince
Carve That Possum -- Southern Culture on the Skids
God Don't Ever Change -- Corey Harris
Bareback Ridin' -- Big Smith
Opera Singer -- Cake
Buzz Fledderjon -- Tom Waits
Badge -- Cream

I would like to stress that George Michael is on there because my wife put him there, and evidently suddenly it's "our" iPod.

posted by middleclasstool 11 April | 14:09

1. Elbow – The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
2. Tori Amos - Baker Baker
3. Holly Throsby – The Morning
4. The Wildhearts - Woah Shit, You Got Through
5. Therapy? – Lunacy Booth
6. Wintersleep – Motion
7. The Wildhearts - Nurse Maximum (over 16,000 tracks to choose from and it picks 2 WH ones?)
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Babe, You Turn Me On
9. Chris Robinson – When The Cold Wind Blows At The Dark End Of The Night
10. The Like – The One

posted by TheDonF 11 April | 14:26

Did you know that George Michael wrote, produced and arranged every song on Faith? It was totally his What's Going On, or at least his Where I'm Coming From anyway.

Also, the last time I visited friends in Cleveland, we had a wonderful discussion that I'd like to share. Question: what's the gayest song on Faith? An incomplete list of the nominees includes 'Father Figure,' 'I Want Your Sex' and 'Kissing a Fool.'

posted by box 11 April | 16:19

Have A Good Time - Paul Simon: (yesterday, it was my birthday.... Nothing beats Paul Simon for riding that edge between melancholy and joy).

Jack's Crows - John Gorka: woah! total opposite in mood. This guy's a major folkie with a gorgeous baritone voice, but all his songs are downers and usually silly or melodramatic when he's talking about his love life.

Ice Cream Man - Tom Waits: yay for early Tom! This is from the album Closing Time.

A Message To You Rudy - The Specials: STOP YOUR MESSIN' AROUND! BETTER THINKA YOUR FUTURE!

Jack's Bread and Cheese Snack - OTT: Trippy flippy electronic IDM dub music that starts with a screen door slam. Go figure.

Noah - Peerless Four: Great gospel song from a monster group from back in the day.

And So We Run - The 3 O'clock: Great sunshiny Paisley Underground pop from L.A. in the 80's which is sadly now out of print. From the 16 Tambourines record.

Magic - Bruce Springsteen: Dude's 58 years old, plays for 3 hours straight, and can lick any sonofabitch in the house.

Livin' in the Future - Bruce Springsteen: more Bruce, from the Magic album.

Birdless - The Innocence Mission: Great dreamy soft pop. This is from Birds of My Neighborhood, which is their finest record. This is music for when you've had a sad, sad day and need to get quiet for awhile.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 12 April | 09:47

1. Collin's Shuffe - Stevie Ray Vaughan
2. Hot Thing - Prince
3. Kootchi - Neneh Cherry
4. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon
5. Place With No Love - Choirboys
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
7. Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous - Good Charlotte
8. You Won't Be There - The Alan Parsons Project
9. The Mountains Near Delhi - The Go-Betweens
10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Bryan Ferry

middleclasstool, I feel your pain (note Prince and Neneh Cherry above). Without "our" music included:
2a. High Hopes - Pink Floyd
3a. So Far Away - Dire Straits.

posted by dg 13 April | 16:04

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