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04 December 2009

MP3 Shuffle-a-gogo anyone? MP3 player on shuffle, first ten songs, no cheating...→[More:]

Here's mine.

1. GAME THEORY - Erica's World (Tinkers to Evers to Chance best of) - One of the great pop songs - I love much of Scott Miller's dicking around (aka experimenting), but sometimes I just want him to put out more straight ahead pop gems like this.

2. ELO - Birmingham Blues (Out of the Blue 1977) When I first started paying attention to who did what song on the radio I realized that many of my faves came from the same band - ELO. Still love them immensely.

3. TOM PETTY - Anything That's Rock & Roll (Playback box) I think Tom Petty is so reliable that he may be the artist I most take for granted. I never list him amongst my faves, yet he has so many songs that I love that I've lost count. And the TP doc gets regular play at the Slack household (if you haven't seen it, you should, it's one of the best music documentaries out there).

4. the DEAD BOYS - All This and More (Young Loud and Snotty 1977) I remember I only got this because I was a big Lords of the New Church fan and wanted to hear Stiv's first band and loved how raw it sounded. It actually sounded dangerous, which many punk bands of the era tried for, but few achieved.

5. ETRAN FINATAWA - Maleele (Introducing 2006) Hypnotic desert blues from Nigeria. Last year I went through a brief obsession with Tinariwen and other desrt blues artists and couldn't play (or buy) enough. It still holds up and is particularly welcome on shuffle.

6. GREEN DAY - Jackass (Warning 2000) I like even a mediocre Green Day song.

7. the CLASH - 48 Hours (Clash on Broadway box) Hmmmm....suddenly that Green Day song seems less essential.

8. RAY CHARLES - I Don't Care (Complete Country and Western Recordings box) Ray hit a great niche tackling country songs in his own style - I can listen to these all day.

9. the PIXIES - U-Mass (Trompe le Monde 1991) I just read somehwere that this album doesn't hold up, which I strongly disagree with. If anything, I think it might be their most modern sounding album. Surfer Rosa is one of my two all-time favorite albums, and this is my second favorite Pixies albums.

10. BOBBY GOLDSBORO - Pardon Me Miss (Honey 1969/We Gotta Start Lovin 1971) I'm also a sucker for early 70's Am radio pop. Yes, the song is a cheesy feel-good ditty, but it still works for me ("Pardon me miss, I don't mean to be fresh, but I think it's a very good opening line").

What do you have?

post by: Slack-a-gogo at: 10:45 | 13 comments

Gilbert And Sullivan - Captain Of The Pinafore
What never? No NEVER! WHAT NEVER? Hardly ever.

Tom Petty -Don't Come Around Here No More

I like this song even when I'm not stoned.

Roy Ayers - Running Away

As I age, I find myself liking more old-school disco. This does not bode well for middle age.

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
Fun Fact: Bowie's mom is in the video for this. She's the hectoring old woman pointing at the sad clown.

No Cash No Trash - Eric Sirra 5th Element Soundtrack

Man, I am so in a French Sci-Fi mood you guys. Frano-Future is always so intolerably werid and sexy.

Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
This is a good song to tie your cravat to.

The Model - Kraftwerk

Cause, ya, you know.

Modern Art - Art Brut

MODERN ART! MAKES ME! WANTO ROCK OUT (wheeee!) This is basically as simple a song you can have and it's still a song.

posted by The Whelk 04 December | 11:00

Radiohead - Bodysnatchers
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – A Night in Tunisia
Grateful Dead – Mama Tried
The White Stripes – Blue Orchid
Marianne Faithfull – Mack the Knife
The Beatles – Octopus's Garden
Grateful Dead – One More Saturday Night
Califone – Bottles & Bones (Shade & Sympathy)
Bruce Springsteen – For You
Gillian Welch – Only One and Only

I haven't really loaded up my new phone with much music yet.

posted by octothorpe 04 December | 11:13

The Church "Destination" I only have one album by the Church (Starfish,1988) but I like just about every song on it, including this one.

Boards of Canada "Left Side Drive" From the Trans Canada Highway EP. This song sounds kind of brittle and mechanical, like beats recorded on a worn-out old cassette. Hypnotic, though, just like all their stuff.

Fruit Bats "The Little Acorn" I have to be in a mellow mood to listen to this band, which when I'm out and about with my MP3 player, I'm usually not. I skip their songs a lot.

Gary Numan "The Joy Circuit" I'm never sure what most of Numan's songs are about, but I love the way they sound as if they come from a plastic, mechanized future, like warnings that say, "Don't end up here."

Stephin Merritt "The Ugly Little Duck" From an album called Showtunes,music he wrote for three plays I've never heard of. The music sounds like a community theater, and is kind of charming.

Prince "My Computer" I have about 300 Prince songs in my player, and not all of them are great. This one's so-so... I think he was trying to make a more soulful-sounding "Sign O' The Times" (the song). Hmm.

Squarepusher "Papalon" Sounds like computerized jazz, played on fast-forward. Makes me feel like I've had too much caffeine.

Five for Fighting "100 Years" Oh, hai, how did THAT get there?? Ok, I know it's cheesy, melodramatic Adult Contemorary pap, but I can't help it, I like this song.

The Beach Boys "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder" What music geek doesn't dig Pet Sounds?

Calexico "The News About William" One of their slower, spookier songs. I love Calexico so much.

posted by BoringPostcards 04 December | 11:20

Before I do this, I want to note that my shuffles are extremely different depending on whether I shuffle from my music libraries on desktop or laptop, or whether I actually pull out my ipod.

Today's is off the ipod. Let's go, kids!

1. Moby "jltf-1" I don't think I have ever listened to this.

2. The White Stripes "Aluminium". Actually, is it aluminum? I have no idea. My NZ brain calls it aluminium and I can't be bothered checking. Anyway, this is off White Blood Cells, which is my favourite White Stripes album.

3. Art Brut "Moving to LA". Me and The Whelk both, huh? (I tend to put "modern art" on a lot of my CD mixes.)

4. Midlake "It Covers the Hillsides". I don't listen to Midlake much, and have to keep reminding myself that I quite like them.

5. The Bats "Western Isles". Yay, The Bats! This was THE band that made me love music, way back when I was a little'un. (specifically this song -live, not a great sound-, oh how I love the guitar)

6. TV on the Radio "A Method". Oooh, another band I like but dont' listen to enough.

7. Glenn Miller "Everybody Loves my Baby". When I was writing my PhD thesis, there were four albums I listened to on rotation for those two months. Best of Glenn Miller was one of them. I miss that little office and my old power mac.

8. PJ Harvey "Ecstasy" PJ Harvey reminds me of my third year in college when all my male friends got girlfriends and I hung out mainly with women for an entire year. Very strange. I usually have male friends. still, those particular girls got me into PJ Harvey, so there's a win there, anyway.

9. Simon and Garfunkel "Mrs Robinson". This is still my favourite movie, ever. The Graduate, I mean.

10. Pixies "Tame". Couldn't be a gaspode list without the Pixies showing up, apparently.

posted by gaspode 04 December | 11:39

gaspode - and TOm Petty showing up twice. MetCha Music Concentrators!

posted by The Whelk 04 December | 11:46

St Vincent - These Days
The Ramones - Smash You
Neil Young - Four Strong Winds
Jackie Mittoo - Disco Club
Lizz Wright - A Taste of Honey
Howlin' wolf - Baby How Long
The Smith - William, It Was Really Nothing
The High Water Marks - The Leaves
Kula Shaker - Golden Avatar
Joseph Arthur - You've Been Loved

posted by rollick 04 December | 12:07

Moneybrother Keep the Hurt at Bay Blood Panic (2005) What more can I say? This Swedish rocker's had several good albums, the best of which is 2003's To Die Alone. His new album, Real Control (2009), is nearly as good.

A Tribe Called Quest Hot Sex Boomerang Soundtrack (1992) Q-Tip wears a ski mask in this video to hide signs of a beatdown he received from Wrecks-N-Effect in return for their perceived dissing in the single Jazz (We've Got).

Matthew Sweet Superdeformed (live) Son of Altered Beast (1994) I just realized last night how much Matthew Sweet sounds like Neil Young. Maybe this is the key to releasing my distaste for Young's singing.

The Marvelettes Don't Mess With Bill (1965) One of several songs William "Smokey" Robinson wrote for the Mavelettes; Smokey is adamant that the Bill in the song is not himself.

Jay-Z Can't Knock the Hustle Reasonable Doubt (1996) Mary J. Blige is in there making sure this is far from the average shit.

The Brides of Funkenstein Disco to Go Funk or Walk (1978) P-Funk spin-off, one of the best in the whole Bootsy ouvre.

Ice Cube It Was a Good Day The Predator (1992) This is why I love Wikipedia: "The song's music video and the lyrics itself tell the story of how Ice Cube has a good day in South Central Los Angeles. Throughout the song he enjoys playing basketball, having sex, smoking marijuana (significantly, the song is 4:20 in length), getting drunk, going to his friend Short Dog's house to watch Yo! MTV Raps and later win at Craps and Bones, eating fast food at 2 A.M., and cruising the streets of South Central undisturbed.[2][1] He even sees the lights on the Goodyear blimp, which remind him that 'Ice Cube's a Pimp.'"

Lauryn Hill Everything is Everything The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (2003) All I gotta say is, if someone bombed graffitti on the tomb of Nefertiti in front of me, I'd be mad.

Frank Turner Dan's Song Poetry of the Deed (2009) Haven't had this for long, but I like it. If you know the band Million Dead, this guy was their singer.

Too $hort Partytime Born to Mack (1986) $hort isn't exactly the cleverest lyricist, is he? Great beats, though.

Marv Johnson I'll Pick a Rose for My Rose (1966) In 1958, Johnson sang on the first ever release on Berry Gordy's Tamla label, which would eventually become Motown. This record made it big a couple years after it came out. Marv Johnson retired from singing in 1970 to pursue a career as a Motown sales executive.

posted by Hugh Janus 04 December | 13:37

Sam Phillips Same Changes, from Martinis and Bikinis. I have several of her albums and this is the strongest. The guitar playing (and production) of her (now ex)husband T-Bone Burnett is superb.

Leonard Cohen Blessed is the Memory is a bonus track on a CD reissue of Songs of Leonard Cohen. Considering I have all of the pre-CD Cohen on vinyl, it's taken awhile to fill in all of it on CD. This track, and one other are weaker than the ones on the original, and little suprise it was left off of it.

Bob Dylan Simple Twist of Fate from Blood on the Tracks. No more need be said.

Thea Gilmore When I Get Back to Shore, a drinking song she does for an encore. "There's a hangman there with all his charms/And he's waiting for me with open arms/gonna break out the wine when I get back to shore." Very fun.

Talking Heads Road to Nowhere. Love it, even if purists had abandoned them by Little Creatures.

Sleater-Kinney The Professional. Doesn't ring a bell, as daughter, before I got her an iPod, put of lot of her stuff on mine, but I like a lot of SK, just not familiar with that one.

Joni Mitchell River. Great Christmas song! She was such a "happening," along with CSN and their ilk that it's hard to remember how good her music really is, and how well it stands up over time.

Gram Parsons Blue Eyes. I think that I have everything Parsons ever released. This is a good honky tonk song.

Avenue Q If You Were Gay. Love love love Avenue Q. It's on tour, coming to my town and I just might see it again.

Lucinda Williams Big Red Sun Blues. I used to travel the Northwest following her around, down in front, dancing and worshiping her. She's jumped the shark in a big way for me since she let go of most of her band. This is from her first release, back in simpler times.

posted by danf 04 December | 14:26

Ahh, I see Midlake and their incredible Trials Of Van Occupanther album. I love that album. They have a new one out next February that I'm cautiously looking forward to; can they really improve on Van Occupanther?

Anyway, here's the last ten songs I listened to:

Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes: Custard Pie
Foo Fighters: DOA
Ane Brun: The Treehouse Song (Sketches Version)
Mogwai: Radar Maker
Radiohead: Sit Down, Stand Up
Sigur Ros: Festival
The National: Anna Freud
Idiot Pilot: Strange We Should Meet Here
The Dears: Saviour
Ed Harcourt: Fireflies Take Flight

posted by TheDonF 04 December | 14:39

The Kooks- Do You Love Me Still?
The Magic Numbers- Don't Give Up the Fight
Foo Fighters- See You
The Grateful Dead- Uncle John's Band
Gorillaz- Kids With Guns
Goldfrapp- Felt Mountain
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen- Hot Rod Lincoln
Kool and the Gang- Jungle Boogie
Jane Monheit- I Got it Bad
Rolling Stones- Under My Thumb

posted by initapplette 04 December | 14:53

Modest Mouse - Your Life
Decemberists - Legionnaire's Lament
Rhett Miller - Come Around
Los Lonely Boys - Crazy Dream
Pogues - Rainy Night in Soho
Pixies - The Thing
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Weather Prophets - She Comes From the Rain
Cracker - Time Machine
Modern English - I Melt With You

posted by mygothlaundry 04 December | 21:31

The Conet Project - 'A'
Kelis - Wouldn't You Agree
Nettle - Ensamblaje
Ellen Allien - I Need No Money to be Rich
Front Line Assembly - Predator
Digital Mystikz - Beep
DJ Assault - Ghetto Shit
Caecilie Norby - The Look of Love
Whitehouse - Guru
Carl Orff - Ave formosissima

posted by elephantday 04 December | 21:31

Stanley Brothers - The Field Have Turned Brown
The Band - When I Paint my Masterpiece (live)
A Chapter from "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" David Sedaris
Queen - Bicycle
Keely Smith & Louis Prima - Let the Good Times Roll
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - Tramp
Snoop Dogg - Drop it Like It's Hot
Rolling Stones - Miss You
Nina Simone - Trouble in Mind
Archers of Loaf - Freezing Point

I love seeing what people have - I have a cyber hoarding problem with mp3's and I like to know what I don't have and can hoard next. At least my kids won't have to rent 4 or 5 dumpsters some day.

posted by readery 05 December | 13:18

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