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28 August 2010

One of those ten song shuffle threads, only this one goes up to eleven.→[More:] Next eleven tunes on your magic music randomizer, no skips!

Winona - Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend (1991)
Love is So Mean - Richard Cook (1969)
When You're Young And In Love - The Marvelettes (1966)
Funky Broadway - Wilson Pickett (1967)
The Nod Factor - Mad Skillz, From Where??? (1995)
Fantasia sexta - Francesco Canova da Milano (1497-1543) perf. S. Rumsey & C. Wilson, lute
Just Like a Man - Graham Parker, The Real Macaw (1983)
In The Same Old Way - Arthur Conley (1966)
Nothing in Rambling - Washboard Sam (1949)
Bad Situation - 5 Spiritual Tones (197?)
Let Them Talk - Geraldo Pino and the Heartbeats, Heavy Heavy Heavy (1970)

post by: Hugh Janus at: 22:53 | 20 comments

Can this wait until I get to my randomizer?

posted by The Whelk 28 August | 23:05

I love these!

SAturday looks good to me--Dialtone
Maplewood--what it is to fly (this is on an album that is a contender for worst name ever: yeti boombox)
Van Halen--I'll Wait (I didn't even know I had 1984 on itunes)
Mon)Tag--all I see
The Girls--Here I am in love again (note: NOT the same as current band Girls)
All Girl Summer Fun Band--Looking into it
Beat Happening--Bad Seeds
Schooner--ominous bird
Q and not U-throw back your head
The Veronicas--so young
Fruit Bats--need it just a little

posted by leesh 28 August | 23:07

Primal Scream - The 99th Floor
Drive By Truckers – Hey Ya
Elvis Costello - Poison Moon
Neko Case - Rated X
Cheap Trick - The Flame
Chet Baker - Tricleydidlier
Kora Jazz Trio - Chan-Chan
Gavin Rossdale - Love Remains The Same
Abyssal Plains - Alaska
Erasure - The Circus
The Outfield - Your Love

posted by arse_hat 28 August | 23:52

A-Ha - The Living Daylights
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
Erik Satie - Fete donnee par des Chavaliers Normands en l'honneur d'une jeune Demoiselie
Iced Earth - Im-Ho-Tep (Pharaoh's Curse)
Enya - How Can I Keep From Singing?
Deep Purple - Child In Time
Guns N Roses - Raw Power
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Sweet Dreams
Grateful Dead - The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
City Boy - The World Loves A Dancer
Sammy Hagar - Heavy Metal

posted by Ardiril 29 August | 01:40

Mad World -- Tears for Fears
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) -- The Four Lads
Whirly Girl -- Oxo
Silhouettes on the Shade -- The Nylons
So It Goes -- Nick Lowe
Change of Heart -- Eric Carmen
ABC -- Jackson 5
Whenever You're On My Mind -- Marshall Crenshaw
Poor Little Rich Girl -- Tony Bennett
Dancing Queen -- ABBA

posted by JanetLand 29 August | 02:21

Oh, sorry, stopped at ten. One more:

Love Is Like a Rock -- Donnie Iris

posted by JanetLand 29 August | 02:22

The Specials - Hey Little Rich Girl
Camper Van Beethoven - 4 Year Plan
Ella Fitzgerald - Oh Lady Be Good
Franz Liszt / Alfred Brendel - Le Mal du Pays (Années de pèlerinage)
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
Alexander Scriabin / Nikita Magaloff - Études (Op. 8), no. 10
Mieczysław Karłowicz / BBC Philharmonic – Song of Eternal Being (Eternal Songs, Op. 10)
Angelo Badalamenti - Freshly Squeezed
Pan Sonic - Mutator
György Ligeti / Berlin Philharmonic - Hamburg Concerto, 6th movement
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Hwyl Fawr i Pawb

posted by misteraitch 29 August | 02:46

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Less Than Jake - Just Like Frank
The Beatles - I'm Looking Through You
Reel Big Fish - Everything Sucks (live)
Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer - Riding Trains in November
The Beatles - Hold Me Tight
Anamanaguchi - Mermaid
The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping
Buddy Holly and the Crickets - Everyday
The Beatles - I've Got a Feeling
Less Than Jake - Theme Song for H Street

Man, when iTunes gets in a mood...

posted by gc 29 August | 04:51

Gov't Mule - Dazed and Confused
Spoon - Out Go the Lights
Tom Morello - Midnight in the City of Destruction
Donora - The Chorus
Cowboy Junkies - Once I Was
The Black Keys - Same Old Thing
Gillian Welch - Barroom Girls
The National - Sorrow
Arcade Fire - Month of May
The Duhks - It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding
The Wrens - Crescent

posted by octothorpe 29 August | 07:49

Love Is Like a Rock -- Donnie Iris

Dawnie!

posted by octothorpe 29 August | 07:50

Tegan & Sara - Morning Comes
The Mamas and The Papas - Dancing Bear
Cowboy Junkies - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Amy Milan - Death to Death
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks - I Scare Myself
Selda - Ince Ince Bir Kar Yagar
Emmylou Harris - Jupiter Rising
Tom Petty - A Thing About You
The Beatles - Twist and Shout
Gram Parsons - Miller's Cave
Thea Gilmore - Saviors and All

posted by danf 29 August | 10:33

LTJ Bukem - Watercolours
David Bowie - Warszawa
Morcheeba - What New York Couples Fight About
The Jam - That's Entertainment
Franz Ferdinand - Darts Of Pleasure
Olive - Miracle
Johnny Osbourne - Curly Locks Girl
Protassov - I Wonder
Don Covay - Sookie Sookie
Kula Shaker - Golden Avatar
The Great Society - Somebody to Love

posted by rollick 29 August | 11:13

The Crystalites - A Fistful of Dollars
Lennie Hibbert - Creation
Thelonious Monk - Ask Me Now
Pocahaunted - Palm
Popol Vuh - Affenstunde
Aesop Rock - accapella
Marvin Gaye - Distant Lover
Gospel Travelers - God's Chariot (Pt. 2)
PB Wolf & Madlib - Rawcore
Antibalas - Musicawi Silt
The Exciters - Life, Love & Peace

posted by box 29 August | 12:09

Allman Brothers - Whipping Post
XTC - Ball and Chain
Neko Case - Polar Nettles
Donner Party - Before Too Long
Flaming Lips - Virgo Self Esteem Broadcast
Apples in Stereo - Told You Once
Billy Bragg - A New England
Calexico - Writer's Minor Holiday
Modest Mouse - Perfect Disguise
Martin Newell - She Rings the Changes
Mary Prankster - Mercyfuck

Almost half of those came originally from Boring Postcards. Thanks, BP!

posted by mygothlaundry 29 August | 12:40

From the 'running' playlist on my iPhone:

1. Pink Floyd - One of These Days
2. Billy Idol - White Wedding
3. Australian Crawl - The Boys Light Up
4. Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
5. The Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper
6. Queen - We Will Rock You
7. Cold Chisel - Star Hotel
8. John Butler Trio - Zebra
9. JET - Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
10. Good Charlotte - Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous
11 - The Doors - Light My Fire.

Additional useless (but related) trivia - the song from this playlist that was playing as I crossed the finish line of the Bridge to Brisbane yesterday was Pink Floyd's 'Run Like Hell', which pleased my tiny mind.

posted by dg 29 August | 16:44

1. Tina Turner, Help
2. Carter Family, Lonesome Valley
3. The Beatles, Yesterday
4. Tres Chicas, Foot of the Bed
5. Dean Martin, Return to Me
6. Leonard Cohen, Jazz Police
7. Eliza Carthy, Ten Thousand Miles
8. Bessie Smith, Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
9. Kathleen Edwards, Buffalo
10. Johnny Cash, Busted
11. Meg Christian, Valentine Song

posted by julen 29 August | 19:19

From my phone:

1. Kelly Hogan & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Crackers Rule
2. The Hidden Cameras - Death of a Tune
3. The White Stripes - Blue Orchid (I want Prince to cover this song SO BAD)
4. Add N to (X) - Hit for Cheese
5. The Magnetic Fields - Tokyo-A-Go-Go
6. Public Image Ltd. - Graveyard
7. The Vapors - Can't Talk Anymore
8. Calexico - Stucco (a weird little 20-second instrumental)
9. Fleetwood Mac - Walk A Thin Line
10. Royksopp - True To Life

and bonus track 11. The Vaselines - Lovecraft

w00t! The Vaselines are about to come out with their first album in something like 18 years, and I can't wait.

posted by BoringPostcards 29 August | 20:13

1. King Khan & The Shrines, Que Lindo Sueño
2. Spoon, The Infinite Pet
3. Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels, Brand New Heartache
4. Radiohead, No Surprises
5. The Queers, Noodlebrain
6. Robbie Fulks, I'm Gonna Take You Home (And Make You Like Me)
7. Shame Idols, Probably Safe
8. The Book of Knots, Pray
9. Drive-By Truckers, 3 Dimes Down
10. John Coltrane, Lonnie's Lament
11. King Oliver, Black Snake Blues

posted by BitterOldPunk 30 August | 08:35

1. Mstislav Rostropovich - Bach Cello Suite #4 in E-Flat, mvt. 3 (Courante)
2. Kathy Handford, organ - Herbert Howells, "Master Tallis' Testament" (this is from the recording of the live performance my choir did last year, so I think this is the part where we were all quietly skittering from the front to the choir loft)
3. Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
4. Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs
5. Dinosaur (pre-Dinosaur Jr.) - Mountain Man
6. LCD Soundsystem - Bye Bye Bayou
7. Renee Fleming - Beau Soir (Debussy)
8. Alison Krauss and Tony Furtado - I Will
9. Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me
10. Lemonheads - Live Without
11. Talking Heads - Found A Job

posted by Madamina 30 August | 11:09

I was just about a open a new shuffle thread when I saw we had another one going - so here goes:

1. ALLAN SHERMAN - Spanish Flea (Togetherness 1967) - I have abad feeling that this is the melody that's going to be lodged in my head all day.
2. KELLY CLARKSON - I Do Not Hook Up (All I Ever Wanted 2009)
3. STEEL WOOL - No Sugar Tonight (Bubblegum Motherfuckers volume 8)
4. THIN LIZZY - Dancing in the Moonlight (Bad Reputation 1977)
5. U2 - A Day Without Me (Boy 1980)
6. ZUMPANO - Broca's Ways (Goin' Through Changes 1996)
7. the DAMNED - Born to Kill (Damned Damned Damned 1977)
8. SWERVEDRIVER - Sandblasted (Raise 1991)
9. the THE - Out of the Blue (Into the Fire) (Infected 1996)
10. HARRY NILSSON - Mr Richard's Favorite Song (Ariel Ballet 1968)

Eleven? That seems wrong. But here goes...

11. LEONARD COHEN - Sisters of Mercy (Essential)

Oh - and BitterOldPunk - Shame Idols?!?! I don't think I've ever seen anyone else reference them - underrated stuff.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 31 August | 08:36

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