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15 January 2010

Anyone up for some MP3 Shuffle-a-gogo? The rules are simple: MP3 player on shuffle, first 10 songs, no cheating. →[More:]

Here's mine with some real-time commentary...

1. ? & the MYSTERIANS - 96 Tears - One of the best keyboard riffs to come out the 60's.

2. DR HOOK - Making Love and Music (Greatest Hits) I'm not proud of this one, but it's a decent no-brainer pop song from the 70's.

3. MOTORHEAD - Eat the Rich (Stone Deaf Forever box) Yeah, it's pretty much the same song every time, but I find great comfort in Lemmy's voice and those huge chords.

4. MASTERS of REALITY - Tilt-a-whirl (Sunrise on the Sufferbus 1992) This is one of those albums that I've pushed on many people over the years. I'm not a fan of the first or the ones that followed, but on this album they hit a perfect mixture of poppy hooks and Cream-like blues rock. Of course, having Ginger Baker sitting in on drums didn't hurt the cause.

5. DAVID & DAVID - Welcome to the Boomtown (Boomtown 1986) A song I loved when it came out, and then had to walk away from 15 years because I was sick of it since it got a lot of airplay in Chicago. But recently I've been reminded of what a great little tune it really is.

6. FRANZ FERDINAND - Do You Want To (You Could Have It So Much Better 2005) Few bands can combine angular dance rhythms and insanely catchy pop hooks as well as they do. I've played the first two FF albums many many times and still don't tire of them.

7. the FLESHTONES - I Wanna Feel Something Now (More Than Skin Deep 1998) This is from one of the weaker Fleshtones albums, but a subpar Fleshtones album is still worth hearing. Superrock!

8. the BEACH BOYS - Girl Don't Tell Me (Summer Days And Summer Nights 1965) A longtime BB fave for me - everything clicks just right. Great vocal from Carl, fantastic intrumentation, and a simple yet memorable melody. I didn't realize it until someone recently pointed it out to me, but this is one of the few BB songs up to this point with no backing vocals.

9. BADFINGER - Rock of Ages (very Best of) Killer rock song with more than a few nods to McCartney.

10. RICKY NELSON - Today's Teardrops (Legacy box) Extra twangy Ricky! Damnit - now I think I'm going to end up listening to this whole boxset now. Actually, the MP3 player must have sensed that, because I got a Ricky two-fer with "I Got a Feeling"!

How about you?

post by: Slack-a-gogo at: 13:05 | 27 comments

Last week I had $3 worth of free MP3s available from Amazon for some promotion or other, and this was one of the songs that I bought. I hadn't heard it much since its heyday; still a very cool song.

posted by BoringPostcards 15 January | 13:11

1. "Handle with Care" - Jenny Lewis + Watson Twins
2. "The Science of the Seasons" - The Russian Futurists
3. "Amsterdam Crown" - Eszter Balint
4. "Honey Honey" - Feist
5. "Rory Rides Me Raw" - The Vaselines
6. "When You're Far Away" - Gladys Knight + Pips
7. "Destruction" - JJ72
8. "Air" - Owls
9. "Wild Child" - Lou Reed
10. "Standing" - Patty Griffin

posted by Atom Eyes 15 January | 13:15

BoPo - Which songs are you referring to?

posted by Slack-a-gogo 15 January | 13:26

1. The Supremes - Love Child I have the whole Hitsville USA set on here, so something like this was bound to come up.

2. Muggsy Spanier - Riverboat shuffle This is from a collection of 72RMP record rips that I LEGITIMATELY AND LEGALLY OBTAINED from the internet. This music makes me happy

3. Tom Waits - Barber Shop I lurve Tom Waits, but I never got in to this album, Foreign Affairs. I don't know why, but there you are.

4. Wendy Rene - Bar-B-Q From The Complete Stax Volt Singles collection

5. Malajube - Montreal -40C I don't know this song or how here. It's not bad. French pop.

6. Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body This is sort of the opposite situation from #3, I like this Death Cab album, but nothing else they've done. Probably because the whole album is about death and loss.

7. Rock Plaza Central - Hot Blind Earth R.P.C. is a great country/folk/death band, some friends of friends are in it. Perhaps you've heard their cover of Sexy Back?

8. Tom Waits - Please Wake Me I've got a lot of Tom Waits here.

9. Jolie Holland - Darlin Ukelele I don't know this song or how it got here, but I do have a thing for girls playing the ukelele.

10. Metric - Dead Disco I like how in this song, Emily Hines sounds legitimately angry that all we get is dead disco, dead funk, dead rock and roll.

posted by Capn 15 January | 13:29

"Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie
"New Rose" - The Damned
"Sweet Misery Blues" - Violent Femmes
"Weather Radio" - Pylon
"Come With Us" - Brian Eno & David Byrne
"Open Your Heart" - Ladytron
"Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales" - Butthole Surfers
"Jingle Jangle" - The Archies
"Don't Slander Me" - Roky Erickson
"Yesterday Once More" - The Carpenters

Wow, that Shuffle-a-gogo may be the single most representative one I've ever had, as far as being the songs/artists I listen to every day. Except the Carpenters. I really don't listen to them THAT much.

on preview: Slack, I was referring to David & David's "Welcome to the Boomtown." Which I copied, but then apparently forgot to paste.

posted by BoringPostcards 15 January | 13:30

"Handle with Care" - Jenny Lewis + Watson Twins
I need to pick this album up. I have an MP3 of "Big Guns" which I love. Is this actually a Traveling Wilburys cover?

I lurve Tom Waits, but I never got in to this album, Foreign Affairs. I don't know why, but there you are.
That was the first Tom Waits album I got (I think it was a cutout) and didn't dig it, so I ended up stating away from him until Swordfishtrombones. It wasn't until Rain Dog that I became a diehard TW fan.

From The Complete Stax Volt Singles collection
Perhaps my favorite box set ever.

but I do have a thing for girls playing the ukelele.
I hadn't verbalized it before, but I think I'm with you on this.

"Don't Slander Me" - Roky Erickson
When I got that album in the early 90s this was the song that absolutely kicked my ass. I played it over and over. That riff is just monstrous.

that Shuffle-a-gogo may be the single most representative one I've ever had, as far as being the songs/artists I listen to every day.
I haven't had one of those in a while, but every now and then it's refreshing to see 10 songs that you would be happy having represent you. And based on that selection you've got - I want hang out and some beers with you somewhere with a cool jukebox.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 15 January | 13:39

The Horror is Gone - Antony and the Johnsons
Lake Charles - Lucinda Williams
Off With Your Head - Sleater Kinney
Under Your Spell/Standing (Reprise) - Buffy Soundtrack
Apocalypse Lullaby - The Wailin' Jennys
Your Rocky Spine - Great Lake Swimmers
Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire
Polly Come Home - Robert Plant & Allison Kraus
Bandit Queen - Decemberists
Comes a Time - Neil Young

posted by danf 15 January | 13:48

1. Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth - Neko Case
2. The Bojo Dance - Bjork
3. Love & Communication - Cat Power
4. Embraceable You - Billie Holiday
5. Hommage a T.S. Eliot - Gubaidulina (I keep meaning to get the classical music off my shuffle list...)
6. Ed e solo l'inizio - Gemelli Diversi
7. Funky Lobby - Gemelli Diversi (the iPod like Italian rap this morning, it seems)
8. Bossa Nova - Shivaree
9. Wilderness - Trailer Bride
10. Everything Has Changed - Lucinda Williams

posted by occhiblu 15 January | 13:54

1. Bach(JS): Cello Suite #3 in C, BWV 1009 - 6. Bourree 1/2, played by Mstislav Rostopovich -- from the collected suites, one of the seminal works for solo cello played by one of the greats.
2. The Stranger Hornpipe / The Golden Slipper, played by Tim Britton -- uillean pipes from my irish folk period.
3. Holland, by Sufjan Stevens -- Sufjan could be a little less ethereal in this.
4. Lazy Eye, by Silversun Pickups -- new grunge, and one of the better tracks.
5. The Birth and Death of the Day, by Explosions in the Sky -- it just keeps going and going; it is great for coding, as there are no words to catch my ear.
6. With My Own Two Hands, by Jack Johnson -- as far as music for a kids movie goes, this is pretty awesome.
7. My Sweet Prince, by Placebo -- not their greatest, but far from their worst.
8. On A Plain, by Nirvana -- old grunge, and one of the average tracks.
9. Map of the Problematique, by Muse -- Nice opening, and I get the drums stuck in my head for some reason.
10. Something in your Head, by Last Free Exit -- small band in my hometown, since disbanded. Good stuff.

posted by VeritableSaintOfBrevity 15 January | 14:05

but I do have a thing for girls playing the ukelele.
I hadn't verbalized it before, but I think I'm with you on this.

I made this a while ago, but I haven't kept it up.

posted by Capn 15 January | 14:49

1. Goldie and KRS One - Digital (Saturnz Return) 1998, drum'n'bass/rap vocals
2. VNV Nation - Rubicon (Empires) 2000, the soft side of industrial
3. Amon Tobin feat. Chris Morris - Bad Sex (B-sides bootleg comp, originally on Slowly 12") 2000, Brazilian downtempo/drum'n'bass stuff
4. Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction (clean) (Sensual Seduction single) 2007, it's what you think it is
5. Monkey - The White Skeleton Demon (Journey to the West) 2008, modern classical/musical by Damon Albarn
6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - There is a Kingdom (The Boatman's Call) 1997
7. Vangelis - Love Theme (Blade Runner: Esper Edition) 2003
8. Uz Jsme Doma - Halfway (Unloved World) 1998, crazy Czech band
9. Wolfsheim - A Look Into Your Heart (Live) (Spectators - Limited Edition) 1999, moody German synth-pop, with moments of sounding a bit industrial
10. Amon Tobin - Polycystinid (Freebie Creatures) 2008, free from AmonTobin.com.

Odd that Amon Tobin gets the double-play, when I have gobs of Buck 65 and other weird hip-hop type stuff.

posted by filthy light thief 15 January | 15:14

I do have a thing for girls playing the ukelele.

How fortuitous! Here is a song for you! Well, maybe you. It's by Bigfoot, but covered by a nice lady with a uke and a harmonica. (via)

posted by filthy light thief 15 January | 15:19

1. "Ladies...Tea?" from First Lady Suite by Michael John LaChiusa
2. "My Wife" by Bill Cosby
3. "John Paul" from Little Fish by Michael John LaChiusa
4. "On/Off" by Snow Patrol from the soundtrack for Camp
5. "TV Family" by The Rocket Summer
6. "Around the World (reprise)" from Grey Gardens
7. "You Okay Honey?" from RENT
8. "Dance With Me, Darling" from Bat Boy: The Musical
9. "Thinking of You" by Hanson
10. "Little Things" by Sister Hazel

Lots of musicals! Big shock.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 15 January | 15:24

I'll play, but this is off my flash drive, which is more representative of what I wanted to listen to at work this week (or what I'm just trying out) than it is my super-duper-favorites.

1. Ghostface Killah - Kilo (f. Raekwon)
2. Dam-Funk - LAtrifying
3. Mountains - Sunday 7.25.04 Live at Tonic
4. Harmonica Frank Floyd - Swamp Root
5. Topaz Rags - Mind Power
6. Inca Ore - Happy Birthday
7. Koen Holtkamp - Bear Bell
8. Nite Jewel - Heart Won't Start
9. Miles Davis - Blue in Green Session
10. Captain Sinbad - Girls Girls

posted by box 15 January | 15:45

Shirley Bassey - Light My Fire
Slow Hot Wind - Block 16
Jaak Joala - Seda paati pole tehtud linnuluust (an Estonian song from the Soviet era)
Thievery Corporation - Hong Kong Triad
Blaze - My Beat
Thievery Corporation - Shadows of Ourselves
Robert Owens - In Love Forever
Robert Owens - I'll Be Your Friend (yeah, lots of house in my playlist - put there by my gf)
Stevie Wonder - I Believe (When I Fall In Love)
Vaiko Eplik ja Eliit - Peidetud varandus (another Estonian song; this one is my absolute favourite at the moment)

posted by Daniel Charms 15 January | 15:50

(That Ghostface song, incidentally, samples a great song about the metric system.)

posted by box 15 January | 15:57

1. Harry Nilsson - Love Story
2. Mohammed Rafi - Jaan Pehechaan Ho
3. Elvis Costello - No Dancing
4. Jonathan Coulton - Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance
5. Fleming & John - Radiate
6. The Pointer Sisters - Automatic
7. The Beatles - Sun King
8. Joy Zipper - Christmas Song
9. Muse - Bliss
0. The Librarians - You (And This Bottle)

That Costello / Coulton pairing made my day. Way to go, shuffle.

posted by wimpdork 15 January | 15:59

Frou Frou – Breathe In
Grateful Dead - Loser
Emmylou Harris - Goodbye
Bruce Springsteen - Jesse James
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Theory of Art
Jay Farrar - Drain
Neko Case - Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Violets of Dawn
Gillian Welsh - Tear My Stillhouse Down
Cat Power - Kingsport Town

posted by octothorpe 15 January | 16:32

wimpdork!. . .LTNS!

posted by danf 15 January | 16:32

"Handle with Care" - Jenny Lewis + Watson Twins... Is this actually a Traveling Wilburys cover?

Yup, and M. Ward sings on this one, too.

posted by Atom Eyes 15 January | 17:20

wimpdork!!!!!!111

in honour of wimpdork's appearance and for old time's sake, I shall go nextish:

Gravenhurst - Saints
Yo La Tengo - I Feel Like Going Home
Peter Gabriel - With This Love
The Flaming Lips - Vein of Stars
Nine Inch Nails - Kinda I Want To
Sigur Ros - Heysatan (holy non sequitur, batman!)
Doves - Someday Soon
Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place
Armin van Buuren - Burned With Desire (Rising Star Remix)
Justice - Waters of Nazareth

posted by lonefrontranger 15 January | 18:50

Hank Snow - Miller's Cave
Johnny Paycheck - (Pardon Me) I've Got Someone To Kill
The Stanley Brothers - Little Maggie
Simon & Garfunkle - America
Woody Guthrie - Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
JD Crowe & New South - Old Home Place
Harry Belafonte - Jump Down, Spin Around
Ray Bareto - Deeper Shade of Soul
Todd Snider - What's Wrong with You
Glenn Campbell - Gentle on My Mind (Wtf?!!)

And bonus #11, the Glenn Campbell palate cleanser: Public Enemy - Fight the Power

posted by Triode 15 January | 19:25

My shuffled selections are pretty much hopelessly middle-of-the-road. Le sigh.

1. "Mountain Dew" -- The Pogues
2. "Making Me Nervous" -- (MeFi's Own!) Brad Sucks
3. "Selective Memory" -- Eels
4. "Battery" -- Metallica (RAWK!)
5. "Die Die Die" -- Dr. Dog
6. "Teenage Bonehead" -- The Queers
7. "Brand New Cadillac" -- The Clash
8. "Hang On" -- The Dexateens
9. "Bye-Ya" -- Thelonious Monk Quintet w/ John Coltrane
10. "Fire In The Western World" -- The Dirtbombs

posted by BitterOldPunk 15 January | 20:12

occhiblu - We both have Lucinda on our shuffles. . .I say we break it to our partners tonight, and spare them even more heartache down the road.

posted by danf 15 January | 22:31

Amerie - Why R U ?
Boom Crash Opera - The Best Thing
The Arrows - Blues Theme
Lydia Lunch - Smoke In The Shadows
Junkhouse - Out Of My Head
Les Breastfeeders - Armoureux Solitaires
Haircut 100 - Boy Meets Girl
Lovage - To Catch A Thief
Jackie Mittoo - Disco Dub
Fred Wesley & The JBs - Breakin Bread

posted by rollick 15 January | 22:42

occhiblu - We both have Lucinda on our shuffles. . .I say we break it to our partners tonight, and spare them even more heartache down the road.

HA!

posted by occhiblu 16 January | 00:46

Oh! I totally brought my mp3 player with me.

1 No Children - Mountain Goats

I love this song SO MUCH and it really disturbs my loved ones when I belt out the acapella version.

2. Cellar Door - Donnie Darko Soundtrack

I Fear NPR is making the DD soundtrack cliche, but c'mon, what is better for minor key winsome creepiness?

3. North By Northwest Theme - Bernard Hermman

Dun dun dun dun da dun dah dun! God that movie is the Ur-Action movie. Platonic Ideal.

4.Prom THeme - Fountains Of Wayne.

Fun story. I had a "nerd prom" party years ago to expunge all the demons of High School and everyone came dressed and we had punch and selected a Prom King And Queen and we had this song as the "Spotlight Dance" and the King and Queen started to CRY cause they both secretly wanted a prom moment like teenagers have on TV and all the irony just fell away and it was AMAZING.

5. You Belong To Me - Tori Amos
Huh. Like Tori. DOon't like this cover.

6.The Clog Dance - La Fille Mal Garde
First Ballet I ever saw. It's just so silly and fun.

7. Her Garland - John Dowland
Actually from some research I was doing for a story set in the 1500s, just never deleted it.

8.Oh Sailor - Fiona Apple
I love Bee Lips, but she loves Jonathan Ames.

9.As The World Falls Down - David Bowie

Okay, like above with the Prom Theme thing? If you wanna get girls aged 25-36 bawling - play THIS SONG DURING A SLOW DANCE. Works like magic.

10. You Want The Candy - The Raveonettes
Sweet! Sweet! Lips! Tuuuuuurn meeeeee ooooon!

posted by The Whelk 16 January | 13:59

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