Sons and Daughters - The Decemberists
Get Off the Field, You Suck - Doug Stanhope
Contercoup - They Might Be Giants
I Was Raised Catholic - Joe Rogan
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - The Three Stooges
I Speak Six Languages - 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
In the End - Scott Matthew (Shortbus Soundtrack)
Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
A Winter's Tale - Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison
The Day it Snows on Christmas - Allen Toussaint

Yep. That seems about right. A few comedy tracks, something from a musical. Something from a really gay movie. And a bunch of shit I downloaded for my annual Christmas Mix.

This is only off of my iPhone, though, which holds a tiny part of my music collection...the stuff I downloaded from iTunes. My main collection would be much more diverse.

ColdChef - I resisted putting comedy on my MP3 for a long time because I feared it would mess up shuffle, but now that I've added a few comedy records it's been a welcome change up. I had very rigid rules for shuffle for a while, but now I learning to love the truly anything-goes weirdness of knowing that ANYTHING can come up next. Short wave radio bits always throw me off when they come up.

I love these shuffle posts, slack-a-gogo, and it's great to see you back around.

1 AALIYAH - Try Again (Romeo Must Die soundtrack) I love this song. She was such a singer. I especially like the sparse Timbaland production and the bits where he comes on and evokes Rakim with "It's been a long time...."

2 OTIS REDDING - Satisfaction (live in West Hollywood, April 10, 1966) Oh man, this is the kickass-est Otis version of this song, the MG's are just breakneck, running ahead of the pack, and Otis is in top form, by the end you can't understand a word he sings, but neither can he. I just wish there was a better quality recording of this.

3 PET SHOP BOYS - Being Boring (Behaviour) I don't mind saying these guys are good. In fact this is a great song. I think it's produced by Harold Faltermeyer of "Axel F" (Beverly Hills Cop) fame.

4 DEREK & THE DOMINOS - Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad (Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs) This was about the third album I ever bought. I play it when people say they don't understand why Clapton is so revered. Both guitars are playing through dimed Fender Champs and they slink back and forth, dripping through one another; Duane Allman is just amazing. That unearthly beauty is the sound of all the smack the band was shooting during the recording sesssion.

5 BOB DYLAN - Visions of Johanna (Blonde on Blonde) I used to play along on guitar with this when I was growing up. What a great singer; what a great voice. Nice long song, too, I can catch up on my write-ups of the previous couple songs.

6 BLUR - Girls & Boys (Parklife) Blur always struck me as a tepid Frankie Goes to Hollywood, but this song is tremendous. Talk about an earworm. Hopefully the next song will be even catchier, but I doubt it.

7 RUFUS THOMAS - Walking the Dog (Stax single) "I'll tell you a story, not many people know this one. It was the same club where I later wrote 'Do the Funky Chicken,' in Covington, Tennessee. I had two guitar players, I can’t remember the second one’s name at the time, but the first one was a young guy, playin' just terrible, loud, out of tune, all over the place. After a while, I said, 'Send him home, I can't use a guitar player who plays like that.' That dude was Jimi Hendrix."

8 THE COASTERS - Down in Mexico (Atlantic single) When I was five or six my dad used to crack me up by singing this song every time Mexico came up in conversation. I had no idea what a honky-tonk was, but it sounded funny. Still does.

9 SNOOP DOGG - Who Am I (What's My Name) (Doggystyle) Oh shit, this is the jam. Never gets old. Undeniable. I'm typing in tempo. Yippie-yo, yippie-yay!

10 JOSEPHINE TAYLOR - Is It Worth a Chance (Eccentric Soul vol. 6: Twinight's Lunar Rotation) There are some real gems on the Eccentric Soul series, and this is one of them. Brass up front descend into a quick shimmy, great singing; some of this minor-label Sixties soul is wonderful and worth seeking out.

I wanna do another one!

1. Tesla Girls - Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
2. California Girls - The Beach Boys
3. Wuthering Heights - The Puppini Sisters
4. Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello
5. We Didn't Do It - Tegan and Sara
6. The Internet is for Porn - Avenue Q Sountrack
7. Track 09 - Iris Dement (I can't listen to it now, to identify the song.)
8. Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
9. Sun Comes Up, it's Tuesday Morning - Cowboy Junkies
10.She's So Lovely - The Butchies

I love these shuffle posts

Me too! I do this every Friday with a group of friends on Facebook and I look forward to it every week. Any excuse to talk about music is OK with me!

OTIS REDDING - Satisfaction

I've always known a little Otis and liked what I heard, but hadn't dug much deeper. A few months ago we watched an Otis doc on PBS and it just kicked my ass and made me break out the Otis I had and go buy more. The live footage is fantastic - I can see why he floored them at Monterey.

RUFUS THOMAS - Walking the Dog (Stax single)

Great song. When I got the Stax box it was the Rufus tracks that grabbed the most (and made endless appearances on mix discs). Great Hendrix story - I never heard that.

THE COASTERS - Down in Mexico (Atlantic single)

I had never heard this song (or it didn't stick with me) until hearing it in Death Car. Now it's a favorite (and not just because of the lap dance in the movie - which is why my wife things I love the song so much).

1. More Than Just A Crime - Brother Inferior (mid-90's Tulsa hardcore band....a nice little anti-rape ditty)
2. I Kill Children - Dead Kennedys (boy, this is starting out positive, huh?)
3. Simple Song - Avail (Live from the Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco)
4. Big Darkness - Crooked Fingers (seriously has Eric Bachmann - formerly of Archers of Loaf - never *not* written a creeptastic song?)
5. We're Famous - Aesop Rock f/ El-P ("You been failing for years and call yourselves vets?/That's bold. Motherfucker, you're not a vet, you're just old")
6. Ox Out the Cage - Cannibal Ox (from the damn near perfect album The Cold Vein)
7. Rosie - Tom Waits (okay, that switched it up just a little bit :/ )
8. Shempi - Ratatat (for such a simple set-up, they consistently put out interesting and diverse albums, in a stoner-pop vein)
9. Gouge Away - Pixies (some marijuana, if you've got some)
10. Last Day of the Year - Youth Brigade (my favorite old man punk band)

That's actually a pretty fair sampling of what's on my ipod, more or less.

What an Awesome Idea for a Post.............


En Vogue - Let It Flow
Elvis Presley - Milk Cow Blues
Elliott Smith - How To Take a Fall
Inxs - What You Need
The Punjabs - Raga Riff
10,000 Maniacs - Everyday Is Like Sunday (The Smiths Cover)
Courtney Love - Sunset Strip
Wynonie Harris - Keep On Churnin'
The Kinks - Father Christmas
Booker T & The MGs - A Woman, A Lover, A Friend


we should do this more often

Last Day of the Year - Youth Brigade (my favorite old man punk band)

I really loved Youth Brigade back in the day. I saw them twice around 1983 - probably the first punk show I saw by a band that had a real record out (as opposed to all-ages Sunday night cheap shows with a bunch of band hawking their recorded-earlier-that-week cassettes). "Sink With a California" still pops up in my head for no reason.

Yay, shuffle-a-gogo!

1. Brass Monkey by The Beastie Boys
2. The Kill by Fugazi
3. Brother by Alice in Chains
4. What About It by Darcy Clay
5. Well, You Needn't by Miles Davis
6. Funky Re-wind by Candy Machine
7. Burn Hollywood Burn by Public Enemy
8. Bull in the Heather by Sonic Youth
9. Givin' the Dog a Bone by AC/DC
10. No Quarter by Led Zep

Well, I know I have been terrible about acquiring new music lately, but that's just ridiculous.

The Replacements - Swinging Party
Mike Ness - Crime Don't Pay
Duotang - The Message
Thelonious Monk - I Surrender, Dear
Juliana Hatfield - The Fact Remains
Bob Dylan - She's Your Lover Now
Willie Nelson - For the Good Times
Ella Fitzgerald - I Hadn't Anyone 'till You
The Beatles - Her Majesty
Chixdiggit - Nobody Understands Me

Busy day...wanted to contribute and I'll pop by later to actually READ!

Oh, and I did prune out the Christmas music. Seemed weird to include.

She's Gone, Gone, Gone - Lefty Frizzell
Leave Our Planet - Paradox
Roving Gambler - Doug and Jack Wallin
Taking A Chance On Love - Benny Goodman
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen
Us And Them - Pink Floyd
Rock and Roll Has Lost Its Teeth - The Henry Clay People
Someday Never Comes - CCR
Star Me Kitten - REM
Good Morning - Dandy Warhols

Note: I skipped a few "unknown artists". I seriously have no idea what they were.

1. The Lucksmiths - Even Stevens
2. The Divine Comedy - Someone
3. Manic Street Preachers - The Love of Richard Nixon (from Lifeblood; I don't know why I even bother keeping this album on the hard drive, as I've only listened to it once and it was crap)
4. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Structure 27 - Vietnam Air of Gongs
5. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontake
6. Angelo Badalamenti - Sprinkler
7. Manic Street Preachers - Baby Elian (note: Winamp's shuffle is seriously broken. There are more than 3,000 songs in my playlist and I get two Stockhausen pieces in a row? Two Manic Street Preachers songs? Omgwtfbbq.)
8. Super Furry Animals - If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You
9. Dimitri Tiomkin - Harve Gets An Idea (High Noon soundtrack)
10. Dagö - Miisu

I couldn't resist another try:

1 Barbecue Bob - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (Columbia single) This 1928 blues number's title always makes me laugh, because it sounds like it's about nuclear energy, but it's actually pretty scary, about the Big Muddy breaching her levees.

2 The Four Tops - Walk Away Renee (1968 Motown single) I think I have four versions of this song: the original 1966 Left Banke single, a live Southside Johnny rendition, Linda Rondstadt/Ann Savoy's recent cover, and this one, from 1968. I think I like the Southside Johnny version best, but it's a great song in anyone's hands.

3 Little Jimmy Dickens - A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed (Columbia single) This novelty, from the 4'11" Grand Ole Opry regular, came to me on a Nashville A-Team guitarist Grady Martin compilation called "Roughneck Blues." The level of musicianship is astronomical.

4 Large Professor - The Mad Scientist (Geffen/MCA single) Large Pro programmed beats for Eric B and Rakim's Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em while he was still in high school, then discovered Nas and formed Main Source. It was long supposed that he taught Gang Starr's DJ Premier to program the Emu SP-1200 sampling drum machine; however: "Since people see Professor, they say, 'He taught Preemo'. Nah, what happened was that we traded off. Preem showed me an ill beat and at the time I was filtering records like taking the bassline out of a record and filtering. I showed him how to do that on the Akai S-950. Premier doesn't even use the 1200; he's never used the 1200. Just people throughout the years to take shit and run with it. We just traded off. He shown me the "Brethren" (break) beat and I showed him how to muffle out the bassline. That's all it was."

5 Common - Thisisme (Resurrection) Great track, great KRS-One sample: "I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me."

6 Fine Young Cannibals - Don't Ask Me To Choose (Fine Young Cannibals) Oh wow, this is a really good album, out of the ashes of The Beat comes this unprecedented R&B record; I wore the grooves out of my record of this. The CD version only has the electropop remix of "Blue" on it, which is a bummer, cuz I like the original LP version better.

7 The Jamaicans - The Things You Say You Love (Treasure Isle single) I don't know much about this beyond that it's a super rocksteady record.

8 Washboard Sam - Do That Shake Dance (Bluebird or Vocalion single, I don't know which) I like to think this is a direct precursor to Sam Cooke's "Shake." See, they even have the same first name, which happens to be mine, too. Go Sam!

9 KRS-One - The MC (I Got Next) Yet another (yet not just any other) brother asks "Who am I?" Answer: The MC.

10 The Dell-Vikings - Come Go With Me (Fee Bee Records single) I'm really fond of this song, it's one my mom and I danced to when I was a tot. My dad had a stack of 45s from when he was growing up, and this was one of them, along with gems from Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Buddy Holly and Little Richard and others. We danced to all of them.

Metallica -- The Four Horsemen (Kill 'Em All)
13 ghosts -- The Trouble with Actual Organs (13ghosts)
Stranger Cole -- Crying Every Night (History of Trojan Records 1968-1971)
Hüsker Dü -- Hate Paper Doll (Flip Your Wig)
Frank Sinatra -- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Best of the Capitol Years)
Grizzly Bear -- Easier (Friend)
Kelly Hogan -- Living Without You (Because It Feels Good)
Count Basie & His Orchestra -- Chicago (Hmm. My iPod thinks this song is from the Dale Watson album "Whiskey or God". I suspect an error.)
Donner Party -- Halo (thanks, BoPo! :)
King Khan & The Shrines -- Destroyer (The Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines)

@BitterOldPunk: I have that Sinatra tune too! But not sure if it's on my iPod.

1. "Jump in the Line" - Da Vinci's Notebook
RIP, guys, but woot to Paul and Storm for still being together and performing!

2. "Jackson" - Johnny Cash (The Legend Of...)
I love singing this song at karaoke, provided I get a good enough Cash to sing with me.

3. "Night and Day" - Frank Sinatra (Classic Sinatra)
I also kickass at this song in karaoke.

4. "You're So Vain" - Faster Pussycat
Not sure who I picked this up from, but I'm betting it's one of you. I love cover tunes.

5. "Waltzinblack" - The Stranglers
Also betting this is a MeCha pickup.

6. "And So It Goes" - Billy Joel
I first heard of this song when we learned it for high school choir. Alas, I don't remember how the alto part goes anymore.

7. "It Ain't Me Babe" - Walk the Line OST
I've never seen the movie, but I have the entire soundtrack. Must fix this oversight.

8. "The Heart Won't Lie" - Vince Gill and Reba McEntire
For the longest time, I thought there was something wrong with the music video for this song because it had Vince as a Marine and Reba as a Navy officer-in-training. Then I learned that Marines train Navy officers. I showed the video later on to a Navy friend of mine, and we made fun of the fraternization element profusely.

9. "Starlight" - Savatage (Dead Winter Dead)
I need to re-listen to this CD because the whole thing is just great, but I only have a few songs from it on my iPod. Thanks for introducing me to it, Kelly, wherever you are.

10. "A Pair of Brown Eyes" - The Fenians
I really miss seeing these guys life. Ah, going to almost every SoCal concert of theirs for a summer was pretty awesome.

1. Tesla Girls - Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark

danf, I love that song! OMD's earlier stuff is sort of unfairly forgotten, I think.

Mine:

1. Sufjan Stevens "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." (one of the better songs from Come On, Feel The Illinoise!)

2. JOAN FUCKING JETT "Crimson & Clover" (from I Love Rock & Roll)

3. of Montreal "Y the Quale and Vaguely Bird Noisily Enjoying Their Forbidden" (it's from The Gay Parade; I have no idea if that song titled got mangled by my MP3 player or not)

4. Isaac Hayes "Main Title from 'Truck Turner'"

5. Kraftwerk "Tour de France (Radio Version)" (from the old 1980s EP, I think, not the album that came out in the 90s)

6. Pink Floyd "Scarecrow" (from The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn)

7. John Cale "Rollaroll" (from Slow Dazzle)

8. Moby "First Cool Hive" (from Everything Is Wrong, my favorite Moby album)

9. The Opal Foxx Quartet "Blue Exception" (R.I.P. Opal Foxx, an Atlanta legend)

10. Public Image Ltd. "Public Image"

A Pretty Girl Is Like - The Magnetic Fields: I love that line "A pretty girl is like a violent crime, if you do it wrong you could do time."

Pull Shapes - The Pipettes: OMG I HEART THIS SONG IT IS SO FUCKING HAPPY AND UPBEAT LETS DANCE AROUND LIKE TEENAGE GIRLS IEEEEE

Hello Thirteen, Hello Love - A Chorus Line Sndtrk: The original. Not the revival. I have standards.

Mars, Bringer Of War - Holst: I have no idea why this is on here.

The Place Sucks! - The Queers: Well, yah. I was 15 once too.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Theme - Nerf Herder: Apparently I am still 15.

Dancing With MySelf - Nouvelle Vauge: Yes it's better

The Halloween Dance - Rev. Horton heat: Man, my teenage fixations are coming out strong today. I always imagine this should have some attached video of Venture-Brothers-style kids having an adventure in a haunted house or sumthing.

Abdulmaijd - David Bowie : Well, yes.

Go West - Pet Shop Boys: It's the Internationale! Turned into dance music! How can you resist?

Having said that, I prefer Mp3o'mancy.

What is my purpose?

Red Dress - Alvin Stardust

What will today bring?

Needle In the Camel's Eye - Brian Eno

What is my future?

Moon Twist! - Chuck Dallis

What should I avoid?

Chick Habit - April March

What will ruin me?

But You're So Beautiful - Future Bible Heroes.

How will I love?

Pictures Of You - The Cure.

DC Talk - What If I Stumble (Live) Loved this Christian band while I was in high school. Even back then I hated this version. Why do I still have it?

Radiohead - Airbag Added this album to my collection last year when a friend was SO INSISTENT that I had to love Radiohead. I still do not.

The Kleptomes - Bowified Rebulation I enjoyed A Night At The Hip-Hopera. I did not enjoy this album.

R.E.M. - You I don't even have a story for this song or album.

Barenaked Ladies - It's All Been Done Oh man. This album was my sister's. We listened to it in the car all the time that summer. The album was playing when I nearly totalled my parents' brand new Yukon, and all of the shit that happened after. After my sister died, I brought all of her CDs home with me, and this was one of the few that hadn't been scratched badly.

Earlimart - Mind the Phonecalls Indie rock I downloaded from an mp3 blog last year. I've only listened to it three times, so iTunes tells me. Huh.

Spinto Band - Oh Mandy Another mp3 blog song. Listened to it only once.

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance Yes. And?

Brenni Banassi and the Biz - Satisfaction (video) Hahaha. I am not ashamed.

AC/DC - Highway to Hell Nice way to end this.

This was so much fun (I rarely use the shuffle function), I just couldn't resist doing another ten:

1. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You
2. Joy Division - Ice Age
3. Telepopmusik - Yesterday Was A Lie
4. Super Furry Animals - For Now And Ever
5. Hird featuring Yukimi Nagano - Keep You Kimi
6. Björk - Big Time Sensuality
7. Ans. Andur - Parklate linn (brilliant Estonian indie rock!)
8. The Boo Radleys - One Is For
9. Jean Cocteau - La Toison d'Or
10. Slowdive - Machine Gun

The Rosebuds - Blue Bird
Vashti Bunyan - Turning Backs
Art Brut- The Passenger
Mendelssohn - 2. Andante con moto
The Decembrists - Sons and Daughters
Animal Collective - Bees
Tom Petty - The last DJ
Cake - Ruby, Don't take your love to town
The White Stripes - St. James infirmary blues
The Walkmen - Donde esta la playa

1. Rainer Maria - Cities Above
2. Feist - How My Heart Behaves
3. Genesis - Carpet Crawlers
4. Cat Power - Baby Doll
5. Arcade Fire - My Body Is a Cage
6. My Bloody Valentine - Several Girls Galore
7. Fruit Bats - Spelled in Bones
8. Les Savy Fav - We'll Make a Lover of You
9. Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill
10. Hudson Bell - Seven Cities

Here goes ...

1. The Carter Family - "Black Jack David"
2. Al Green - "Love and Happiness"
3. Norfolk - "Give Me A Reason" *
4. England Dan & John Ford Coley - "Love Is The Answer" **
5. Billie Holiday - "Eeny Meeny Meino Mo"
6. Radiohead - "Mk 1"
7. Murs & 9th Wonder - "And I Love It"
8. Aretha Franklin - "Groovin' (Live)"
9. Everything But The Girl - "Lullaby of Clubland"
10. Sholi - "November Through June" ***

* - Don't know this band, but they placed their album on a file sharing forum I frequent, free for all. Their not bad, really. They sound like your friend's brother's band.
** - Yes, I have a modicum of Yacht Rock on my iPod. Scoff all you want. Don't care.
*** - Whoa. I'd forgotten about this album entirely.

From the flash drive:

1. Ticklah - Deception (f Vinia Mojica)
Very dub-reggae-ish music from a member of Antibalas, featuring the Native Tongue chanteuse.

2. Nomo - Nova
I loved these Michiganders when they were a neo-Afrobeat band, and, now that they're some kind of Krautrock- and free-jazz- and minimalism- and Afrobeat-influenced amalgam, I love them even more now.

3. Carver Boys - The Brave Engineer
Old-time song about a trainwreck.

4. Robert Hicks - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Hey, Hugh, that's my jam!

5. Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost
The best musician to ever come out of Cleveland.

6. Augustus Pablo - Thunder Clapp
It's a dub version of a cover of 'Ain't No Sunshine'--Horace Andy, I think.

7. Rhymefest - RNQ
'The Manual,' in my view, is neither as homophobic nor as excellent as that dude from the AV Club thinks it is.

8. Cecil Taylor - Live in Vienna
It's a Cecil Taylor Unit date from '87--great stuff, if you're into this kind of thing.

9. El Michels Affair - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
This is one of the weakest songs on this album, but any El Michels Wu-related project is at least worth hearing.

10. Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere (Pt 1)
Another song about a flood.

Damn! So much great stuff here - I don't even know where to begin. I will just say that I think I would really love a MeCha Jukebox.

In interesting peek inside your i-Pods, thanks.
1. Surrealist Chemist-Stereolab
2. My Girls-Animal Collective
3. Tommib-Square Pusher
4. Devil's Haircut-Beck
5. I Can't Get Behind That-William Shatner
6. 505-Arctic Monkeys
7. Everybody Knows-Leonard Cohen (honesty!)
8. Welcome to the Machine-Pink Floyd
9. Go it Alone-Beck (I kinda have a lot of his stuff)
10. Lover Man-Billie Holiday

Try 2

Chad VanGaalen - Red Hot Drops
Danielson - Ship the majestic suffix
Xiu Xiu - Clover
Kimya Dawson - Loose Lips
Beirut - Fountain and Tranways
The Most Serene Republic - Content was always my favorite color
Thievery Corporation - 33 Degree
Matt Pond PA - The Party
Ted leo/Pharmacists - Six months on a leaky boat
Feist - Mushaboom

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

rhapsodie, I saw your list before I left work, and then on my ride home this song came up on shuffle in MY player, and I hadn't heard it in years. Kismet. Or something.

Engineers - One in Seven Atmospheric guitar from my sad bastard phase. A long song, not one of the best from the album.
Wilco - Dash 7 Funny, another 7. One of the better songs from A.M. but pales in comparison to everything that came after.
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire Not much to say about this one. Good but not very memorable.
Iron and Wine - Lovesong of the Buzzard Eh, I like his earlier stuff better.
Minus Five - Cigarettes, Coffee and Booze "All you really need..."
Mountain Goats - Song for Lonely Giants All the songs on Get Lonely are awesome. If you've ever had a broken heart, you need this album.
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - A Sea Shanty of Sorts Haunting.
Jens Lenkman - Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo A definite change of mood. Someone put it on a MeFi mix when I'd put another song from the album on my disc.
Azure Ray - The Devil's Feet Haven't listened to this in years. Good, though.
Beck - Sing it Again From Mutations, an alt-country-ish ballad. He can do it all.

BP: My work here is done.

From the desktop/home-theater pc:

1. Saul Williams - Raw
2. Shirley Ellis - Soultime
3. Fela Kuti - Zombie
4. Cassandra Wilson - Shelter from the Storm
5. Burning Spear - Old Marcus Garvey
6. Mos Def - A Brighter Day
7. Slim Harpo - Late Last Night
8. Elder David Ross - He Gave Me a Heart to Love
9. The Mar-Keys - Bo-Time
10. Philip Cohran & the Artistic Heritage Ensemble - Frankiphone Blues